I Love the Cute Things You Say

I've been keeping a journal in a Word document for Spencer. I just finished recording in it some of the cute things he's said lately. I thought I would post it so others could enjoy his cuteness.

Dear Spencer,

I’ve been keeping a list of some of the cute things that you’ve said lately. I decided to take this time and write them in your journal.

A few weeks ago daddy and I were in the kitchen getting ready for dinner when you came in and said, “I said a prayer to Heavenly Father.” Before I could find out what you said in your prayer you ran back into the family room, knelt on a blanket and said another prayer. I asked you what you prayed for and you said, “a baby”. At one point, I can’t remember if it was before or after the second prayer, you said that Heavenly Father said, “Yes.” As in yes we can have a baby come live with us.

A few weeks ago I put my hair in a bun. It was the first time you saw my hair in a bun. As you were looking at my hair, you mentioned something about hamburgers or hotdogs. The next night you were reaching toward the back of my head and said, “What you have?” meaning how do your have your hair? When you saw I had a pony tail you said, “you don’t have a hamburger?” Today talking again about my hair you said, “Where’s your burger?”.

Another cute thing recently happened as I was cuddling you. You said, “Stay away from me.” Confused I asked, “Stay away from you?” You said, “Cause I’m pooping.” You don’t like people by you when you’re pooping in your diaper.

This past year I’ve been talking to you a little about your birth and how you came to our family. I’ve even mentioned a few times that you have a birth mom. Anyway, you were playing with a music box that came attached to some balloons that Auntie Lala and cousin Lincoln gave to you when you were a baby. You showed the music box to daddy and said, “When my birth mom comes I’m going to give it to her.” That was probably one of the first times I’ve heard you mention your birth mom.

One Sunday we were in Sacrament meeting and you and daddy were looking at a book about Jesus. You put your hand on your head and asked daddy, “This means your giving blessing?”

One day when were at the park and you were talking to a little girl. After a little while you came over and said, “That little boy said I can’t be a daddy.” (I think you thought she was a boy because she had her hair back and it looked short) Anyway, I explained that when you’re big like daddy you can be a daddy. A little while later you were on your scooter and I heard you say, “When I’m big like daddy I can be a daddy.”

Sometimes when Spencer does or says cute things like this it reminds me of stories my mom told me of cute things we did as kids.

Muffin Marathon

     Well, a half marathon, anyway, which is just over 13 miles. You may have heard that LynMarie ran the Fontana Days Half Marathon this year! My parents and sister Cassie came out to watch her run and we got to cheer her on during the race. She trained for months and really put in a lot of effort. Her goal was to finish the race in 2 hours, 10 minutes, but she actually came in at 1:52:16, which is an average of just over 8½ minutes per mile! Great job, honey -- we're so proud of you!

LynMarie waving to us around mile 10


The three of us after the race


Everybody chilling out afterwards (except Nana, who's taking the picture)


Here's Nana! Later that day reading to Spencer, who looks so cool in his shades.

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

Abominable Snowmen

     Well, I've had the best of intentions to go back and organize all the pictures sitting in the upload folder on our computer and post about everything, but if I wait to try and catch up before posting current stuff nothing will ever get posted. So the new plan is to try and post at least one new thing here every week.

     Anyway, we're now blocked out from using our Disneyland passes for the summer, so we wanted to make one more trip while we could. We saw Chip up front and Spencer had to say hello.



Here are Spencer and LynMarie with the Matterhorn waterfall in the background.



Spencer has been growing as you can see...



... so this was his first chance to ride the Matterhorn! He likes going through tunnels in the car, and didn't seem to mind the first part of the ride in the dark. About halfway through he said, on his own, "I like it!" He also got to go on Gadget's Go Coaster in Toontown, though he didn't seem to like that one as much.

     After we got home he told me, "I saw the abominable snowman, but he can't get you." Ah, how quickly they grow up...