Forts

We've been building forts around here lately (using the card table) and we've gotten more elaborate with the "tubes" (which serve as the entrance to our 'igloo'). As you can see, Annie enjoys it just as much as the kids!

A Little Treat

Sunday night was a Primary Inservice meeting from 7-8pm. Afterwards we had a chocolate fountain for refreshments... I stayed until 9pm! (Gonna have to join a gym for sure now!) Ok, so really I was talking with friends more than eating.

When I got home, Cameron was still up (took a 2 hour nap during the afternoon) and he was so happy to have strawberries!!! (He asks a lot to go to the Farmer's Market to get strawberries - they are his favorite!) Brett and Cam finished the little plate of goodies that I brought home and now Cam asks me once in a while if I have to go to a primary meeting again! "Remember, you brought me a surprise from your meeting? Can you go to a primary meeting again so I can have a surprise?"

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek is one of Car & Cam's favorite games to play. They finally really get it and hide out of sight now - (most of the time)! I came home the other day to find them playing with their babysitter "Callie". I can't believe where they are hiding... Callie is like 6 feet tall! Ah, to be young again!

We have two Kali/Callie's in our lives... Aunt Kali (3000 miles away in PA) and Callie, the kid's absolute favorite sitter! (We also have a few Kelly's in our lives and it is funny to see that they make the distinction between the names!)

Horse Cutting

All week long here at the Paso Robles Event Center (the Mid-State Fairgrounds) is a Horse Cutting competition. So I took the kids down for a couple of hours to watch it. I don't know anything about horse cutting and though it is quiet, slow and methodical -- it is very fun to watch them work.

The rider wearing red is starting the "cutting" process by going right down the middle and eventually getting just one bull out and alone from the heard. Then the rider keeps the bull seperated by cutting back and forth, heading off the bull. He does it a couple of times in his 2.5 minutes.

The horses are just amazing to watch - they are so quick and obedient. The horse and rider work seamlessly. There are 4 other assisting riders that keep the herd together, etc.

It is still cold here in Paso, about 35 degrees... you could see the horses breath and ours too! It warmed up a little but all 3 of our noses started to run sitting in the arena!

Here they had just changed out all the cattle and a cowboy had just rode over to talk to Cameron! Cam is watching him trot away in the picture. (Of course I missed a great photo op!)

Except for the unbearably hot summers - I love living here in Paso Robles! We have so many neat things in the area and I love the ruralness! Brett is anxious to return to Orange County someday.... but I'm in no hurry!!!

Some of the words we hear!

I love to watch in amazement at how smart little kids are and how they put words and thoughts together. Both my kids have some of the same words they use:

two-ones = another one "Please can I have two-ones?"
the left = what is left in the bottom of a cup of juice, bowl of cereal, etc "Mommy, can you get me the left?"
yester-later = a version of yesterday "Do you remember we went to Disneyland yester-later" (And of course, yesterday means - yesterday, last week, last year, etc)

Things Carolyn says:
Gush = Hush "Annie, gush!" (Annie is our dog and when she barks, we say 'Annie, hush')
Pliglit = Piglit (from Winnie the Pooh)
Blelax = Relax "Annie, blelax" (What we tell Annie when she see's another dog and starts to get excited---relax now applies to me too when Carolyn wants me to hold still to do my hair, look in my ears like a doctor, etc)
Kerrilyn = Carolyn How she says her name (Cameron says "Carolyn")

Things Cameron says:
Mommy, what can you do for me? = Mommy, what can you do for me? (heard about 40 times a day on average! :)
Mommy, can I have a surprise? = Mommy, can I have a surprise? (surprise is a sweet... any sweet!)
sport = fort (we build forts out of blankets and tables and he asks me to correct his word sport "Mommy what's a sport?" so I can answer "a fort"
Sfeety = sweety "Don't cry sfeety, I'll protect you" (what he calls Carolyn on rare occassions that I just love to hear!) -I've only heard him say it about 12 times, and I love it!

Well, there are tons more and I wish I was keeping a better journal of all of this! It goes by so fast and I am just really in the middle of it enjoying it all!