Julie's Life With Boys

Before: After: Thanks to Jessica Simonsen, the hair dresser.

I love our ward Girls Night Out enrichment group. It is a fun way to mingle with ladies of all ages. Our group includes the hotties, the mommies, and the young at heart yet more mature ladies. In my ward there are many older woman. Some have been in the ward since their houses were first built 40 years ago. I love my ward so much! Here we are having a great time at the Spaghetti Factory. (Brittany, Melissa, Allison, Jennifer) (LaRee, Laura, Madison-leader) (Gloria, Julie, Bonnie, Annette)

During Primary today Caleb announced the news that his mom was going to have a baby! He insisted in putting a baby in with the picture of his family. Of course the baby is a boy. What a way to spread news! I had all sorts of people coming up to me in church today asking about it. When we got home we talked to him about the baby. He said, "We are having a baby. . .in a few years!" So just to be clear (at Josh's request)...I am not pregnant!

Caleb has been looking everywhere for his "camo-floss."

Caleb was discussing with Josh recently the passing of President Hinckley: Caleb: The bad guys got him, that's why he died. Josh: No, he died because he was very old. Caleb: ? Josh: E veryone dies sometime Caleb. Even we will die sometime. Caleb: Well, (in the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo) Like, you can COUNT me OUT!

Have I gotten myself stuck in the, "movie babysitter" rut? I asked Caleb if he knew how to play anymore. He said no. I asked if he would rather work. His reply was (add in snotty girl head roll and tone) "Yes, I want to work... work on getting my movie on !"

Caleb noticed Taylor had his ninja turtle in his mouth this afternoon so he walked over and pulled it out saying, "TAYLOR THIS IS NOT A TOY!" That loosely reminds me of Caleb's favorite book these days, Not a Stick . This book explores the imagination and makes me feel guilty for stifling it. Recently when I ask Caleb why he won't take his towel off or put down the favored 3" x 24" box, he replies, "IT'S MY NOT-A-TOWEL/IT'S MY NOT-A-BOX" **** Caleb has a bedtime routine written out on a piece of paper (in pictures) hanging on his wall. Caleb must follow this routine in its exact order and after each item is completed, we have to go through the list until he comes to something he hasn't done. To signify if he has done it he barks, to signify that he has not he loudly growls. I know this has something to do with Josh. (the OCD list and the barking) It is a major part of the bedtime routine. Example: Have we put on PJs? (bark) Have yo...

So it seems that everytime I want to post something about Taylor it is a Tuesday. I suppose I could designate the day, but that would be commitment. Taylor loves to stick his tongue out all of the time. One of my less favorite tricks is food on tongue on mom. You will notice cute Addison not crying at my house. Sorry Betsy.

Why is my 3 year old freaking out that the internet isn't working?

Today I ran my first 5-K. It was the Susan B. Kommen Race for the Cure. I ran in memory of my Grandma King. * (She died 18 years ago on Mother's Day of breast cancer) I made good time for me (32 min). * (My awesome friend Jenni Moody made 20 pink ribbon headbands for the event even though she moved to Denver before the race. I gave out a few at the race and the rest women in my ward wore. Everyone was touched by the gesture. Thanks Jenni!) *text added on May 11th

Ann M. Dibb, President Monson's daughter and counselor in the Gen YW presidency, came to our stake's women's conference on Saturday. She informed us that you could see Pres. Monson wiggling his ears on You Tube. (It is a talk from the Priesthood session) My friend Betsy thinks I spend all my time on the internet, and so requested that I must be the one to post this very cute video. He wiggles at 1:30

Most days Caleb and I do "Super School." This is organized time with Caleb in the mornings that includes a lesson, activity, reading and free time. One of the parts of Super School is excercise. Today Caleb picked out a T'ai Chi video to do. He was expecting it to look more like ninjitsu action. After about five minutes (surprising long) Caleb said, "I am done with T'ai Cheese!" I must admit that is exactly how I was feeling. I have never inhaled or exhaled my Chi before and it was a little rusty.

The pictures speak for themselves...

Caleb will sometimes do things for Elmo that he won´t do for his mother. That is why I asked Elmo and Caleb to go to the bathroom this morning before Caleb had an accident. He proceeded to tell me, anatomically speaking, why Elmo couldn´t possibly go to the bathroom. I must say I was impressed. See...notice on diagram A.... Perhaps it was Elmo indeed who taught this to him, as we did just attend Discovery Gateway´s ¨Sesame Street Presents the Body." It was there that we learned that ¨everybody poops.¨

Try not to get sick from all the motion!

You will find the blog in my "linkies" to the right..."How to Lose Friends and Influence Nobody." Also found at: www.theanticlimax.blogspot.com Josh, by his own admission "picks the low hanging funny fruit." ...leave a comment on his blog. It will make his day.

This is Nathan, Josh's brother. I think someday it will too be made into a full length film about the human spirit.

My friend Jenni moved to Colorado a few weeks ago and I miss her so much. It really stinks when you don't know someone for very long but you love them! I guess you always hope you will be able to keep in contact. I like to look at her new etsy site (hand made crafts) to remind me about her. I love her baby booties the most. Taylor was the under paid baby model during the creation phase. For a while every time I saw Jenni she pulled out a booty and asked if she could try it on Taylor. I thought that was so cute. Not that I am moping around all day, but I can't describe how much I miss having her around.