Saturday, December 26, 2009

Gentry's Favorite present..."Sugar Cheerios"

My mom and sister think I am cruel...but I kid you not, my son loved this present!! I have to preface this video with the fact I have NEVER bought Gentry "sugar cheerios" (also known as any sugar cereal). He calls any sugar cereal "sugar cheerios" because all he ever gets is plain cheerios so he thinks anything that taste different must be "sugar cheerios". I am sure he has had them at grandparents house, but he knows that is not something I am willing to buy. SOOOO for Christmas I thought it would be fun to surprise him with a some. I will just let the video and pictures speak for themselves...mom and Tandi, I am obviously not cruel...he LOVED them!!





Christmas

Here are pictures from our fun filled morning! I didn't get a picture of the yummy homemade cinnamon rolls that Jeff made but they were so delicious!!

Uncle Jeff playing Polly Pockets with Liv, he's so great :)


G got a spiderman shave kit, so put on a mustache for most of the morning :)


Tan was super excited about her UGG's :)


Jeff enjoyed some new ties, a new fedora, and a frame to put his diploma in!


Such a blessed little boy!


Transformers...expect nothing less little man!

The one gift that wasn't Polly Pockets :)


They couldn't wait to open presents!!!!


Santa brought G a Spidey "ScOOOter", he's been riding it around the house the last 2 days pretending he is a cop, since it's all snowy outside!

Christmas Eve

Here are some pics of our Christmas Eve! We had a really special year, it was the first time we had Christmas just with our family. It was a little sad not to be near all our family but it turned out really special. We started our own traditions: Christmas Eve dinner is straight from New Mexico! Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas, Tandi's Amazing queso, guacamole, spanish rice, chips, and top it all off with margaritas! (After the kids go to bed of course!)

Then we read the "Twas the Night Before Christmas", and the Christmas story of Jesus. And a highlight of the evening was having the kids sing Christmas songs. Gentry mixes the songs together a bit, but Olyvia just invented her own Christmas song...we were impressed! :)




3 Little Peeps ready for Santa!

Twas the Night Before Christmas


G singing Jingle Bells


Liv singing Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, like you have never heard it before! :)




Christian singing Frosty the Snowman

Polar Express Party!

We recently went to hang out with some friends and have a Polar Express Party :) The boys all wore their jammies, got to drink hot chocolate, and watched the Polar Express. They were so cute! Not sure the watched the whole movie but they did get in some good sword fighting time :)




All the boys minus Brody :( We missed you!


This might have been the quietest that I have ever seen this group of boys when they are together!

Gentry and Elmo Perform Together


My mom got Gentry one of those little learning leapad things that has games and activities. It also has a microphone. Here is a video of him singing along with Elmo, he even tried to sing in the same key as Elmo :)

Family Date Night!



We decided we needed a little family fun time so decided to go eat at a local pizza shop and ice skate after. It was G's first time ice skating and we had such a good time. As you can tell from the video it might take g a couple of times to get the idea of "skate"! :)

My morning Posse


Lately Gentry has been waking me up in the morning with a little group of peeps I like to call my morning posse. He climbs into bed and then tucks himself and his friends in right next to me. I'm not sure I like this group he hangs out with yet, they have a bad habit of getting up early and G seems to be following their bad influence. This group of thugs might not be the best influence but G sure does like them. What does a mom do? I don't want to lose my boy, but I really need to sleep until 7! :)

Christmas Musical


G was checking out the little cutie next to him :)


The whole preschool gang!

Gentry sang in the Children's Christmas musical this year. Preschoolers only did 2 songs before the actual play, and I might be a little biased but it was sooo cute!! We were afraid G wouldn't sing and just stand there embarrassed but he actually sang, rang his little bells and smiled! :) Who knew our little introvert could be a performer!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Favorite Conversation of the Day...

G has been so sweet this year about Christmas. Most times when we ask him what he wants, he says "I don't really know". But occasionally he admits what he really wants. One is a dog named Pluto and a tweety bird. They go together every time for some reason. The next is...

Gentry: "I want a little sister named Exodus, and we can call her Pebbles. Exodus Pebbles"

Really????? So obviously he is an only child and wants a sibling but I couldn't keep a straight face when he informed us of his name choice. His latest memory verse comes from the book of Exodus and he has been fascinated with saying Exodus since then, I just didn't realize how fond of the name he was :)

Oh sweet boy I wish you just wanted some toys or something that was easier to come by than animals and babies! (Don't judge but we told G that Santa ran out of animals this year and there were no puppies or tweety birds left!) So sad but seriously what could we do, these have been the only things he asked for. We haven't figured out how to break the news about a sibling yet...

Friday, December 11, 2009

Favorite Conversation of the Day...

So I just posted my favorite conversation of the day, but then I overheard this conversation between Jeff and Gentry. To preface this conversation earlier I was telling the kids that when they toot (for lack of a better word), it's really not that big of a deal. It just means that there is some air in their tummy and it needs to get out, so we don't have to laugh and make a big deal every time someone toots. Obviously we were having this conversation because it has become a really funny topic in our house, and any time there is an outbreak of one, we spend 30 minutes pulling it together again. I'm trying to be understanding that boys are just entertained by that whole issue, but I also need sanity!

I was sitting in our room and could hear Jeff and Gentry talking in the other room. Then this is what G tells Jeff...

G: "Know what dad? It's not really that big of a deal when we toot because it just means that our bunnies have some stinky air inside of them that needs to come out because our bunnies don't want the stinky air anymore and it makes the air in our house stinky"

(Just so you know bunnies is what G calls his butt)

I start laughing hysterically from the other room.

Jeff: "Really? Who told you that?"

G: "My mom, she said that's what toots were"

Jeff comes back in the room and ask me...

Jeff: "Did you tell Gentry that's what toots were?"

Seriously do you think I would explain bodily functions that way to our son!!!! HAHAHA it made for a good laugh anyways!

Favorite Conversation of the Day...

Tonight before G went to bed we wrote a letter to Santa and some pretty sweet deep (for a four year old) conversation. The letter was pretty funny to write. Following the letter we started talking about how blessed we were. I'm sure I started the conversation with some lame mom "your so blessed phrase" but I'm leaving that one out to spare me some embarrassment :) It was one of those conversations where you just sit back as a parent and listen, he had lot's going on in his little mind and seriously talked for about 20 minutes, and for those of you who know my son, know that is a lot for him!! I was loving every minute. (Here is a snip-it of our one sided conversation).

Gentry: "Ya we have lot's of food, and some people don't. That's why sometimes we just take people who don't have food some food. Even we could take them all of our food, cause even if all of our food is gone, we can just go to the store and get more. And we have lot's of toys so we can give kids all of our toys too. That's okay mom if we give them all my toys, you can just go to Target and buy me more."

As our conversation continued it turned from the sweet caring boy to the little sword fighter he is :) We started talking about how Jesus died for our sins (we watched the lion the witch and the wardrobe, and were answering questions from the movie)

Gentry:"Who killed Jesus? Was it bad guys"

Mom: "Well they weren't necessarily bad guys, but they weren't being very nice"

Gentry:"What did they do to Jesus? Did the punch him in the face? Did they beat him up?"

Mom: "Ya they probably did. They put thorns around his head so he was bleeding, and made him carry a really heavy cross after they beat him up"

Gentry: "Then they put those nails in his hands?"

Mom:"Ya and in his feet"

Then Gentry proceeds with the million dollar question that all little boys want to know.

Gentry: "Mom why didn't Jesus just fight back...He's Jesus, he could beat up all those bad guys"

Oh sweet G, one lesson at a time I guess :) To be quite honest I didn't really know what to say so I did what I do best...laugh :) Any of you parents that have gone before me and know how to answer the ever ongoing questions of a 4 year old, I would love some input! :) Anyways needless to say we had an eventful evening full of questions, and I am about all out of answers!!

G's letter to Santa :) 2009

Tonight we wrote a letter to Santa. I typed as G talked away :) I was trying not to laugh because he was super serious about all the questions. His letter really captures all the things he loves in life right now...jammies, anything to do with Christmas, spiderman, a little sister that he thinks he is getting for Christmas, pirates, sword fighting, learning our letters, and a dog. Yup, that about sums up our life right now. (Except for the dog and baby sister, Jeff and I have not agreed with G on either of these yet!)

I do realize that the grammer is not entirely correct but I was just typing exactly what he was saying.

Dear Santa,

Merry Christmas Santa. What is your elf’s names? Do you have Santa jammies? How big is your sleigh? I have been good Santa. Okay Santa I want a spiderman web that hangs on the walls. I want a puppy named Garfield. I want a sister named Exodus…Pebbles Exodus. Do you really have a Rudolf? Santa, know what I used to have? Pirates and they sword fight. Do you get mail at your house? Do you have a sister? Do you have a G in your name? Santa, know what I'm making for you? Cookies…lot’s of em’. Santa do you have a computer? Be safe and do you have spiderman jammies? I love you Santa.

Love,
Gentry

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Favorite Conversation of the Day...

Tonight we were driving home from Zoo Lights in Denver. The boys were talking about something with fire so I asked...

Mom: "Are you guys talking about something from a movie?"


(G's response was a little short and annoyed that I had interrupted their conversation)
G: "No mom we are only talking about dangerous stuff"

Mom: "Why are you guys talking about fire"

G: "Mom it's just dangerous stuff and you probably don't know about fire cause it's dangerous and only boys like dangerous stuff"

I was trying not to bust out laughing, but contained myself to allow the boys to talk about dangerous boy stuff like fire :) A little bit later I again tried to join in the conversation.

Mom: "G did you have tonight at Zoo Lights?"

G: "MOM!! We are only talking about dangerous stuff tonight, nothing else. Tomorrow we can talk about the other stuff"

Ha! He was so serious about the dangerous topic, so we appeased him and talked about tigers, fire, guns, and wolverine the rest of the way home. It was so funny and cute to see how he is becoming a little man! I love you sweet boy!!