Monday, October 29, 2012

Precious Little Baby Vaha and the Rest of the Funaki Clan













Baby Vaha is just a fuzzy bundle of sweetness.  We
were so happy to meet him and play with our other 
cousins.  Peanut and Ame played princesses and Max
and Tevi were the knight and king trying to slay them.
Ame gave Avalon some dress-up clothes and Avie told me 
four times on the way home, "That was so nice
of Ame to share some of her clothes.  I love her."

Welcome to the Udall fam, Baha (as Tevi calls him)!

Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Peanut says some funnies too...

Brig gets a kick out of Avalon and she has said some pretty funny things as of late and we thought we'd give her some needed middle-child attention.

I asked her in preschool what her favorite letter was and I was sure to get the "P" response because 'P'eanut starts with P and 'p'rincess and 'p'urple and 'p'ink!  But she shocked me with: "E for EATING!"

She has named our baby "Jewelry".  You ask her why and she says..."because girls love jewelry"... and she tells me that when she is a mommy she will have one special baby girl.  When she blew on her dandelion the other day while being babysat by our neighbor, she wished that "the baby in mommy's belly would pop out now!" 

Brig teases her all the time and said to her after she responded silly, "Do you want me to spank your bottom blue???"  And she got all mad and worked up and said, "NO!  I want you to spank my bottom pink!!!!"  We thought she just wouldn't want to be spanked at all...

Brig and Max make up different names for her all the time and she doesn't like it.  The newest one they call her is Peanacho.  She really doesn't like it so I told them that they would have to get their mouths washed out with soap if they called her names she doesn't like.  Well, Daddy forgot and told him... "You have to get your soap washed out with mouth."  And she kept telling him that...

One of her favorite meals is grilled cheese sandwiches but she makes sure every time she orders one in the kitchen that I know she wants a GIRL CHEESE not a BOY CHEESE.

She makes Si happy in the morning while he is in his crib waiting to get out. 

I clipped her nails yesterday and when I came to her thumb she kept asking me... "Is this the thumb I thuck?"  She knew she wasn't saying it right but it was a real tongue twister for her and she couldn't ever get it out right.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Provo's First Renaissance Festival





We went to the Renaissance Fair with Brig's best 
friend, Ben (and fam).  The kids loved the sword
fighting, hand-tossed bread, puppet and magic shows, 
and getting to run around with Conner and Mia.
Avalon and Mia even got to meet real princesses!

Soccer Round 2

 
We tried not to keep score but Max would always
hollar it to us on the sidelines.  He was the greatest
defender...  Always getting back to the goal when
the other team came attacking.  The only problem- 
sometimes the ball would be right in front of him to steal
and he would turn around and head to the goal instead
of going for the ball.  He did stop several goals and 
it was totally fun to watch... even if for a few giggles.


These last two photos were Max's cheer squad.

14 months for Si the Guy








Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Bridger's Birthday Party

Brig had a scout campout last weekend and it just happened to fall on Bridger's birthday... so I loaded the kids up in the car and drove across Wyoming before the weather turned to winter (and luckily I did - because it snowed this weekend!) We celebrated all weekend long and Max was in heaven with his special little cousin friend. The 1100 mile trip was worth it all to be with fam again and get my kids together with their cousins. They are the closest Skinner cousins to us. Max misses Bridge already and is ready to move to Gillette. Avalon followed the boys around as much as they would let her, laughed with Connor, and constantly kissed Emma. When Emma would cry, she would show her how to suck her thumb (just like Avalon does.) Silas just 'woofed' at the dog every time he went by and escaped when the front door would open to get outside and eat dirt... He did learn to say "Emma", which is just so sweet.