blair and maisy: October 2012

October 22, 2012

Baton Rouge, Will's b-day & Big Play

Take a look at the scariest water slide on earth (well that I've gone on):

So about a month ago we went to Baton Rouge to have a little trip and go to the closest temple, and this amusement park/water park called Blue Bayou & Dixie Landing. We started out on the water park side, and Blair would go on a big slide, and then we'd switch off- unless the boys were tall enough to go. In this case they were not. You had to be a certain height + 90 lbs at least. They had a scale that you stood on before they let you in line. Hmmmm suspicious.

Well Blair got done and had the weirdest look on his face with wide wild eyes and a half smile and told me I had to go on it- and nothing more.

I climbed the never-ending stairs and finally got to the top where I didn't know quite what was going on. The tubes curved up to straight up and down, with a door on the front. They opened the door, where you stepped onto a clear plastic floor and could see down (into the free fall you were about to take). Closed the door and a robot voice started the countdown "3, 2, 1..." then the floor you were standing on disappeared from underneath you and you were falling and drowning and didn't know when you were going to ever breathe again, and then it was over. Whoa!!!! It was the scariest thing ever. I'm glad I survived, and I think I'd do better next time knowing what to expect (like plug my nose). Holy cow.

Will's b-day:

We had a birthday party at Monkey Joes bounce place with a bunch of friends (Browns, Wrights, Smiths, Jones, Chickletts) but guess who can't find any pics but this one on Blair's phone? I must have deleted them without transferring. This is a ticket blaster booth where he caught as many tickets as he could get, then got prizes.

The next day we had a birthday bbq with some of our Internal Medicine friends.

Random picture on Blair's phone from the Children's Museum in Gulfport from last month. Cute little señorita.

We went to this free festival thing here on base and Xander loved the laser tag. Claire loved the bounce maze, and Will loved the harness trampoline jumper. A few weeks later we also went to the USO Elmo show which was free and put on for military. The Air Force is cool!

I've always wanted to go in one of these hamster balls. It was pretty fun. Better yet- free! The boys went twice.

What did I do during General Conference? Make a bunch of hair clips!

I had to get a pic of my cute Dorothy this year. We already had a Halloween playgroup thing last week that the little ones dressed up for. It was so fun!

Trying to get a pic of the toddlers.

Check out the spread :)

This last weekend we went to a place called the Big Play Family Fun Center, and Hog Heaven BBQ. It's really close to us, and we've been wanting to try it out. It was fun, but even better was that we actually got to hang out as a family- because this month has been rough with Blair gone a ton!

Check out these cool spinning bumper cars!

Gotta love miniature golfing with the family! I love Claire sticking out her tongue in this one.

Everyone posing for the pic for me.

A toilet? Claire said, "I wanna go poo poo." Hahahah, we've been potty training.

Will got a hole in one!

Claire found an alligator to ride.

I went to the Beau Rivage buffet with some girlfriends today. We had a huge group of kids with school out for some teacher development thing, but it was fun. One of my friends always has her camera on her, so I have a pic!

How lucky are we to have sunsets like this every night? This is our view right here on base of the Back Bay, if we drive home in the evening.

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"