Nothing Much

Nothing much has been happening around here, except trying to go through all our stuff before we pack. I hate moving, but I do like that I get to go through all of my stuff and get rid of things. It's in my nature to be a pack-rat, but I also don't like clutter. So this is a good way for me to get organized again.

We have also been trying to hit up our favorite Austin places before we leave. We have a season pass to the Austin Children's Museum and I've taken Cannon there twice in the last two weeks. He LOVES it there and I wish we could go more often.
Cannon has been into cleaning up lately, or "keem up," as he calls it. I'm not sure where this has come from, but I'll take it! I'd like to say that it has come from my superb parenting skills, but I have to admit that I've been slacking in that department. Cannon's hair is growing and getting out of control, but I love it! I'm really not quite sure what to do with it. I am in love with his curls and his wild hair totally fits his personality. I'm just going to let it grow and see what happens. Cannon also loves to sing, but usually not by himself. Every night he requests three songs that Ryan and I sing to him: Teach Me to Walk, I Love to See the Temple (or just "Temple" according to him), and Three Little Ducks (Cannon calls it "Quack, Quack, Quack"). He can sing the first and last parts of Teach Me to Walk, with a few words in the middle. He can also sing most of the words to I Love to See the Temple. And he just does the actions to the duck song.

Every night we read scriptures as a family before bed. Cannon knows ALL the pictures in the front of the Book of Mormon. I was pretty impressed and tried to get it on video. Well, he was being a total buster because he knew I was trying to record him. So he pretended like he didn't know anything and then started calling everything "Poo" and cracking himself up. I was getting so frustrated, as I was trying to capture my child doing something intelligent, but it turned out to be a pretty funny video anyway.

On Memorial Day, Rob and Bev and the kids moved to Bloomington, Illinois. Robert got a new job as a talk show host for the Cities 92.9 FM morning show and has been up there since the end of February. Bev stayed back with the kids so they could finish school. So that weekend they packed up and we had a giant slumber party for two nights (including Rick, Kristina, Cole, and Lyla). There were six parents, six kids, two grandparents, one dog, and a partridge in a pear tree. Crazy, but what a great way to spend our last few days together. The kids are loving it in Illinois and are really fitting in to everything there. Jade and T have even started golf lessons, and according to T, he is a professional now. I have no idea when we will see them again, but I hope it won't be too long!


I tried to get a cute snapshot of Papa holding his baby girls. But by the time I got my camera out Ally had had enough! I just thought it was funny because Lyla woke up with some crazy hair!