While the kids have been at some of their worst the past little bit, they’ve also had several moments of quite hilarious antics and quotes. Let’s start with Hunter. As usual, he is into everything the past little bit. There’s no such thing as child proofing with Hunter around … he just finds a way to get into everything. One of his popular efforts is to take the potting soil from the plants outside and then bring it in the house and pile it on the couch. He has figured out how to get what he wants on the counters by climbing up on a chair. His favorite is the butter dish,
which he licks clean. He’s also got this fetish with salt and pepper shakers. Loves to use them on food at the dinner table and … The other day Collin was taking a nap and Hunter managed to get a hold of the salt and pepper shakers. Kelli was in the other room and the next thing she knew,
Collin was covered in salt and pepper. I know the kid eats a lot, but this was taking it a little too far :) He’s started doing some cute stuff as well. He’s talking a lot and loves to jibber/jabber on the phone. He always kneels down and folds his arm when we mention it’s time to say family prayer. He’s a cute kid …
Collin on the other hand is our little egg head – and never has that been more evident than right now! The other day I let him use some scissors so that he could cut some paper. He was doing pretty good but then I let him get out of my sight and he took the scissors with him. The next thing I knew Kelli was giving me the ‘JESSY!’ and I came around the corner and there was a trail of hair leading to the little culprit red handed with the scissors and a terrible haircut. He took gou
ges out of his hair pretty much down to the roots and it was darn near impossible to make it look halfway decent. But, we shaved it as low as we could without giving him a complete buzz. Collin has also given us some laughs with his little mind. The other day we were driving in a neighborhood and this elderly lady with white hair came driving
around the corner. From the backseat we hear Collin, “Hey, Granny!” Oh geez, what a laugh. His new phrase is also, ‘not exactly.’ For instance, we have some friends in our ward that are going back to the States to visit their Grandma/Grandpa. Kelli told Collin that they were going to visit Grandma/Grandpa just like we did. Collin then said, “Well, not exactly … it’s not the same house or the same grandma.”
Then we move on to sort, but nothing came to her mind that would have caused the alcohol smell. So, Kelli went on the internet and found things like late stages of diabetes, ‘near death’ syndrome type stuff. We called a local doctor and they said to take her to the hospital as it was a tale-tell symptom of diabetes. 4 hours later (yes, Australian healthcare isn’t the speediest …) the blood/urine tests showed that everything was normal, thank goodness. Somehow she just had this smell on her breath and we’re not sure where it came from. The doctors couldn’t smell it though so maybe Kelli and I were just having a rough day of our own J kidding of course …
In other news, we’re in the midst of trying to decide about our next job --- whether to stay in the military or whether it’s time to get out. There are a lot of advantages to staying in through retirement, but the opportunity to go back to
The kids are doing really well in swimming. They are excited for
another unforgettable
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I agree with you on the weird Christmas thing! This is of course our first one here and we are all having a hard time getting use to Christmas in the hot weather! It is just weird!
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