Greatest Show on Earth

I think I am living out my childhood dreams through my children! This last weekend I took Kylie to see Barnum & Bailey’s Circus at the Energy Solutions Arena. We rode the commuter train from Woods Cross to Salt Lake (something Kylie has been excited about for months) and then we took Trax to the Arena. We got there before the show and got to go down on the main event floor and see some of the clowns, and other performers.
The circus was a lot of fun with clowns, acrobats, tigers, elephants, and lots of amazing acts! We sat by a family from Saratoga Springs with a 3 ½ year old named Brooke. She and Kylie were fast friends by the end of the show…even sharing a seat.
It was a great Mom and Daughter Night that I hope we both will remember for years to come!

Caution:If you do decide to take your kids to a show like this beware of one pitfall: the vendors. $12 cotton candy, $14 dollar toys, etc. After Kody saw the mayhem at Disney on Ice, I wised up and filled my bag with treats and drinks. I even found a little elephant at the dollar store that I gave to Kylie at the show, she loved it and we didn’t have to break the bank!

We Are Family

Okay so we had our Memmott Family Reunion September 12-13th up at Camp Atoka in Eden, Utah. This is my mom's side of the family. There are 9 kids in my moms family, 6 of which are girls, so the "Aunts" or "Young Grandmas" are always planning fun things like this to get the family together.

The Highlights
1)Matching Family T-Shirts with Evanisms (sayings from my Grandpa Evan)

2)Roasting marshmellows and singing aroudn the campfire

3)Memmott Jeopardy: a hillarious game thought up by Angie, Becca, and Amy with categories like "Who Done it?" " "The Butt of the Joke, " etc. There were suggestions that next year we play Who Wants to Be a Memmott (for all the in-laws) complete with phone a friend, poll the audience and 50/50.

4) Cucmber Regada: All the great-grandkids made boats out of cucmbers and we floated them down the river

5) The Food: Our amazing aunts indulged us with Pork Salad, a Chuck Wagon Breakfast, Hoagies, and Hawiian Haystacks.
6)A Little Free Time: the "young grandmas" watched the kids while the parents enjoyed baseball and sand volleyball

The Lowlights
1) There were none! Even with many families sleeping in the lodge, the cricket that got inside, the snoring, etc. we all can laugh about it and we had a great time!

Kids Say the Darndest Things!

"Bodies"
The other day I was pushing the girls in the shopping cart at Costco when Kylie pats my chest and says “Mom, what do you have in your body? Milk?”

Let me explain…before I had Tessa I, like other mothers, wrestled with the idea of how to explain “breastfeeding” to my toddler. Being a preschool teacher I know that whatever you tell your preschooler they will exclaim loudly in front of others. I didn’t want her loudly explaining to her classmates “my baby drinks from my mom’s breasts (or boobs)!” While correct I feel this is a little embarrassing (to me) and no one ever know quite how to respond. So I simply told her the baby drinks from my “body,” choosing to generalize rather than give an anatomy lesson.

So back to the story….I replied “Yes,” and removing her hand I said “but let’s not touch my bodies.” 

"Pokeys"
Don’t we love how children are so honest?! So tonight I was bathing the girls and after I got Kylie dressed I had her sit in my lap so I could brush her hair. I had on my capris and she sat down and said “Mom, these are pokey!” and pointed to my leg hairs. Then she asked “what are these pokeys?”
I replied, “Hairs, leg hairs.” She said, “Oh, I don’t like leg hairs.” “Me, neither” I muttered under my breath.

Let’s face it! I barely have time to shower by myself let alone do much personal grooming. Usually leg shaving is only accomplished on the weekends 

2 Preschools

A lady in the neighborhood has started a preschool this year and so we’ve decided to trade children. Her daughter Kenzi comes to my preschool 2 days a week and Kylie goes to her preschool 2 days a week. I think Kylie loves having some time away from mom and I want to make sure she can listen to her teacher, behave and make friends on her own before she starts kindergarten next year.

Parkey

Kody’s had a really great friend and roommate up at Utah State named Rob. They both were Electrical Engineer majors so they spent a great deal of their single and married life studying together. Rob and his wife Danielle lived across the way from us in Aggie Village and Rob and Kody both work at L-3.
Kylie and their son Parke (who she calls "Pareky") who is about 7 months younger than her have always gotten along really well. We haven’t seen them as much as we usually do this year but we got to have him over for a play date and it was awesome. Kylie and Parke play so well together. They never fight and generally enjoy being with each other.
After they played for a while I thought it might be fun to go get them Happy Meals at McDonalds. On our way the song Apologize by One Republic came on and Parke said,”Hey I know this song!”
Then Kylie told me to turn the music up. So there we are in our black Tahoe, windows down, tunes cranked up while 2 preschoolers and a toddler “jam” in their car seats! It was too priceless. After that they busted out some Old MacDonald, and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. We ended the date with popsicles and bubbles!

So I thought include a little slide show to show the friendship between Parke and Kylie!

Preschool

Well it’s that time of year again…when parents all over Davis County put me at the top of their “favorite Person” list. Why am I exalted to this position? Because I am their child’s preschool teacher. I hated to see the summer end but my longing for those days disappears when I see those little faces with their oversized book bags come through my door, and I shed a tear as they start talking about what kind of new underwear they all have on 

I started preschool Tuesday (Sept. 2nd). I am only teaching 2 classes of pre-k this year and I have to say that for the first time in a long time I don’t feel any stress. My kids (as usual) are wonderful and we are having so much fun already. The only mishap so far is one of my students laid down on the grass while we were out doing parachute and when we came in there were ants on the table and on her paper. I couldn’t figure out where they were all coming from and finally I noticed they were in her hair! Luckily the ants were small, black, and I was able to get them off her quickly!

Labor Day

Sorry you'll have to bear with me...I know Labor Day was like 2 weeks ago but our computer that stores my journal and pictures has been down, but I still wanted to share...

We had a fabulous Labor Day weekend. Saturday we made our last trip of the season to Cherry Hill to soak up some extra rays before summer. Our friends Rob and Danielle were there with their kids Parke and Preslee. Kylie had a lot of fun playing baseball with Parke’s water ball and bat!

Monday, we went to the Kaysville Theater. It’s a small three screen theater that host movies weeks after they are in the major theaters. No surround sound or bowl seating but we love the $2 tickets, $1 drinks, and $2 popcorn. We saw Kung Fu Panda. Kylie loved the movie…her eyes didn’t leave the screen the entire time. She wouldn’t even look at me when I offered her the popcorn, she just held up her hand and said, “No, danks!” She was so enthralled with the movie at one point she was making little kung fu sounds from her seat…”ha ya!”

Tessa, not quite the movie connoissuer, fell asleep.

My favorite lines from the movie: “There is no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness.” AND “It is said that his enemies would go blind from over-exposure to pure awesomeness!”

So I hope you all had an AWESOME Labor Day as well!