Cute Little Story

We ran to Costco Friday night with all of the kiddos after having dinner. Hyrum is getting to a point where we will allow him to walk freely in the stores instead of having him sit in the basket. Funny enough some of the baskets try to keep his little legs capture because he is such a big boy.

Any way, as we all know everybody is starting to put out their christmas decor in stores. Well, as we are walking through Costco, Hyrum is yelliing 'ALVIN!" (alvin and the chipmunks) I just kept wondering why he kept calling for Alvin. We haven't watched that movie in a while, and I was looking around to see if there was a poster or display or something with Alvin and the Chipmunks on it.. Then once we got to a certain area of Costco, Hyrum turns to go away from us and of course I call him to come back and stay by us.. When he starts yelling for Alvin again I finally put it all together..

Hyrum went up to a lit christmas tree on display and pointed to it and yelled again for Alvin. In the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie the Chimpunks are living in a tree that get cut down and taken to an office building where it is decorated for and displayed in the lobby for Christmas. Christmas Tree.

Thats where the movie gets started. The Chipmunks leave the Christmas tree and jump into Daves fruit and muffin basket that he is taking home.

Hyrum was calling for Alvin, Simon and Theodore to come out of the Christmas tree.. :)

!HELP!

One morning this last week I was cleaning around the house and getting things ready for the day as usual. I heard Hyrum yelling his "help' cry so I went into his bedroom to investigate only to find him in the corner of his closet burried in a pile of toys..

He was stuck. He decided that being burried in a pile of toys wasn't so bad afterall and decided to stay and play for a little bit. :)

Love Him!

We Did the Puyallup

So, Ricky and I decided to be crazy adventurous and took 4 kids to the Puyallup fair. We ended up being there way longer than we had planned but everybody enjoyed themselves.

We rode lots of rides. The fair had plenty of rides for Hyrums height to ride. He was happy and excited about that. I didn't get too many pictures of everybody. Most of them are of Hyrum. We let the 3older kids (Elijah, Marvin and Tabitha) run off on their own for 30min to ride a few rides while Ricky and I took Hyrum on some rides.

Hyrum went on this slide about 3 times and had a huge smile on his face each time.

Tabi even had a lot of fun. :)

Hyrums first 'carnival' ride. He just chilled.

This smile was Hyrums reaction to the egg laying Chicken who happened to be cleaning it's feathers at the time. He found it rather runny.

Hyrum again was the center of attention and found himself to be quite popular in the 'lunch room.' We got him a bubble blowing gun to play with while riding around in his stroller. He brought it out at lunch time and all of these kids gathered round him to pop the bubbles while he shot them out.

It was an expensive trip to the fair. Ricky baught 4 burgers and 3 baskets of french fries for him and the kids to have for lunch and the grand total came to an amazing $62.50...  !?

New Favorite Activity

Our new favorite activity this week is.. COLORING!

When we got out of bed this morning he brought me straight to the table to start coloring. I write letters on the paper while he scribbles and draws. He's not much of a fan of coloring books. He just prefers a blank sheet of paper.

I LOVE this little man and his awesome smile!

!Happy Boy!

He's 2yrs old!

Hyrum had His birthday on labor day this year. We had lots of friends and family over in out little apartment to celebrate. Originally I was going to a completely boyish theme with cars and truck (his favorite!). I found a pan I liked and wanted to use to make his cake that is a 3D standing car. Well a day or two after ordering the pan I found out that it wouldn't be here until the day AFTER the part.. bummer..

So I started trying to figure something else out and finally just decided on a monkey/curious george theme. I had a friend in Gig Harbor who did a monkey for her daughters 2nd birthday so I was able to borrow her cake pan. This year I made homemade buttercreem icing. I was a bit worried the entired time I was making the cake how everything would turn out. This is only my 2nd cake ever to make and decorate and my first time ever to make home made icing.. I think I did farely well. It wouldn't have been as nice if I didn't do the party baloons. But everyone liked it. (i hope)

I have many years to practice making cakes. and I know I'll get better each time.

This is the finished product.

I have not been able to find my camera anywhere so I wasn't able to get a ton of pictures of the birthday. We got some pictures of Hyrum blowing out the candles on Rickys canon camera that he dug out and i haven't put them on the computer yet. So I will have to add them later.

His party was nice and he got lots of fun new toys for the 2 of us to play with during the day! one toy he got from his Brother Marvin was a Dinosaur Train train set. After waking up the morning after his party Hyrum went straight to the dining room table (where the train was set up) around 7:30am and immediatly started playing. He played with the train until 8pm that night. not exadgerating.. He did take a break to eat and a break to nap. Other than that, he was playing with the train.

One the day that I went birthday shopping for some gifts for Hyrum I let him roam free (out of the stroller) and everything he saw that he liked, he had to pull it off the shelf and get a better look at it..

I think I did more cleaning up behind him than I did actual shopping. but he enjoyed himself and wasn't to bad about anything. He sure does love his cars, trucks, trains and balls.