Church with the Morrills

After doing "Lunchtime with the Morrills," it's only fitting that I continue the series. So, here's what church was like yesterday. Oh, and please excuse the blurry pictures. Apparently my lens was dirty. And it's a little bit scratched (Side note - I used to have the LG enV, then upgraded to the LG enV2 a couple months back. The enV had a lens cover, but the enV2 doesn't. It was the one change they made that didn't make sense to me, but I figured it wasn't a big deal. Within a couple weeks there was a big scratch right across it! Nice.).
David was so cute yesterday! I wanted him to wear a nice shirt, and he chose white over green. Then I showed him his nice pants, and he opted for his suit pants. And he said he wanted to wear his suit coat as well! And later I came in to find him trying to put on his tie! Then he came out to the living room and asked Dan if he looked like a missionary. What a big guy!

Ryan wore more what I expected David to - the bare minimum I expected - a nice shirt and pants. Here he is playing with the Quiet Book that I made about 5 years ago. I found it recently in my unpacking, so it had some novelty yesterday that helped keep him entertained.
My beautiful, beautiful girl. Her daddy got her dressed yesterday, doesn't she look nice? Here she is coloring...
...and here's her picture! Can't tell what it is? It's "The temple! Katy! Mommy! Daddy! David! Ryan! The temple!"

Here's Dan successfully sleeping while sitting upright. I don't know how he doesn't fall over!
In contrast, here I am sitting reverently. Except for all the picture taking. And what is up with my hair? Apparently I am in need of some professional help.
Oh, yeah. Dan got to take Ryan home to change his pants. So. Gross. I figured out the other day that he started potty training exactly half his life ago - 2 years 4 months. This is what starting too early does! Don't do it!
David decided to move down the row, and I assumed he was coloring. Except he's moved on from coloring. Now he writes stories!
In case you can't read kindergartner, here's the interpretation:
"Hi, I'm Joe. Here is my dog Blue. I hope we have fun." Then he started drawing Blue, but it was time to go to Primary before he finished.


So that's an exciting, fun filled Sacrament Meeting with our family! Don't you wish you were there?

gotcha!

If you are reading this then you have been tagged! Go to the files where your photos are stored, open the fourth file and then post the fourth picture in that file explaining when and why it was taken. Get to it!!!


The fourth folder is some iPod photo cache, so I opened 2008 as the file where photos are, then the fourth folder (labeled Easter for some unknown reason...), then this is the fourth photo! It's from Jan 7th 08, and here's little 7 month old Katy tasting the Christmas lights. I took several pictures of her playing with the lights and this is the last one. I'm pretty sure that means I saw her put them in her mouth, hurried and took a picture, then took them out of her mouth. At least, I hope that's what it means!




Here's a bonus one! If I move the 2008 folder into "Past Years" like it belongs (I haven't gotten around to doing anything with photo organization since being back to our computer), the fourth folder is Katy. We don't have folders for the boys, just Katy. How long can we use the excuse that she's the baby? The fourth folder inside that is Katy's website, and this is the fourth photo from it. This is our trip to Disneyland, the day before Katy turned 5 months old. Apparently she was quite amazed by the shiny pole on the Carousel!

Lunchtime with the Morrills

Me: David, for lunch you have two options (I told him that before I told him the options so he wouldn't start whining when he didn't like the first option!). Would you like a peanut butter sandwich or leftover pizza?
David: Pizza
Me: 1 slice or 2?
David: 2 (he was looking at a book and not very eloquent)

Me: Katy, for lunch would you like a peanut butter sandwich or pizza?
Katy: Hot dog!
Me: No, you had hot dogs (2 of them!) yesterday AND the day before. You can have a sandwich or pizza.
Katy: Pizza. Hot dog. Sandwich.

I made her a sandwich. She asked for a hot dog again, but is currently eating her sandwich. By opening them and eating the peanut butter out of the middle. But she bites at it rather than licks, so she gets some bread, too. And she has two sippy cups because she needed chocolate milk AND water.

I didn't need to ask Ryan what he wanted. He'd been asking for peanut butter sandwiches since around 11. He eats two entire sandwiches every time I make them. He'd eat more if I let him. I think he'd be content to eat peanut butter & jam sandwiches for every meal. He'll eat honey, but jam is his real love. And the only jam I've ever found that he didn't like was the fancy (and expensive) stuff at a restaurant one time. Now if only he didn't touch things with his peanut butter hands!

Running!

After about a month off, I'm getting back into my routine of taking Molly for a jog every other day. Molly is VERY HAPPY about it! I went for my first post-break run last Monday, and the night before I turned on my Garmin to make sure the battery didn't need to be charged. Molly heard the sound of the watch turn on, and immediately started jumping around like the overgrown puppy that she is. And every morning (4 times now) she makes a ridiculous amount of noise as I try to hurry her out the door before she wakes up the children. She doesn't bark, she just wiggles around and wags her tail into everything. Then when we come back and I sit down to stretch, she expresses her gratitude by trying to full-body-cuddle with me at all times. It's simultaneously annoying and cute. I'm glad she enjoys it so much, because it helps me have motivation to get out the door!

I'm really happy to have my Garmin (a Christmas present from my parents!) to tell me my time & distance as I'm learning the area here. I'm experimenting with where I want to run. I have to go before Dan leaves for work, and it's rather dark, so I don't really want to end up somewhere with no houses or traffic. I imagine if someone tried to attack me that Molly would do a decent job of protecting me, but I'd rather not find out for sure. I found a pretty good long, straight sidewalk today, and there seemed to be quite a ways further after I turned around, so that's good. Last time I ended up running on the side of a fairly busy road and had to wait at an intersection. Don't want to do that again.

When I started running last summer it was with the ultimate intention of running far and fast. Now I'm not so sure. I would love to finish a marathon someday, but it'll probably have to be mostly walked. I'm feeling pretty happy with my shorter distances. I had been running 2 miles while living in Kent, and I'm building up to that again. My run last Monday was 1 mile, then I went a little further Wednesday and Saturday, and today was 1.5 miles. I know that's really short to most runners, but it feels good for me. It actually is a really great start to my day. It's enough to get me energized without then using all that energy for running. With all the long distance runners in my close & extended family I feel a little wimpy. But I feel really good after my runs, and I don't want to push myself too hard and have that go away. I'll probably keep extending my distance a little bit at a time. I'll just have to see how it goes, and try to listen to my body. No sense in stressing about it and taking away the benefit of running in the first place!

It's like herding cats...

...trying to get this place clean! I cleaned the dining area, then moved on to the kitchen. As you can see, the kitchen counter is nice and clean, with a few dishes drying next to the sink. The dining area, however, has been attacked by THE UNCLEANERS! Whyyyyyyyyy?!?

You want me to eat THAT?!?

I wanted to do something green for St. Patty's Day dinner. And rather than thinking of things that are ALREADY green, I started thinking about things that would be easy to MAKE green. And here's what I came up with:

On the left is green hash browns (I put food coloring in the butter I melted in the pan before putting them in), the back plate is green pancakes, and...the front right? Green scrambled eggs! They looked so icky! But all that was left of this entire dinner was a little bit of pancake on Katy's and David's plates. So it must've tasted better than it looked!

An Important Milestone!

(Katy is saying "Cheese," actually quite happy, not crying like this picture appears)

I'd like to announce that we just reached a very important milestone. I just took a shower while Katy was awake and free to wander the house, and nothing bad happened! For those of you that do not yet have children, this is a BIG deal!

When you have a tiny baby you only shower when the baby is asleep, being held by somebody you trust, or occasionally in a bouncy chair in the bathroom so you can check on them every few seconds. At least, this is my experience.

Then as they get older and don't sleep quite as much or sit in a bouncy chair quite as contentedly, it gets even harder. If you absolutely have to shower before naptime, you put them in an exersaucer or high chair. Without snacks, though, or you spend your entire shower worrying that they're choking on their cheerios. So you put them in front of the TV and hope they stay entertained for 10 minutes so you can fully wash yourself AND get dressed before they need you again.

Eventually, around a year or so, you don't worry so much about choking, so you take advantage of breakfast, snack, or (more often than you'd like) lunch time to get showered.

Today, with Katy being 21 1/2 months old, was the first time I took a shower without her in her bed or high chair! I turned on an episode of Little Einsteins and hoped for the best. And when I came back down, I found Katy sitting in the green chair, cuddled up with my blankey & hers, totally focused on the show! YAY!