Where with the what now?

I just finished a lovely 10 minute conversation with young Joe Joe Baggins.  We leave in the morning for a weekend in Maui with friends so we're clearing out the kitchen of anything that won't survive until Monday.   He was helping me out in the kitchen and was fervently telling me, "We need the Colorados to be macaroni."  I repeated it back to him and he nodded yes.  I started doing the mom thing where you keep repeating in your head and putting the inflection in different places, but couldn't for the life of me figure out what he was saying.  So I asked one more time, "We need the Colorados to be macaroni?"  This time to clarify for me he said, "No, we need to make the Colorados into macaroni."

You're still stumped aren't you?  He very helpfully pointed to the avocados this last time and it clicked.

"Oh, we need to make the avocados into guacamole.  Yes, you're right."

Sometimes even I need a translator.

Caleb's Many Talents

Today, a solar powered robot of sorts came in the mail.  You build it into whatever you choose it to be, a boat, a dog, I think there are like 6 different choices.  Caleb and the kids started to build it when unfortunately Caleb snapped the motor in half.  Enter Macgyver Johnson.  He took apart a bubble blowing lady bug that we had also broken somewhere along the way and removed the motor from it.   He was pretty proud of himself because it involved triangular screw heads and he had to track down a 5 point screw bit to take it apart.  It was a process to say the least.  When he finally accomplished his goal, Blythe's only comment was, "Daddy's good at breaking things."

Sometimes daddy's can't win.

Oh My Goodness

Hi Aunt Chrystal :)

So here are some random pictures and then I'm gonna try and post about the actual events that have happened...

Making sand angels

 Making pico with Daddy, using her new knives she got for her birthday

Our friends Liam and Sullivan are in the engine and caboose, but you think it's hard to get 2 kids in a picture, try 4.

Here's a better one of Liam.  This park has an old airplane for the kids to play in.

These slides are really fun.  Joe did take one tumble when he tried to slow himself down and instead just went somersaulting down, but other than that super fun!

Same park, she was being a mermaid.

This is overlooking the airport and Joe could've stayed all day just watching planes take off and land.

Joe Joe Baggins first movie.

Got some new goggles for swim lessons.  Blythe has made leaps and bounds in just a few short weeks. She's been paddling all over with a kick board of late, and hopefully, will soon not even need that.

Running errands while B is at school.

I forgot where we were going that they were wearing pajamas.

Valentine's party at Blythe's school.  They are always extremely sweet to include Joe.

So that's all the random pictures I found.  I'm going to attempt to get some of the other stuff on here.  In other news, I had totally forgotten about the blog list attached to this thing and am kind of excited to catch up on some old blogs if anyone is still posting :)