Silly Girl!

Caleb remembers liking all of the kid foods with animal names as a child, such as pigs in a blanket, birdies in the nest, etc. So I decided to try pigs in the blanket with Corbin awhile ago, and he actually liked them (a shock seeing how he won't eat meat). So today I decided to try ants on a log for his snack. (What an appealing picture :)


He ate these too! And they are made with celery, a vegetable (don't tell him that though, or we may lose his approval). So I was thinking maybe the cute animal names theme was really working for me and I should rename all vegetables and meat dishes until I was pointing out one of the "ants" and he looks at me and starts laughing and says, "Silly girl, it's not an ant, it's a raisin!" I tried multiple times to explain that no, he wasn't eating a real ant, it just looked like ants so that's what we call it. He never relented though, he decided he is just far too smart to fall for that, and there was no way he was calling a raisin an ant.

Randomness

I cut Corbin's finger nails yesterday. You would really need a video of this to truly understand how ridiculous the child is, but he basically walks around with his fingers spread out (similar to what you would do if you had freshly painted fingernails and you were waiting for them to dry) and refuses to touch anything for about 6 hours after you cut them. No joke.

Yesterday I also cut his toenails. While I was cutting them, he named them. I am not sure where this came from but he then referred to his toes as their new names for the remainder of the day. For example, after stubbing his toe: "Ow! My Wall-e hurts" or "I kicking it with my captain."


Also, this past week we watched Snakes on a Plane on TV. It is on cable a lot this month I think, it wasn't the best movie, but it was laugh out loud good to see their editing job. Normally when they edit shows for TV and there is a swear word they replace it with a gentler version of the same word. The "S" word becomes "shoot," etc. Well here they decided to go with what appeared to be any random word that started with the same letter. There were a lot of good ones throughout the show, but the one I remember best is when, in the center of an intense scene, they replaced "M----- F-------" with, "when I get off this Monday to Friday plane..." Needless to say it was hard to feel frightened or tense when you are laughing at ever little edit.

Friday night was our ward party. It was a talent show/dance party. Corbin got a glow-in-the-dark bracelet and learned the Macarena and the YMCA song. He was pretty good at "shaking his bum" and jumping. Again we needed a video of it, because he has quite the little moves.

Final tidbit... I have been trying to teach Corbin comparisons: "The dog is taller than the cat, but the cat is taller than the mouse." When asked to compare how big things are, "I am bigger than Makelle, Daddy is bigger than me, and Mommy is bigger than Daddy." Mommy is also bigger than Harm and Derek, the bed, the car, pretty much bigger than anyone or anything else. Either he doesn't fully get the concept yet, or I need to loose more baby weight than I thought.

Easter Smiles

We had a great Easter Holiday. Yesterday Corbin got to find eggs at our neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt.


Then today we had a very considerate Easter Bunny who decided to let us sleep in as much as possible and came to our house mid-afternoon while Corbin was napping, instead of during the night. He left Corbin some great treats and hid lots of eggs that Corbin absolutely loved finding. (If you look closely you can see Makelle thoroughly enjoying the Easter egg hunt, while fast asleep in her car seat.)


Then we went up to my parents' house for a nice Easter dinner and Corbin once again got to go on another egg hunt with his cousin. It turns out he has a very competitive side! (Who would have guessed, knowing who his parents are :)


Makelle already out-grew her church dress, so I made another one and a matching bow. (This one even has a little bit of pink, I am getting there :) She is also starting to smile now, so I simply had to take another picture. It is so precious when she hears your voice and stops fussing and looks up at you with those big eyes and gives you a tiny hint of a smile. We love her so much.

Easter Eggs and Family

Yesterday we went up to my parents' house to dye Easter eggs. The little kit we bought also came with some paints, which Corbin thoroughly enjoyed. He also thought it was pretty cool that you could turn a white egg blue by GENTLY dropping it into a cup. He made a HUGE mess, but luckily we weren't at home, so no harm done -- to any of our things at least :)


My grandparents are in town this week, so we also got to spend some time with them last night while we were up visiting. They taught me everything I know about playing cards, dice and dominoes. So we had a lot of fun playing games with them.

They are my mom's parents, so we also took a girl's four-generation picture. It seems like the thing you're suppose to do... but even more I have a distinct memory of this picture of me with my mom, grandma and great-grandma from when I was a baby (of the picture, not of taking the picture, obviously), so I thought I would continue the tradition.