Your daily smile

Tucker keeps walking waround the house singing this:

Black sheep,

Black sheep

Ever you were...

Yes sir,

Yes sir 3 bags full...

One for my master

and one for his day,

One for the litte boy...

going away.

Hope we could make you smile today.

Play group this weeks was at the firestation for Seth's birthday (the son of the lady that does play group)

Tucker and I were so excited.

First they showed us the inside of the firehouse. Tucker was thrilled to see that the firemen had exercise equipment. ? I don't know why he thought that that was so fantastic.

Next we got to go outside and see all of the vehicles.

We got to see the ambulance first.

They opened up all the compartments on the ambulance and showed us what was in them. I had no idea that they kept firerighting gear on the ambulance just incase they come accross a fire or a wreck that suddenly bursts into flames.

Tucker called the firemen "Firehouse boys"... and I have no idea where he got that.

Well, one of the firehouse boys lined the kids up in a row while he talked to them about the ambulance.

I have never seen kids stand in line so still in my life. They were all glued to every word he was saying.

Then we got to go inside the ambulance and look around. The fireman set all the kids down on the gurney while he showed them what was in the ambulance.

The back of one of the seats in the ambulance pulls down and converts into a car seat. My thought: why aren't all cars equiped with this feature?

Ok, back out of the ambulance. And on to look at the old fire truck.

Well not that old. They said it was a 1985 or such, and they use it as their back up engine.

They brought out an ax, as tall as Tucker... so about 36-39 inches and asked if any  of the kids could pick it up. Well I guess it must be a heavy ax, either that or the other kids didn't try very hard. Tucker was watching the other kids try to lift the ax and he was getting so frustrated with them. He stood next to most of the kids and kept saying "come on, pick it up." Well after all the other kids had tried Tucker went over and said: "I Tucker Owen Clark, I strength of the bear, I pick it up." Well Tucker probably got it a foot off the ground and the fireman kept saying "ok, ok let's put it back down." Tucker gave him a funny look, I suppose Tucker was thinking ' what? put in down, you just told me to pick it up.'

At that point Kimber had had it with being held and I had to let her wander. She was very excited to check out the firetruck with the rest of the kids.

They let the kids climb on the firetruck.

Kimber, just happy she gets to touch the truck.

WHAT! Cody's here!

Cody showed up late, and while we were listening to the fireman talk Tucker could see Cody coming. Tucker went nuts and totally lost focus. "Cody's here!"

The two boys had to explore together, and Kimber tagged along.

Then we got to see the newer fireturck. It has a huge cab, and they let the kids climb inside.

Love my kids.

We had such a good morning.

Tucker, Kimber and the "firehouse boy".

I'll try to get the video of the firehouse to post later. not working so great right now.

Bikes and Kids

Tucker's friend Dresdon got a new bike a while back and Tucker was going over there almost every day to ride this new bike of Dresdon's. The bike is a two wheeler, really light weight, low to the ground and has no pedals. The bike is supposed to help kids learn how to ride a two wheeler and skip the training wheels.

Well after Tucker had gone over there begging to use the bike everyday for a few weeks we decided maybe we should get one too. We got a red one. That way Kimber can use it eventually.

We are really glad we got the bike. Tucker is getting really good at balancing.

Well, while Tucker is getting really getting better at balancing on his bike Kimber is getting better at balancing on her feet. She prefers walking now to crawling. We hardly ever see her crawl. I really need to go to Wal-Mart and buy her some shoes. They all just look like they will be so hard to walk in... but I suppose eventually she will have to learn.

Homecoming weekend

This past weekend Grandma and Grandpa Clark came to visit and Dave came with them. Tucker was so excited to have them here. Saturday Dusty took Dave and Grandma and Grandpa Clark to the WSU homecoming football game. It sounds like they had a good time, and the weather stayed pretty nice for the game. We didn't win the game, we never expected to, Oregon is ranked #2 in the nation or something like that (I don't pay much attention to football).
I had a good time baking. I love cooking for company, so much fun. I also babysat for a family in the ward while everyone was at the game. And I have sworn off having any more kids... at least for a little while.
We had a wonderful time talking and spending time with Grandpa and Grandma and Grandpa Clark. When everyone was heading out Sunday morning, Tucker assumed he was going with them and he also proceeded out to Grandma and Grandpa's van. Dave had to bring him back in the house. And as Tucker realized he wasn't going with them he broke down into tears. We had to call Owen to make him feel better.

First week of October

Wow, time goes by fast when you are looking back instead of forward. This past week:
Dusty studied almost every night. He had a big exam to take on Moday. I'm sure he did fine... he says he thinks he did "OK". He has a rough couple of weeks coming up, for 4-5 weeks in a row he will have 2 exams a week! Ouch.
I worked and cleaned the house. I really started to get on top of the house work... dusting, mopping... the works. I started to feel really good about it and then Wham! I go to work one night, spend the next day lounging on the cough to recover and POW! the house was a disaster again..... I think there should be a law that you are only aloud to make a mess proportional to your size... and right now my kids are way over the limit. Kimbers favorite thing is to get hold of the baby wipes or kelnexes and pull them out one by one and spread them around the house. Yay.
Tucker is still working on potty training. He does really well some days and not so good other days. I actually prefer the days he doesn't do so well. He is still wearing a diaper and that is much easier to deal with than getting up and down to help him to the bathroom 15 times a day for false alarms etc. If it wasn't socially taboo I would probably just let him wear a diaper until he could take care of everything himself. Whew... potty training.... more like parent training... and I am even taking the easy way out by letting him kind of decide when he's ready. I pitty any parent that tries to start potty training before the kids interested. What a nightmare that would be.
Kimber is walking quite welll. But she has taken on a "roar" when she starts to walk fast. I don't get it, but it cracks me up as she staggers toward you like Frankinstien with a throaty "R-O-A-R". What a duck. And the drama continues with her... in her little mind if there is any occasion to cry she is going to cry like her world has just colapsed.... I REALLY hope she grows out of that.

Well, heading toward the weekend we were able to have a little fun. Max came over to play with Tucker on Friday. Tucker loves it when Max comes over.... they share the same love for Thomas the train. It was nice to have Tuckers energy focus on someone else for a while. Saturday and Sunday we were able to watch conference... well as much as you can watch conference with two kids screaming and shouting in the background. Sunday afternoon we went over to Max's house (the Claytons) for a BBQ. It was nice to have some more adult interaction while the kids entertained themselves with Max's Thomas the train set. Kimber however was not a very happy camper come Sunday night.:( She came down with a fever Sunday. Well 24-48 hours of Tylenol and ibeuprofin and she is doing much better. 

In a few days Dave and Grandma and Grandpa Clark will be coming up to go to the WSU football game... and of course to see Tucker and Kimber. We are looking forward to that very much. I told Tucker that two grandpas were coming up and his eye became huge as if to say "Two Grandpas? No way!" so he is very excited too.

Oh and I almost forgot. My boss sent out an e-mail to the staff saying that they are going to try the proposed set schedule that the night shift came up with for work! So thank you all for your prayers! Hopefully it will go well and we will get to keep it. YAY!!!

Sorry, no pictures... still working on the camera thing.