The Latest and Greatest

I took the boys for their check-ups and found that both are holding steady on their respective ends of the growth charts. Will is almost off the top of the height chart and Sawyer is almost falling off the bottom of the weight chart. The little guy is in the third percentile. I thought it was interesting that starting at age 3 they calculate a child's BMI--so I now have statistical proof that Will is not overweight...because I was really concerned about that...rriiigghhht.

We have started potty training week and thus will not be leaving the house for several days. For some reason Will only remembers to use the toilet when he is buck naked...so that is how he has been for 3 days now. He is doing pretty well except for when he pees on things for his own amusement. This morning he peed down the ramp of Sawyer's toy car garage.

Last weekend we took the boys to the zoo and to Wheeler Farm. Megan and Chad came with us. Unfortunately, both places were having events that day so everything was extremely crowded. The only place that was pretty empty was the farm part of Wheeler Farm. I guess everyone else was over at the carnival and car show. This is how Will reports on the trip: "My favorite animal was that grill slot that just sleeps in the basket all day and then the black guy went and got in a truck and the white guy had a gun." Translation: Will liked the girl sloth (not sure how he concluded it was a girl sloth) at the zoo which was sleeping in a hammock. At the Wheeler Farm carnival he saw Darth Vader, but Darth went and got in a truck before he could get a picture with him. Will did get his picture taken with a storm trooper with a gun, however. Sometimes I worry about what people must think when Will tells his versions of things.

Anyone have ideas of fun things to do in the San Francisco, northern California coast, western Oregon region? We are headed there in a week and a half and not sure what to do. We will be picking up the car that we are buying from my brother and doing some vacationing and driving home.

Sawyer's new record, which was set yesterday, is 17 baby steps. I was watching the Olympic women's gymnastic finals and thought that if I was really creative I would do some kind of video montage contrasting those girls flipping and flying all over with little Sawyer trying his hardest to take a few steps and stay upright. Who is working harder do you suppose?

So I have never done blog tags because this blog is (theoretically) about the children, but I was recently tagged and since I don't have much to say today maybe I will sneak it in here.
Three joys:
1. Watching Will dance
2. Watching Sawyer walk
3. Reading a good book with a bowl of ice cream on the couch with a blanket after both the kids are asleep-- aaahhhhh...
Three fears:
1. Tornadoes. Not sure why. I have nightmares about them frequently. Will never live in the Midwest. Let's move on.
2. That someone will break into my house some night when Bryce isn't home and I will be stuck upstairs with no way to escape or to get my kids out. Now you won't be able to sleep the next time you're home alone with the kids either!
3. Highway driving. Specifically merging onto the highway. I would much rather drive at home back East than in Utah. Here people seem all too eager to run you off the road while shouting "See you at Church on Sunday!" No offense to any Utah drivers reading this. I'm sure it doesn't apply to you.
Three current obsessions/collections: (Good thing it says current because these change frequently leading to closets and storage boxes full of half-finished projects...but please don't raise the subject with my husband)
1. Watching the Olympics at night after the kids go to bed and in the process staying up way too late
2. Letterpress printing...where can I take a class? anyone? please?
3. I couldn't think of another one so I asked my husband what my obsessions are and he said "being right and being right." I don't really think I'm obsessed with being right though...I just happen to always be right. Not my fault really.
Three surprising facts:
1. I play the saxophone.
2. I have made over 50 citizen's arrests.
3. I had a fiction piece I wrote published 2 years ago (I won't go into details because the reality is definitely lamer than whatever image you conjured in your head when you read that.)
I tag...my husband. Ha!

And now for some pictures. (There is only 1 picture of Sawyer because he was hot and tired and cranky and crying all day...which I didn't feel like documenting.)

Will fought the duck...
and Will won.
Just kidding. See they aren't even the same color. Really. That one was like that when we got there. I swear.