Tibert the renamed cat

We went to a friends house so the kids could play. They had a new cat named Max. Kaytlynn was paying a lot of attention to the cat, or "catty", so I asked her if she knew the cats name. She said "Tibert". I told her that the cats name was Max. Kaytlynn called that cat Tibert the rest the time. "Tum here, Tibert." "Where'd you doe, Tibert?" "Tibert eat my bot-tle." Aidan, the cats 3 year old owner, told Kaytlynn "His name is not Tibert. His name is Max." Kaytlynn just looked at him like he was crazy, like she does--ignored him, turned around and ran down the hall looking for the cat-"Here, Tibert!" It totally cracked me up. Tibert. Hm. Where did she come up with that name?

More kid comments

Josh-"You're going for a time out, son."

Connor was chewing on something and Brad asked what it was. Connor went to spit it out into Brads hand and said-"It's just boogers, dad."

The kids-and I don't know where they got this from-say "I just farted in my mouth." when they burp. Disgusting, isn't it?

Ha

Josh went to pre-school today and came home with a list of kids in his class so we could send Valentines to school with him on Thursday. I was asking him about each kid in his class. I asked if Josh was friends with Duncan and he said "Duncans just a little guy." I asked about Dallas and Josh said "He's a big guy. And he farts."

What a day!

What an incredible, amazing, awesome day! At Sundance. It was hard getting there. My Jeep is the absolute worst car I have ever driven in the snow. It's rear-wheel drive and it slips and slides and inches very slowly up a not very steep hill. It's bad. It's real bad. So we got to the turnoff to Sundance and it said 4 wheel drive or chains were required to go up. There wasn't a ton of snow yet, so we decided to take our chances. Argh! I kept sliding into the other lane. I would put the brakes on and then the Jeep couldn't get traction and we'd inch slowly up the hill and around the bend, hoping that no car would come up too fast behind us and we wouldn't slide into an oncoming car. Anybody who has been to Sundance knows that the road is narrow and curvy. We couldn't stop to put my chains on because there was no room on the road and I also didn't think we'd be able to even turn the car around and go back down the mountain. So some nice people pulled up beside us when we weren't getting anywhere. We were just stuck on the road. They really couldn't help us, but then a snow plow came! It didn't have enough room to get past, so I had to back up and to the side of the road. After a lot of spinning of the wheels, we got onto the plowed road and still had a rough time. We finally made it up and the lower parking lot was full. I stopped to talk to the parking attendent and couldn't get the darn Jeep to go again! The parking attendent and Greg (My cousin Paiges friend) had to push. We worked together and got the chains on the Jeep so we could drive up to the upper parking lot. After that--pure snowboarding bliss! The powder was amazing. What a good day! I really do love snowboarding. Especially on days like today. Carving down the powdery mountain was like floating. I stepped down in the snow and was up to my butt in powder. Glad I didn't get stuck! So it snowed all day and on the way home I went 10 miles an hour with bunches of cars behind me. It was so worth it!

The Circus

I took the kids to the circus last night while Brad was working. I was scared to take them all alone because Kaytlynn still likes to run away and Connor just wanders off and doesn't even realize it. And I, of course, can only run after one, and only pick up two. I just imagined myself with Kaytlynn in one arm, Connor in the other, running after Josh. And they are so short that they get dwarfed in the crowd. I was afraid that Josh would need to go to the bathroom in the middle of it and I would have to drag the kids out kicking and screaming for a bathroom break. But no, it was relatively painless. We had some tears, some freezing while standing in line for tickets, and Connor kept trying to cut to the front of the line. Kaytlynn cried when she had to get off the pony. She was crying "I need mooooorrre." Josh and Connor decided they wanted to ride on the elephant and Kaytlynn wanted to ride on the pony. When it was Kaytlynns turn, both Josh and Connor cried because they wanted to ride the pony. Fun stuff. It was really good though. And a funny comment from Josh--"I saw the elephants wee-vee. It was huge. And it peed." Today we are off to the McDonalds playplace with friends.

Why in the heck is it called a blog?

Yeah, that's all. I just want to know where the word blog came from. Such a weird word.

Snowboarding

So I took Connor snowboarding today. Josh says snowboarding is scary, so that's why I took Connor. Connor is 3 years old and still in diapers. So if he's smart, he will tell all the girls that he started snowboarding when he was still in diapers. They'll be really impressed. I had to put tights on him to keep his legs warm. They are Kaytlynns tights and are white with pink hearts on them. I put some socks over them so people wouldn't see them. It seems a little bit cruel to put those tights on my wild, little, crazy boy. People still saw them. They said he will always wonder why he has a tendency to cross-dress when he grows up.

So we got up there and went to rent a snowboard. I have been looking for a tiny snowbard and have not found one yet. They said they didn't have anything small enough--no boots to fit him. So I rented these cute little skis for him. At Sundance, you have to walk up a hill to get to the bunny hill, which makes no sense. I couldn't carry Connor in his clunky boots, my snowboard, and his skis, so we just went up the regular lift. Connor did really well. Everytime we stopped, he would get upset and want to keep going. I couldn't quite let myself just let go of him, though. So I held onto him the whole way down. We got to the bunny hill and the poor kid just couldn't grab onto the tow rope. So we took his skis back and went up and snowboarded down holding Connor. He liked it. When we were leaving he kept telling me that he wanted to go back up the mountain lots of times and didn't want to go home.

Connor is wild. We've been sledding a few times and he won't let anybody go with him. He wants to go alone. He runs up the hill with his sled and puts it down, then makes a running jump head first into the sled. He aims for the jumps. He never wants to go home after sledding either. This was the same kid who was going down the steep bouncy slide alone at 2 years old. The slide was for 6 years old and over. This tiny little kid going down. Funny.