Living in the Moment

This was our crazy finger painting experience. Eden wouldn't take her clothes off so Peter threw and old T-shirt over her nice sunday outfit. Too bad the big green blop of paint bled through. Oh well, I am just hoping that these paints don't stain. The kids had a blast though. Dallin has had some huge breakthroughs this week. He has started repeating things we are saying all the time. Whole sentences. I hope this will lead to a lot more spontaneous language. He is also starting to share. As much as he beats Eden up, they are really good friends. When we give Dallin two of something and tell him to give one to Eden (even a cookie!) he will. Peter and I just look at eachother in shock each time it happens. Eden has decided to be a Blanky girl. She has one special blanket (it happens to be the one I made her) that is her best friend. It is so funny how relieved she is to see it every time she needs it. My guess is that this is a comfort mechanism from the above mentioned beatings. This weekend was fun. Friday night we visited with Peter's family while his brother Andy had his 14th birthday party. It was fun to see the boy/girl thing going on. On our way home all of our kids fell asleep so we rented a movie and went to Larry and Michelle's house and hung out until around midnight. That is really late for us these days. We just put the sleeping kids on a bed and had a grown up party. Saturday we went to Peter's sister Heidi's dance competition. They were really good. They came in second place. Then we went to Peter's parent's and Peter helped his mom with her homework (ironic). The rest of us watched Nacho Libre. Dallin is in love with this movie. We borrowed it all last week and that is all Dallin asked for. Usually it is just Monster Trucks. He has seen it probably 10 times. This time was particularly funny though because there was a matress on the floor in front of the tv from a slumber party. During the wrestling scene Dallin started jumping around and going crazy. Whenever anyone body slammed someone else he would throw himself down on the matress. It was hilarious. He also repeated everything Nacho was saying. He is a cute kid.