Ali and Truman's birthdays

Train museum, Ogden



I snapped this when we were laying down playing. Truman is so much fun.



Easter Sunday girls... the boys weren't interested in posing.



We had a birthday week at our house this week. A busy week to boot, as all spring weeks are. Every week goes like this. Monday, Isaiah has soccer game (sometimes in Kaysville, sometimes as far as Ogden.) Tuesday, Ali has softball game and Isiaiah has scouts, Wednsday, Isaiah has soccer practice. Thursday, Ali has softball game and every other week also Activity days. Friday, Isaiah has Soccer game. Oh- and somewhere between 330 and 830 if we are not in any of those places... splash in homework and jobs and dinner and diaper changes... So with a birthday on Monday, and one on Friday... busy busy week. For Ali's birthday, she didn't want to go to the soccer game north of Ogden in Farr West, so she stayed with Robyn at our house and watched a movie she'd been wanting to see. The last few minutes of Isaiah's game was FREEZING. It was windy and then light rain turned to light hail, which turned almost violent within one or two minutes. Anyway we got drenched by the time the game was over and we ran to the parking lot. I'm glad Truman stayed home with Ali and Robyn. So we got home and Ali was able to open her presents and blow out candles. She was very happy she got just what she wanted... the books she asked for and a couple different kinds of invisible ink pens (the kind that show up under black light, which she also received.)



Ok, before I move onto Tmas birthday, I have to write down something funny I just heard on tv (one of the shows I watch when I can... Bones- the dialog is often quite clever.)
~Honesty is clearly the downfall of civilization; Civility, Propriety, and Manners are it's redeemers.
Ok, it is funnier after watching the whole episode unfold as the characters are experimenting with extreme honesty amongst each other.
Now moving on beyond the less relevant things that are on my mind.

Truman's birthday was pretty fun for all of us. We all got on the Front Runner train, and rode up to the Ogden station, where they also have a train museum. (TRAIN! train! Train! TRAIN! Tracks! TrAiNS!) The kids looked at and climbed on the display train engines they had, then we went home and Truman opened his presents (Trains!), then he blew out the candles on his train birthday cake (Trains!) Then he played with his new trains.



I think this if a first for me to have a child SO obsessed with any one thing, He eats with his trains, he sleeps with his trains, he cries hysterically during his bath because he can't bathe with them. It's been like this for a few months now. A month or so ago we discovered Disney channel has a new cartoon, and I knew immediately Tman would love it. Chuggington, It's the song that we can never stop singing, It's the only show he will sit down for more than a few minutes for. Isaiah liked cars, and he liked trains... but nothing to this extent. It's been fun for us to experience such a passion. His whole body actually stiffens with excitement when he sees a real train, as he is yelling, train! TRAIN! Oh mah goodness! Train!

It's Tuesday, so Isaiah is at scouts now, and Ali has to be at her softball game shortly... so gotta go!