The Higbee's

I really need to start posting more about what is going on around here...I'm such a slacker sometimes! The kids are doing a lot of fun (and silly) things that I fail to document, so I'm going to try and be better.

Recent comments by Mason:
6/11/11: "The moon is so bright! I've never seen anything like it!" He repeated the 2nd part of it several times, so I'm not sure if he was more impressed by the bright moon or that it was something he was excited he hadn't experienced before!

6/12/11: After Tristyn kissed him goodnight tonight he said "You're a great sister". Funny how they can be so lovey dovey at night but pounce on each other all day.

Earlier this month I was telling the kids that Karen was going to have baby Kaden any day. They didn't know I was expecting at that point and I asked if they wanted a baby. Of course Tristyn said yes, she wanted a baby sister. Mason just looked at me and said "Mom, you need a pet! A turtle." As we kept talking he said that Tristyn and dad both need guinea pigs. He already has a pet fish, so he's covered.

Tristyn's birthday was earlier this month (also something I need to post about), so he had been watching the calendar closely. For 2-3 weeks prior to her birthday when we'd call the primary kids up to sing for their birthday he'd say "Hey, what about Tristyn!" She's still in nursery, so she wasn't there for us to even sing to, but he didn't want us to miss her. Last week the music lady asked if we should sing Happy Birthday to the Primary President and he shouted out "No, what about Melissa!" Her birthday was the next day and he didn't want her to be left out either. He likes to let the primary ladies know if something doesn't go quite as he'd expect.

We just finished the spring soccer season and when we asked how many goals he wanted to score, he'd always say 100. He played with his neighborhood buddies and had a lot of fun. He's quite a good player if he can keep his focus on the game. He really likes to play goalie. Tball starts tomorrow and he's super excited about that.

We bought him a loft bed (aka bunk bed) for his room downstairs, but I have to clean my junk out of it and paint it before we can put the bed up, so he has been begging me to clean it and has even offered to help so it will get done more quickly. I think he's more excited about the bunk bed than the baby sister. We recently painted our family room and a wall in the kitchen and wall in the front room, so he is very anxious to have his own space painted.

The other day he told me I couldn't eat because he was worried about what the food would do to the baby in my belly. We had to explain how I need to eat so the baby could get food.

We took the training wheels off of his bike a few days ago against his wishes. He will be going on a few bike rides with his day care class and the first is this week. We have a few days for him to get it down or he may be walking his bike! He wants us to put them back on, but what would that teach him??? He's actually doing really well without them and just needs a bit more practice.

I'll have to think about other funny things he has said and try to post them before I forget.

Tristyn does a lot of silly things too. She gives hugs to Mason that are basically a bear hug turned tackle. She holds on forever and we have to pull her off a lot of the time. She likes to bug him when she's bored. He takes it pretty well.

She likes to have picnics with her dolls and even fed her rubber duckies a fake pancake yesterday at the picnic. Later in the day we took real pancakes to the park and let her feed the real ducks--she loved it.

She already likes to rub my budda belly and ask if that's her baby sister in there. She always reminds us that the baby needs to get a lot bigger. She saw the ultra sound photos on the fridge before she knew it was my baby and always said that the baby needed to get bigger. Mason just thought it was a photo of a cave.

When we were looking at the super bright moon last night she said she wanted to go to it. When I asked how we'd get there she said we'd use a ladder. Dan had his ladder out for painting, so maybe that's why she thought of that. We had put an outer space puzzle together earlier in the day and she was talking about going from planet to planet to play with friends.

She picks every dandelion she sees and I think she'll really love eating stuff from the garden this year. We pulled a few carrots up that lingered from last year and she munched on them. She also picked a strawberry blossom and green berry and carried them around for a while.

We bought her a $10 princess bike off of KSL and she is riding it very well after just a few days! She wasn't ever very interested in the tricycle, so I'm glad she wanted to ride this one. She wants to play tball with Mason and I think she'll be excited tomorrow to see that I have a pink mitt hidden away for her. I forgot to give it to her for her bday.

Okay, I'm having a brain block because it's getting late. There are so many other fun things they do, so I just need to write a quick post when they happen before I forget! This mushy brain can't remember anything these days!