One More...

Ty's cousin just got home from his mission and we went and saw him at the airport and then drove out to hear him talk in church. While we were driving out to Nevada to hear him talk I was reminding Ty that he was starting preschool the following Monday.

Nadja - "What day is it today?"
Ty - "Saturday"
Nadja - "So tomorrow is...?"
Ty - "Sunday"
Nadja - "And the day after Sunday is....?"
Ty - "Monday"
Nadja - "And where are you going on Monday?"
Ty - "Mission?"

Ty-isms

Ty is at the age where he wants everything at the store and flips out when he doesn't get it. He wanted two toys that both cost $10. We told him to save his money and then he could buy them. When we got home he told me that he was going to rip his $10 bill in half and then he could buy both things.

Ty licks EVERYTHING. Today we were sitting eating lunch when there was a little drip of ranch on the ranch bottle which Ty promptly licked off. I told him:
"Don't lick the bottle. Now your germs are on the bottle and the bottle germs are on your tongue!" And Ty told me, "But I need some more germs. All of mine ran away!"

Mr and Mrs Rubber Face

Ty and I were practicing our emotions.... overly happy
Proud nose lickers
Weird
ANGRY
Sad...

Random Pictures from my Phone

After the non-family reunion up by Bear Lake we stopped in Garden City to eat some lunch and some yummy yummy raspberry shakes...yum (I want one right now.... :D)
Laney and some of the other kids she does Tumbling with.
In Germany they have these AWESOME little carts for kids....I wish they had them here. Maybe the kids would stop climbing on the big carts!!
When we picked Ben up at the airport...we gave him about 5 seconds to re-pack and then we were off to Paris!!! :D
One of the grocery stores in Germany had these cool little compartments in the cart....Ty's little booty was a perfect fit.
We went to the park with my friend from England and they had these spiny things. Ty just wanted to sit in them and have me spin him around. He would close his eyes and I thought he was going to fall asleep. It was pretty funny.
We went to Wheeler Farm and caterpillars kept falling from the trees on me. One of the ones I flicked off Ty picked up and he seriously carried it around forever, just letting crawl up and down his arms.
We went to the Zoo a month or so ago and we couldn't pull Ty away from the sloth. He just stood and watched it for about 10-15 minutes.
Gorilla Laney
Gorillas Ty

Swimming Lessons

Laney did swimming lessons last summer and it was a battle to keep her in the water at first and not freak out. We went swimming a couple of times last summer and she was just terrified of the water and would rather sit on the steps or on the edge. But by the end of last summer she was getting a lot better and actually enjoying herself. So she was quite excited for swimming lessons this year....and so was Ty. It was hard trying to keep him out of the water last year when Laney was swimming and he did fall in on the last day.
This year I couldn't keep Laney above the water long enough to actually tell her something. She was constantly going under the water.
Here she is with one of her teachers doing "big arms".

My little fish. When we went with the kids to the swimming pool she actually practiced kicking off the wall and swimming under the water over to us. She did so good. I was very impressed. She also would go under the water in the deep end and try to reach the bottom...which she did once or twice.
Then there was Ty. Ty has always loved the water and like I said last year he fell in the water during Laney's swimming lessons because he was playing by the water. THIS YEAR, he was so excited to go to swimming lessons and was happy until we go to the pool....and then I couldn't get him even go in the water. He said it was because it was a man who was his teacher....he's never had a problem with that before...but even the next day when it was a girl he freaked out.
So out of 8 classes he was in the water 1 time...and the whole time he was whining and kind of crying. So we'll try again next year. He IS really good at floating on his back though. :D