September 2018

Hi Emily,

How are things? We've had fun reading your blog and Daniel suggested we make a blog for you! 

Dear Emily,

I love kindergarten. My teacher's name is Ms. Boyd. She's so nice. I like school and it is fun.

Rebecca loves school 

I ate a chocolate covered cricket! I didn't like it that much. 

Rebecca eating a chocolate cricket

And I also held two tarantulas! I wish I could hold more tarantulas. It felt kind of ticklish but I still liked it. I also lost my left top middle tooth.

Rebecca holds a tarantula

I love you. I wish I could wish I could see you soon. I hope you're having a fun time.

Love,

Rebecca

Dear Emily,

I'm in preschool. Mommy's my teacher and Julie. We mixed paint.  I like preschool. 

Marie and Carter painting

We're writing letters to you. I went to the spider festival. I maked a web. I painted with markers. I held a spider. It was Jumpy. It was cute. I want to hold another spider. I DID hold another one. 

Marie holding a jumping spider

I didn't want to hold a tarantula. It was too big. Daddy's here. I like yellow capes. Daniel broke his arm. I want to tell you "I love you." I played hide-and-go-seek and I was sad Daniel hided in the same place. I want a 'Punzel dress.

Love,

Marie

What Daniel has been up to:

About two weeks ago we went to Lagoon. It was fun, but on one of the rides I would have thrown up if I had food inside me.

Daniel, Rebecca and Marie riding Bluey the Whale ride at lagoon

In school I got this cool Indian vase and we played this game where you're trying to say a pinyin sound faster than the other person. I defeated 8 people on the other team, until the teacher told me to sit down so someone else could have a turn.

The Indian vase

On sept 13, 2018 I had a boat race. My boat looked the coolest, but it kept turning.

Daniel holds his boat up

On sept 17, 2018 we went to Park City to see an arachnid show. Where there were these cool robot blocks called Cubelets. Later we went to a cool street that looked like an old European street.

Daniel made a cool creation with Cubelets.

The kids by a bookstore at the entrance to the cool street

We had a fun time.

Love,

Daniel

Our Picky Little Eater

Daniel loves reading recipe books with me.  Especially the one that is full of recipes for kids.  We flip through it and pretend we’re eating food from the pictures, but Daniel is a VERY picky eater (just like his dad was) and he won’t even PRETEND to eat dishes that look like dinner food…with one exception.  For days now he’s been begging me for Sloppy Joe Cars and today he got his wish.  He was so excited he talked about it all day.  He even helped me make it! 

But when the final product was on his plate he refused to eat it.  He would even take a bite when we bribed him with the Oreo tires!  We made him eat one bite and he managed to swallow with tears streaming down his face but wouldn’t eat any more. 

I told him it made mommy sad that he wouldn’t eat his special food and he left dejectedly to play in the corner with his cars.  As we finished our dinner we could hear him talking to himself about “Sloppy Joe Car” and “don’t like it” and “sad mommy.” 

A few minutes later he came up to me and, with all the sweet sincerity he could muster said, “Daniel… love… Sloppy Joes.”  Then he gave me a big hug which melted my heart.

“Oh good, I’m glad you liked it, that makes mommy happy.”  He was SO pleased with himself for making mommy feel better. 

Of course, when I asked if he wanted some more, he said “All done! All done!” as quickly as he could.  He’s so much trouble, but he sure is cute about it.

Daniel is an Artistic Genius (at least his mom thinks so)

Daniel drew this picture a couple of days ago and said it was a Brachiosaurus.  Pretty good huh?  I colored it in for him in Photoshop so he could see his creation.

Parts of it probably worked out only by chance, but still, I was proud of my boy.  He’s barely two after all!

A Non-traditional Valentine’s Day

Once there was a brave and handsome man,

Who loved a girl,

Who loved flowers,

…but not as much as she loved Legos.  So when Valentine’s Day came, this wonderful man told his lady of his everlasting love,

and gave her an AWESOME Lego set because he knew it would make her happy.  It did, and it made their son Daniel happy too.

This is what it looks like:

They had fun building it together and playing with Lego games with Daniel. What a great Valentine’s Day!

Daniel’s favorite character is the cow.  He always likes to put the cow to bed in the upstairs room.  He doesn’t think much of the notion that cows shouldn’t be allowed inside.

It’s a great toy to keep me and Daniel entertained, though I’m not sure how I feel about the horse dropping pieces Lego included as part of the stable…yuck!  I guess they were going for authenticity.  Despite that it’s a fabulous set, and it made a great Valentine’s Day gift.  Eric is the best!

What’s for Dinner?

Yesterday I found out that I have Celiac disease just like my sister Sala.  That means I can no longer eat anything containing gluten; no wheat, no noodles, no pre-made dinners, no fast food, no gravy, no lunch meat, no taco seasoning, no salad dressing, very few candies…it’s amazing how many things contain gluten.  Basically if it’s not fruit, vegetables, or meat and it’s not labeled “gluten free” I can’t eat.

So what are we going to eat for family dinners?  Well…

A while back we took Daniel to the allergist and found out that he was allergic milk and peanuts. He’s so allergic to peanuts that peanut dust on my hands caused him to break out into a huge rash when I touched him. So dairy and peanuts are out.

Eric, as we all know, has a self proclaimed intolerance to vegetables. When eating a bowl of corn, I’m restricted to the opposite side of the room. 

So we’ll either have long distance family dinners or just eat meat and fruit (except blueberries because Daniel is allergic to those to).

We’ll probably starve….

I just hope no one decides to go vegetarian on me!

Happy Birthday Jaron!

For Jaron’s birthday we got the whole family together and had them act in a little adventure RPG we made.  Everyone’s in there (minus a few pets), see if you can find yourself!  Happy Birthday Jaron!

Instructions on how to install the game:

1. Save the following file to your computer: http://dl.degica.com/trial/enterbrain/xp/xp_rtp104e.exe
2. Double click on “xp_rtp104e.exe” and step through the install process. (This creates some necessary support files to run the game)
3. Save the following file to your computer: http://etedj.com/rpg/JaronsQuest.exe 
4. Double click on “JaronsQuest.exe”
5. Extract the game to somewhere on your computer (Like your desktop)
6. Open the Folder that it creates (It should be called “JaronsQuest”)
7. Double-click on “Game.exe” to play the game

Hopefully that isn’t too tricky! It is almost a quest in and of itself!

(Note: We updated the game since we first posted it. It is better now )

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Happy Birthday Will!