Liberty Jail

 Replica of Liberty Jail where the Prophet Joseph Smith and other church leaders were held.

 Kansas City Temple

Independence, Missouri

 3 years old

 Inside the visitor's center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(Our church)

They have a kids area with pioneer stuff to play with.

 11 months old

 Naomi likes animals.

 Visitor's Center on the left.

 We walked around to see the historic sites but kind of laughed because none of them are really there.  We just walked through the current town of Independence and saw parking lots, etc...where stuff used to be. We still enjoyed it and read and talked about lots of church history while we were there. 

Church History Trip

For the last few months Ken and I kept throwing out the idea of going to Nauvoo but hadn't really made plans.  Our friends Kurt and Katie mentioned they were going so we decided to go together.  It turned into a mini church history trip.  We flew into Kansas City...visited Independence, Liberty, Far West, Adam-ondi-Ahman, then drove on to Nauvoo and Carthage.

I'd been to Nauvoo and Carthage a couple of times...but not to the other places.  Ken and the kids hadn't been to any.  It was a great trip.

 This is the craziness that was Naomi on the airplane.

This guy was great. 

{ipad is my favorite on airplanes}

We flew to Kansas City a day before our friends Kurt and Katie so that we could visit Rodney, Phyllicia and Desmond, who live in Kansas. {kens brother and his family}

Rodney, Desmond, Ken and Julius

 Desmond

Naomi

Phyllicia, Desmond and Naomi

Naomi and Me

Phyllicia and Desmond 

Ken, Naomi, Desmond, Rodney

We got to spend a day with Rodney and Phyllicia then drove back to Kansas City.  Surprisingly Ken and I both really like Kansas City.

 Good Morning Naomi!

Wittle Stinker

Sept 2011

One of the first times I found Naomi climbing the stairs I said something about how she was being a "little stinker".  Julius must have heard. Any time he saw Naomi on the stairs by herself he'd yell:

"Mom. Omi's being a wittle stinker."

What Julius says...and what he means.

Since Julius started talking a lot I've been keeping a list of things he would say. For family history purposes I'm gonna finally get these things documented.

February 2011

These are things he was saying sometime right after Naomi was born.  So from when Julius was 2 yrs 3 mos old until he was about 2 1/.2.

no nade  lemonade

apple fruit  apple juice

boon  balloon

now nouse  Mickey Mouse

fink  drink

a more one  another one

cheese and fraks  cheese and crackers

pinnow  pillow

ballee  ball

bootball  football

hey bop  ipad (?????)

Why do dat?  Why did you do that?

sopa  sofa

stam up  stand up

fentles  pretzles

fay  play

pack pack  backpack

Julius asked me where daddy was and I told him daddy was at work. He said:

"Oh...work. Puter, office, type it."
{Yes...that's exactly what daddy does.}


Family:
Bam-maw Bace  Grandma Grace
Bam-maw Taffy Grandma Kathy 
Dia  Lydia
Emi  Emily
Dawid  David

Cute things he'd say about Naomi:

Omi  Naomi

Wash dis baby.  Watch this baby.

No fry Omi.   Don't cry Naomi.

Baby frying mom.  Baby's crying mom.

Sup Baby?
It's spitting.  Naomi is spitting. {one of my favorites}

August 2011

These are all things he would say over the summer of 2011 so he was 2 1/2 going on 3 years old.

potcones  popcorn

I hold you  You hold me

I change you  You change me

Daddy change you   Daddy changed me

I help me too  I want to help too

I poddy  Either "ipod" or I guess it could have been "I need to potty." But I actually think at the time he meant "ipod".

factice  practice {as in..."I need to factice soccer."}

baca boga  happy birthday {seriously. it's a miracle i could understand the kid.}

town out  time out {as in..."Go to town out mommy!"}

basebat  baseball

nuffin there  there's nothing there

basketball shoot  basketball hoop

swink drink

Other cute things he says:

So exciting.

I was screamin' and cryin'.

Mmm...that's tastey.

I go work. Bye. See ya.

Never! {real cute huh?}

Big {he wants everything BIG...drink, food, etc...}

I love...

It's my favorite.

Ooh! That'd be fun!
These are so juicy. {we were eating berries}

He calls himself Juwis. {which i love}


Two different moms from church came up to me and said their little girls (who were in nursery with Julius) really liked him. One little girl saw Julius and said to her mom:
"There's Julius...he's cute."

Another little girl said to her mom:
"Julius is my man."

Sometimes when he wants me to do something for him he tries to flatter me. For example:

 Julius: "Get my sippy mommy." 

Me: "No. You can get it Julius." 

Julius: "But you're strong mommy."

Another time when he asked me to do something for him and I said no because he could do it himself he said:

"But I too small. See. {he showed me his foot} I getting bigger. But I too small mommy." 

I showed Julius the BYU flag I got to hang outside for football games and he said:

"Football U flag! That'd be awesome. Let's hang it out!"

I tossed a little basketball his direction and he said:

"Mom. You just shoot me and I not a basketball shoot!"
{basketball hoop}


One evening Julius was sitting on Ken's shoulders and was looking out toward Utah Lake and said:
"I can see the miles."
{I can see for miles.}

One morning I was feeding Naomi some yogurt and out of no where Julius exclaimed in the most serious, stubborn little voice...

"Omi don't like yogurt. Omi likes pancakes."

{Which I thought was hilarious. I never make pancakes. And apparently Julius really wanted some.}


"My tummy hurts cuz I need pumpkin pie with ice cream on it."

Oh man...what a cute kid.

Naomi Videos

Just a few videos I never posted...mostly from September.

She's 9-10 months old.

Starting to walk with a little help.

Just getting the hang of walking by herself.

Absolutely nothing happens...but isn't she so cute?

She's such a little copy cat.

I Have Lots Of Park Pictures

I always have tons of pictures of my kids at the park.

They're always so happy there.

She has four teeth.

I absolutely love this picture of Julius.

It really captures his fantastic smile.

Pure joy.