The Dinosaur is Sleeping!

Shelly asked Santa for a nice dinosaur that walks and talks and runs on batteries for Christmas (don't ask - I don't know). For the first two days Jason was terrified of the dinosaur when it would make noise. He's since gotten over that fear. Yesterday while I was doing something on the computer he was playing with it and would turn it on and then protect me from it. It was rather distracting from whatever I was doing, so I told Jason it was time to take a break and I turned off the dinosaur. He was so sad that it wouldn't work when he pushed the button and was crying that it ran out of batteries! Grammy was sitting right next to me on the couch and told Jason that the dino was tired and needed to rest before his batteries would work again. He immediately laid the dino down to rest and then would pick him back up and check to see if his batteries were working again, and when the button didn't work he would lay the dino back down again. It took us a time or two to catch on to what he was doing, but once we got it, we exploited it! Jason got a pillow for the dino on his own, but we encouraged the blanket.

Here's the dinosaur resting. Jason got the pillow on his own, but we encouraged the blanket!

Jason gave the dinosaur a kiss goodnight - that was also all him!

Then he got upset that the flash was too bright for the dino's eyes!

Here's Jason resting with the dinosaur!

Christmas!

Becca and Bryan (officially engaged as of last night) wanted matching footsie pajamas for Christmas. Apparently they are both tall and the bum flap kept trying to come un-velcroed for them. Bryan also got a Weezer snuggie and Mom had no idea what a Weezer was… That was worth a laugh, and it kept Doug warm.

Nate and Doug both got laser pointers. Jason was quite put out that there was a green dot on his shirt that wouldn’t go away when he caught it, and it kept moving!!

I thought this was rather funny. Shelly got a princess Little People set (actually two, one from each grandma) and Jason got some Geo-Tracks. So, of course, just to throw us all a curve ball, Jason wanted to play with the princess set, and Shelly wanted to train tracks… Should I be worried for their futures??

I have no idea what got this into Shelly’s head, but she was certain, for several weeks, that she wanted a walking, talking dinosaur that runs on batteries. Only after much questioning did she specify that she also wanted it be a ‘nice dinosaur’. I admit that I probably shouldn’t have asked, but I was sure that she had gotten the idea from somewhere and if Santa brought one at all and it was the wrong one, she would be devastated and then she’d throw a fit and I’d have to discipline her on Christmas, and she’d be grumpy the rest of the day. I’d rather not get one at all than get the wrong one (distraction is easy when you’re little and there would be much else for her to play with - and yes, the idea of not getting one at all prevailed so long, that it wasn’t until my Mom told me I should hurry and get one that Mark and I took advantage of free babysitting on the 23rd or so and spent a night out after getting one at the store). Jason was terrified of it for the first 2 or 3 days, and Shelly wanted to take it on a walk…

Here’s our cool set up with Geo-Tracks! Go Aunt Katie!

Emily and Licorice

It's the official eating-of-the-licorice-and-making-a-mess-for-pictures event! Here's some pictures

Pool with Aunt Katie

Aunt Katie came down to visit for Christmas Break and we went to the pool down at the park.

The kids playing Ring-Around-The-Rosies

In the hot tub

Jason was scared to get in at first

Shelly found a bug in the kiddie pool and Aunt Katie came to the rescue!

Family Pictures!

While we were up in Utah over the summer the Schofields decided it would be fun to have some family pictures taken. They hired a photographer to come shoot some pictures of us around the farm. He took almost 500 pictures. I'll spare you some of the failed ones, but not much more than that!

The two who started it all!

Here's us.

And again

Us girls

What is Shelly doing?

Emily's face reminds me of the Three Stooges!

Ethan is not amused!

This is as close as we got to a grandkid shot. Jason was not co-operating!

We did get a see-no-evil

and a speak-no-evil

but no hear-no-evil...

Ethan and Julibeth

Another cute one of JB and Ethan

The siblings

The younger generation

Peek-a-Boo!

So Cute!!

Here's an older grandkid shot that worked!

The whole Family! (ignore Emily screaming - she was doing that the whole time)

The original gang

Other Farm Pics

Jason torturing (I mean playing with) the cat

Emily is trying so hard to be patient here!

Hi Ethan. Having fun yet?

It's too bad she's not having fun with the cat.

What are you up too?

Hi Sweetheart!

That's right, just hide that cat. Maybe we won't see it...

Look, a nail!

Hey Gramps, what's up?

Ethan! Is that fun!?

Shelly in jail - or the corral.
Ignore the nasty stuff on the railing! Gross!!

Such a tease!

Curly hair anyone?

She looks half asleep

Hey Jase. How are the cows today?

Oh, in the wrong spot huh?

Maybe Daddy will help.

Hey there!

Cows are entertaining aren't they?

And so are sleeping babies!

And wagon rides back to the house!

While the rest of us walk through the manure.
(the extra in the picture is Mark's Aunt Emily)