Swinging

It's Easter weekend and we are in Utah. Having lots of fun. Today Jara had the huge Easter egg hunt at her house, followed by dinner. Freddie didn't care too much about the eggs, he just wanted to wander in the street. Good thing for small towns! Cedrik totally understood but wanted to open the eggs as he went. He finally got the hang of it and found a ton! Freddie talked Grandpa and Jordan into swinging him. He almost fell asleep.

Fredward

Freddie is a cute guy. He absolutely loves food. I have yet to find something he won't eat. Mushrooms, onions, fruit of all kinds, crumbs on the floor, day old cake crumbs on the floor (yes, i know that is gross). He usually eats his helping, some or most of Cedrik's and a lot of times will demand more.  He knows the sign for more, eat and milk, but refuses to use them. Instead he lets out this "moan-yell." We are pretty tired of it. I think he and i have an invisible teather attached to us because he literally follows me around without even thinking. I can go around in circles, he is right behind me. He babbles and says "choo-choo" and one day said airplane perfectly, and hadn't repeated it since. He wants to be a big kid and tries to "help" Cedrik play. Which usually just frustrates Cedrik. They laugh together every night before bed. Oh, and he finally realized what hitting is. Lovely!

Daredevil

Cedrik is getting pretty courageous at the park. He goes down the huge tunnel slides by himself and wants to climb everything.

He is hilarious.  Lately he says "Mama, what's your good idea?" So I say something random. Then he says "MYYY good idea issss....lawnmower and leafblower and weedeater!" Over and over and over. All day long.  His "new good idea" is "I love you Dearest." We are kind of reading Little Lord Fauntleroy, it is a chapter book with few pictures and the boys name is Cedric. "Dearest" comes from that book; Jordan gave him the idea. I LOVE when he says it.

Building a Birdhouse

Cedrik wanted to play in the garage today after we stopped at the train depot to see the steam engine that is there.  He wanted to build a birdhouse.  Jordan wanted a project, so he said ok and they were in the garage for quite awhile.  I later found out Cedrik rode his bike the whole time.  Oh well. At least we finally have a place for our birdseed. Jordan used the scrap wood we had lying in the garage. I think it is cute!

Lewiston Times Two

Jordan had to go up to Lewiston for a an overnight trip a couple weeks ago.  Our camera was broken so we didn't take pictures that time.  It was also a last minute thing so I didn't prepare anything.  I had no treats for the boys for the drive so when we stopped I got them some breakfast bars and fig newtons (seriously).  Then that night we were so ready to be out of the car we just went to taco bell.  It wasn't good.  We got nachos and bean and cheese burritos.  Bleh.

That night went really well.  Cedrik snuggled!!  That never happens and was incredibly amazing.  We watched HGTV which we haven't done in years and it was fun.  The next morning we went and had breakfast in Clarkston, Washington (Lewsiton, Clarkston: Lewis and Clark...get it?  Jordan had to point that out to me.).  It wasn't very good either.  They do have a run down train in the middle of town that Cedrik LOVED. 

The next week we had to go back.  We had our camera this time.  We had mexican food at a restaurant that had great reviews online and we had amazing cheese enchiladas.  We played at the train and Cedrik and Freddie loved cruising around it and touching everything.  Freddie especially loved the rocks on the ground and he really likes to be outside. The next morning we had waffles.  I had buckwheat and Cedrik had a regular one.  Jordan had hashbrowns with salsa, mushrooms, onions and peppers.  They were really good.  So the second trip went much better.  We had better food to eat and better food to eat in the car.  The novelty of being in the car for such a long period of time two weeks in a row wore off but the boys were still really good.  Before we left we walked across the bridge and Cedrik loved this.  He loves anything that has to do with construction or moving things (trains especially).  He loved watching the ducks and geese in the water.  He also got to watch Dora the Explorer which for some reason he loves even though he has only watched it about 2 other times--he was asking to watch it before I had even decided he could watch anything and I didn't know if that was on or even that he remembered the show!  His memory is really good.

There were so many trains on the way up there (and tracks and trestles) so Cedrik loved watching them and counting the cars.  This is how he counts "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 13, 16, 17, 16, 17, 16, 17, 16, 17!!!"  His voices gets really high when he says the last 16 and 17.  It is SO cute.

He loves Thomas.  So, every train is named Thomas.

It was windy.

We were looking at yet another train at the bottom of the hill.