Mom, I want the jungle song!

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Gracie loves this song by Jack Johnson. She asks to listen to it a million times a day. "Mom, I want the jungle song!" I don't know why she calls it the jungle song. It is from Curious George, but we don't have the movie, and I think it has been 7 or 8 months since she has seen the movie. On it you can hear her calling me Annie (one of her friends) while she is dancing. She makes me laugh every day! I love to watch Sammy while he is dancing too. He makes me laugh because he falls over in this movie. I am such a lucky mommy! Sorry about when the camera gets a little shaky. I was dancing too...

Happy Birthday Ryan

Happy Birthday Ryan (last Saturday)! Sorry I didn't get this up on your birthday. We were gone most of the day, but we were thinking of you and hope you had a great day!

Nick-names

So Emily tagged me and wanted to know all of our nicknames. I am afraid she is going to be disappointed because we don't have very many, and they really aren't that inventive, but here goes...

Julie
Julie-girl- David's name for me... it makes me feel young :)
Julieo
Jewels
Sister -my mom calls me this... kind of strange since I am not her sister, but I like it
Fred -don't ask
Julie Bulie
Some variation on "Julie Bulie rides a mulie to schoolie" -the dentist called me when I was little
Julie Bulie Flower Power
Julie Ann -this is actually my real name, but only my grandma calls me this
Mommy, Mama, Mom -I answer to all variations of this name and LOVE them all!
Gracie -Gracie calls me this sometimes... she tells me she is mommy and I am Gracie. It is so funny because she gets right in my face and says "Gracie, Gracie, Gracie!" and she won't stop saying it until I answer, "What Mom." The mom part is very important. If I just answer "what" then she keeps saying "Gracie" to me until I anwer correctly.

David
Dave- He will answer to this, but doesn't really like it
Lover-Lips
I use all kinds of pet names for him (you know: Lover, Babe, Honey-pie, Sugar Booger (just kidding on the Sugar Booger) but I don't know that he really has any other nick-names... maybe he did when he was a kid, but he isn't home for me to ask right now.)
Daddy, Dad, Dada -I even call him these names sometimes, and it was something I never thought I would do... hmmm

Gracie
Gracie Girl
Gracie Lue -and occasionally Gracie Lue Freebush... I suppose it can't be helped after the Miss congeniality movies.
Baby Girl -I call her this a lot even though I know she isn't a baby any more... :(
Grace
Gracie Deloy -when she is in trouble
Baby
Daughter Plant -it's a LONG story and kind of an inside joke... sorry
Mom -see Gracie under my name
Bubba or Bubba Lou -I really don't like this one, but I can't really stop other people from using it-sorry, you guys know who you are :)

Samuel
Sammy-actually we call him this more than Samuel
Sammy Lamby- I call him this one
Sammy Lion- David calls him this one (he doesn't think "Lamby" is masculine enough
Sammy Boy- Gracie calls him Sammy boy. She sings him the "Sammy boy" song (just his name repeated over and over to the tune of Welcome Welcome Sabbath morning)
Son- Gracie calls Sammy this when she is saying sorry, "Sorry Son." I call him this too.

Sorry, no really exciting nick-names. We do use a LOT of pet names, but those aren't really nicknames.

Anyway, I am tagging Jamey, Heather, Jolene, Tara, and really anyone who wants to do this (if you don't want to that is ok too... I recently tagged my sister and she HATED it so if you don't want to do this I won't feel bad.)

Look Mom, I'm a baby!

I sent Gracie to her room yesterday because she hit me. When I went to get her out I found her wearing this "dress." It is an 18 month girl outfit that was given to me a while back but it was WAY to small for Gracie. I was going to give it away as a baby shower present, and I had it just hanging in the closet in Gracie's room (I guess that was my first mistake). The thing that totally shocked and amazed me was that she was actually able to get it on!! If fit her like a shirt and a pair of panties should! I walked in to her room and was trying to be all stern with her, but I just thought it was so funny I couldn't help but laugh. And you know once you have laughed about something you can't get after them for it...

Tag! You're it!!

Two Names You Go By: 1. Julie 2. Mom (the best name ever!)
Things You Are Wearing Right Now: 1. Jeans 2. purple t-shirt
Two things you Want (or have) in a Relationship: 1. romance 2. honesty
Two of Your Favorite Things to do: 1. play with my kids 2. Read
Two things you did last night: 1. It was Friday so we had our weekly pizza/movie party 2. made cookies for our neighbors
Two people you Last Talked To: 1. David 2. Gracie
Two things You're doing tomorrow: 1. Going to church 2. Visiting teaching
Two Longest Car Rides: 1. SLC, UT to Missouri and Illinois 2. I think there have been lots of second place longest drives...
Two Favorite Holidays: 1. Christmas 2. Thanksgiving
Two Favorite Drinks: 1. Water 2. Orange juice
Two Things About Me you may not have known: 1. I want to have 10 kids (ok, maybe not 1o, but a lot!) 2. I can touch my nose with my tongue
Two jobs I have had in my life: 1. Mom 2. Internet Banking Rep.
Two Movies I would watch over and over: 1. Pride and Prejudice (A&E version) 2. That Thing You Do
Two Favorite Foods: 1. tomatoes from the garden in the summer 2. soup in the winter


Ok, I am tagging Cicely, LeAnn, Kelli, and Caralee. Just copy and past this into your own entry and change the answers.

Goodbye Dear Prophet

David and I just heard this morning that President Hinckley passed away last night. How grateful I am to know that that life doesn't end with death. And even though we will miss him, he is in a happier and betther place and is with his dear sweet wife again. I know the best thing that I can do to pay tribute to him is to live more fully the things that he has taught. We love you President Hinckley!

President Hinckley's Testimony

Kimball is 3!!!!!

We love you Kimball and we hope you are having a great birthday! Kimball is Gracie and Sammy's cousin. It is so funny to hear Gracie say, "I want to play with Kimbo!" She recognizes him in all his pictures and loves to talk to him on the phone. We miss you Kimball and wish that we could play with you today on your special day.

Give me your hands.

Today Gracie came up to me and said, "Mom, give me your hands." I held out my hands to her and she bent over them and kissed each one like a prince in a movie or something. Just yesterday we got a Barbie movie as a potty treat and I think she must have seen it on the movie. It was so unexpected and funny and darn cute. What will this girl think up next.

We went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. This is by far the coolest aquarium I have ever seen. They had a 4D theater where we watched the Polar Express. It was so cool. It really snowed on us and we could really smell hot chocolate during the hot chocolate song. David loves fish and aquariums and he was like a little kid at Christmas taking pictures of everything there. We spent the whole day there and it was fun for everyone.

Christmas Decorations in Baltimore

While we were in Baltimore we saw these pretty Christmas decorations. The poinsettia tree was my favorite, but the gingerbread house looked really yummy! It was huge! Taller than Sammy! I think he could have layed down inside it.

Happy Birthday Sinny Girl!

My cute adorable neice is one year old today! I can't believe how fast the year has flown by. And I can't believe all that this little girl has gone through! She had open heart surgery when she was just 2 weeks old. She was in the hospital for almost a month! And just look at her now. Look at those chubby little cheeks. Don't you just want to pinch them. We love you Sydney. We hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Sammy

A picture is worth a million words and I don't know that I can say anything to add to these pictures. To me they show exactly what Sammy's personality is like. He is so sweet and funny and even when he is getting in the garbage for the 10th time or trying to play in the toilet for the 11th time I can't be mad at him. Everything he does makes me smile. He is just the happiest sweetest little boy! What a lucky mommy I am. We took these pictures during dinner the first night on our trip to Baltimore after we had dragged him around all day! He was still so happy and just hamming it up for the camera. He was playing peek-a-boo with the napkin in the second picture. I just love this kid!

The Science Museum

This is the science museum we went to in Baltimore. It wasn't my favorite place. I really like science, but I felt like there were some areas that were not as well cared for as they could have been. But there were a lot of fun and interesting things there.

We aren't exactly sure what this was. I have decided it is either the horn of a Crumple-Horned Snorkack or an Erumpent Horn (for those who don't know what either of these are refer to Harry Potter book 7). Either way, I felt very privileged to have seen one.




This is the kid room of the science museum. We only got to play in the water for a little while and then Gracie decided to throw some of it at another kid. We quickly navigated away from that area...


This was actually my favorite part of the science museum. This guy gave a presentation on electricity and his appearance was the epitome of a science nerd. At first I thought maybe it was a joke... you know the thick glasses and oddly combed mullet, but David assured me that it wasn't and that I should not laugh.


The pulley experiments were fun. I was pretending that Gracie was really heavy to make her laugh. That girl has the most infectious laugh I have ever heard!





There was a plethora of experiments at the museum and Gracie had a great time (Sammy was kind of just along for the ride. In a few years he will probably appreciate it more...). David had a great time... he was the picture taker though so he isn't in these pictures. Sorry babe. It was a fun day though!

The Bay in Baltimore

The first thing we did after checking into our hotel on our trip to Baltimore was to walk down to the bay. It was really neat. We saw some really big old boats and some dinner cruise ships. We saw a huge anchor. Gracie is standing on it in the last picture on the second row. We saw cannons and a mock ship's helm. Then we saw these fun paddle boats. We figured they probably only let you go out on them in the summer because they were all chained up, but Gracie really liked them and wanted to go for a ride.

The Tremonton Plaza in Baltimore

We went on a short trip to Baltimore while David was out of school. This is the view from our hotel room. We were on the 27th floor! They asked us if we wanted a "high room or a low room." We chose high. The view was kind of smoggy, but still neat to be able to see everything. It was an older hotel, but they still treated us like we were pretty fancy with valet parking and bell boys and stuff. The next morning however when we were getting ready to check out, we wished we had chosen a "low room" because the fire alarm went off. We had to carry Sammy and Gracie down 27 flights of stairs!!! That was my work out for the day!