Not fair

Nick and I took the kids to the mall yesterday, I had told Nick about all of the naughty behavior our wonderful kids were having at the mall last week. He laughed. Apparently he thought it was rather comical, so I decided that if the kids acted like that this time I was going to walk away and let him deal with it, then I could be the one to laugh. For some reason our children were perfect little angels at the mall. NOT FAIR! Jax did not even attempt to crawl on the display window's table and didn't make his obnoxious noise in his sisters face. Ella didn't pull one item of clothing off of the racks, however I bumped into a table with jeans on it and knocked several of them off. Why did they behave like aliens last week and yesterday they were perfect? This time I even had backup but NO I didn't even need it! When we were in a store we looked at Jax sitting in the front of the stroller and this is what he was doing...

Nick and I were laughing so hard, luckily Nick was able to sneak this picture on his phone before Jax saw us looking at him. He must get those big guns from his daddy ;)

I think that I need to send Nick to the mall with the kids all by himself and then maybe he can see how they REALLY act at the mall.

Shopping

After the dentist the kids and I went to the mall, if you want your kids to act like aliens from another planet, just take them to the mall. The second you walk through the doors, the transformation begins. Jaxson immediately thought that it was time to do everything mommy asked him NOT to do, although he did eat all of his pizza. After the kids/aliens had eaten their pizza we went into a store so that I could look for a pair of jeans. Jaxson's reaction when we walked into the store was "OH MOM! Dis is a GIRL store!" I informed him that I was well aware that it was a girl store, and that I am in fact a girl and that is why I wanted to come into the store. He looked at me and said "MOM, your a WOMAN!" Ella's reaction when we walked into the store was to start pulling all of the clothes off of the hangers that were within her reach. Then Jaxson decided that it was a good time to start making REALLY obnoxious noises in his sisters face, not only was this making his sister mad, but people were looking at me like I was nuts. One lady in particular was giving me dirty looks, and stuck her nose up in the air and walked past me pushing a stroller with her son in it. I quickly returned the dirty look, and shortly after she looked at me like I had NO idea how to handle my children, her precious perfect little boy started screaming at the top of his lungs. HA! Serves her right for looking at me that way! In the dressing room Jaxson would not stop sticking his head under the dressing room door, and then trying to open the dressing room door. Thank goodness I stopped him before the door flew open. Then in another store Jaxson was laying on a table in the display window and when I went to get him off of the table, Ella started grabbing shirts off of a table as fast as she could, and then went for the display with all of the jewelry on it. Fortunately for the jewelry I stopped her before she could do too much damage. Im sure the whole mall was happy when the Martin alien children left!

Dentist

Jaxson had a checkup at the dentist today, he actually loves going to the dentist because he gets a new toothbrush everytime, and he gets to pick a prize out of the treasure chest at the dentists. He was a little disappointed today because they didn't have the thing that he wanted in the treasure chest, he stuck his bottom lip out and started pouting when we walked out of the dentist office, but he quickly forgot that he was supposed to be pouting when we got to the elevator and I asked him to push the elevator buttons for me. When we were walking out to the car Jaxson was telling me how cool it was that the dentist let him push the buttons to make the chair go up and down, and that he got to see a picture (x-ray) of his teeth. He was also very happy that he didn't have any "boo boos" on his teeth aka cavities. He was so busy talking about the dentist that I had a hard time getting him to get in the car so I could buckle him up. Once I finally got him and Ella into the car, Jax said that he was extra cool because HE got to push the buttons on the chair, and daddy doesn't even get to do that when he goes to the dentist! On the way home from the dentist Jaxson was full of questions...

Jax: Mom, daddy is smarter dan you, wanna know how I know dat? Because his head is bigger dan yours.

Me: Is that so?

Jax: YUP! Mom, if one of your bones fall off will you still be alive?

Me: yes

Jax: If ALL of your bones fall out of your body will you just be flat?

Me: probably

Jax: If your really hot and you drink lemonade, will it get all of the hottiness out of your body and make it so your not hot anymore?

Me: Yes, but it's better to drink water when you are really hot.

Jax: Oh, but lemonade tastes better mom. Mom, are my arms sewed on?

Me: No

Jax: Are dey glued on den mama?

Me: No, your funny buddy!

Jax: Well if dey are not sewed on and dey are not glued on, den how do dey stay on mom? When we go to sleep do our hands go to sleep too?

Me: (unable to answer because im laughing too hard.

Jax: If I sleep with my arms under me will it make dem fall asleep?

Me: Probably

Jax: Well den im gonna sleep with my arms under me so dat dey can get some rest because dey are tired.

Me: Are they?

Jax: Yup day are. Mom, did you know dat I can run faster dan dis truck?

Me: I didn't know that buddy.

Jax: I can because im super strong and super fast mom. Because I ate my bitamins dis morning.

Me: Thats good buddy

Jax:Did you know dat da dentist put some stinky stuff on my teeth to make dem strong?

Me: I did buddy, it's called fluoride.

Jax: Sloride?!? What da heck is dat??

Me: It's kind of like vitamins for your teeth, it makes them strong so they dont get cavities.

Jax: Oh, well I didn't like da smell of dat stuff mom.

Me: Im sorry buddy, but at least you got a new toothbrush.

Jax: I know! Dat's cause im super cool mom! I cant wait till I get to go back to da dentist, and dey better have the prize I want out of da treasure chest next time!

So close

Little miss Ella is so close to walking! She can now stand all by herself for several minutes at a time. Several times she has gone to take a step and then she gets a little bit scared and sits down. Today she was standing and tried to take a step, and when she went to sit herself down her big brother came over to her and took her hand and said "brother will help you walk sissy" she looked at him and grinned and took his hand, then he looked at me and said "mom, im such a good brother huh?" he was determined for his sis to take a step all by herself today, and after holding her hand for several minutes and standing her back up when she would sit down, he finally looked at me and said "dis is wearin me out mom." At this point Ella had lost all interest in trying to walk, she decided that it was much more fun to stand up in front of the tv and put cute little handprints all over it, after I had just wiped all of the previous handprints off of the tv. Im sure she will be walking very shortly, and then she will REALLY be all over the place!

Homework

Jaxson had to miss a couple of days of preschool last week because he had a cold, so when he went yesterday his teacher gave him all of the stuff that he had missed so that he could do it at home. He took this homework task very seriously, even though it wasn't stuff that he actually HAD to do he worked very hard on his homework. There were a couple of papers that he had to practice tracing the letters and numbers, he did very well on these papers. Then he had two other projects which were his favorite, one was a turtle and he had to color the shell green and the other was a stoplight, and he had to glue the paper lights on to the paper. I tried to take a picture of him while he was working on these because his face was so cute, you could just tell that he was concentrating so hard, unfortunately the picture was blurry. When he was done working on them, he looked at me and using his "grownup" voice said "Mom, I worked so hard on my homework dat I think now I should have a treat. Mom, did you know dat I did homework like uncle oobey does? Hey MOM, im getting big JUST like him!"

Snowbird

When Nick and I got home from Park City we decided to take the kids up to snowbird, it's octoberfest right now, and Jax loves going up there because it's in da mountains. When we told Jax that was where we were going he was so excited! When we were driving up there Jax said "When i am bigger can I climb dis mountain?" He is always talking about climbing mountains when he gets older. However, if he even thinks about climing Everest or some other crazy thing like that, he can think again! When we got up there Jax was less than thrilled that we had to park so far away and walk 100 miles just to get there, ok that might be a little bit of an exaggeration but that's what it felt like! I think all of Salt Lake was up there, it was so crowded! We had some lunch and then Jax spotted a guy making fun balloons so he went and stood in line with his money in his hand to give to the guy. When it was his turn to have his balloon made the guy asked him what he wanted and Jax said "a race car!" the guy said that he couldn't make a race car, but he could make him a sword. Jaxson's face lit up, the guy asked him if he waned a ninja sword or a pirate sword, and Jax told him that he wanted a pirate sword. The guy made him a cool sword with a holder around his waist for the sword and a pirate bandana! Jax thought this was just about the coolest thing and he had to show everyone we passed!!

Pretty cool huh?! Nick and Jax tried to ride the alpine slide but it was closed by the time he got done showing off his balloon. He was pretty bummed about this but daddy promised him that we would come back soon so that they could ride it. When it was time to go Jax said "how come we only stayed up in da mountains for 30 seconds?" Little did he know, we were up there for several hours, but to a little kid having so much fun, the time goes by quick!

Anniversary

On the 23rd it was me and Nick's two year anniversary, since it was on a weekday we didn't really do anything to celebrate, we both gave each other a card and he gave me some really pretty flowers, awwww tender. Last night was our night to celebrate, Nick had it all planned out and it was a surprise for me. We went up to Park City for the night, my sis and her hubby came over to stay with the kids. Nick wouldn't give me any details for last night, just that we were going somewhere overnight, he loves to plan little surprise things! We went and had sushi at the flying sumo in park city, which was SO good! I had been craving sushi lately so I was really excited when we walked into the restaurant. After dinner we went back to our hotel room and got to have a fun evening just the two of us, which is very rare for us with two kiddos. We got to sleep in this morning and then we went to breakfast before we headed home. It was so much fun to have a night all to ourselves, even though we missed our little rugrats. I know how much Janelle hates it when there are no pictures with posts, so even though I HATE this picture that Nick and I took ourselves last night, I decided to post it just for you Janelle.