What goes up and doesn't come down?

The ages of my family members keeps going up. Here are the cliff notes from the recent birthday activities.

Tyler turned eight. His birthday was on a Friday so he got to stay up a little bit longer and play Star Wars on the XBox. He had an M&M party; they pinned the 'm' on Red, and did a Trivia Treasure Hunt. He also started cub scouts, and got baptized. Check out the quote in the side bar...well I updated the quotes in the side bar, so really check it out here. During sacrement meeting Tyler was asked to talk about his baptism. "...There was a program with talks and songs. I was thinking, 'Oh ok, oh ok, let's get to the (finger air quotes) baptism part,' because I was so excited. It was hard to wait." [He than continued with a great talk.] Later I asked him why he did that with his fingers and he said, "Just to lighten the mood, it felt too serious."

Lee went to Snowbasin with Arik (a birthday tradition). We also met him at work and had lunch at the picnic table. He got a couple new games. (You should come over and play them with us.) He had an Oreo ice cream cake.


Emma turned three. She got her first haircut, and she "graduated" from her speech and sign language classes. Now she attends a 20 minute class at the elementary twice a week. (She scored in the 3rd percentile for speech, but doesn't qualify for the language preschool because her sign language counts as language...she uses over 200 signs!) We went from classes ten hours a week to forty minutes a week. She is also old enough to go to the storytime class at the library with Andrew now.



Laura mastered walking about a week before she turned one. She got her own doll, so Emma can't take it away from her. She is 16.8 pounds (2%) and 28.5 inchs long (31%). She also gets to do the hearing tests with the ear doctor because she doesn't talk, not even mama and dada and some of the other first sounds. She is still really happy most of the time.