Funny Spencer

I don't usually post things without a picture, but Spencer said something so funny this morning that I had to record it. I've been trying to teach him about boys and girls since he always says he is a girl. So I was getting him dressed and I said, "Are you a boy or a girl?" Spencer answered "A boy!" (success!) Then I said "Is Sadie (his best friend) a girl or a boy?" "A girl!" (right again!) Then I said "Is daddy a boy or a girl?" "Daddy oo-oo-ah-ah," apparently daddy is just a monkey!

Spencer's Birthday

Spencer is 2 years old! He turned 2 on May 14th.
Here he is opening some presents. Of course he would not look at the camera- but he's still pretty cute from the side.



We bribed him with hot dogs to look at the camera. He has been asking to eat hot dogs everyday since his birthday (luckily, we ran out pretty quickly!)


I made these cupcakes to look like frogs peaking out of the water, but I learned that decorating gel does not set-up, not even in the fridge. They don't look too great, but Spencer didn't care.

Here is a cute one of Spencer eating his cupcake.

This is the video of us singing to Spencer. His smile at the end is so cute. You also get to see some of our neighbors!

Spencer Talking

We decided we needed to take a video of Spencer talking. He has such a cute little voice right now- and he is so funny.

On the road to Farmington

So yesterday we went to Farmington, New Mexico for the first time. Most people that live here go there quite often to stock up, but we were lucky enough to have Devon's parents live nearby until just recently. On the way we saw two things that we had never seen.
#1 We saw a movie shoot on "Forrest Gump" hill. Not far from our house (13 miles to be exact) is the place were Forrest "just stopped running." As we drove up to this spot we saw lots of police cars and thought there might be a wreck- but actually they were filming a movie. I don't know what movie it was- but there was a cool red car and lots of people with cameras and equipment.

Devon wanted to write about #2
We came across a horse race called "Dash for the Cash" near Red Mesa, not too far from Farmington. Actually there were 2 races going on, 1 more dangerous than the other. There were quite a few cars, probably around 100 over the course of a 10 mile stretch, that were parked on the side of the road watching the horses go by. When the lead horse passed they would dart into traffic and try to get to the finish line before the race ended. In order to do this they would speed into the other lane of the 2 lane highway (1 lane each way) and try to pass as many cars as possible before a car coming the other way got within 20 feet of them and they had to dart back into their correct lane, and the other car had to swerve off the road. What was worse was that many of the crazy drivers were in pickup trucks with kids in the back. It was INSANE! We were both shocked that there wasn't an accident.

MVHS Pow-wow

There was a Pow-Wow at the high school over the weekend. We were all pretty impressed with the bead-work, costumes and dancing...even Spencer who thought we were going to a Basketball game in the gym.



Here are some videos of the dancers.

Bedtime Madness

Spencer loves to do this in his bed- and everywhere else too!

So last night we decided to put up Spencer's "big boy bed." Our neighbor was so nice to help, but it took forever to put up. We were going to just let Spencer sleep in his crib one more night because it was so late, but I put him in the crib and he proceeded to climb out (which he has never done before) so he could sleep in his new bed. Trying to avoid serious injury we decided to just put him in the new bed for the night. I do not know how, but somehow he got into a position where his feet were on the crib and his hands were on the big bed. Of course he slipped and got a bloody lip. After that he was too tired, and we just put him in his crib to sleep. This morning I heard a big thump, followed by screaming because he had climbed out of his crib. There is no place in his little room to set up the crib so when he crawls out he will just hit the floor, not the bed. So this morning we put away the crib. I am glad we avoided serous injury last night (especially since the nearest hospital is more that 2 hours away), but we decided not to tempt fate. I guess we should just plan on a few weeks with less sleep!