The Evers Family: July 2011

The Wonder Pets Save the Duckling

Did I ever tell you I was on an episode of the Wonder Pets?

This episode to be exact.....

If you've seen "Wonder Pets" before, I am sure that you are probably singing the theme song in your head right now. You can thank me later when it's stuck in your head for 3 hours.

Anyway, here's the story. My mom was watching my boys for a couple hours so I could get a few things done. I felt like a free woman and knew that I had to work fast to and utilize these few hours to the best of my ability. Unfortunately, it all went to heck when I walked out in my back yard to find this....

It's a bad picture, but it's a mama duck and about 8 little ducklings.

I decided to run inside and grab the camera so I can show the boys when they got home. I take some pictures, all the while the mama duck is hissing at me and proceeds to run off with the little ducks following behind her.

As I turn to go in my house, I hear a faint quacking. I follow the quacking noise to find this....

A baby duck stuck in my window well.

CRAP! I run off to find the mama duck to politely tell her that she left behind one of her children, but she is no where to be found. What am I supposed to do? I tried to pick the duckling up to get her out of the window well, but she was super spazzy and would not allow it to happen. I finally get the window screen off and get her to climb on it and I lift her out. Yay.....except then the dumb duck runs over and falls in a different window well. Are you kidding me? Oh, and then I hear more quacking. Yes, it was coming from over by my fence where I find this.....

Another duck!

So, I am NOT an animal love, but you have to admit that is one cute duck, right? So what was I supposed to do. The one duck was still stuck in the window well...I attempted to get it out again but after a bazillion failed attempts and sweating like crazy, I gave up. Then, the duck that I found by my fence was seriously dying. It was so sad, he would run and then he would do somersaults he was so clumsy and then he would just lay on his back unable to turn himself over to stand up. So sad. All the while though I was wasting precious "no kids" time. What to do? Seriously.

So, I called my mother-in-law, aka Pet Lover. I explained the situation and she responded with a few ideas, and then I proceeded to say, "Well frankly, I am done saving the ducks. I feel like I did my best, but after wasting an hour on them, I am done." She quickly responded saying she would be right over, and she was. We got them both in a box, I said my farewell, and it was done.

I saved the ducks.

They currently reside at Mitch's brothers house. They bought a lamp for them and duck food and they have been giving them lots of TLC (something I didn't know if I could offer the little ducks). We even took the kids over to visit.

I am sad to report that the cute little one I found by the fence has since passed. :(

I have to say that when I went to turn on the episode of Wonder Pets where they save the Duckling to reminisce about my adventure, a small part of me wanted to go put on a cape and join Ming Ming in the effort. I resisted though. But perhaps I should make a cape in case I ever get called into duty again. Yes, a good idea. A very good idea indeed.

Our first visit from the tooth fairy

A few days ago, Mitch showed me this.....

Can you see it?
Jack has a tooth coming in behind his baby tooth.

We didn't know if this was normal, but we decided we should probably try and get the tooth in front of it out.

For a few days, we just wiggled it a lot to get it loose.

Then last night Mitch tied floss to the tooth.....

and ripped it out!

The tooth fairy visited last night.

I feel old.

What's been going on

So my lack of posting is due to the following reasons:

-I hate my internet connection. Waiting 15 minutes for your pictures to upload is lame.
-We are swimming a holics. We have been swimming 6 days a week and sometimes twice a day.
-Every spare moment I have I am working. By the way, work sucks. Note to future Allie when she reads this...working with 3 crazy boys is hard. Oh, and they are really naughty when you aren't paying attention to them. This makes for messes, "accidents," and you drinking a coke every day (something you have never done).

So, because of the lack of posting I am doing this massive post with all the random pics I have taken in the last few weeks.

This picture is to prove we have been swimming everyday.
The line above his suit is so brown.
Oh, and his hair looks ultra white next to his skin. I love this kid.

So clever.

Mitch took the boys on the father and son camp out. They were BEYOND excited and I have to say that I think Mitch is the coolest dad ever for taking them. He didn't know a soul going, but he still went and the I know the boys will always treasure these times with their dad.

The brothers.
I love them.

Mitch set up an 8 man tent for the 3 of them.
Last year, one of the boys had an accident in the night and Mitch ended up in a puddle.
The largeness of the tent was to help avoid this from happening again.
Mitch slept on the other side.

The boys love to color on my phone. They take pictures and then "add" to them. Jack thought this picture he drew was hilarious.

Mitch thought it was pretty funny too.

Mitch rolled his ankle about 10 days ago.

Unfortunately, it still kind of looks this way. :(

Easton has entered the terrible twos for real this time and I am pulling my hair out. After sending him to his room because of something else naughty he did, he found a Sharpie and proceeded to color on his door (WHY WAS THERE A SHARPIE IN HIS ROOM??!?! Lame.) He has also colored on a few other walls and today he had fun flushing toys down the toilet. Not cool. Perhaps this has to do with his mother not doing great supervision. Yes perhaps. Again, lame.

Mitch and his b-ball team (before the rolling of the ankle occurred) won the championship and won this super cool super big trophy. The kids are so proud.

Easton has been a little under the weather. One day he was crying and feeling bad for himself and Creighton put all these "comfort" items around him and turned on church music. What a brother!

So, there's my random pics from the last few weeks.

As a side note, E's potty training has kind of been going in the wrong direction. He has this new thing where if he is outside, he thinks that he can just go ahead and go. It's quite annoying. He will pee his pants and then just remove them and go on with his day as if nothing happened. This is not cool. It's not cool when you are at a large family bbq and you look up to see your child naked running amongst the other kids. It's not cool when you are at a public park and see the same similar situation. It's not cool when your doorbell rings and you find a naked child standing there with his pile of clothes 100 ft off. It's not cool when a neighbor comes over and mentions that your child is standing at the back patio peeing off the side. And it's really not cool when you child is in a cart in the Home Depot and after hearing the older children laughing, you turn to see this SAME child with his pants pulled down. So not cool.

So, there you have it. My life. It's crazy, it's chaotic, but we have fun. I may not be the most observant parent in the world, but I hope that my kids know that in 6 weeks and 6 days, I will be a 100% better mother and we will have even more fun. And maybe then we will get the potty training down. Let's hope. That's all I can do right now.

4th of July

The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. It's been 4 years since we've been able to come to my parents 4th of July blast and it was fun to be back. The day started out with a breakfast at Golden Corral with the Evers, Mitch went golfing with my dad and Micah while Josie and I took the boys to Papa's place to swim, and the day ended with more swimming, a bbq, and fireworks.

My swimmers:

Then we headed to the fireworks at the Salt Lake Country Club.

It was a good night.

I loved laying there with my 4 boys staring up at the sky. I love the 4th of July.

The Birthday Bash

My Jack Attack is 6. June 29th was the glorious day and I think he had a fun one. He woke up early because of excitement (just like Christmas morning), and came out to find his birthday present.

Jack was excited! He got a bike.

He also got a new helmet.

A few hours later we had his birthday party. Cars 2 had just come out a few days before so we decided to do that for his birthday party. He invited about 8 little friends and we had pizza and opened presents before heading to the movie.

Here are some of the attendees: