Bobby, Jon, Conner, Emma, & Kitty also occupy this home. We all try to fit comfortably around Kitty. This is easier said than done as she quite large and robust. Conner is 3 1/2, Emma is turning one in a couple of weeks and Jon is 12 going on 19. He is my sister, Jennifer's, son and we are enjoying his company here. Bobby is 27, and allready has a grey patch. He is actually finding more gray hairs all of the time. Better gray than bald. I should know, I feel bald sometimes when I pull my hair back to reveal my rather large forehead, or "fivehead" as my sister kim calls it. I wonder if my kids are going to be blessed with my large frontal lobes.....I have been told that they give me pshycic abilities. I guess thats not true since I dont know if my kids are going to get it. I think thats called a cunundrum??
Anywho......Bobby is a software engineer at Control 4 and LOVES IT!! He talks about work all the time and I just know that he is thinking about it whenever we are talking about anything else. He is quite a strapping fellow (just look at our adorable kids). Lucky for him, it makes it easier to pay attention while he is talking about comput-o , electr-o mumbo jumbo. He is great daddy to our kids and loves teaching Jon about scouting and shot-put stuff. And he gives the best foot rubs. He loves to watch Funny Videos. That is actually the only TV he takes in, except for the couple minutes of Leno as he falls asleep.
Jon is busy with summer school and scouting. He just got back from a week long scout camp where he earned a few merrit badges and the award getting the most wet. Jon went to the Utah Summer Games un June and took the gold medal in Shot put after 3 whole weeks of training. You can imagine the pride He and Bob felt. He is planning on competing and winning again next year. He loves to play video games. He is always reaching for the higher level. Not only in games but in scouts, school, skateboarding, and life in general. He actually has a list of "when I'm 18, I'm gonna....." It contains things like...buy a bullet bike(thanks, Kim ;) ), get sponsored for skateboarding, get a variety of weopons, own fireworks(from Wyonming) and other things of this nature. He also made reference to joining the Service. Only time (and possibly my frontal lobes) will tell.
Conner is a riot. He is learning new stuff all of the time. He actually just made an imaginary friend named Crispy. Crispy gives him gifts and calls him on the phone all day long. Conner loves to tell Crispy what to do. Conner is so sweet with Emma. He loves to take a toy away and then when she starts crying, he quickly gives her another. It usually works out pretty good. He likes to cover his face then pop his hands off and shreik "dit-a-BOO!" It makes her laugh averytime. He still loves to play in the water. He "needs" to play in the sprinklers just about every day. A couple of weeks ago, during Family Home Evening, Conner did somthing funny. The lesson was about keeping the sabbath day holy. So we filled the kids' bowls up with chocolate ice cream and offered them toppings like, ketchup, peppers, bbq sauce, salt, etc. The idea was SUPPOSED to be that these things are good, just not on "Sundays". So while we were explaining this to jonny, Conner was topping his ice cream with bbq sauce. I about gagged as he ate it. It was pretty funny, but mostly gross.
Emma is walking just about everywhere now. She has started to climb on EVERYTHING! She gets into the fireplace, tries to climb up onto the countertops, into chairs, it's amazing. She has two bottom teeth all the way in, or out??, and two top ones on the way. She is such a beautiful girl. always smiling and laughing when she isn't throwing stuff and yelling at me. She cries so dramatically"MAMAMAMAMA". As soon as Bob is within earshot it's all smiles and a light hearted"DADADADADA". I don't expect that to change. I dont mind that she is in love with her daddy. I love that he is always here for her and the rest of the famliy. Emma loves her special 'aunt kim' blankie and never sleeps without it. It has been that way since she was born. In fact, as an infant the only way to get her to rest was usually by stripping her down to her diaper and wrapping her in her special balnkie. She is a princess to the core.
So that brings me to Kitty. What can I say?? Kitty eats and sleeps and takes up a lot of space. She only lets me, bob, and Dave pet her. She usually hides from anyone else. If someone else does try to pet her, they get a nasty look and then bitten. I think shes hoping for a snack. It's really fun to put lunch meat on her back and watch her try to get it. It's interesting to see if she will actually get it or just get tired of twitching her back and lay down to rest. We love her, and know that she would feed us for the winter if we ever needed her to.
