April 2012

I know, I've been gone forever..... I can't say I'm back for good, but here's some pics from April.

Egg bowling

Finding eggs with Nannie

Pretty happy with his Egg Hunt Loot

Dying eggs with Mom.   He can almost do it all by himself.

"Patiently" waiting for his egg turn colors.

Daddy & Tad and their Easter Eggs.

Planting the garden.

Watering the garden plant by plant.

Another trip to the zoo!

Pony Express building in Tooele.

We drove out to help shear the sheep.  The rain delayed them, but we still enjoyed our drive and saw 150 wild horses. 

Roasting hot dogs in the backyard.

Chasing geese at Wheeler Farm.

Aunt Crystal & Tad.

Mom bribing Tad to pet the pony. 

Tad's reward for petting the pony-   sitting on the tractor!

We've been....

Working in the garden.  He'll ask "ready?" before he picks them.  :}  We've already picked 27 cups this year!

Tad has learned how to swing in the big swing by himself.   I swear he's not afraid of anything!

We finally visited the HAFB museum.  Pretty cool. 

Helping dad wire the truck for our trailer.  Now Tad "fixes" everything.  Last night he laid under the foot rest of the couch and "fixed" Crystal's feet.  :}

Can you tell he wants to be just like daddy?  

Fred and I took off for a week to help trail sheep with my Uncle.  It was supposed to be a glorious week in the mountains, while Tad stayed with Grandma & Grandpa..... We came home after 3 days because I got the flu from my cousins' kids.  :{ 

It was nice while it lasted.  :} 

The Days of '47 parade in SLC. 

We had great seats and enjoyed lunch at the Gateway before a 2 hour nap for each of us!  :}  And fireworks at our house. 

"Tractor, tractor, Tractor, tractor"

They've been doing some road construction by our house and now every time we drive by that part of the road, even if Tad can't see it, he says "Tractor".  Evidently they're all over town because he'll say "tractor", I tell him there's not one right here, I look over, and of course there's one!
We knew he'd love a ride on Grandpa's tractor...... now he's even more obsessed with Tractors!

Riding on the tractor with Pampa.

 After his ride with Grandpa, he insisted on "driving" it.  And the smart little dude has already mastered climbing up and down off of it.  (At least 10x while we chatted outside.)

Now he says "tractor, tractor, tractor" constantly!  The other day we were talking to Fred on the phone and Fred asked him about tractors.   Tad's reply was singing "tractor, tractor, tractor, tractor, tractor."  I asked if he knew any other words?  He said "Yes, Dirt".    :}  



And obviously, he does know DIRT.  While we were planting our garden he fell head first off the front porch (less than 2 feet).  He didn't cry very much, I distracted him by having him help me water the garden (water solves everything for this boy!).  By the end of using the hose, he had more dirt on his face than from falling off the porch!   (You can't even see the red spot on the right side of his forehead, just dirt!)