THE BAZIL BUNCH: This That & The Other

Thursday, August 12, 2010

This That & The Other

THIS...

We've been so busy these past few weeks. First the kids and I went to Lava to spend a few days with my family. I was nervous about making the long trip by myself but the kids faired pretty well in the car and I'm glad we made the effort because we had a great visit with family. While we were there we attended my mom's Wheatley Family Reunion. It was great to catch up with my grandma (who is over 90 years old) and with cousins. The kids had a ball with their cousins too.

We also went swimming there in Lava with my mom and sister and her family - Cash couldn't get enough! The kids played so hard they were plum tuckered out.

Vanna with my mom after playing all day at the reunion.

Cash and Grandpa's Sunday nap - after playing all weekend long.

THAT...

Then two weekends later we made another trip down to Rigby were we stayed with Ty's family for a great visit. We were busy while there as well. We attended Ty's Aunt Patti's funeral which was beautiful. We are sorry to see her go but know that she is in a better place now free of pain and suffering. We also made a trip to Palisades for a day to attend another family reunion of mine. It was my mom and Tab's first annual family reunion and we had a blast playing in the sun and water.

Grandma and Grandpa Mendenhall with 7 of their 14 grandchildren (with two on the way).

The kids experienced their first tube rides and loved it. I thought Vanna would be scared but she just kept saying, "weee". Of course Cash kept saying, "faster, faster Grandpa".

What a bunch of characters these little guys are.

We so enjoyed our visit with Ty's parents as well. Cash absolutely LOVES the farm and "helping" Grandpa Bazil milk the cows, change the water, etc. Grandpa even took Cash on a ride in the skid loader. We also went miniature golfing and believe it or not, Cash golfed the full 18 holes without getting bored and even got a whole in one on one of them! What a good time we had!

(Side Note: between our family visits we had a ward party for Pioneer Day and it included chasing chickens and a greased pig, horse rides, etc. - we heard over and over from our friends that we needed to break down and buy Cash a farm - he was in 7th Heaven with all the activities. In fact, he was the one to catch the chicken both times and was the only one willing to dive for the greased pig. It was such a hoot! Wish we would have had our recorder.)

THE OTHER...

Then two days after we got back from Rigby we enjoyed a visit from Ty's brother, Trevor, and his family for a few days. We went bowling, to the fair, to the movies, went on a few rides and walks, played in the sprinklers - you name it, we did it. The kids played their little hearts out and couldn't get enough of each other - hence the pile up in the bubble bath.

We watched some cowboys team rope for a while, then went to see and pet all kinds of farm animals at the fair: baby piglets, baby goats, sheep, cows, etc.

It seems our whole summer has kept us busy but I don't think we've been busier than these past couple weeks. But isn't that what summer is all about - some hard playing? I wouldn't have it any other way! We've had such a good time and loved visiting with all our family!

6 comments:

Amy S said...: Sounds like a fun, busy summer! I think that is the best way to spend summer though.; August 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM
The Grows said...: Wow, you guys sure have been enjoying your summer. Thanks for sharing all the pictures I love to see what you guys are up to and see how big your kids are getting.; August 12, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Marcy M Miller said...: Fun. I didn't know you were in Lava a couple weeks ago. I'm glad you guys are having a good summer.; August 12, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Cami Jo said...: That picture with Vanna and the pigs is totally cracking me up! Her face is priceless. Sounds like you guys should ALL be plum-tuckered out! What a fun summer. Glad you are making the most of it, since it's almost coming to an end!!!; August 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Dixie Bazil said...: Looks like we had tons of fun!! We did!! we all miss you guys!! Hopefully we can see you guys sometime soon!!; August 15, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Ward Family said...: Sounds like a fun summer! Cash and teegan would have alot in common with the animals. Cute pictures!; August 23, 2010 at 9:33 AM

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Kids Say/Do The Darnest Things

June 2010:

*As I was teaching Cash about cows, I would ask him, "What is a baby cow called?", "What kind of things can we make from the milk we get from cows?", etc. I asked Cash the following question as well: "What do we call daddy cows or boy cows?" To which he responded, "Cowboys!" - I thought it was a pretty clever answer.

* We just got a kitten and whenever he is relaxed and purring near Cash, he is sure to inform us that the kitty "is burping" (it's how he says purring which I think is so cute/funny).

July 2010:

*I asked Cash to hold a picture of Jesus Christ for me while I was preparing my Sharing Time for Primary and as soon as he got it into his hands he hugged it and said, "I love Jesus - he just my best friend." It was such a sweet reminder of the love we should have for our Savior as well as a reminder of the true friend he is to all of us - of his love for all of us! October 2010:

*Ty was wrestling around with Cash and said "Cash, you're such a goofball, do you take anything serious?" Cash answered, "yeah.". "What?" asked Ty. To which Cash responded, "macaroni and cheese."

January 2011:

*Cash: "twice and a half"

*Cash: "It's my pleasure."

*Vanna is always getting into my lotions and lip gloss and whenever I discover her in the act of doing so, so reassures me that it's okay for her to be getting into my goodies by holding up her hand in a 'stop and listen to me' motion and says, "tiny tiny tiny bit" while pinching her thumb and index finger together. I guess if it's just a tiny tiny bit, it's okay right?!

*Cash: "That was totally wicked awesome!" He's so animated - love his use of adjectives!

*When Cash gets scared at night we'd often ask him to be brave and try to comfort him by asking him to say a prayer or reminding him that Jesus is watching over him through the night and that we're only across the hallway from him, etc. Lately, however, he will tell us he's all out of brave or that he doesn't have anymore brave.

March 2011:

*I still have to help Vanna wipe when she goes big potty so when she asked me to help her the other day, I went in to the bathroom to find nothing in the toilet. She adamately claimed to have gone though so I thought maybe it was just a tinckle and wiped her anyway. Well, when I discovered that she was actually dirty I asked if she went potty again. She said, "yeah in Hank potty-garage." When we were through, she went out to the garage where our cat's litter box is to show me that yes, indeed she had gone poop in the cat's litter box. Ahhh! I guess I should be glad it wasn't anywhere else - but still, how nasty. We had a little talk and I hope it doesn't happen again - it will certainly be a good blackmailing story and looking back, it was pretty hilarious.

*Cash: "I'm getting so grumpy at you!"

*Cash: Cash sneezed today and afterward informed me that I forgot to say "bless you" so of course, I said, "Oh, bless you". He responded with: "Thank you for that - I appreciate it." He's using such sophisticated terminology lately (like "terrible, beautiful, awful, just horrible" etc.)

*I asked Vanna to put a pair of her dirty socks in the dirty laundry basked (located in the kids' bathroom). Well, instead of doing as I asked Vanna flushed them down the toilet! I don't know where she's getting these peculiar ideas lately!

April 2011:

*When I have to get after Vanna for one thing or another, she'll begin crying and put me on a huge guilt trip by saying, "You make me sad Momma, you bein' mean Mommy!" Ohhh, isn't that so heart-breaking?! I really do feel so mean when she says it.

*"Don't get mad - be glad!" The kids saw the Glad (garbage bag) commercials on TV once and they picked up on their slogan right away and are so clever in their use of the slogan in our home. Often times when I get grumpy they'll burst out with "don't get mad - be glad/get glad"! Oh what a quick mood lifter!

June 2011:

*The other day I had to put Cash in the corner and when I did he sobbed, "You're breaking my heart to piece". Well this did break my heart and I had to explain that I don't like putting him in the corner but when he chooses to be disobedient there has to be some sort of consequence. This did nothing to console him - btw where do all his dramatics come from? :)

October 2011:

*Vanna in her loudest voice will sing/say: "I don't know - I been told!" - like the army chant and Cash says it like this: "I don't know what I've been told!"

*When the kids were away to Grandmas and Grandpas while I was on bedrest, Cash would occasionally get home sick. My mom told me one day that on one of Cash's particularly hard nights (just before they got to come home), he was listing off all the things he didn't like about his Grandmas and Grandpas homes and one of them was their decorations. He said he only liked the decorations at our house. I thought this was a funny (albeit sad too) comment - it was just Cash's way of saying he was ready to come home!

November 2011:

*In his prayers, Ty will often pray that I will be able to "carry the baby to an appropriate time" (or something similar) and Cash has picked up on the idea and so in his regular prayers he will say, "bless that Mommy can carry the baby to the doctor" or "bless that Mommy can carry the baby and not drop the baby". It's really quite darling and quite hilarious at the same time with the way he must be thinking of "carrying".

January 2012:

*In her recent prayers Vanna always prays for her baby sister: "Bless the baby can be safe and reverent."

*When I have to get after Cash for misbehaving or not listening, etc. and afterwards we talk things over and/or apologize, Cash has been saying, "Do you think you can try harder to be a better mommy?" What he means by this is: Will you never put me in the corner again?":) After I let the slight sting of guilt wash over me, I then say something real clever and turn it back on him, such as: "Do you think you can be a better listener?"

*Rosie snorts when she really gets upset and cries.

February 2012:

*Vanna is so good about always randomly saying "I love you" to me every day, several times. Now she also says, "I love my baby" referring to Baby Rosie. So sweet!

*As I was giving Rosie a bath when she was only a couple weeks old, she grabbed hold of her hair (she has a whole head of long blonde hair) and locked her little fingers in a fist around it (why is that babies often have their hands in such tight fists?:) and would not let go. She was pulling her own hair. When I finally managed to pry her fingers loose, her head in that area was bright red from her tugging - but she never cried through the whole thing! I just thought it was so funny!

*At 7 weeks, Rosie consistently sleeps 51/2 to 61/2 hours for her first stretch at night. Then, after I get done feeding her, she usually sleeps another 2 to 3 hour stretch before she's really awake for the morning.

*Also at 7 weeks, Rosie smiles all the time. Early on, she'd often smile just as she was dosing off while nursing, but now her smiles are for real-when she's fully aware. She's such a good happy baby. We're so blessed to have her in our family!

March 2012:

*In Vanna's prayers lately she's been praying for the missionaries but she pronounces them: "the marry missions". :)

* The other day Cash asked me to guess what his favoritest show in the whole wide world was. I guessed Cars 2 (because we just checked it out from the Library and I knew he was excited to watch it for the first time). His response was, "Well, that is my next favoritest...and Scooby Do but what do you think is my very favorite?" I said, "I don't know, you tell me." His reply, "GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!" This proud mom was beaming!

June 2012:

*Cash sometimes calles cigarrettes "smokearrettes" when he's trying to explain that he saw someone smoking and that it's not good for you, etc. etc.

*Vanna heard Cash say the following (and keeps repeating it as if she cleverly came up with it all on her own :) -

Vanna: I know how to make you say "how".
Me: How?

July 2012:

*Vanna has always been so good to tell us she loves us and for months now, just randomly, she will come up to me and/or Ty and say, "I love you with all my heart." It is the sweetest thing and certainly melts your heart!

*The other day in the van, the kids pulled out their scriptures (they like to carry them along with us in the van) and Vanna started: "Chapter 1, and it came to pass...." I thought it was so funny that she recognizes that common phrase in the scriptures and repeated it on her own.

*A friend of ours had a 8-yr. old (Macie Jensen) who was being baptized and when she was asked who she wanted to speak at her baptism, the young girl said, "mmm...Vanna". Her mom had to explain that Vanna was probably too young to speak and that maybe it would be nice to choose someone from her family to speak. She shared this with me and I thought it was so sweet, I had to record it.

November 2012:

*Vanna - "Do I have school tomorrow?"
Mom - "Yes."
Vanna - "Awww man (in her best drawn out whiny voice)."
Mom - "Don't you like school?"
Vanna - "Well, I DO like the snacks."
That's our sugar baby! :)

April 2013:

*Over dinner we were discussing the need to take care of our things. The kids would say things like "well, if it breaks we can just buy a new one" and Ty said something like, "Where do you think money comes from? do you think it grows on trees?" Vanna responded, "No Dad - it grows in the ground!" :)

November 2013:

*Cash came home the other day with a new song he's learned from school: "Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider!" Funny he didn't use it to his advantage and switch the girls and boys around. :) Anyway - where do kids come up with this stuff right?!

October 2014:

*Cash and Vanna were at their friends' house playing in the back yard when the neighbor came out and yelled at them to "get the h... away from her property before she calls the police" and the like. You can imagine how this upset all the kids who didn't even realize they were near her property line. It just so happened that I was there to pick the kids up right after this happened and when we pulled into our driveway, the waterworks began. Cash particularly wouldn't settle down. He kept saying, "I don't want the cops to come and put me in jail!"

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