Saturday Morning

For Tato, who is in Boston

We love you Tato!

(Elliot took this one)

Because why?

For the last few months, Elliot has decided that "because a fish, a long nose" is a good response to any question that involves the word "why." It doesn't matter what the question is, but the response inevitably involves a fish and a long nose. The last few weeks, to make the joke even funnier, he has decided to mix things up a bit. So now instead of always saying "because a fish a long nose" he changes the word "nose" to various animals. He also puts pauses between words for emphasis. So the following is a typical Elliot conversation/joke.

Parent: "Elliot, let's change your diaper."
Elliot: "No way!"
Parent: "Why not?"
Elliot: "Because... a fish... a long... elephant!"

It doesn't make any sense, but it sure keeps us laughing.

"Aaron's Song"

Many of you may be familiar with the Primary song "I Am A Child of God." Elliot was singing it this morning and asked me to sing along, so I did:

Elliot and Kourtney: "I am a child of God, and He has sent me here. Has given me an Earthly home, with parents..."

Elliot: "No! with Aarons!"

K: "Oh, sorry... with Aarons kind and dear."

Elliot: "Yeah."

He now calls it "Aaron's song."

Libbie on Easter
(thanks for the cute outfit, Grandma Marsha!)


Elliot and Libbie, with matching "My Dad Rocks" shirts (thanks Grandma M!)
Aaron wore his matching shirt, too, but declined to get in the picture.

Sleeping "Yibbie," as Elliot calls her

Chocolateified Aaron
(with Aaron-designed chocolate-- a mix of marshmallows, cholocate chips, Nutella, and milk)

California

As I mentioned before, Ben, Libbie, and I went to California at the end of March. We had a great time visiting Ben's grandparents John and Ruanne, and they of course adored our newest family addition.



Libbie and her Great Grandpa John

with her Great Grandma Ruanne

We didn't have someone to snap a picture of all of us, so we did it in installments. Here's John, Ben, Ruanne, and Libbie.

And me with the same, minus Ben

San Francisco

While we were in the area, Libbie and I took a little side trip to see my sister Krista and her kids. They also had fun with their newest cousin.


Gabe checking out Libbie

My bro-in-law works at Pixar, so I got to tour it. We took these two pictures for Elliot mostly. Everytime we look at this picture with the Incredibles, he asks me to sing the theme song and goes through each character's name.

Evie loved to hug Libbie.
(Libbie got more hugs than I! Eve was so sweet with her.)

Easter

While gathering candy today from the Easter Bunny, Aaron proclaimed, "This is what Easter is really about--filling my hands with candy!"

Not exactly what we were going for... d'oh.

The Kids

Taken March 19

Before Ben and I went to California a few weeks ago (pictures still to come...), we told Elliot that we were going on an airplane. For some reason, everytime we mentioned it he said something along the lines of, "Mommy Tato crash. Airplane go too fast. Crash." One morning we had the following conversation:

Kourtney: Well boys, tomorrow we are going on an airplane to California.
Elliot: Airplane crash! *Crashing noises*
K: Elliot, why do you keep saying that? We're not going to crash!
Aaron: Well, mom, you might crash. But it is just very unlikely.

I got busted by a taste of my own accuracy! I am usually so careful about my language-- I usually say, "We plan on being back" instead of "We'll be back" or "I'll try my hardest not to die young, Aaron, but you never know." Some might worry about scaring their kids, but I think Aaron gets it. And I just love his above observation. He's right. And I love being corrected by him.

Reading a Story

Elliot has been "reading" a lot lately (no doubt inspired by his big brother, who really does read). Here is Elliot reading to Libbie.

One Month Old

As an unusual moment of speediness, here are two pictures of Libbie, taken this very morning.