At the park in Boise

Kyle loves his Aunt Bobbie. She lets him pick on her. Mommy cannot let Kyle stand on her tummy so we will get Bobbie to do it. You go Bobbie. Yay Kyle! And then he tried to eat the camera. No! Bad Kyle!

Since I did not let him eat the camera he thought it was a good idea to tackle Bobbie. "No, I tackled YOU, I did not want you to tickle ME!

And of course, since he is a boy, he loved this thing. Aunt Randy was more than happy to help him with this. Wee!

When Kyle was running away Aunt Randy decided to make fun of him flailing his arms everywhere. It was funny.

Darn this park though, there are no baby swings. This did not last long!

And Bobbie only went down the slide once, given the fact that this is the result.

The Aquarium in Salt Lake

Tropical fish are my favorite!

The bright patterns and colors are magnificent. It always amazes me how many colors, shades, patterns, designs, sizes, and shapes of fish there are. Absolutely amazing.

Kyle loves fish. The aquarium has fish. Therefore, Kyle loves the aquarium. He got so excited when he got to run from one exhibit to the other saying,"FISH!FISH!"He does not, however, like the stingrays. They feel funny, sort of like a slick sponge. Kyle just was not into them. I do not blame him for a minute.He was very excited about the kids area. All the fish were at his level, he could run around like a crazy kid, and he just thought is was cool. "FISH!FISH"

And it did not hurt that they had tunnels to crawl through. What a face!

Exploring in Utah

We like to explore. Kyle especially likes to explore. He likes to explore so much that it is often hard to get him to stop exploring one thing and move on to the next. Here, it is a rock. I believe he sat down and played with that rock for a good 2 minutes before mean Mommy picked him up and carried him off. Naughty Mommy. Once we got to the little pond it was all this boy could do not to jump in. He was good, but I know he wanted to.

And then there is naughty Daddy. I specifically said,"Turn around so I can take your picture!" and he specifically said,"No!" and kept walking. Darn him.

Goofy Boy and Preggo Mama

These are my boys. Yes, they are goofy. The picture turned out a little blurry though. Kyle did NOT get his big radar ears from me. I have small, dainty ears thank you very much. Can you say monkey boy?And then there is the funny mama. I did not have time to smile. My belly is getting big. I have no idea what was on TV. But my belly is cute!

The belly baby

Does this make my fetus look fat? Just joking! I am not far enough along to have anything make my fetus look fat, and given the fact that I have lost 4 pounds, I feel pretty good.
One big thing that people do not tell you about pregnancy is the stabbing pain that round ligaments stretching causes. Ouch! Sneeze...ouch! Cough...ouch! Out of nowhere...ouch! At least it reassuring because I know the baby is growing. Grow baby grow!

My big (determined) boy

Last weekend we went out to Antelope Island for the day, which was great fun with the exception of the bugs. We saw some antelope (go figure) and some buffalo (bison if you want to be truthful, but everyone in the west calls them buffalo anyway so just deal with it!), and a lot of open space. Kyle thought it was great fun.
We went to the ranch house to look around and it was GREAT! You could actually touch things, there were not a thousand cameras watching you, and it was very interesting. Larabee and I kept telling each other how neat it would have been to live out there back in the day.
Kyle liked the rail fence and climbed through it several times. Here he is in all of his determination to figure it out. Such a boy!

See Mom, I am a big boy!

Yes son, you are. But you are still my baby. So there.

Not a good day for the boy :(

So it finally happened. Apparently the screen door was not latched all the way or Kyle pushed it so hard it popped open, but the boy flew out the door and down the stairs. Poor thing. He bit his lip, got a bump on his head, bruised his cheek, and scraped his chest. The scrape is pretty superficial, but I imagine the scab it is bound to leave will not be fun for him. I am just thankful he did not get hurt worse and that he had grass to land on instead of concrete. Maybe he will steer clear of the door from now on and stop thinking he is invincible.