Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a really goofy holiday in my opinion. More goofy than Valentine's Day or something like that. But I don't feel like explain my opinion. Instead I will say, that I was surfing around and found this post on Mother's Day gifts. Reading this post is not the idea, when I saw the stack of material, I thought that would be such a lovely mother's day gift-- A stack of fat quarters.
Will I ever get any benefit from this post? Would my husband ever think to look back at a future holiday... Will my daughters ever read a blog book and get the idea? Only the future knows...
This much I know, normally I pick out my own mother's day present. I decided this is the last year for that, husband should have the joy of asking a little boy what mom wants for mother's day. Next year. Next year.

Farm Obsessed

We use to go to storytime on Wednesday, until my son decided he hated it. So I started a playgroup in my ward instead. I asked him on Tuesday if he wanted to go, he said yes, and the river. Turns out he didn't want storytime just the river preferably with daddy. (Our local library is in the middle of a business park, which has a stream going down the middle. If you walk up farther east, there is a river.) So I mentioned to my husband sometime J would like to take to what he calls the river, just up by the stores. That night my husband got page just right after midnight. And practically worked all night. He spend less than two hours sleeping in our bed, and less than 5 total. I found him at 7 am on the couch downstairs where he fell asleep on a conference call. He decided he was done working around 2 pm, and I figured he would go pass out until 6pm in bed.
Instead he offered to take us to "the river". While at "the river" our son was my husband's tour guide talking the whole time. It was very sweet of my husband, then I figured he would go home and fall asleep. Instead he asked how far away was the farm. I said why you want to go? He said kind of.. So we went, the second time this week. Third total, like I said farm obsessed. It was so much easier with my husband. We had fun looking at all the animals, and we didn't pay to ride the tractor it was sort of a relief. We saw two gaggles of goslings, one just wandering around on the bank, and one swimming in the ranging waters. It was funny to see them tumble through the water when they would get brave and try to get farther in the middle. They were not successful, and stay swimming on the side with their mom. J man loved watching the goslings, and talked about them all afternoon. (We are big fans of Ollie and the other gosling books, because of my son's middle name, even though we don't own any.)
I really appreciated my husband, he was totally exhausted, but want to spend time with the kids. He then went home and passed out until 7. His job can be annoying, and I probably am more annoying, asking when he is going to spend time with us. I am often grateful for my husband working crazy hours to provide for the kids and me. That morning, I told my son how nice daddy was, and how much he loved us so he worked all night long when he had to. I said if it wasn't for us, Daddy would have quit a long time ago and moved to Mexico to go surfing. My husband agreed, he said that would be so awesome if I didn't have responsiblity, to save up a couple thousand dollars and go surfing until it ran out. Get a job and repeat the whole process. (I'm perfectly fine with him thinking that, because sometimes I longly wish I was using my politcal science degree. I'm fine with that, because although both of our dreams would be fun, both of us would rather be here in a 20s bunglow with our kids.) I honestly can not image life without my husband and my entourage following me around crying all day. Entourage is what lovingly call my children and all their stuff that is required to leave the house.

the baby girl

This is what my carpet sees all day long. Its always happy when its not spit on, good thing its cheap from Home Depot, not a fancy Turkish one. If my carpet is like me, after it gets attacked, it thinks good thing you are the cute baby, with large translucent ears. At first I was surprised by her bald peach fuzz head and noticeable ears but now that's why we love her.
In other Nan news, she is movin and groovin. She rolls consecutively so she ends up about a foot away from where I placed her on the ground. After being fed her daily dinner of cereal she sleeps 13 hours through the night most of the time. And she will be 5 months on Tuesday. Where did the time go, she is very giggly fun, and find her much more enjoyable, but at the same time I sort of already miss the girl that sat in the swing scowling.

At the farm

We went to the farm yesterday. Its kind of crappy, but its free so we go. That being said I love in comparison to Thanksgiving Point's petting zoo. I hate their petting zoo, I know lots of people like it, but I hate it. The best part about wheeler farm is its free, so we can just zoom over any old time.
Here is my forlorn gangsta kid, with the baby chicks. He loves the baby chicks.

Yea! Thanks Aunt Danna for a picture of me with both kids.

J with Julz and the geese. My son was getting a kick out of chasing the geese. Once one turned to chase him and honked I put a stop to it. I am scared of geese, they chased me when I was a wee lass.

NOTE: This is a real working farm as their untitled website tells me. This is not a petting zoo or a feeding zoo. You are not allow to touch the animals. Although we did touch the sheep by the road. What it means by a real working farm is that there are farm hands there doing farm work, they don't talk to you or entertain you. They seem to go out of their way to exclude you from what work they are doing. We still go, its free, my kid loves the geese, and the baby chickens, I love the baby sheep. We spend our $1.50 for each person over two to ride the tractor ride, and go home. I think its overpriced to ride the hayride, but as my husband pointed out where else can my son ride a tractor trailer? Anywhere I could think of, costs more than $1.50 in gas. Plus this farm is by Target, so its a twofer, since Target is a little too far away to go regularly.

Baby Animals

Our first visit to the farm. J had been asking to see farm animals for a while. Slowly one by one we are checking off our to do list. Still on the list go see zoo animals.

Nothing like a big honking pig to make you want to eat that glazed ham in your freezer.
I thought these were the cutest little baby goats I ever did see.
Until someone said they were sheep not goats, sheep pupils are vertical while goats are horizontal according to the someone. Which is what freaks me out about goats their horizontal pupils. I tried to look it up, but only half heartedly, instead I found this, "The easiest way to tell the difference between a sheep and goat is to look at their tails. A goat's tail goes up (unless it is sick, frightened, or in distress). Sheep tails hang down and are often docked (shortened) for health and sanitary reasons." Well apparently they are sheep.
J loves the chickens, just like his dad.

Baby Human, actually got an appearance on our outings for a photograph

Let's not forget the tractors.

Realization

Last night or early this morning, sometime in my sleep I had a realization. One of the main reasons I want to buy a house is so I can install hooks at my child's height, by the front door and in his room so he is responsible for hanging up his own coat. I know he won't actually do it, but that way when I freak out that the house is messy, I can say, pick up all your sweatshirts and hang them up. Installing hooks might not be the best reason to buy a house. Hmm, we'll think about it.
I feel like I'm standing at a cross roads, and I can pick any direction at all to go.
Me a few years ago, would have freak out, I don't know where life is going. But now I think alright, I just wait and see. For me that's one of the positive things about being married, not knowing where I'll be in 6 months doesn't matter.
At this point, I could be here, there, or owning, who knows. Where ever I am even if its a rental, maybe I'll think about installing hooks, who knows?!

By the way, to update anyone who cares, we are not the highest offer on any of the houses we have bid on, and I am not willing to pay any more money on any of the houses. They aren't nice enough. Despite what the newspapers say, I don't think the housing market will turn around by the end of the year. I have all the time in the world to wait.
Some people say, you just got to jump into the housing market and work your way up. I can't really agree with that, because all of the military people who don't buy for the first 20 years of their career. Others say, every first time buyer thinks they will be in their house for 15 years, no one stays more than 5. Some say, you need a house for the tax benefit. Other says, you have no idea all the hidden costs of homeownership. Who knows at the point, I'm loving my indecision!

Musuem of Natural History

We got our community pass from the library to see the museums. Unfortunately it does not get us into the zoo or the aquarium. It did get us here free of charge. Anyone want to join me at the Art Museum before it expires May 31st? My son has been asking to go to a dinosaur museum like Land Before Time for some time.

Turns out I'm much more of an artist than a scientist, I was bored. Although my son did get to see his dinosaurs, I think he was a little disappointed there was no Cera, but he didn't let it show too much.

We finally have someone to take a picture of my husband and me together. My son is almost old enough to get a decent picture.

There was also a semi interesting frog exibit, they fed the frogs while we were there.
Next time I'll skip this one and go to Thanksgiving Point. But it was nice to only have to drive 10 minutes to get home.