Hooray for weather in the 50's (temperature that is)

Yesterday was a beautiful day with a sky full of puffy clouds and a semi-warm breeze. Well maybe more like a cool breeze, but it still felt great outside. There were lots of kids playing in our "park" as Esther likes to call it and we couldn't resist either so we put on our jackets and went to join in the fun. It didn't feel like it had been that long since we've been able to play outside but since the last park excursion Ezra wasn't walking and I wasn't entirely comfortable with letting him crawl around either (to many haycorns to choke on). It was alot of fun to see him walking around and he also went down the slides by himself for the first time too. That was really fun to see, I will try and make a video the next time we go down there. I am so grateful to live in a place with a playground right outside our apt. Now if it could just stay this way that would be great. But last year spring didn't come until June in Utah. Hmph.

Davenports, Davenports, everywhere

Our cousin Lisa Marie and Lizzi (my little sister). Lisa Marie is a cousin that we don't get to see often (I think the last time I saw her was 5 years ago). She has two beautiful kids, and it was nice to meet them for the first time.

Here is Jessica Davenport (our cousin by marriage to Michael Davenport) and next to her is Lisa Marie's husband. Also in the picture is Esther and Lisa Marie's little boy. (I am really bad with names, sorry)


On the left is little Liviya (Sadie VanDyke Knowlton's daughter) in one of her princess dresses (she modeled two that night). On the right is my father, talking to Michael Davenport holding his youngest daughter on his lap and his second daughter is standing in front of him (again really bad with the names, sorry Uncle Alans kids...)

Esther's obsessions

So here we see an example of one of the funny little things Esther has been doing lately whenever she is exposed to toys that are not her own. She sorts them and she usually adds narration while she is doing so. For example while she was doing this she was explaining that she was putting the bears to bed. The other little girl in the picture was just some random child floating through the library. She was mildly interested in what Esther was doing but when she overheard her talking about, "putting her bears to bed" she felt it her duty to point out that they were not all bears, pointing to the black and white one. Esther looked at it and said, "That's a cow." I don't know if this is normal toddler behavior or not, but it is semi entertaining, at least right now. Aunt Abby works with underdeveloped toddlers and babies and she keeps saying she thinks Esther has some sort of anxiety disorder. I suppose only time will tell, but to me right now, she is a toddler and I am not about to start diagnosing her for mental disorders yet.

The SLC Library

So, last Friday was a busy day, we walked to the SLC library during a visit with Aunt Lizzi among other things. I was impressed by everything from the design of the library, to it's cafe's and shops, but especially impressed with their children area. They had very cute little couches and chairs that were exact copies of larger ones upstairs. They also had rooms that were themed as things like an attic and an icecave. Anyway we really loved it....here are some pictures of Lizzi and Esther enjoying the books and furniture. I'm not sure if Esther or Lizzi picked the book Kat Kong, but I wouldn't put it past either one of them.

My what a happy day...

Esther woke up with a gentle spirit and a happy heart this morning (I attribute it to getting enough sleep). She was waiting patiently for me to wake up and once I was she then waited for Ezra to open his eyes. She touched his hand and said, "His little hand is so soft." And then said, "He looks so cute with his binky." So I knew today would have to have something special about it for Esther to be in such a great mood. As luck would have it, it was a perfect day for a walk. So we decided to walk up the hill aways and go visit the fountains at the Temple. I think the last time we went was in November, there definitely wasn't any snow. I had to give Esther strict instructions about not getting wet, because I knew she would get to cold, and she listened! The weather was downright springy and it felt so good to sit and watch Esther run around the fountain while me and Ezra watched and soaked up the sun. Note to self: I should do this every day so she can get good and tired for her naps. I believe what they say about seasonal depression disorder and how if you can get a little sun now and then it helps. Anyway suffering through this dratted cold has made me long for spring that much more, and I'm starting to go crazy waiting for it! Although come to think of it the older I get I've gotten to at least have an appreciation for winter, because if nothing else it makes the spring that much sweeter. I also like the black trees against winter skies. At any rate as usual once I get typing (or talking) I tend to wind up in a different direction than where I was headed.
So in this picture Esther was making the fountains rise with her hands, the other thing she liked to do was "grow" with them, squatting down when they were small and slowly standing up as they grew tall too. That kid really is fun to watch when I make the time to do so.

This Liger's for you Uncle John

I just wanted to dedicate this picture to my favorite Uncle John, because in my previous post about the bean museum, he mentioned that he and my dad used to go visit Shasta at the zoo when they were kids. Talk about the circle of life. Any way I had no idea that Ligers were a real animal until we moved up here, I thought they were just a joke. Poor Shasta. But on a more positive note it's nice that he(or she, I'm not sure what gender it is) can entertain generations of children. I like to think that might mean something to the poor animal.

Every day's the Fourteenth!

Happy Valentines Day to one and all from the Frost Family! We love you all, and hope your day was great!

The sickness........ has passed

Yes it's true, I think the sickness is finally trailing off and leaving us semi-whole. I don't imagine we'll all feel ready to shout for joy until spring comes though. Luckily there is plenty to look forward to Ezras 1st birthday is the end of this month, then comes mine in March, and then Esthers 3rd in April! I still have all the planning to do for Ezras, I was racking my brain trying to figure out where to have it and what to do, until I finally just settled on having an open house at my parents (which i still need to go over with them). I set a precedent with Esther's first birthday, and now I have to follow suit. Anyway more on that when it actually happens. I thought I would just mention that we are all starting to feel much better and when is spring coming?

Aunt Abby to the rescue!

I think it safe to say that the last 24 hours have been more mentally tiring than I can really remember with either of my children, although I know many parents have to deal with much worse or maybe the same but all the time. Recognizing that makes me feel very grateful that my children have been so healthy. It also makes me feel like a big baby even mentioning their common colds, but that is my only form of therapy I suppose. Our one bright spot was that Aunt Abby risked her own health and drove and hour and 15 minutes to come and cheer Esther bug up. Also our friend Missy dropped by with a papa murpheys pizza that was very delicious and made dinner much easier (thanks again Missy!) It is so nice to have loved ones there for you when you need them most! Thankfully I am almost sure that Esther has come round the bend, the first half of last night was awful she was waking up every 40 min or so crying and sounding like she was in pain but refusing anything we would give her. Finally, after forcing some antibiotics down her throat (I have never heard her scream like that before) she conked out on the couch and I stayed out there with her. She slept until the morning and she seems that much better just having a few hours of uninterrupted sleep. We were going to take her back to the Dr's today because her fever seemed like it was lasting too long, but this morning her temp was lower and she is also coughing much much less. Unfortunately me and Brock both woke up with sore throats and stuffy noses, but I am sure we'll survive too. Thanks again to all our loving family and friends for there support!

It has to get worse before it gets better right?

So just taking a moment to relinquish some anguish about sick children while the sickie is sleeping. I thought yesterday Esther was at her worst and maybe physically she was as far as her actions. She was very listless and quiet, I was afraid that was a bad sign. But when we went to the Doctors he didn't seem overly concerned and prescribed some antibiotics and some ear drops. So I guess I was hoping the worst was over yesterday. Today however she seems in much more pain, she is crying and whining and coughing up unspeakable things. To make matters worse she is totally fighting me with medicine. I talked to a nurse today because I was thinking about taking Ezra in for a preemptive exam, he has a cough but not much else yet. She said there wasn't anything they could do if he didn't seem really sick yet. She also said that a lot of coughing meant that the mucus is breaking up and the main concern was that it didn't sound wheezy when she coughs or breaths. Which as far as I can tell it doesn't. So anyway yeah I just needed to whine a bit. I hope she starts to feel better tomorrow, I can't imagine it getting much worse than it is.

One sick kid, one kid sick of the other kid hogging all mama's attention

Well that nasty bug that's been terrorizing everyone all winter has finally found Esther bug at last. She started acting funny on Monday, and it has just gotten worse and worse each day. I took her into the Dr's today and he diagnosed her with a ear and throat infection. So she's on some antibiotics. Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Ezra's immune system is strong enough to kick Esther's bugs butt. He started coughing today so we'll see what happens. He's not sick in this picture, just angry that he's in his excersaucer prison.iiiiiiooooo000 (Esther added that last part)

Clay Day

My first attempt at home made clay, and it actually turned out fine. Esther chose the color blue. She wasn't to keen on the idea of molding it into anything, but she did enjoy poking it with any and all manner of objects she could find. I was actually getting bored with it myself until I got out the garlic press which inspired my mermaid and jelly fish.

Esther is training for the circus

Umm I'm not sure where she got the idea to start carrying her stroller around with her teeth but I have to admit it does bring a tear of pride to me eyes, the things my kids will do to entertain me.

Grandma Louis, Ezra and the pianie

Yesterday me and the kids drove down to Layton to have dinner with my family. They hadn't seen the kids for a couple weeks so I thought we could make a day trip. Anyway I ran an errand and when I came back my mom was playing the piano with Ezra. I got a kick out of seeing his little fingers poke the keys like that.

Saturday- Jo Jo and Grace Face come for a delivering visit.

Joey (my little brother) and Gracie (his little girlfriend) came to deliver an entertainment center that I bought off of KSL a few weeks ago. They had to deliver it in my dads truck because it wouldn't fit in our van. Anyway we took them to our favorite Indian restaurant where every time without fail somebody working there will pretend to steal our children. I know that would bother some parents but we just think it's funny, they never go farther than a few feet from our table. The food is excellent though, that's the real attraction.

I wanted to make sure they put it in the right place see.


Brock wanted to show Joey how well Esther can use the camera so he had her take these pictures. That's Gracie with our last caffeine free coke:)

Friday.....trip to SLC......car sickness and double decker bikes

We went down to SLC on Friday because one of Brock's former coworkers was retiring and he thought it would mean a lot to her to meet the kids. On the way there Esther started to say she felt sick, and the last two times she said that in the car, she threw up as soon as the car stopped. We're starting to wonder if she might not suffer from carsickness once and a while. Anyway we didn't have any extra clothes for her to wear if she did yak so I gave her the only container I could find in the car, a wipes box. Luckily she didn't throw up this time. But the way she kept her head in it for I don't know, 5 minutes made me laugh a little bit. Maybe it correlates with an almost empty stomach too. So we got some curry before we went to visit Brock's coworkers. After our visit we went to aunt lizzi's place and just hung around, watched Ghostbuster's, you know the usual. But on the way home, we saw something we'd never seen before. When we were stopped at a red light a man/boy/guy was walking across the street with what looked like one bike frame welded an top of another, in other words a really tall bike. It was so funny to see his hands pushing the handlebars way above his head. At first we thought he was walking it because it was to tall for him to ride, so we felt a little sorry for him (while making fun of him, just a bit). But then when he got to the other side and turned down the road zhoop, just like that he was up up and away! I tried to get a picture of him while he was closer but all I got was the car passing in front of us. I should have taken a picture when he was walking past us but I was too chicken. I want to know how he dismounts that beast. I know how I would.....timber!!! Flat on my side just like a tree. This ties in first place with my other bizarre SLC bike sighting (last picture)- Peter Pan on his bike on Halloween day.
God bless big cities and their wackadoos.