Peanut Butter Peanuts Anyone?

Russ was eating peanuts before dinner. Dallin loves peanuts, so he asked if he could have some. Of coarse Russ gave him some. Dallin stuck all of them in his mouth at once. After chewing them all up, he turned to Russ and I and said, "Mom, there is peanut butter in these peanuts." What a yummy treat! :)

5th Annual Summer Outing

For the last 5 years, Russ and I have gone to SLC to spend the day at the Gateway. The last two years we have brought Dallin with us. This years outing revolved around Toy Story 3. It was also the Utah Foster Care Foundation's annual Chalk Art Festival. There was a lot going on, and the drawings were amazing. We took Frontrunner (a.k.a the train) down to SLC. Dallin loved it. He pointed out everything he saw out the window.

I forgot my camera, but luckily Russ has an iphone, so we still got plenty of pictures.
After walking around to see all the chalk drawings and learning Dallin was too scared to go into the water at the Olympic Snowflake Fountain, we went to lunch at Tucanos Brazilian Grill for our Father's Day dinner. It was so yummy! Dallin did pretty well too, other than when he knocked a plate to the ground and it shattered. They were all so nice about it and cleaned it up really quickly, but Dallin was afraid he was in trouble and started to bawl. It took a good 5 minutes to get him to calm down enough to talk to him. But he loved the food. The favoriates that he kept asking for more of was raisins, rolls, fresh mozzarella balls, and quail eggs. I guess the quails eggs must have been a lot like hard boiled chicken eggs, but smaller. He liked them. I had no desire to try them. We got yummy cobbler for dessert and Russ even got a glass to take home for Father's Day.

Then off to Toy Story 3. It was a good one. Dallin loved it and he did really well during the movie. As soon as we left, we asked to go see it again. :) The picture is at the theater. It was one of those large cardboard adds they have for movies. It was for the Narnia movie. He's sailing the ship.
Every year we have to go to Ben and Jerry's for ice cream. Dallin was so excited we let him get a chocolate and sprinkled covered cone. We ate ice cream and then went to listen to the live music they had playing. It was a lot of fun. We would have stayed longer, but I was getting a bit burned sitting in the sun.
We weren't on Trax more than 5 minutes on the way home before Dallin was knocked out. He slept on the Trax ride and Frontrunner till about Clearfield.
After that, he woke up in a pretty good mood and just played the Ipod the rest of the way home.
We let Dallin stay up till 10 since his nap was from 5 to 6 and also because they had fireworks for Terrace Days. He spent a lot of the time playing with Woody and Buzz and reciting lines from Toy Story 3.

Overall it was a good day. I don;t know where we will be going to for our outing next year. I'm thinking maybe Chicago. Russ thinks that is a great idea :) (for those who didn't know, that's where he served his mission.)

Zoo

Last Monday we went to the Hogle Zoo with my mother in law. It was fun. Dallin would let us know when he was ready to move on to the next animal. Here are a few pictures from that day.

All smiles while waiting for the bird show to start.

Wasn't it nice for that prairie dog to pose in the picture with us?

Dallin really loved the elephants, especially watching the mommy eat with her nose!

Dallin and the orangutan just watched each other forever. Dallin thought it was pretty funny to watch him eat. Then he spit it all out into his hand. That was even funnier, or so Dallin thought. Seem the orangutan and Dallin had a lot in common (well, at least table manners.)

Almost as tall as the "mommy"

A little video of Dallin having fun before the bird show. I think this was his favorite part of the show.

Brown Syndrome

Remember this post?We finally met with a pediatric ophthalmologist this month. The diagnosis was what is called Brown Syndrome. He can not raise his left eye. Also, he turn his head to the right slightly. The doctor said this helps him stabilize his eye. I had noticed this before, but thought nothing of it since I have a sister and a cousin who do the same thing. Luckily we only need to have it checked once a year and no surgery is required since no other problems are present. I'm happy about that.

He's Done!

Yup, Russ is finally graduated! Yeah! We are all so excited and proud of him. He's worked hard. But, as he keeps reminding me, he plans to continue to put in as many hours at his new job. Hopefully we will live closer to campus in Michigan than we do now. :)
Random picture I thought was funny. Russ and Dallin were watching the "Robot Movie" aka Star Wars. Dallin saw Yoda and got so excited and just had to put on his costume. As soon as Yoda was no longer in the scene, he would take it off. But then the next scene with Yoda we would have to put it back on. It's a good thing Yoda isn't around all that much :)

Scripture Story

We had our FHE lesson on scripture study. I had the picture of Nephi and his family leaving Jerusalem and talked about how the scriptures were so important to them that Nephi went all the way back to get the brass plates. Then we talked about the stories we learn about in the scriptures.

Me: Dallin, who do we learn about in the scriptures?

Dallin: Nephi broke his bow. He got another one.

Mom: Yes, he did. Who else do we learn about in the scriptures?

Dallin: My Elmo blanket blowed away in the house. It blowed away all over outside and Nephi catched it. He got my Elmo blanket 'cause it blowed away.


Obviously, we aren't reading the same scripture stories. :) At least the bow part was right.

Day 2 Update

The tylenol and nap helped. He asked if we could go to Disneyland, so we did. However, he was still very tired. He spent most of his time looking like this:

However, on the rides he looked more like this:

At dinner he kept telling me everything was hot when he ate it. When he told me his apple juice was hot, I got suspicious. I used the knife as a tongue depressor. His throat looks red and slightly swollen. I was able to talk to a nurse. After discussing symptoms, she told me not to worry about it unless he has trouble breathing, the fever gets worse, or he developed white puss on the back of his throat. That made me feel a whole lot better. Russ also gave him a blessing. About 10 minutes after that, he started running around like he was fine. The only problem is now I have to get him calmed down to go to bed. All things considered, it has been a fun day.