October

October was fast & furious – instead of a typical summary I wrote down some of my favorite moments. Enjoy!

Hyrum is growing like a weed. If he could describe himself it would be “Feed me and don't wake me up when I am sleeping. If you catch me in a good mood, and if you make a complete idiot of yourself then you might get a smile.” He is a good baby as long as he is fed, he likes to spit up and usually saves some for about an hour to catch you when you are not suspecting it. Jaydee can get him to laugh but no one else can yet.

Halloween Morning:
Jaydee wake up! (4th time)
I don’t want to wake up!
There is a monster in your room.
I don’t want a monster in my room.
Mommy is a monster.
I don’t want mommy to be a monster.
Just get up!

Jaydee Quotes:

· “I am a child of God Flake.” (Maybe we should work on humility? My granddad always told stories of Adam & Eve Holyoak so maybe it is in her blood?)

· Deedra yells "Kaydee Lee DeWitt" from the other room, Jaydee hollers back "I'm not a witch!" (Mmm, hearing problem? Deedra is my sister who watches Jaydee & Hyrum for me while I work)

· “Mom, Deedra called me Jaydee Fern Flake, I’m not Jaydee Fern, I’m Jaydee Flake!” (Guess we need to work on her whole name)

· Sam was reading the Friend with Jaydee and talked about the story and that we need to be nice. She said “I can’t be nice I’m a monster.” (Well at least she hasn’t tried to eat her baby brother yet?)

· Who I am?

Well if I think that Jaydee has the most important part of who she is “I’m a child of God”. One of her favorite questions lately is Who I am? or who are you? I usually tease her with "Ooga booga" or some other silly name. We try to write down her quotes because she says the funniest things.

Halloween was fun, we did a complete theme. Jaydee was Cat in the Hat, with Kaydee/Kenyon (Deedra’s twins) as Thing 1 & Thing 2. Hyrum was in an orange Halloween pjs as the fish. We got lots of compliments. See my blog for pictures, I have been to busy to post on myfamily. Sam was a “Frosted Flake” for school, he put flour all over his shirt, hair & face. He got a lot of great reactions. I was a spider, cavewoman & witch (with purple hair) I had to be something different everytime I dressed up. I love Halloween. Jaydee does too but was very upset because Sunday I would not paint kitty whiskers on her face for Stake Conference. Another funny part of the whole story was Jaydee did not know who the “Kitty in the Hat” was, even when I showed her a picture so down to the library we went and got a whole collection of Dr. Suess books. These are now Jaydee’s favorite books.

We had stake conference, last night our leaders spoke about temples, trials, and doing better. My favorite paraphrased quote was from President Peterson. "We live in troubled times, trying times, but we can't just survive them. It is our DUTY to thrive, even grow during these times." That really hit me that we have to do more and be
better people. Then today we were told it wasn't enough just to be active in the church, we needed to be fully converted to the gospel.