The goings on

Our week wasn't too exciting. Donovan has been playing with all of his new toys and is loving all of them! He liked tearing pieces off his playdoh and when he was done I had to clean it up and give him a different color so he could do it all over again. I don't trust him out of his chair yet.

The guitar is still his favorite toy to play with, but he was also playing with his tools at the same time one morning! Apparently it needed some screws tightened. He was all over that job.
On Sunday night, we had one of the players from the guy's soccer team and his wife over. They were a lot of fun and I'm glad they are in our ward! She chopped my hair off today! Maybe if I feel like I look good one day, I'll post a picture. I really like it. ShayLea had done it before and I liked it, but I was ready for something different. I have been a little bipolar about my hair lately. Anyway, while they were here, we played Rockband and Donovan rocked out on the drums again.


We had Addi on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Donovan is getting more accustomed to having her over. I have started to get a little braver and took them to the mall one day. It made me realize how little Donovan listens and does what I say. He is such a 2 year old! It's like he knows it's harder for me to carry out a punishment when I have another child to take care of. I guess I just need to be consistent and hope it sinks in!

I sit her down a lot when I have to change his diaper or spend some time playing with him (he starts to get jealous after a while). He wanted to sit by her so he climbed up and whenever she touched him he pretended she was tickling him. It was really cute.
Addi basically just tolerated it.Donovan has been getting a lot better with his words and even speaks some 3 word sentences. Brad taught him how to say, "Mommy, go away", because Donovan had told me to to "go away" when I told him it was nap time. So I taught him how to tell his daddy to go away too.
He loves waffles, so when I ask him what he wants for breakfast he usually says, "awfuls". He also brought his oval block to me once and said, "oval", so things are sinking in! I'm loving it! He is getting good with colors too. He consistently remembers green and pink. I have a set of cards we look at twice a day with shapes and colors and he gets really squirmy and won't sit still so I worry that I'm wasting my time and he's not learning anything, but he really is! He is a smarter boy than I give him credit for.

I know my child is naked in this video again, but I really do dress him sometimes. I promise. He looks so long and skinny to me! I love his moves.


Tonight, Lenna, Hannah, and I "helped" with the open house for Kevin from Heaven's marriage celebration. There wasn't much for us to do, (of course it was basically done, Joyce is always on the ball) but Lenna and I got some time away from kids, it was great! The men brought the kids for a little while, but we stayed later to help clean up. It was really nice. Those Hanks's really know how to throw a party, and now we have enough ham to last us the rest of the year. I wish I had taken pictures while we were there. Kevin's bride, Angie had a GORGEOUS wedding dress. I could never pull that dress off, it was much too fancy and sparkly.

There are 2 home games next week, woot! So far, Brad's team has won all of their scrimmages. They have their first real game on the 30th, I'm sure they will do great! I haven't spent a lot of time with them, but they seem like a fun group. They all have a blast with Donovan and he likes them, so they must be great! Donovan is such a little flirt, he isn't very shy at all. He is a little charmer, he talks to almost anyone now and gives them his best grins and silliest giggles.