I need rock - n - roll

Yes, these words came out of my son's mouth. Here's how it went down. Tim was playing a video of his band. When it ended my son uttered these words after telling us to turn the video back on. Like father, like son I'm afraid. Of course, I think Drew's been taught or coaxed a bit towards music.

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I've had to delete a couple of comments. One said "See... then there were a couple of links and that was it! Kind of suspicious. For now, you have to be permitted to leave comments, which I don't even know how to give anyone permission as I'm on my blog page so often. ;) If you know email me so I can give my friends permission. Has this happened to anyone else?

Pictures!

Seriously, the reason I never do this is because it takes me too long. As I'm trying to type Davis is reaching for the mouse and keyboard. It doesn't make it very easy when I keep having to stop since Davis is successful at getting his hands on the mouse and pushing buttons or hitting keys on the keyboard. I've also changed a poopy diaper in the meantime, retrieved Davis from toilet water, and kept Drew from emptying yet another bottle of bubbles. Drew has asked me to read a book. And I've kept disasters from occurring on my piano! That's just the beginning... Does this sound familiar or am I alone? I've noticed my kids are the happiest when I just give up and sit on the floor with them all day long. My house gets destroyed and I don't do dishes, laundry or anything else that needs to be done but my kids are happy. I'm really trying to find a way to keep my kids happy and a clean house at the same time. If you know how to do it, please let me know!

Enjoy the pics!

Tagged!!!

A- Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friends: (I'll copy Jody) By phone Jody, I talk to her probably more than anyone that lives nearby anyway
C- Cake or Pie: Neither really, unless cheesecake counts
D- Day of choice: Friday!
E- Essential item: How did we ever live without cell phones? Sunglasses too!
F- Favorite color: Purple (today)
G- Gummy bears or worms: worms
H- Hometown: Phoenix
I- Indulgences: Cookies
J- January or July: January (I wonder where you would have to live to say July.)
K- Kids: Drew and Davis
L- Life is not complete without: laughter
M-Marriage Date: November 16, 2002
N- Number of Siblings: 1 brother
O- Oranges or apples: Gala apples (I'm with you Jody!)
P- Phobias or fears: Roaches, Roaches and Crickets!
Q- Quotes: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." George W. Bush (I did say life is not complete without laughter and this one makes me laugh along with all his other interesting vocabulary! I hope it makes you laugh too!)
R- Reason to smile: Hmm, too many to name!
S- Season: Fall, we don't lose too many leaves here anyway.
T- Tag three friends: I probably only have three friends that read this blog anyway so consider yourself tagged if you're one of them.
U- Unknown fact about me: I went to parochial school until high school, which is NOT something to laugh about unless you're laughing at me.
V-Very favorite store: Costco
W- Worst habit: I get offended too easily.
X- X-ray or Ultrasound: Ultrasound
Y- Your favorite food: Vegetable lasagna since you can't even tell you're eating vegetables.
Z- Zodiac: Sagittarius

Chelsea

Here is a link to Tim's cousin's blog page: http://www.cbranam.blogspot.com/

Her two year old is receiving round five of chemotherapy to treat leukemia she was diagnosed with in September. I visit her page frequently and it definitely puts life in perspective for me! Her and her daughter are living at the hospital in Kansas City while her four year old son and husband are in Topeka. (Kansas City and Topeka are about an hour and a half drive time away from eachother.) I've thought about sharing her blog page with my friends before, but it never seemed appropriate until now. She's trying to raise money so her husband can spend some time at the hospital with her and her daughter. She doesn't complain, but I can't even imagine chasing around a two year old that has a Hickman or "line" for the chemo coming out of her chest. Also, at times they have been in "confinement" when her daughter is sick so she doesn't infect the other kids receiving chemo. This means they can not leave the hospital room. Okay, so if you have toddlers you know how hard it is to keep them contained just for a 15 minute doctor's appointment. Can you even imagine living in a hospital room for days at a time? Anyway, check out her blog, she updates it often. She's asking for prayers for her daughter right now as the chemo is making her very sick!

And the calling is....

Enrichment leader. In my last ward I gave the enrichment leader a hard time over doing lots of crafts so I wasn't too surprised. No crafts!!! j/k

So Tim had the baby shark story a bit wrong. Drew was using this huge blue IKEA bag and pretending he was in a boat on the ocean. He had a ball in the boat that Davis kept trying to get and if you've read the pirate book by David Shannon a shark comes along and swallows the ball. That's really how Davis was nicknamed "Baby Shark", and of course the name stuck - ocean or no ocean. His 4 teeth at the tender age of 7 months definitely help!

-Kami

Baby Shark and Oh so much more!

Well, it's been a busy couple weeks in the Remington Household. Let's see, where to start? Drew turned 3 this week. His grandparents from KS came into town to celebrate and the Drewster got lots of presents. The first one he opened had an assortment of Thomas the Train items and he decided he didn't want to open anymore gifts. This was his so called Holy Grail of gifts. I was finally able to convince him that there might be other Thomas stuff in the other packages so he started tearing them open. Of course every package he ripped open contained some sort of Thomas toy and he would stop again, content with the fact that he had yet another Thomas item to add to his shrine.

Davis began crawling this week. Originally he was getting around by what we liked to call the worm. If you remember 80's break dancing, you know what I'm talking about. It was pretty sweet. I'm waiting for him to bust out some head spins or something. Of course Davis' older brother is very protective of his new toys and doesn't want his brother playing with them at all. So I came home from work one day and Drew was calling Davis Baby Shark. I couldn't figure out why, but it was pretty funny. Everytime Davis would start motoring in Drews direction Drew would start screaming "BABY SHARK" and go running. Kami said it was because she told Drew he better stop taking toys away from Davis or Baby Shark was gonna get him. This is apparently the nickname Kami gave Davis since he now has 2 more teeth in his arsenal.

Since my parents live in Kansas they don't get a chance to see the kids as much as I wish they could. The last few times they came in town Drew took awhile to warm up to them. Not this time. Once he saw them he wanted nothing to do with Daddy. I guess he temporarilty forgot who his food and shelter came from.. lol..

Kami and I both came down with a sinus infection recently.. Hers lasted 2 days and mine is still here, going on 3 weeks now. It sucks really bad waking up with cotton mouth from not being able to breathe through my nose. Life goes on though.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We got a call to meet with the Bishop. Our new building was completed and we are now in a new ward. The previous one we were in had over a thousand people and the new one is around 500. With so many people, we were able to fly under the radar and didn't have callings for over a year. That is some sort of record I think. We have been in the new ward for like 2 weeks and we were already getting called in. Let's just say that It wasn't me who received a calling.. lol.. I can't say what it is yet as she hasn't been sustained, but when they ask for all those opposed I may just have to raise my hand to freak her out.. lol. jk.. I don't think I've ever seen anyone raise their hands for that. It's kinda funny because back in the day they did it all the time from what I hear..

Ok, this rambling has gone on long enough. The End