The Scotland Jones: Hot Dogs & Indians & Pancakes

This is us in front of an old steam engine that came through Gilbert last week.

Scottie is definitely an individual with his own agenda in life! We love this two year old! One of the best things about a two year old is their sweet speech. This kid comes up with some of the best lines.

• We were all taking turns discussing our favorite Thanksgiving foods when Scotland piped up with, "My turn, my turn. Hot Dogs!" I don't recall ever having had hot dogs for the best feast of the year, but whatever!


• While reading a Thanksgiving book about pilgrims and Indians, Scotland pointed to "dat neked boy." He continued to point out each 'naked boy' in the book.


• There's a picture at church of Jesus breaking a round piece of bread. Scotland looked at it and said, "Jesus eat pancakes!"

Marshall Boy

He's two months old already! I can't believe it. As I mentioned in a previous post (Scroll down for lots of updates), Marshall is a perfect baby! He's now 9 weeks old and about two weeks ago he started sleeping through the night - that right there is awesome, but he's also super flexible with our schedule, loves to be held, but also loves to just be by himself in the swing. He even graciously puts up with all of the many hands and faces that frequently get up in his business! And my favorite part about him is his laugh! I love it!

Eli's First Day of Preschool

I love this guy! I tried to convince him not to go and leave me, but he would not be convinced. Eli is a bundle of personality. His teacher asked what were his hobbies and all I could think of was: PLAY. He loves to play. Animals, trains, cars, good/bad guys, kitchen, legos, sports, pretty much anything. I have often found him sitting at the table pretending his fingers were different action heroes. It doesn't take much to get his imagination going. He loves his brothers, but has a special attachment to this little Marshall. Eli is the first one on the scene whenever M cries or needs his pacifier. He often lets me know what M's needs are: food, diaper change, etc. Eli gives this baby more kisses than anyone in the family, which is a lot! He's a very creative person and tells good jokes, I know I will miss him while he's gone, just like I do G-man. Why do they grow up way too fast?!

Halloween!

Did Halloween last forever to anyone else?! We went to a birthday dress-up party, a Halloween street carnival, carved our pumpkins (which we did way too early!), attended Joshua's office's trick or treat event, and our ward's trunk or treat party the week before Halloween, so when Monday came around I was tired of all the sugar and dressing up kids! Oh well - what's important is that they all had fun and enjoyed the partying. Marshall just enjoyed the good naps! (He's such a perfect baby)

Two Spontaneous Trips...

The First...

San Diego! -See post below-

The Second...

Spontaneous Pneumothorax!

About a week before our trip Joshua was playing basketball and after a lay-up felt a huge shortness of breath and a lot of pain on his left side. I finally convinced him to take a motrin the next day, which seemed to help, so he just dealt with the pain assuming that it would heal eventually. After our trip (after he walked all over San Diego) he had a doctor's appointment where the x-ray revealed that he had a collapsed lung!

So he spent 4+ days in the hospital with a tube in his chest. It was a crazy 4 days and many thanks to everyone who helped with the boys so I could spend a couple of hours each day with Joshua. Joshua is doing just fine and even played basketball last week - proof that nothing, not even a collapsed lung, can keep this man from playing ball!

Our Spontaneous Trip

We decided to take advantage of German's Fall Break and make a long weekend trip to San Diego. The boys are still playing 'navy guys' after our tour of the USS Midway, which I highly recommend to anyone visiting San Diego, although a pedicab driver tried to convince us that our kids would be bored to tears! We loved SeaWorld! Our boys are really into animals, so it was fun to see so many that you can only read about. I think "Shamu" (of course) and the sharks were the most impressive, but the penguins, otter, and dolphins were a close second. We also enjoyed a pleasant afternoon collecting seashells at the beach.

The boys enjoying dinner on the hotel floor while watching football.

Waiting for the dolphin show. Side note: probably not a great idea to sit in the 'wet zone' with a 5 week old baby!

We toured an old merchant/passenger ship where the boys dressed up like immigrants - I love Eli's face!

Clark soup! (We probably weren't supposed to let them in the huge pots!)

Can you imagine living in such tight quarters? I think I would like to have been the admiral - his quarters were cush!