Burnham-blog: March 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

What do you see?

Landon was angry with me. I caught him and Mackenzee snuggling on the couch together the other day and hurried to grab my camera so that I could capture the moment. Mackenzee had laid out her pillow and her blankets and asked Landon if he would listen while she "read" stories to him. So, he had climbed on the couch and snuggled right up beside her. {PROUD mom moment here.}

However, when he saw my camera he quickly covered his face with the blanket. :0( What happened? All was going so well!

I'm a blogger. He knows it. He knows when I take pictures of him that they normally end up right here for all of you to see. It normally is not a problem. That day it was. Why? He was laying on a pink blanket, tucked under a pink blanket and he was sure that people would think he really LIKED the color pink. {heaven forbid!}

I looked at my oldest child, who holds one of the biggest pieces of my heart, and told him that he was SO wrong. I told him the people would see a picture of a little girl dressed in pink, with her pink pillow, and her pink blanket reading stories to her big brother, who was so awesome for taking the time to sit there with her.

I mean, what do you see?

I see a sister who completely adores her big brother. Who is so glad when he takes the time to be a part of her little world, as girly as it may be.

I see a brother who has such a good heart. Who, no matter how much of a pest she can be, will still let her be a part of his world.

Honestly, though I am quite partial, I think these are THE two cutest kids on the entire planet. Seriously.... :0)

Love you Landon. Thanks for letting me take the picture anyway. You are a sweet kid.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Pinewood Derby

Today was Landon's first EVER pinewood derby. He has been working on his car with his dad for over a month now and we just perfected it last night. :0)

The addition of Spiderman stickers was apparently a MUST. Sorry Perry! :0)

After weigh in, we found out that we were over the limit by .25 ounce. So, the drill came out holes had to be bored into the weights inside the car. Two weighs-ins and five holes later we were spot on and Landon's car was "officially" entered in the races.

Not too intimidating right? Chairs lined up alongside the steep downward slope of the racetrack.... :0)

Here are all of the boys {mostly} impatiently waiting for the races to begin. Cache, Reese, Brady, Landon, Davis, Brody, Paul, and the two new Hunzeker boys that I haven't been able to meet yet.

Thank you INSANELY SO to the cub scout and primary leaders who were brilliant as always. Mackenzee was elated to be able to build her own twinkie derby car and it kept her from freaking out over not having a derby car of her own. {Not that she had already done that several times this morning or anything...}

Landon lost his first race, won his second, and then lost his last race. I am so proud of him for being such a good sport and cheering on his friends as they won instead of pouting over his losses. In fact, all of the boys there were so good about the races and were so excited for their fellow cubs when they did well. Instead of a competition it was more of just a fun, good time for everyone. It was a really good Saturday morning.

Though there were awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places, the other boys received some form of award as well no matter if their car won or not. Grandpa Burnham will be proud to hear that Landon won for best overall paint job. All of the boys loved the shiny metallic red paint. :0)

This year's derby is now officially over. I'm sure that next year Jaysen will have plans on making Landon's car run faster down the track. He was already talking about what could have been the problem with this one.....something to with needing more graphite. :0) Whatever....

So glad you had such a fun morning Landon! I love you!

Friday, March 27, 2009

Nurse Mackenzee

I swear I was on my deathbed on Wednesday. I don't remember feeling that horrible in a VERY long time. Landon was at school and Jaysen was at work, which meant is was just me and Kenzee home, as usual. I could barely get out of bed. :0( It was yucky.

THANKFULLY, I had my own nursemaid to help me out. She brought me her Abby Cadabby blanket because she knew I was freezing. She was sure that she needed to bring me the "puke bowl". {For those of you not aware, this is simply a large plastic bowl that goes anywhere the sick-o in the house goes. I make my kids lay in their beds with their bowl. Cleaning up the mess is not fun, so if they take care of business in the bowl....it saves them and me the frustration} Kenzee brought me a bowl. :0) After the phone rang several times she went and got it for me so that I could just have it next to me. There was no way I was able to jump up and get the phone. She went and got me some crackers to eat and brought me a glass of water. She even went and found some story books and read them to me.

I'm telling you. I don't know that she could have done any better at helping me. She was so good all day {with a little help from Dora} and was so patient with her useless mommy.

Kenzee is such a fun, sweet girl. I'm so glad I have days like this to remember because honestly, there are some days when I wonder how I'm still alive as I try to deal with her stubbornness. :0)

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Rock and Roll!

That's right....

Rock and roll Mackenzee style anyway. ;0)

She came up to me the other day pretending to play the PINK guitar hero guitar. It was hilarious. I'm not sure who taught her to play guitar this way....perhaps her brother....but she had some wicked awesome moves and was strumming away. I mean....look at that finger placement! :0)