Life in NY

We have been here for about a month now and Justice started school last Monday, well it has really been orientation and not any real classes yet, he has a few next week but the real fun begins the week after! He is excited and is enjoying meeting all kinds of people. My first week home with the kids has been a bit eventful, I started Potty training Izaac last Tuesday and he is doing really well, he loves to wear his underwear and usually makes it on to the potty, the trouble with having a boy is that even if he is sitting on the potty he can still shoot pretty far and i still get to do the clean up, we are working on tucking it in!! I am really thankful that he is doing so well he really enjoys in, most of the time, I think he likes feeling like a big boy and being more like mommy and daddy.

Cora had been sick this week and throwing up for a few days now. She doesn't have a fever at all she just can't keep anything down. Poor thing is so droopy she just lays around and stares at things.

Justice and I gave talks in church this morning, but left right after sacrament meeting due to Cora still being sick. We are hoping that she bounces back soon.

Here are some random funny, or things that I think are funny, stories from our adventures around NY are

1) While driving down the street past the old folks home we noticed a line of 10-15 people standing by a white vehicle, I thought it was a Handi-bus or something picking them up but as we got closer we realized that it was an ice cream truck, apparently the food there isn't so great

2) People in NY love to tell you what to do, and us having a son like Izaac brings this upon us even more so. We went to Ikea in Brooklyn a few weeks ago and Izaac found a little baking dish toy that he loved and he was climbing onto the shelf pretending to go into a house and put into the oven, well after a minute of that I tried to get him to come out of the shelf and put the toy back he can be very stubborn so it took a few minutes of me pulling and struggling and bribing to get him to move on... well as this commotion was going on a kindly Ikea employee comes up to me and says that he really shouldn't be playing on the shelf as he could get hurt... oh, well thank you, ya the reason he was screaming was because I was forcing him onto the shelf it's a good thing you came along to lend your support... seriously drive me crazy.

3) o.k. so I can only think of two stories right now but I wanted it to look like more so I made another number... hehehe

View of Lady Liberty from the Ferry
Playing on the ferry coming back from Manhattan
I told Izaac that he couldn't have a cookie until he looked at the camera and smiled for me and this is what I got, silly boy!
(Yes this is Izaac's new car seat I convinced Justice that Cora needed a girly thing to grow into and Izaac would be out of it in a few months leaving Cora with a lovely girl car seat for many years to come!)

We looked at some beautiful Greek style buildings around the children's museum We will definitely be going back around there they have all kinds of gardens and beautiful old buildings to look at.
Cora drivin the boat

We went to the children's museum on Staten Island and Izaac was of course drawn to the water exhibit

Cora loves standing up these days, she won't take any steps unless we are holding her hands but she gets so excited to stand on her own

Not my baby, so when I put Cora's hair up in ponytails she looks sooo much like one of Ashley's babies, it is so crazy!

Izaac in his big boy underwear in the kitchen

Visit to the ocean that is a block from our house

Justices first day of school!!

Sorry it is sideways, I couldn't figure out how to turn it, I forgot to put this on the last post but it cracks me up every time so I am putting it on now!

Cora has started to growl like a dinosaur whenever she sees one it is so funny to me whenever she does it!