We have TWO toddlers

Yeah, we do. Its become very apparent, especially going to church every week! Mae was trained so well until recently. She would just sit on our laps and never even try to get away, knowing it just wouldn't work. She wasn't always perfect, but at least we could sit through sacrament meeting and make it out with either me or Matt having gotten something out of the meeting. Then, little Will came along. He also, has been perfect... until he started walking! I despise walking!! He just got that cute little I-can-walk-and-I'm-going-to-all-day-and-no-one-will-stop-me attitude! Its been a struggle every week, simply because he has been so calm his whole life; we've never seen him with so much determination and when he freaks out and throws a fit there is really nothing we can do. Our ward has sacrament meeting last (grrrrr...) whoever decided to do this did not have children in mind. Get ready for church, go have fun for 2 hours in primary or nursery, then sit down and be quiet for 75 minutes, oh and forget that nap you needed, you're just going to have to be dead tired all afternoon. It just does not work. And in our ward with 6 nurseries... its a problem, just so you know, we are not the only family with this problem! We usually have to sit in the gym (yep, our ward is THAT huge), and most of the people sitting back there pick up all their belongings and leave shortly after sacrament. I never intended on doing this, but time after time, with changing diapers, taking Will out, taking Mae out, and what have you, we're all out in the hall anyway, so we just assume we should go home! This has been going on for a couple of months now. Yesterday I was pretty determined to make it work and just stay the whole 3 hours of church. So we took our seats in the gym because we were not saving a pew like everyone else but everything was going fine. Mae was staring at some kids behind us, Will was drinking his bottle, we were good. Then, I'm not sure what happened. The sacrament prayer started, Will bent over and let a man-sized flatulence that disrupted everyone near us. Matt could not control himself. Will, the little innocent guy, grabbed Mae's sippy cup, had a drink and chucked it to my side, it landed on the gym floor and cracked open. Luckily, it was water. But the Deacons were coming around and I didn't want anyone to slip on it, so I ran to get some paper towels. I had two huge handfuls but that soaked up about 1/7 of the mess. So Matt handed me the kiddos on his lap and ran to get some more, meanwhile, the deacons are coming around and slipping in the water. He comes back and STILL does not have enough, runs out of the gym again. Mae and Will are flipping out because they want their daddy and do not understand why he keeps leaving! Matt comes back, finishes cleaning up and sits back down. Just then, Will flips out and tries to run away across the gym laughing. I grab him and take him out to the hall because I know he'll scream when I get him. So we're out there and pretty soon Mae is at my side. As soon as sacrament was over, Matt came out with our diaper bags and books, he was finished... and so was I. As we were leaving I looked back into the gym to see all of the families we were sitting by... they were so quiet and reverent, the only thing I could think was, we must have been so loud! Once again, we leave church, Matt and I feeling completely, 100% defeated.

I'm not about to give up. Next week we'll try again. Maybe we'll save a pew and just trap Mae and Will in. But then, I know we'll be loud and disturb everyone up there. Its a tough thing. Do you train your kids to stay in sacrament meeting, or do you leave because you're disturbing the meeting? Anyway, I honestly don't expect the situation to improve any time soon. This is our life, being parents of two insanely adorable toddlers!

Last night we were over at our friends house, the Bailey's. Their daughter, Addi is Mae's age, so they were outside playing. It was really quiet, so I went to check on them. They were butt naked, playing in 1 inch of rain water in their kids pool!!! Oh my heck, I've never laughed so hard! They saw absolutely nothing wrong with what they were doing, and just kept on playing, even with us standing there laughing at them.

Oh yeah, Just so you all know, when I made this new layout, it deleted all of the blogs I had up, so if your name isn't there anymore, I am so sorry! I'm trying to get every one's back. So if I missed yours just leave me a comment. And just leave me a comment anyway! I'm wondering if anyone reads this!!

On a happy note, we went to the zoo on Saturday. It was a beautiful spring day!

Mae measuring herself

Matt doing the same

Wow a huge lion

Will was so happy to just sit and look at everything



The boys

Matt "mad dogging" the gorilla

Mae's favorite thing -- getting ready for church!