Mr. Prince's class picnic

Today I got to have lunch with Prince. I love the end of the year class picnics. It's so nice to spend some individual time with my sons.

Bah!

Mr Prince: D.A. STOP SINGING!!!!!!
Mr. Perfect: That wasn't D.A. That was Super.
Mr. Prince: Oh, I love it when Super sings. Thank you so much for singing Super.

Planting a tree

Today Prince came home with a project. All of my boys have had this project in third grade, so far none of them have cared about it past the first stage, but this year I think it might be different.
He was sent home with a tree sapling and instructions on how to plant and take care of it. He wanted to do it all himself but in the end he did allow Dad to at least watch over him as he planted it. He has a bucket outside to fill up and water it daily, and knowing this kid we might actually have a new tree this year.

Rocanyon's Birthday April 13th

Mr. Prince gives not only names but gives birthdays to his toys. One of his Lego creations (it may be small but the boy LOVES it) has the name Rocanyon and for a very long time the boys have been looking forward to today, because it's Rocanyon's birthday. This morning Mr. Music made a cake, and when he got home from school he made Candy Crunch Pudding Pie. Happy Birthday Rocanyon! (I think Mr. Prince should definitely have a limited amount of beloved toys!) And I think we shouldn't eat all of these in one day... we shall see.

Chocolate Chip Streusel Coffee Cake with Chocolate Glaze

Chocolate Crunch Pudding Pie

Early Easter

Easter came a week early with giant eggs around my house. At least that's what the eggs told me they were.

My Twins

Unknowingly my twins wore twinner outfits this morning. The best part is that they were so excited when they realized they matched!!
Mr. Prince was even the one who suggested I take pictures!
As often as they don't get along, I am am so grateful that they always come back to being friends.
Love my twins.

Proud little Cub Scout

Due to illness one of our little men missed scouts last night. MUCH to his dismay. They were building something, he didn't care what it was, he just couldn't wait to do it. He has been looking forward to this meeting for weeks. Thanks to his awesome scout mother he got the kit and this morning built a pencil box before he left for school. Feeling much better I might add. Yea!

Latvia

As most of you know my Mr. Prince LOVES geography. Well, currently he is in love with Latvia. A couple of months ago a family moved into the ward and come to find out their son is serving a mission in Latvia. I jumped at the chance and asked his parents to give him our address to send our little Latvia enthusiast a postcard. And today it came! Oh how exciting!
Only one problem now...Mr. Prince wants to go even more!

Cartography

For the last couple of years I have often said my Prince should be a cartographer when he grows up. But I guess we didn't have to wait that long. Lately he has been drawing all of the continents and labeling all of the countries with their capitols. It's what he does with his down time.
The best part... he knows them all by heart.
Yesterday while driving in the car he said to me, "Mom, name all of the countries that start with G."
I thought of Georgia, and Guatemala. He then gave me a game show buzzer sound and proceeded to give me a list of all of the G countries. Then he started telling me what other countries are on each of their borders.
Currently Latvia is his favorite country, but I'm sure it will change. A few months ago he talked constantly of Sudan. This is one of those things I would love a ton of money for. He begs to visit these places...how I would love to take him. To him it would be more than just a cool vacation, he would really learn. Oh well, maybe when we win the lotto...which we don't play...

Beautiful Baptism for a Beautiful Boy

Mr. Prince was baptized this month. We weren't sure how he would do. We weren't sure if he would be happy or moody or what. But as it was-everything went beautifully. There just isn't a better word for it.
Dad went very early with the older boys to fill the font and get set up at the church. And when we showed up we had just enough time to get Mr. Prince ready and snap a few pictures before it was time to start.
Well, as it goes we didn't have the person who was supposed to conduct the meeting there. So, we waited...and waited...and finally started making phone calls. We finally reached someone and Grandpa Crimson was assigned to conduct the meeting. (Though unplanned we thought it very suiting and were very pleased with the way things went.)
Once things got going it was the closest thing to a perfect baptism as I could have ever imagined. I even got a couple of comments on how it really was the best baptism several of our attendees had ever been to. The talks (given by Nana and Grandma Crimson) were concise and even though they were directed at Mr. Prince were very informative and beautiful. And the baptism and confirmation were beautiful. The prayers were given by Papa and Grandpa Crimson and they were...well...beautiful! Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! The best part was Mr. Prince. He was excited and really listened to the talks, he soaked everything in and enjoyed his special day.
Here are some pics of our beautiful family and beautiful friends on the beautiful day of a beautiful baptism!

Notes for the future

Mr. Prince has a deadline. He has repeatedly told me that on June 21st 2017 he needs to be in Alaska.

(I don't know why. I only know he is insistent upon it.)

Mr. Music has also made some plans for the future. He told me he needs to marry a girl with brown skin. (He isn't particular at this point what nationality. He just likes dark skin.)He also has picked out names for his three daughters. Which of course he is planning on only having daughters. Their names are to be Diamond, Ocean and Asianelle (or Asia for short).

Just thought I would document these for future reference.

A note from Mr. Prince to Mr. Music

When I opened my email this morning I had Delivery Status Notification in my inbox saying that a message which was sent was undeliverable due to a bad address. I read the note and knew instantly who had sent it...Mr. Prince. It was addressed to Mr. Music.


Illinois,Maryland,Texas,and... South Carolina! We need to slide!?
It will be,O,K!
Not if you do like Illinois,Maryland,Texas,and,South
Ca-a-arolina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok? Aaaaaand will you!?
It was10,000% nice. Ok? I need Lizonia.

A crazy busy day in the Kingdom

Mr. Music lost another tooth. He only has one more baby tooth to lose. He is VERY aware of this and is looking forward to having all of his baby teeth gone. He knows the next step for him is braces, he isn't sure how he feels about those. But he is excited to be growing up. Mr. D.A. for the first time had a friend come over for a sleep over last night. I let him stay up a bit later than usual, but not a ton later. It didn't matter though, he slept most of the afternoon today and even went to sleep on my bed before evening prayers were even said. He LOVED having a friend over and can't wait until the next time we can do it, but it was exhausting!

Mr. Right shaved for the first time today. He has been growing some hair on his lip and asked me a while ago to teach him. So we've been planning and decided today was the day. He was a bit apprehensive, but did a great job. I told him he probably only needs to do it maybe once a week or so for now. But before bed he was already talking about "next week when I shave..." I loved teaching him and he even gave me a voluntary hug and kiss when he was done. YEA!

Today at martial arts class Mr. Perfect was informed that next week he would be promoted from yellow belt to green belt. Whahoo! He is really excited. He also got his hair cut today. He wanted to grow out his hair, but hated having to comb it every day. So, short it is. He looks great either way. Mr. Prince loves the United States. Today while we were doing all of our taxi driving from lessons and such he was listing all of the States in alphabetical order saying what each state was. "Florida- the sunshine state. Missouri-the show me state. etc. etc." I don't know them all and I definitely can't say all of the states in order but he can. Last week during conference this was one of his things. He is making a map of the US state by state. When he found he didn't have room for them all he drew an outline first. See next pic...He discovered it was much easier if he had the outline first and then drew the states in. Boy this kid is good! He loves to play this game with me where he draws half a state and I have to guess what it is. If I get it right he draws the rest, if I don't he gives me hints like..."This was the 12th state." or "This state is one of the eight smallest states. (WHO KNOWS THAT?) Mr. Prince knows it. He loves his United States. And finally my sweet Mr. Super. We dragged him along with us as we taxied kids here and there. This is a pic of him waiting in the van while some of the boys were still in their classes. Boy he is a cutie!

Can I play now please?

Tonight I was reading something on my computer. Mr Prince came and sat down next to me and I asked if he wanted to hear what I was reading. He acknowledged me and I read aloud to him for almost an hour. When I got to the end of my reading he looked at me and said, "Can I play now please?"
I chuckled as I realized he could have cared less what I was reading he just wanted me to finish so he could use my computer.
What patience! I wish I had that kind of patience. (He's not always that patient...trust me.)

Mr Prince Skypes

We have a family member that we Skype with pretty regularly. Mr Prince does NOT like it. The boys all get loud and crazy. Not Prince's thing. This morning he really got angry and came and shut my computer. I turned it back on and got our connection going again, but by then all of the boys were disenchanted and so it was just me who stayed to chat.
A little later Mr Prince came and apologized for closing my computer and explained that he doesn't like all the noise. Since I was still chatting he decided he would chat too. We had the video going but Prince liked typing. So he chatted and typed and had a great (and pretty long) conversation. For any of you who know Mr Prince, this is pretty amazing. I was very impressed that he insisted on writing full sentences. Only a couple of times did he write one or two words at a time. It was fun to watch and our family member loved it. YEA! Isn't it fun to actually watch a child progressing.

Goodnight Sweet Prince

Tonight I left the three younger boys at the Crimson's while I went to the Pinewood Derby with the older boys. When we went to pick them up afterward this is how I found Mr. Prince. Gosh! He is so adorable!

Fun in weird ice-snow-stuff

I wanted to give a little glimpse of some of the fun we had today in the stuff that fell from the sky last night. It wasn't snow, it wasn't rain, it wasn't sleet, it wasn't hail. Maybe it was slush. That sounds right about right. We didn't go out into it until it was slush anyway. We were all sopping wet by the time we came in. But it was fun. (And the boys did like getting an extra day off school for it.)
Here is Mr. Perfect trying to do a snow board type thing on the sled. Nice wipe-out. But he sure loved the adventure of doing it.

Mr. Right and Mr. Prince walking back up the hill. That's the hard part of sledding. But I didn't hear one word of complaint. YEA!

Mr. Perfect. One happy camper.

Mr Music even joined us outside. WITHOUT being asked to come . That's almost a miracle! Mr Right, on the other hand, was one of the first ones out and the last ones in.

Mr Right was also so helpful with all of the other boys. They all would ask him to push them, and he obliged them quite a bit. I was really glad to see how much he was willing to do. Mr. Prince is such a cutie.
Mr. Super kept telling me where to go. I wasn't ever in the right place. Mr. Right got the snowboarding thing down pretty well.

Mr Right keeps asking for a snowboard. After watchin him today I am starting to think it's probably a good idea. One of the neighbor boys came to play for a while. He just hopped on with a couple of the boys. Our neighborhood is full of boys. It's great!

And my sweet Mr D.A. is so adorable. Look at that face. Who could possibly resist it?