Team Ostler: Tide Pools

For family home evening this week we decided to do something a little different. I was feeling a little bit claustrophobic because of the city so I told Jim that I just wanted to get away from people and congestion. So we decided to take a drive up to Malibu to a secluded little beach and let the kids explore the tide pools. It was such a breathtakingly beautiful place. We had such a good time and it was great therapy for me to get away from the hustle and bustle and just relax a little. We saw some amazing things - shells, sand crabs, star fish, anemone, coral, rocks, caves, tunnels, crabs, and so much more. We also saw some things that were not so amazing like a gay couple making out on the beach. Luckily the kids were oblivious to it. I could have done without that on our little outing but we had fun regardless. It is definitely a place that we will visit a lot in the future. The ocean never ceases to amaze me :)

Funny Things Kids Say

We were at church and during the sacrament I was talking to Luke about Jesus. I told him that Jesus bled and died for us. Luke looked at me with a very concerned look and said, "Did Heavenly Father give Jesus a band-aid when he was bleeding?"

We were about to walk out the door so I told Luke to go potty. He came out of the bathroom saying, "I can't go! The batteries in my pee pee are dead!"

After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).

Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"

We have a saying in our house. It's "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" But Ben has his own version of this. He says "you get what you WANT and you don't throw a fit!"

Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.

Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"

We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."

I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)

Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"

I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"

Jimmy and I are listening to "Give Said the Little Stream" and Jimmy says "How does it talk?" I said "How does what talk?" He said, "The stream, it doesn't have a mouth, how can it talk?"

Team Ostler

10.21.2009

Tide Pools

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