Glasses for Greg

For my 33rd birthday I had to get reading glasses. Talk about a crummy present. I just picked them up yesterday. The prescription is very mild but it does help with reading quite a bit. Pretty soon I am going to have to start wearing my pants really high.

New DeVore photos

There are some new DeVore photos from the last 6 months here. Hope you enjoy.

Jacob shows his lack of teeth

Here is a video of Jacob showing off his lack of teeth. His face is looking much better. All the scabs are gone.

Brigham Video

Here is a video of Brigham doing some entertaining.

Brigham Video.

Disneyland and Spiderman

Yesterday we took the day off and went to Disneyland. What a perfect day. Temperature was about 75 degrees and there was no one in the park. The kids got to do pretty much everything they wanted to and we were only there from 2 to 8.

Brigham and Jacob were very excited to see Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. Elastigirl could see that Jacob was a little banged up so she spent some extra time with him.

Jacob went on Space Mountain for this first time. This was my first time since they have redone it. I thought it was incredible - definitely one of the best rides I have ever been on. Jacob wasn't so sure. He is more of a Thunder Mountain Railroad fan.

Brigham and Luc went on Matterhorn for the first time. We weren't sure what they would think but they both seemed to like it.

We followed up the day with some Double Chocolate Bread Pudding from Ray Brennan's Jazz Kitchen in Downtown Disney. That has to be the best desert I have ever had.

Brigham has recently found a Spiderman outfit. It is much too big for him but he wears it all over the place.

He stayed Sunday night at my parents' place. The next morning he had two large suitcases. He grabbed one and made my mom get the other, took her to the front door and said, "Airport!" It looks like he is ready for another trip.

Jacob wants his two front teeth

Jacob lost his two front teeth. Holly said that he did really well at the dentist. He has scabs all over his face and his lip is still pretty swollen but he seems to be doing all right.

Jacob get's a nose job

Jacob took a spill today. He was going out to the car in his walker. I was putting Brigham into the car and Jacob "coasted" in his walker out into the street. A van was coming so firmly instructed him (yelled) at him to get back on the sidewalk. He turned around and his wheels caught on the edge of the driveway. We want face down without even a hand out to break his fall.

His front two teeth look like they might have to come out. We are going to the dentist tomorrow. His nose is swollen and may be a little crooked.

It happened about 4.5 hours ago and he seems to be feeling better. He looks like a platypus but he is already up watching DVDs and turning the volume up too loud on the TV.

Brigham giveth and he taketh away

Brigham is a very complex child. There is a little devil and a little angel constantly at war inside of him. The real problem is that you never know at any moment who is going to win.

Tonight was a perfect example. Brigham discovered dome lollipops. He got two of them and gave one to Jacob all on his own. The angel had one.

Well Brigham finished his lollipop a little faster than Jacob (Brigham is a chomper will Jacob is sucker). So, Brigham came over and took Jacob's lollipop. I said, "Brigham! Give that back to Jacob." So he gave Jacob the stick to the lollipop Brigham had just finished and took off with Jacob's lollipop. The devil had regained control.

Yesterday was another funny experience. I took Jacob and Brigham to Jacob's swim lessons. Brigham was very distressed that he couldn't get in the pool. He was walking along the side of the pool until he saw that there was a hot tub. The hot tub was level with the ground and had one of those blue plastic pool covers on it. He went walking for it and I realized that he thought he was going to be able to walk right on the pool cover. I grabbed him just as he was about to step on it.

I had him press down with his hand to show him that the cover was soft and that water would come through if you pressed on it. He thought that was pretty funny so he did it for awhile. I thought that he had figured out that this was not solid ground. I was wrong. Several minutes later he tried to walk on the pool cover again and went right in. This time I didn't catch him until half his body was submerged.

Labor Day 2005

We had a pretty good Labor Day. This morning we went to our ward's breakfast. Jacob played with waterballoons and got to hit a ball off of a tee. The bases were all little kiddy pools. He had a good time jumping into first base.

Brigham loved the water balloons. He went through about 5 of them and was always a little disappointed when they popped.

We then spent the afternoon swimming with Grandpa DeVore and Uncle Nathan. Granny Dot kept the kids well fed.

Tonight Granny Dot came to pick-up Brigham so that he could sleep at here house. She took both boys to get some french fries. Right when she drove up to the house Brigham vomited everywhere. It was quite the mess to clean up. After a bath he wasn't so sure he wanted to make another trip. He grabbed his doggie and climbed into bed. But before Granny Dot could leave he changed his mind. He hopped out of bed, grabbed his suitcase and went marching out to the car. His "suitcase" is a Spiderman backpack with wheels. He loves it and looks so serious when he is dragging it behind him. Whenever he bumps into anything he says "Sorry, sorry."