Weekly ramblings- Moab & Luke’s interests

Jared and his brother, Greg, had quite an eventful weekend.

Jared went with his brothers and friends for their annual Moab mountain biking/jeeping adventure.

Jared looks forward to it every year.

They left last Thursday night and spent Friday morning jeeping and rappelling.

Friday afternoon I got a call from Jared that they were in the ER.

Jared and Greg had set out on their mountain bikes for a long ride when Greg flipped over the handle bars breaking his collar bone and several bones in his face.

It wasn’t a very fun phone call to get.

However, I have quickly realized that being married to an adventurous outdoorsman, with several brothers who are same way, phone calls like this come every so often (remind me to tell you about the phone call I received when Jared was in China getting stitches).

The hospital in Moab told Greg he needed to go up to St. Marks hospital in Salt Lake for surgery on his face.

Jared packed up camp and drove Greg home late Friday night where Greg’s wife, Heather, took him the rest of the way up.

He is doing well and recovering.

He had surgery on his face over the weekend and surgery on his collar bone today.

It will be a long recovery, but hopefully a full one.

I told Jared that accidents like this don’t help his case when he is telling me about the next adventure he wants to go on.

{Greg’s last bit of fun before the accident}

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Luke has been LOVING the movie, Peter Pan.

When I let him watch a show this is all he wants to watch.

He talks about it all the time including telling me that “Hook is a codfish” and singing the song, “we’re following the leader, the leader, the leader…”

Tonight he tried to fly like Peter Pan off the chair onto the couch and banged his shins pretty good in the process.

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We are currently renting a house near the end of a cul-de-sac.

I love being in a cul-de-sac and would love it if we ended up in one long term.

There is the cutest neighbor boy that is probably around 5 years old.

He is always outside playing and Luke joins him whenever we are outside.

The other day there was a knock at the door.

I answered it to see William, the neighbor boy.

He asked if Luke could come out and play.

I was kind of taken back that we are already to this point in Luke’s life.

I didn’t think this would be happening for a couple more years.

Luke was so excited to go out and play with him so I let him go giving him specific instructions about where he needed to be.

I was in paranoid city the whole time.

I watched out every window making sure he was okay.

Luke loves having a playmate and calls him  “my boy”.

He asks everyday if he can go out back to play with William in his tree house.

It was so hard to let him go, realizing that we have moved on to the stage of starting to be influenced by friends and not just by me and Jared.

It was a hard pill to swallow.

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I have been working on teaching Luke his ABC’s.

He knows the song, so now we are focusing on letter recognition and the sounds.

It is a slow process since he really only likes the letters A, B, & C.

He is also obsessed with the number 100 and ends every counting sequence with it.

We are also focusing on getting him to put his own shoes and underwear on (which always end up backwards if he does put them on).

He can be pretty lazy when it comes to this.

He always tells me his arms are breaking and he can’t do it.

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I have had a post in my draft folder for over 6 months now.

It is always hanging over my head.

I don’t know if I should finish it or just delete it.

It is a post about a mothering realization moment I had last year.

I didn’t finish the post because for a few months I was having bad mothering moments and thought I shouldn’t be writing about my mothering techniques until I get back on track.

Now that it has been over 6 months I realize mothering is always going to be up and down and that I should just finish the post with all  my jumbled thoughts or just forget about it and delete.

I guess we will see if I ever hit publish.

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This morning I had the energy to deep clean and organize my house.

When this feeling hits, I jump on it because it doesn’t come often.

Why oh why do I always forget how impossible it is to clean and organize with a toddler in the house?

It just about sent me to the loony bin this morning.

If you have a toddler, you know exactly what I am talking about.

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Have any of you ever watched the show, My Crazy Obsession, on TLC?

What the what???

Pure craziness.

Happy Thursday everyone!