The Bredensteiners: Underwater Adventure

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Underwater Adventure

My little Octopi

On Wednesday we were supposed to be going to Jetty Island with playgroup but due to crappy Seattle weather the island was shut down for the day. However, since I had woken up at the ridiculously early hour of 7AM (I know I'm not a morning person) I decided that we were going to go somewhere fun. We ended up going to the Seattle Aquarium because...well because I said so and I like fish! When we (the Ellis' joined us) got there the place was PACKED! I guess my idea of some indoor fun wasn't that unique after all. Can't understand why Seattlites don't just go play in the rain.

The boys watching the diver presentation.

Anyways, there was a new cool exhibit there with a humogous tank where a diver does a little performance which was pretty neat. It definately made me miss diving (I haven't been since I started having babies). Then we moved on past the wave pool with all the cool intertidal organisms to the touch tanks. Ephraim thought that it was pretty cool but Clay wasn't so excited about putting his hand on an anemone (in Nemo it very clearly states that anemone's will sting you). Oh well...we'll keep working on him.

Eph thought the touch tank was really neat.

I can't wait until my boys are old enough to scuba dive!

I don't think Ephraim really understood that this was supposed to be a fin of an orca but he enjoyed climbing on it all the same.

Clay showing me his ("20") teeth like the orca skull.

The boys got a kick out of the seals.

Feeling coral skeletons.

All the tanks were really cool. My boys really liked the harbor seals because they could climb up on a high fence to see them and they swam around in circles "super fast". We ended up having so much fun that we elected (poor) Andrea to go out in the pouring rain to get another pass for our cars so that we could stay for another couple of hours. All together it was a pretty fun day (minus the nervous breakdown Clay had walking through the stupid store on the way out and the motorcycle accident we witnessed as we were leaving).

Checking out the harbor seals. Eph is always talking about animals with a growl and a silly face (pictured here)...its so funny!

Eph and I in front of a beautiful otter painting.

Andrea showing Ty the otters.

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Funny Things my Kids Say

Eph: When we both grow up and live next to eachother maybe when your mother (wife) leaves and my mother (wife) leaves I can sneak up and go to your house and we can play. Clay: Adults don't play and it's not your mom it's your wife.
Mom: Ouch, my foot is really hurting! Kai: You're still alive Momma.
Kai and I were going back and forth with the,"I love you to the moon, I love you to the sun, etc." I said, "I love you to Venus" and Kai responded, "I love you to the penis"...LOL!
Clay: Ephraim, why do you always copy me? Ephraim: Because I love ya.
Kai was playing with his train the other day and I overheard him saying, "You can do it Thomas" and of course I was thinking Thomas the kid's engine, and then I heard him say, " You can do it, Thomas Monson"...LOL!
Kai always sleeps in my bed. One day I asked him why he didn't like his bed and he said,"It's too fluffy."
Whenever asked any question from "What is your name?" to "What do you want to do today?", Kai always responds with "Quesadilla".
Kai spent a couple months calling everyone "boob-butt" (boob was taken from the recent Horton Hears a Who movie).
When Kai wants to be picked up he says, "Grab me".
All my boys sing the song Paradise City by Guns N' Roses...embarassing.
When you ask Kai his name he says "Coc-head"- he means coconut head.
In between Conference sessions they played the movie "The Other side of Heaven" and during the scene where the rats are chewing on his feet Kai yells, "Wake up Dude!"
Ephraim says' That's ridiculous!"
When I ask Kai anything he shakes his head violently and says, "No-no!"
Clay told me that he was making funny faces in his class and that the girls were laughing. I asked him if the boys laughed too; he said, "no, they got mad". He told me he likes girls better then boys because they're "pretty". Oh boy!
Clay had some food stuck in his throat and I told him to drink some water to wash it down. He said, "I think I need to use a screw to get it out"- OUCH!
I told Clay that if he ate all his veggies he would be big and strong like his daddy. He said, " Well, that's not strong enough".
Clay turned to me after a meal and said, "Thanks for making dinner Mom". Then he turned to Jon and said, "Thanks, Dad". Jon responded a bit surprised, "What for, I didn't do anything?" Clay replied, "For working". WOW!
Josh came over and was checking out our pear tree in the front yard and Clay put his face up real close to him and said, "Jesus made the pears, Uncle Josh." Josh said he felt like he was in church! HA HA
Clay was being a stinker and I told him to "please be more obedient Clayton Ryan" and he responded, "I'm not Clayton I'm Nephi" and my mom told him that Nephi would be obedient to his parents. So, after some thought he replied, "Oh, I'm not Nephi".
When they don't like a food the boys say its too "spicy".
When something is too hard for the boys to do they say its too "heavy".
My boys both say, "I don't want that ever ever again, so there!"
Clay informed me the other day that he also liked Momma's milk (like baby Kai). I told him that he drank cow's milk like Mommy and Daddy and after a moments thought he said "No, I just drink seahorse milk!"