Matthew, Samantha, and Aaron Wurts: May 2014

Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day 2014

Rose Hills Rose Garden

Rose Hills Memorial Park

We attended this Memorial Service at 11:00 a.m.

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American Heritage Ensemble during Prelude

Samantha with the American flag

Aaron found my nail kit in my purse and taught himself to clip his nails! :)

Condor Squad flyby with WWII vintage aircraft (they flew by at least 4 time-awesome!)

We also saw a 21 Gun Salute (the boys loved it- after covering their ears and jumping back when they first started)

Hilda Solis, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor giving Keynote Address

Veteran playing Taps on his trumpet (far rigjt next to flag post)

Samantha and Aaron using the end of the small flag post to clean each other's ears (Aaron already cleaned out Matt's ears)!

Me, in the shade with a little ray of sunshine breaking through on me (no makeup, but again, if I don't take a selfie...)

Raising our flag in unison!

Matt finally let me take a picture of him!

White Dove release!

Leaving the Memorial Onservance seats and heading to the car (Matt's finding the shade).

American flag lined walkway.

We went to my daddy's/Granddaddy Wills' gravesite.

and our uncle Arthur's gravesite

Kids at Granddaddy's gravesite

Friday, May 23, 2014

Toothless Sammie

Lost two teeth a few days apart! Yay!

(pictures taken while she was eating corn, and after she ate a carrot-hence the orange mouth)

Corn tooth (like "Gobber" from "How to train your dragon")

(and wearing my mascara and lipstick)

Last weekend, for the first time, I got Aaron to join Matt and I doing 6 (typical) loads of laundry at the laundromat. He has helped before but this time I set the expectation for him to put in a 5 year old boy's effort.

The second we arrived, rather than helping, he ran straight into the laundromat, and then to the 2 arcade machines. By the time Matt and I got there with two rolling bins full of clothes, he had educated the 4-5 people there about zombies (one of the machines is "Pacman" and the other just happened to be "Attack of the Zombies") and that "they will eat your brains, but mommy says they are not real... but they suck your brains out and eat them...." Whenever another person tried to say something, he insisted that "no, they'll eat your brains- they eat brains!" He also made a friend his age, who thoroughly agreed, and they bonded over this zombie game. They both looked at the game silently, and in awe (Lol!).

So, Matt and I loaded the washing machines, and no matter what I did or said, I could not pull Aaron away from the zombie machine. He did put two clothing articles in a washer once, but immediately rushed back to the zombie machine and stayed there. Because of time, I let him go.

20 minutes later however, he was sitting on the bench by the zombie machine, alone, looking bored even though he was still watching them (gory game, where the player shoots the zombie at least 3 times and blood splatters all over the place). All by himself, he got up, helped Matt and I unload the washers (fluffing each item that he pulled out of the washer), and helped Matt and I load the dryers, and later helped unload them and lay them flat so I could fold them.

Wow!

He did a great job and followed my directions, after all.