Adam and Kristins Wedding

May 15th was Adam and Kristin's wedding in Escalante, UT. One of my most favorite places in the world. Beautiful, perfect weather and beautiful surroundings, make for the most beautiful wedding.

Waiting for the bride.
So happy.
Sunburned and pregnant me.

A few of the guests.
This is where Finn spent 95% of his time. This place is any boy's dream.

Trying to get a picture of all three of us looking at the camera. Did not happen.

Heading home. A crazy beautiful drive.

Digging in the Dirt

To feed Finn's obsession, we made him a digging dirt pit this weekend. We have a sandbox, but that just isn't enough. He needs a place he can really dig with big shovels and hand shovels.

Now we need to invest in a really good dump truck for him.

The Way You Make Me Feel

The conversation on the way to school

Finn: What song is this?
Mom: Michael Jackson (explaining more is way too complicated)
Finn: Huh?
Mom: Michael Jackson
Finn: Oh.
Mom: Do you like it?
Finn: Yup

Too bad he wasn't in the car when Prince's Raspberry Beret came on 10 minutes later. He would have loved that one.

Tractors

Finn is obsessed with tractors and digging. He would spend all day in the dirt if we would let him. Then when we are in the car, he is on the lookout for any dump trucks or tractors.

Saturday was the perfect yard day, so we were out and so were the neighbors. The temptation was just too much for Finn and Griffin with all the beautiful black dirt.

The Toy Drawer

Sunday we went over to Mark, Teri and Chaces house for a little "family dinner" BBQ and to play at the park.

Finn loves Mark and Teri's house, and I think one of the main reasons (besides Mark) is the drawer full of toys. It has been there for years, even before the thought of having kids entered the Gibson's minds.

And it's always full of surprises....

Our Little Helper

Finn is obsessed with shovels, tractors, dirt and anything digging.

I got an early birthday present about a week ago and we needed to plant it. The minute Ben stepped away from the hole, Finn jumped in and took full advantage to help.

Finn Speaks Spanish

Yes, Finn can speak Spanish. He can say Daybreak, in Spanish, and a few other things. I'm not sure where he learned this, I'm thinking from watching too much of The Good Night Show

Every night when you drive by the Daybreak entrance. He says, "It says Daybreak, in Spanish." Funniest thing ever.

He was talking about his cousin Cohen the other day, and he said, "it's Cohen, in Spanish."

Yes, I know my son is a genius.

More L.A.

Saturday in L.A. we did a little shopping in the morning. I had to hit up H&M and buy Finn and Dickerson-Baby-No-Name some new clothes. There was a small farmers market at the mall and we bought lots of bread and fruit.

After the kids took some naps, we went to a park close by. They have all these old trains that the kids can just run around and play on. Every kids dream. We even got to go on a little mini train ride.

Disneyland

Over the weekend Finn, my mom and I headed to California to visit my sister for a few days.

Finn had been to Disneyland about a year ago, and he liked it, but he wasn't really into all the Disney movies like he is now. HE LOVED IT!

Here are some of my pictures, and a few little stories.


The carousel was the 2nd ride we went on. I'm not sure if Finn had really figured out that there was so much to do yet. We got off and he had the saddest look on his face. He couldn't control his sadness and put his little hands over his face and started crying. While Christina and I went to get the strollers, my mom took Yara and Finn on it one more time.

While my mom took Yara on Splash Mountain, Christina and I took the young kids on the Winnie the Pooh ride. We still finished a little earlier so we were standing around waiting. I looked away for a split second and when I looked down again, Finn had climbed under the rails and cut in front of everyone in line to see Winnie the Pooh. Just waiting patiently.

I picked him up and explained we weren't going to do that right now and he had the most devastated look on his face. The people standing around all said "aww". So we got in line. I'm glad we did, I seriously thought he would get scared and not go up. But he ran up, gave him a kiss (without even being told too).
Next up was Tigger Finn just held on to his leg and wouldn't let go. So happy.
Cute Finn and Ava waiting in line.
Ava trying to go in for the kiss, but got rejected.
Most of the rides, Finn just looked around amazed at everything going on. The Buzz Lightyear ride was the first one where he started laughing a little evil laugh, once he realized what was going on. He loved shooting all the bad guys. We had to buy him the laser gun.
Finn was a little nervous to walk up to Lightning McQueen and Mater. I think he was star struck. But I finally got a good shot and he didn't want to leave. The little boy in front of us, ran back to Lightning and was just holding on to him, while his parents tried to make him leave. So cute.
I didn't realize how much Finn would love this parade. Next time we'll have to wait around and get good seats. He had a hard time seeing everything, but loved what he could see.
It was such a fun day. Finn and the girls lasted so long. I think we were there for about 8 hours. Finn stayed in his stroller sometimes, but other times he was just so excited he had to run around. He was so tired though, we'd be walking around and he'd just drop to his knees in the middle of the sidewalk just to take a little break.

45 seconds in the car and Finn was out. But of course he was not letting go of his gun.

"There is a whale coming!"

Over the past month or two, Finn has been having some crazy dreams. The problem is, he wakes up crying and doesn't understand that it's just a dream and not reality.

This is great, for Ben and I. We love waking up several times in the middle of the night.

The main re-occuring dream:
"There is a whale coming down from the wall."
This one happens every week or so. Obviously it's a scary whale, and this dream has been going on long before the whole SeaWorld incident. I don't even know where he got this. We haven't really watched anything with a whale in it. In hopes to help him, he now sleeps with Shamu, who is supposed to protect him from the other whales, but it hasn't really helped. We tell him the whale is nice, but he quickly corrects us on that.

Funniest dream:
Finn waking up screaming in the middle of the night because Beckham hit him. Beckham is his older cousin, who has never hit Finn (at least that we know of....).

Random toy dream:
Waking up in the middle of the night crying, "MY MATER!!!" (Mater is the tow truck from Cars, he has 2 toy Maters)
I asked later the next day what exactly happened to Mater, but Finn didn't remember.

Another Dickerson Boy

We had our ultrasound this morning. Everything looked perfect. Brain, heart, 2 arms, 2 legs.

The ultrasound tech was having a very hard time seeing if it was a boy or a girl. The baby was sitting in a butterfly position with both heels pulled up to the bum. I almost starting crying when she basically told us she wasn't going to be able to tell. She kept looking for another 5 or 10 minutes, almost giving up.

I asked the important question, "will insurance pay for another ultrasound?" The tech answered no, and that was the magic word for our little boy to show his parts.

Introducing our new healthy baby, Dickerson Boy #2. Isn't he cute??
Well, not really, but at least you can tell there is something in there.