You've Got a Friend in Me

Every since Maddie was born Zack has loved her. He loves to kiss her and hug her and play with her. When Maddie was a tiny baby and would cry in the car, he would hold her hand. Now when she cries in the car he says, "It's okay honey, we're almost home." The other day Maddie and I were upstairs in Zack's room. Zack and Daddy were down in the basement. I turned the vacuum on. Maddie, who's afraid of everything, starting screaming. From the basement came Zack's loud voice, "Hold on Maddie, I"m coming!" Then he ran up the stairs to be with his sister in her time of need.

"Prepare to Die"

We all know that Zack has been obsessed with spatulas since he was very small. He even got three for Christmas. He used to carry them around and use them to flip toys, books, pancakes, and to stir raw eggs. Well now his spatulas have turned into swords thanks to the movie "Princess Bride" (Which sounds just like "Simbas Pride" when Zack says it). Zack fell in love with the sword fighting scene in this movie and now wants to fight with everyone. The funny part is that he is very serious about his moves and practices how his feet move and everything. While driving to Denver he learned to skip back and watched the sword fighting scene about 10 times before we took the DVD player away (As I type this, he is begging me to sword fight outside). Zack was thrilled to discover a perfect place to "fight" at the Capitol Reef National Park campground. It was a stage surrounded by a rock wall. To his three year old eyes, it looked just like the movie set. He would beg us to go down to it and fight with him. Often he would take his sword fighting stance and proclaim in a sinister voice, "Prepare to die!"

New type of "time out"

We have found a new place for Zack's time out... the carnival. We took Zack to American Fork Steel Days to ride the carnival rides thinking that he would have a good time. As you can see in the video he didn't like it at all. After the first ride we were wondering what we were going to do with all the tickets that we bought because Zack was not going on any more rides. We got him to go in the carousel with Chelsea and Madelynn and then he was OK. After the carousel he was brave enough to ride on the trucks by himself. So now if we tell Zack to do something and he doesn't we threaten to take him to the carnival.

Yesterday the Maddux family went on a hike to Doughnut Falls. At the trail head Zack got to chase the ground squirrels around but he never caught one. Zack was a great hiker and hiked most of the two mile round trip. When we got to the falls all he wanted to do was splash in the water. Maddy was the lucky one and got to ride in the backpack the whole way.

Summer Camping

We took the kids camping a few weeks ago. Zack loved to be outside all the time where he could play in the dirt and ride his bike. The mosquitoes loved him and by the end of our first day he was scratching his head like crazy.


Here are some pictures of Zack camping from two years ago.


And of course some pictures of Maddy too.

Pooh or Poo?

"Chelsea," Chrissom yelled.
"What?" I responded in a really annoyed voice. I was trying to get some laundry in the dryer and I could hear that Chrissom had Zack in the bathroom. The last thing I wanted to do was clean up some poo.
"Zack has some pooh in his underwear, you better come and see," he said coming to get me. I could see that he was trying hard to not laugh. Then I made the connection. Zack has a little Pooh bear that I had just washed and he pulled out of the dryer. He'd put it down his pants and ran to Chrissom holding it in his crotch kind of dancing around and saying, "Pooh, pooh," Chrissom saw Zack dancing and thought he was saying "poo, poo." He rushed him into the bathroom, pulled down his pants and plopped him on the toilet still not making the connection. Zack said, "Pooh in my pants," and pointed to the the Pooh bear only then did Chrissom get that the joke was on him. Chrissom and I laughed really hard about this. We know that Zack is fun loving and likes to tease, but this is a whole new level to his sense of humor.

Farewell to Elmo Underwear

We'd like to pay our respects the the Elmo underwear who are resting peacefully in the sanitary napkin disposal box in the handicap stall of the Lady's restroom in the American Fork Costco. They met their end when involved in a terrible accident between Zack and some really stinky, slimy, yucky poo. We will miss the Elmo underwear and wish to pay respects to the dangerous job they had. They did a valiant job of covering Zack's unmentionables and taking the brunt of his "accidents." Farewell Elmo underwear we hope that you are happy in your new home.