The Flag

Many of you know that we work with the cub scouts as our calling in church. Mark has really loved having the boys come over every week. Each Tuesday we have five nine-year-olds come over and Mark is always asking days in advance, "Scouts, come?" His favorite part of their time together is getting out the flag and saying the pledge. We bought a small flag for them to do this and Mark always wants to play with it, but I didn't feel like it was very respectful for him to drag that flag all over. So we finally got around to making one. With fabric markers we colored his flag- this consisted of a few scribbles by him as well as a lot of demands that Mom draw this or that. Then we glued it onto a stick. He didn't let go of the thing all day, it even went to the grocery store with us. He is so proud of his flag.

Easter Fun

We had Easter a day early at Grandma and Grandpa Parrish's home in Mesquite. Mark had a hard time getting the egg-hunt concept. We would ask him where the eggs were and he would reply, "I don't know." When we told him to go look in the grass he seemed even more confused. Eventually, after we found each egg and pointed to it, he started to get it.
His learning curve is much greater when it comes to food. It took him about two seconds to realize that the eggs in pretty wrappers tasted really good. He learned the word "chocolate" this weekend.

The big 2! We can't believe Mark is that old. He had an awesome birthday party with Grandparents Parrish, Grandparents Brey, Uncle Tyler and Aunt Randi (with her sidekick Mike). We had a BBQ (thanks to GreatGrandparents Parrish) and Mark's favorite thing was the ranch dip. He got an amazing amount of really cool presents and went a million miles a minute trying to play with everything.

Mark's 2 year pictures.

For family home evening we had a lesson on Nephi and Lehi "dwelling in a tent". We set up our tent downstairs and watched a movie. Mark had a blast with the whole project. The second picture is Mark "saying cheese"- looks painful!