The temple and one of Those days

The Gila Valley Temple (in Arizona, where we're from) got its Angel Moroni statue today! That's just crazy, because when we were there in July, they were just working on the foundation... Anyway, it's cool. And we don't know WHEN we'll get to see it, but here's a nice picture from some nice person who happened to be there:

Today has been less than thrilling. Maybe because it started at 2:30 am when Reilly couldn't sleep very well all of a sudden. He got up 3-4 times between then and 4:30, (to "go potty!" ha.) and then Jeremy took over from 4:30 to 6:30, when Reilly got up for the day. I'm not sure what he did in that time period, except I know he played some (while Jeremy laid on his floor) and they both slept some. Anyway, the kids and I have been cranky and whiny all day, and they both got naps and I didn't. He fell asleep in the car around noon and slept (in his bed) for 2 hours. And now it's 8:45 and he's not sleepy and keeps coming out. I seriously can't wait until he is a teenager and I have to try to get HIM out of bed. Payback, I swear.

In other news, he said some funny things in the last couple of days. He got hurt the other day and I was holding him and loving him and he turned his little tear-stained face around, held up his fist and said "fist pound?" (He likes to high five, fist pound, and touch fingers for some reason - but I didn't know such things could be comforting...) Yesterday when we were going to pick up Jeremy, Reilly had all sorts of opinions about which way I should be turning the cars and which roads I should be taking. (not uncommon) He said he didn't want to pick up daddy, so I asked him "where did you think we should go, then?" "Um, we need to go to the temple. Can we go to the temple?" And the gem from this evening was "I don't like pasta. It's too dangerous." (he most definitely does like pasta...)

Here are recent pics:

Jaina, looking so BIG!

The kids "playing croquet"

At the zoo Friday: