Poop and Barbie

Last Wednesday night I just finished feeding Bubba a bottle and(2:45am) and I noticed Sport's breathing was not right.  He has had a cold but even when I would shake him to try and get him to clear the congestion in his chest he wouldn't.  I kept watching and watching and feeling very alone and slightly panicked (because really at 3:00am when your husband isn't home who are you going to call?) I woke Sport up and put him in a warm bath.  I was waiting for the bathroom to get a little steamy when I noticed (due to lack of a large colon) there were poops in his water.  I pulled him out and convinced him to get in the shower.  He wouldn't get in unless I did as well.  There we were at 3:30 in the morning tracing letters on the steamy shower walls to clear his congestion.  I dried off and just as I went to get him out I noticed there were poops all over the shower floor.  I got him in bed and asleep, scraped clean the shower floor and fell into bed myself.  6:30 am Sport was awake and wanted to get in the tub again.  I was running to get ready for work and let him stay in the tub a little longer than usual and noticed that there were more poops in the tub than usual..... but this time I was rinsing them out of Barbie's hair.  Poor Barbie

Laughing out Loud / LOL

These pictures have lots of shadows and are kind of fuzzy but Bubba started Laughing out Loud about a month ago and it's the cutest thing ever!!!

The 'mostly finished' nursery

 I still need to finish the shelves but I'm 90% there.

9-12-2010 Blessing Day

 "Every Party has a Pooper and that's why we invited you"  Seriously my cat-napper baby decided to sleep through his entire party.  I had all these visions of getting pictures with him with family friends and relatives.  NOpe not a one.  But the tables turned out really cute (thanks mom) the food was great, and Indy gave him a beautiful blessing.

More blessing pics

If you look at these first two pics have you seriously ever seen that many weapons at a Sunday gathering.  Obviously the boys found the toy weapons stash we keep in the basement and believe me every kid was armed.

Jades was not about to be left out of the weapons action

Princess and the BFF

8-28-2010 Park City

5 minutes

I LOVE getting packages in the mail.  Last Friday and then this past Monday was like Christmas.  I FINALLY printed my blog.  I looked at a couple of web-sites, got over-whelmed and put the project on the shelf.  I decided I am in 'just get it done' mode so I went to the easiest web-site (bog2print) uploaded 2008 and 2009 and didn't change a thing.  It literally took me a total of 5 minutes. (counting upload time and $ to check-out).  Meanwhile I spied on my cousins blog her beautiful work from Blurb.  I haven't even seen these books in person but I could tell by the picture of the books on her blog they are spectacular.  I became jealous.  I chastised myself for not putting more work into it.  Based on her own explanation it took her about 24 + hours to complete.  Reality Check!! I would love to have those same hours and could probably do a spectacular job, BUT I don't have that in my life right now.  I do have 5 minutes and I'm pretty dang happy how my 5 minutes turned out.

Monkey see Monkey do!

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Good Day Scramble, First Love & the Best of Both Worlds

In my effort to blog about it vs. boob about it. "It" meaning how fast my kids are growing up....I am going to occasionally insert some hopefully short recaps of the day.  When you ask Sport how school was, you get either, "good day" or "bad day" with his saddest face and then he starts laughing.  If Sport is being a pill you can also tell him it's a 'grumpy day' and  'no smiles' and he will start laughing as well. (Cass you know where we got this). So these are my_____day posts, depending on the day it's been.  Some days I will just have to label as an all-in-one because it's been good, bad, grumpy or possibly even ugly.
At midnight last night I got a call that my nanny was sick.  At midnight it's hard to call people and put together a back-up plan.  I knew in the morning I would have to scramble to pull something together.  After a couple of hopeless phone calls, my neighbor came to my rescue. THANK HEAVENS!!

Now the part about first love.  Sport has found his first love. Hannah Montana or as he calls her 'hanna tana'.  If I have my ipod in the car he will yell, from the back "MY TURN" "Hanna Tana"  and he keeps yelling if I happen to turn her off to answer the phone.  I think I've memorized all the words to "Best of Both Worlds"  Today Sport was singing from the back of the burb and I was singing along; on the way to soccer practice I thought in a small (very small) way I can identify with this song.  I feel like I live in two worlds being the working professional and the at home mom.  I have struggled with this since having Master.  I will save all the details for a later post but long story short it's just where I am right now.  About every 6-8 months I have this emotional breakdown, Satan sits on my shoulder and tells me that I am not a good mom or that I would be a better mom if I were home full time and I'm not that great of a worker, and my company would be better off with someone that could dedicate more time to 'the job'.  After I feel like I'm failing at everything in my life, I cry, get some sleep and usually feel better in the morning.  SO TODAY I decided to have an attitude adjustment instead of poor me, it's lucky me.  I get the to do the best of both worlds.  I'm not saying the situation is  perfect and I am  far from having my "stuff" together, but there are some good things that happen everyday in my life from one if not 'both worlds'.  I love the people in the offices I get to work with. I love knowing what's going on at the dental office but also what's happening in their own personal world.  I worked to get home right at 3:30 which meant I got to pick Princess up from pre-school and have her show me her awesome finger paintings.  I made it in time to get Sport off the bus.  Bubba met me with a smile that brings pure joy to my heart.  I chatted with my neighbor about Faith while we enjoyed the beautiful evening.  Master and I read together.  Bubba went to sleep without any fuss and then I snuggled the other three all together and told funny stories about when they were babies and finished we with gratefuls.  For the record, Princess is grateful for Wal-Mart and me.  But Wal-mart came first. (trying to not take it personally).  And just in case you get the wrong idea...my house looks like a small bomb went off, I need to re-wash the load of whites currently in the washer because they have been there for two days and I had to call my cell phone 3 times today to figure out where I last set it down.  Three times, that's got to be some kind of record. I didn't exercise and I ate a completely divine desert that my other neighbor brought over which is completely prohibited on my current diet....oh well over-all it was a good day.

He is such a BOY!

Look at his little hand. Without fail when I snuggle him his hand goes there and holds on!
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Life at 72 degrees

I heard this quote a few weeks ago...something like this from Elder Ballard, "you'll be much happier when you realize life is not always experienced at 72 degrees.  Given my track record I know I can be a dramatic / emotional person.  My hope is that with age and maturity some of the drama and emotions would stabilize.  For a regular ordinary day I was amazed at my range of emotions today. Slept through alarm - disappointed in self..not a great way to start Monday, but I did get everyone out the door on time. And so it continued ALL day long like a little mini roller coaster.  No wonder I'm tired.  I do need to note that my soccer mom performance tonight was vastly improved over two weeks ago...I arrived with a fully stocked diaper bag.  woot woot!

Winning is Fun!

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Baby, Bubba, Bubbers...

Baby, Bubba, Bubbers...whatever we sure love him!

talking to Nana

The never ending story....

It seems like cabin projects are a never ending story....

2010 has included a new coat of stain, cement work, a paved driveway (yay) and a new back porch

The work part of the weekend..