Well.....

I'm writing today because alex did something amazing! I hope that this was not supposed to happen months ago and everyone will think that he is way "behind schedule" but today he said a prayer. Not literally, I put out on his little table his tater tots (pathetically all that I made for dinner), and said, "Okay time to say the prayer" and without being prompted, even before I folded my arms he folded his arms and bowed his head and didn't say anything. I said the prayer and even though his food was in arms length, and he usually sneaks bits during the prayer even if he is quiet, this time he stood still and kept his arms folded! At the end of the prayer he did his customary "aaaaaa" and then clapped. Alex and I were lavish with our praise and both so proud we clapped until even alex had enough (usually we stop before he does). He also kicked me out of the kitchen so that he could go poop in his little toilet by him self. We don't usually keep his toilet in the kitchen, but everyday after his bath he runs off naked and tries to poop in the corner of the kitchen so we thought we would try the toilet in there after bath time and it worked.

Okay....the mommy stories are over. I don't know when I'm going to be able to blog again. I love reading all of your blogs (even if they give me nightmares of being eaten by a cow), thank you for everything that you put up. Mom and Goose, thank you for coming to watch alex so we could go on our trip, we miss you so much. I'm hoping that Alex will write about our trip so that I don't have to but if he doesn't in the next couple of days I will- you should watch for it because Alex was able to knock over a toilet with his bare behind. Keary and Diana, the flowers are beautiful and they make our house look so nice, I love to look at them- thank you so much. Cathy, the album is such a wonderful idea. I'm working on it but I'm sorry to say that our page is going to look pretty much exactly like yours with different pictures, thank you for taking the time to do that. I miss you all, stay safe and enjoy conference!

Also, our camera is out of service for a while so you won't be able to see any cute pictures of alex sorry. Mom if you could email me those that you took that would be great. Thanks.

Bulimia and vacation

Before I tell you about my vacation I want to tell you a story about what alex did that is freaking me out. I'm afraid that he is going to become bulimic because of me. Yesterday I was trowing up in the toilet and alex came to check on me. He was in the middle of lunch and had brought some snacks in with him. After watching me for a couple of minuets he went out got some more food and came back in; he would take a bit and then spit it in the toilet. At the time it upset me so much that I was crying but since then everyone that I have told has thought that it was funny and said that I was crazy for thinking that it would make him bulimic, so I hope that they are right!

We went on vacation and even though we missed our Daddy a TON, we were glad that we had the chance to go.

I brought my camera on the vacation so I could take pictures of everybody but every time that I needed it I couldn't find it :( It was really sad, but there is nothing that I can do about it now I guess except beg Ciria to send us more picture of her girls since we weren't able to get any. I went to Utah for two days and they coincide with Aunt Shawn's and Zoe's birthdays so that was really fun. My aunt had no idea that we were going to be there for her surprise party. I think that my favorite thing that happened while we were there was when Zoe came up and said (while doing a cute little pose with a hip sticking out to one side and her arms held just so), "Is my princess hat straight?" We miss you guys so much!


This is alex's cousin.

This is Michael and alex in matching shirts. Kelsey has moved out and is living in her own house (I'm so jealous) so Michael came to spend the night one night and they had so much fun. They sat down stairs and played with their trucks and cars for hours and when we finally pulled them apart to go to bed they were both sad. First thing in the morning they went to go and find each other so that they could play again.

These are the Purple People. This is alex's new Easter suit. When we were buying it we put it on in the store to make sure that it fit. Of course we were all telling him how cute he was and oooing and ahhing. When we took off the vest to put it up he grabbed it and tried to put it back on again. When he is trying to put clothes on he holds the piece of clothing in both hands and puts it on like a scarf and then scrunches his shoulders up to hold it in place. At the store he then looked up at us so that we could again tell him how cute he was.

In April I'm going to take alex to the city Easter egg hunt for 5 and under. So that he will have a chance to get some eggs I'm teaching him how to find eggs and put them in his basket. When we got to my mothers house they had an Easter egg gun that would shoot Easter eggs. On the coffee table they also had a little basket full of Easter decorations. alex dumped everything out of the little basket and then started to put the eggs in it all without being prompted. I guess that he gets the idea.

When we got back to New Mexico it was my sisters birthday who we also threw a surprise party for. The is alex climbing under the table to get to Chantel-how he picked her out from all the legs I have no idea.

This is Chantel and alex and two of her friends who probably won't like this unflattering picture of them.

Here is when we went to fly the box kite with grandma. Even though we spent most of our time with grandma and she completely spoiled him alex still only will say Grandpa so that we can understand it.

While we were there every time that alex was ready for bed or for a nap he would go out to the car so that we would go for a drive. We would go out to the main road and then come back and he would be asleep. I wish that I would have figured this out the first day, but it worked well for the rest of the trip. And luckily now that we are home he doesn't want to drive when he is tried he settles for his bed.

We love you all and hope that we will be able to see you soon.

So excited

I'm obviously not as Christ like as I should be because I still have not been able to forgive this, actually, it's not so much that I can't forgive it as I can't believe that someone would actually let this happen without telling me. On Sunday I had to take out Sister Lou's trash because she asked me to. I had her watch alex while I took it out so it wouldn't take as long and then we all went to the car to go to church. While I was sitting in Sacrament meeting with alex on my lap he smelt like pee really strongly so I took him out to change his diaper. It didn't seem that full and when I got back in he smelt like pee again so I changed him again. He still smelt like pee for the whole day so I assumed that he had just had some leak onto his cloths and he hadn't drunk enough water or something and that was why it smelt so strong. When I get into the car I'm telling Sister Lou about it and she informs me that in fact it is not pee but her dog just got so excited that he "leaked" a little on alex because he was so excited to see him. I guess that is what I get for think it would be okay to leave alex with her while I ran out to the trash.

I couldn't get videoegg to work so here is a movie on youtube I hope that you can all watch it okay. It's alex giving his daddy kisses.

Oops

From reading the comments on the last post I gather that not everyone was informed that we are having a baby. Sorry about that; Alex isn't going to be happy with me but he said that he was going to call everyone on Wednesday night while I was out so I assumed that he had and it was okay to finally write my blog. He'll probably be calling you sometime in the near future then.

My 150th Blog...

Yep, this is my 150th blog and I have been waiting to write it for awhile but I had to wait because Alex didn't want to tell everyone yet. That was too hard though because it was the first thing that everybody would ask me when they talked to me and I couldn't lie and now everyone knows; so here is my story.

We didn't really have any idea when I was due because I wasn't back to normal yet, so at the first appointment my midwife said that we would do an ultrasound to find out how far along I was. So I go to the front to pay and set my next appointment. (Picture about six receptionists at computers and then a lobby full of other patients that are all within earshot.)

The woman that I was talking to had a voice that carried very well, this I noticed BEFORE this conversation took place while I was wating in the waiting room and could hear everything that she would say, so I'm not making it up.

She says, "She wants the first available appointment."

I say, "Okay."

"Does this Friday work for you?"

"Anytime after 10."

"We have one with Dr. ANDREW Shimer." (she emphasized the first name very obviously)

"That's fine."

"He's a man."

"That's fine."

"It's an inner vaginal ultrasound." (again emphasising)

"I understand and it's fine with me."

"That means he sticks it up your vagina."

With each passing comment she seemed to get louder, but that may have been my imagination, at this point I was speechless and I just looked at her. After a moment I very clearly said "That is fine."

She got offended and said, "Just making sure" and didn't say anything else. I didn't mean to offend her but I just didn't know how much further she was going to go.

Apparently there have been some problems in the past. I'm so glad that she avoided an embarrassing situation for me by taking the time to explain what would be happening to the entire office. I left receiving what I hope were encouraging smiles and pitying glances, and wishing that I could say the sarcastic things that I wanted to say to her. I'm not very far along, but they said the little blob was doing good and should come and play around October 10th.