Little Boy Blue

Someone gave Joshua this really cute cable knit sweater outfit, but he's just now able to fit into it and it's just now getting hot outside. So I put it on him to snap a few photos before he can't wear it anymore. He was pretty cute. The first picture is just him being cute.

Learning to Pull Up

I have a few unpacked boxes of scrapbook paper, photos, etc. that I don't have anywhere to store except for under my craft table. Joshua has recently discovered these boxes and all of a sudden the booger's gotten really good at pulling himself up on them. Here's the action sequence:

Going back, back

to Cali, Cali!

So here we are--two weeks into our new move. It's been hectic and crazy and at the same time anti-climatic and uneventful. The drive out here took forever! It was 12 hours in two cars. We had too much stuff and the U-haul we rented was too small so we ended up having to pack the Focus all the way to the top which meant fortunately for me (unfortunately for Joshua and Isaac) I got to drive by myself. So yes it was a long way to drive alone, but at the same time, I really enjoyed the peace and quiet. Luckily Brooks and AmyAnn let us crash at their place so we didn't have to drive and move all our stuff in all in one day. When we got here Joshua was a mess with having slept a lot in the car and then with the time change though. He pretty much didn't sleep that first night. So he was a grumpy pants the whole next day (and pretty much every day since we've been here.) Last week, we were in no rush to unpack because Isaac didn't have to start work for a week so we took our time moving in. And now we're just hanging out--Joshua and me that is. I'm so used to having my mom and Isaac around all the time; I never realized how quiet the day can be when it's just Joshua and me. I talk to him a lot more than I have in the past and so I think that's good but sometimes I just feel like a crazy person. Like when I ask his opinion at the grocery store or when I give him a 5 minute heads-up at the park. But at least I use the mom-talking-to-baby voice. Because if I didn't, it would just look like I'm talking to myself like those people who use bluetooths (teeth??).

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PS Baby Update: Joshua is a proficient army crawler who enjoys flicking door stoppers, sucking on cell phones, and grabbing everyone's hair, even his own. He's had a bad cold this last week though so that's been sad, but he's doing better now. I'll post pictures soon. After I take some.

Everything's Amazing; Nobody's Happy

I think Conan O'Brien is typically obnoxious. Luckily in this clip, he's not really talking and the other guy is awesome. Thanks, Andre!

Squirrel

I don't care if this is a fake picture. This is HILarious!

Let it Snow

It's been snowing like crazy today, but Joshua was ready to go out and play!

Big Shoes to Fill

Joshua's football face

Sweet Dreams

Isaac and I love to peek in on Joshua every night before we go to bed. He's so cute! This is how he always sleeps.

Easter

Sunday, 8 am

Sunday, 12 pm

A Doctor and a Poet

A long long time ago I posted a couple of poems by one of my favorite poets--Imagist William Carlos Williams. I really like this one as well called "The Red Wheelbarrow."


so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

Easter's on its Way

Peas

We took these pictures a couple of days ago. It's been 3 weeks since we started solids, and Joshua's favorite so far are peas. They are the only one he opens his mouth for after the first bite.

Joshua's First Solids

This is Joshua eating his first bowl of rice cereal. These show it going better than it really did. He hated it! He was excited for the first bite, and then I had to force the spoon past his tight lips. This was the progression of pictures.

Isaac's Football Banquet

A few weeks ago, Isaac had his BYU football banquet. They have one every year to celebrate the previous season and to honor all the seniors. We had a nice steak and salmon dinner and then there was an awards ceremony. At the end each senior was presented his framed jersey along with his helmet in a glass case. This year there was also a unique addition. A Polynesian tiki-store owner made each senior a staff, personalized with his name and number on it. It shows all awards the team won during each senior's career.

Travis and Alison

Saia and Line

Wayne and Mary

Congratulations, Isaac!

Isaac and me

Isaac and Wayne

Tana and Isaac

Dramtic Weight Loss Attempt

Isaac doesn't understand my interest in the Discovery Health show "Mystery Diagnosis." I'm not sure I understand either. The whole time I watch it I feel like I need to be taking notes in case these things happen to me or someone in my family.

Doctor: "Symptoms?"

Me: "Fever, naseau, flu-like feeling"

Doctor: "Sounds like the flu"

Me: "Are you sure it's not adult-onset Still's Disease? Because on yesterday's episode of Mystery Diagnosis......"

Anyway, two weeks ago, I developed dibilitating abdominal pain that felt like impending doom that lasted for 2 days. But each day after I felt better and better. So naturally instead of going to the insta-care I decided to diagnose myself on WebMD. After I listed all of my symptoms and used their model to locate my pain, WebMD suggested that I had one of three things: appendicitis, cancer, or a peptic ulcer--all of which are very serious, all of which further scared me away from going to a doctor. I was mentally preparing myself to live with the pain for the rest of my life because I really didn't want to go to the doctor because then he would tell me I had to have surgery or take medicines or both! Finally Isaac locked me out of the house with my purse and car keys, and it was cold so I went to the insta-care seeking shelter. While I was there I thought I might as well see the doctor. Two days later I ended up getting a CT scan. When I showed up for the appointment, I had to gag down a QUART of barium which is exactly like Mylanta, and I laid on this table that slid through this giant ring. Well two hours later a nurse called me and said I needed to get to the American Fork hospital immediately--they had a surgeon on-call and I needed to have my appendix out.

When I got to the surgeon's office, he said he didn't think I had appendicitis. He said that you know when someone has appendicitis because they are in excruciating pain, but I looked fine. He had four different radiologists look at my scan, and based on the scan alone, they all said it was appendicitis. But after the doctor told the radiologists that I was walking around and showed no apparent discomfort, no one thought I had appendicitis. My first thought when the doctor told me this was "Oh no! I'm going to wind up on Mystery Diagnosis!" Based on the scans alone, it looked like I needed to have surgery so I went under the knife. And it went well I guess. The surgery got rid of the first pain and replaced it with another kind. The worst pain wasn't even the incisions--it was the air bubbles under my ribs and collar bone. They say they fill your abdomen so full of air to do the laproscopic surgery that it looks like your pregnant and when they push it all out it sounds like a deflating balloon. Gross... and awesome. I know Isaac loves me because he didn't want me to have to use my stomach muscles in order to get up out of bed so for 3 days he lifted me out of bed and stood me up every time. That's true love.

And I decided to include a picture. This isn't mine. I vaguely remember asking the nurse if I could take mine home because Isaac told me to ask (which is true) but when I found a urine cup in my belongings bag, all I found were my earrings. So I guess the nurse said no. It would have been cooler if I had found my appendix. Good news though--they say an inflamed appendix weighs about half a pound.

I knew I felt trimmer.