Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The 1st Birthday of Baby of Dreams

Okay, so Baby of Dreams' birthday was on August 10th, but I figured I should get something up here sooner or later. As typical of most one-year-olds, Baby of Dreams was not too excited about her party. We had quite a few people over including all of The Husband's immediate family and The Wife's mother and aunt. We stripped Baby of Dreams down to her diaper, spread out a sheet on the lawn and let her at her small, three layer, sugar-free, carrot, birthday cake. She would not touch it.
The husband smashed her hand into the cake and tried to put some in her mouth. She would not have any of it. She preferred to wander around the backyard picking up green plums, off our tree, and stuffing as many as she could in her mouth. She put up quite a fight when I made her spit them all out. She did seem to slightly enjoy taking tissue paper out of her gift bags, but wasn't extremely interested in her toys. It probably did not help that most of her toys immediately found temporary homes with the children at the party. Oh well, we learned some things about one-year-old parties that we will try to implement in the future. And lest you feel that Baby of Dreams has every right to ignore my sugar free cake, she ate lots of it in the following days, as long as I cut it into nice small cubes. I was taking videos of Baby of Dreams and the cake so I did not get any actual pictures of her. But, I got pictures of her the next day with her toys.
All in all it was a good day and my little, tiny baby is now one year old. Just this morning Baby of Dreams was running around the kitchen making high pitched squealing nosies and being content with life, it was extremely entertaining, I asked The Husband what we had done before Baby of Dreams entered our family and we both agreed that we must have been bored to tears.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Baby of Dreams Update

For all those who like the statistical aspect of growing babies, we have the newest stats on Baby of Dreams.
She is in the 0.59%tile for her weight (15.88 lbs.), (yes, that is less than 1%)
29%tile for her height (28.25 in.)
86%tile for her head circumference (18.25 in.)
The doctor said she was tall for her weight and she had a big brain. He wasn't worried about her size at all. He feels that with my physique, Baby of Dreams' physique makes sense. He said that she looks healthy. So I am officially not worried anymore about her size. I will now be grateful that she is not growing out of her clothes very quickly and we will be able to get more use out of them.

Dryers are great

This makes three posts this month. That is a record for me so far. I really should be in bed, but I just finished catching up with all of my friends blogs and figured I could just write something real quick.

The father of The Husband came by last night and fixed my dryer. This is so extremely wonderful. We have been without electric drying capabilities for two years. We have only had electric washing capabilities for a bit under a year. I did five small loads of laundry today and they all got dried! When we moved into this house there was no washer and dryer hook-ups. We had a washer and dryer, thanks to my mom, but no where to put them, so they lived in the garage. When we gutted and remodeled the bathroom, The Husband put in the water pipes to the laundry room. So for almost a year, with an extension cord running through the kitchen, we have been able to wash our clothes at our own house. In the summer I hang the clothes outside to dry and in the winter I rigged an indoor clothes line in the laundry room. A few months back we got permanant electicity running into the laundry room, so no more extension cords. We also thought we would be able to use the dryer, but when we plugged it in we realized that it had been been broken in it's multiple moves. For my birthday, The Husband's parents decided to get the replacement parts for the dryer and then to install them. So a month later it is finished. We are now the proud owners of clean and non-crunchy clothing, towels and bedding. Life is better.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Skinny Baby


So we got Baby of Dreams weighed last week and I don't quite know what to think. She is now 11 months old, eats really well and walks (sometimes runs, everywhere). She is happy most of the time, except when she is telling you why she thinks she should be doing something you do not want her to do. Whenever I see her next to other babies her age, I think "baby of dreams really is on the small side" or "wow that is a big baby". She weighs 15 lbs. 10 ounces. She seems normal to me and almost every other baby seems overweight. My mom says I was a skinny baby too and says I shouldn't worry. And I don't too much. But I would like to move her into a big car seat and have her face forward, but know that won't happen for a while yet. Oh well, at least I know she is healthy and happy. We we get her into that car seat eventually.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Not Getting Any Better

I just can't seem to get the hang of keeping this updated. I did want to mention that we successfully found Baby of Dream's lost paperclip. Well, I found it. After two diaper dives, The Husband refused to continue looking. Wimp. He saved me one diaper for when I got home from work and luckily I found it about two days after it disappeared. Baby of Dreams has had multiple bruises and two cut lips since then. We have a wild woman on our hands.

Baby of Dreams is officially walking, as of about two weeks ago. Last week she walked and crawled and this week she prefers to walk. I think she will be running next week. She is so stinken cute because she is so small.

On the not so fun side, my mom called today to tell me that one of my cousins had passed away last night. This was a cousin that I grew up with and was closer to then others. I am really going to miss her. It is odd for me to realize that I will never see her again in this life. The only other thing I can think of to say is how grateful I am for the gospel. My cousin wasn't active in the church when she passed away and now she can learn everything. And she is lucky because she gets to see our grandfather now. I will miss her greatly, but I will see her again.
I found an article about her death, online. Very surreal.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/suspicious_house_fire_kills_wo.html

Monday, June 9, 2008

Office Supplies

Well, I really thought that I would be on here more often. I have found that it is hard to do anything on the computer when Baby of Dreams is awake and when she is sleeping I am either doing household tasks or sleeping myself.

Tonight Baby of Dreams swallowed her first office product (that I know of). A small plastic covered, blue paperclip. This was her first swallowing of a foreign object so I panicked a bit. I rushed her upstairs to where the Husband was sleeping, to see if he could see it hiding in her mouth, he couldn't. He wasn't extremely worried, but I went downstairs and called the on-call doctor anyway. He wasn't too worried either, so then I calmed down. Now we begin the fun task of watching for the devious, blue paperclip to make it's appearance again. Baby of Dreams seems to be handling it all very well.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The Story of Us (I got Tagged)



I was reading my friend's blog and she had been tagged to answer a whole bunch of questions about she and her hubby. I was thinking, 'It would be good for me to get all that info down and fun to remember it all.' When I got to the end of her blog she had actually tagged me. So thank you Andrea.



How did you meet: We met for the very first time in August or September of 2000. The Husband was living with his uncle in Gresham, OR and preparing to go on a mission. I was on my mission, in my first area of Gresham, OR. Uncle was the ward mission leader, so of course my companion and I went over there quite a few times for dinner and missionary related things. I remember thinking that The Husband was a great 'kid' (he was 18 and I was 21) and doing a great job preparing for his mission after being a scoundrel of a teenager. The Husband remembers that I, was hot. We took a picture with him, me and and my companion, when I left the area. We never exchanged correspondence or even really thought about each other again until October of 2004. I was going to school at BYU-Idaho and he was living in Parker, ID, about 15 minutes from campus. We were both involved with ldssingles.com and randomly started chatting with each other online. I was about to stop chatting with him because he wasn't very interesting, when he mentioned he had gone to school in Oregon for a bit. It took us a few minutes to put things together, but we finally realized that we had met on my mission. We went on our first date two days later. After our first date he felt that he didn't want to date anyone else. We held hands a week later and were seeing each other exclusively after that.
Where did you go on your first date: The Husband took me on a drive up Kelly Canyon, then we came back and went on a walk around a park in Rexburg. We then picked up once of his cousins, that had lived in Gresham, and the three of us went out to ice cream. We then dropped her off at home, but did not want to end our date, so we played pool until I had to be home for curfew.
How long have you been together: We have pretty much been together since our first date, so at least three and a half years now.
Who eats more: The Husband, although I think I might have for a while when I was pregnant.
Who said I love you first: I am not positive, but I think it was him. I wanted to wait and say it when I was pretty sure he was "the one" and he just knew I was cool and he really, really liked me.
Who is taller: Me, sigh. I always swore I would marry someone at least 6'4". I am 5'10" and he is 5'9"
Who sings better: I guess me, but only because I sang for two years in high school and he never had any training. He has a very nice voice though.
Who is Smarter: It just depends on the subject. We both have different strengths.
Who does the Laundry: Me, pretty much always.
Who does the dishes: We now switch off every week.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed: If you are standing, looking at the foot of the bed, he does.
Who pays the bills: I do. As the Husband says,"You are so good at it and why should we both stress about the bills."
Who mows the Lawn: He does, except the one time I did it, when I was extremely pregnant. Go figure.
Who cooks dinner: First of all, we hardly eat dinner together, because of his work schedule. But we both cook. I probably do it just a bit more than him, because I am home more. He likes cooking breakfast and Mexican food.
Who drives when you are together: He does, except when we are on a trip and he is extremely tired and needs to take a nap.
Who is more stubborn: We are both extremely stubborn. It makes for interesting disagreements.
Who kissed who first: Well, he went in for the kill, but I was extremely ready and very happy about it. We were watching a movie at his house with his brother and girlfriend (now wife). I have no idea what movie we watched ;)
Who proposed: I would have to say both of us. I suggested it, but he actually asked. Over Thanksgiving break his parents invited us to go up to Island Park to stay with them, in a relatives cabin. It was all very proper, I was in the room downstairs and he was in the room upstairs next to his parents. His parents were watching a movie downstairs and we were upstairs cuddling and talking on the couch. He asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I told him I wanted something sparkly. He acted like he didn't understand for a bit and then he let on that he got it. At the beginning of December we traveled down to Utah to see my cousin who had just had a baby. We stopped at Temple Square and were sitting on the steps in front of one of the doors of the temple and he just asked me. He didn't even have a ring so we moved my CTR ring from my right hand to my left hand. We later picked out a very simple white gold band that became my engagement ring for a few weeks. About a week and a half before Christmas I had to have some minor surgery. I got home and was recuperating on the couch. He sat on the floor and was holding my hand for a while. When I brought my hand back up there was a gorgeous diamond ring on my finger. He had gotten it that day while I was in the hospital. It was nothing like we had talked about except that it was a square diamond, but I absolutely loved it and still love it to this day. We were engaged six weeks after our first date and married six weeks after that.
Who is more sensitive: Me, although he surprises me sometimes.
Who has more siblings: He has 5 siblings. I was raised as an only child, but have 4 half siblings.
Who wears the pants: We both wear pants and sad to say, both wear skirts. (He like to wear a lava lava that he got on his mission, around the house.) We try to share things pretty equally, although if business needs to be regulated, he has designated this my job.

I am going to tag a few people now, mostly because I really enjoyed doing this and want others to enjoy it too, but also because I don't know all of my friend's stories.
Okay, I tag Heather, Alisha, Jessica Wood, Jessica Aston and Audrey.