The boys got a new bed!
We bought a new bunk bed, custom-made by Colungas Custom Beds, for the boys. Tonight is their first night in it. In fact, it's the first night D has not slept in a crib or play pack. Right now I'm hearing B2 shout, over and over again, "Go to bed! GO TO BED!" Apparently, D won't let him sleep now that he has a choice about whether or not he stays in bed. Haha!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Funny things B2 says
We spent the weekend at my parents' house, and B2 said some funny stuff.
Scene: B1 and I are downstairs. My dad is playing his computer and B2 is watching him.
Grandpa. I'm tired. I'm going to turn the game off and go downstairs.
B2: What are you going to do down there?
Grandpa: I'm going to go talk to Uncle J and your mom.
B2: Okay, but don't tell my mom that I'm not in bed.
Grandpa: Are you supposed to be in bed?
B2: Well...kinda.
Grandpa leaves. B2 runs in and climbs in to bed, just in case I come up to check on him.
Scene: My dad is playing Lord of the Rings on his computer, and B2 is watching.
B2: Grandpa, are we going to shoot some dragons?
Grandpa: No
B2: Why not?
Grandpa: There aren't any dragons in this game.
B2: Why not?
Grandpa: Because the people who made the game didn't put in any dragons in it.
<Pause>
B2: Grandpa, you need to talk to some people.
Scene: B1 and I are downstairs. My dad is playing his computer and B2 is watching him.
Grandpa. I'm tired. I'm going to turn the game off and go downstairs.
B2: What are you going to do down there?
Grandpa: I'm going to go talk to Uncle J and your mom.
B2: Okay, but don't tell my mom that I'm not in bed.
Grandpa: Are you supposed to be in bed?
B2: Well...kinda.
Grandpa leaves. B2 runs in and climbs in to bed, just in case I come up to check on him.
Scene: My dad is playing Lord of the Rings on his computer, and B2 is watching.
B2: Grandpa, are we going to shoot some dragons?
Grandpa: No
B2: Why not?
Grandpa: There aren't any dragons in this game.
B2: Why not?
Grandpa: Because the people who made the game didn't put in any dragons in it.
<Pause>
B2: Grandpa, you need to talk to some people.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Can't sleep
Ug. I can't sleep. I hate it when I can't sleep. I'm not sure if I can't sleep because I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon (soooo good), or because of the nightmares I had while taking said 3 hour nap (not soooo good--mostly strange dreams about D drowning in pools and I can't swim to save him because of the surprisingly buoyant clothing I'm wearing *shivers*), or because... I dunno. Maybe if I get some of these random thoughts off my mind, I'll be able to turn it off and go to sleep.
I'm worried about B2. (Warning: this paragraph is highly TMI--if you don't like discussions about poop, please skip this paragraph.) B2 has had bowel problems since he was a baby. When we first introduced him to rice cereal, they cropped up. Basically, he can't seem to move his bowels on his own. We've given him Miralax almost every day since about he was about 6 months old. If we ever forget for a few days, it happens: the backed up, rock hard, bum-tearing bowels. In these cases, we usually have to give him an enema, which he of course hates, just to get it to come out. Our pediatrician told us that some kids just like to hold on to "it" and that he'd grow out of it. That was two years ago, and it's still not better. In fact, it seems worse, because now that I'm home I'm realizing how much of a problem B2 has. He's potty trained just fine when it comes to pee (even at night now--yippee!!!) but for the love of all that is holy cannot go poop by himself! Instead, he "stores" it in between his cheeks when he feels it coming on! It's so gross! We know he feels it coming, because a.) he'll still go and hide sometimes, and b.) he freaking squeezes in his cheeks! How can he not feel that? But, instead of just going to the bathroom, he'll stay like that, sometimes for hours until we catch the smell or undress him for a bath. It happened again today--third day in a row that he's done this, and third day without really pooping even when we make him sit on the potty. Plus, he's still on the Miralax. After 4+ years, shouldn't he really be off this stuff now? I'm close to my wits end. I'm tired to spending so much money on Mirarlax and multiple wash cycles to clean his underwear. Any help?? I'm definitely going to bring this up to the doctor when we take B2 in for his 5 year check up, but I'm willing to try just about anything before then--except taking him off the Miralax, because I just can't stand seeing my baby cry and scream in pain when he tries to have a bowel movement.
I guess it's time for a good update on my yearly goals:
Finish P90X
I'm getting closer to finishing this goal. I finished Week 5 this week (though I didn't work out today--sadness!). Legs & Back is my favorite workout, and I'm sad to see that I won't be doing it the last 4 weeks because it's not on my schedule. I started a new lifting routine this week: Shoulders, Arms and Triceps. Many swear words when through my head during this workout. Curse you Tony! I'm getting bored with the Kenpo routine (which was ironically one of my favorites at the beginning), plus it's starting to hurt my knees. I may stop doing this particular routine in favor of my new training (see goal 2). I measured again this week, but didn't see any difference that's worth mentioning.
Run a half marathon
Progress is being made! This week I registered for the Utah Valley half marathon, to be ran June 11th. I start my training next week. I alternate between really excited and freaked out of my mind. I think that as long as I can actually do my training schedule, I'll be okay. We'll see though. I just hope all that road running doesn't aggravate my old knee injury.
Get to 135 pounds
Let's be honest--I suck at weight loss. Not because I'm not capable, but because I seriously lack the discipline not to each an entire "family" sized bag of Doritos in one sitting. ("Family" sized my butt--what family would be satisfied with that teeny little bag??) Doritos are sooo good. Not only that, but now that I'm home more a lot of my meals are homemade (or leftovers of homemade), so I don't have good calorie counts. I've largely fallen off the calorie counting band wagon. I'm hovering right around my homeostasis weight of 140. Not bad, considering that I'm probably building a bit of muscle mass with P90X, but still not a great number.
Finish Old Testament
I'm finally making progress here too! I finished reading the Book of Mormon yesterday, and so am continuing my newly developed habit of daily scripture reading by finishing the Old Testament. This goal will take me the rest of the year to accomplish, so I won't really comment more on it in future posts. Just check the side bar to see how I'm doing. (I'll update those numbers soon--I don't have them all in front of me right now.)
Read 12 books
I'm not quite on track here. I'm finishing my second book of the year, a non-fiction book called Boys Should Be Boys. It's a book on parenting, so it's taken me longer because I've wanted to soak in what I was reading. Plus, my last few weeks have been spent making my little sister's baby shower gift (I still have a few more items to make before her shower on Saturday), and making a blessing blanket for my adorable niece O, who will be officially adopted, sealed, and blessed at the end of the month. So, I have some time crunches with those projects, which means reading has been pushed back in priority.
I'm worried about B2. (Warning: this paragraph is highly TMI--if you don't like discussions about poop, please skip this paragraph.) B2 has had bowel problems since he was a baby. When we first introduced him to rice cereal, they cropped up. Basically, he can't seem to move his bowels on his own. We've given him Miralax almost every day since about he was about 6 months old. If we ever forget for a few days, it happens: the backed up, rock hard, bum-tearing bowels. In these cases, we usually have to give him an enema, which he of course hates, just to get it to come out. Our pediatrician told us that some kids just like to hold on to "it" and that he'd grow out of it. That was two years ago, and it's still not better. In fact, it seems worse, because now that I'm home I'm realizing how much of a problem B2 has. He's potty trained just fine when it comes to pee (even at night now--yippee!!!) but for the love of all that is holy cannot go poop by himself! Instead, he "stores" it in between his cheeks when he feels it coming on! It's so gross! We know he feels it coming, because a.) he'll still go and hide sometimes, and b.) he freaking squeezes in his cheeks! How can he not feel that? But, instead of just going to the bathroom, he'll stay like that, sometimes for hours until we catch the smell or undress him for a bath. It happened again today--third day in a row that he's done this, and third day without really pooping even when we make him sit on the potty. Plus, he's still on the Miralax. After 4+ years, shouldn't he really be off this stuff now? I'm close to my wits end. I'm tired to spending so much money on Mirarlax and multiple wash cycles to clean his underwear. Any help?? I'm definitely going to bring this up to the doctor when we take B2 in for his 5 year check up, but I'm willing to try just about anything before then--except taking him off the Miralax, because I just can't stand seeing my baby cry and scream in pain when he tries to have a bowel movement.
I guess it's time for a good update on my yearly goals:
Finish P90X
I'm getting closer to finishing this goal. I finished Week 5 this week (though I didn't work out today--sadness!). Legs & Back is my favorite workout, and I'm sad to see that I won't be doing it the last 4 weeks because it's not on my schedule. I started a new lifting routine this week: Shoulders, Arms and Triceps. Many swear words when through my head during this workout. Curse you Tony! I'm getting bored with the Kenpo routine (which was ironically one of my favorites at the beginning), plus it's starting to hurt my knees. I may stop doing this particular routine in favor of my new training (see goal 2). I measured again this week, but didn't see any difference that's worth mentioning.
Run a half marathon
Progress is being made! This week I registered for the Utah Valley half marathon, to be ran June 11th. I start my training next week. I alternate between really excited and freaked out of my mind. I think that as long as I can actually do my training schedule, I'll be okay. We'll see though. I just hope all that road running doesn't aggravate my old knee injury.
Get to 135 pounds
Let's be honest--I suck at weight loss. Not because I'm not capable, but because I seriously lack the discipline not to each an entire "family" sized bag of Doritos in one sitting. ("Family" sized my butt--what family would be satisfied with that teeny little bag??) Doritos are sooo good. Not only that, but now that I'm home more a lot of my meals are homemade (or leftovers of homemade), so I don't have good calorie counts. I've largely fallen off the calorie counting band wagon. I'm hovering right around my homeostasis weight of 140. Not bad, considering that I'm probably building a bit of muscle mass with P90X, but still not a great number.
Finish Old Testament
I'm finally making progress here too! I finished reading the Book of Mormon yesterday, and so am continuing my newly developed habit of daily scripture reading by finishing the Old Testament. This goal will take me the rest of the year to accomplish, so I won't really comment more on it in future posts. Just check the side bar to see how I'm doing. (I'll update those numbers soon--I don't have them all in front of me right now.)
Read 12 books
I'm not quite on track here. I'm finishing my second book of the year, a non-fiction book called Boys Should Be Boys. It's a book on parenting, so it's taken me longer because I've wanted to soak in what I was reading. Plus, my last few weeks have been spent making my little sister's baby shower gift (I still have a few more items to make before her shower on Saturday), and making a blessing blanket for my adorable niece O, who will be officially adopted, sealed, and blessed at the end of the month. So, I have some time crunches with those projects, which means reading has been pushed back in priority.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Funny things B2 says
Scene: Daddy brought home some pizza tonight (leftovers from work--sweet!).
B2: "Mommy, guess where Daddy got pizza from?"
Me: "Work?
B2: "Orc?"
Looks like I already have a Tolkien fan. Can't wait to read him The Hobbit!!
B2: "Mommy, guess where Daddy got pizza from?"
Me: "Work?
B2: "Orc?"
Looks like I already have a Tolkien fan. Can't wait to read him The Hobbit!!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Are you hungry?
This is going to be a me-bragging-about-food-I've-made type of post.
This month I've been taking a cake decorating class through our local university's community education program. For those who know me well, you know I L-O-V-E baking. Well, a few years ago my best buddy from high school took a cake decorating class in Hawaii and made this awesome cake. Of course I was horribly jealous and wanted to learn how to do something that awesome too. Well, I finally did it. During February I've been taking a cake decorating class. We didn't learn as much as my friend (her cake included gum paste flowers, and we only did butter cream stuff), but I did learn a lot. Here are some pictures to document my progress.
Week 1: we didn't bring any cakes or anything to decorate, so we just practiced with some icing. I didn't save any of my practices, as it was pretty basic and stuff I had mainly done before.
Week 2: We learned how to make round balls of icing. It's a lot more difficult than you think, because icing wants to act like Hershey Kisses and have a tail on the top! Here's my practice cake:
Week 3: We learned how to make some basic flowers and leaves. Loved 'em! The flowers were a lot harder than I expected. After lots of extra practice at the end of class, I finally got a few decent ones to decorate my cupcakes.
Week 4: Tonight was the last day of class. Our assignment was to come up with a cake design and implement it. We also learned how to do roses, though I just barely realized I didn't take any pictures of my completed roses before I threw them away. However, I am super, super excited about my cake. I took my inspiration from the nursery set that J and H picked out for their new baby. The colors didn't turn out quite right (mine is more of a violet than a plum), and the flowers on the outside of the cake were too tall, but otherwise I'm really thrilled with how it looked. It tasted pretty good too--strawberry cake with chocolate pudding, and a thin layer of icing. Yum!
Okay, cake decorating class done. For Valentine's Day, I made my hubby the following:
It's chocolate mousse (homemade) in a dark chocolate mini dessert cup (bought from a store) with red X and pink O sprinkles (a gift from my visiting teacher). I used my cake decorating tips to swirl them in the cup. Let me tell you--uh-maz-ing!!
Okay, boast-fest is done. Thanks for letting me brag.
This month I've been taking a cake decorating class through our local university's community education program. For those who know me well, you know I L-O-V-E baking. Well, a few years ago my best buddy from high school took a cake decorating class in Hawaii and made this awesome cake. Of course I was horribly jealous and wanted to learn how to do something that awesome too. Well, I finally did it. During February I've been taking a cake decorating class. We didn't learn as much as my friend (her cake included gum paste flowers, and we only did butter cream stuff), but I did learn a lot. Here are some pictures to document my progress.
Week 1: we didn't bring any cakes or anything to decorate, so we just practiced with some icing. I didn't save any of my practices, as it was pretty basic and stuff I had mainly done before.
Week 2: We learned how to make round balls of icing. It's a lot more difficult than you think, because icing wants to act like Hershey Kisses and have a tail on the top! Here's my practice cake:
Week 3: We learned how to make some basic flowers and leaves. Loved 'em! The flowers were a lot harder than I expected. After lots of extra practice at the end of class, I finally got a few decent ones to decorate my cupcakes.
Week 4: Tonight was the last day of class. Our assignment was to come up with a cake design and implement it. We also learned how to do roses, though I just barely realized I didn't take any pictures of my completed roses before I threw them away. However, I am super, super excited about my cake. I took my inspiration from the nursery set that J and H picked out for their new baby. The colors didn't turn out quite right (mine is more of a violet than a plum), and the flowers on the outside of the cake were too tall, but otherwise I'm really thrilled with how it looked. It tasted pretty good too--strawberry cake with chocolate pudding, and a thin layer of icing. Yum!
Okay, cake decorating class done. For Valentine's Day, I made my hubby the following:
It's chocolate mousse (homemade) in a dark chocolate mini dessert cup (bought from a store) with red X and pink O sprinkles (a gift from my visiting teacher). I used my cake decorating tips to swirl them in the cup. Let me tell you--uh-maz-ing!!
Okay, boast-fest is done. Thanks for letting me brag.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Funny things B2 says
I told B2 that we were hosting play group tomorrow. After giving it some thought, Jr said, "Mom, E and N [two of his friends] are going to see 'jab cross' and they're going to LOVE IT!"
Don't know what jab cross means? Check out this video (go 22 seconds in).
Don't know what jab cross means? Check out this video (go 22 seconds in).
I love P90X
Okay, not every day, but today I'm loving it! This morning I decided to measure again to see if P90X has had an effect. I'm still battling with these last 5 pounds--this morning I weighed in just over 140 again. Though, to be truthful, I wouldn't be battling these pounds if I stopped buying Doritos and making cookies and s'more treats and all kinds of other goodies. I guess I'm battling less with the 5 pounds than I am with my own self-control, or lack thereof. But back to my brag moment. When I measured this morning, I found that I have lost 5/8" on my arms, 1/2" in my "love handles", and 1/2" in my thighs. Sweet!!!
OK, Tony, I'll stop cursing your name now...
OK, Tony, I'll stop cursing your name now...
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