Out of the mouth of E

So E has been saying some funny things lately and I just wanted to write them down before I forget.
Last night E says to me "Mommy, I just am going to have two kids okay."
Me "oh like pretend?"
E "No mommy when I'm a mommy I'm just going to have two kids."
Me "Well why only two?"
E " Well I just have two kids right now and one in my tummy."
Me "I'm confused, do you want two kids or do you have two kids?"
E "I just have two kids right now and one in my tummy."
Me "oh okay, well what are your kids names?"
E "Kaylee and Kaden. but I'm just going to have two kids some day."
Me "oookay (in a confused tone)"
I have no idea what she meant by all this, but the only thing I could think of is that she is pretending she is me with two kids and has another baby in her tummy, which I DO NOT have another baby in MY tummy but I think she is wishing I did, i don't know what else to get from that whole conversation.

Friday after coming home from the butterfly exhibit I say to E "we have to hurry home and get you ready to go to your friends house". She asked "why?" and I say "Because Daddy and I are going on a date and they are going to watch you and J." E "but why are you going on a date?" I say "because we love each other and we want to be together alone." E says in smart voice "Oh that's a good thing I guess." I laughed and said "YEAH it's a really good thing." I'm glad she realizes it's a good thing that her parents love each other, it also made me realize we need to let our kids know it more often. We say we love each other all the time we cuddle in front of them often but I don't think I say to E how much I love her Daddy and maybe I'll start doing that more. I think it's such an important thing for kids to KNOW their parents love each other and know that they'll always be a happy family even if there are "disagreements" or "bad days" they still need to know how much in love their parents are. It's funny how such a simple comment from such a young child can make me think deeper about our family, this is why kids are so great!

A few nights back I tell E we have to start getting ready for bed. She says "I want to take a bath." I tell her "no you took one this morning you don't need a bath, it's late and time to go to bed." E then thinks for a second and says "well I will just let my kids take a bath at night, because I think they would like it." Me "well that's good but you're still not going to take one tonight." E still trying to convince me "well I would let my kids take a bath when they want."
Me "well that's nice of you, are you trying to convince me to let you take a bath is that why you are telling me you'd let your kids?" E in a whiny disappointed voice "yeah." I think she knew it wasn't working. C and I cracked up about it because she was sooo trying to find a way to make us feel bad about not letting her take a bath so she thought "well if I tell them I'd let my kids then maybe they'll let me." I love her thought process, she is so easy to read some times.

This morning
E "look at me momma."
Me "yes E I'm looking at you, what?"
E "I'm a princess right?"
Me "yes, you look like one." she was wearing her princess dress-up dress
E in a some what demanding voice "Wellllll then I need some make up on, princesses have to have make up on!"
Ooohh the joys of having a girl!

This one is not some thing E said but I believe she probably would say some thing like this, well any dramatic little girl would say some thing like this.
In sunbeams we were talking about being thankful for animals. We then talked about Noah's Ark. I was telling the story saying "The Lord told Noah to build and Ark because he was going to flood the earth." I then ask them if they knew what that meant to flood some thing, and this little girl says "I have an owchy" and I say "oh I'm sorry, but we're talking about the flood okay." and the little girl scrunches her eye brows and says "well my owchy is a flood to me." C and I just started laughing. And I'm sure it was a flood to her! There are a lot of things in my life that feel like a flood to me, like overwhelming children and rarely getting a break from them! I told her mother that story and her mom said that this owchy has been a flood for the whole family, apparently she won't stop talking about it.

Last one I promise!
We were at the hospital extension to get E's hearing tested. I had three kids with me my two and the little girl I babysit. They were all so good, I was happy because it took them FOREVER to get us back there to get it done with. Any way that is another story, but while we were waiting in the waiting room people were coming and going and admiring "my children" they thought all three were mine and I didn't correct them, it's just easier to sit back and say nothing. So one of the nurses comes out from the back and announces to the front desk people that she is going on break now.
E says "mom what is break mean?"
I say "this is her job and she is just taking a break and then she'll come back."

keep in mind the waiting room is full and the nurse hasn't left yet and they could all hear this conversation.

E "oh, it's her job?"
me "yep"
E "you have a job mommy." they just had a week at school where they talked about what their parents "do" for their jobs.
Me "yes I do and what is my job E, do you remember?"
E "your my mommy?"
Me "yep, I'm your mommy and my job is to take care of you right?"
all the other moms and the nurse are smiling and laughing a little at how cute this little conversation was.
E then says in a worried voice "but mommy, do you get a break?"
me "NOPE, not even when you are asleep!"
E "not even when I'm asleep, wow!"
Me "yeah my job is never ending, tough right?"
E "yeah mommy it's hard."
By this point all the women are like AMEN! It was a nice feeling that, even though it was only for a second, my daughter realized my job was tough and that I don't get a break. Except for when my loving husband is so kind as to let me go to Vegas for four days, that was a NICE BREAK! But I don't think I'll be doing that again for a long time. Now if only she'd realize my job is hard when she decides to throw a fit, then maybe she'd think twice before doing it.

I hear wedding bells

So a few pots back I was wishing one of my sisters would get married, well we've known for a couple of weeks but it wasn't official until just yesterday my sister, we'll just call her "the brown one" is getting married! She is my sister just younger than me and so we're pretty close. I'm so happy for her! Her fiance whom we will call T is perfect for her. I had a chance to meet him for the first time during our Christmas Vacation home and he seems like such a good guy. E seemed to have a big crush on him and didn't leave him alone the whole time he was there when we were there, which was like a day or two but still she loves her now soon to be "uncle T". They will be getting married in May and then will move to the Midwest for the summer so they will be a lot closer to us, road trip!
I'm excited to attend their wedding because they will be getting married in the Rexburg Temple which I was thinking it might be years before I would get to go through that Temple but now I will be able to see it in May, yay! Any way I just wanted to give a shout out to my sis and say an office Congratulations, I'm really happy for you!

This is the only picture I have of T, the soon to be knew member of our family, here he is stuck reading E another story as she would not leave his side for one minute. It was so cute, he is good with kids!

Sunny day, and the story of the "little yellow pellets"!

On with some real posts now....
Yesterday was beautiful outside and we enjoyed every bit of the sunshiny day. I think the high was around 60 degrees which was nice but the nicest part was the sunshine and very little wind. We spent much of the afternoon outside with our friends from down the street we (us moms) had fun watching them play and chatting, and also did a lot of chasing after runaway children and some yelling out of "don't go too far" and "okay turn around now" and "please don't go in the street" etc. but we still had so much fun. At one point I even got HOT sitting in the sun in a T-shirt and no shoes, it was crazy but it felt so good! AND today I woke up with a sunburn on my arms and face I couldn't believe it, I guess I haven't seen sun in a while :)
After our afternoon of soaking up the sun I decided I needed to go out and get my kids some shoes, sandals and summer type shoes that is. I didn't have any sandals to put on either of my kids so I let J run around barefoot and E just wore her slip on shoes with no socks. So off to Target we went.
Here is the fun adventure I went through yesterday while shopping for shoes I'm sure you'll enjoy this one....
Earlier in the day a friend came over to borrow something and while I was chatting with her in my living room my son was up stairs being VERY quiet. So I finally checked on him. Apparently he found a bottle of little yellow pellets for C's pellet gun. They were all over my bedroom floor and he had a couple in his mouth which I made him spit them out instantly. I was sure he had probably swallowed a few but who cares there just tiny plastic balls. If you haven't seen these pellets they are so small that he couldn't choke on them but still I didn't want him to get in the habit of putting things in his mouth that didn't belong there. Any way so back to my shopping escapade....
I get to Target, find two pair of shoes for E and I only find one pair of summer shoes for J and that is okay there is still time to find him some more summer shoes. After I found the shoes I was glancing at their sale rack and the summer clothes when all of a sudden J says "ow, owch, owch" in a little sad voice. He then stands up in the cart and I can't get him to sit down. He keeps pointing to his tummy saying "ow, owch" so I said "are you hungry?" and he then makes his sign that he wants to eat. I look at the clock and it is past 5pm so I say "we'll go get some food" and I go to check out. I then smell the most awful smell and soon find it is my son, he had filled his diaper. I look in my diaper bag to find I had forgotten to put the wipes back in the bag after refiling them, darn it! So I go and buy some wipes and head to the check out. As the lady is ringing up my stuff the smell is getting worse and J still refuses to sit down. I then notice his pants down both legs are soaked with what a I call "poop juice". Then I lift up his sweatshirt he had on and it is soaked up the back and his white onesie is soaked even worse. I had no clothes for him in the bag of course, so I tell the lady to hold my order and I ran back and bought him an outfit off the sale rack, a t-shirt a zip up hoodie and some khaki pants. Then head back to pay for it all. The lady felt so bad for me and trying to say comforting words but of course it doesn't help, I just keep saying "He hasn't had a blow out like this since he was just a little baby, that's why I am not prepared." I never carry extra clothes for him in my bag any more. Any way I pay for the stuff and head straight for the restroom. I strip him down and put his gross clothes in one of the target bags and tie it up then I open the diaper and guess what I find? Yep, tons of little yellow pellets! I counted to about sixteen and then stopped I'm sure there were several more in there I couldn't see, but I figured about 20 or so. After about 25 minutes of wiping J down and putting on new clothes I put the nasty diaper and all the million wipes I used in a different bag along with his onesie and chucked it in the garbage. While in the handicape stall where the change table is, I was telling E to just hang tight I'll be done in a sec and she was being pretty good. She then says as I open the diaper "Oh J, that is disgusting!" in such a grown up voice and I hear the lady in the stall next to us laugh out loud. It was funny and not at the same time, he stunk up that whole restroom I felt bad for all who came in there.
You might be thinking this is the end of my story but oh no, no, no it is not. So I take the kids to Mc-y-D's for some good healthy dinner and they eat really good so I was happy. Then I head to the grocery store. I get there and I smell that smell still. I check J's pants and he had pooped again. So I head to the restroom once again. Lucky for me it just barely stayed in his diaper and didn't get on his new outfit. I open his diaper and guess what I find....Yep, more little yellow pellets. This time I counted 12 but there could have been more. So apparently my son swallowed a HANDFUL of these things! So I finish up shopping and head home and when I get him out of the car I smell it again! I change him one more time and find about 8-10 more little yellow pellets! at this point I'm laughing and thinking "no wonder his tummy hurt, poor kid". He must have swallowed a total of 40 little yellow pellets, crazy kid! The rest of the night he had the worst smelling gas but no more little yellow pellets. I don't think his stomach could have held any more of them any way.
There you have it, my fun adventure yesterday and the story of the little yellow pellets.

I forgot to get the camera out during our fun sunny day but here we are sporting our new shoes, I even found a pair of fun summer flip flops for me.

Here are the famous little yellow pellets, I just snapped a pic real quick so you could see how small they are, imagine 40 of these in J's stomach .

Princess, Princess, Princess!!!

Well today was a Princessy day that is for sure! E and all her princess friends had a blast at the party today, I'm glad it was a success and that I decided to go through with it and have a party. This year I think E enjoyed her birthday party more than any other year it was cute to see her have fun with all her little friends. It makes me sad to know that some of them will be moving soon, lucky for her she is still young and it's not too hard to make more friends when new ones come in to the ward. Any way back to the party. So her first guest arrives and hands E the gift she brought, I was still in the kitchen getting things ready and talking to this little girls mom when I hear sshhhhrip sssshhhrrrip! I knew exactly what that sound was and ran into the other room but it was too late the present was open and so was E's mouth, excited with joy to see her first b-day present, a set of horses. I guess she figured "she handed it to me, it's mine, I guess I'll open it." oh well, we all laughed about it and then told her she needs to wait until all her guests come. So of course the first thing we did after all arrived was open the rest of her gifts. She loved them all and was so excited they were all for her! My other favorite part was when her buddy who we will call MJ handed her the gift from her and said isntantly "It's a movie, a barbie movie" before she had a chance to open it, aahhhh that made me laugh, silly girl! Right after gifts we did what E requested to do at her party and that was decorate cookies and that was a hit. Not only did I see the most sprinkles ever put on one cookie but then witnessed the princess actually eat and enjoy it, yumm! Right after I noticed them shoving their faces with these "beautifully" decorated cookies I realized we should get the cake out and sing before they are too full for b-day cake, but no they were not yet full of sugar because they chowed down the ice cream cake too. I know their parents were so happy I sent them home loaded up on sugar, you're welcome :)

Look at all the pretty Princesses! there was no room for poor MJ so I laid her across the rest of them and she thought that was so funny. They were all soooo cute!

here is our Princess castle we drew on our chalk wall, my hubby thought it was funny that I wanted to draw one on the wall for the party but I figured, hey it was a free decoration why not and it turned out cute. E drew the Prince and Princess in the windows.

eating her sprinkled cookie

This picture of MJ is so cute, I love the look on her face.

we had to get some cute pictures of the only Prince at the party, and isn't he handsome

I love this picture, the looks on their faces crack me up. As you can see they are enthralled with E opening her presents

Happy Birthday my big girl. Well I've officially done the whole "Princess" theme do you think that'll be the last time?

He's hooked!

J loves, loves popcorn! At first I thought it was just because it was a new thing he was trying out but no, he just loves it. Every time he sees any he wines until he can have some. My Dad is in the Popcorn business and there is always some around my folks house, well at Christmas time people were always eating it and always giving him some. There was a cute picture that was taken of him sitting in a mess of popcorn shoving it in his face as fast as he could, it is so cute and I can't find it, in fact I don't think I have it so Mom could you send me that picture when you get a chance? Any way My mom brought me a few bags of popcorn on her trip out here because she knows I love it and obviously J does too. Well I had it up on the dishwasher so J couldn't get to it but as you can see below he found a way to get to it, such a clever little boy he is!

This is the face he made after he saw he had been caught, and as you can tell he was quite proud of himself.

Showing me the goods!

This was a much faster way of getting into his mouth, what a funny kid.
I wonder if his love for popcorn has anything to do with me eating so much of it while I was pregnant with him? hmmm I wonder........

Feeling Better

The last five days have been, well, miserable for our family. The kids got sick Friday I soon followed that evening and My Poor Hubby came home Saturday to the saddest "welcome home daddy" ever! I felt bad about it but we didn't really give him hugs and kisses because we were afraid to make him sick too. We missed two birthdays because of this virus, Mine was on Friday and E's was Monday. So to say the least, we are glad to say good bye to this virus and that our home is getting back to normal.
Yesterday seemed to be particularly bad, not that I was more sick I think it was just that I was still getting over being sick and was starting to get really frustrated that I couldn't do anything, that my life had to be put on hold for FIVE DAYS so that I could rest so that I could eventually start to feel better. Well that frustration showed it's ugly face, I believe, and my hubby went to school just half-day and came home with flowers for me. I think he did it to say "I'm sorry you've been so sick" and "I'm sorry we haven't done anything for your birthday" and "Happy Birthday" but I think his real reason was that he loves me and knew it would make me happy to see some thing bright and beautiful besides my sick kids faces. It was such a nice gesture of him to do that and I was glad to see something bright and happy. Thank you Hunny for the beautiful flowers to brighten my day yesterday, I Love you.
Here is how I knew today would be better, I woke up at 9am and the kids were still asleep! My body didn't hurt not even my head, when I woke up. I felt so good I took a shower and get this, I put on real clothes (meaning no sweats or pj's) AND a bra and deodorant which I am embarrassed to say I haven't done in the last few days. I okay let me correct my self I did shower while I was sick because that always makes me feel better I would just slip back into comfy pj's and forget the bra because who cares! Any way I'm still coughing but I feel like my energy level is up and that I can hopefully accomplish some things today.
I took the kids to the Doctor this morning and everything seems okay. E is still coughing like there is no tomorrow and has a small ear infection in her right ear and the good news is.....J's ears look PERFECT! That was especially good news since he had a double ear infection just before he caught this flu. So we are all on the down hill now and it looks like we will be able to have birthday party for E this Saturday after all, she will be so happy to host her Tea Party.
Messy house here we come.....

Moab Report

Josh and I had a blast in Moab and we have the pictures to prove it so here goes...

This is a tough, off-camber climb on the slickrock trail.

This is a little further up that same climb where it starts to traverse a little. It's tough because if you get off balance and lean to the right you will fall over and get some nice sandpaper marks as you slide down the rock.

This is where we stopped to have lunch and enjoy the view of the La Sals in the background.

My friend who is a Moab local and who deals a lot with the local businesses got us a great deal on a Jeep rental. Ours had about 60 miles on it so it was pretty new. We had way to much fun in that thing.
You can't see me but I'm in there somewhere with a big smile on my face.

Happy Birthday E, Resurrected camera, soooo sick and a whole lot of other stuff...
WARNING: This blog post may not make any sense and or have lots of misspelled words as to a horrible virus that has taken over the body of a Mrs. Harker, you have been warned!

So I have been sooo sick, I hope I make it through this blog with out passing out. You know you're addicted to blogging when you feel like you are going to die and you still have the urge to get on line and post some thing. I got sick on Friday night with this awful flu that has been sweeping the nation and it is HORRIBLE! I can't remember the last time I was this sick, lucky for me C came home early Saturday morning and has been playing Mr. Mom ever since, kind of :) I have realized that The Harker Home falls apart when Mommy is sick, it makes me feel needed so I guess that is the good part of it.
For all you who were so nice to express your concern for my bone head of a move that broke my mom's camera I want you to all know it has been resurrected from the dead! He lives! I warned you I'm in a weird mood...Any way my little sister decided to play camera doctor when my mom showed her the lifeless body of a camera that was once hers. My sis did exactly what I tried to do which was try to turn it on while forcefully shoving the lens back in it's place, for some reason it didn't work for me, maybe all it needed was a long day of flying on three different airplanes with two layovers/transfers to rest, but hey it's fixed and working perfectly, or so that is what they tell me! Any way I don't feel quite as bad now, and maybe that was their plan all along to make me feel better by just telling me it was fixed and really it's off floating in camera heaven, or maybe these drugs have just kicked in and I don't know what I'm talking about....
ANYWAY.... The real reason for this post is that today is my sweet E's Birthday! Yes she was born on St. Patrick's Day which also happens to be the Relief Society's Birthday too(how many of you knew that?), she must be extra special to have two occasions that her b-day falls on. I can't believe what a big girl she is now! I just wanted to say Happy Birthday E! I know she can't read but still I love her so much and she deserves a Happy Birthday Post form her Mommy, even if her mommy is on drugs (just nyquil and some other stuff..) I felt awful that I happened to be so sick on her birthday but she has gotten to talk to some Aunties on the phone and Papa and Grandma too. I told her that we would also let her open one present today and the rest we will save for her party, she was excited about that. She knows she's getting a "big gril" bike some time soon but she hasn't yet seen it and I think I will let her see it today, hopefully she won't want to go our and ride it, maybe we'll wait until it's dark outside before we bring it in. I just feel so bad that we have been laying around in our jammies all day on her special day, I hope she forgives me. Any way Happy Birthday E we love you!!

The day she was born, I know it's poor quality but it's all I got

She wasn't so fond of her first taste of cake and she still doesn't like cake all that much.
I love this picture! she had only 4 teeth
What a pretty princess.

I will post pictures of her birthday when we finally get it done, who knows when that will be. I hope by this weekend I'll be feeling better but who knows?!

Fun week with Grandma

So I would have loved to post some pictures on here with our fun week with Grandma, but I cannot and I will tell you why. I feel so bad about this and it's hard for me to admit, but I broke my mom's camera! It was an ACCIDENT I swear! My mom knows, she was there, but my dad doesn't but he'll find out soon enough. I feel so bad because they just bought this one a few months back and now it's a goner. Here is the story... I was trying to take some cute pictures of J with E's bike helmet on because he looks so cute in pink :) well I was balanced on one knee and was trying to put the hand strap on so as not to risk dropping it (I've gotten into the habit of using the strap since we ruined our first digital camera by dropping it) well as I'm doing this some how J and I bump or some thing and I drop it right on it's open lens but only from about a foot up, if that, off the ground. I took a picture and then it started acting weird and was giving me an error code and the lens is now permanently stuck out, it won't close and now it won't take pictures either. I looked online about getting it fixed but it'll cost as much as the camera so might as well get a new one. I feel terrible. This happened right before I was going to download all the pictures off her camera on to my computer so I could have them and post them if I wanted, but obviously that didn't happen, and now they are stuck in her memory card. We didn't have my camera here because my hubby took that to Moab with him, I knew that I'd have my mom's camera while she was here, I guess I didn't think I'd break my mom's camera. Oh well, accidents happen, but I still feel horrible.
So any way on with some brighter news. We had so much fun with Grandma this week. I couldn't have done it with out you this week Mom, thanks a ton for coming and helping out and having fun with us!
Here are a few things we did...We went to the Children's Museum, the kids love it there and my Mom was pretty impressed with it too. It is a large museum with lots of stuff to do and see for all ages. We went on a nice Sunday drive in a really old neighborhood with cool old houses with amazing Architecture and it was fun to walk/drive around and get a closer look at those historic houses. We did the Pre-school thing on Tuesday and Thursday and my mom had fun watching E and her cute class in action. Grandma got to see E in her gymnastics class on Saturday which was really fun too, she looks so cute in her little leo. We went to the Zoo and that is always a hit, my mom loved it and so did the kids. It was so nice out that day so we saw pretty much all the animals that are out during this season and we even got to watch the Dolphin show. It was a BEATIFUL day both Wednesday and Thursday so it was nice to get out and walk around the neighborhood. Yesterday night we went out to eat for my birthday dinner since she was leaving today on my birthday we did it a day early. The kids were pretty cranky yesterday and we almost didn't go out but last minute we decided to go any way and I'm glad we did it was yummy and the kids ended up being really good and now I have leftovers for tonight! We had a fun filled week, that was just what I needed to distract me while daddy was gone. And now that I am alone for one night with the kids before he comes home I can't wait to see him and hear all about his trip.
The kids are both sick today. E went to bed last night with a fever and didn't sleep well, I know this because she slept with me in my bed so I didn't get much sleep either. J woke up roasting hot with a fever today, so they are both pretty cranky today. Good news, at least they waited until after Grandma left to get sick, that would have been no fun to be sick while she was here. Bad news, Daddy gets to come home to two sickies and one tired Mamma!
I'm hoping my mom's camera snaps out of it and fixes itself, but I won't count on it. It makes me mad how fragile these cameras are, can't they make them a little more tough, it can't even take a small hit to the lens, woossy, worthless piece of junk! Okay I'm done being mad at the camera, after all I dropped it. Until it is magically fixed or until we buy them a new one I won't have any pictures to show from our fun week, but at least we'll have lots of pictures from C's trip, right?! Back to my grumpy sicko kids!

Baby bands...

Just really quick...I thought this sight was cute babybands My friend posted this on her blog and is in the beginnings of her little bow business. I thought some of you may be interested in these for your family or for gifts for friends. I know that there are tons of different bow businesses out there but I thought they were adorable and unique with a hand made feel to them. Any way I told her I would spread the word for her and I think she does a good job with these. I'll post the link on my blog site.

I'm having fun with my mom and the kids love her. J even said "ma mo" meaning grandma, it was so cute. We're getting nice weather today and we are going to the zoo! I think my mom is more excited about going to the zoo than the kids :) I'm kidding but she is pretty excited. Well I must get kids ready now. I'll post pictures later.

Just a few things today, because I have to get cleaning. My Mom is coming in today Yay! Hence I need to get cleaning. I actually cleaned out my mom bus, I mean my Van yesterday it was getting pretty gross inside. I mean I really cleaned it like vacuuming and washing inside windows and wiping down the interior that isn't carpeted. It looks good, just for you Mom! Next, on to my disgusting bathroom yippee.
C is taking his test as we speak, or as I type I guess and I sure hope he does okay on it. He's been a little distracted this week with the upcoming Moab trip. He leaves with Josh tomorrow early morning and will get there some time Sunday. He is so excited, and I hope he has fun and doesn't kill himself I would really like it if he'd return in once peice ;)
I took J to the Doctor yesterday for his 18mo well baby check up. Well he has double ear infections, great. The Doctor made an interesting comment as he's looking at his history (which is a very long history at that), he said "wow at almost every "well baby check up" he has been sick or had and ear infection." That's funny I thought it was called a "well baby check up" oh well. They have threatened to put tubes in his ears a couple of times but I have told them I don't think that it is a good idea. Doctors HATE IT when you tell them that, but here is my reasoning as to why: When they first wanted to put them in his ears he wasn't even a year old, so young, and to get tubes in they'll tell you it is a common procedure that they do all the time (which I'm sure is true) and so there is very little risk involved. Well the risk involved has to do with being "put under" general anesthetics and I have some issues with them putting my son under general anesthetics because the risk includes respiratory issues when coming "out" of or waking up from general anesthetics and my son has had respiratory issues since the day he was born. He contracted a bad case of RSV at only two months old and his breathing hasn't been the same since, I'm pretty sure that that has, and will effect him the rest of his life and his Doctor knows this. Why then would they be willing to put him under if that is the only risk involved and that is his bodies weakest area. "I'm just not comfortable with it" I'd tell the Doctor and he was nice enough to listen to my request and we are both hoping he grows out of these ear infections. So I was surprised yesterday when he told me he had two ear infections that he didn't go into his "I think tubes might be a good option" speech. I think the reason he didn't bring it up was that his last ear infection was in August and he hasn't had one this whole winter which is a good sign. Any way so we didn't get his shots because he was already feeling pretty crummy with both his ears hurting him. I have to come back in three months to have his ears and breathing checked, the doctor is still worried about his breathing. Every time J gets a cold it goes straight to his lungs and he starts wheezing and we go straight to the Neb treatments. The Doctor wants to see if we can't fix it. He is on a Neb steroid called Pulmicort which I am supposed to give him one treatment daily (I haven't been the greatest at it) and this will hopefully help with his respiratory issues. I guess we'll find out at his next check up in three months if it is helping. My poor sick boy, he's so happy when he's not sick you'd never guess he has so many issues, he's a trooper that boy!
Okay so I thought this was going to be a short one, I guess not.

Quick background on these two pictures. This is J in time-out. Do I put him in time out NO. He goes there himself when he has done some thing naughty. How does he know when to go to time out? Well let's just say he sees it a lot with his sister. This is where we put E when she has her usual melt downs or splurges of disobedience. Well J has witnessed this many times and he thinks it's a game and puts himself there, it's so cute and I try not to laugh or let him know it's cute but some times I can't help it. Some times I'll hear him from the other room say "no no" and then when I come out E is no where in site and he is in the corner. What a funny boy.

He decides when he comes out, and he usually has this look on his face like "I'm so clever" some times he is smiling or laughing. So to say the least I don't think this will work for his time out, it's now just a game.

The cutest laughs

J has the cutest laugh and he has laughed like this since he first started laughing at just a few months old. When I say laugh I mean the really hard laugh like when they let go and can't control it and then out comes their "true" laugh, so when I say his "laugh" this is the one I'm talking about. I will do anything to make him laugh because I love it so much, okay not anything but almost. We call it his "grover laugh" because he does a little growl in the beginning. Some times when he really gets laughing he wheezes like an old man at the end which is pretty funny too, but he always does that growl at the beginning and it makes me laugh every time. E's "true" laugh is just as funny and so unique to her, we call her laugh "the cackle" because she always does a little, or maybe I should say big, witch like cackle at the end and it's so funny. I love how our children's laughs are different and unique to them I love to make them laugh. E has now been ending her laughs while sighing she'll say phrases like "Aaaahh that's funny" or "Aaaah that's good" like she totally enjoyed my joke, it's cute and makes me feel so funny. We've been trying to capture both of their laughs on video for some time now. I finally got a good one of J today on our digital camera, playing with an umbrella of all things, he thought it was fun when I'd make it pop out and scare him and then tickle him with it. sorry I had to delete the video I had mentioned his name in it twice actually, sorry:(

Beautiful Day!!!

It was the most beautiful day today it was sunny and 61 degrees out!!! (but it felt like 75 it was so nice!) It always seems like the nicest of days fall on Sundays and I love it! That way we come home eat and spend the day outside together as family and wander our fun Mormon populated community and visit with friends, and that is just what we did today it was so nice. I wanted to get some pictures of the kids but I got distracted chatting with friends and chasing the kids around, oh well. J got a lovely goose egg on his forehead today, he is so top heavy when ever he falls over his head is th first thing to hit the cement, poor boy. It's funny because the mark on his head is right in the middle between the eyebrows and it's pink and looks like some one kissed him with lipstick on, I guess that's better than being black and blue. Even with the bumps and scrapes both the kids got today they did have a lot of fun. The only thing wrong with having such a beautiful day like today is that tomorrow isn't going to seem so nice, and the kids will still beg me to go outside. I know I've said this a hundred times in the last week or so but I can't wait until spring! I'm finding it hard to have patience especially after a day like today.