Am I The Only One?

I love blogging. What I love even more is getting comments on my blog. It is nice to know that I am not just writing this for myself. Well, I guess for myself and my mom and Nat. However, it has come to my attention that some people have checked out the blog and not made a comment. Can you imagine the shock and the horror? Come on, don't be shy,if you stop by, just say hi, it will make my day. (I promise, I wasn't trying to make that a Dr. Seuss rhyme, it just happened that way by accident)

P.S. I hope this isn't like the people who dig for complements and say, "I look so fat today," so that you will say, "oh, no you look beautiful, I love your shirt."

P.P.S Is that right, or is it P.S.S.? If you don't know how to make a comment, you just click right below here where it says COMMENTS, with a number in front of it.

Hallie

I am so glad that Hallie is the oldest. She is such a great example to her sisters. She is honestly the most amazing kid I know. Here are some of the things that I love about her:

1. She has so much compassion and empathy. She is always thinking of others first. If she gets a special treat or something, she will say, "shouldn't we get one for Avery?" Half of the time if Hayden gets hurt she goes to Hallie. Hallie will pick her up, give her a hug and a kiss and say in her sweetest voice, "Oh bubbas, what happened, are you okay?"

2. She is such a good helper, most of the time I don't even have to ask her, she is really good at anticipating what I need. Most mornings she wakes up and gets the girls breakfast and makes sure that they stay out of trouble. That is a lifesaver for me. I remember one morning when Avery was a few months old and Hallie was 2, I heard Hallie crying for help. I found her in Avery's room in the crib and they were both covered in poop. She had tried to change Avery's diaper, what a help!

3. She tries really hard at everything she does. She always puts in 100%. She loves school and is so smart.

4. She is so responsible. I don't usually have to tell her to do her homework or get ready for school. She likes to pack her own lunch. In fact she likes to do most things herself. I really think I could leave her in charge of the house (I won't of course, not yet anyway!).

5. She has a real enthusiasm for life. She looks forward to things with real excitement and anticipation. She loves to laugh and have fun. It is so easy to get her excited for things and to make her feel special.

6. She has such a positive outlook on life. She is almost always happy and really sees the good things in life.

7. She is so creative and artistic. She is always making some new art project. She loves to write storys. She is always singing some song she has made up.

8. She is so sweet and thoughtful. Many nights when I go to bed, there is a love note or picture on my pillow that she has made for me. I always write her a little love note on her napkin in her lunch. Now that she packs her own lunch, she writes herself a little love note, it's pretty funny!

I am so lucky to have such an amazing and special girl! I love her so much. I need to be better at showing her how much I love her. I get too busy with all of the things of the day and don't take enough time to tell her just how special she is. I'll do better.

Josh Groban

I have always kind of made fun of people who like Josh Groban. Well that isn't true. . . I don't know anyone who likes Josh Groban, I only know people who are FANATICS, by fanatics I mean they are kind of crazy. Well a lot of people have music on their blogs, and a lot of them have JG music on them, and so I have been listening, and I have to say that I think that I am becoming a fan. I am especially loving "February Song" thanks to David and "You Are Loved" thanks to Melissa. If I start driving all night to see him at a CD signing, sending him a Book of Mormon or bearing my testimony about him (actual things that I have personally witnessed), please stop me.

Hayden

I think this girl is going to give me every gray hair that I will eventually get. She has learned to use the DVD player, and that has really made life fun. Her attention span is only about 4 minutes so, she gets into about 30 DVD's a day, touching every single one of them with her grimy, sticky, dirty hands. And the one's that are not secured in their cases she shakes and gets them nice and scratched up. Oh, and she leaves them on the floor where she runs over them with her stroller and steps on them with her "pretty" shoes, what we call dress-up shoes.

Yesterday when it was time to pick Hallie up from school, she apparently was not ready to go.

Me: "Come on Hayden, time to go get Hallie."

Her: "In a minute, I waches the pig." (She was watching Charlotte's Web, her current favorite movie.)

Me: "Hayden, we really need to go."

Her: "In a minute, I watches the pig."

Me: "No, we really need to go now, you can watch it later."
Her: "In a minute, I watches the pig."

It went on like that for several minutes while I was rounding up Jaxton, putting him his car seat, finding her shoes/pants/shirt, as she no longer chooses to wear clothes. She also has discovered she can open the fridge/freezer. She came walking up to me today with a roll of frozen cookie dough, eating it like a Popsicle. Ahh, the joys of 2 year olds. She is so funny.

Simpsonize Yourself!

What a handsome couple! If you are looking for a rediculous way to waste a little time you can Simpsonize yourself. Nick and I had fun doing it. Here is the link: http://simpsonizeme.com/# Sorry to those of you who hate the Simpson's. I don't watch the Simpson's but I thought it was fun to see myself as a cartoon.

This is really sad but the Simpsonized me has much better hair than I do, I wish my hair looked that good. I have been trying to figure out what to do with it for the last year and a half and it is really driving me crazy.

So, Apparently I Should Not Take Vicodin

About three months into my pregnancy with Jaxton, I got a hole in one of my teeth. The dentist scheduled an appointment for as soon as I had the baby, since I couldn't have x-rays and he wasn't sure if I needed a root canal. Well, my appointment was for when Jaxton was in the ICU, and I just haven't had the time to reschedule, can't imagine why. So, on Sunday night when we were at my mom's house, my gums started to swell. She thought I probably had an abscess tooth.

So I went to the dentist on Monday, sure enough it was an abscess and I had to have a root canal. I hadn't had a cavity since I was 4, I think, so I haven't even had a filling that I can remember. As the dentist said, I guess when I do it I do it all the way. So after the root canal, he prescribed me vicodin, but I wasn't going to fill it. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, after all, I delivered three babies without any pain meds. I thought it was pretty funny that they give you vicodin for pain for a root canal, but when you have a baby, they send you home with a prescription of 800 mg Motrin. Which do you think hurts more? Hum, I wonder? Nick and my mom thought I should fill the prescription just in case so I did.

So I got home about 7:00, took the vicodin and sat down to feed Jaxton. About a half hour later he was asleep and I got up to put him in bed. I didn't quite feel right when I stood up and Nick said "um, your swaying back and forth." I didn't realize I was, so I tried to stop the swaying, but was unable to. Nick took the baby from me and I attempted to walk to my room, not very successfully. Nick said I looked like I was drunk, I guess I will just have to take his word for it.

I took another one four hours later as it prescribes, I already felt like crap, I figured I might as well not be in pain if I already feel like crap. So 3 1/2 days later I still feel weird. My head is still swimming and I have a headache. I don't know if this is from the root canal or the vicodin, but it stinks!

How Much Fun Can Five People Have In A Photo Booth?

Too much. This weekend Nick and I dropped the kiddos off at my mom's house and headed down to L.A. for Nick's cousin Joy's wedding. It was the most beautiful wedding I have ever been to. We had so much fun. She had a photo booth at the wedding, isn't that the funnest idea? (You can imagine how fun all of the drunk people thought it was if we sober people had this much fun!!) Nick and I did the photo booth first and then we thought we would try and get Nick, me, Emily(Nick's sister), Tyler and Jammie(Nick's brother and sister-in-law) all into the photo booth. None of us are exactly petite people. We were laughing so hard we couldn't even try and pose. I will post more pic's of the wedding if Emily ever emails them to me (hint, hint Em.)

Emily got squished out of all but the first picture

I think I have only done the photo booth once when I was about 11 with Kelly Dockendorf at the University Mall, I was a bit out of practice, I forgot to look at the camera, eventhough the last thing the lady said to me before we went in was, don't look at the screen, look at the camera.

Nick with Tyler, Emily and his cousins Freddy and Andy. This was so fun!

A Week In the Life Of. . .

I kept thinking that I didn't have anything to post, but then I downloaded the pictures off of my camera and found that I had taken pictures and not remembered. This is what we have been up to the last week.

Poor Hayden got a bloody nose from falling off of the tramploline. I thought Aunt Nat would especially appreciate this one, as this is what she looked like most of the winter months growing up. The last time I saw her with a cold she was still using the rolled t.p. trick!

Jaxton looks like such a little man! He is getting big so fast. He is really noisy. Checking his heartrate is getting harder because he is so wiggly and loud. He grabs the stethoscope out of my ears. We went to the cardiologist today. He is still doing well. The doctor upped his medication and said that he will need an echo cardiogram in two months, but he is otherwise doing great.

Attack of the killer spider! Avery has some sort of bug bite and her poor cheek is so swollen. The picture doesn't do it justice. It looks like she has about four grapes in her cheek! Hallie and Avery are convinced a tarantula or some other kind of deadly spider has bitten her. They are always coming inside telling me about the "deadly" spiders they find outside.

Family Night Fun!

I guess our dress code for FHE has really gotten relaxed.