Happy late Easter to everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful day and remember to keep the Savior in mind. Easter was good for our family. We decided to celebrate the whole candy, eggs, and bunny on Saturday so Sunday was just about the Savior. Saturday was a pretty nice day but still not summer, so we had Grandma and Grandpa Ashton come with us to a park and we did a picnic and a small Easter egg hunt with the kids. Ok, well Keegan just slept in Grandma's arms while Reighlyn found the eggs. Now you must all understand that the attention span of a one year old isn't very long, so I only hind about 5 or so eggs and they were all around one big tree at the park. Reighlyn knew there was candy in the eggs, so the first egg she found she tired eating all the candy inside before going to the next egg. By the second egg though she caught on and found it fun to get the eggs and put them in the basket. Since it was getting a little chilly we decided to wrap things up. We headed home. Now let me tell you it was very weird to come home and not have a huge list of things that had to be done. This might be new news to some I don't know, but we are moving! We have had our house up for sale about 2 weeks now. That's the reason we didn't have tons to do...I have been working my butt off the last couple of weeks going through and packing things up we don't use to make the home cleaner, staging the house, and deep cleaning. So on Saturday there was nothing to do really. We should have done some yard work probably, but it was nice to just relax. We did go get the car washed, but that was pretty much the only things we did that afternoon/evening.
Easter day was very relaxing for us. We had a little FHE in the morning and then went to church. We only went to sacrament meeting because we went to have a late lunch with Ana and Jonathan, along with Mike's parents. Its a good thing we only stayed at church for an hour because Mike was ready to kill Reighlyn. She didn't get a long enough nap, so she was cross. She was throwing crayons, fruit snacks, and pretty much anything else and when you took it away from her she would scream. That is the bad thing about 1 o'clock church with a child who usually takes a nap from 12-2. Luckily we have started sending her to nursery a little early, I know, but it makes church much better for everyone. So after the first hour of church it is usually easy sailing, except 2 weeks ago she started going through this mommy stage where I can't be 5 feet away from her without hearing, "mama, mama, mama" It was cute at first, but now its getting old. She won't even let dad give her a bath and put her to bed, so most nights I get to bath and put to bed both kids, not Mike's fault. But luckily both kids put themselves to sleep, so it really isn't that bad. And once there a sleep around 7:30 they sleep most of the night. Reighlyn sleeps until 6 or 7 in the morning, Keegan sleeps 6-8 hours gets up and eats and then goes back to bed....oh wonderful.
Reighlyn has decided that she loves to be outside. When we were cleaning out the garage Saturday morning, she was running around screaming like it was the funnest thing in the world. Needless to say when it was time to come in, she was not happy at all. It is just another reason why we are so excited that we are building our new house now. The new house should be done at the end of June/beginning of July, so still plenty of summer left for Reighlyn to play in our new fenced yard. Also the neighborhood we are building in has its own playground so that will be so nice to just walk there instead of packing them up in the car and driving to find a not so busy park somewhere. The playground in the neighborhood is only for those that live in the gated neighborhood, so that will be nice. The new house will also bring a new ward. We love the people of our ward, but they are not our age at all, so it will be nice to go to church and not have our kids be the only ones that make a noise. The neighborhood also has a 2 mile walkway they are putting in that goes along the river, so no more taking walks on a busy street.
So house stuff has been taking up a lot of time. With having to go in and pick out colors or paint, cupboards, carpet, flooring, etc. I never knew it was so time consuming to pick everything out,but when you have to go through and make sure every outlet is where you want it and that all the colors flow well...it takes a lot of time. But luckily we have finished all of that and they should start building in the next week or so. It will be exciting once it gets started and starts looking like a house. Mike and I will have to be out there a lot to make sure everything is going like it should and where it should. Really it will be more Mike than me since I have the kids. Ok, well we will update more later and I will try to get some pictures up also.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Coming home from the hospital...He is already a BYU fan like his dad
Reighlyn sitting in the fridge..her new favorite thing to do
I know its mean I took a picture first, but she pulled the drawer out and tried sitting on it like she does the fridge and she fell in. I helped her out right after I took to picture, I promise.
Our first family photo with 4 of us
Keegan on his blessing day. My wonderful sister made his blessing outfit. He even has a white tie on even though you can't see it
Ok, ok I know it has really been FOREVER since I updated this, but it seems like everyday I plan on doing it or even have a thought to do it, other things come up and before you know it the day is gone, well for that matter it seems the month is gone.
So I will try my best to catch you all up on the last 6 months of our lives since that is really the last time I blogged anything. First thing would be Reighlyn’s first trip to
Well for all those that know how big I get when I am pregnant you understand how uncomfortable I was around Christmas being pregnant with Keegan. It was so bad that I could no longer walk normal without very painful pains, so I was taking some wonderful drugs to help with the pain, Loratab. Well after taking this, it made Keegan very tired in the womb so the doctor decided to take mercy on me and take me 2 weeks and 1 day early. A planed c-section is a lot different than trying to go natural and then having to have a c-section. We checked in the hospital at
Having Keegan has changed our lives, but for good that’s for sure. Everyone asks me if it is so hard to have two children now, if I feel like I am just running around with my head cut off. My answer is always no. I was watching my sister’s kids before Keegan was born, so I was watching a 2 year old and two almost 1 year old, so having just one 1 year old and a new born is pretty easy to handle. Especially since Keegan sleeps a lot still. We have had quite a busy last two months though since Keegan was born. Keegan was born just a couple of days before spring semester started for Mike and I. I had registered for two classes and thought I could handle it and was for a while, but I felt I was unable to give all of the time I wanted to to the kids, so I dropped the classes and decided to be done with school for awhile, at least till the kids are older. Mike is currently registered for 4 classes this semester, but it finding out how hard it is to work a full time job, go to school full time and have two children. We are very blessed to have Mike working were he is though. After my c-section I had a lot of issues with healing. First my stomach took longer than excepted to heal, but that wasn’t the worst part. It was the migraines that I started having everyday when I quit taking my pain medication. They had no idea what was wrong and my doctor thought it could be a blood clot in my brain or leaking spinal fluid from my spinal block, so I had to go to the ER when I spiked a temperature of 103.5 to have an MRI and other tests ran. They didn’t find anything with a blood clot, but I was dehydrated, had low blood count, had a bladder infection, and an infection from breastfeeding. So they treated all of that, but I was still having bad migraines to the point were someone had to be here with me at all times to help with the kids because a lot of the time I was in bed with the lights off and a blanket over my head. Luckily we have great family, when Mike couldn’t be here my sister, mother-in-law, and Lauren helped out. There will never be enough we can do to thank them all for what they did. Well after a trip to a Neurologist, he decided my headaches were due to a sudden change in hormones since I had my baby via c-section when my body wasn’t at all in labor. So they gave me some drugs that helped my get through life until my hormones stabilized. Needless to say things are back to normal and things are great now.
One new piece of news that happened to us is we sold my car in January. Now we did this for one main purpose, my transmission was going out and that is not something we wanted to deal with. So while Mike was on his way home from work one night he just stopped to look at cars and ended up test driving one home that evening. Well needless to say I never saw my car again. We ended up trading in my car for a 2003 Ford Expedition Eddie Bower SUV. It is a very nice car and has taken me a while to get use to it, but I drive it like a pro now. We had always said we would get an SUV when we got rid of my car, so that’s what we did and have been very happy with the decision ever since. We will just plan on driving that to
When Keegan was a month old, we blessed him in our home, just like we did with Reighlyn. Now I know some think you should or have to bless your babies in church on a fast Sunday, but you don’t. You just need your bishop’s permission and one of the members of the bishopric to be present when you do it. Mike and I decided to bless Reighlyn at home for a couple of reasons. First was we blessed her on Thanksgiving Day when all of my family was here, so then they could stand in the circle and such. Also Mike and I feel that a baby blessing is a very personal thing, it is that child’s first father’s blessing and that is not something we want to do in sacrament meeting. We make it very personal by doing it in our home. We have a testimony meeting first to make sure the spirit is there and then we have the blessing. My dad and little brother flew out for the blessing which we did on February 3rd, which happens to be Ana’s birthday and also Super bowl Sunday with year, so we had the blessing and then had a super bowl party and then a birthday party all wrapped up into one exciting, wonderful, eventful evening.
Our next big adventure was making a trip to
I can’t believe that Keegan is already 2 months old. Things have been going pretty good with him. I must say that you learn things from your first to your second child. With Reighlyn we put her to sleep every night and it was very hard to keep her to sleep. That is not the case with Keegan, we have just laid him down, and so he has learned to put himself to sleep which is a great thing when you have two kids. The thing with Keegan is that he just loves to sleep. Right from the moment he was born he was pretty much sleeping through the night. During the day he didn’t do the normal new born schedule of eating every 2 hours, he would go every 4 hours. Then at night he would go about 6 hours. Well now I usually feed him around 7 and then go lay him down and he sleeps through the night and will wake up about 5 or so to eat and then goes back to sleep until 9. Reighlyn is also putting herself to sleep around 7 or 7:30 and then she sleeps until 6 or so, then wakes up, so she usually has a little milk and then goes back to sleep until 8:30 or so. We really are blessed to have children who sleep and are easy to put to sleep. Keegan did go through a stage were he didn’t want to be put down, but do you blame him, he has a big sister who just tries to love him too much. She loves to give kisses and hugs and really thinks she should hold him all the time. Oh and when he is cry she will force him to take his pacifier whether he wants it or not, but she means well, she hates it when he is crying himself to sleep, she stands at the bedroom door and repeats over and over, “Brother, brother”. Keegan now loves to watch Einstein with Reighlyn in his saucer. He just loves to be in the upright position and since he has been holding his head up since a week old, it works to leave him the saucer. Ok well I think that is enough updating for one day, I will update soon…I promise.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
We are back from LA safe and sound and no gun was needed. Our trip was wonderful, but as usual too short. We started our trip by getting up at 5am to leave by 6am to get to the airport on time. Our plane left at 9:30, so we actually made it through security and everything with only a couple of minutes to spare before they started boarding the plane. We waited till the last call to get on because who would want to get on first and be crammed that much longer with a baby, right? So Reighlyn had her first flying experience and it was great. We gave her medicine to help her sleep,but that didn't kick in until the last 20 minutes of the hour and half flight. But we just read books, played with toys, snacked and kept all the people on the plane entertained. When we got there we had to wait a bit for our shuttle to take us to the hotel, but from there the trip was pretty low key. We ordered some room service and just got settled in while we waited for Marc and Angie and their girls to get there because we were starving. Once they got there, we went to In N' Out, a burger joint only in California for a quick bite and then headed to Venice beach. It was so beautiful there, with wonderful 70 degree weather with a nice ocean breeze. We walked around the 100's of shops they have there and trying to avoid any drunks and bums. Mike bought some new sunglasses and a new shirt so he was pretty excited. Then we stopped and watch the "Calypso Tumblers" do an act. I'm not sure if any of you watched "America's Got Talent", but they were in the top 15 I think, so it was cool to see them in person performing on the street. Then Reighlyn and I made our way onto the beach for our first ocean experience. The water was a little cool, but so beautiful. I will be posting a cute video Mike took of it. Then we headed to dinner at the Universal City Walk.It was really neat walking around, but the place we ate at turns into a night club, so as the night went on more and more people were showing up wearing less and less....kind of weird for a couple of Mormon families out for dinner.
The next day Mike and I got up and ate breakfast at Denny's then went to the grocery store for a couple of things. Then on the way home we saw this place called "KJ's Diner" So I stopped in and asked if I could get a shirt since my name was KJ. They were so nice there, they gave Reighlyn and I a free cup of fruit while we waited for the manager to come in on his day off to get me a shirt....nice people in LA. Then we met up with Marc and the girls and went to Manhattan Beach for a little bit before catching some quick lunch. Then it was time for them to drop me off at the hotel and so they could all go to the BYU vs. UCLA game. While they were gone Reighlyn and I chilled in the room for a while, then we decided to go swimming...also a first for Reighlyn. She loved it! We brought a little floaty for her and some of her bath toys and she went to town. We were down at the pool for about an hour, then it was time for a nap..for both of us. After a nap and Reighlyn waking up having peed through everything, I decided I better do some quick laundry since she had successfully peed through all the extra clothes I brought, included all over me on the plane. So after laundry we ordered some room service, had a quick bath and then Reighlyn was down for the night by 8. Mike didn't get home until about 9, so I just read while I waited up for him.
Sunday was mostly a travel day. We got up and had some breakfast we had bought at the store the day before and then packed. Then it was time to go to the airport to catch our flight that left at 11:20. Well right before we were to board they announced they had over booked the flight by 19 people so they were looking for people to fly at a later time. We decided why not, we didn't have anything pressing to do. So we got bumped from the 11:20 and re-booked for the 4:05 flight. And for doing that they gave us each $400 delta vouchers that are good for a year....YEAH! So we will probably take a trip sometime in March once the baby is born...who knows were though. The wait at the airport was very chill, we just walked around got some lunch and looked at all the shops they have there...it was like being in a mini mall or something. Reighlyn did great on the flight home after the first 5 minutes of crying....she slept the rest of the flight and the whole drive home. And to go with that slept through the night till 7 the next morning....what a good baby.
So all in all it was a very fun trip,but it's good to be home. I was sick of eating out that's for sure. Reighlyn and I will only be home for a week though before we head out to the Midwest to visit good old Iowa for the first time for Reighlyn. We are leaving the 17th, so less than a week! We are traveling fools. So the next update will probably come after we get back from that trip with fun pictures to follow.
The next day Mike and I got up and ate breakfast at Denny's then went to the grocery store for a couple of things. Then on the way home we saw this place called "KJ's Diner" So I stopped in and asked if I could get a shirt since my name was KJ. They were so nice there, they gave Reighlyn and I a free cup of fruit while we waited for the manager to come in on his day off to get me a shirt....nice people in LA. Then we met up with Marc and the girls and went to Manhattan Beach for a little bit before catching some quick lunch. Then it was time for them to drop me off at the hotel and so they could all go to the BYU vs. UCLA game. While they were gone Reighlyn and I chilled in the room for a while, then we decided to go swimming...also a first for Reighlyn. She loved it! We brought a little floaty for her and some of her bath toys and she went to town. We were down at the pool for about an hour, then it was time for a nap..for both of us. After a nap and Reighlyn waking up having peed through everything, I decided I better do some quick laundry since she had successfully peed through all the extra clothes I brought, included all over me on the plane. So after laundry we ordered some room service, had a quick bath and then Reighlyn was down for the night by 8. Mike didn't get home until about 9, so I just read while I waited up for him.
Sunday was mostly a travel day. We got up and had some breakfast we had bought at the store the day before and then packed. Then it was time to go to the airport to catch our flight that left at 11:20. Well right before we were to board they announced they had over booked the flight by 19 people so they were looking for people to fly at a later time. We decided why not, we didn't have anything pressing to do. So we got bumped from the 11:20 and re-booked for the 4:05 flight. And for doing that they gave us each $400 delta vouchers that are good for a year....YEAH! So we will probably take a trip sometime in March once the baby is born...who knows were though. The wait at the airport was very chill, we just walked around got some lunch and looked at all the shops they have there...it was like being in a mini mall or something. Reighlyn did great on the flight home after the first 5 minutes of crying....she slept the rest of the flight and the whole drive home. And to go with that slept through the night till 7 the next morning....what a good baby.
So all in all it was a very fun trip,but it's good to be home. I was sick of eating out that's for sure. Reighlyn and I will only be home for a week though before we head out to the Midwest to visit good old Iowa for the first time for Reighlyn. We are leaving the 17th, so less than a week! We are traveling fools. So the next update will probably come after we get back from that trip with fun pictures to follow.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
All right, so its been a couple of weeks since the last post and it seems as though a lot has happened since then.
First we will start off with the new news with Mike. He quit working at ThermoFisher in the production area after 6 long months of doing something he didn't like and working with people he really didn't enjoy. No worries though, he does have a new job that he is MUCH happier at. He is working for the Cache Valley Radio Group doing sales. He started on Friday of last week since his boss would be out of the office all this week. He is on salary for the first year while he builds his client list up then he will be moved to commission. If he starts making more money with commission than his salary before a year then there is the possibilities to be switched sooner. With this job he will be signing businesses up to do advertising on the radio. Since we all know that radio is pretty much the best way to advertise it shouldn't be too hard to get clients. He loves not having to work certain hours during the day and not having to use a time clock. That is Mike's kind of job for sure.
School has started once again. Mike is taking 5 classes online which is a lot, but we have the time all figured out for the most part so I think it will work. He usually gets off around 5, then he comes home and plays with Reighlyn while I get dinner ready, we eat, and then it's time for him to go do homework in the office. While he is doing homework I get dinner cleaned up, Reighlyn feed, bathed, and put to bed. Then its time for me to do homework. It's pretty nice that Reighlyn goes to bed at 7:30 or so. That way Mike and I can get a couple of hours of homework in along with spending come quality time together before bedtime. Our days start pretty early now, we get up around 6 and right now we just go one walks as a family,but soon I will have a bike and then we will go on bike rides together while the weather is nice. We will have to find something else to do for exercise come winter, we are thinking maybe going swimming a couple of days a week and then just working out in our basement the other days since we have a treadmill and exercise bike.
My days right now are very relaxed and chill. I was suppose to start watching the Gleisberg girls full time as of Monday, but due to a employment change for Jonathan, getting hired on by the USU police department, he won't start work until the 10th of September when he goes down to SLC for 3 months for the police academy. So while I have a couple of days off I have been working hard to get ahead in my classes, which are two, so then I won't feel too stressed when I do have them from 8-5 Monday- Friday.
More new exciting news is that Mike, Reighlyn, and I will be taking a trip to California! We leave next Friday morning and will be visiting the beautiful city of LA. Mike is going for a BYU game with his brother and we all thought why not bring the families and have a little mini vacation. So we will get there Friday morning and start going site-seeing and won't stop except for them to go to the game on Saturday evening. While they are at the game, Reighlyn and I will be chilling at the hotel, taking naps, relaxing, swimming....whatever we want! Then we will be coming back Sunday afternoon so we can be back for our busy work week to begin Monday morning. It will be exciting because I have never been there and obviously Reighlyn hasn't either... so it will be FUN! Don't worry we will take TONS of pictures to show you all when we get back.
Another trip to report will be one Reighlyn and I will be taking without Mike...SAD =( I will be driving home with Ariana and her girls on the 17th of September for her to go to a wedding she is in. Jonathan was going to go but since he got the new job...no more Midwest trip for him. I am SO EXCITED because I wasn't going to be able to go home with year since Mike started a new job and I will be too pregnant to fly around the holidays. I haven't been to Iowa since May of 2006 and Reighlyn as never been there, so it will another exciting new trip for her. I think we are planning on taking the girls to the zoo one day, Tasha is in a Parade the Friday we are there and she is marching at halftime in a football game...so those should all be fun things to take the girls to. The rest of the time will just be relaxing time. We might also do a little sewing during the day since we just found out what we are having....
Ok enough stalling....we are having a little BOY! And before you start thinking you never know it could end up being a girl....no believe me it's a boy, no question about it. I have pictures to prove it. So that will be the first boy on the Wright side and the first boy on the Ashton side to have that last name. So everyone wins. Mike was really hoping for a boy so I am glad it is. I wasn't really hoping either way I just thought it was a boy since I have been so sick on this pregnancy compared to Reighlyn. Good news is I haven't gained any weight yet and I am half way there. The doctors only want a weight gain of 15 pounds so I am doing good as far as that goes. I actually lost 5 pounds at first, but have now just recently put those 5 back on so we are back to 0 pounds gained. I am not sick any more though and everything looked great with our little guy. The name we are thinking of is Keegan Michael Ashton. He is due the 15th of January, so not too much longer to go!
So quick new news on Reighlyn is that she is now the proud owner of 4 teeth. Two on the bottom and 2on the top and they all came at about the same time. Poor girl as got some buck teeth though for the top...a pretty big space,but hopefully that will close up a little as she gets more...if not we will love her just the same. Mike said he would be ok with her having buck teeth till she is 19 then we will get her braces...he thinks that will keep the boys away. I think it will just make her hate us. Reighlyn is also now done breastfeeding for the sake of me since she now has teeth. We decided to put her on Rice Milk, which she loves. Once she is one or maybe a little bit before then we will put her on cow milk. But she is loving her food and has decided that baby food is not for her. She loves noodles, rice, bread, potatoes, cheerios, yogurt, cottage cheese and pretty much anything else mom and dad are eating. She also had her first lollipop week or so ago. She thought she was living large...when really all she was doing we making a HUGE mess...don't worry I got pictures of that wonderful day. Alright well I can't think of anything else right now so I will end. But don't worry there will be more to come soon!
First we will start off with the new news with Mike. He quit working at ThermoFisher in the production area after 6 long months of doing something he didn't like and working with people he really didn't enjoy. No worries though, he does have a new job that he is MUCH happier at. He is working for the Cache Valley Radio Group doing sales. He started on Friday of last week since his boss would be out of the office all this week. He is on salary for the first year while he builds his client list up then he will be moved to commission. If he starts making more money with commission than his salary before a year then there is the possibilities to be switched sooner. With this job he will be signing businesses up to do advertising on the radio. Since we all know that radio is pretty much the best way to advertise it shouldn't be too hard to get clients. He loves not having to work certain hours during the day and not having to use a time clock. That is Mike's kind of job for sure.
School has started once again. Mike is taking 5 classes online which is a lot, but we have the time all figured out for the most part so I think it will work. He usually gets off around 5, then he comes home and plays with Reighlyn while I get dinner ready, we eat, and then it's time for him to go do homework in the office. While he is doing homework I get dinner cleaned up, Reighlyn feed, bathed, and put to bed. Then its time for me to do homework. It's pretty nice that Reighlyn goes to bed at 7:30 or so. That way Mike and I can get a couple of hours of homework in along with spending come quality time together before bedtime. Our days start pretty early now, we get up around 6 and right now we just go one walks as a family,but soon I will have a bike and then we will go on bike rides together while the weather is nice. We will have to find something else to do for exercise come winter, we are thinking maybe going swimming a couple of days a week and then just working out in our basement the other days since we have a treadmill and exercise bike.
My days right now are very relaxed and chill. I was suppose to start watching the Gleisberg girls full time as of Monday, but due to a employment change for Jonathan, getting hired on by the USU police department, he won't start work until the 10th of September when he goes down to SLC for 3 months for the police academy. So while I have a couple of days off I have been working hard to get ahead in my classes, which are two, so then I won't feel too stressed when I do have them from 8-5 Monday- Friday.
More new exciting news is that Mike, Reighlyn, and I will be taking a trip to California! We leave next Friday morning and will be visiting the beautiful city of LA. Mike is going for a BYU game with his brother and we all thought why not bring the families and have a little mini vacation. So we will get there Friday morning and start going site-seeing and won't stop except for them to go to the game on Saturday evening. While they are at the game, Reighlyn and I will be chilling at the hotel, taking naps, relaxing, swimming....whatever we want! Then we will be coming back Sunday afternoon so we can be back for our busy work week to begin Monday morning. It will be exciting because I have never been there and obviously Reighlyn hasn't either... so it will be FUN! Don't worry we will take TONS of pictures to show you all when we get back.
Another trip to report will be one Reighlyn and I will be taking without Mike...SAD =( I will be driving home with Ariana and her girls on the 17th of September for her to go to a wedding she is in. Jonathan was going to go but since he got the new job...no more Midwest trip for him. I am SO EXCITED because I wasn't going to be able to go home with year since Mike started a new job and I will be too pregnant to fly around the holidays. I haven't been to Iowa since May of 2006 and Reighlyn as never been there, so it will another exciting new trip for her. I think we are planning on taking the girls to the zoo one day, Tasha is in a Parade the Friday we are there and she is marching at halftime in a football game...so those should all be fun things to take the girls to. The rest of the time will just be relaxing time. We might also do a little sewing during the day since we just found out what we are having....
Ok enough stalling....we are having a little BOY! And before you start thinking you never know it could end up being a girl....no believe me it's a boy, no question about it. I have pictures to prove it. So that will be the first boy on the Wright side and the first boy on the Ashton side to have that last name. So everyone wins. Mike was really hoping for a boy so I am glad it is. I wasn't really hoping either way I just thought it was a boy since I have been so sick on this pregnancy compared to Reighlyn. Good news is I haven't gained any weight yet and I am half way there. The doctors only want a weight gain of 15 pounds so I am doing good as far as that goes. I actually lost 5 pounds at first, but have now just recently put those 5 back on so we are back to 0 pounds gained. I am not sick any more though and everything looked great with our little guy. The name we are thinking of is Keegan Michael Ashton. He is due the 15th of January, so not too much longer to go!
So quick new news on Reighlyn is that she is now the proud owner of 4 teeth. Two on the bottom and 2on the top and they all came at about the same time. Poor girl as got some buck teeth though for the top...a pretty big space,but hopefully that will close up a little as she gets more...if not we will love her just the same. Mike said he would be ok with her having buck teeth till she is 19 then we will get her braces...he thinks that will keep the boys away. I think it will just make her hate us. Reighlyn is also now done breastfeeding for the sake of me since she now has teeth. We decided to put her on Rice Milk, which she loves. Once she is one or maybe a little bit before then we will put her on cow milk. But she is loving her food and has decided that baby food is not for her. She loves noodles, rice, bread, potatoes, cheerios, yogurt, cottage cheese and pretty much anything else mom and dad are eating. She also had her first lollipop week or so ago. She thought she was living large...when really all she was doing we making a HUGE mess...don't worry I got pictures of that wonderful day. Alright well I can't think of anything else right now so I will end. But don't worry there will be more to come soon!
Friday, August 03, 2007
More upbeat news is that Reighlyn turned 9 months yesterday! We didn’t have a whole lot going on. I only had one baby to watch yesterday, Brookley who is 6 months old. I watched her from 8-4. Since she isn’t mobile yet, she likes to just hang out on her blanket or swing, which makes for an easier day for me. Reighlyn has decided that she loves to help mom with whatever I am doing. So yesterday when I was starting to unpack our bags, she decided to unpack her bag, which meant there were diapers, toys, juice, baby food and clothes everywhere….oh what a good helper, right?
She also has learned that she likes being upstairs with mom while she works on the computer. We brought up a little TV for her to watch and she actually just watching her show and plays, which helps me out a lot. But she thinks that she should crawl over and try to push buttons on the TV and play with the cords. Or she just gets right up to the TV so her face is touching the screen and watches it…. I swear my child is going to go blind before she is two.
I did weigh her yesterday for the first time since her 6 month check up and she only weighs 15 pounds, so she has lost weight, because at her 6 month I think she was at 15 or 16 pounds…. But I feed her all the time it seems, so I think we are going to be switching her to vitamin D milk so she is getting all that she needs. She also learned how to feed herself yesterday. Before she would get the food in her hands, but not know what to do with it, but she decided to put it in her mouth, so now she is happier. She can eat her Cheerios at her pace, not moms. As soon as I learn how, I will put a video of her feeding herself on here so you all can see.
Reighlyn’s new favorite toy is now this little bike that Ana brought over. It can either be a bike or you can stand it up so she can walk behind it. Well she thinks it is fun to play with all the toys on it, loves to sit on it and hold on to the handle bars and just laugh, but she has decided today that she loves to walk behind it. I guess now that she knows how to crawl she is ready for the next adventure. She actually does a pretty good job walking behind it. Sometimes she forgets she is standing up and just falls down, but she forgets to let go of the bike she is comes down on top of her. Don’t worry she’s a tough kid, she doesn’t cry really when she gets hurt, she is just ready to try it again.
Ok, well not to make this blog update all about Reighlyn, but she is the only one that has any new exciting news, so that’s all for now…enjoy the pictures!
Well something very interesting and actually scary happened on the 1st of August here in Logan, UT. The mountains right outside our front windows caught on fire! Now I am sure you have all heard about all the wild fires we have been having here in Utah since it is so dry, but I never thought it would be so close. During the day I kept hearing sirens, but I didn't think anything of it because they do pull people over a lot on Center street and a lot of old people up the hill from us get hurt a lot, but after an hour or so of hearing them I decided I would look out the window and wow was I surprised to see the mountain on fire and just tons of smoke everywhere. I tried calling my sister-in-laws and mother-in-laws because they both live up in that part but there was no answer so I started getting a little scared that they had been evacuated from their homes. Plus with the way the canyon winds are the fire could have easily made it's way down the hill towards our house. So there I am with Reighlyn watching this fire thinking, I am not ready if they come and tell us to leave. So I started packing a couple of bags just in case. Mike called and decided to come home in case we did have to leave, which we would go to Ana and Jonathan's since they live on the other side of town. We ended up not having to leave thank goodness, but we were ready just in case. This fire definitely has made us realize we need to really get our food storage and such together and a good 72 hour kit so we don't even have to worry about any of this, we could just leave very quickly if needed. So that's our goal for the next month to get the 72 hour kits all ready and to work on our food storage. I will post some pictures of the fire and of the planes dropping the red dust that helps stop the fire. At least it made for some cool pictures!
Monday, July 30, 2007
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