Spring

We've had the crazy Utah spring weather. Yesterday Ty came in to tell me that it was snowing and the sun was shining at the same time. It was beautiful and felt warm earlier this week (60ish degrees.) We get sick when the weather changes, and this time is no exception. Ty has had a bad cough for weeks. Right about the time he got over it Jacki got it. Wes woke up yesterday and was so unhappy. Good things have come out of the sickness though. #1 is that Wes cuddled with both Ty and I yesterday. He NEVER cuddles unless he is sick or tired. That is such a sweet moment when he does. #2 We've been relaxing. Friday we got to watch Princess and the Frog and get take out from Boccaias, which is one of our favorites. Ty got me a vegetarian calzone, which was so good.

Baby is moving a lot. Doc. Swift says that he seems pretty content in there, but I'm progressing every week. The baby is still growing, so I haven't decided whether to evict him or not. I liked going into labor on my own with Jacki, but I didn't like going a week over my due date. I can get started anytime after my next appointment on Wed. My mom leaves the following Wed. to stay with my sister Rachie who is having her cesarean section on the 31st. By the way, I had no idea how to spell that, I had to look it up. Anyways, my mother in law would like an April baby because we don't have any Craven birthdays in April. This is another example of not being able to please everyone, so I think I'll just let baby come when he wants to- even though that will probably mean going in for non stress monitoring....I still hope that every time I wake up during the night, it's a contraction waking me up, but nope!!

The kids are ready for spring. They love getting outside. Jacki has been "helping Ty" in the garden. He had to move a pipe that was buried very deep. She found a purple rock, and brought it inside. I made her take it back out. Wes heads straight for the sandbox as soon as we open the door. He loves it and can go up and down by himself (except for the steep ladder that comes out of the tunnel.)

Who wants to say the prayer

I mentioned before that the coveted task in our family is pushing the garage opener. The runner up is saying the prayer. Jacki has to say it. If someone else says it, then she says it when they are done. But, I still ask, "Who wants to say the prayer?" Wes always raises his hand. He doesn't know what he's raising it for, but hey if Jacki wants to do it, so does he. I just asked who wants to go to grandmas, and he raised both hands....touchdown.

Why I get nothing done

It took us all morning to get the rooms clean. Jacki had so much drama, "I can't clean my room by myself. It's too hard." Wes helped clean his room more than she helped do hers, and of course that totally wore me out.

I got on the computer to respond to an email....5 minutes tops. The kids went upstairs to the kitchen. Jacki told me she wanted some yogurt. She can handle that by herself. I heard the microwave and asked what she was putting in the microwave. She said yogurt and apples, so I went in there. The oven was on and heating up to 275 degrees. There was an apple in there that was sitting on the bottom and burned where it was sitting. I opened the freezer to get them a Creamie, and there was a large bowl in there with yogurt and oatmeal. Then, there was oatmeal and yogurt all over the floor (How far can one little container of yogurt go?) Ty's going to be mad that the kitchen is a disaster when we just cleaned it....welcome to my world. I can only imagine what they've done in the time while I've been writing this, but I didn't want to forget!! At least Wes is strapped in eating his Creamie, so the worst that he can do is have ice cream in his hair, outfit, chair, table, rug....do I dare look?

Helpers

Last Saturday Ty started a loft building project in the garage to give us more storage space. He is very handy. He got two little helpers that came with the project. Jacki didn't want to get her clothes dirty, so she thought she could just wear her underwear out there. We told her to find her pants that had holes in them. Instead, she took out all of her summer clothes, clothes that we are saving because they are too big, and her floor was covered. Wes didn't care that he had a sopping wet (and poopy) diaper and wanted to go right out with Ty. He was really mad at me for changing him....what a mean mom to not let him run around with a wet diaper. I really can't believe it doesn't bother him. Wes crawled all around the garage and got dirty and was so excited to be out. Jacki tried riding her bike in the garage, which didn't really work since there were engines, boards, saws, etc. What was I doing while all this was happening...cooking, and I thought I'd hurry and get in a shower, but I only got half of my legs shaved before I heard screaming. Wes was grumpy, so Ty had sent him inside. Despite all of this, Ty got most of the loft done.

My kids make me laugh

This is one of those days that my kids made me laugh. They are cute little people- even if Wes did just throw the case of blank cds at my foot....Ty we really need to organized the office. Speaking of organizing, it didn't work to have one big bin for all of Jacki's toys, and I didn't like the organizers that are out there because they don't have lids and aren't see through, plus I think the kids will grow out of them. So, last night I took the night off and went with a friend to bunco, and Ty and Jacki built shelves for the small Tupperware that we got to hold each different type of toy. This morning I was helping her get the room put back together and let Wessie play. I couldn't hear him, and I knew that silence means trouble with him. I found him in my bathroom putting on mascara. He was poking his eye with the wand. He looked so funny, I didn't wash it off all morning because it just made me smile too much. The picture doesn't do it justice because he was moving and we need a new camera, but to top it off, he's wearing his inmate outfit that my mom gave him.


Jacki's birthday is coming and the celebrating has started. The other day I was making pizza, and Jacki said that she wanted a Dora pizza. This was the result....we used our imagination and had a lot of fun. Afterwards she wanted to put candles it it like you would for a cake, so I had to explain why there was melted wax in the pizza.  She got to celebrate with her two cousins that have birthdays close to her.  The morning after, she came into my room when she woke up and was wearing her tiara and dress she got and said, "I loved all my birthday surprises."

A little bit of everything

Ty and I have been taking the kids out one night a week and going out by ourselves another night. The kids love to go to Lowes, and we always need something there, so it works out good. I'm reading how to get organized in a year (yes I'm sure it will take me that long since I do random things like put the cheese in the cupboard and the spices in the fridge. Ty asks me where something is, and then usually follows up with the question, "and if it's not there?" So, last week I was reading about organizing the closet. Our closet is a small walk in, but there is NO LIGHT and there WAS no shelving, so our Lowes adventure was to find a portable light that wouldn't burn out and find some kind of portable shelving. SUCCESS! Shelving was on sale- only $10 per shelving unit. Then, there were insert shelves for shoes for $7. I think this may be the best $10 we've spent. (I may even forgive Lowes for the $13 bag of garbage bags that I bought that said there was a $10 coupon inside. The coupon was there- too bad it expire in Aug 2009.) Anyway, we had fun shopping at Lowes and of course came out spending a lot more than the $30 worth of shelves. Ty spent the next day building them, and what a difference, I love my closet now. Well, we also got an LED light to put in the closet.

When we got home, Ty made Jacki some hot chocolate and mounted the magnetic light on the fridge. They drank their hot chocolate by that light. Jacki turned to Ty and said, "That light made all my dreams come true." Now, we laugh so hard whenever we hear or see that phrase. Where does she come up with this.

Before the Lowe's adventure was the Chili's adventure. We tried to think of somewhere besides Chuckee cheese or McDonalds (Jacki's top choices) that the kids would like and thought Chilies would be good. Next time they are getting McDonalds and going to grandmas. Wessie was squirmy and didn't like being strapped in. He wanted to eat the salsa, which was too spicy, so we were glad when the food came. Jacki didn't like her meal. She didn't like the fries because they were too "spicy" and didn't like her grilled cheese (we don't know why.) Ty pulled apart Wessie's quesadilla. The cheese stretched, and it scared him so bad (once again we don't know why). So, he's screaming at the cheese and really upset that he was trapped. He did like the fries. Now we remember why we don't take the kids out much.

The ultrasound doc called today. My MRI showed that the ACC (agenesis of the corpus callosum) is present, which means that the corpus callosum is not present. But, the good news is that they didn't find any other condition or missing part with it. The doc told me that there are people without the corpus callosum and you would never know it because it was before ultrasounds, and they live totally normal lives and never find out that they had that condition. Even though I've felt assured that the baby is okay, it's nice to hear good results from the MRI, and I'm even more grateful for all the prayers that friends and families have done for my little family. Speaking of the MRI, wow I have a lot of empathy for anyone who has had one done. Mine was around the belly, so it wasn't enclosed, but I still had to have them pull me out because it was too hot and I knew I would be claustrophobic. I told the technician that I would be fine if they could make it cooler. She turned on the fan, and that was so much better. The ladies there were so nice and did all they could to make me comfortable (they propped me up on my side, etc.) But, it was impossible to be comfortable, and the baby didn't like the loud noises, so I tried to hold still even though my baby was doing what felt like somersaults. I wondered how they would do the MRI since they can't tell the baby to hold still or put him to sleep. They take short segments and have to redo them if the baby moves too much (so they had to redo several.) Ty was supportive and took off the day of work to take me down. It was boring for him. He had to sit in the waiting room, but he's so supportive. That was our date outing for that week.

Lunch with Ty

We got to go to Ty's work and eat lunch with him. We all got our rooms clean, so I let the kids get fries on the way, which Jacki loved. She also loved her "frosting" (frosty.) Ty's been working a lot, so I've tried to find ways to see him more and have more "quality family time" (to quote the Berenstain Bears.) I've had Ty start taking me on dates again too. It's been fun. One night we went shopping, last week we went out to Avatar and Iggys with Ty's brother and wife, and this week we had our family date, and the kids loved getting out. We've gotten so busy, and by the time we are all home- we just want to relax. More often than not, I go to bed early, so it's been good to do things together.