Deja Vu??????

Let’s see for the first 4 years of Jacob’s life I was woken up by him at least 3-4 times a night.  For the first 6 months of Jonah’s being home I was woken up around 10 times a night.  Now the past year has been heavenly.  Jonah sleeping through the night, not only through the night, but from 7:00 p.m. to almost 8:00 a.m.  Jacob he still wakes me up here and there, but for the most part I have been able to enjoy continuous sleep.

Flash forward to last night. Jonah had a hard time getting to sleep, finally around 8:00 he is quiet.  12:00a.m. I am woken up by a screaming Jonah, I go get him, deal with him and get him back to sleep. 12:30 Brandon comes into my room crying saying his throat hurts.  I tell him to get a drink and leave me alone! (I am such a nice Mom at night) 12:30-2:30 Brandon crying off and on and me not being nice to him. 2:50 Jonah screaming again, Bryan gets up and trys to calm him down.  I kept thinking I haven’t had to do this in a long time and it has been so nice. At 3:15 I go take over because I thought I could get him right to sleep.  Well around 4:00 I think I finally was back to bed.  Brandon continued whimpering, but no sounds from Jonah.  When my alarm went off at 6:30 I promptly turned it off.

My body just isn’t used to being up all night anymore.  We are now heading into surgery with Jonah tomorrow and I have some sleepless hospital nights ahead of me, but maybe I will be used to it!

Oh, and Brandon has strep throat, so I should have been nicer than I was!

March for Babies

Today we did the March of Dimes walk to raise money for premature babies.  We did it last year for the first time and loved it.  We will do it for as long as we can.  It is such an emotional event for me.  People make posters which show their babies who survive and those who don’t.  Family teams wear shirts telling who they are walking for.  We don’t do either of these, but I should think ahead next year and do something.  One family in particular had shirts that made me cry every time I saw someone wearing it.  They were walking for a baby boy who only lived one day.  On the back of the shirt was a picture of him and the date of his birth and death and the saying “One beautiful day”.  Oh I can’t even think about it because it makes me cry.

It is such a great feeling knowing there are so many other people who have been through what we have.   Next year I am going to try to recruit family and friends to go with us, not only because the kids have a blast, but because it is a worthy cause.  We did have our friends Megan and Luke come and they had lots of fun with the boys.

            Playing

and Walking

Wears Me Out!!!

Why were you at Prom?

I posted my pictures from Bountiful High’s prom on facebook the other day.  I learned that I had several  questions as to why I was there.  I should have blogged about this earlier, but I just hadn’t done it so now I am.

I have lots of young friends from my ward, serving in the Young Womens for the majority of the past 9 years is the reason why.  Well maybe the reason why is because they just like me…….oh and they LOVE Jonah baby.  One day we were talking about stake dances and I said how much fun they were to chaperone and low and behold my friend Truman says, “I am in charge of the dances at the high school”, (he is a very cool student body officer).  So you can be sure that I told him I wanted to chaperone EVERY dance. 

It worked out that I got to chaperone a few dances this year.  I loved it, I loved all of them (although the stomp was my favorite) so you better believe I was so excited to chaperone prom.  I didn’t go to prom when I was in high school (and I was fine with it and I still am so don’t think I am trying to re-live my high school years) so it was fun to be a small part of the hype.  For the past few years I have run around to my young womens houses to see them and how cute they looked before they left for prom.  It was so nice this year, I didn’t have to run around trying to catch them all.  I get all giddy when I see boys in tuxedos picking up their dates who are in beautiful dresses.  If I see a limousine that night I get even more giddy.

Anyways back to last Saturday night.  The dance was held at the Davis Conference Center in Layton.  Bryan politely bows out of these events, he went to the stomp with me and said that was enough for him.  So I just go alone and meet up with my friend Melinda.  I spent the first 45 minutes just staring at the couples coming in.  I loved looking at the dresses, whose was more original, who had the same ones, whose Mom shouldn’t have let them out of the house looking like that, you get the idea.  I also loved watching the dynamics between the dates, some boys are such the gentlemen while others are 3 steps ahead of their date.  The girls would scream and run to their friends when they would see each other and give big hugs.  Except for the screaming part, I did the same thing when I saw my friends.

The night was great.  The music was loud, I love how the kids these days (at least at BHS) love to dance.  They don’t care what they look like or how sweaty they are at the end of the night.  I love to dance, I love music and I love the youth so I fit right in.  I have decided I should have been a high school teacher, I would have loved it, well most days maybe some days and some kids I would not like at all!

I ran around taking pictures with my friends, not all of them, some I don’t have that good of a relationship with to interupt them with their dates.  The night was fun, I was so glad to be there.    The last dance of the year…..hmmmm who can I con into letting me do it again next year????

Why?????

Why did I do the “right” thing today?  Instead of going to the movie with some friends, I went and volunteered at the school.  I was feeling guilty since I bailed in March and never made it.  So I reassured my friends to go without me, I will be fine, I am busy anyways.  So off I go to read with 1st graders and try to keep Jonah nearby.  Jonah enjoyed our month off of volunteering and proved to me that we won’t be back for a year or two to help in classrooms.  He crawled up the stairs about a hundred times and laughed each time I chased him, as the poor 1st graders wondered if they should keep reading or wait for me to get back. We left the school early with me thinking, why didn’t I just go to the movie??????

P.S. Bryan showed me how to publish my blogs in Windows live and now I can make things look cool!  Well if I was creative I could make things cool!

What to write today?????

I have spent 2 days thinking about what I could blog about and I still have nothing coming to mind. Let's see I am still sitting here thinking and I have to be quick because Jonah is watching Barney and as soon as that is over he will be screaming at my feet and wanting to be on the computer.

How about some things I love right now:

1. I love good food, I like making it and I like eating it when someone else has made it, preferably home cooked not at a restaurant.


(thank you Si for the picture I stole)

2. I love to be outside, preferably when it is warm and the sun is shining, few and far between these days!




3. I love being with friends, I like to be entertained almost all of the time.



4. I love the Jazz and they make me sad when they lose and now have to play the Lakers in the playoffs and I really strongly dislike the Lakers.


(really I love them all, I just think Kyle is the cutest!)

5. I love that Brandon is starting to care what he looks like when he goes to school, he looked so cute this morning.


(this is not from this morning)

6.I love Jonah and Jacob and Bryan also, they always look cute!



And now Jonah is screaming on my lap, so that is the end! I know the pictures don't match up, but I can't hold him down any longer!

Two Firsts for Jonah Baby

O.K. I have cut Jonah's hair about 3 times and each time I make a mess of his hair. I have cut it while he was in the tub and here was my method. Comb his hair sticking up all over and go around with the scissors, not a very effective method. So finally on Saturday I got brave enough for him to have a "real" haircut. Our friend Christy was cutting her Dad's hair across the street and so I had her come over to do Jacob and Jonah's hair. Jonah was a bit unsure about the whole thing, but as long as I was sitting right in front of him and holding on to him he was O.K. I had just given him a chocolate chip cookie and did I think to wipe his face off? No, of course not, that wouldn't be me to think like that. Once the cut was done I was so happy I had finally done it. He looks so cute. Apparantly Christy can do a much better job than me. Two comments from my young friends give me that clue. The first comment from many months ago when I had cut it myself and went a little too short in the front, "Don't ever cut his hair again" (Thanks Truman) and "No offense to you, but his hair looks so cute now that he has had a real haircut" (And thank you Angie)!

The next big first was that Jonah went to nursery at church for the first time!!!!!! I have been waiting for him to be 18 months adjusted age and for the winter RSV season to be over before sending him. So here I was determined to send him yesterday. He was crying at everyone who looked at him while I walked him over there, he wanted to play with the basketball hoop in the gym and that is why he was so mad. So I walked into the nursery, he saw the slide, said "wee", I put him down and off he went. And off I quickly went. Before he even knew what had happened he was in there and I was not! I peeked through the window a few times and he was happy as could be. Afterwards the leaders said he had a few rough moments, but did really good. I said to her "sorry I didn't have a chance to tell you that he is pretty much a baby and can't walk before I set him down and ran!" It all worked out and hopefully he will keep going and be happy!

I have flip flop tan lines, and I love it!

We went to San Diego for spring break and had a marvelous time. Well to be honest with myself and true to who I really am (which I am big on) I have to complain just a little bit about the terribly long drive and the fact that Jonah didn't sleep through the night while we were there. O.K. the drive about killed me and the interupted sleep almost put me over the edge, O.K. done with that.

Brandon had been asking for about a year if we could go to Sea World because he hadn't ever been. So we decided to go for Spring Break. The first two days we spent at the beach. It was a little chilly, but apparantly that doesn't matter when you are in San Diego. I was wearing a jacket on the beach while others were wearing their bikinis. Everyone was acting like it was 90 degrees so we joined in and embraced the sun.

We spent two days at Sea World and now have passes good for the rest of the year, a buy one day and get the rest of the year free kind of deal. As soon as we entered the park Brandon wanted to go immediately to the Journey to Atlantis ride. Bryan and Jonah waited for us at the end of the ride. As we got in line I recognized some people in front of us and then saw people in Bountiful High shirts behind us. I asked if they were on the choir tour, sure enough we were in line between groups of Bountiful High students. Brandon and Jacob were so excited because they really wanted to see someone they knew while we were there. Well we got off the ride and Bryan said, Did you see your friends? Which friends I asked? Truman and Tanner he says. No I didn't see them. So wouldn't you think we would run into more groups of BHS students? We thought so, but we thought wrong. We saw the same groups from the ride line 2-3 more times, but never saw the 5 or so students/chaperones who are our good friends. We were always at different ends of the park when we talked. Bummer, Brandon was so disappointed.

Brandon and I went on Journey to Atlantis 7 times over the 2 days. My favorite ride ever is Splash Mountain at Disneyworld (no the Disneyland one is not as fun) and this came in as a close second. Jacob didn't like it quite as much as we did, maybe because we got stuck in the dark elevator on the ride! We loved Sea World, Jonah was a different story. He cried through every show. We went to the Shamu Rocks/fireworks show both nights, we went to the dolphin show twice, one of the times I caved in and sat with Jacob on the second row, yep we got soaked. The Sea Lion and Otter show was hilarious. I enjoyed every second of Sea World, except for when they charged almost $3 for a bottle of water!

The weather was fantastic, the report before we left said rain and not so warm, but it never rained and was in the 70's. Jonah's new words of the trip were "pool", which he said everytime we walked into the hotel room until someone would take him back outside, "boat", which he said over and over again at Mission Bay, "pizza" which he learned and cried over and over as we waited for our dinner to arrive, and "candy", which he learned from Daddy and cried when it was all gone.

Now that the drive is almost out of my mind I can say we had such a great trip. Maybe I will cave into driving there again this year and use our Sea World passes again, MAYBE.....

A New Little Baby

My friend Tiffany gave birth to her 5th child Monday night. A baby boy, she was even in the count until he made his entrance to the world, 3 boys and 2 girls now. Tiffany and I have been friends for 18 1/2 years, I know you all think I am only 17, but I guess the truth comes out now. She is more like a sister than a friend, our kids are like cousins not just friends. So her having a baby is like me gaining a family member.

Usually Tiffany's labor and delivery is so fast there is no waiting time. Her second baby, Luke arrived as soon as she got into the hospital. Her total labor was like and hour and a half. Her third baby, Ellie did things in the same fashion. By her 4th child, Joshua her dr. was a little worried about her delivering on the freeway and so she broke her water in the hospital, 3 hours later out he pops. So here comes Drew on Monday, her dr. sent her to the hospital broke her water and then I kept waiting for the call, I kept waiting, I tried not to get worried. I started to think maybe they just forgot to call me. Finally over 4 hours later I get the call and could hear the new baby crying. I guess her body wanted to surprise us all and take things at a more normal pace.

I am thrilled for Tiffany, Mike, Megan, Luke, Ellie, Joshua and baby Drew. She says she is done, but really when you body does it so well why not have more?