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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Feeding the Guys in the Suits and Ties
Anyone have any good ideas of something I can make easily and that will be something different for the missionaries tomorrow night? Anyone?? Anyone?? Is Spaghetti such a bad idea?
Friday, February 26, 2010
Maybe You Know What To Do?
Aftyn has been blessed with incredibly thick, long eyelashes all thanks to Reed.
Good job Reed.
Only problem is in the very corner of her left eye on the outside, (with her eyelashes being so thick), some of her eyelashes grow the wrong way and have always seemed to grow into her eye.
Sometimes her eyelid on that eye gets a little puffy, almost like it has some kind of infection because of these eyelashes.
I've talked to her doctor. She doesn't seem concerned, she just suggests wiping the eye with a warm wet cloth if we see any kind of infection or excess discharge.
I feel bad because when the puffy eyelid shows itself, Aftyn looks weird.
Anyone else ever have this kind of problem with their kids?
Good job Reed.
Only problem is in the very corner of her left eye on the outside, (with her eyelashes being so thick), some of her eyelashes grow the wrong way and have always seemed to grow into her eye.
Sometimes her eyelid on that eye gets a little puffy, almost like it has some kind of infection because of these eyelashes.
I've talked to her doctor. She doesn't seem concerned, she just suggests wiping the eye with a warm wet cloth if we see any kind of infection or excess discharge.
I feel bad because when the puffy eyelid shows itself, Aftyn looks weird.
Anyone else ever have this kind of problem with their kids?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Using your imaginary video camera . . .
Some scenes you might be watching on your imaginary camera from our house the last few weeks:
Aftyn crawling around !! . . . finding the dishwasher while I tried to load it. She was laughing and smiling all the while she tried to pull things out of the bottom rack. Little stinker.
Tonight, Aftyn in a skirt, trying to manuever the kitchen floor and not crawl on her knees, but instead using her feet and doing a "bear crawl". Wish I had the video camera for that! Maybe I'll have to re-create it for posterity.
Aftyn's funny excited noises she makes.
Aftyn's 2 bottom teeth. And not the 2 in the middle. The one in the middle, bottom right, and the one to the right of that one. Odd, huh?
Aftyn and I playing our nose game
Tonight, Aftyn letting me use her hands to "play" in her hair, and the giggles and laughs when I let her play with her hands in my hair. She is such a funny, happy little girl! (When she wants to be.)
Aftyn's latest food passion: pretzels
We certainly love our Aftyn, and are grateful for the 9 months today that we've had her in our family! 9 month pictures coming sometime in the next few weeks hopefully!!
Aftyn crawling around !! . . . finding the dishwasher while I tried to load it. She was laughing and smiling all the while she tried to pull things out of the bottom rack. Little stinker.
Tonight, Aftyn in a skirt, trying to manuever the kitchen floor and not crawl on her knees, but instead using her feet and doing a "bear crawl". Wish I had the video camera for that! Maybe I'll have to re-create it for posterity.
Aftyn's funny excited noises she makes.
Aftyn's 2 bottom teeth. And not the 2 in the middle. The one in the middle, bottom right, and the one to the right of that one. Odd, huh?
Aftyn and I playing our nose game
Tonight, Aftyn letting me use her hands to "play" in her hair, and the giggles and laughs when I let her play with her hands in my hair. She is such a funny, happy little girl! (When she wants to be.)
Aftyn's latest food passion: pretzels
We certainly love our Aftyn, and are grateful for the 9 months today that we've had her in our family! 9 month pictures coming sometime in the next few weeks hopefully!!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Random Funny Photos
She was so excited when I let her hold it. She loves bananas!
Anybody else see Reed's chin here?Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Blessings In My Life
Well, the gray days of February seem to be catching up to me. It feels like winter will never end. So, I have been trying to think of something positive to reflect on instead of moping about, wishing for sunshine. I have been thinking about an experience that happened about a year ago that was inspiring and awesome. At the time, it was one of those no good, awful, very bad days.
It started out as most days did a year ago, me driving Reed to work out in Caldwell, and then swinging back around taking myself to work back in Meridian. We were in our usual rush, cereal bowls in hand, arms full of sweatshirts, purses, lunches, etc.
We piled in the car, trying to hurry so we could miss school traffic. No such luck. We waited behind what seemed like a half mile worth of cars just to make it to the 4 way stop and on down the road toward the freeway. Inside the car, Reed and I talked and munched our way down the road, fretting about the work day ahead of us.
While pulling onto the freeway, Reed looked over, (he was driving), to see someone in a car next to us pointing at our car, and trying to mouth something to him. He pulled over, walked around the car, checked the tired, with nothing amiss. We proceeded clear out to Caldwell and pulled into his work.
Getting out, Reed couldn't find his wallet. We hurriedly looked in all the nooks and crannies of the car, only to find nothing. I asked Reed if he might have put it on the roof as I had seen him do before. He said yes. I asked him if he had picked it up off of the roof. He said he didn't think he had. So, somewhere along all the roads and freeway we had driven, Reed's wallet and his German book had taken a little tumble to the ground. We were freaking out a lot at this point. And yet, I had to turn around and drive hurriedly on to my job.
Driving back on the freeway, I was looking left to right and right to left, trying to safely look for some sign of something. 10 minutes into the drive, and after a few prayers as well, Reed called me to tell me someone had just called his mom saying they had found his wallet. 10 minutes! That has to be some kind of record.
On my lunch hour, I drove to meet the kind and honest man who had found Reed's wallet during his morning commute. I'm sure he had no idea what kind of predicament we were in - we were expecting a baby in a few months, we had had some layoffs at my work and I was freaked out about losing my job which provided our insurance, we had one car to share because our other car had needed to be fixed, and Reed was working a job that was merely a way to make some money.
As I came face to face with Darren, the wallet finder, I could tell this was the kind of thing he would do on a daily basis. I can appreciate people like him, with whom honesty is not even a second thought.
On that day, he was an answer to prayers. He brought peace so quickly to a situation that could have been so much worse. And for that reason, Darren is my happy thought for today.
( He had looked in the wallet to find the drivers license only, and had even been kind enough to count all the credit cards, assess if there was any cash, and when I picked it up he reported exactly what he had found in the wallet, which was exactly the way Reed had left it.)
*In case you were wondering, Reed's German book met its sad demise on the freeway. It had survived a 12 minute drive with lots of turns, only to be torn apart by the fast speeds on the freeway on the top of our car. I found its contents later in the day, torn apart and gracing the right shoulder of the freeway. There was too much to pick up! It has gone the way of the earth by now, I'm sure. *
It started out as most days did a year ago, me driving Reed to work out in Caldwell, and then swinging back around taking myself to work back in Meridian. We were in our usual rush, cereal bowls in hand, arms full of sweatshirts, purses, lunches, etc.
We piled in the car, trying to hurry so we could miss school traffic. No such luck. We waited behind what seemed like a half mile worth of cars just to make it to the 4 way stop and on down the road toward the freeway. Inside the car, Reed and I talked and munched our way down the road, fretting about the work day ahead of us.
While pulling onto the freeway, Reed looked over, (he was driving), to see someone in a car next to us pointing at our car, and trying to mouth something to him. He pulled over, walked around the car, checked the tired, with nothing amiss. We proceeded clear out to Caldwell and pulled into his work.
Getting out, Reed couldn't find his wallet. We hurriedly looked in all the nooks and crannies of the car, only to find nothing. I asked Reed if he might have put it on the roof as I had seen him do before. He said yes. I asked him if he had picked it up off of the roof. He said he didn't think he had. So, somewhere along all the roads and freeway we had driven, Reed's wallet and his German book had taken a little tumble to the ground. We were freaking out a lot at this point. And yet, I had to turn around and drive hurriedly on to my job.
Driving back on the freeway, I was looking left to right and right to left, trying to safely look for some sign of something. 10 minutes into the drive, and after a few prayers as well, Reed called me to tell me someone had just called his mom saying they had found his wallet. 10 minutes! That has to be some kind of record.
On my lunch hour, I drove to meet the kind and honest man who had found Reed's wallet during his morning commute. I'm sure he had no idea what kind of predicament we were in - we were expecting a baby in a few months, we had had some layoffs at my work and I was freaked out about losing my job which provided our insurance, we had one car to share because our other car had needed to be fixed, and Reed was working a job that was merely a way to make some money.
As I came face to face with Darren, the wallet finder, I could tell this was the kind of thing he would do on a daily basis. I can appreciate people like him, with whom honesty is not even a second thought.
On that day, he was an answer to prayers. He brought peace so quickly to a situation that could have been so much worse. And for that reason, Darren is my happy thought for today.
( He had looked in the wallet to find the drivers license only, and had even been kind enough to count all the credit cards, assess if there was any cash, and when I picked it up he reported exactly what he had found in the wallet, which was exactly the way Reed had left it.)
*In case you were wondering, Reed's German book met its sad demise on the freeway. It had survived a 12 minute drive with lots of turns, only to be torn apart by the fast speeds on the freeway on the top of our car. I found its contents later in the day, torn apart and gracing the right shoulder of the freeway. There was too much to pick up! It has gone the way of the earth by now, I'm sure. *
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Our BIG little Girl
It's the beginning of a new era and the ending of an old. The above picture shows what I saw when I went to get Aftyn out of bed this morning.I knew it was coming. Aftyn standing up in bed.
It's time to drop her mattress a little lower so she doesn't take a head dive out of her crib.
Our little girl is growing up. And now she's clapping about it. :)
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