The family is functioning.
I’ve been out and about getting groceries, hauling kids and running errands. Like usual.
Hailey’s teacher had her baby 5 days before mine and we are still trying to work out a good day for parent teacher conference.
Nathan and I got to go to Sierra’s PT conference on Tuesday. The only things she needs to work on are memorizing her address and “Having more fun” as the teacher put it. Really she just wants to do things right like when she is asked to draw something and when she doesn’t know how to draw it she gets worried and doesn’t want to try. So we will be working on saying “I’ll Try” when she is faces with a hard task. She does pretty well with all of it at home.
Zach is just a cool kid. Everything he does is just cool. There’s nothing girly about him. He’s a rough and tumble Fun kid. The other day he had the remote control in his hand and started bobbing his head up and down like he was just So cool. A couple days ago he found a harmonica. Nathan taught him how to play it and every time he gets his hands on it now, He plays the coolest Harmonica music – coolest for a 1 year old. Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s him playing or Nathan. I’ll have to get a video sometime. He loves putting things together like lids on containers, or shape sorters, still loves talking on the phone and pushing the buttons.
YESTERDAY Zach called his Unlce Aaron at work accidentally. We had no idea how. I was changing his diaper and handed him the phone. a few moments later I heard a lady talking so I said, “Hello” She said the name of the company she worked for. I recognized it as Uncle Aaron’s business. Then I explained that my son dailed the number and I was sorry. And to tell Arron S. we said hello. She said she thought it must have been a kid that dialed because she heard some beeping. Nathan and I grabbed the phone to find out how he managed to dial the number. It’s actually a number with 2 numbers and a lot of 1’s after is. So he could have dialed it on his own. We did find the number and it was the 40th one on the Caller ID list. I don’t think he had the phone long enough to get to #40 but he may have. It was very funny. Later we told Aaron about it. He said The receptionist walked up to him and asked what his last name was. When he confirmed it (He and Aunt Alice are having a baby boy soon) She told him his Son called him. Of course he was thrown back by it, and looked confused. The receptionist said you have a boy don’t you? Then he told the receptionist his son was still in the womb and couldn’t be making phone calls. She said well, your wife called and a boy dialed the phone. He still had no idea what she was talking about. Until later that night when we chatted with him and told him our side of the story. It was so funny, Nathan and I haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.
Nathan and I got to go see Wild Hogs (the movie) just before Aurora was born. It was a really good movie. That was the “Date before the baby” Movie. He said he wanted to go see it again a few days after.
The new van is great! I’m getting used to all the bells and whistles and it’s AWESOME! I love the voice activation when you want to change the radio channel or the temperature the fan blows. It’s quite fun. and when I’m out somewhere I can just push the button, say GO HOME and the GPS map will pop up the most direct route to my home =) there are a bunch of other places I need to program in.
Nathan has been very sick lately. I have no idea what’s really wrong with him, but something must be really wrong because no 33 year old should be spending so much time in bed with headaches, feeling like his gut has been punched, and with his undiagnosed ulcers rumbling in his stomach so loud that I think he’s hungry all the time. He won’t see a doctor. So it drives me bonkers. I wish I could just fix it. Having a 16 month old, a newborn and a bedrest Daddy and 3 trips to the school everyday makes for a CRAZY Mommy. Last night I was so tired I almost started bawling because Aurora was crying. Put on that list, grocery shopping, diaper changing, Cooking – bulk hamburger and boiled eggs for dinner prep. Going to Church functions, shopping with neighbors at the Mervyns $2,4,6,8,10 sale to save money for clothing for the family, throwing a few things on eBay here and there etc. . .
Better run a poopy diaper needs to be undone.
The pictures are of Zach a few moments ago. This is how happy he is even with a stinky diaper, he’s smiling big for the camera and is happy to be playing in Auroras swing.
