I had my first little get-together with some of the Moms in the ward here. I was invited to a little breakfast. That was a lot of fun! It was nice to feel welcomed and feel like I have a place here. We were a little late, and had to leave kind of early to get home and make cakes and Kindergarten orientation and such, but it was a nice little time for me. I am really loving this ward. 8-26-13
WELL CHECK AND MOLLUSCUM
Took Jack in for his well child visit and he was doing great! Weight was up along with everything else :). He is super healthy! Dr. Tew kept commenting on what a good walker he was for only doing it for a month :). I thought that was cool. The doctor had Jack sit up on the bed all by himself (rather than in my lap like usual) for his checkup and by some crazy miracle the kid just sat there! He had to be playing with a tongue depressor and a otoscope cap, but hey! I'll take it!! He was really good! I've never seen a one year old react quite like that at their check up. This one goes down in the books for Dr. Tew as well! We were both quite surprised. How cool that he had chosen to do it that way. I'm not sure Jack would have been as calm if he had been all comfy in his Mommy's lap.
I really enjoyed talking with Dr. Tew this time. He has a lot of the same views as we do on parenting and made me feel so much better about the things we do. That's always good. He has seven young-ish kids as well, so he can relate too. Which is SO NICE!! It's nice to not feel like I'm doing something wrong. He was very reassuring when we were talking about Noah going to kindergarten (Noah was there, talking about it) and having not gone to Preschool. He agrees with me that it's a waste of money and that kids go to school to learn that stuff, they don't need to know it before they go!! Yes! Yes! That is how I feel. He was talking about a mother of a patient who had just been in there talking about her child who was told by their preschool that her kid needed to repeat preschool because he had not learned everything very well. WHAT??? Holding your kid back before they are even in school?? Weird. To each his own, of course, but from my perspective, that's NUTS! Dr. Tew kept talking about how before Kindergarten is the time to enjoy being a kid! Not sitting still or being ordered around by a teacher. I love that he said what he did. I'm grateful that I've had the time with Noah that I have. Well, with all of my kids for that matter. Before they're sucked into the school world. I'm grateful that they were just mine during that time. And I am hopeful that Noah will pick up all the things he needs to in a timely manner. Just like everyone else has. Without preschool. And now I'll step down from my soap box :).
After Jack was looked at and the preschool rant, I asked him if he would look at Erika's little bumps by her eye and he confirmed my diagnosis that it was molluscum. Darn it. But he said that it lasts a lot longer than I had read online- or can anyway. So since Erika's has been there so long, he offered to treat her. He gave me a few options. I chose the painless, more long term solution, over the painful quick or the nothing at all. I'm hopeful that I made the right choice. He put some stuff that smelled like compound W (can't remember what it's called at the moment) on each bump while Erika laid there as still as a log- that was miraculous! And in the last few days they've turned into scabs. So she looks a little scary and unfortunately everyone asks, "What's wrong with her eye??" Everytime they see her. I think it goes forgotten by her until someone says that, so it's a little bit of a hinderance. But she's tough. She keeps reminding me that "it doesn't even hoht!" Because I told her it wouldn't. So that's good. Hopefully they will be gone before two weeks and we won't have to treat them a second time. Dr. Tew was awesome to even look at her for me since it was Jack's appointment, but I was totally nervous having not planned on doing anything to them. Hopefully the Mom worries go away.
After treating Erika, Jack got him shots. He's always so amazingly cool about those!! He gets pretty mad, but only for a minute. Then he's fine! It's awesome.
So as you can see, a very productive visit. That's the way I like it. 8-28-13
HEIDI AND JOHN
After the doctor, Heidi and John came over to have a post celebration of Jack's birthday with us. They weren't able to come Monday. Heidi gave Jack a cute little toy truck, it was so cute to watch her give it to him, he was being all sweet with her. I loved it. We had saved some of Jack's cake for Heidi to watch him smash :). He wasn't as into it as he was on Monday. Kind of stale I guess :). But we got some cute pictures of him eating it anyway.
Nate smoked some tasty brisket for
TEMPLE
We got to go to the temple on Thursday, thanks to my Mom tending. It was awesome!! I can't believe how amazing it was with the new video. Hard to believe that the same words, just put differently, could evoke such different emotions. I loved it! Can't wait to see it again. It was a very sweet time at the temple this time. Can't describe it. But I loved every minute and every feeling that I experienced. 8-29-13
11 MILES
After riding Noah to school (on our bikes), on Friday afternoon, Nate and I decided to take off on a bike ride. We headed down to Station Park. Not really sure how far we would be able to go to get back in time for the kids to be out of school. But we made it there, stopped at Razzleberry (or whatever it's called) for a smoothie with our little Princess and her handsome little Prince :). It was SUCH a hot day. I cannot tell you how exhausted I was! I can't believe how out of shape I am to not even be able to handle that short of a bike ride. But it felt SO GOOD!! And I loved the time with my honey. He's so nice to ride slow with me when my legs were cramping up. (he even pushed me from behind the day before when the trailer's tire was flat and I couldn't pull it worth a darn!) It's reassuring to me that I at least have the excuse of pulling the trailer, but still. I need to get out there more often. Maybe every Friday :). It was a lot of fun for all four of us. It's nice that we have the bike trail. It's relatively traffic-less. So that's nice. I'm just really looking forward to this each week. I think we did about 11 miles, so go us! 8-30-13
CALL HOME
So far we haven't had a day where someone didn't call home from school :). We'll see how next week goes :).
LATE NIGHT AND THE GODDARDS
Friday night, the girls had planned a little late night with a few of their friends. By the time Lacie and Tony's family got here, and we had visited with them a little (I LOVED that they came by, by the way. That was the highlight of my week!! They are just amazing, and I know I've said this before, but Nate and I couldn't be more comfortable with another couple here. It's amazing how much we have in common (even 24!) and how similar we are. Too bad they don't live closer... yet!!), we had 20 children and 4 adults in our house at one time!! It was crazy!!! Very loud, and crowded. But I have to say, I loved it! A crowded house means all my kids are home and having fun with friends and family. It felt good. I have always wanted our home to be the place our kids wanted to be. That was a nice thing. It was a really fun-filled evening regardless of how messy my house was. I need ot remember that. 8-30-13
DOWN
So even though we had this amazing week and lots of fun last night, I somehow managed to find myself in a hole today. Frustrates me when this happens. I have been down most of the day. I keep trying to perk up and be cheerful, but it's hard! I know I'm tired, I know certain hormones are coming (not talking about pregnancy ones, just for the record), and I think I am still recovering from the long bike ride yesterday, but seriously... it stinks. I hope I can pull myself out if it tomorrow. Blogging tonight has really helped.
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