Sunday, October 29, 2000

It is a cloudy Sabbath day and tomorrow it is supposed to snow.   It is not so much fun to have this cold winter weather.

 On Tuesday we were at the clubhouse exercising (mostly me exercising), and I was lying on the floor doing sit ups and looked up at you and noticed that you were crawling toward one of the machines.  That was the first time that you had crawled forward on your own.  You are still pretty tentative about it.  If you think that it is going to be a lot of work to get to me you start to whine while you crawl and act extremely pitiful hoping that I will relieve you from this agony.  BUT, if you see something that you want such as the doors of the entertainment center, you are more than happy to crawl to them.  I believe my life will change dramatically once you realize that you can get places and into things on your own.

You are so cute about playing peek-a-boo.  You cover your eyes kind of and smile when I say “peek”.

Daddy and I were both sick this past week.  He got sick Wednesday evening and started throwing up at the meeting he was attending at BYU.  Fortunately he was able to find a bathroom quickly and spent sometime getting to know the toilets there.  He came and crashed on the couch until I finally made him go to bed.  He had been in bed for a little while when I heard an awful noise in the bathroom. When I got there he was bending over the toilet throwing up again.  I couldn’t get too close to help him though because just looking at him throwing up made me want to throw up as well.  I could feel that my stomach was beginning to get queasy.

Chris stayed home from work and slept most of the day on Thursday.  When I woke up, I was feeling queasy still and rather low on energy, but I still went to exercise and I had you to take care of.  By you mid afternoon nap, I couldn’t take the stairs anymore nor did I feel like changing one more dirty diaper.  I laid on our bed beside Chris, both of us sick with the flu.  The positive thing though was that Chris was already beginning to feel better.  Good thing, since he had an interview at BYU at 4:30.  When he left, he took you to stay with uncle Kevin so that I could shower and rest.

I am sure that it will always be memorable for Kevin since he said you had a massively dirty diaper.  You, however, missed your afternoon nap and were rather crabby by 7:00 pm.  We tried to keep you up a little longer but that backfired on us.  You became so over tired that you didn’t fall to sleep until after 9 pm.  Poor Daddy had to take care of you and he doesn’t like to let you cry.  That was the only way to get you to fall asleep though.  You didn’t want either of us to hold you or rock you.

Daddy went to work on Friday after first going to the doctors for a physical exam and check-up followed by another interview at BYU.  It was feeling a lot better but not yet 100%.  I had very little energy on Friday or Saturday and am just today feeling better enough to want to eat.

We went to a Halloween Party at the our next door neighbors, the Fishes, on Friday night.  We carved pumpkins, ate, watched a movie and played games.  You were pretty crabby by 9 pm so I brought you home and put you to bed.  I didn’t mind since I wasn’t feeling so hot myself.
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I have decided that you need more interaction with other kids.  You don’t really know what to do with them when you get around them and actually prefer to sit in my lap.  I would prefer that you be more of a social person because I am so quiet and know how hard it can sometimes be to fit in.

Friday, October 13, 2000

Daddy has been in London this last week.  He left at noon on Tuesday and won’t be home until Sunday night after you are in bed.  He called yesterday afternoon (it was night time for him in London) and said that the weather was about the same as here-cold and rainy-but that he was enjoying himself.

When he flies in to the SLC airport he will likely be picking up Grandpa Kline to bring him for a visit.  He hasn’t seen you since July 4th and you have certainly changed a lot since then.  Uncle Kevin and Aunt Candace came to visit last night.  It has been a couple of weeks since they last saw you, and even in that short time, you have changed a lot.  Your hair seems to be growing now.  I was thinking the other day that it’s probably long enough to braid but you would hardly sit still long enough for that. 

The idea that you could possibly pull yourself up to a standing position is quite fascinating to you.  I stood you up next to the couch tonight and you would look down at your feet then slap your hands against the couch.  When I sat you down on the floor you tried to figure out how to get back up again.   I don’t think that it will take that long to learn.

It is Daddy’s birthday on Monday–he will be 25.  Yeah!  Hopefully our car insurance will go down.

Monday, October 9, 2000

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving Day.  No wonder I felt like having turkey last week.

We spent a couple of hours on Saturday in the backyard getting things cleaned up.  I planted 118 tulips and hope that I will be around to see them bloom.  It should be pretty fantastic though if they all come up.  Chris cut the grass for the last time of the season he hopes.  It looks pretty good.  It’s not that big that it becomes too big of a chore to take care of.  When you woke up, Daddy brought you outside and put you in your walker on the grass next to his tree.  You kindly started picking the leaves off for him but loved being outside. 

You are becoming more comfortable with standing and want to stand, and that I think is the key.  Before we would hold you up to get you to stand, but you were more inclined to sit.  You started clicking you tongue the other day and do so many things that are cute.  You don’t give hugs by wrapping your arms around us but rather you lean your face against my face.  Any time the train goes by you look up and says “croooooooo”.  I think “train” will be one of your first words.  You seem to know who mommy and daddy are but only says dada at this point.

Thursday, October 5, 2000

I purchased some new paring knives a couple of weeks ago and was grateful because they were so sharp and slick.  Now I am not so grateful but more careful.  On Monday I was cutting an apple and nicked two of my fingers.  Not too bad.  Yesterday, I was slicing celery and missed the celery altogether and sliced my finger–right through the fingernail even.  Sharp knives huh?  I don’t think I will need to worry about stitches, though if the finger nail hadn’t been there, I probably would have sliced the whole tip off.  My left hand looks a bit worse for the wear, but I’ll live.

We had our car in the shop for a couple of days this last week.  We were having trouble starting it and thought maybe the fuel filter was clogged and needed to be changed.  Unfortunately the ignition switch had to be replaced (a little more pricey than a filter).  We found out also that there was an alarm system installed in the car.  We never knew before and fortunately it never went off because we would have had no way of turning it off.  Somehow while they were fixing the car, the alarm became activated and they couldn’t figure out why the car wouldn’t start since the new switch was already in.  They unplugged the alarm for us and did not wire it back into the new switch.

You suck on plastic things until the whole front of your shirt is soaked with drool.  I gave you a yellow tube of Carmex that you suck on all of the time.  The red lid end goes into your mouth and the rest just hangs out.  Drool often drips off the end of the tube.  Daddy says it reminds him of one of those old Grandmas with a cigarette hanging from their lip as if they forget that it is there.  We got a few pictures of you like this.

Sunday, October 1, 2000

You have had another cold this week.  You don’t get them really badly, but still they aren’t that much fun.  Most of the time you are pretty happy even when you are sick except for later in the evening when you want to go to sleep.  You have been waking up earlier this week, which I don’t especially appreciate, but I know that sometimes happens to me when I am sick.  Daddy has been sick too, but I have been fortunate enough to stay healthy.  Knock on wood.

I think you have finally figured out how to sit up on your own.  I had been trying to teach you how to do it in the past couple of days because you cry, and, yes, even whine when you are on your tummy and can’t get up.  All of sudden you could do it.  I put you to bed this morning and when I went in to check on you when you were crying, you were sitting up in bed.  We will have to move your mattress down a notch so you can’t climb out and fall on your head.

You did fall off the couch the other day.  I was vacuuming and set you up there to keep you out of the way.  I didn’t move fast enough as I watched you look over the edge of the couch and then “boom” down you went.  You cried, but you never cry for very long when you are hurt.  Maybe it’s because you know that I will want to cuddle you.  You are definitely not a cuddler.  I see all of these Mommies with their babies fast asleep on their shoulders in church on Sunday and wish that you would be inclined to do the same thing.  No such luck.  Not only do you not like to sleep on my shoulder, you don’t like to sleep at all in church.

Today, you stayed at home from church with Daddy.  Fun for him!  When I got home he said that he would have gotten more rest if he had come to church.  It was kind of a nice break for me to have a quiet meeting but I missed both of you. 

You jabber a lot during the day and say a few consonants.  You sit and talk to me as if you are making sense.  It’s probably how I sound to you.  When you look at a book, you act as though you are reading it out loud.

I packed away some of your clothes that no longer fit.  I have some large rubber maid containers and while I filled one you sat inside the other and played.  I took some cute pictures.  You loved it and loved just being a part of things while I worked.  I think you would much rather be in the same room with me than playing with toys in another room.  Makes me feel good.

Daddy bought tickets to Portland for Christmas.  We’ll leave on the morning of Christmas Eve and come back on the 28th.  Short and sweet but his parents will be getting ready to take Aunt Lori to Ricks on the 30th so if we stayed there much longer, we would be there on our own.  Too bad that Donna and Dallin won’t still be there, but they’ll be in Utah when we get back!  Yeahhh!

After our especially cold weather last weekend, the weather has warmed up nicely.  I wasn’t quite ready for cold weather yet.