No Sick Days for a Mom

So I have not been feeling well the last few days, but that doesn't seem to mean much around our house. We still have to carry on with our daily routine only I am not functioning on all brain cells. I absolutely hate it when I get sick. Being a mom and a wife makes it really hard to get the rest and relaxation I am desperately craving. It is sure hard to take a nap when the kids are wide awake and need my attention. Too bad there isn't a button we moms can push to put things on hold while we recover or someone that would watch our kids 24 hrs a day until we feel better. But that is not life or reality so just like every other day I will take the day one minute at a time and try to make it thru. Using all my energy the best I can to feed my kids and keep the laundry going. (I think it is worse because I can't really take anything for it because I am nursing Paige. If anyone out there knows of something for a head cold that doens't have antihistamine in it let me know!!!) Meanwhile I just want to give a shout our to all moms out there who have the hardest job in the world and who don't get sick days, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!

Paige, 5 months old

Just born April 12

Birth Announcement Picture, April 24

At the Zoo May 16

Blessing Day June

Her cute smile

Summer outfit

Eating baby food

So I haven't posted for a while and then it came to me that last time I posted about finishing The Host I should have posted about Paige turning 5 months old!! I can't believe that she is already 5 months old, time goes by so fast. I am truly loving having a little girl. She is so sweet and precious and I just love her to death!! She is the total oppostie of Parker and I love that about her too. She takes good naps during the day and usually sleeps almost 6 hours at night. Those things make me a better mom I know for sure. She also is a great eater, she has just recently started on solid (baby food) and she loves it. I know she will be a better eater than Parker when she is his age now. Also she is so fun to dress up and put cute clothes on and polish her toenails. I am just waiting for the day that I can put pig tails in her hair. Girls and boys are sooooooo different, I am so glad Paige came along to show me that not all my children will be little terrorizers!! (I still love him) Anyways I guess this post is a tribute to my little princess!!!

The Host

So I finally finished this book. I had started reading it before Breaking Dawn came out, but wasn't really quite into it so I put it on hold while I read Breaking Dawn. Then I came back to The Host and it has taken me a little while to finish it. I liked it when I finally got really interested in it, but it took me well over 150 pages before I understood what it was about. It just didn't captivate me from the begining like the Twilight series did. But I do give credit to Stephani Meyer for having a vivid and very creative imagination. I never would have in a million years thought of something like that to write about. I guess that is why she is the author and not me. So I would give this book about 3 out of 5 stars. It was good, creative, romantic in parts, a little too sci-fi for me but I enjoyed it.

I wanted to write something yesterday in remembrance of 9/11 but didn't get around to it. Matt and I were watching a show about the 102 minutes that changed our country. It was different video clips that people had shot of the area that morning. It was pretty disturbing to me to see how someone can just not care enough about human life to go and destroy so many families. I just cant belive it, even 7 years later I still have a hard time beliving that it actually happened. How horrific it was near the twin towers and all the people so affected by it. I know that I will always remember where I was when it happened, at home getting ready to go to work at Rupes and watching it on the TV while we were working and I remember feeling so numb about it all and in shock the entire day, maybe even week. I was starting beauty school in about a week and because if this we did not recieve our supplies when we started. They had to ground all flights and trucks with chemicals and stuff like that for a while, so we had no kits to work with for the first couple of weeks/months. My heart goes out to all those that lost family members and loved ones and to those men and women who gave their lives to try and help others. I know I will always remember this day and the impact it has had on my life, and our country's.

Potty Training

So I am sick and tired of changing Parker's dirty diapers. I know several other kids that are his age and they are already potty trained. How do I get him interested in going on the toilet. I have tried and tried and he just thinks it is something funny to do to sit on the potty. The other day I really had enough when he took off his dirty diaper and then proceeded to sit on the floor. Needless to say I had to clean (rather Matt had to clean) the carpet and the chair in the living room. It was disgusting!!! So I bought him a package of pull-ups and tried one on him. Then about a half hour later tried to get him to go to the bathroom and sit on the potty. He took his pants and pull-up off and sat on the toilet with nothing happening. Then he got off and would not put the dry pull-up back on. He called it a diaper and he knows when you take a diaper off you throw it away. So I asked him if he wanted to wear a diaper and he said "Yes" so I guess he isn't ready and I shouldn't waste my money on the dumb pull-ups but how do I get him interested???? I am so far past being done with changing his diaper, it is what I dread doing every day!!! Any advice out there????

Eastern Idaho State Fair

We went to the Fair this morning. Luckily Parker's allergy attack didn't hinder our weekend plans. We decided not to got the parade this year because I knew Paige would not like the loud noises and the parade seems to get more boring each year. I knew Parker would not know the difference so we headed over to the fair earlier before all the parade goers got there. We had ourselves some lunch, I had trout and Matt had a big mammoth burger, Parker had a corn dog. Then we went to the carnival rides. This is the first year Parker was able to ride the rides. The tickets were $1 a piece and all of the rides were 3 or more tickets to ride!!! What a rip off!! So he only went on 3 rides, but he had a great time and enjoyed it. Next year I think we will end up buying a wrist band or an all day pass, it is more cost efficient in the long run. After about 6 rides it pays for itself. It was extremely hot today so we didn't stay as long as usual. The fair is exactly the same every year, but for some reason we always go each year. I guess something to do once a year. We walked around and saw the animals and walked thru the commercial buildings. There are too many people to manuver a stroller with 2 kids in it around. By this time both our kids were tired and cranky. We had had enough. We got a rice bowl and 2 chocolate dipped cheesecakes to go and headed home. Oh by the way the railroad put up a fence and so we now have to walk all the way around to get to the entrance. We used to be able to cross over the tracks and be there in a hurry. So now it takes us 15 minutes or so to walk over there. How annoying, after 25 years or more of being able to have the convenience to cross and now having to walk a long detour to get there. Oh well!!! So we made it home and are now hanging out with family that came from out of town to visit and go to the fair. We are having a memorable weekend so far!!!

Boxtox gone wrong or Allergy???

This is on Thursday night


This is in the morning


This is after we went to the doctor.

On Thursday night Parker got a fat lip on half of his bottom lip. I thought that maybe he accidentally big it or maybe a bug bite. So we gave him some tylenol and he went to sleep. Well at about 3:00 in the morning he woke up and his entire bottome lip was swollen. I was gettting kind of worried because it was looking worse and not better. So I gave him som Benadryl hoping that would help the inflamation. It was really hard for him to leave it alone because it felt funny to him and was really bothering him. How do you explain to a 2 year old that his lip is swollen and that it will get better and not to bug it. He finally went back to sleep and then when I woke up about 7:00 and looked at him I was really scared it had gotten worse and was spread to both his lips. And his right cheek was swollen as well. We decided we had better take him to the Doctor. We went to put his shoes on and his right foot was swollen as well. That got us even more concerned so we hurried to Immediate Care. We got there as soon as they opened and the doctor saw him and was pretty sure it was an allergic reation to some walnuts in the brownies I had made the night before. But the swollen foot was throwing him off so he got another doctors opinion and then they got one more doctors opinion. Finally they gave him a prescription for a steroid that would help the swelling and then they said that we should bring him back that evening to make sure it was indeed and allergy and not something more serious. So we gave him the medicine and within a few hours it started looking better and by the end of the day you could hardly tell. Today he is back to normal and doing fine. (The swollen foot and lips didn't really slow him down, but I felt so bad for the little guy) We took pictures along the way to show how it grew. So now more walnuts for Parker!!!

Gone fishing

So I was thinking of what I could write about today and looking thru pictures that I have on my computer and I came across these pictures. They were taken last year when we went camping with come friends. I just love the picture of the boys with their back to the camera, it is just so darn cute. I have been told that I need to enter this picture in the fair in the story telling category, but I didn't make that happen so I am sharing it with all of you.
We haven't had a very eventful weekend, but I am recovering all the same, house work, laundry, dishes. They seem to pile up quite a bit more over the weekend and then on Monday I am playing catch-up. Paige was having a rough morning and was very fussy, I was to the point I didn't know what to do for her. She was crying when I held her, when I put her down, in her swing, she didn't want to eat so I put her in the crib and shut the door. A few minutes later(I thought she would start crying in the crib too) I went in to check on her and she was off in dreamland. The poor girl was tired and just wanted to be put down in her bed. Silly mom why didn't I think if that earlier. So I am scrambling to get a few things done before she wakes up. I just have to mention one more thing... the fair will be here this weekend and I am excited to have family up for the occasion and to enjoy the fair food... it doesn't taste the same any other time of year. I think we will only be going one time. Two kids will make it an adventure for sure. Hopefully I can get some picture to share. Until then...Happy Monday!!