Month: February 2009

Sweet Girl

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 27, 2009

Okay, it’s 11 am, I’m quite behind in all the housework, and I’m sitting here in my sweats… but I wanted to finally update you on sweet baby Charlotte! She is so cute and I love her!!! (duh.) I am just so happy she is in our life. She is “smiley” and we just love it when she goes for a few minutes of just smiling and shrieking! I love this stage where they start trying to “talk” by making all sorts of cute sounds. And of course I can never get over that intoxicatingly sweet, delicious baby smell.

Charlotte is relatively easygoing and predictable. I KNOW that if I’d had her first, I would wonder WHY people think newborns/babies are so hard! I mean, part of it is that I have learned so much about what I’m doing since we had Chase. And of course there IS still work involved and I’m still tired and all (getting out of bed is always a challenge for me), but when she naps I have time to do housework, do stuff with Chase, check the computer and snack on quick, easy, unhealthy things– haha!).

This would normally be the post where I’m supposed to record all her 2 month stats, but I decided that since I am still overwhelmed by all the costly bills we are paying off right now from her birth (although she’s COMPLETELY worth it!), I would just skip the 2 month appt. and have those first shots delayed ‘til next time. I WILL still have her get shots and all, but 2 months behind each time. For your info: Charlotte is healthy and happy; she weighs 13 lbs. (is that big?) and I think she’s rather tall because she’s been in 3-6 month clothes since 6 weeks (some of those are even getting too short too).

Here she was a few weeks ago with her little friend Elle (Ryan & Aubrey’s baby). They just stared at each other and Elle wanted to squeeze Charlotte’s face! And in that second picture Charlotte’s face just looked really cute although mine didn’t… hahah!

Charlotte

Advice Please!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 27, 2009

Charlotte poops up her back 1-2 times per day, and I’m wondering how to avoid this or how do I at least get the stains out of the clothes?!? We have special Huggies Supreme diapers for her that only somewhat work in blocking those back blowouts. So after it happens I soak and scrub the clothes, sometimes I put dish soap on them, I use the regular Spray n Wash, and stain remover in the warm or hot wash, and I still have to wash them like 3 times to get the poop out. Advice???

Personal

So busy

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 25, 2009

I’m very busy at work, but took time to watch this from my co-worker.

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I Love Amanda!!!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 21, 2009

Today I got to go to the temple with my beautiful friend Amanda. (Thanks for watching the kids at home, Pace!) Amanda was my very first roommate in Heritage Halls at BYU, and we totally hit it off from Day One! We would always talk to each other into the late hours of the night, even when we were half asleep and not even making any sense!

Amanda is an awesome example to me. She is the only LDS member in her family, and was baptized only months before she came to BYU. And she has “stuck with it” ever since! 🙂 I got to accompany Amanda to get her patriarchal blessing during our freshman year, so I felt especially privileged today to witness another great milestone in her life! Amanda is amazing; she is a great listener, and is definitely one of the most thoughtful and loving people I know. Why, just yesterday she took Chase off my hands (and spoiled him) for a while so I could have a little break. Thanks so much for your friendship, Amanda, and I love you!

Chase Adventures

Funny Kid!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 21, 2009

This is what our funny boy is all about. In that first photo he said he was in his “sleeping bag,” in the second photo he had made a “trail” out of my thank you notes, and in the third one he was getting into my cheap jewelry and calling himself “beautiful.” I’ve been jotting down some of his funny lines because there are just so many that make me laugh regularly!

A few days ago we had a particularly interesting incident. Chase said he had to go #2, so I told him to use plenty of wipes to make sure he got all clean afterwards. I had just refilled the box of Cottonelles, so I knew he wouldn’t run out or anything. A few minutes later I heard him holler from the bathroom, “Mommy the toilet won’t flush!” I ran in there to find that he had taken the *WHOLE* stack of wipes out of the box and had tried to flush them. My first emotion was anger, but then I took a deep breath and asked him why he had done that. He replied, “My parents told me to use all of those.” I then had to chuckle, because I realized that he was just following orders! I HAD told him to use “plenty” of wipes… Then I stopped chuckling when I had to reach down into uncharted, disgusting territory to dislodge and remove the pile of what had previously been perfectly good wipes! I guess I can’t complain when he was just trying to be obedient. A little TOO obedient! 🙂

T.V.

Funny Hump Day

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 18, 2009

Happy Wednesday, it’s volleyball night and LOST night!!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 14, 2009

This was the first time I put a headband on Charlotte… I’m not sure how I feel about headbands because I think if I were a baby I’d be irritated having that thing on my head. I guess they’re okay as long as they’re not too big and flashy!

Chase sure loves his baby sister! She HAD been sleeping, before he came and hopped in the crib with her and started kissing and squeezing her… I have to really keep an eye on this kid! I love that first photo that shows their big blue eyes. I think Charlotte’s eyes might be blue just like Chase’s. Fun!

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Enjoying the Moment!

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 13, 2009

“What can . . . young mother[s] [do] . . . to reduce the pressure [of raising young children] and enjoy [their families] more? . . .

“Recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction.

“Author Anna Quindlen reminds us not to rush past the fleeting moments. She said: ‘The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less’ (Loud and Clear [1004], 10-11).”

M. Russell Ballard, “Daughters of God,” Ensign, May 2008, 109

T.V.

Survivor Tocantins Contest

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 10, 2009

Win amazing amounts of respect and honor by entering the guess who wins Survivor by picture only contest. With only two days till the new Survivor airs in glorious HD, take 30 seconds to browse the contestants pictures and leave a reply on Ryan’s blog as to who will win. All for fun and games as the odds for anyone winning is slim.. although someone did last year!

Play NOW!”

Chase Adventures McVideos

SLC Discovery Museum

Post author By McAdmin
Post date February 8, 2009

The other week while Grandma Gretchen (aka GG) was here, we three took a trip to the discovery museum up at the Gateway. It would be really really cool, if it were free… at $8.50 a head it is skip-able. BUT Chase doesn’t care about money, and therefore he loved it! When you first walk in there is a beehive kind of thing that sucks, moves, shoots, spins those plastic balls. It was pretty cool how they figured to entertain kids by getting them used to manual labor. I could see in Chase’s mind the process: Must collect balls, take balls up stairs, dump balls into bin, repeat. And boy did he repeat. Over and over again. I thought if only I made a penny for every ball delivered. They should hook generators op to those things, the kids could power the whole building if 1 ball dropped in = 1 watt. OK ok I’m done with the ballhive.

SO that thing was cool and I thought this place is gonna ROCK. Well it was the coolest thing there, in my opinion. Chase did enjoy the over sized doll house (yawn) and the oversized farm, and oversized jeep (That didn’t move). Upstairs they had things for older kids, like puzzles, magnetic stuff, a wall to put pvc pipe and make more balls drop, and a full sized life flight helicopter. (ok that was cool too).

So our final reviews: Chase- “When can we go again?” Pace- “Save your money, take em to the dump with a bunch of plastic balls”.

Now videos for your enjoyment.

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