These are Good Times

We did not know Millie's mouth could open so wide either. We let Millie listen to "Were'd All the Good People Go" by Jack Johnson and she liked it, but she thought it said "where all the weird people go." She couldn't stop signing about it:)! Anyways . . . for your viewing pleasure we present Millie on the Ukulele.

Hi friends! My friend Nicole did the following on her blog and now I'm doing it too. Want to know what it is? Read on quick so you can be one of the first 5 to comment!

First Five.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something handmade by me! My choice. For you. This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year.
4- You have no clue what it's going to be. But I promise that I will take time to think of something that seems right for me to send you! :)
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it!

LATER DUDES!

Here we go!

25 things you might want to know (people have been doing this on facebook, but my blog needs to be updated more than facebook, so the list will be here)

1- I am 17 weeks pregnant
2- I am feeling much better
3- My 2 year old wants to hold her new baby desperately
4- I am due July 26
5- Kyle WILL be in Florida taking the bar exam on July 28-29, good one
6- I am re-introducing beans and vegetables into my diet
7- I am in need of a maid to clean my house
8- My husband is making brownies
9- My husband understands I would rather have a potted plant than cut flowers
10- I feel better about myself when I recycle
11- I just declared my love to my husband after he requested that I do so
12- Fair trade is cool, but what exactly does it mean?
13- Kyle and I make our own homemade laundry detergent
14- Actually, Kyle makes it
15- Millie sleeps in a toddler bed now
16- Drinking water out of aluminum bottles tastes better than plastic
17- I like Millie's funny noises
18- Walt Disney World? What's the big deal?
19- I like root beer flavored with cane juice
20- Should I keep the futons when we move?
21- I think Nikki should post a new blog even though she's married now
22- Shay should post a new blog after the in-laws leave
23- At the end of my yoga classes, I massage heads with essential oils
24- I love the clothes that still fit me, despite my growing size
25- I am married to a bearded man

Here's the scoop

Hi. I'm pregnant. Therefore, I don't really know when I'll post anything too exciting again. I'm just trying to survive from day to day and often moment to moment. It's funny because when I'm not pregnant, I have depression, but when I'm pregnant, I feel so sick but the depression is basically gone. Sometimes I would choose being pregnant over being depressed, but sometimes I would choose the other way around. At least when I'm depressed, I can control it to a degree and there are things that I know will help me feel better. But when I'm pregnant, there's not much that makes me feel better. And I feel bad because my loving husband already has enough to worry about but now he worries about me all the time and feels like he needs to be this man who does everything for everyone while going to school and working and taking care of the little one we already have. He's trying to keep the house clean, make every meal he can for us, etc. etc. I love him very much and hope I feel better soon so I can step up the plate again and play this game of life.
Well, I didn't mean for this to be a blog complaining about being pregnant. It was intended to announce that I'm pregnant to those who don't know. I am actually very thankful that I am blessed to be able to be pregnant- LIFE is such a great miracle!

winter fun

I took Millie and her friend Haru to the park the other day. They played at the park for about 5 minutes and then decided it would be more fun to wander off into the woods and climb over tree trunks, chase squirrels, and crawl around on the forest floor. They had a great time and had a lot of good laughs together.






Below are some pics of two different days when Millie wanted to eat avacados. She loved them when she was a baby, but hasn't been too interested in them for a while. But recently, she's decided they're good again.


Life if good for us. It's pretty cold here now, but the snow is beautiful and it's actually staying rather than melting and looking like slush.

Kyle took Millie to get her blood drawn on Saturday because the doc's office called and wanted us to bring her in because she's never been tested for lead poisoning and they want all children to be. Anyways, Kyle was a bit nervous to be the "mean guy" rather than the nice daddy (usually on Sat mornings he takes her on fun dates, but never to do something brutal like having her blood drawn). But after all the worries, Millie did great and Kyle survived too. Kyle help lay Millie down on a table and held one arm down. Then so she wouldn't watch them stick the needle in, he put his hand on the other side of her face and turned it towards him and talked to her while the nurse did the shot. He said she didn't even notice it. She got a big bandage with gauze wrapped around her arm. She LOVED it and didn't want us to take it off. So we let her wear it for the rest of the day and through the night, but the next morning we took it off.

We are excited to visit family for Christmas in just a couple weeks. It will be fun to see the mountains again and to see everyone.

Halloween and other fun times

We went trick or treating in the neighborhood by our house where our friends Amy and Don live. Our friends Katie and Scott and their daughter Lannie joined us along with Katie's mom. We have really enjoyed our friendship with this family and we had a great time with them. As you can see, Millie was a unicorn and Lannie was Snow White. We stopped at Amy's house to trickortreat and she invited us in. It was nice to have a pit-stop for the little ones to go potty and rest a bit and visit with the doggies and whatnot.

Kyle with the two trick or treaters

Daddies and their girls

Millie after the church's Halloween party. Even though she's changed out of her costume, she still has the remnants of a smiley face she had painted on her cheek at the party. Millie enjoyed walking around the church trick or treating on Wednesday night and doing the other activities.


Millie as a unicorn with a double chin


The picture below is funny and has a funny story. This is Millie in her unicorn costume throwing a tantrum about something. Sometimes when she's upset about something, she'll throw herself onto the couch and scream and cry. You can't tell that she's doing this in the picture and that makes it even funnier.

Millie feeding her baby.

Millie likes to put her baby/babies into her shirt or pajamas. While they're in there, she either says they're eating or sleeping. In the following pictures, she has both of her baby dolls inside her pajamas. She kept them in there for at least half an hour and then fed them with a bottle afterwards. While they were in her PJ's, if she tried to pick something up or bend over, she wouldn't be able to get back up again without my help because the babies limited her ability to move. It was very funny and reminded me of how it feels to be pregnant. Quite often when Millie takes her babies out of her shirt/sweater/or pajamas, she says the baby is being born and then that it needs her to feed it. I guess she's learning about these things from someone even though we don't have a baby around our house...

FIGHT CANCER!!!

My friend and neighbor Angie started a way cool not for profit cancer project called Nana's Box. Please tell anyone you know about it. Read her story at http://nanasboxnonprofit.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-side-of-things.html or enter her monthly giveaways at nanasboxnonprofit.blogspot.com

We will be posting pictures of Halloween soon... so stay tuned!

Tye