Home

Mister is home.  Doing well. Too well.  I am a bit worried that he didn't seem off his game at all.  Wake up from anesthesia, come home, climb, run, play, eat, and play some more.  He should be in excruciating pain, but then I remember that he had a pain block and an epidural.  It will wear off in the night.

Tomorrow may be a different story.  But for now, we are all WHIPPED.  It has been a really long day.

So, goodnight.  And thank you for all the prayers and loves.  Pictures and details will come soon.  Promise.

Wish us luck

Wish Mister luck.  Tomorrow morning at 8:30 is his surgery at Primary Children's Medical Center.  We love it there, but there is always a big risk.  We trust our docs to do the right thing every time, but please send hugs our way.  Mister has had a great night.  We have Nana and Jess sleeping over to make the journey down to the hospital with us.

Best case scenario is that it will be out-patient, one hour and fast healing.  Pray for that.

Happy Labor-less Day

Super brilliant, this holiday called Labor Day.  Especially since we never really do much of anything involving labor.  We had a four-day weekend full of great adventures.  Today was no exception.

We went with the Smedley girls to Rainbow Gardens and had a lovely lunch at the Greenery.  Super Swell.  I love their Halloween things every year.  This year was no exception.  We found Aiden this cup with his name on it that has a straw that doesn't come out of the cup.  Brilliant idea!  We had so much fun and that place really makes me feel like a decorating loser.

Then, Aiden and I went home for a much needed nap.  After the nap, we packed up and headed back to Ogden to go see the Dinosaurs.  We haven't been there in such a long time, we had to go.  It was beautiful and overcast.  What a lovely day!

After the dino park, we went to Smedleys for a BBQ.  I don't know what Aiden was on, but he was WILD!!  He was running, spinning, screaming, and just hyper.  He crashed on the way home.  I guess a big day for not doing much!

Bad Mom Award

So, I started school two weeks ago.  Every single spare moment that Aiden is asleep goes to studying.  If I am not reading the biographies for African American history, then I am sweating bullets in Math.  Or trying to find out why I care about Environmental Geography... and so on.  

BUT we do things.  Our little family - we do things.  PROMISE!  The Bad Mom Award is because I just don't take the time to post them for friends and family to see.  Well, friends and family, here is the proof!

First thing that we do is - go to the doctor.  Aiden is having a few problems "down there" and Aunt Kari was nice enough to go with us on August 26th to see the urologist.  Long story.  Mad Mama.  Docs that don't listen make me crazy.  Ended up that he passed kidney stones that weekend.  

On August 27th we went to Discovery Gateway... along with every other family in the Mountain West.  Thousands of unsupervised children.  He did great, though.  

Aiden loved the construction zone.  He sat at the crane for a long time and just enjoyed being manly.

This cool wheelbarrow was a lot of fun.

The water place was fun, too.  Here, Mom freaked out at an 11-year old boy who was smashing toddlers into the water.  Not happy.

In the Birdhouse.  Everything was just the right size.  Aiden looked at me at one point like "See, Mom!  They make them my size.  What's with the big one at our house?"

He found a car that no other child was using and enjoyed it for a very, very long time.

His favorite part, the elevator...

The helicopter.  He thought he was so cool.  Okay, he was

See all the kids running around?  Yeah, mine is the one laying down chilling.  This was a really fun life-sized backgammon set that lit up when you jumped on the red or white wedges...

Like this!

That night, while Mom did homework, my two monkeys crashed.  On my bed.  It was made about 15 minutes before this.  Now, where am I going to sleep?

We also invested $4 in sidewalk chalk.  

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Isn't he so handsome?

We have played, cooked, colored, watercolored, read stories and had a Harry Potter marathon with Breanna and Kelle.  We really do have fun... We do stuff... see?

Fall?

With the Halloween candy already in the stores and school back in session, I can't imagine that it is autumn already.  Not with 98 degree weather and veggies still in the gardens.  But I realized today that Monkey has grown out of his summer sandals and so that must mean that it is time for sturdy fall shoes already.

So, we intend to leave summer kicking and screaming.  I started school this past Monday and am doing the whole thing online - at night.  Whew. Tiring.  But we still have warm weather and miles to travel before the leaves start to change.  I intend to make the most of it.

Aiden is out of these size 6 suckers.  Mister Huge Feet...

Fuzzy picture, but fun.  Aiden helped me make chicken fingers tonight.  What a stud.

County Fair

This morning, we went to the Davis County Fair.  I wish we still had the "fair" that would be like the old days of best jam and quilts and horses and chickens.  I counted today that there were 7 purse vendors at the fair.  6 cell phone vendor booths.  Since when do those things define the best of the county?  Ah, well.  I sound old.

We did do some really fun things while there.  We went early, enjoyed the heat (okay, we didn't enjoy the heat), and dominated the toddler area.  

We did actually ride these ponies.  I couldn't take a picture because I was desperately trying to keep Aiden from falling off Charlie, the tiny little pony.  Aiden giggled and laughed and jiggled.  The line of people waiting laughed along with him.  He thought that a pony ride was the best thing in the whole world.

I realized that the above pictures is suspiciously like the picture we took last year!

This one:  

Ha ha!!!  A year and no real changes.  I just about dressed him in overalls today.  Funny.

How much fun to have a bubble machine?  

The toddler area was perfect for little man.  It was covered and shady.  It had toys, musical instruments, and a sandbox.

The award for "Most Cheerful while Roasting" goes to this lady.  What a trooper.

Favorite toy of the day.  Quite possibly, Santa will be informed that he loves this.

Checkin' the blind spot.

Checkin' the tires.

We came home and slept for 2 1/2 hours, enjoyed plums, fixed hashbrowns for dinner and watched Thomas the Tank Engine.  What a great day.

Promise me

Promise me that every parent has "one of those days" because yesterday was a doozie.  Mister was no better or worse than usual, but I was in one of those moods.  For some reason, the bashing of toys into my legs - that doesn't usually bother me - made me so angry.  The running around instead of lying still during a diaper change made me so frustrated.  The constant "MAAAAAAHHHHHHHMMM" got on my nerves.  Poor bug got the result of it.

Finally, I just had to come back when he was sleeping and remember that it is not his fault - it is mine.  He went to bed confused because Mom was not happy with him and he didn't know why.  So, when he woke up at 11pm and crawled into my bed, I loved on him, cried and remembered why I love him so much.