Fall and Halloween--Hooray!

Well, all I have is pictures. Not much to say, but hopefully the pics can speak for themselves. We had a great holiday, but can't wait for the next one. We are really looking forward to coming back to PHX to be with family and friends. I am loving the fall, as long as the snow stays away. The leaves are beautiful, but are finally clearing out of the trees, getting ready for winter. Anyway, Brenda, this post is for you. Let me know if there are pictures that you want me to send to you. More are posted on facebook, so have a look. We love you!

New Ventures

Look appetizing? Lets hope so. For those of you I haven't told, I'm starting up something of a business. I've had so many ideas in the past, but this is my favorite, and possibly down the road, I can add a few more things to my repertoire. So, if any of you know anyone looking for corporate gifts, could you please pass along my name? Thanks to family, I already have a couple orders in, but I would like to see how far this can go. Wish me luck! Thanks!

Mort things to make you laugh

More videos, still!

Posts for Neil

These videos are a little on the unexciting side, but I'm putting it up for Neil. We're separated until our house gets built, seeing each other on weekends. Since he misses most of what goes on up here in Idaho, I'm posting it all here. Lily is sure growing up fast. It seems that even in the last week, she has grown extraordinarily. She is now eating more, moving more, and just a whole lot of fun.

Here's to Friday! Love you!

One expensive penny

I haven't been very good at keeping up to date with this thing, but I keep waiting for funny stories to happen. I think my time has come, although it may not be so funny once the bill comes.

Last night I put the girls to bed and went to get into the shower. While getting ready, this conversation goes on between Isabel and my mom. "Grandma, I'm going to put this penny in my mouth, all right?" "No, Isabel, pennies don't go in mouths" "Okay". From the bathroom I start hearing choking and vomiting. I throw on a towel and run in. Isabel is out of breath and I asked what happened. "I ate a penny, mom". I asked her if she threw it up, and she says, no. Around the vomit is a bunch of pennies, so how am I supposed to know if one of those was the ones that was in her mouth? I call up my ENT bro-in law and he tells me to take her into the ER. Honestly, I was just hoping for him to tell me that she would just poop it out, but since she sounded a little horse, I wasn't going to take my chances. While getting to the car, Isabel is bragging to everyone that she gets to go to the hospital. Yeah, ha ha, so funny. We get there, and she gets a couple of x-rays. Guess what? No penny. The tech guy say, well thats a relief. No, not really. We go back to the room, and Isabel needs to go potty. I send her in, and I hear her talking, so I go in, and she tells me she was talking to Grandma Nina. Right next to the toilet they have the string to call for help from the Nurse. I hope Isabel could have at least made her night. In comes the Dr. and he says he has good news, that there was no penny. Again, this isn't the best news I've heard. If I am going to spend $300+ on a penny, I want to see the stupid thing!!!! I think a penny will be easier to swallow than the bill we'll be getting in the mail.

Hope you all had a good night!!

"I have a tiny head?"

I know it is so cliche, but I really can't believe how fast time has gone. It seems so mean that the nine months pregnant can go by so slow, but the months after the baby is born go so fast. For one like Isabel, those months going by quickly isn't so terrible (she was a crier), but with Lily, it really is bittersweet. She is the sweetest baby I have ever known. For those of you without infants in your home, beware, do not come and hold her! She will make you so baby hungry. She makes me want another one even. But alas, years have made me wise. Well, having Abby and Isabel close together has made me wise. Back to the baby at hand....I took her in to the Dr. yesterday and got her stats. She is in the 75% for both height and weight, but only in the 20% for head size. This is all kind of funny to me right now, mostly because I don't see any harm in it right now. Looking at her from head to toe, she just looks proportional to me. I think most babies heads look too big for their body, which apparently is normal. One complaint I have about this child, is that she is getting a bit "handsy". Feeding times have gotten a bit difficult due to the pain she causes by her unclenching pinches. In its own realm, like having a crocodile smash down with its jaws, trying to get out of Lily's hold is nearly impossible. The harder you try to pry her fingers open, they just clench down harder. My only saving grace would be having a good pair of baby clippers. Right now, I just feel lucky that she is still nursing. Abby was such a lazy eater (still to this day has a hard time chewing meat), she much preferred a bottle to drip down her throat. Isabel was too upset to eat from me, so with both girls I had to give up nursing early due to lack of milk, but I feel pretty good about this one. Let me know if you need a copy of this classic picture.

Abby During Dentist

Alright, so I know most of you are very disappointed to see that I don't have video. I was very sad myself when this was going on. I'm sure 90% of you saw the youtube of David after dentist, and in mine own opinion this was so much more funny to witness. I'm going to try and use some discriptive words so you all can have wonderful imagery of Abby getting cavities filled (by the way, parents, floss your children's teeth!)

I think the dental assistant went a little heavy on the nitros today. I brought her in, and since my children are overly emotional and dramatic, I was expecting the worst. I thought I would be holding down my child while they numbed her. It started out as expected, when she felt the poke, she screamed and cried and even snorted at the doctor. He told her to breathe through her nose, that the gas would help her feel better. Well, she did just that and within seconds, she started humming. I was thinking she was trying to coax herself, but then she started getting goofy. The dentist left to let the numbing set in, and Abby started laughing outright, and kicking her legs up in the air. In between laughing, she would sing, but not any song in particular. When they were finishing up on her, she kept her singsong attitude and kept crossing and uncrossing her legs. The assistant mentioned how relaxed she seemed, and I had to mention that I think the gas must be on high. I can't say that I'm too happy to have put Abby in a drunken state, but at least she was happy during an uncomfortable time. "Why is this happening to me?" "Will I stay like this forever?"