Bunny lovin's

Tanner is loving the bunny we got him for Easter. He will hold him and munch on the ears, carrot or feet for as long as his little hands will cooperate. It is absolutely adorable to watch his determination to get that bunny into his mouth. Now if you'll direct your attention to Tanner's wrist in the picture, you might think that I've put a rubber band around his wrist. No, I haven't. What you're looking at are his wrist rolls. The skin is so tight around there that I have to actually pull the skin back to clean out the lint that gets stuck in there. I find it quite humorous.

Easter Dress Picture (late)

Here's Lana in her pretty pink Easter Dress. Unfortunately I was running extremely late that morning due to trying to get lunch mostly prepared before church because we were feeding the Elders. So, this is after church and she decided she didn't want to wear her sweater during the picture and her hair is a mess so this is the best I got. Atleast she's smiling!

Happy 4 months Tanner! (tomorrow)

Tanner had his 4 month check up this morning. 16lbs. 9oz. He's such a cute not-so-little guy, he's trying to sit up already. I think he's given up on trying to roll over cause the kid is just solid. Can you blame him?

"No, I do it!"

This is how Lana's prayer at naptime went today...

Me: Heavenly Father
Lana: No, I do it! ... Heavenly Father, thank for today...(long pause)
Me: please bless...
Lana: No!! Shhhh!! Please bless...(long pause)
Me: to have a good sleep.
Lana: NO! My turn! Shhhh! Good sleep, Jesus Christ, Amen.

Yonder

I used the word "yonder" in a sentence today while talking with Paul. For so long I have refused to use words like yonder and other such words. In fact when Paul talks like a redneck I make fun of him ruthlessly hoping that will make him talk "normal". Obviously we have lived here too long because the lingo is rubbing off on me. I called Paul to tell him that they were finally clearing the lots next door to us (after 2+ years of living in this house!). The word inserted itself into my sentence when I said that the excavator was on the third lot, down yonder. Ugh...

Easter Egg Hunt #3

Last night after we put Lana to bed we started filling the eggs. She got up once while we were filling them and then once when we had just started hiding them. That girl really knows how to kill a surprise. Luckily she's 2 and she was just as surprised when she woke up this morning to find candy filled eggs at her disposal. Tanner, my sweet boy was still quietly sleeping. Lana's going to get a run for her money next year when she competes with Tanner to get the eggs.



Crazy hair girl, a little on the scary side.









Oh, there's my pretty girl!









Showing off her stash.

2 hours with Dad

You can't see it as well as you could in person, but this is what I found when I got home from shopping on Saturday. I was only gone for 2 hours. When I came home Lana ran to greet me at the door. Imagine my surprise at finding Dorrito smudges, chocolate pudding smudges, remnants of Fruity Pebbles, juice dribbles, and various chocolate candy smears all over her shirt. Let's imagine what she might look like if I were to leave her for an entire day alone with Dad....scary!!

Easter Egg Hunt #2

This is our annual playgroup egg hunt. I know she's wearing a jacket, but it actually turned out to be a beautiful day!







Just hanging out on the donkey with her eggs.

Local celebrities

By local celebrities, I mean the local news anchors that we watch on tv. It's so weird for me to run into them at places like our local Kroger and Walmart stores. I've even run into one of the weather women at the Chik-Fil-A just down the road. At our last home owners association meeting I attended this guy walked in late and sat down across the room from where I was sitting. I kept looking over at him because he looked so familiar to me but I couldn't figure out where I knew him from. The guy must've thought I was nuts (or possibly a stalker) because I kept looking in that direction. Then someone behind me said, isn't that the guy from channel 2 news? Ahhh, click! That's where I knew him from! It was Wilson Stribling from channel 2. He lives just down the street from us...crazy!

Miss bossy, but with manners

Miss Lana is bossy. She tells me, Tanner and daddy what to do and when to do it. Then she attaches a please and thank you. "Mommy, draw star...please!" "Mommy, play stickers...please." "Mommy's turn...please." "Mommy help...please." I am not allowed to sit in certain places where daddy normally sits. I am also not permitted to sing when she sings with daddy. I'm often being told to "shhhh!"(complete with finger at the lips). She absolutely cracks me up each time she does it. Oh how I love my polite, bossy little girl!

R.I.P. CPU

Today I'd like to take a moment and pay my respects to our dear desktop computer which I killed yesterday in a fluke accident. I've known our beloved computer for almost 6 years now and had grown quite fond of it. It lived a good life and served us well. We were both actually very surprised that it lasted as long as it did. Well, it's in a better place now. May it enjoy the all you can eat memory buffets and and the company of our other computers which have gone before it. Rest in peace (pieces?) dear computer, we're off to replace you today.

A Little Nervous

OK so today in church the bishopric announced that we needed to prepare ourselves and invite our friends to a special Easter program next week....One problem....I (Paul) am Speaking!! This wouldn't be so bad, but I already know that my past talks have been dry, not too exciting, talks. Now don't get me wrong, I do try to use all of those public speaking skills I learned from my classes at Ricks. I don't know, its just a little nerve racking.
So anyways, this evening Lana came to both Michelle and I and told us about the sand in the back of my pickup truck, and about how she wanted to play with it. Its funny because we only talked about it once, when I bought it about a week ago, and she isn't tall enough to look in the truck. I hadn't unloaded it because we had the bug guy come and spray the house, and we couldn't play outside anyway. Just thought that was curious.
This evening Lana was running around in circles holding a pretend microphone singing. It was very cute. She then handed me a pretend microphone and we proceeded to sing songs like the ABC song and Old McDonald. Michelle tried to sing too, but she got shushed by Lana because she wasn't holding a pretend microphone. Lana gave her one and we all sang together as Lana danced.
Michelle also showed me how I can look people up on myspace. Very interesting. I looked up my high school, by graduating class and found 77 people with posts. I looked them up, didn't recognize most of them (My old neighbor is on there though) and I found that my high school bred all sorts of gay, Wicca, atheist types. Not like I'm one to judge, but it is a Much different environment than here. One guy even said that he worked for a type of insurance that protected people when the were injured while in a zombie state. What can I say about that.

A conversation...

Me: Let's sit on the potty.
Lana: No.
Me: Why don't you want to sit on the potty? Mommy sits on the potty.
Lana: Mommy has a big bum. Lana has small bum. It's a big potty, Lana is small.
Me: If I get you a small potty will you sit on it?
Lana: No.
Me: Why not?
Lana: I'm playing puzzles.

Woohoo!!

Last night Tanner slept for 11 hours and I only had to get up once to put the paci in! Oh wonderful sleep, how I have missed you! Please come back tonight.

We voted!

Okay, technically I voted but the kids came too and got stickers. I'm seriously disappointed in the Republican party and that all of my choices have dropped out of the race one by one. I was seriously thinking of going Democrat because of my intense dislike for Hilary (there are many other things I can't stand about her, but mostly it's because she looks horrible on high definition tv-hah!). Nonetheless, I went out and did my civic duty and let's hope some one good runs on the Independent Ballot in November.

Easter part 1

Here is Lana enjoying her first (of probably 3) egg hunt of the year at our Primary activity on Saturday. She is a really good finder too, she found the eggs on the door handles and in the fake foliage that the other kids passed by.






Here is her contemplative moment while coloring her picture. I like to think that she is in deep thought about the meaning of Easter, but I'm sure she's thinking of something more along the lines of "when am I going to get my candy mom?".

Mississippi Snow

Lana was so excited to wake up and see snow on the ground. She was so hyped up about it that when we finally got her outside, she ran to the slide and biffed it face first onto the slide producing a nice sized bruise on the side of her cheek.






The owie was just a minor setback however, and she was soon happily throwing snow at the wall (thankfully not at me!)

I'd also like to note that while I do not enjoy snow I do not mind having to put up with it when it's only a light dusting on the ground and is gone by 10am and the next few days are spent in the 70's.

I love baby giggles

Finally we caught the giggles on tape. He doesn't really do it for very long in the video, but it's still so cute. I also found out, while trying to make him laugh for the camera, that he is very ticklish in the armpits. It's so funny to watch him flail his arms out and laugh at the same time. He also laughs a lot for Lana and Lana loves making him laugh. I think his favorite is when she bounces up and down on the bed like a maniac. If he looks away for any reason she'll even manually turn his head just so he is constantly looking at her. For being such a shy girl in public, she loves her attention at home!

The silent pooper

Oh the sweet sound of silence is now accompanied by a smell in our house. Usually at the end of the silence I find myself having to change a poopy diaper. It is just really amusing that he's concentrating so much on pooping that he doesn't make a sound. And he is quiet for so long that I find myself checking to make sure he's awake or not. I know I have a diaper to change when I find him still wide awake.

Back from the Dr.'s

No, it's not his 4 month appointment which will be at the end of the month, but the Pediatric Urologist who we had to see. Now I won't tell all the world (okay, realistically a few choice readers) why we were there so he won't die of embarrassment 18 years down the road, but we were there for his nether regions and it's nothing serious and pretty common (that's what the Dr.'s said anyway). The appointment was at the University Medical Center. Unfortunately I'd never been there before so we were a tad bit late (I'm going to blame it on the fact there was no close parking...I should've anticipated that with my own college parking experience.) Since it is a teaching hospital poor Tanner had to go through the squeezing of the nether regions twice! However, he took it like a trooper (even smiled at the Resident and the Nurse) and didn't even shed a tear until the actual Dr. came into the room and quite possibly snuffed out a few potential grand kids. The tears were short lived however and he was asleep about 10 minutes later. They did weigh him while we were there and he is now weighing in at 15lbs. 11oz. We will unfortunately have to go back in 3 months for a little out patient surgery unless his condition resolves on its' own (which it very well may...let's cross our fingers on that one).

Ugh, I knew it!

I knew it, at 1:15am this morning I just knew with anticipated dread that today was not going to be a fun day. At the before said time, I started to hear a cough-cough-cough...cry...cough-cough-cough...cry...cough-cough-cough coming from my closet. I got Tanner to go back to sleep relatively quickly and then sometime around 3am I hear it again. Cough-cough-cough...cry... Repeat at 4 something and then 5:45am. A depressing 15 minutes later I hear pat-pat-pat-pat-pat right outside our bedroom door. My sweet girl who has always been such a good sleeper for me is awake. So here I am in bed with 2 wide awake kids and a husband deep asleep thanks to the tranquilizers he gets to take for his toothache. I snuffed out the strong urge to push him out of the bed. Thankfully the day was not as horrible as I anticipated (don't get me wrong, it was still a non-funfilled day). Thankfully, Lana loved me so much that she took a much needed (for the both of us) 4 hour nap.

Hey Bindi

So this morning as I was getting Lana dressed, I thought to myself, she reminds me of Bindi the Jungle girl. I didn't think anything more about it until Paul came home from helping some guy set up his surround sound system and said that Lana looks an awful lot like Bindi the Jungle girl. We both had a good laugh and just had to take a picture to post. She did have pig tails in this morning but as usual by the time she's done with her nap her morning hairdo is history.

Play Tanner?

Lana is forever asking if she can play with Tanner ("Play Tanner?"). So I finally got the baby toys out and said "Okay Lana, let's play toys with Tanner." This is what resulted...





This is where the toys should be.








Mommy's definition of playing with Tanner: Actually interacting with him.
Lana's definition of playing with Tanner: Here Tanner, watch me play with your toys.

Brrrrr!?

The last couple of days Lana's been telling me she's cold (regardless of the fact that it's a comfortable 73 degrees outside). Here are just a few samples of our many conversations we've had about the cold.

Lana: Where's my socks?
Me: In your room. Why do you need socks?
Lana: I've cold toes.

Lana: Blanky! I'm cold! (wraps blanket around shoulders and says brrrrrr while shivering)

Lana: Hold me mom, it's cold.

Lana: Bubble bath Mom.
Me: You want to take a bath? Why do you need a bath? Are you dirty?
Lana: No...cold!