Dancing Queen

Before you start to think this has turned into the Laila blog, I do have one funny thing to share from James.

On our way home tonight James said "For Christmas, I'm going to ask for a real force field." I said "OK" and didn't think much of it, but Macy wanted to know why, so he explained that he wants it so dad cant beat him up anymore. Um. Yes. So. every once in a while I tell Josh that the kids need to be roughed up a little and it usually ends in tears, but it's good for them! Apparently James does not agree however.

Alright, now on to the Laila part. She is by far our most serious child...until you turn on the music! I took the kids to skate night tonight and was a little worried about how to keep Laila entertained, but she had a blast! She ended up entertaining the lady sitting next to us.

Loony Laila

Wow, this week has been crazy! I was planning on having a laparoscopy done sometime next month to remove my IUD that got put in wrong 3 times to begin with and then somehow burrowed it's way out of my uterus and into my abdominal cavity. And then suddenly on Monday I talked to a different doctor and she was willing to do the surgery on Thursday so I said "why not!"

 

The surgery went really well and Josh was able to stay home and take care of me and the kids so I could rest. Friday even seemed like it would be a good day as well since one of my friends took Laila and Macy for me for a good chunk of the afternoon so I could rest some more. By Friday evening though I was utterly exhausted and all I wanted was for Josh to walk in the door so I could go lay down again. Of course it turned out to be one of the worst days he has had in a long time and didn't get home until 10:00.

 

By, 7:00 I was feeling loony, and apparently so was Laila. I gave her some Motrin because her darn top tooth just won't break through and the poor thing has been suffering for weeks now. Afterward she was thoroughly entertained by the medicine dropper so we sat on the stairs for about 30 minutes playing this little game, but I eventually had to cut her off because I was laughing so hard that my incisions were starting to hurt. (keep in mind that I was still under the influence of several medications!)

 



Saturday was the worse day yet, where I experienced some sort of crazy anesthesia hang over, and of course Josh was on call so I was on my own again. Thankfully I have really great friends who helped me out getting kids shuttled to birthday parties and brought us dinner. I would not have survived without them!

Today I am feeling tired still but more like myself again, and that feels great!

Makes me SO sad!

 

One Year Photo Shoot...aka The Day I'd Like to Forget

Warning: I'm going to gripe and complain, and then throw a whole bunch of pictures at you, because I'm that mom who thinks her kid is THE cutest and you all are just dying to pour over 32 pictures of her.

 

OK, let's begin. Josh left for Utah yesterday morning at 5:50am, which means that at 4:30am myself and four sleepy children escorted him to the airport. I should have known just to stay home after that. No good day starts at 4:30 in the morning. I did eventually get everyone back to sleep by 6:30 and Samm and James got themselves up and ready for school an hour so I shouldn't complain too much. Around 10:30 I finally got a call from the Dr's office that I have been waiting for for over a week, with the news that I will in fact have to have a minor surgery, but that is a rant for another day. After that we met some friends at the park, which was the only thing that saved Thursday for me. I need more grown up girl bonding time (name that movie)

 

Anyway, I had been going back and forth all day about whether or not I really wanted to drag all the kids out after school to take Laila's pictures, but in the end I wasn't sure if we would ever have another day that would be warm enough at 5:00 for her to not have a shirt on, and I had already blown up the helium balloons that were to be used in the pictures, so we went. At approximately 5:30 we arrived at the photo shoot location, and around 5:32 James let go of said balloons before even one picture could be snapped. (Just imagine really cute yellow and white polka dot balloons in the background)

 

Laila smiled and laughed for the first five pictures while Samm stood next to me squeaking a little elephant toy, and then she caught on to the game we were playing and pretty much refused to even look at me after that. If she did look up, she made sure to have her hands in her mouth.

 

There were some other lesser highlights in the middle, including James jumping in a creek with his tennis shoes on, me hitting my head on a beam, and loosing the lens cap to my camera, but let me just jump to the end. It's the best part.

 

I was a really great mom and let Laila sit up on a bench next to the other kids that was way too high for her to be sitting on, and then I walked out of reach of her just as Macy hopped off the bench sending her plummeting face first on the ground. Bloody noses don't make for good pictures, so we called it quits. And, the best part is that her nose might be broken. With Josh out of town, I don't know for sure, but the bridge of her nose is nice and purple and swollen. I keep seeing the image of her face hitting the ground in my head, and it makes my stomach lurch every time.

 

On a happier note though, out of the hundred or so pictures that I took, there were some good ones, and a few that are even good enough to hang on the wall. And, Laila doesn't seem to be scarred, emotionally that is, from our little escapade yesterday.

 

Now for the picture spew. Just focus on the cute face and not my picture taking skills. OK. I still have no clue how to use my camera, and after a few frustrating and completely blurry shots I just put the dumb thing on auto.

 





 

She looks so sweet in this picture, but don't let that fool you. She is a diva! What I really needed was a picture of her doing her eyebrow furrow.

I love her face in this one! I'm really bummed that it's blurry.

 

I think this is the one that will probably go on the wall!

You can't watch Swiss Family Robinson and not want to play pirates

 

You just can't!

Back to School 20012

YES! We finally made it back to school! And it is off to a GREAT start. Three days in a row James has come home happy and with no discipline problems!!! He has the same teacher that Samm had in 2nd grade and she is really patient, so I have been hoping this would be THE year for him. I don't want to jump the gun too early in saying that it is, but it's already better than last year so I am hopeful.

 

Poor Macy still has to wait one more year and she is VERY sad about being left behind. All her little heart wants to do is ride that school bus.

 

The ONLY way James will agree to having his hair fixed every morning is if I give him a mowhawk. It looks better than fuzzy bed head, so why not!

And the bus is ALWAYS 30 minutes late on the first day of school so there was a lot of anticipation leading up to it's arrival.

HURRAY for a new year!

Super mega slip n slide

Our ward celebrated it's 10 year anniversary on Saturday with a little get together. At first, it was just the usual food, games for the kids, and all the adults sitting around talking, (none of which are bad, of course) but then the Edwards pulled out their huge slip n slide. It was massive. It was soapy. No one had swimming suits. It was awesome!

 

Most of the adults were sane enough to just watch, but these 3 are just big kids anyway, so they jumped right on! And, It should be noted that all three have been complaining of sore muscles today, which means they might possibly not be as young as they think!

 

James did have camo face paint on until his run, and Josh ended up having to throw Macy down because she wasn't making it very far on her own.