Is It Naptime Yet

We got some promotional tattoos in the mail from Disney. Jon decided it would be fun to put them on him and Lilah. Luckily there were three because Eden wanted one also. They’re Pirates of the Caribbean tattoos.
Here are my rebels.

The funny thing is Lilah had a stake Primary activity today so she went wearing this outfit, which clearly showed the tattoo, which I was fine with. But the funny thing is it was a missionary activity so she was a missionary with a skull tat.
Oh well.

I know ever since you’ve known that I went on my trip you all have been waiting for the inevitable photo blog. ;)Here it is.

So we brought a bowl and a towel just in case Eden decided to throw up.

I looked back sometime between Mesquite and St. George to check on Eden and this is what I saw.

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I have no idea how long it had been on her head.

 But she had fun with it.

Friday we went to the park despite the throw up incident that morning by Eden.

Then onto the wedding that night.

On the tables they had confetti. It started with Lilah just putting it in my hair but then I started sticking it to the girls faces.

Lilah dancing with my cousin Brittany.

Here’s the cake my mom made.

The bride and groom.

My Aunt Glenna and Uncle Leonard.

There’s a sum of the trip
I didn’t take any pictures on the way back because we had two sick girls. 🙁

All are well now. I’m even babysitting my two niece’s and nephew right now.

So I went on the trip.
Eden had a small fever on Wednesday night, but she only puked once that day. Thursday morning she was her normal happy singing self in bed so I decided to go. I had folded all the clothes I washed for the trip so it would be fairly easy packing. We were all set and then at 10 am when I started to think about getting everything in my mom’s car I realized we’d left the car seats in our car. Jon was a doll and dropped them off for us so we left about 11:15.
Both girls seemed normal on Thursday. It was very happy traveling and we didn’t use the DVD player my mom brought because they were quiet the whole time, napping or reading books.
They didn’t eat very much Thursday night, though they ate well at lunch. (We went to Chuck -a-Rama’s in St. George, one of the reason’s I so badly wanted to go on the trip in the first place.)

Friday morning Lilah was great, Eden ate hardly anything but drank a lot of orange juice. We stayed at the hotel while my mom went and decorated the cake for my cousin’s reception.
Eden threw up about 10:30 am. I was able to clean it up easily, luckily the carpet was hunter green. She seemed fine after that so we took a walk across the street and played at a little play ground that we found. The maid came while we were gone, I warned her about the throw up, and our room smelled like cinnamon when we returned.
We walked to a diner for lunch and just had it to go since I was alone and Eden was sick. I felt like a single mom. Why you ask? Well I was there with my girls alone and two Jon had my rings so he could get them checked for our extended warranty plan. So I was without my wedding ring. I felt like everyone saw that I had kids, and saw that I was not married because I had no rings.
Lilah had her drink while we waited for our food and she spilled it. 16 oz of soda and ice on the bench. Her and Eden thought they were helping by running their hands in the soda and wiping the bench but without any napkins. I got mad at Lilah because she continued to do this and she started to cry. Luckily we had our food so I was able to usher them out as she cried and Eden tried to give her a hug. I felt like people were thinking, “Oh the poor single mother can’t keep her temper when her child spills her drink”.
I just felt single the whole time. Anywhere we went really. I was there with my mom, two girls and without a wedding ring. Of course I know I was more self conscious then others really noticed, but being in Utah I felt more judged for some reason.
We all went to the reception. Eden seemed to be doing better, even though she had a diaper blowout, and Lilah was still fine.
My cousins, Brittany (16) and Celeste (14) kept holding Lilah and Eden. I had to remind them that Lilah had legs and she could walk. Eden was very cuddly and she liked just being with me that night.
Here’s another reason I felt like people thought I was a single mom. At the reception people noticed I had kids, but never asked about my husband. (The the groom’s family.) So I felt like they thought I was single or maybe thy didn’t want to ask in case I was single.

Saturday neither girls ate much of anything at breakfast. Eden had a pretty good day, but Lilah did not.
We stopped at Beaver for lunch and right after we ordered Lilah started coughing, which has been pretty normal for the last two weeks. Then she threw up right there by the registers at Wendy’s. Luckily she hadn’t eaten much so it was just watery, not chunky. She threw up a little and I thought it would stop but then she threw up a little more and I tried to rush her to the bathroom where she threw up on the way and just a little in the toilet. The girls shared a banana and we ate lunch.
They both slept a lot on the way to St. George.
We stopped in St. George and Lilah went into a store with my mom for some knitting needles. Once inside the store she threw up again. ( I asked her if she felt okay and she said she did, but we think the walking made her sick.)
The rest of the trip was fine, but neither of the girls ate or drank much.
Saturday night Lilah coughed and threw up once,and then throughout the night felt like she was going to threw up anytime she coughed.

They stayed home Sunday and slept all day.
Eden threw up on Jon Sunday night right after I canceled dinner with Carolyn for tonight, Monday.
Today has been more sleep and slightly lethargic girls.
I hate having sick girls. Luckily today is a holiday and Jon has it off. I may make him stay home tomorrow, but well see.
Eden seems to want food, bit she won’t eat the applesauce I give her. I think she’s sick of applesauce.
Lilah just wants cuddles and she eats a little.
I hope they get better soon. They did have a good time on the trip though. Lilah didn’t want to leave the hotel. I think she liked all the soda’s and restaurants we were visiting.

So we don’t do Valentine’s Day very much. Mostly because our anniversary is later this month, so to do two romantic nights in one month is hard. Really it’s over doing it because we don’t even do one romantic night a month. I also prefer doing something extra special on a day that actually means something to me.

Today has been a bad day though. Eden is sick. I mean diarrhea and puke sick. (She’s only puked once, but the night is still young.) This makes me extra sad because we were suppose to go to Utah tomorrow with my mom. Even if she has a good night and doesn’t puke again there’s no guarantee that she won’t tomorrow while on the trip. I’m still tempted to go if she has a good night, but I would feel soo bad if she did  end up puking in my mom’s car.
Most times these things are just one day, but will it only be one day is the question. We’d be leaving around 10 am….which is just too early to tell.
I really wanted to go. It was for a cousin’s reception. I’m not close to this cousin or even this aunt and uncle. I just wanted to get away. I also wanted to show support because they’ve come down for weddings and blessings, and we haven’t been able to go up for the two weddings they’ve have since I’ve been married.
Really I just wanted to get away and change my routine.
I’m so very disappointed.

(Jon’s coworker has been gone and if it were just Friday he could take the time off, but it’s Thursday and Friday, which makes it hard for us.)

This week has been long but it went rather quickly.
Lilah got sick last Saturday so we had her and Eden stay home with Jon on Sunday. Both stayed because I was teaching Sunday school and I didn’t want to worry about Eden and getting her to nursery right before my class started.
This past week Lilah has been congested and coughing  a lot and then Friday she came down with a fever. It was not fun. She said she had an earache, but really I think she just wanted medicine.  Today, Saturday, she seems to be doing well. No more  fever and plenty of attitude. I think I’m going to keep them both home from church just to make sure Lilah is over what she had and so they don’t catch anything. The girls and I are going up to Utah with my mom later this week so I don’t want them to get sick right before we leave.

Wednesday I got my hair done. Yippee!! I got some red highlights put in as my graduation gift to myself. Jon does not usually like highlight but he likes mine because they’re subtle.  (I’m sure being on me helps also 😉

This shows more of the cut. My standard cut, but I love it. (Pardon the no make up and red blotch left from the cold sore I had last week.)

Now you can see the highlights. They are very subtle but very noticeable in the sun or outside.
I normally have no red to my dark brown hair, so the red tint is the highlights.

Why I paid so much money to have subtle and not immediately noticeable highlights I don’t know but they make me happy.

Friday I was going to just lay around with the girls since Lilah had a fever, but while they were down for their nap I decided to hem my curtains. So I’m one step closer to having all my curtains done! I also sewed the tabs that I should have sewn about 3 weeks ago for my next set that I’ll be making. I guess I realized it was almost the middle of February, I’ve been out of school almost two month and have not done anything with my curtains. I guess I realized I was being a slacker. Now I feel happy that they’re done.  ( I made these curtains in July last year, but they didn’t get hemmed because I was hosting a pampered chef party and I just wanted them hung.  So now 7 months later they’re finally done. )

Our pediatrician’s office is weird. Twice they’ve given my the wrong date on the reminder card for one of the girls appointments. I thought Eden had an appointment on the Wednesday Feb. 7th at 9 am. I remember checking the card for the correct date that we discussed. Wednesday Jan. 31st I got a call reminding me that Eden had an appointment at 9 am on Thursday the 1st. I called back to make sure. My reminder card had Thursday marked but it said 2-07….maybe she was confusing the day with the year.
So we went in Yesterday for Eden’s 18th month appointment. She’s healthy and normal. She weighted in at 21 lbs. 11 oz. (10-25th percentile), her height was 32 1/2 inches (75th percentile) and her head is 48 cm (90th percentile). So our child is tall with a big head and skinny for her age. Go figure.
The doctor was interesting. He’s new to us and this was the first time Lilah had meet him. At the end of the appointment he told Lilah how her sister may not play very much just yet, but she’ll become interesting in a few months and interact with her more. I said how they already play together. Lilah just bosses Eden around. He said that will come to an end soon.
I find the second child interesting. Even though it says on the sheet of paper they give us that at this age they have an inability to share, I still find Eden able to share. She doesn’t always like it and it is usually guided by a parent but she will share will Lilah.

After the appointment I was going to go to a consignment store my sister Carolyn told me about. She said they had leotards there for $5 and that sounded very appealing compared to the $17 I could spend at Target for a new one. As I sat in the car I realized I would be passing Kristi’s house and I called to see if I could stop by to let the kids play. Lilah and Eden stayed and played while I went to the store and bought a leotard for Lilah. It’s a medium, the smallest size the had, that wasn’t smaller than Lilah. It’s about a size 4-5. It too long for her but I think I might safety pin it and it’ll work. For $6. 49 total I figure a little growing space doesn’t matter.
I left Kristi’s at lunch time and then called Carolyn. She works down the street form Kristi so I called to see when her lunch was. She wasn’t going to be taking a lunch but since I had the girls she decided to.
Lilah had fun at the office and even got some candy and money from one of Carolyn’s coworkers.
We left Carolyn’s work and went to Costco. I bought way to much considering I went in for honey and shampoo. How does honey and shampoo become a nearly $200 shopping trip? It’s crazy there.
We left and Eden fell right asleep in the car. It was a fun day considering it was unplanned. The girls were well behaved and we had no tantrums. At the end of the Costco trip Eden started making this grumbling noise in her throat. Lilah copied her sister and said that Eden must be grumpy. So for the last 15 minutes of the Costco run Eden was grumpy as described by Lilah about every 2 minutes.

I got Jon at the end of the day and we went home for a quick dinner. I had book club for relief society and it was fun to go discuss. It was interesting because they did this needle test to see how many and what kids I would have. A little superstitious yes, but fun none the less.(it came up in conversation and I said I wanted to try it.) You have a sewing needle on a piece of thread about 5-6 inches long or a total of a foot but folded in half to hold the needle. One person holds the thread with the needle dangling while doing the test on the other person. From what I could tell the person just places their hand palm down with fingers spread on a surface and the other person traces the hand in the air just above it. After they trace the hand they move the needle to float above the middle of the hand. If the needle swings in a circle that means a girl, if it swings in a line then it means a boy. You repeat tracing and floating the needle abovethe hand until instead of swinging the needle stops. It predicted me to have two girls and then one boy. (be quiet Anna) I just think it was fun. The women who introduced this to me, or well her daughters, said her reason to believe it can predict the children and what sex they are in order is because she thinks the energy of a woman’s children are with her, born or unborn. Part of me was like 3 just 3. I hope I don’t die young. We’ll have to see how many Jon’s suppose to have. 🙂

Anyways.

I really enjoyed the day. I loved having the car and being able to visit people. I can’t wait until we get a second car. I hope everything is ready by the summer time so we can buy, but we’ll see. I have lots of wants, but we’ll see what pans out in the end.
I want a sedan that can fit three car seats. Jon wants a car with a fold flat rear seat, so he can pick up big items at the home improvement store. We’ll see, we’ll see.
I really want a second car…..I can’t wait until we have a second car.

Lilah gave a talk on Sunday. It was funny because they had the Sunbeam class do the talk, scripture and closing prayer. Out of the three kids, Lilah was the loudest! Jon thinks she had the advantage because she couldn’t see everyone over the little pulpit and the others could and then be nervous.

I procrastinated writing the talk. Well really I forgot and then I only had time on Saturday night between a baby shower and a movie night with the relief society. I didn’t have time to practice with her until Sunday morning. She didn’t do too well so I was a little worried and frustrated. She liked to start talking while I was telling her what to say, so it got all jumbled. I took her out from her class to practice, since they do the talk at the end of the block, and she did well listening to what I said and then repeating. This is the topic and talk I had planned for her to give, but I cut out parts and she only gave the regular print. It was funny because I was shaking when it was all done.

I have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He will help me keep the commandments.

I have faith in Jesus. I have faith because I can not see Jesus but I can feel his love for me though the Holy Ghost and through the love of my family. Heavenly Father gives us commandments. Commandments are rules for us to follow while on earth. I know that I should keep God’s commandments but sometimes I do not follow the commandments. I know that if I trust in Jesus and have faith that he will help me keep God’s commandments. Heavenly Father sent me to parents that would teach me about his commandments and help me to keep them. I have faith that I can Keeps God’s commandments and feel his love when I do what is right

Well once Eden’s back hair became long enough to put in pig tales I was ecstatic. In the past few months the back hair has grown, but not much of anything else….which gave my precious baby a mullet. Now it was the cutest mullet you have ever seen, but a mullet none the less. Lately Eden’s hair has started to fill in . You can see that it’s getting a little thicker up top, which made the mullet look even thinner. Well last night we gave the girls a bath and then bit the bullet and cut Eden’s mullet. Now she looks a little like a boy, but at least her hair looks nice when I don’t have time to put it up in pig tales, but it’s all gone. I felt a little bad cutting it off. She loves to play with her hair when she’s bored or when she goes to sleep. Now it’s gone.
Here’s some before and after pictures.

She’s cute but so scraggly.

right before the cut.

Jon did the cutting.

Here she is today….so cute even without hair.

NEWS: Eden is finally calling me mama!! I love to hear her talk lately. The other day she said car when she heard one go by outside, and she’s coming up to me and saying mama. I love it when my girls finally call me mama. She also says color now. She loves crayons and loves to color. Yesterday she also decided to eat the crayons. Yummy green crayon.
The other day I realized Eden was a toddler when I heard her coming down the hall repeating “no, no, no.” to herself. It almost makes me want to have another one.
The title of this blog comes from Eden. She just came up to me and called me mama and the cartoon frog on my shirt Dada. I suppose you could say it looks like Jon, but I think she was just confused.

Conversation with Lilah at lunch the other day:
Me: “Lilah what do you want to be when you grow up?”
Lilah: “I want to be a doctor.”
Me: ” A doctor. I bet you’ll make a good doctor.”
Lilah:” What do you want to be when you grow up Mommy?”
Me: ” I’m a mom. I want to be a mom when I grow up.”
Lilah: “You can be a doctor like me. Okay Mommy.”
Jon called her a budding feminist.

Bear with this post. It’s mostly written in my train of thought, like most are, but this one goes from subject to subject. Just think of it as a long winded conversation with me. Like so many of you have had with me before. 🙂

The UNLV semester starts tomorrow. I was oblivious to this until talking to my sister last week. I was also oblivious to the fact that today was a holiday until I was picking Jon up from work on Friday and his manager asked what we were doing with the long weekend. It seems that without a school schedule to follow my life goes on and I am oblivious to time, except weekends when we have baby showers or activities to do.
Last week is a blur. I know I kept my house presentable. I worked out twice. I had a goal of posting pictures of different rooms and spaces of our house so my SIL Annie could see what it looked like. I was also going to use them as a before and after, in hopes that I am able to transform my little home this year. I got the bedroom pictures taken but nothing else. I sewed nursing blankets for a baby shower I went to on Saturday. (They’re light weight cotton fabric with a lace or border. So a mother doesn’t get too hot while nursing. They’re also perfect for swaddling the baby, covering the car seat to keep the sun out and so many other things. My girls are blanket girls, so the nursing blankets my mom made became their comfort blankets.) I had fun making them. I didn’t realize how experience comes into play even when sewing a straight line. The problem is keeping the lace or border in place while sewing a straight line at the appropriate hem distance. I hope she forgives the discrepancies. I’m a terrible seamstress because depending on the project and what goes wrong I don’t take it out. I hate taking out seams!! So I avoid this at all costs, which doesn’t mean I’m a good seamstress, it just means that I let little things slide. I learned some things while sewing these blankets so if I ever decide to make them again, maybe I can remember the small errors I made.
That was pretty much my week. sewing, cleaning and playing. My how I have less to talk about now that I don’t have school.
Lilah and Eden also had a birthday party on Friday morning. They had tons of fun, playing, coloring and popping bubbles. The weather was freezing but worth the outing.

I’ve been getting along well with the girls. Eden said stuck twice last night in context. She brought this box of books to me and said stuck because the books wouldn’t come out for her. She also said cold today when she went outside with Jon this morning and had nothing but a onsie and pants on. Most of her phrases come and go, but it’s so fun to see her learn.
Lilah is Lilah. She has this habit of baby talking or using a whiny voice the fist time she says something until I ask her to say it in a big girl voice. ( I know I’ve blogged about this before.) I think I’m going to cut out Caillou. I don’t know if this show really causes her whining, but I’ve heard from other moms that their kids whine less when they don’t watch Caillou. That’s really our next obstacle with her. I’m not sure if she does it because of Eden or if she wants the attention. She also only seems to do it to us and at home. When other people are around or if she’s not at home she’s fine. It’s just frustrating.
She did well her second week in Primary. She totally loves it!
Lilah also has enjoyed keeping the house clean for Daddy. When I ask her to help pick up she always replies “So we can have it clean for Daddy?” I feel I’m achieving this goal well. I also feel that I’m always tidying and cleaning! It’s worth it though because I feel a little more comfortable in my space and not so ashamed because I have a chaotic table, dishes in my sink or toys everywhere because I don’t, usually. I feel that I’ve worked on each goal this week. Which is an improvement.

This week my goals are to work out twice and do the toning exercise once. I also hope to do sewing on my curtain tabs and read my scriptures at least three times. ( I did read once last week, not good but better than none. ) I think if I state my goals here, then hopefully I can have the motivation to do them so I can report back. So this is my new goal until I fulfill the goals or they are habits. So I’ll blog about my weekly goals and report back. Just a warning so you don’t have to read them but it might help if I get the support 🙂

That’s your weekly Blake update.

P.S. Jon’s checked and my degree has been posted! ( Jon was worried that I may have not completed all the requirements, because sometimes they have to deny people because they were misinformed by their advisor.) Now all I have to do it wait for the diploma to come in the mail! I’ve been looking for the perfect frame to put it in, but I haven’t found it yet. My friend Anna has a floating frame for hers and her husband. I’ve seen them at Joann’s but I’ve never had the money to spend because I was always spending it on something else! I really want a floating frame with a black frame, or one like my sisters where there is a white mat and a black frame. I’m excited to get the diploma and hang it!