Dallin vs. the Cactus

Dallin went immediately from a balance bike to a regular pedal bike with NO training wheels. He's done really well. I'm not sure exactly what happened tonight, but he came back looking very sad. Todd was across the street with both bikes.

Apparently Dallin turned right INTO a cactus. He totally trampled the poor thing, but managed to escape COMPLETELY unscathed. How? I have no idea. Divine intervention I'm sure.

Birth Tag (Rach, this is for you)

1.Were your pregnancies planned?

Yes.

2. How long were you married at the time of birth?

D: 2 years, 7 months
M: 4 years, 7 months


3. What were your reactions?

Excited! Happy!

4. How did your spouse react?

He didn't. Don't expect a "woo-hoo" out of this guy. He's a great dad though!

5. How old were you?

D: 22.5
M: 24 (2 weeks from 25)


6. How did you find out you were pregnant?

I was temping and testing.

7. Who did you tell first?

Todd. Then my mom and family and friends.

8. Did you want to find out the gender?

Yes, and we will for any future kids. I have an insane need to know.

9. Due Date?

D: Halloween. Came 10/08
M: Due Feb 25 Born Jan 14


10. Did you have morning sickness?

Oh heavens yes. For about 25 weeks with Dallin and with Maddie I was on medication.

11. What did you crave?

I don't remember with Dallin, I couldn't keep anything down...but with Maddie I craved peanut butter on toast (had to be toasted) with strawberry jelly.

12. What irritated you the most?

Nothing that I can remember. Except maybe having to pee every 5 minutes for the entire duration.

13. What was the child’s sex?

Boy, girl

14. Did you wish that you had the opposite sex of what you were getting?

No way! I'll take what I'm given. Although I am thrilled I have one of each!

15. How many pounds did you gain throughout the pregnancy?

D: 32
M:15

And I'm having an awful time getting it off (one of the reasons we don't have another yet)

16. Did you have a baby shower?

For Dallin yes. For Maddie no.

17. Did you have any complications during your pregnancy?

Oh um...well there was the barfing. The hip joints deciding to come undone. The swelling of the bottoms of my feet so I couldn't walk at night. And of course, my water breaking at 34 weeks...yeah that was a blast.

18. Where did you give birth?

Both kids were delivered at a hospital in Clovis, NM. I wish I were a candidate for a home birth but I'm really not.

19. How many hours were you in labor?

12 hours with both of them from the time my water broke (yes, it broke with BOTH of them before actual labor started...FUN for me!)

20. Who drove you to the hospital?

Todd the first time. The second time he was out of town so I got an ambulance ride. No friends or family to take me and I wasn't about to drive myself!

21. Who watched you give birth?

Todd and a doctor and a nurse...my mom was there for Maddie's.

22. Was your baby delivered the regular way or by c-section?

Regular way thank you.

23. Did you take medicine to ease the pain?

I am a weenie. The. end. I had epidurals with both, although with Dallin, they turned it off and I felt everything.

24. How much did the baby weigh?

D: 7- even
M: 5 pounds, 5 oz. She came flying out in 2 pushes because she was SO small.

25. What did you name your children?

Dallin Todd
Madison Leigh

26. How old are your children today?

D: 5 years, 6 months
M: 3 years, 3 months

Poisonous Gas

Dallin and I were having a conversation about family and heaven. We were talking about my Papa Buzz who passed away a few years ago and Dallin asked "how do we die mama?" I told him there are a lot of ways that we can die (not really wanting to go into details) and he said..."yeah, like poisonous gas".

Where he got that from, I have no idea but it made me laugh.

Dallin said to me this morning...

I got up and Todd had gone to buy me the Twilight DVD from Target (thanks babe!). Dallin said to me...

"mom, I can't find Dad ANYWHERE. I looked in the bathroom, and out in the garage. His car is gone. I think he went to Durango to go to the park by himself".


I just laughed. The mental picture of Todd playing at the park alone nearly had me rolling on the floor. We had talked about possibly taking a trip there, but I'm packing and getting ready to leave and we couldn't make it today.

We're still around

Just muddling along as always. Nothing really exciting to share.

I need to start writing down the funny things the kids say. I call uncle Adam about twice a week to tell him (and give him a laugh) but I can't ever remember.

Maddie is getting SO big. She weighs 26.5 pounds and is FINALLY growing out of her 24 month clothes. 2T fits her well, and even some 3T!

Dallin can count to 100. He does it all.the.time. Yessssssss.


Maddie speaks chinese. No really. Her FAVORITE show is on Noggin about a little chinese girl. So she knows hello, and listen and a few others in chinese. It's pretty funny.

Oh! And this little girl seems to be ambidextrous. She throws with both hands, and even switch hits. It's pretty cool. She LOVES hitting and throwing baseballs. Last night she was wearing her pink tutu, her sparkly shoes and hitting a ball. Well rounded I guess!

My date with Dallin

We were lucky enough to get to host 2 of the BYU Young Ambassadors, so we got free tickets to that night's performance. Todd didn't really want to go, and Maddie isn't very fun to take to live performances so we left them home and Dallin and I had a date.

It was weird sitting in the audience. I'm usually on stage. But it was a lot of fun to watch and then we got to bring 2 home with us.

What a fun treat to have them stay with us for a few hours. They literally were only here for about 8 hours, but it was still pretty neat to get to talk to them for a bit.

Anyone out there?

Good grief! I post 3 posts full of pictures and I got ONE comment (Thanks Heidi!). I'm not feeling the blogging love people! Come on! Leave me a little hello or SOMETHING!

*pouts in the corner*