Sunny 9 for 2006 July

(3) Sat Jul 08 2006 11:10 Back to real life: We're back from our 10 day vacation from Gilbert, AZ and Zion National Park. First we went to AZ to visit Aaron's parents and his sister Melanie and Joe and their kids Collin and Kate. We hung out a few days in AZ before driving to Utah for Aaron's annual extended family reunion at Zion National Park. Here are some of the highlights of the trip:

• Food, glorious food that I did not have to make

• Swimming in Brammy and Ga-ga’s pool

• A relief from the heat

• Catching up with Mel and her pregnancy with twins

• Lily becoming better friends with Kate and Collin (no pushing down the stairs incidents)

• Near perfect weather at Zion (if you only knew how rare this is)

• Cousins, Cousins, Cousins (getting to see Aaron’s cousins and catching up with them)

• Not having to camp at Zion

• Game night, every night (one word: Werewolf)

• I was over my morning sickness, so I felt pretty good

• Melanie gave me maternity clothes she wasn’t going to use, and a lot of them

• Getting to see Ben, Hailey, Mila, Ethan, Davey, and Booner

• Ethan telling me I was his friend

• Mila being a great babysitter at times, and she, Lily, and Ethan playing together well

• Getting to find out Lily’s weaknesses: chocolate, chips, and the swing

• Not being one of the people who got food poisoning

• Lily perfecting her snuggle ability and being able to take a nap with me (I think this might be a bad thing too, I’ll get back to you on that)

• And one of the best things about my vacation is, I came home to a clean house that my mom had totally cleaned for me. She even hung a picture that we bought months ago.

(4) Wed Jul 12 2006 23:07 Heinous Crime: A heinous crime was committed against me recently. Three days ago to be exact. Here's a review on the definition of heinous: Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable. It's that bad. You want to know what this heinous crime is, do you? Just ask Aaron. He is the perpetrator.

Aaron, without my permission, put Lily down in here big girl bed. To SLEEP. I am also holding other people responsible here. For one, my mother. She kindly cleaned my house before I got home on my vacation, and as I went room to room eyes wide open with tears coming down my face as I examined how every room was neat and tidy, we came last to Lily's room. Not much needed to be done with it, but she did make the twin bed that needed to be made after the guests of David's wedding left. She suggested in the way my mom "suggests", maybe you should teach Lily to sleep in her nice bed so you can finally put away the port-a-crib. I said, how dare you say such a thing, you want me to go even crazier? I am not teaching her until she can climb out of her crib even if it means I have to buy another crib for baby-on-the-way, because I love my sleep that much. Hindsight 20/20, it was at that point Aaron was cooking up his evil scheme.

Then the next day came and the other people to blame came over. Josh and Jenni told us how they had just switched Caden over to a toddler bed and things went amazingly smoother. Apparently, the idea turned into a plan of action for Aaron at that point, because just minutes after they left Aaron without being asked put Lily down for her nap.

"You're going to be really mad," he said. "I did something that you are not going to like." Then he made me play the guessing game. I don't remember if I guessed it or not because everything is just a blur from then on from the lack of sleep I have been getting. Sure Lily goes to sleep on her own, but somewhere in the morning’s tossing and turning she realizes that she doesn't have to stay put and gets up earlier than before.

Last night Aaron had to go up to the scout camp to supervise for a day leaving me home with Lily. I knew I could not do mornings without Aaron yet so I put her in her crib. I hope it does not ruin her chances of going from crib to bed, but I am just not happy about her not sleeping (or at least playing in her crib quietly) like she used to. I don't know what I am going to do when Aaron starts school in less than 2 weeks.

(3) Thu Jul 13 2006 21:46: So I am trying to grow out Lily's bangs, but I am going through the past 2 months of pictures and I am starting to wonder why I want my child going around looking like an orphan. It would be a little easier to keep her looking cute if she would only leave her hair rubber bands in. She sometimes throws a full on fit when I put her hair up to keep it from getting in her eyes.

An update on the sleeping in the bed thing...She took an hour and a half to fall asleep tonight and when I went to check on her it turns out she locked the door from the inside. Aaron is gone again at the scout camp and won't be back till morning. He is the one that knows where all the right tools are to open locks. Plus his cell phone goes straight to voicemail. Maybe when Lily wakes up she can unlock it again.

(8) Wed Jul 19 2006 23:02 The results are in...: We are having a BOY. They say he looks healthy and right on the due date. We are very excited and Aaron and I even agree on some boy's names as opposed to when we were pregnant with a girl. Good thing too because I think Lily would have been jealous of a girl. We are very happy parents.

(2) Fri Jul 21 2006 10:02 Cuteness: There is this really cute thing Lily has been doing for awhile now. I don't remember when it started but it has been since she has started talking. I may have even mentioned it before, but Lily will summon her toys by saying, "'mere" and open and close her little fist. "'Mere duckies" or "'mere Elmo". It totally cracks me up the way she does it. Sometimes she will just see her toy and get excited and say, "Hi duckies" and then she will wave her adorable wave that I also love. She keeps her arm still and straight out and will just flip her hand up and down.

She is quite the sponge now too. Occasionally she will repeat that last thing we say, especially if she is talking on the phone to you. "What are you doing?"

"Doing."

"Are you being a good girl?"

"Good girl."

"Are you playing with your new Elmo doll?"

"Elmo."

But Aaron and I have to be careful now what we say because I have heard Lily say freak and even in the right context. Could have been coincidental. The twin bed experience has been much better. She has resumed to making noise for us to come get her at the normal times again. Plus I never find her lying on the floor sleeping. She knows to always get back in bed and she can do it pretty easily. Too bad that mattress is really uncomfortable so it is hard to lie down beside her. She seems to love her big girl bed though.

(2) Mon Jul 24 2006 13:04: Every time I am on the computer in the office, Lily always wants to get on my lap and type. Just a couple days ago while I was reading Susie's blog, Lily climbed up and said, "dolphin". Of course Susie has a shark on her webpage and when I corrected her she said, "oh, du-nah". That's right, I taught her that a shark says du-nah, just like the theme music on Jaws.

Today I took her into the doctor because last night I was up about as much as I was when she was 9 months old. She would wake up every couple hours wailing and howling in pain. At the doctor's they said she had a raw throat and that it tested negative for strep so it was a virus.

It was Aaron's first day back at school again today too, so neither of us is happy with the sleep we got. Rick and Sherry left this afternoon, and now we are visitor-less. Summer is kinda over for us now in a way, but it was fun. I think I will go take a nap.