Monday, March 30, 2015

.gusa gram

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We’ve been doing alright, to answer your question. I have been horrible at blogging lately and that makes me sad. There’s a lot to share with the blog today so I’m gonna catch you up on some of our doings.

Aaron: Is sick. He mostly hangs out at home and tries to get his mind off his illness by doing whatever computer project or renovation job he can. Little by little he gets things done. It’s actually a huge blessing that he is able to just stay at home and focus on getting better. Working on what he wants at a pace that he is able to handle. Some days are better than others, but (from my perspective) most days seem pretty bad for him.

Me: Just feeding Alice every 3 hours of life, trying to keep up with Ames and the messes around the house. I enjoy my calling in the Relief Society presidency a lot and get to do quite a bit for that each week.

Ames: Growing up. Has the verbal skills of a 14 year old with the mind of a 2 year old. It makes for some amazingly awesome stories and ideas from him. He never stops. I don’t really want him to stop. How can I get this boy to stop growing so quickly?

Alice: Is 5 months old now. I will talk all about her in another post.

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↓↓↓Ames is never very naughty, but one day he scribbled with a pen all over our computer monitor. We were shocked that he would do something so toddlerish! haha Luckily it wiped right off.//Playing at the new indoor playground near our house a few months ago. Winter is long.↓↓↓
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↓↓↓3D glasses because we’re cool//As soon as the binki hits his mouth his finger starts twisting around in his hair. It started to get real when a little toy dog got caught in the knot and now we’ve pretty much solved the problem by taking away the binki for bed time and only giving it to him for naps. It was actually really simple, he is such a good kid.↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Alice does funny things with her cute little fingers while she’s eating. You can also tell in this photo how much she loves eating.//We like to have the family over for dinners. Sometimes we have themes like “Asian night”. This one was sooo delicious. Tam was making pot stickers. Aaron made fried chicken. The family brought steam buns.↓↓↓
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↓↓↓My February Relief Society activity where we made chocolate covered strawberries and delivered them to people in the ward. It went well and was a lot of fun.//Target Canada is closing and I’m seriously depressed over it. Although, I have been buying up the entire store for super cheap.↓↓↓
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↓↓↓We’re excited that spring is in the air at last and are trying to get outside when it’s not too cold//Aaron had some temporary blindness one day and ran to emergency. They sent him to an ophthalmologist who discovered that he’s a vampire? (seriously though, we don’t know what happened but his vision is back thank goodness)↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Ames just hangin around the house being happy and cute like usual. Holding Spiderman.//We had almost 2 feet of snow return out of no where on the first day of Spring! Whaaaaaat??↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Sometimes I can get Alice to hold her own bottle for a feeding (at least for a minute) it’s very freeing.//Air and Ames look cool in their aviator glasses and Ames got a sweet bomber jacket from Aunty Tracey↓↓↓
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↓↓↓Yet another Flat Stanley made his way to Canada from my nephew Jaden in Illinois! Yeehaw
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Aaaaaaaaaand videos:






.treasure hunter

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On St Patrick’s Day Ames woke up from his nap and told us that a leprechaun woke him up! He was so excited when he found a trail of shamrocks through the house…

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He gathered them all up and had no idea what he would find…

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A gift from the leprechaun!

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He absolutely couldn't believe it.

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gold. gold. gold.

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more than enough to share with the whole family.

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Thanks Mr. Leprechaun! It was a great day.

ps. Ames is positive he saw you running outside, too.

Friday, March 13, 2015

.fourth month

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Baby girl is growing and growing. Her pediatrician was kind enough to point out that she’s in the 95th percentile, “so she is basically the size of a 9 month old”. Even though I kinda knew this already (I have been dressing her in 9 month sized clothes), my heart broke just a little hearing it out loud. How dare she grow so quickly against my will. Ok well, I guess you can call me an enabler as I happen to be her only food source.

Alice, please don’t grow so fast for a little while, ok? I need time to soak in your tinyness.

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This month’s photoshoot was a little more difficult than the last couple months.
This girl might be finding her sass. haha

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Honestly though, Alice is an angel baby. She is just happy all the time.

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She’s learning how to use her hands and eat all of her toys. Yum

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She’s been working hard on her lovely leggies, thank heaven for these rolls!

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This droopy eye of hers is probably just a clogged tear duct, but its been sticking around for such a long time we are taking her to an ophthalmologist soon just to check it out.

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We love you, little Alice. Thank you for filling our home with your giggles and squeals, your big toothless smiles and your beautiful spirit. I am so happy that we get to keep you forever. Eek!

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Saturday, March 7, 2015

.30

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Well, my 20's are gone I guess. It's a weird feeling realizing that I can never go back… not that I want to or anything, it's just strange to think about. Life is a fleeting thing. It moves forward and onward, and there's no stopping it. Lately I'm especially grateful for those moments in life when it seems like time stands still. When I'm holding a beautiful sleeping baby Alice. When Ames is telling me story after story about dragons and cowboys. When Air and I are laying in bed talking about life until 3am (even though we’re both dead tired). These types of moments make my life good and I honestly feel like life would be pointless and unbearable without them. I really just wish that every moment of my life could be spent doing nothing but holding my family close to me.

So that's what we did on my 30th Birthday. We basically spent the entire day within an arms reach of each other, and I was in heaven.

We went to the pool and ended up staying there for about 5 hours!

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This was actually a huge surprise for me. I really wasn't sure that Air would be feeling well enough to do anything at all, so I didn't make plans for my birthday just in case. (Air's health has been pretty bad for the past while. He hasn't had hardly any good feeling days in a long time now, and I know he was feeling sick on this day too, but I guess he loves me enough to push it all aside for one day just to make me happy. He's sweet. And even though I knew he was sick, I can't begin to tell you how awesome it was to finally leave the house with him. It's seriously been a very long time)

He even took me for sushi at our favorite sushi joint, Mt Fuji.

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We had a birthday party with the family too at Tamera's house. Mom, Tam and I took Ames and Jake for a little walk through the crazy deep snow in her backyard at sunset. Tam's yard is incredibly beautiful at any time of year. There's just something so peaceful and inspiring about being out in the country.

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Ames is lightweight enough that he could just walk along on top of the snow while all of us adults sank in about two feet down each step. It's the funniest thing to see him walking beside us.

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Pretty sure these were Ames's first snow angels(?), he didn't want to stop making them! And we have no idea what Jake thinks of the snow. haha He just lays there silent and expressionless.

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Tam is the funnest Aunty. She pulled Ames down this big hill a few times… what a lucky boy.

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And then we went inside and warmed up by the light of the birthday candles… and hot chocolate.

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It was a wonderful birthday, thanks to all involved.

The end.

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