I Want a Morning Redo... And it's only 9:00...

I opened a huge can of worms this morning when I opened a strawberry yogurt. OK, not literally, because that's really gross, but you'll get the point here in just a minute. I'm a slight neat-freak and I usually just spoon feed Carrie the really tricky stuff like yogurt. This morning I decided to just let her have at it with the spoon on her own... Not my best idea. I think she got a total of two bites actually in her mouth and the rest ended up all over her and her highchair. This picture doesn't show it half as bad as it eventually got.
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(And it would be so much easier to be mad about it if she hadn't recently learned how to smile for the camera)
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I decided she was probably due for a bath anyways so I hauled her upstairs to the bathroom (getting yogurt on my pajamas in the process). I gave her a quick scrub down and settled in on the bathroom floor next to the tub while she played. I had already grabbed "Breaking Dawn" which I'm reading for the umpteenth time. The morning seemed like it was getting better. She probably played with her bath toys for half an hour before it suddenly became a little too quiet, and then, a little grunt...
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SERIOUSLY?! I looked up to see none other than Carrie going #2 in the tub... Time to get out! Fortunately she didn't fight me when I quickly pulled her out of the tub and wrapped her in the towel. While I was trying to decide how to deal with the newest mess of the day, Carrie stood up, ditched the towel, and started to pee all over the bathroom floor.... :(
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Now I have to give her legs and feet another wipe down, try to clean the floor so she doesn't step in it and strap a diaper on as fast as possible! Once I got the whole mess figured out and cleaned up, I walk us both downstairs ready to crash on the couch to wallow while Carrie plays.
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Except, oh wait! The high chair is still COVERED in yogurt! My entire morning could repeat itself all over again if that didn't get cleaned right now. And of course it wouldn't be just as easy as a quick wipe up. Nope, it had dried on and I had to scrub to get it clean.
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By this time I'm fuming inside already writing my blog post in my head. Fortunately for Carrie, I'm oddly calm on the outside. Patience has been my dear friend this morning. I love being a mom. (Truly, I do. That's not sarcastic, as hard as it may be to believe after having read this) :)
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***** BLOG POST AMENDMENT; ONE HOUR LATER*****
I. Spoke. Too. Soon.
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While I was sitting at the computer blogging the above story, Carrie was busy at work filling her diaper. To the point of overflowing up her back... Really?.... Another wipe down, new diaper, new clothes... I need a nap...

Dang Technology...

So we finally figured out the problem with our computer/internet. Well, Justin figured it out. Turns out, it was simply our new wireless mouse interfering with our wi-fi internet... Seriously?! We were ready to call the internet company, thinking something was wrong with the connection, or our whole computer or something... and all it took was disabling the wireless mouse and plugging the old one back in.
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*He's been quite the handy-man around here lately. One of our tree sprinkler/bubbler things broke and he spent the whole afternoon fixing it.*
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ANYWAYS, I'll try to catch up a little bit. First of all, the ultrasound picture. Not much to see because I was only 6 weeks. Still, it was nice to see that the baby is really there.
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It's so small it's not even the obvious circle in the top picture, that's the yolk sac. It's the tiny white smudge towards the bottom of the circle. (Red circle around it in the top picture, and a tiny arrow pointing to it in the bottom picture) Told ya, not much to look at...
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It IS, however, something to drain my energy. The past several days I have been beyond tired and nauseous around the clock. I've only thrown up once, but most days I feel like I can't stand up straight. I know it seems silly because as of today I'm only 7 weeks, but... If it's not the pregnancy causing my ickiness, then I have some sort of bug that needs to go away, and fast!
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Justin has been so awesome too! Yesterday when he came home, I was curled up in a little ball on the couch and he jumped right in taking care of Carrie, doing the dishes, getting me a snack, putting Carrie down for a nap, getting us all dinner. I don't know how to make him know how thoroughly thankful I am. I hope this helps, although I've said it 100 times already.
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I do have some good moments, such as the following; Justin bought Carrie a little wading pool to play in and we tried it out the other day. She liked it ok, but I don't think the water had enough time to really warm up before we had her get in. Hopefully we'll get some good use out of it this summer. (You can also notice the lovely background of our backyard if you look hard enough... weeds, dirt, and more weeds...)
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I know I had a ton of little stories floating around in my head the last several days without a chance to blog them, but as I'm sitting here now, I don't remember a single one of them. Well, Carrie's asleep and I'm probably going to try to take a little nap while she's down :)

Baby Update

Our computer is currently on the fritz so I'm blogging from my friend Corynn's computer. Therefore, I don't have the ultrasound picture to post. I had my first ultrasound on Tuesday and everything looks great with our newest little one on the way. Hopefully our computer/internet will be fixed soon and I'll be back to my normal overly-chatty blogger self. Until then...

Sick Baby Girl

My poor sweet baby girl has felt awful all day... She woke up at 5:30 this morning crying, whining, and being very clingy. By 6:45 we had watched two whole episodes of Imagination Movers, had a graham cracker and were already ready for a nap. On and off throughout the day she's been fussy and fallen asleep in my arms or on my lap. We got into the doctor at 3:45 to find out she has an awful ear infection on the left side and one starting up on the right side. :( Luckily, I was able to call in to work for today and tomorrow to take care of her. Here's to hoping the antibiotics work quickly and we get our happy, energetic little girl back.
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Crashed out on the couch
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Relaxing in the pack'n'play in the family room

Ward Campout (with TONS of pictures)

This last weekend was our ward campout at Camp LoMia (where I had girl's camp back in the day). We had a ton of fun and came home Tiiiired! When we got home yesterday afternoon, Carrie and I cleaned up and took really long naps (while Justin went to start working on fixing his car) We shared a cabin with our friends the Paynes. This post is pretty much all pictures so enjoy!

Trying to walk on the rugged terrainTons and tons of rocks... Carrie's paradise :)Sweeping out the cabinCarrie's kiddie camping chair"Oooo, this dirt looks like fun to play with"It got very messy..."Look mom, this stick is taller than me!"Jake and Carrie bundled up in layers of pajamas"K, this is getting old, I'm just going to climb on the bunk bed"Justin (who'd been up since 4:30 am) taking an evening nap so he could hang out at the fire later.Enjoying the fire drinking several cups of hot chocolate and telling stories late into the night.It was so cold I pulled Carrie out of the pack'n'play and into my sleeping bag around 4 in the morning. We both slept much better after that.However, Carrie was not ready to get out of bed when we all woke up.With our friends Corynn and JakeOur beautiful cabin!Playing in the dirty cabin.Justin being really pleased with himself for fixing his car. It wouldn't start a couple days ago and after about 5 hours of work, several trips to Auto Zone, a new battery, and removing and reconnecting a new main fuse we fixed it all by ourselves! (and probably saved a truckload of money!)She's reached the stage of wearing mommy's shoes around the house. All the time...She LOVES her coloring book now. And she knows where I keep it and will pull it out all the time.Justin told Carrie to lay on the couch to watch TV with him. This super comfy lounging pic was the result

Sorry, I can't NOT Post this Picture

I took a couple good pictures of Carrie on Sunday, but as usual, our friend Kevin Beeson snapped an amazingly awesome one! Is there such a thing as Baby Vogue?
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I Wish Dishes Were Always This Fun

Carrie heard me open the dishwasher today to unload it, and immediately ran over to "help". The last few times I've unloaded it, she's wanted to get into it, but I've always made her go do something else. Today I let her help and it was adorable!
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She picked all the silverware out and handed it to me to put away.
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When I turned my back for a second and wasn't there to take it from her, she decided she could just put it away by herself.
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Then she started to pull the big stuff out, but she was very good about just handing it to me and moving on to the next thing. When we finished the bottom rack I thought she would get bored and go play. Nope... She wanted to climb up onto the open dishwasher door and help unload the top rack. Rather than start a habit of standing on the door (although she doesn't weigh near enough to do anything to it right now) I pulled a stool over for her to sit on.
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She pulled everything out one by one as I put it away and when we were all done she helped close the door and reached for the controls to turn it on. It was so funny that she knew how to do it!
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A few minutes later when I was trying to load a few dirty dishes in, she ran back over and tried to unload it again. I'm sure she didn't understand the difference, but I was trying to tell her, "No honey, these ones are dirty, they stay inside." Loading with speed was my friend.
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She made doing dishes way more fun than usual. Thanks Carrie :)