Not so great day

Yesterday was not he best of days for me. As I was cleaning the bathroom I suddenly realized there was a really strange and strong smell coming from the other room. When I walked into the family room there was Sophie painting her own toe nails, all around her were open bottles of nail polish poured out! Several time outs later we went to Wal-mart for some more nail polish remover. As I was walking into Wal-mart I was completely overwhelmed and on the verge of tears. I was wondering what I was thinking when I decided to have more children clearly I was not that great of a mom I already had one three year old that doesn't listen to anything I say. I was feeling horrible and wishing I could some how zoom past all these years and see that by some miracle my children had turned out okay. As I was walking in an older lady in her late seventies early eighties passed by me and looked at me and Sophie with a longing in her eyes. It was painfully clear to me that she remembered her life in that moment and wished somehow she could go back there. In that moment I realized that lady had probably had a million days like this one and yet what she wouldn't give to relive that time in her life. Then I remembered a talk by Thomas S Monson called "Finding Joy In The Journey" in his talk he said "If you are still in the process of raising children, be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled will disappear all too soon and that you will—to your surprise—miss them profoundly" Maybe that stain on my carpet will never come out but does that really matter? What matters to me is my family and that my children know I always have time for them and love them no matter what mistakes they make in life.

No Privacy

Full Spread Eagle showing off his boy parts. Poor little man no privacy.

A week at the doctors

I feel like we have lived at the doctors offices this last week. I don't know what I was thinking scheduling all of these appointments in the same week. First we had a baby apt everything is still looking great with the baby. He showed off everything he owns full spread eagle so now I'm not so worried anymore about the doctor changing his mind and saying its a girl. Then we had a follow up appointment with Jeremys doctor, he has been having a lot of digestive problems so they have been doing a bunch of tests a colonoscopy, a stomach scope and some blood work. They think Jeremy is a celiac which means his body can't have wheat or gluten. Basically anything with flour in it he can't have. I have been spending a lot of time on the internet doing research about celiacs and a gluten free diet and I am feeling completely overwhelmed so if any of you know anything about gluten free diets or know a celiac that you could put us in touch with that would be greatly appreciated. Finally we rounded out our week with Sophies 3rd year well child check up. Sophie has always been on the bottom of the charts for her weight and small for her height so when we found out she was in the 11th percentile for her weight we were shocked she has always been in the second. She is growing! yay! I have always worried that at some point she would not be on the charts and we would have to go through tests so I am so happy that she is finally higher up on the charts. She weighs 27 lbs I knew she was getting heavier but wow for her that was a huge jump. Hopefully next week will be quieter at our house I'm sick of the doctors office.

Halloween At Our House

Halloween: Halloween Carnival, Photo Shoot at Kimbers house (she has the cutest decorations), Trick or Treating at Dad's work, Grandma Wheelers work, Aunt Janets, Grandma Strongs, and a Trunk or treat. WHEW! No wonder I am always exhausted after Halloween. Sophie was an adorable witch this year after much convincing and a costume rename. She has insisted all season that she wants to be Cinderella not a witch. I tried everything showing her pictures of Glenda the good witch, buying her a broom, giving her a choice between two witch hats I even told her that she could wear a crown. Well on Halloween day I put it on her and she didn't argue so off we went however if anyone called her a witch she let them have it. "what a cute litte witch" someone would say "I am not a witch I am just a princess" Sophie would yell at them. So I finally decided she can call it whatever she likes as long as she is wearing the witch costume.