My Kaiyenna!

Last night for dinner we had my favorite...Mac & Cheese with hamburger and tomatoes. It's delicious. Well Joey fed Kaiyenna while I fed Keydran rice. After Joey got done feeding Kaiyenna, she didn't believe it was already gone. Even though her bowl is a see through plastic. So Joey gave her her bowl and she carefully inspected it. But to mine and Joey's surprise, there must have been more in there. Because Kaiyenna started eating more and going mmmm. Yeah...she was pretend eating. It was funny. Then today, I put Kaiyenna down for her nap. After a few minutes, I could hear her talking so I went in there to put her back down, and it's a good thing too. She had taken off her pants and also her diaper, and she was sitting on her bed and laughing when I walked in to see her half naked. It's a good thing that she didn't poop, or that there was nothing in her diaper. Good thing I changed her diaper right before she went down. All though that doesn't really mean anything.

What a weekend.

We started off our weekend with the baptism of our friend, Nephi. Morgan, Nephi's wife, asked my sister Angela to sing, but Angie didn't want to sing by herself so she asked me to join her, with my brother Braden playing the guitar.

Well I had my Brook White moment with forgetting the lyrics and starting over again. After the restart we did pretty good. Angie was going to introduce me as Brook White to break the ice, but she decided not to. I enjoyed singing even though, according to Joey, I turned ghost white while I sang. I get nervous I guess.

On saturday we went to Kneaders and had their all you can eat french toast. (not every Kneaders, just the one in Herriman.) With Joey's little sister Cassie and her man slave Eric. After that we went shopping. We were in serious need of food. So we went to Smith's. After that Joey dropped me at home with the kids so he could go to Costco and fill our car with water. I cleaned out the whole fridge. It was kind of dirty. As I got done with that I started to feel a migraine coming on. So after Joey got home I went up stairs to try and sleep it off. After about a 1/2 hour I woke up to the sound of Keydran screaming to eat. As I go down stairs I see my poor husband exhausted and frustrated on the couch holding screaming Keydran. I go in the kitchen to find Kaiyenna ON the table. How she got on there...? It's one of those high tables and chairs. My head was pounding, so I took Keydran while I had Joey take care of the little monkey. As I fed Keydran, Joey put Kaiyenna in time out. And Then took his frustration out on putting the rest of the groceries away. After I was done nursing, I felt the urge to vomit. So I ran into the bathroom. Feeling quite better afterward. My headache seemed to have gone away after that, giving me an appetite. Which was nice. All I had eaten that day was breakfast. And I needed food. That was a good way to end the night. Sunday morning came and my headache started to come back. So I took some Ibuprofen and drank some coke, it was gone before I knew it. I was very grateful, I really wanted to go to church. I hadn't been for a while. The week before I was riding home from St. George and the week before that I was up in the hospital with Kaiyenna. So after arriving to church...5 mins late, we had to sit in the second row, for everywhere else was full. Kaiyenna was so funny. She was mimicking the music leader by waving her arm in the air. But that didn't hold her attention long and before I knew it, I was wondering the halls with her. After a few minutes, the classes from the other ward were letting out and the hall were filling up with people. Kaiyenna go excited and started running down the hall. She kind of lost her balance and fell. Hurrying to get up, she started running, she must not have been paying attention to the boy a couple of feet in front of her and ran right into him and bounced back a few inches. It was really funny. Everyone was all right of course. Finally sacrament was over and we took Kaiyenna to nursery. Excited to play with the toys, she went with out a fuss, or even a goodbye kiss. Off to sunday school Joey and I went. I was nursing Keydran in the mothers room for most of that. I got Keydran to sleep for the last 5 minutes of sunday school and the first few minutes of Relief Society. After his little power nap he woke up with a ton of energy. I put him on the ground to kick for a while, them he got fussy cause he had to fart. So, I put him on my lap to help him. He then tried to kick himself so his head was hanging upside down off my knees. So I put him upside down holding him against my stomach. I felt in better control that way. But anytime I put him right side up he would start crying, So I would put him upside down again and he would start laughing. It was funny. Church was good and I really enjoy going. It's nice to have a life out side of babies, and to talk to people. All in all, it was a pretty good weekend, besides the vomiting part. Thats never good.

Scrapbooking

I've been trying to get pictures together to scrapbook our wedding album. They are all on discs of course, but I happened upon 2 photos that made me laugh. Our photographer was trying to shade us from the sun. He put his sheet over us to block the sun...see how it worked so well. You can't even tell its there. And we didn't have to take a picture of us squinting our eyes.

Like we would send out a picture with us pretend hammering...

or where it looks like I'm pooping in the guys hand and where the other guy is sniffing Joey's fart and where Joey is picking the guys nose...don't you know Joey. You can pick your nose and you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friends nose. It was fun anyways. Whats life with out a little fun, right?

Charlie bit me.

My nephew Mckoy showed this to me when we were in St. George. It's way cute.

I've been home alone now for nearly 5 days. What an odd feeling it's been to be alone. My beautiful wife ran off with our two beautiful children to enjoy a short vacation in St. George with her sister and some friends. The house has been so silent. I miss hearing the cries of my beautiful babies, and the scorns of a loving wife encouraging me to get off my duff and do something aside from watching Jazz Basketball (It's playoff time, so only a few more weeks of Jazz Basketball to suffer through honey. I love you!)

I've tried to keep myself busy, with softball, golfing and most of all working. I spent Friday evening at work until Saturday morning at 1:00 am. A 16 hour workday??? I must be going nuts.

As I sit here and type this post, all I hear is the humming of our tiny silver fan on our dresser and the creaking of the black rocking chair on which my duff is resting. It's lonesome...But I'm excited!!! My family returns home to me this evening. It will be nice to wrap my arms around my wife and kids. I can't wait for the sweet kisses and tight squeezes from each of them. I have been blessed with the most perfect family and hope they know how much I truly do love them. I have learned this past week that my life would be absolutely miserable without them. It's as if a piece of me has been missing.

To my wife and kids...I look forward to seeing you this evening. I love you. I hope you had fun without me (not too much though...I'm not sure I could handle another 5 day stint without seeing any of you).

I miss you and I love each of you Super SMUCH!!!

Getting better

Some of you know that we were up at Primary Childrens Hospital for the weekend. What an experience. We started out at the insta-care first, with poor little Kaiyenna sooooo dehydrated that she looked like she was dying. Not something you want to see everyday. Or ever. The tech tried 3 times to get the IV in, but the veins in a child are really small, plus when you're dehydrated they shrink. Making them even smaller. Well after that 3 times, they sent us up to Primary Childrens. After getting there they had two more techs try and get the IV in, with no success and 5 pokes later...they say:

"We are gonna get somebody from the "IV Team" to come in and put the IV in." Well, let me tell you about the IV team. They have a special light that makes the skin look translucent, so you can see the veins. The Tech got it in on the first try and didn't have to feel for the vein when it rolled. Now, it might, just MIGHT be me, but wouldn't you think that if you already know that a childs veins are small and they shrink when you're dehydrated, that you could skip all the pain and horror by using the light in the first place? Ding ding ding. What do we have for her Johnny?

My poor girl was so thirsty that she guzzled down a juice box size of gatorade, and ate a whole popsicle but threw it up. And after that she wouldn't drink anything, maybe it was because she was associating. We tried everything, but she wouldn't take anything. Her temperature wanted to stay at 102. They didn't want us to go home until Kaiya drank something. This afternoon, her temp finally dropped and they thought that maybe if she was home and not reminded of the hospital, she would drink something, so they let us come home. YEAH! Well after getting home, we tried to give her some powerade & popsicles, but no dice. we tried and tried, fearing that we would have to go back. We gave her a few fishy crackers hoping to make her thirsty. She ate them. But after about a half hour she threw up. So after waiting 20 mins we tried more powerade. But she didn't want any. Finally we tried water. She loved the water, and even more than that, she felt like a big girl holding the water bottle all by her self. We fixed mac & cheese for dinner, and she wanted some. She was hungry. After eating that, we were sure she would want some powerade. But she still refused. I'm convinced that she was associated that powerade with her throwing up, because that was the last thing she had the last time she threw up. Also, she wont even drink from a sippie any more. Not even a cup. It has to be a water bottle. Oh, we even tried to put the white powerade in a water bottle. She saw it was cloudier than the water, so she wouldn't drink it. We also put clear pedialyte in a water bottle... looks like water. We tricked her with that one, which is good because she starting to get more diarrhea and she needs the electrolytes. Water doesn't have any. Kaiyenna is doing tons better. She's been sleeping since 9:45 pm and she didn't throw up the mac and cheese. She is still worn out though. But we will see how she is tomorrow!

Customize your Blog!

To customize your blog here's the easiest way I've found. These instructions (along with other templates) are from matiekay.blogspot.com. Just follow these instructions for a 3 column blog. It's really fast and easy. Then after you've done this when you view your layout in the html you can find the 4 url picture links (background, post background, and 2 header backgrounds) and change them to whatever you want. (I upload what I want to photobucket and use the Direct link) The best website for paper/embellishments for me is shabbyprincess.com and they have a bunch of kits to download for free.

*Remember you can change the font colors to your liking by clicking template then click the tab font and colors.
* Also I added a bunch of page elements hoping to cover every ones wide range of sidebar elements. You might notice when you sign in blogger and click on dashboard that there is a lot of elements. You can edit or delete those if you want (at least the ones you aren't using:) Sorry for the inconvenience it may cause some of you but hopefully it will help. One more thing it will most likely rearrange the way you had your elements so just rearrange them and you'll be good to go.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY LAYOUT:

Log into your blogger account and go to your dashboard.
Click on Layout in the right hand corner of the blog which you want to apply the template.
Go to Pick New Template
Choose Minima
Click Save Template
Go to Edit HTML
Delete all of the HTML
Go to: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dk8xhn3_62d7qrkq
Copy all of the HTML (don't copy the small blue text at the bottom under the line)
Paste the HTML
Click Save Template
That's it!

To do the custom header it gets a little more complicated but not much. I just use Roxio (a photo editing software) but you can also use Adobephotoshop. I create a "picture" using all of the papers, photos, embellishments and then add that picture to the top of my blog, not as a header but as a picture.

Yummy rice cereal

Sorry that the video is sideways, I forgot that you can't turn videos when you're editing them. Just tilt your head to the left a teeny bit and things will appear normal. Or you can watch it lying on your left side while sipping on an ice cold lemonade while your personal slaves feed you grapes and fan you with palm leaves.

Anyway...

Today we gave Keydran rice cereal for the first time. I figured he was ready when he started nursing every two hours for more than a week. With the frequency of his feeding I'm convinced it wasn't just a typically growth spurt. Maybe a little rice will help fill his little belly, but if he's anything like his daddy, nothing will fill his belly. He seems to like it...or maybe not??? He's kind of giving mixed signals. The film cuts off, sorry, the memory card on the camera was full, but that's okay...you can hear Kaiyenna in the background enjoying her PB & J sandwich.

Silly Girl

Today I was giving Kaiyenna a bath. I had taken her out to dry her off and put lotion on her when she sunddenly began farting over and over again. I couldn't help but laugh. I hurried as fast as I could to put her diaper on her, as I feared she would unleash the wrath of baby poop. As soon as I put her diaper on, she attempted to push out another fart. When she flexed her stomach for the attempt, all that released was a grunt of epoch proportions. I had also put her bedding into wash this afternoon. As I put her favorite soft blanket into the dryer, she stuck her head in the dryer and laid her head on the blanket. Anyone who knows Kaiyenna knows that when something soft is near, she will either lay her head on it or give it a kiss.

The Secret Life of a Backyardigan

There is a very strange similarity between The Backyardigans and 2 people I know. The way that they dance, or maybe it's the way they express their actions through song. When I finally came to this realization, I wondered if maybe these 2 girls where backyardigans in a past life. Angie always putting her daily thoughts into song or singing a song because a certain word reminds her. Her "totally awesome" dance moves and Kelly at her side sing just as loud and dancing just as awesome. I knew at once that it had to be true. If you don't believe me, just watch this video and you will see. I am not crazy.