Nursing

So, I have to post this, and see what I get! Macie is the world's best nurser! Seriously. She is 19 months old and still nursing every 3 hours or so. And she INSISTS that she nurse. She pulls on my shirt and screams until she gets it. She literally came out hungry, wanting to nurse! When she was born, they cleaned her off, and we took a few pictures, but within 10 minutes of birth she was latching on and nursing. I don't know what to do with her. I'm thinking that it's time to wean her. She's getting a little big, and she just squirms around a lot while nursing. But she is pretty talented. She can play, talk, and pretty much crawl while nursing. I don't know how she does it, but nothing gets in the way of her nursing! I'm telling you, she is the world's best nurser. The doctor didn't think I would still have enough milk for her, so he had me pump a bottle. And sure enough, I was able to pump a 6 ounce bottle in no time, with a good layer of fat! I don't know what it is, but I've still got enough for her, and she just wants to nurse. She won't drink anything else, really. Or eat much either. I know what you're thinking, she's pretty big. You probably think I'm joking that she doesn't eat other things, but seriously, she doesn't. I always thought she would eat things, but then later find them in her carseat or in the folds of the high chair cover. She really doesn't eat much else. I need help or I'll still be nursing her until she in kindergarten! Any ideas? I don't want her to miss out on essential nutrients, and I think she needs more than just breastmilk now, but I can't get her to stop! I've tried just waiting it out, but she really will not eat until she nurses. She went about 11 hours with nothing. Just because she refused to eat. I don't want to starve my poor girl! I'm a sucker though...I can't see her sad. It just breaks my heart. What should I do?

 

 

Picasa forgot some. I don't know what the deal is with Picasa...maybe I can only post 5 pictures? I don't know. But here are the other two.

I'll probably get in trouble posting this, but oh well. I was walking through the mall today and the girl at the picture place stopped me and asked if she could take pictures of the kids, and then I would get a free 8x10. I heard the word free, and couldn't resist! The only problem was that the photographer got to pick the backgrounds and poses. I have issues with that! I know what I want and what she did, really isn't what I would have wanted, but hey it was free, right?! I don't really like the backgrounds so much. You know that they really aren't in a garden or whatever! I just like clean solid backgrounds. Usually just white or black. The other colors are weird sometimes. I like them sometimes, though. I'm just really picky when it comes to pictures. I want to be able to look back at them and like them, not wonder what in the heck I was thinking! Ya know? My kids weren't dressed as I would have normally dressed them for pictures, but that's okay...I'm getting over that! I sound like the biggest snob! Just about pictures, I promise! Anyway, some turned out alright. Noah is my little picture taken, now! Macie didn't really care, and didn't really want to have anything to do with it! But I got my free picture. They get ya though. Now I think I need to go back and spend money for actual pictures of them in their nice clothes and nice backgrounds. Oh well...I guess it's inevitable, I should do it anyway!

 

 

 

 

Let's go fly a kite!

 

I bought Noah this kite at Target in the dollar section a long time ago. But I had since forgotten about it! But it was perfect weather today. It's warming up. It was 77 at 11, so I thought we all needed to play outside! And then I rememebered the kite! In Palmdale it is always windy. I don't think it ever stops! Today was just breezy. Perfect for flying a kite. So, I put the kite together. It's a pretty good kite for only a dollar. It's made of like actual fabric. Not those cheap plastic kites. And it's shaped like all of the books and movies portray a kite. And to top it all off, it had a tail. Noah thought this was the best thing ever! He hadn't ever flown a kite before, so he was getting very excited! I handed him the string and instructed him to not let go, and sent him running. It was so funny. He loved it. He was giggling. It was great. He was very intent at keeping that kite in the air. He discovered that if you move the string, the kite moves too. This was pretty cool. He was in control of the kite, and he liked it. It only fell once during our 20 minute kite flying! Which was pretty impressive. A few kids rode by on their bikes and awwed at Noah's kite. He was so proud. It was actually fun. I enjoyed it, too. Macie got a turn, but she didn't get it as much as Noah. Her kite flying didn't last long. But it was fun. I'm sure that we'll fly more kites. Maybe it'll become a daily activity, who knows! But we have perfect weather for it...warm and breezy. I guess there is a good thing about Palmdale, California!

Grr...I can't get these pictures to post. We'll try it yet again! These are the pictures that wouldn't ever show up from the Bon Jovi Blaze of Glory post. I don't know what the deal is!

 

 

 

 

The shoes

I love good deals. I went to Ross today, and found Macie the cutest shoes, and they were on sale! Would I buy anything that wasn't? The Ross here is pretty good. The one in Idaho Falls, not so much! Anyway, Not only were they cute, but they were Nike, and they were only 8 bucks! She loves them. Noah told her that she can run fast in them, so as soon as I put them on her feet, she started running real fast. And doing her little pant, to make sure everyone else knows she's running real fast! I was pretty excited about the new shoes, so I thought I'd share it with everyone! I know, I'm a nerd! But, black for little girls is hard to find, but it's so dang cute! Macie is getting quite the shoe collection. She went from having no shoes at all because her feet were so stinken' chubby, to a plethora of shoes! Her feet are slimming down a bit. And she's a girl. A girl needs her shoes!

Blaze of Glory

My sister Erin came down for the week last week. She had already planned her trip and bough plane tickets when she found out that Bon Jovi was going to be in Anaheim. If you know Erin, you know how much of a Bon Jovi fan she is! She even went clear to New Jersey just to see him in concert! So, of course, she was going to go. And she invited me to go along with her. She didn't say much about the tickets or the concert, really. I said something about hoping she got good seats, and she's like I'm pretty sure they are good, but that's all she said. So, we got to the Honda Center in Anaheim and asked the usher where our section was, they gave us this look, and led us down the stairs. And then more stairs until we got to the floor, and then we walked toward the stage, and we kept walking...and walking, yeah we were on the 3rd row on the floor. They were pretty good seats! She was SO excited, this was the closest she had ever been to him. And she was going crazy. I was too close to her to take good pictures of her, but it was almost worth it just to watch her! It was so funny! I was the photographer, so she could enjoy the concert more, which I was okay with! It was a good concert. Adam didn't do so well with the kids at home, well, at least Macie. She still insists that she nurses every 3 hours or so. That girl, I don't know what I'll do with her! But everyone survived! It was the last day before Erin had to leave, so she left California with a bang!

Where do we live?

Sunday night, Adam was upstairs finishing his Seminary lesson, Noah and Macie were asleep, and Cory and I were playing Dancing with the Stars in the Wii. Nothing too exciting, right? Well, around 9:30 I heard a helicopter. I didn't think too much of it. But it just kept getting louder and louder. I went to the back window, and a blue light flooded the house and the yard as I opened the curtains. It was the light of the search helicopter. I yelled up to Adam to tell him, but just as I said it, he yelled down to lock all of the doors, and come upstairs. I instantly panicked. I ran upstairs, and Adam had been looked out the window to see a swarm of Police cars and police officers and the search helicopter flying really low. We had no idea what was going on. My family was here from Idaho. This sort of thing doesn't happen in Idaho! But we were all scared. Adam was the tough one, he didn't seem scared! He went downstairs and turned on all of the lights, and then came back with a knife. I guess he was scared after all. I was shaking, didn't know what was going on. I didn't know if some guy was going to run into our house and take us hostage or what. We are pretty much the only people on our block, so we probably were a good target! So, we said a prayer that we would be safe and called the Police Department. They just told us to lock our doors and stay inside. We opened the windows to see if we could hear anything, but we couldn't. We had police men going through our backyard with flashlights, and the search plane was right above us. It was pretty scary. There were police everywhere, so I guess we were a little safer. But we still didn't know what in the world was going on. So, we waited. It seemed like forever! We were so scared, we just went upstairs in our room, and waited. So, the search went on for over 2 hours. they sent out the police dogs and everything. Adam and I read the scriptures nightly, so we all read together. As we were reading, the search copters stopped. The police were still outside. But we all just went to bed. I guess we were too scared, we did go to sleep! But...we found out a few days later what had happened. I guess 3 teenagers broke into a house in a different neighborhood, and stole a gun. A witness told cops that they were in the house. When cops came, they didn't know if they would get shot or what, so they sent in the tear gas to get them out. And when they all ran out, one teen fled and hid. He ran without getting spotted. But was seen in our neighborhood. So they started the search. They didn't know if he had a gun or not, so they wanted to protect everyone by starting the search like they did. But after the 2 hour search they caught him as he ran out of a house. A house that is 2 doors down from ours. Yeah...just two doors. The coyotes lived in the house next door, and now a armed burglar was 2 doors down. He was only 14, which makes me mad to think that I was so scared of a 14 year old...but he had a gun! That is pretty scary! He could have gone postal on us or something! I don't know what could have happened. Pretty crazy though. It makes me just stop and wonder, where in the heck do I live?

Easter

 

 

 

 

Macie finally got to wear her Easter dress that I have just been admiring in her closet! I thought it was so cute...and it was a size 4 in little girls. Not just a 4T, but a regular 4! My little girl is getting so big! But with dresses, it's okay to be longer! Noah looked very handsome in his tie. Adam wasn't home for Easter, so it was just me and the kids! Mom and Cory were here, too. So it was more fun! Macie was going to go to Nursery the whole time by herself, because I had to teach my lesson. But, after Sunday School, someone told me that she was asleep in the nursery leaders arms. I felt so bad. I guess she cried herself to sleep because I left her. Poor little girl. Mom took her home, so she could get a good nap in before Noah came home! I was afraid of that. She's such a Mama's girl! For my lesson, I took Adam's tomb picture to show the girls the actual tomb.



The picture is pretty cool. Adam got it from a guy on his mission. It's a photograph of the actual tomb. And, the flowers in the picture are very pretty, and only bloom around Easter time. Which is an awesome thing, to think of new life that occurs every Spring, and the symbolism in that as you compare it to the Resurrection. But, anyway. We have the picture on our wall. And it's always on our wall, usually the first thing we put up when we move. So, it's like we have Easter everyday. But, not really. That would be the ideal thing to think. But, since it's there all of the time, it's easy to forget that's it's there, ya know? Noah has asked about it before, and I've told him that Jesus was put in there when he died, but then he was resurrected, and came back to life. I didn't go into details with him, I just told him that he was happier, and wasn't inside anymore. But this was a long time ago. I think it was even in Torrance when he asked about it. And that was nearly a year ago. But when I took the picture down to take with me to church, he looked at like he hasn't seen it for a long time! He never says anything about it, but he told me that Jesus was in there, but now he's not. He's happy. It made me smile to know that he does listen and he does understand what we tell him. That little thing he knows is such a strong basis for his own testimony of the Resurrection that he will gain in his life. Little kids are like sponges. And it's up to us as parents to help them soak up the good things, instead of the bad! Now that he's so much more aware of things, and remembers everything, I have to watch what I say...I don't want his to soak up the wrong things! But anyway, it was just cute that he remembered that. I don't know if he understood it exactly, but it's a start!

Wicked

Cory is graduating high school this year. And since I'm living in LA, and Wicked, the musical, is here, I thought I'd get him a ticket to go see it. But, it stops in June and doesn't come back until December. And so I had to hurry and get tickets. And, oh man...people were selling them for like 200 bucks! I love my little brother...but I didn't really want to spend 200 bucks for his ticket. Especially because I couldn't just buy one ticket...I had to get two, so he didn't have to go alone. But, leave it to me to find a deal on craigslist! I love craigslist. I mean, really love craigslist! I found a totally good deal, and I called Mom, and they came for Spring Break. Dad was working, so he didn't get to come. We all felt bad and guilty! He'll get to come next time! Cory and I drove down to Hollywood, and it was awesome! I really hasn't heard anything about Wicked. I didn't even really know what it was. I'm out of the loop on these things! But, Cory really likes it, and Alison does too. And I've heard of lots of other people that went, and loved it. So I thought I'd see what it was all about! It was so good. It's like the behind the scenes story of Wizard of Oz, and the wicked witch of the west. It was good, I'd highly recommend it!