Happy 3rd Birthday

Jaida turns three today. We celebrated her birthday on Saturday and had quite the party. One of her presents was a karaoke machine from Grandpa Fielding. She loved it, dancing around and singing for quite awhile. She had a Clifford birthday cake and we played pin the nose on Clifford. Jaida only had to sit on the stairs once that day.

You Have What In Your Nose?

Monday night we were eating dinner and Jaida kept sticking her finger up her nose. Monty says to her, "Jaida, what are you doing?" Her reply, "Try'n a get the band-aid out." Band-aid? I told Monty that before I took the kids to daycare I put a band-aid on Jaida's foot. When we got home she took her shoes and socks off and asked me where her band-aid was. She didn't say anything about it being in her nose. After dinner we tried to get it out, but Jaida wouldn't hold still and it was pretty far up there. We also couldn't really tell if it was a band-aid (they were white with Disney characters on them) or something that's supposed to be there. The next day when I got home from work Jaida's nose kept bleeding just a little bit and her breath was horrible. So we called the doctor and Monty took her in. Sure enough, it was the band-aid and there was also an infection. Hopefully that's the last thing she sticks up there.

Suzanne as 'Yum Yum' in The Mikado
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Happy Valentine's Day

This morning I dropped off both Jaida and Kayla at daycare. Dropping off Jaida is one thing - I know she can handle herself, tell them what's wrong, play with the other kids, and have fun. It's a whole different thing taking Kayla in. It's comforting to know that they have a whole separate room for babies and even siblings aren't allowed in there. I hope things will be okay and that Kayla will be good for them. Yesterday driving home from Salt Lake I saw a tiny white spot on her gum - it was a tooth coming through...I can't believe she's teething already. Jaida didn't start until she was about seven months.

In honor of Valentines Day I dressed everyone in pink. That isn't hard for the kids since practically everything they own is pink. I saw four other girls on my way to work wearing some type of pink and then felt kind of embarrassed to giving in to such a thing.

I had the best weekend! Friday I drove through the rain and snow in the dark (I hate driving in the dark) to my parents house. Me, Jaida, and Kayla slept there Friday night and Saturday I took Jaida to Fielding's. Jaida was going to stay with them while Kayla and I went to Provo. We went to my sister Suzanne's apartment to pick her up and then headed for the mall. We did some shopping, met up with Julie, Emmett, and their kids, and then went to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. It was so delicious! I haven't had that much seafood forever since Monty doesn't like it. I think everyone finished everything on their plates - I know I did. After dinner we headed to Springville to watch a play that Suzanne was in. It was called "The Mikado," and she played the lead girl, Yum Yum. It was really funny and everyone did a great job! However my sister was the best. :)

After the play ended we drove to Riverton to stay at my twin sister's house. The next morning Arie, my oldest sister, and my aunt and uncle came by to visit. My aunt brought cupcakes and we stuffed ourselves with those. We left around one, got to Richfield, packed up Jaida, and got to Cedar about seven. It was a great, relaxing, and fun weekend!

See more pictures of my Great Weekend.

Last Of The Puppies

My sister-in-law came over last night and was telling about her rottweiler puppies. The mom had 11 puppies. The runt died a few days after birth, and they sold all but three of the puppies. About two weeks after Christmas, someone stole one of the puppies. They thought for sure it was someone who would always visit the house next door. Maybe two weeks later someone in the trailer park up the street from them called animal control about roaming dogs. The lady knew the puppy belonged to Tim and Misty. The puppy was sick when the got it back, she was throwing up everywhere. They took her to the vet and and found out she had parvo - they had to put her to sleep. This puppy had been with all the other dogs for at least two days, so they were watching the other puppies to see if they would also get it. Well, they did. Misty said they were so miserable - pooping and throwing up everywhere. The last day they had the puppies they came home from work and found them laying in their throw up because they had no energy to move anywhere else. Misty said that she and Tim talked about taking the two puppies to the vet to be put to sleep. It was either that or take them up to the mountains and take care of it themselves. Well, because of the outrageous cost of euthanizing Tim decided to do it himself. He took a friend to help him, but when they stopped the truck the friend told Tim he wasn't getting out of the truck. So Tim had to do it himself. The story wouldn't have been bad except that she went into a little more detail than I wanted to hear. I started crying, I couldn't help it. Misty said that it took more than one shot, and that the boy puppy tried to run away - this is still less detail than she gave. Actually, I didn't cry, I was bawling. Yes, I am a big, huge baby. Tim said that if he could do the whole thing over he would have taken them to the vet - it's worth the money. They have also decided to get Macie fixed. The parvo bacteria or virus stays in the ground for years after a dog has it, and dealing with puppies once was enough.

All smiles!
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Jaida loves playing with Kayla.
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What A Night!

Last night Jaida fell asleep going to get a pizza with Monty. This was about 6:30 pm. We were able to watch an exciting episode of "24" without any interruptions. Monty went to bed after that, and I was awake with Kayla until 10:40 pm. Around 1:30 am Kayla woke up crying. I kept giving her a binky so that I wouldn't have to feed her. After a few tries of this I picked her up and went and fed her. Luckily she fell right back to sleep. At 4:00 am Jaida woke up wanting to eat. I went and made her some toast and we laid on the living room floor. She ate while I slept. The floor sure isn't as soft as it used to be, my hip was killing me when I woke up a little while later. By that time Monty had woken up and gotten in the shower, so I put Jaida in bed with me. I had just laid down when Kayla woke up again - hungry! I sat in bed this time to feed her. About 5:30 I lay Kayla down on the other side of Jaida and tried to fall asleep. I hear someone pull into our driveway and it's Monty - he forgot a bunch of stuff. It was probably 5:45 before I got back to sleep and 6:20 when I awoke to the alarm clock. I hate alarm clocks.

My Superbowl Sunday

I don't think I've actually watched the Superbowl since the Denver Broncos won and Elway retired. What year that was...? Instead of watching the Superbowl yesterday I watched Anne of Green Gables. A couple of years ago I ran a 5k and came in second in my age division. We got to choose from a variety of prizes, and I chose the "Anne of Green Gables" movie set.

Monty got home a little before six. He walks in the door and says, "How can you be watching Anne of Green Gables! It's the Superbowl!" His family can't understand my lack of interest for sporting events on TV. I didn't even want to watch it for the commercials. I came into work this morning and was able to watch them all over the web - without Superbowl interruptions.

Kayla rolled over onto her stomach, then her back, and then her stomach again. I think she did this a couple of times but I only saw her do it once.