Baby Funny

Today was my nephews blessing, so it was a busy sacrament meeting, lots of family squished onto the long pews. E won't be two for a few more months, so he was having trouble settling down during the sacrament. I was trying to encourage him, and I said it was time to think about Jesus. He screwed up his face and asked me so earnestly, "think about cheeses?"

Not our most reverent meeting. LOL

We love our boy!

E refused to hug Clifford, but he was happy to tickle him LOL

Our Valentines Day

This year was my favorite valentines day ever! Usually we are rolling in stinking poor, but this year our tax return came in so we were able to do a couple of things that are unusual for us (doing our part to stimulate the economy).

I spent the morning cleaning the house and taking care of E while Andy slept, and then when he got up he went out for a haircut and came home with a flowers (a plant of calla lilies, my favorite!) and a box of hand picked See's chocolates. mmm

I spent all afternoon getting prettied up, and then we picked up Mike to babysit and went to dinner at On the Border (I had a gift card there) and I was fancy and got a Virgin drink (which is how you know I am having a good time- right Alex? LOL). After dinner we went to the adult dance at the church building for Elk Grove Stake.

Kent Ropers band played (it's not actually Kent's band, but I know him the best) and they were SUPER! I spent most of the night being silly and running around with Jacki and Janicca and occasionally dancing with Andy (thanks to brother Watkins for encouraging him : )

After the dance, we went through the McD drive thru for ice creams on the way home.

Hooray! What a fun night! I am so grateful for my valentine and all the fun times we are able to have together.

The Hawaii Dilemna

Because I'm nearly certain that Andy never checks this blog or could even give the address if pressed, I feel comfortable posting this quandry.

OF course, maybe no one reads this, but I've got to try.

So for anyone who didn't hear, Andy and I sat through a timeshare thing last year and spun a prize wheel at the end and won a free trip to Hawaii. On the spot he said I should take my mother, as it has been her life long goal to go there. At one point about 30 years ago she had saved up $1000 to make the trip, but then she got pregnant with me and married my dad who can't fly anywhere.

So, the tickets are in hand, we leave March 15th. Just me and my mom, Andy is staying home with our kid. (Yes, I am comfortable leaving E with Andy for four days. Andy is an awesome dad. Make whatever judgements you will about my mothering)

The conundrum is this: Andy is feeling really bogged down by life lately. Not sleeping well for weeks, always exhausted even when he just gets up, cranky, and feeling vague and directionless. I'm sure my recent surge towards my personal life goals has only shone a spotlight on his lack thereof (not that I am sorry for my choices, but I love him and I don't ever want to make him feel bad, not even on accident). So he has been saving up his vacation days to try and get a few days off from life, in a responsible and planned way, and now he has to burn through them to stay home with our boy while I go to Hawaii. I've been trying to plan a fun get away together (and by myself) that is just his style with his friends for his 30th birthday this summer, but he is all depress-y about everything. Tonight he went to bed at 6:30pm.

Do I think my staying home would fix things? no
Do I think he has a serious depression issue? Not yet. I'm keeping my eye on it though
Is this really about Hawaii? No, not at all. But this is the current form this issue is taking.

So with him feeling understandably jealous, and loosing something he was really counting on for me to do this thing with my mom, on top of being in a rough patch right now, I desperately want to come up with SOMETHING for him to help him have a better time while I am gone. He HATES surprises (which makes Christmas awkward) and I"ve already offered fun foods and to set up babysitting assistance from our family that can help. ANY other ideas? I"m pretty open here.

And by the way - for those in the know on the school front, he is trying to get me to go ASAP and say he will wait until I'm finished to start again. Over my dead body.

Our boy loves to read his favorite book

He says HOP POP! HOP POP! CUP PUP! Cutest danged thing : )

Baby's first haircut

I just took the scissors and chopped off his curls. He will still need a real cut at some point, but I've bought us some time. The way his hair grows, maybe a few more months ; p

He's 20 month on Monday, can't believe it's been almost two years. I love my boy!