the maui's

I woke from my sunday afternoon nap to go and retrieve my crying baby, before he woke the whole family from their afternoon slumber. I stood up next to my bed and decided to teleport myself about 5 or 6 paces into the landing of the basement. My teleportation was running smoothly til I got to my exit point, and our stupid wood step stool got into my way, and I stumbled all over it. The sharp edges jabbed me quite well. Being the old fart that I am, I needed to show off my battle wound. here is the step stool, which caused me so much pain... My story might seem a little confusing, and truth be told, I am confused too. And teleporting was the only logical explanation... I woke from my nap to retrieve nixon from his room. I remember standing up next to the bed, and the next thing I knew I was in excruciating pain and laying on top of the step stool just outside my room. I just don't remember moving away from the bed... Either I was drunk (not likely), sleep walking (although

"Da- Da" this wonderful word has been rolling off of nixon's tongue for the past few days. and, it seems like he knows what he is saying. he certainly doesn't say "da-da" to me. he says when he sees his papa. it is so adorable. Since nixon is talking he decided to grow some teeth too. well a tooth. he is 8.5 months old, and he has a tooth, both girls did not get teeth until they were 1. this unexpected tooth might be forcing some big changes in nixon's "diet" we shall see.

Nixon is now 8 months and 4 days old. he is still cruising around the house on hands and knees. yesterday he pulled himself to standing from the fabric on my jeans, not my leg, just the jeans. he loves standing, and taking a few steps with his walker. he can walk about 4 or 5 steps with the walker/pusher thing, before he falls backwards. here is a funny picture of one of his adventures. can you see the huge grin behind the binky? needless to say, he did take a pretty good fall about 30 seconds later. instead of helping him get off the guitar case i video taped him. and of course i did not hit the record button- so i missed it! nixon had his 6 month check up about 2 weeks ago. when the doctor asked how he was sleeping, she all but laughed when i told her his sleeping habits: - swaddling - nursing (at least 2 times per night) - rocking to sleep - needs the binky- essentially all night - wakes up at least 4 times per night he is such a stinker.... she said he needs to be sleeping th

doing my girls hair is such a chore, and a crappy one at that. whenever i would put in the time, it was a total waste of time. b/c in a few short hours, what i managed to do with their hair had fallen out or simply looked redic (as quoted by kim-from kath and kim ) to begin with. in eagle mountain there were plenty of moms who magically made their little girls hair style look flawless. and now here in south jordan i see it too. i think it is actually a prerequisite for moms in utah....i'll look into that. i didn't know how it was done, i guess i can barley do my own hair (so this might be where the problem began). my girls would not even sit still for pig tails, they hated having their hair combed, and frankly i hated doing it. usually by 11 am, we would venture down that road. anyhow, i think i finally asked my friend Natalie how she did her daughters hair (or maybe she told me, b/c she felt so sorry at my pathetic attempts) she referenced me to the awesome blog about doin