Grandpa Bo

My Dad and his wife Melody were able to come down from Edmonton last weekend to visit us and meet the new grandson. We had a nice visit all though I think we might have bored them to death. We just talked and watched baseball, and football all weekend. I need to come up with something fun to do with them next time, that is saying they want to make the trip down again.

We were able to have a turkey dinner for Canadian Thanksgiving, although we had ours on Sunday instead of Monday. Ryan made the turkey because I always dry them out when ever I try to cook one. But Ryan is really good at it and it helps to spilt the work to put dinner together. I love it when Ryan decides to cook!!

We sure liked having them and the kids loved having them around. Holly warmed up to both of them and gave lots of kisses and hugs. Ethan had fun playing "figures" and Geo tracks with Grandpa Bo and wore him out I'm sure.

Anyway, Grandpa Bo and Grandma Mel headed back to Edmonton Tuesday morning and stopped to give both kids last minute kisses and hugs which they loved. We are all looking forward to their next visit.

The Free Spirit that is Holly

Holly just has no fear and gets into everything. Just yesterday we had two near death experience with her. Night before last we were getting the kids ready for bed and Ryan noticed that Holly had something in her mouth. He didn't think much of it as I give each of the kids one of those "gummy" vitamins every night so Ryan just thought she had her vitamin in her mouth. Well when I laid her down in her bed she started choking. Talk about scared me to death! Let me just say I learned how to give the Heimlich to a two year old really fast and out came a marble. Where she got it from I will never know.

Then yesterday I was in the shower and heard Holly cry and kind of screaming in my bed room. I called for Ryan who came running and found Holly with yarn wrapped around her neck. She was pulling at it trying to get it off and tightening it around her neck with every pull.

Holly keeps me on on toes constantly with everything she gets into. She is such a free spirit and has no fear with pretty much anything. She is so kind and caring and just finds joy in almost everything. "Wow" is her word for everything she finds interesting. We love her love of life and everything in it, it is just if she lives to see her third birthday it will be a miracle.

Guitar Hero

As I sat on the couch last night I watched my dear husband play his latest addiction, Guitar Hero, I realized I am really married to a very big child. Oh Guitar Hero is a type of video game for the Play Station that you play with a special guitar that comes with the game, for those of you who don't know what it is.

It is so funny to watch Ryan though because he really gets into it, I guess he really is able to live out a dream to play the guitar, in a way. But it really makes me smile to watch him and I know that, that is why Ryan is such a great Dad.

I guess you have to be a big kid to be able to play like a kid and Ethan and Holly love playing with their Dad. Smiles are big and many when Ryan walks through the door from work and the noise level goes up to the point you can't hear yourself think. All Ethan wants to do when his Dad comes home is play with him and when it is time for bed it is such a chore just to get them to sleep at night. Mind you it is my job to put them to bed after Ryan gets them through the bathtub and are all amped up.

Anyway all I guess I am trying to say is I am very blessed to be married to such a big child.

Laptop

Ryan got to keep his old laptop from work when he got his new one. We have been trying for months to get it up and going so I can use it at home. With some help from one of Ryan's friends we finally have it going. Yeah!!
It is so much easier to work on my little side business and post things on this blog if I can work on them on the laptop in the kitchen. Then I don't have little people wanting to sit on my lap while I work, I can just stand at our kitchen bar. For some reason the kids leave me alone for the most part while I work in the kitchen. So I will be able to keep my posting more up to date from now on. I have just been a little over whelmed for the past few weeks trying to learn how to me a Mom to three kids.
Mason is changing so much. He is getting to look more like a part of the family, I mean you can now see some resemblance between him and his brother and sister. He finally seems to have this days and nights sorted out, Thank goodness, but I'm still pretty tried from getting up 3 times a night to feed him.
Holly is still a little mother when it comes to her little brother. She is doing well with a few jealousy issues, like wanting to have her diaper changed before Mason, and wanting me to get her something every time I need to feed Mason. The good thing is that she has become Daddy's "girl friend" now, because Mom doesn't have as much time to spend with her as she used to and Ryan just loves it!
Ethan is a proud big brother and he just wants to be included with EVERY thing having to do with his little brother. He just is not understanding that it is just not possible for him to help with everything. So he has been acting out in frustration. In so many ways this is harder to deal with than Holly but I know that this too shall pass. We just need to get used to having another little person around and its just too soon for that to happen.
We will get there.

Mason's Blessing

Hey - Just a quick note to let you all know when we are blessing Mason.

October 14th. Our sacrament meeting starts at 2:45pm and we have a new ward house. It is 1700 North and about 7th East here in North Ogden. We will be having a light lunch/dinner afterward.

If you are going to be able to come please let us know so that we can plan on how many people will be coming so we won't run out of food.

Okay - love to see you all there.

The Great Elmo Band Aid Tragedy

Holly had a great tragedy last night that we just had to pass on to one and all. Ryan got Holly some Elmo band aids awhile back for a "prize" as Holly loves all things Elmo. She has had to have one of these prized Elmo Band aids on one of her legs almost ever since. Last night she was in the bath tub and her Elmo band aid came off in the water. Ethan thought that he would be funny and tossed the band aid at Ozzy (our cat). Ozzy picked up the band aid in his month and left the bathroom with Holly yelling after him to leave her "Mel Mo" band aid alone. Ryan turned to try and get the band aid from Ozzy but Ozzy ate it before Ryan could get it. Well you would think that the world had ended. Ryan told Holly that Ozzy ate her band aid and she had the melt down to end all melt downs. So now I enter the room with Mason to Ethan and Ryan rolling in laughter and Holly in tears.

You would think that things would settle down after a few minutes after we got her a new Elmo band aid but NO.... Holly went after Ozzy and told him off. "Bad Kitty", "eat it...Mel mo Band aid...NO Ozzy" "Mean Kitty...NO eat Mel mo" and this went on for half and hour until bed time. Holly was still telling me about the "mean kitty" all the while I was trying to get her into bed. Then this morning when she got up, the first thing she did was go over to Ozzy and tell him off again!! So beware - Don't ever cross Holly or you will never live it down!!

Good Baby

I don't know what to do with myself... Mason is such a good baby. He doesn't really cry, not like Ethan did for the first 6 months of his life. Mason just sits and looks around and amuses himself, then maybe fuss' to let me know he is ready to eat and then falls asleep. He loves to cuddle which is a big change for me because Ethan and Holly both didn't like to be cuddled, they were in to big of a hurry to learn how their bodies worked so the could get moving.

Ryan has started calling Mason "GH" for "Good Hank". You know like Cotton Hill on King of the Hill named his second son Good Hank because he is the good son. Anyway we have been really careful not to say anything around Ethan because that just isn't fair to him. Ethan is a great little boy and we love him more than anything but he is a handful...BOTH Holly and Ethan are. Maybe Mason was sent to our family to give us some balance, but that still doesn't help me know how to be a Mother to such a low key child. I guess I will have to play it by ear and learn as a go, eh?

Time Fly's

Wow - does time fly! It's hard to believe that Mason is two weeks old. I took him in to the doctors for his two week check up and he has grown so much. He was 7 lbs. 1 oz. when he was born and he is already up to 8 lbs. 7 oz. He has had his day's and nights mixed up so I haven't really been getting a lot of sleep which is why I haven't posted anything for a while. I choose sleep over blogging, go figure! But Mason did sleep pretty good last night so I hope we are on the way to getting his sleep switched around to where it should be.

Ethan started school last week and he is loving it. The new preschool he is going to has a whole bunch of those black bears that you see for sale in Jackson Hole, filling the front yard. He has 12 kids in his class instead of the 4 he had last year and is getting along with everyone so far. Last year he had an on going battle with a little kid named Brock, so I hope Ethan stays friends with everyone this year.

Ryan went back to work today after a nice 2 and half week "vacation" that he took to help me out after Mason was born. I think he is glad because we have had a couple of challenges. Our Honda had some computer problems so it was in the repair shop for 4 days waiting for the part. Then last night the motor on our air conditioning went out. We were able to get it fixed today but I'm hoping now that Ryan has gone back to work nothing else will go out on us.

Holly picked up a cold last week and has now given it to everyone else in the family, including Mason. He's only two weeks old and already has a cold! We told Holly that she couldn't kiss her baby brother until her "stuffys" went away but it didn't work. We caught her kissing him anyway. I guess Holly is going to be one of those kids that if you tell her not to do something she will do it anyway just to because you told her not to.

Anyway I think that was brought us up to speed with everything and now I need to get some sleep!!!!!