What Are Your Opinions?

I have recently been thinking about different arguments relating to the treatments in pregnancy (namely being induced and having an epidural) and vaccinations for children. I have come across arguments for both sides that make sense to me. Now I would like to know what your opinions are. You can leave me a post or e-mail me directly. I would especially like to hear from Katie.

Our new Spring Fashions

The weather here has been wonderful. The temperature has been getting into the 70's, so we have been pulling out all of our shorts and t-shirts. Michael and I even had a picnic lunch on our porch the other day. One day we went over to my mom's where my sister and her kids and some other cousins were playing in the backyard. The three little boys decided to adjust the look of their new spring wardrobes.

All of the boys standing in a cauldron full of mud...the secret ingredient to their hopes for this latest fashion trend. As you can see, Michael is also experimenting with a little over the top make-up as well. He could probably use a few pointers from his Aunt Katie. (I think he was bending over when one of the other boys jumped in the puddle.)


Here is Aunt Jasmine hosing the boys off. They all stood there calmly at first putting their hands and feet in the water; then Jasmine put a little force on the water and went for their bodies and they scattered like a bunch of little ants. She eventually talked the other two boys into coming back and holding still while she cleaned them off. Michael was not so gullible though. Jasmine chased him around the yard until he finally tripped in the dirt. All in all he ended up dirtier than when she started trying to clean him off. After this, it was off to the showers for all three of them.

I knew there were three cut boys under all of that mud...I mean fashion.

Life's Little Miracles

I thought I would get on and let everyone know how things are going. I tried to do this the other day, but the computer was being dumb and I gave up. Our friends welcomed a beautiful 4 pound 13 ounce 19 inch miracle on Thursday. He is small, but otherwise perfectly healthy. He was going to come home today, but is a little jaundiced, so they are keeping him until tomorrow. We our so grateful to our Heavenly Father that everything worked out the way it did.

What a Day!!

We had quite the day yesterday. That explains why I have been up since 2:30 or 3:30, depending on the time change and when it actually changes, this morning unable to get back to sleep. I have officially given up on sleep, so I thought I would blog.
Our morning started off just like any other. Michael and I were watching cartoons and trying to be quiet so that Levi could sleep since he is working nights. Pretty soon, Michael comes up to me and tells me that he has a booger stuck in his nose. I looked at his nose to see what he was talking about. I discovered that he had some baby wipe shoved up his nose. It was just barely out of reach of my fingers, so I went after the tweezers. Michael kept jerking away from me. Then he started sneezing. After each sneeze, he would inhale deeply which sucked the wipe farther into his nose. I finally decided that we had better wake up Levi. He tried getting it out of Michael's nose without any luck. Michael was just crying too hard and jerking away from us when we tried to get it out. We finally ended up having my mom and brother come over to help me hold Michael down with Levi pulled the wipe out of his nose. It was traumatic for everyone, but at least we avoided a trip to the ER.

Here is Michael's traumatized face, and the white thing in my hand is the piece of wipe that was up Michael's nose.
We got everyone calmed down and then our dog, Rocky, suddenly wanted to come back inside. Within 10 minutes it started hailing which was followed my a couple of hours of snow with thunder and lightening. Who heard of thunder and lightening while it's snowing? So much for our 60 and 70 degree weather.

Here's the hail on the ground outside of our house.
Now onto the reason that I have not been sleeping. Levi came home from work around 2:30 or 3:30, depending on that stupid time change. He told me that a good friend of ours had gone into labor. We had just gone to dinner with them a few hours earlier and she's not due for another 6 weeks. Their doctor is a 1 1/2 - 2 hour drive away. Levi decided to drive over with them, so they would have someone with them just in case. Now I can't sleep because my mind is racing with all of the "what ifs".

IT'S A .....

Yesterday we had an ultrasound to take some measurements of the baby and hopefully see what the sex was. Let me give you some comparisons from when we had this appointment with Michael. Michael had his legs wide open, so it was obvious that he was a boy, and the entire appointment took 20 minutes at the longest. This baby was a little different. The baby was moving around so much that we were there for an hour while the tech tried to get the measurements that she needed, and she had almost given up on getting a couple of them. We did finally get everything that we needed. A further complication was that the baby was keeping its legs crossed and curled up tight to its body. Finally about 30 minutes into the appointment we finally got a glimpse. It looks like we are having another boy. We're pretty excited. I was a little surprised because I know 4 other women who are pregnant right now in Moab and they're all having boys, so I was sure that I would end up with the girl. We're excited to add another cute and crazy boy to our family.