Sleeping

This is how I found Zach sleeping one night. Little cutie.

FREEZING

not to complain.......it is -35 degrees here with wind chill. THAT IS CRAZY!!!! The worse part is that after work, in an hour or so, I have to wait outside for the bus. Hope I don't freeze to death before I get home. I might go home and take a nice HOT bath. :)

I got TAGGED!

I got TAGGED!

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7am (awesome, very rare that I can sleep in that late)
2. What do you usually have for breakfast? I like oatmeal
3. What is your favorite CD at the moment? I love Gosh Groban's Christmas CD
4. What kind of car do you drive? Mazda Protege
5. Favorite Sandwich? BLT
6. Favorite Item of clothing? Pajama bottoms, I often spend my whole day in them. Embarrassingly sad but sometimes i'm just not motivated to to get dressed.
7. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Kaysville, UT. I just love being with my family.
8. What color is your bathroom? No particular color. I would really like to decorate our next apartment. I'm just not motivated to do it here because i knew we wouldn't be here for very long.
9. Where will you retire? I don't care, It will just be awesome to be retired
10. Most memorable birthday? When I lived in Layton my mom gave me a suprise birthday party and I found outabout it and felt so bad abut knowing that i tried to act really suprised when my mom brought me down to the basement where my friends were.
11. Favorite sport to watch? I like going to baseball games and track and cross country meets (even if I don't know anyone running)but on TV it would probably be football.....actually i get bored really east watching games on TV.
12. Are you a morning person or a night person? I would rather go to bed early and get up early but I sure cherish the night time when Zach is in bed that I tend to stay up too late.
13. What is your shoe size? 6 1/2
14. Pets? Nope
15. What did you want to be when you were little? I alwasy wanted to be a teacher
16. What are you today? Mom and I work at a law firm part time.
17. What is your favorite candy? See's chocolate
18. Your favorite flow????
19. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? May 17th, mark graduates
20. What are you listening to right now? Airplanes flying over head
21. What is the last thing you ate? Carrot and Celery, I'm trying to counteract all the junk I ate yesterday
22. Do you wish on stars? No
23. What faith are you? I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
24. Who was the last person you spoke with on the phone? My MOm
25. Hair Color? Brown
26. Name of your favorite school teacher? I really loved my band teacher in High School Mr. hendricks
27. Chocolate or vanilla? Depends...icecream vanilla, otherwise chocolate
28. When was the last time you cried?Friday. I was having a really hard day. Zahc's reflux was really bad and was crying the whole day, i didn't have a car that day and Mark had to leave for a campout soon after he got home and he had to driveso id didnt have a care for the rest of the weekend and felt like I was going to tgo crazy cooped up on our tiny apartment with a crying baby.
29. What is under your bed? Our wrapping paper and i think there are some cloths
30. What did you do last night? Played a game with Mark and looked at pictures of my little cutie
31. Favorite smell? Fresh bread baking in the oven or a clean baby
32. What are you afraid of? robbers
33. How many towns have you lived in? I think 4
34. Do you make friends easily? Sometimes

Craziness

I tried to take some cute (staged) pictures of Zach. They are definetly cute because Zach is just a cutie but certainly not professionaly quality. I tried to do a back ground and everything.....I need a little more practice.

Now the Ring Story...I was in the bathroom and I took my ring off while I was getting my hair wet. I put it on my shirt on the counter. I picked up my shirt and the ring flew off. Luckily the toilet was shut. I bent down to find it and I couldn't see it anywhere. Mark and I looked for an hour and couldn't find it. We noticed under our sink cabinet there was a hole. Mark was pretty sure that was where it ended up. The next day we tried everything to get under there to see if it was there. Mark ended up taking the cabinet apart and pulling the wood pieces apart. After many hours of fretting and searching we finally found it. It was such a relief to me. I had such a hard time not crying and being in a bad mood the whole day.

Christmas

Here are a couple of pictures of Zach opening some Christmas presents at our apartment with Mark's family. We spent Christmas in Utah with my family and had a little Christmas with Mark's family after.
I love this picture of Zach and his new hat. Notice the hideous car seat in the background. Our car seat got lost at the airport on our way back from Utah. I'm really kind of upset about it. They gave us this one to take home Zach in. They said we can keep it but it is so hideous and small. The airline said they would send it to us within 24 hours but we still haven't received it so I'm thinking they never found it. I hope they find it or send us money for it. I really miss our car seat.

my little helper

An OBSESSION

Sleep....I am obsessed with sleep. I have been so sleep deprived that all I can think about is sleep. One night when I just couldn’t take it anymore I got on the internet and bought a step by step program to help Zach learn to sleep. After I bought the program I felt kind of bad that I spent money on it but decided that I would follow the program exactly and it is definitely paying off. The first couple of nights were awful Zach cried between 1-1 ½ hours before falling asleep and woke up at night about the same amount of times and cried for 30-40 minutes before falling back asleep, the third night it only took him 20 minutes to fall asleep and he only got up twice, once it only took him 10 minutes to go back to sleep and the second time was to eat and he went right back to sleep. He went to bed at 6:45pm, woke up at 10:30, 4am to eat, and then woke up for the day at 7:30am. That is awesome. Now we just need to get ride of the 10:30 wake up. Anyway today it only took him 5 minutes to fall asleep. Hopefully the rest of the night will be this awesome. Anyway, I’m mostly writing this because, first, I’m obsessed, and second I bought this program so if anyone is having sleeping problems with their children let me know I have some good pointers from this little program. It is saving my life and my poor husband and son from a grouchy mother.

Little Destroyer

Zach rolls so well now. both ways. He can also turn himself around so he can get to anything he wants. Itis really fun and nice because he can entertain himself for a little while. The other night we left Zach on the floor and I was makingdinner and Mark doing homework. After a few minutes I though, wow zach hasn't even made a peep, I looked into the family room and he hadrolled himself to a pile of Mark's homework papers and had chewed them up. Luckily they weren't that important. Mark and I were just so excited that he was happy playing by himself that we didn't even realize he was destroying and eating Mark's homework!

pictures

Zach playing with grandma taylor
zach loves his oatmeal cereal

Mark and zach were really excited to see each other when zach and i came back from utah

Update

It is about time that I post something new, unfortunately I won't be posting any pictures. It has been a crazy week. Zach has been extremely fussy. He has been sleeping on about 7-9 hours in a 24 hour period. I'm going nuts!! I'm pretty sure it is his tummy. After putting him to bed he wakes up about every 45-60 minutes just screaming and arching his back in pain. Poor guy. Mark has been really good about helping So I can get a couple hours of sleep in a row. I have been living in a daze the last week though. We have started giving Zach rice cereal so hopefully that will help a little bit. We gave it to him for the first time about a week ago. I thought he would spit it out and not really know what to do but he had no problem eating out of a spoon and swallowing it. He loves it. Zach has also started rolling from tummy to back. (he used to just do back to tummy) So he can pretty much get anywhere, although he typically likes to just be held. I'm getting some pretty strong arms lugging around a 15 1/2 lb baby all day everyday!