Update

Just so everyone is informed. My finger is doing much better along with my punctured foot. My foot really only hurt for a day or so. My finger is not quite as black and painful but still swollen. Mark is going to take the stitches out this weekend. I'm a little nervous about that. It is weird I have a really hard time bending it. I have to concentrate really hard on trying to move it. it is like my brain knows it is injured and that it shouldn't be moved to much.


We have moved out of Minneapolis. we moved yesterday and are staying in River Falls WI with Mark's family until Monday and then headed to Utah for a couple of days and then Boise. We are really excited for this little adventure.

Zach has started pulling himself up into a standing position. he is getting so old! he isn't quite a little baby any more (at least that is how i feel) he is also starting to understand cause and effect. The other day Mark, Zach, and I went to breakfast with the law firm that I work for and he would play with the spoons and pick one up and drop it on the table (it made a really loud noise) he did it over and over just to hear the nose. And this morning Mark was playing with him and he would spit his pacifier out wine until Mark put it back in for him ( he can easily do it himself) and then immediately spit it back out. He is so fun right now. Also, for all those who have experienced him with the reflux......he is doing so much better the last couple weeks we have been slowly giving him less medicine and he is down to only twice and day and he is still doing great! YEAH!!! We were worried he would never get over it.


Well, That is all for now.

When you think things just couldn't get worse......

Yesterday was a pretty crummy day. Earlier in the day I was doing the dishes and cut open my finger. It was so nasty there was blood everywhere I was totally freaking out. I ended up calling mark at work because he had the car and i couldn't take myself in to the hospital. I called him and we decided it wasn't bad enough that he hadd to rush home so I ended up just doing the regular and going to work. (Later I ended up stepping on a pice of glass puntureing my foot. Not really bd but it was painful and just seeing more blood made me really close to passing out. I ended up just putting ona video for zach and laying down. )I came home and had Mark look at it. He than took me to the hospital. We both wish i would have gone right away. I was too grossed out to look at it and i had taken some medicen so it didn't hurt that hbad so i didn't think it was aas bad as it was. (excuse my bad typing I have a hurt fingure). i spent a couple hours in the ER. NOT FUN!!!! First of all the ER was so busy last night we ended up waitng for ever before they got to me and when they did they gave me a numbing shot but by the time they got to the stictching part the numbness has wor3e off. After a couple of hours i was all stitched up. I would take a picture of itb ut I can't stand to look at it. It is pretty gross even Mark said he was a little grossed out and he has even watched a couple of surgeries and is in the health perfession. Anyway, i hope it heals relly fast it is so hard to get anyting done. Even a slight brush against my fingure shoots pain all through my hand and changing diapers is s nightmare because zach thinks it looks fun to play with and he tries to grab. Poor ME! Anyway, on a good note we had some of our friends come over last night to stay with zach while we were in the hospital and they finished our dishes and took out our trash!! We havew some AWESOME friends.

Say CHEESE

This is the face Zach makes everytime we get the camera out.

Funny Bad Parenting Moment

Zach had a really rough night last night. He would wake up about every 30 minutes and cry for about 5-10 minutes and then fall back asleep. Except around 11:30 he woke up and would not go back to sleep. I decided to swaddle him in his blanket and see if that helped. That did not settle him down but I decided to just let him cry . I had bundled him pretty good so i figured that he would settle down. After about 20-30 minutes Mark and I decided to go check on him because he was still screaming. We came and this is what we found:
I had swaddled him so tight (and aparently he did not want to be) that he was trying to get out of the blanket and ended up scooting out of the neck of his pj's!!! I don't know you he got his arms and shoulders out. I had a really hard time not laughing and crying at the same time. It was relaly funny but I felt so bad that I let him crywhen he was really just trying to get out of hthe blanket.

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