Frustrating!

Well, over the past week I have tried to upload a video to blogger of Sophie laughing and each time I do it, my computer freezes and I lose the whole post. Then last week something went wonky with Windows and it decided to reload itself. So now there are too many things to fix before I can really delve into the ins and outs of uploading video.

Sophie was four months old this past Saturday. She is growing sooo fast. She is really beginning to be interested in everything around her. She is really starting to have people preferences as well. She likes everyone as long as I am around. She doesn't like her food to get too far away.

We went to the opthamalogist for Jack this past Friday. His eyes are doing good and holding steady. The doc said without the glasses they would deteriorate, so keep up with him wearing them. He is usually pretty good about it, but about three weeks ago his glassed broke beyond repair and he has been going without. We got two pairs picked out for him and need to venture out into the major snowstorm to pick them up today.

Bella is taking it upon herself to uphold the family tradition of knocking out a front tooth at age 4. I was changing the sheets on Jacks bed and they decided to play roll down the mattress. Well, of course she slammed into the wood part of the bed and bloodied her lip and loosened her front tooth. So I guess technically it isn't out yet. I am trying to give it a few days to see if it will firm up and stay until it is ready to come out on it's own. Jack was climbing onto a trampoline and slipped and knocked his front tooth out when he was 4. Nate's big sister was walking by him while he was playing on the floor and kicked his front tooth out when he was 4. My dad had something similar happen to him when he was 4. Now I am totally grateful all these have been baby teeth. And I pray none of them will go my route and have a biking accident at 17 which results in a very expensive titanium implant. Nevertheless, I plan on fitting Sophie with a mouth guard as soon as teeth appear....

Port-a-Potty

I completely forgot to mention the port-a-potty at Christmas. Above is a picture of it sitting in my mom's driveway. Yep-you read that right, in her driveway. You may ask-is her house under construction? No, no it's not. She suffers from one bathroom syndrome. An unfortunate condition of many homes built pre-1990. In years past this has been quite and issue. It seemed a potty training child was always pounding on the otherwise occupied water closet, unnerving the person inside. Regular adults don't seemed primed to always go to the bathroom with company. I myself am rarely alone in the bathroom, I think it was around 2001 the last time I didn't have to entertain someone, teach them to use the potty, or yell at them to leave me alone through the door.

This year my mom provided room and board for 10 people, and decided we must have an alternative to pounding on the door. Knowing complete home renovations take more than a few weeks, the rental of the port-a-potty was the chosen solution. Other possible solutions that lost out were pounding on the neighbors door, or teaching all boys what it means to be a true outdoorsman. All said and done, it was a hoot, of course all the little kids had to use it. Thankfully it was very very clean, and even had a heater inside. I sooo want to know what her neighbors thought! I guess the port-a-potty company failed to pick it up promptly, so they had it in the neighborhood for a few weeks. I must say, it did fit in nicely between the bushes. And it served it's purpose saving people from rather uncomfortable encounters.....

Happy New Year!

I just noticed it has been over two weeks since I wrote an entry. I am sure it is due to the craziness of the holidays along with the week in Oregon. I managed to get through it all with just one minor breakdown. I always want to have everything packed and organized the day before we leave along with all of us in bed by 8. Well, when I realized that was not going to happen, I had a bit of a panic attack. But all was well and we made it to Oregon and back safely and sanely.

The kids had a great Christmas. I think they got everything they wanted/needed/ever dreamed of. Sophie traveled like a dream. She only was fussy when she was hungry or had a messy diaper. I was really pleased and astonished with how well she did. Jack and Bella were good as always, they are used to the long car trips and know we will get wherever we are going eventually. We played car baseball, and I won. Jack made up the game and I think he slanted it in my favor. Every red car was a single, green, blue and white got you out. Emergency vehicles were home runs. There were a few others, but I don't recall them all right now. Bottom line, I beat Nate 82-18.

My brother brought his girlfriend and her kids this year. All the kids had a ball and got along swimmingly. Her youngest happens to be named Jack, so we had 7 year old Jack and 3 year old Jack. He didn't really want to be called little Jack, so we will have to figure out something else. They gave Isabella a makeup kit for Christmas and she proceeded to paint my fingernails and toenails. She did a decent job for a four year old, and she got quite a kick out of being able to put glitter all over my face.

Jack got scrabble from his great aunt and uncle, and a dictionary from one of the grandmas and I think he was entertained by those for hours. I love that he can go from playing Star Wars to spelling out ordeal in scrabble and have the same amount of fun doing each. He always inspires me to enjoy what is going on and love whatever I am doing.

We went out to dinner for Nate and my grandma's birthday. Nate got some money toward a bike and a few other fun things. We are going to try and go biking this summer all together, so he needs one and we will have to get a trailer for Sophie.

Then we headed back to Utah for New Years. We stayed up mainly because Sophie was still awake, I know we are party poopers, but well rested most of the time. Today we went on a cleaning/unpacking blitz, as Nate's fam came over for pizza and games. It feels good to have the house mostly clean. I really need to organize the girls room, but we are overall good. I can't believe it is 2008, we spent the evening going over goals for the year and getting ready to jump back into our regular schedules. We were so blessed in 2007, if this year is even half as good, we will be lucky kids.