Wedding bells in the air..

Congrats to my brother Aaron getting married next month & my sister Alisa around the end of the year! We are so excited for both of you!

New look

After spending probably way too much time on it tonight (after the kids were in bed), I think I've found a layout and look to the blog that I am rather pleased with. The banner personafies us soo well. Andrew is a bottom-less pit, Ivy loves attention, and Collin is wiped out from working 30 hours each week(between his special ed preschool & afternoon therapy)--that's not including time that I make him use his words & replacement behaviors in the morning before the bus & after therapy.

Here comes the tooth fairy(again!)

Ivy just lost her second tooth on Monday(thankfully, before swimming lessons), and the tooth fairy visited her. Ivy felt rather jipped in the morning though. The tooth fairy brought her a quarter this time. For her first tooth, she was brought a quarter, dime, nickel, and penny. Tried to explain to her that the first tooth was special, and that's why the tooth fairy brought her more that time. I don't know that she bought that, but I told her the tooth fairy usually brings a quarter, like when I was a little girl. That seemed to satisfy her. Looks like she will be visited again tonight by the tooth fairy. A 3rd loose tooth just came out this morning.

Happy 8th Anniversary

Tom,

Loving you

is the most natural thing

in the world for me,

and all the little things we share--

the daily talks,

the understood silences,

the trust and comfort

of knowing we have each other

to come home to--

keep our love

changing and growing

and alive with all the promise

and wonder of sharing

our days and nights together.

On our anniversary

and always,

I love you

and the special life

we share.

Thanks for a great 8 years! Looking forward to spending the rest of eternity with you.

Funny Ivy quotes

It's true that kids say the darndest things. We save the funniest things Ivy has said, in the past year, on the computer.


June 2007.

“Trash Monster, you can eat my crayons, but not my room.” (I had threatened the "Trash Monster"--aka black garbage bag--would eat her stuff if she didn't clean up. She wanted to leave a message for the trash monster--unknown to her, on my cell phone voicemail)

September 3, 2007.

“Daddy, where are you going?”, asked Ivy.
“Crazy," replied Tom
“Daddy, you go crazy, and I’ll finish the puzzle.”

September 4, 2007.

I was helping Ivy to clean her room, and said, “Put those things in the right places.”
Ivy replied angrily, “I want them in the WRONG places!”

September 5, 2007.

Ivy said “Mommy, I just want to do a hula-hoop dance,” while trying to do a hula dance (which she sometimes refers to as a “Huwaii dance”)

September 7, 2007.

“Mommy, I’m going nowhere fast!”

December 15, 2007 :

“That car almost hit us,” Ivy said.
“Yeah, we should go kick him, now,” replied Tom.
“Can’t. Our car doesn’t have a kicker.”

June 27, 2008:
“Do you want to be a teacher when you grow up?”, asked one of Collin's therapists.
“No, I want to be a Hula Dancer,” replied Ivy.

8 years ago..

It was exactly 8 years ago today that I took out my endowments(yes, the 4th of July. Columbus does their fireworks on the 3rd, so the temple was open on the 4th). We will be celebrating by going to a session at the Newport Temple on Saturday, while the kids are watched by Grandma & Grandpa Gee. In 4 more days it will be Tom's and my 8th wedding anniversary! It sure has gone by fast. Here's a look back at some of our engagement photos.

As you can probably tell, we both don't look like we've aged much in 8 years. Maybe we'll enjoy that in 10-15 years from now.

Collin

We saw the specialist for Collin yesterday. It went well overall, and we now have a plan for him. I feel bad for him though. The next couple days he's getting a major cleanout, and mostly on medicine, jello, juice, and popsicles for the whole day (except dinner). I bet he might be a little less picky come dinner time, which is good since it's supposed to be pretty bland :)

This weekend, we'll be starting Collin on a daily prescription and playing around w/different fiber options to see what he will actually eat.