Uncle Paco

Dear mom,

Paco left a few hours ago and I must say in the 36 ish hours we saw him we had a blast! We don't talk about Paco much at home because we don't FaceTime him and so Little Jon just isn't familiar with who he is but he walks around and talks about Paco all the time. When Paco showed up Friday night around 11 the kids were in bed but Jonathan, Paco and I stayed up talking and didn't go to bed until 2, it was so late. Then of course the boys woke up at 630 so there I was up and at 'em. We started making breakfast and getting things going and around 8 I took the boys down to wake up Paco. We threw them in his bed and they freaked, they couldn't get off fast enough. We had crepes for breakfast and they were delicious! Jonathan's boss was moving into his house Saturday so they went over for an hour to help. Jonathan made sure Paco took it really easy with his should, which means Jonathan over did it a little. He told me he carried a chest freezer all by himself! Afterward they went on a bike ride together with the boys, while I mowed the lawns. 

They had a blast and so did the boys although it's been a long time since Jonathan rode a bike so he was pretty sore not to mention all the extra weight he was carrying. Afterward we had a BBQ and man it was soooooo good! We made homemade root beer and had a blast playing with our favorite uncle Paco. Who spent a lot of time spinning the boys, they loved it. We came in and we all took naps. Then we had dinner and just hung out. So we weren't expecting Paco to come up this weekend because he and Betsy were going to both come but Betsy texted us early in the week to say she couldn't come, however she didn't tell Paco this. So Friday morning we got a call from Paco saying hey I'm heading out this evening etc. so because it was such late notice Jonathan didn't get his homework done before Paco got her so he spend sometime Saturday night doing that. Jonathan and Paco took a break to look at Lego sets online though. Paco almost bought a Star Wars set for $200. I have a had time believing how that would ever be worth it but whatever. Anyway Paco went to bed "early" which meant like 1130. I stayed up with Jonathan while he finished his homework which means I slept on the futon while he worked lol. At 130 I woke up and asked if he was done and we finally went to bed. Then at 630 the kids woke up again... Awesome ;) We got up and started getting ready for church and having breakfast etc. We had stake conference today and Elder Perry came to speak, it was for like all of southeast Idaho. We decided to try our luck at the BYU I Center instead of our stake center. A friend of mine recently called stake conference the kobioshy maru from Star Trek and I have to say it's completely true. It is the impossible test. We decided that we would just go for 1 hour and be done. It would be I jet as long as a sacrament meeting and then we would be done.  It went ok, we didn't quite make it an hour. It's so hard when Nathaniel's morning nap is during church he gets so cranky. Anyway so we left and came home for naps. I laid down and like an hour into my nap Little Jon woke up and came in to snuggle with me. He always has to have his head on my arm, it's like the perfect pillow for him. Our nap went well and we ended up sleeping for like another 2 hours and at some points our faces were snuggled together which was great because that usually bugs the crap out of me I can't be that close to someone while I sleep but it totally worked and was sweet. When I woke up thoug my arm was so sore from have a child's head on it for 2 hours. It was painful. I knew if I moved my arm he would wake up and so I was debating whether or not to wake him and save my arm. I heard that Nathaniel was up and Paco was too so I figured we should get up and hang out with everyone. We took the side off of Nathaniel's crib so he can get out of bed but he can't open his door yet, which is good and bad. Good because it helps him learn that he has to stay in bed but bad because sometimes I use it as a baby gate and then I go get him finally and his diaper is off and it's exciting. Anyway we had lunch hung out for a little bit and then it was time for Paco to leave. We said goodbye and Little Jon cried as he drove away. Little Jon spent the weekend running around the house yelling for Paco every minute, it was adorable. Jonathan would becoming upstairs with Paco and all Little Jon would say was Paco, Paco? It was like Jonathan wasn't even there lol. Anyways it was a great weekend. We were so happy to have our favorite uncle Paco weekend so now they have a face with the name and memories too. Unsurprisingly my house is a mess but it was totally worth it. I wish Builder Fusion would sent Paco to Idaho for work. Jonathan and I are feeling pretty yucky from all the junk food we ate this weekend. 5 gallons of homemade root beer is a lot of soda for 3 adults to go through, we still have some left. Like I said though it has all been totally worth it, I just hope we find a way to get Betsy up to visit us too because Paco is going to be so busy traveling this summer he doesn't think he will be able to come see us again, we will figure it out though. We miss you tons! SLY

Tough as nails

Dear mom,

Little Jon is tough as nails, he might be more hard core than Ammon which is saying something. Yesterday Little Jon pulled the cutting board out and it landed on his foot. He screamed of course and Jonathan picked him up and checked his toes to see if they were broken because they were purple and they were cut and bleeding. He didn't scream louder so they weren't broken and then he looked at Jonathan got down and walked downstairs to go finish watching Cars. I mean we are talking a total of 2 minutes of tears maybe. His toes look fine today but man I am sure they are still sore. 

Also a week or so ago we were out walking shadow and Little Jon was holding the leash. It had kinda wrapped around Shadow's legs so there wasnt any slack. All of the sudden Shadow bolted slamming Little Jon into the ground. He landed amid rocks and pokey plants. It was quite rough. He cried for a minute maybe two and then asked to finish waking Shadow. I was blown away that fall really knocked him up, I was finding scratched and splinters all over his body for the next several days.

So Shadow has learned how to jump over our fence. She climbs on top of her dog house then hops over. It's really unfortunate and makes it hard to leave the house sometimes. Thankfully our next door neighbor has an awesome dog kennel we have borrowed a couple of times. We are going to put some sheep wire across the top of her house so she can't get on it anymore and that should solve the problem. In the mean time we've has to bring her inside a lot more which hasn't been a huge deal. I feel really bad though because she still escapes and our neighbor across the street has dogs that she likes to play with. We've gotten a couple calls late at night letting us know our dog was at someone else's house. I can't wait to get the wire up so this problem is fixed.

We miss you tons! SLY

Yucky

Dear Mom,

I don't feel well today. We have been having cold cereal a lot for breakfast recently because it's easy, fast and we really suck at getting up on time. I have learned though that cold cereal is not enough for me. I need something more substantial and nutritious. So hubris morning we were running late and my kitchen was a mess so we had cold cereal and then we took JT to school and the boys and I ran errands. By the end of all of our errands I was feeling pretty cruddy. Tired, hungry, nauseous, etc. we came home and put Nathaniel down for a late nap and then I warmed up some left overs for lunch. Eating helped a little but I still feel somewhat nauseous and I am still exhausted. The problem is I don't know if I am really all that tired or because I know my iron is low and I should be tired that I am making a bigger deal out of this then I should. I wish I didn't know my iron was low so then I could just listen to my body and not have to worry about my brain getting in the way. I am also anxious to hear how my blood work turned out so I know if I have this diabetes thing or not, I should find out today. I also wonder if I am suffering from allergies like JT is (he asked me to go buy him medicine today, I almost fainted from shock), at least after talking to dad that what he thinks is up, I hope it is because it would be great to have him well again. 

I think this is the smallest I have ever been this far along in a pregnancy. But I feel like this little girl sure takes up the space well. I don't know if she feels like a big baby because I still look fairly little but she is the most active of any of our children and I am almost always feeling kicks in multiple places simultaneously, which is something I have never felt until this pregnancy. I keep thinking that secretly I am having twins ;) my stomach also feel tight much more often then I am used to. Any kind of bending or physical activity seems to trigger Braxton hicks or just over all tightness. If ever any of our children were going to come early it would be this one. I don't know if I should be worried, I'm not overly worried. The problem is I have been having to have my doc appointments on Saturdays so JT can watch the kids but that means I only ever see the doctors I haven't seen a midwife in a couple months and I really want to because I feel weird explaining thing like this to a doctor they just seem to look at me and go ok. I feel like if I told me midwife though she would talk to me and be interested in knowing that I feel smaller but still full, you know? I don't know if that makes sense, but it did to me. I have a friend that I am exchanging babysitting with now so I can get in during the week and see the midwives, plus I really need to meet the new one. I should probably do that before I deliver :) 

I was really excited to clean my house today because it's messier than it's been in a lie and I just love getting to the end of a Monday and knowing my whole house is clean, but maybe I will take it easy and try to nap instead. Miss you tons!

SLY

Easter

Dear Mom,

Easter was great! We went to see my parents and had a great time. Steven came with his family too. Little Jon loved playing with his cousin Hannah. He especially enjoyed pushing her around in a baby doll stroller. Hannah turns one this month but is the same size as Nathaniel.

It was a busy trip too because we were trying to get everyone's outfits for the wedding. I am embarrassed to say that I had a hard time getting into the real focus of Easter.

We officially had the beginning of the semester melt down and I can't tell you how grateful I am for your talk with Jonathan, it helped... A lot. It is so nice to not have Jonathan working the night shift anymore. He can come home from school or work at 5 the latest and then he can be home. 

By the way your son should be a movie/tv writer. He can guess every plot twist and bad guy from like the first screen it really is a gift ;)

So I had an exciting doctors appointment today. Thankfully I tested negative for gestational diabetes however when I went in my iron level was super low. I guess a normal number is like 13 and I had like a 7 or something ridiculously low. They couldn't find my lab results from the beginning of the pregnancy to compare them too but he is assuming it has always been really low since I am not recently light headed and stuff. That combined with the insane thirst I have been having the last week caused them to test me for something called diabetes insipitus(sp?). He didn't tell me much about it and I haven't looked into it much. It looks like if I test positive I will just have to take some medicine for a while. I will find out Monday if I have it or not. Apparently though this is very rare something the doc hasn't seen in his career and most don't ever see. As I left he said you know I am really excited to see what happens. So I guess for the time being I am a medical mystery, I know just what a mother-in-law that halfway around the world wants to hear. I'm not worried if that makes you feel any better. Anyways that's what's new with us, we miss you tons!

SLY