Anderson Family: November 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Tagged

Well, I think I have finally recovered from having James out of town for a few days. Although it is 5 am right now and I'm trying to get Darcy to go back to sleep after her 4 am feeding. So I may be back on the downward spiral again. But oh well, that's just how it goes with a newborn. I decided I might as well do something productive while I'm awake with her. So I'm going to try to think of 7 interesting things to write about myself since Sandra "Tagged" me a few weeks ago.

1. My favorite thing to grow in the garden is Giant Pumpkins! There is something so satisfying for me in growing something huge. James thinks I'm weird for wanting to grow something that I don't eat. Maybe it's the challenge to see how big I can grow them, or maybe it's just the fun of having huge pumpkins to carve and decorate my front porch with. Either way, that is my favorite thing to grow. My biggest pumpkin so far weighted 128 pounds.

2. I think about photography all the time...and I really mean ALL THE TIME! I think my brain filters everything as if I were looking through the lens of a camera. I am always noticing what things would make for good photo backdrops or thinking of the next picture I want to take. And I am always looking at and enjoying the pictures I have of my family around my house. Photos are always on my brain!

3. One of my pet peeves is crooked pictures on the wall. There is nothing that ruins a nice wall display more for me than pictures that are hanging out of level. So I use sticky tack on everything I hang on the wall to keep it stuck where I want it.

4. I'm a bargain shopper. The better deal I get on something...the more I like it! This applies to presents I receive also. When I know the giver got a great deal it makes me enjoy it more.

5. I love building things! My favorite class in high school was woodshop! I love being able to turn ordinary planks of wood into something beautiful. My favorite part of the building process is the sanding and finishing part. It is so satisfying to sand the wood smooth and put on the finishing coats of stain and clear coat and really see the beauty of the wood come out. It works out nice that this is my favorite part, because it is James' least favorite part. So he builds stuff and I finish it...nice teamwork!

6. I am a "Less is More" kind of gal. I like to eliminate unnecessary things from my life to make room for the things I really love doing. So in keeping with my less is more philosophy I think I'll go ahead and post this even though I have only listed 6interesting things about myself.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Oh What a Night...

I started to wonder if my bed was grand central station last night! I got Dallin, Shelby and Cody to bed at about 8 p.m. But Dallin was afraid and couldn't fall asleep, so he came back out to the living room soon after. (He saw a couple minutes of Princess Bride over the weekend, unfortunately the couple of minutes that he saw were during the fire swamp scene and it scared him pretty badly.) So Dallin watched TV with me while I fed Darcy. Then I put Dallin back to bed around 8:45 p.m. and laid by him for a while until he fell asleep. Then I finished feeding Darcy and got her to sleep at about 9:30 p.m. I decided I'd better get to sleep myself so I was in bed by 9:45 p.m. At 11:00 p.m. Shelby came into my bed for a while. She was quite and didn't disrupt my sleep much. But at 12:00 a.m. Cody woke up with a terrible cough. So I was up with him for a while trying to help him settle down. I finally brought him in bed with me and fell asleep close to 1 a.m. At 2 a.m. Darcy woke up hungry, so I fed her. Before I could get her back to bed Dallin woke up afraid again. So he came into my bed also. I got Darcy back in her bed at about 2:45 a.m. but by this time Cody had awakened again. So I eventually got both Dallin and Cody back to sleep...in my bed of course. I think we had a couple of hours of uninterrupted sleep because the next thing I remember is Darcy waking up at 5 something to eat again. Then at about 6 a.m. she did big poops and woke up Cody. He thought it was morning and wanted to go have milk and watch Curious George. Shelby also woke up at this time so at about 6:30 a.m. I got up and started Curious George for them. That kept them busy for about 15 minutes and then Cody was back in my room asking for milk again. So I finally gave up and just got up.

I sure missed James last night! He's in San Francisco for some training for a few days. I don't know how single parents do it!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Fun Days in October

October was a fun month for our family. James had work off one Monday so we did some fun activities. We went to Jump On It and had a great time. It is a place with tons of trampolines to jump on. I sat out with Darcy because of my broken foot. So I was able to take some fun pictures of them having fun. Then we went to Thanksgiving Point and enjoyed their Barnyard Boo. For Halloween, we had fun carving pumkins and trick or treating at Dad's work. I made a slideshow of some of the fun pictures to share, so enjoy...

October Fun!

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Funny Quotes

Darcy came up to me the other day with a permanent marker and said, "Mom, is it okay if I use this pregnant marker to draw a picture?" January 2012
Darcy was in a bubble bath the other day having a great time. She made a beard out of bubbles and put bubbles on her head to make herself look like Santa. When it was time to clean off the bubbles I parted the bubbles to get down to the clear water and she said, "Oh, I didn't know there was water down there!" December 2011
Darcy calls hangnails or snags on her nails "Pinchies". She says "Mom, can you get this pinchie off my toe?"
Whenever we do something fun Darcy always says, "Lets to dat adain." I love her little voice when she says it.
Every morning Cody comes into my room while I'm still in bed and tells me, "Mom, it's light outside. It's time to get up." To which I reply, "Okay, let me get dressed." So now when Cody is getting dressed and I call to him his response is, "I'm getting my dressed on!" I love it. No more getting dressed at our house...its now know as "getting our dressed on".
I like to make fruit smoothies for breakfast sometimes. Cody calls them Smoot Moolies, so that has become the name for them at our house. The other day when I was making a smoot moolie Cody asked if he could help me make it. I said he could so he jumped up on the counter and picked up a banana. He proceed to peel it and then handed me the peel and said,"Here's the armpit mom." I wasn't sure if I heard him right so I asked him what it was called. He said, "The armpit...you know the thing that the banana is in." November 2009
This afternoon when we were driving to the store I had a funny conversation with Cody. “Does Matt have a house?” Cody asked. “Well, Matt is here to buy a new house.” I replied. “Ooooo, that sounds fun!”Cody said. About a minute passes and then he says “How is he going to carry it?” I’m trying my hardest not to laugh. “I think he needs a big rope.” Cody said, happy that he figured out a good solution to the problem. I just love Cody…he keeps me laughing all the time. January 21, 2010
I was really tired one afternoon so I flopped down on the couch and said, "I'm pooped out!" Cody came over and snuggled up to me on the couch and said, "I'm having poop time too!" July 2009
When I told the kids that James was going to be going to California, Cody sat up straight and excitedly said, "Like Lightening McQueen! He went to California!" October 2009
The other day James said to Cody, "How's my buddy?" Cody got a very serious look on his face and said, "Name's Tody!" (He still can't pronounce C's very well.) The only things he will let us call him, other than his name, is big boy or funny kid.
When we were first potty training Cody he said he needed to go to the bathroom during sacrament meeting at church. So I took him to the bathroom and sure enough he did his business in the toilet. This was one of the first times he ever did poops in the toilet so he was really excited. When we walked back into sacrament meeting (we were sitting near the front of the chapel) he loudly proclamed "Daddy, I did giant poops in the toilet!" December 2008
Cody comes up with cute names for things. Mostly because he has troubles prononcing some of his letters. Some of my favorite names are "Daddy's Toke-Toke" for Coke, "Dr. Seuse" for Dr. Pepper, the "lurnal" for urinal, and "peanutbutter jam" for peanutbutter mixed with honey in a bowl.
Shelby had a hard time saying her G's when she was little. So we were working with her on how to say Grandma. She could make a growling sound pretty well, so we we had her growl then say grandma, so she used her best growling voice to say "GRRRR AMA"
The sun was shining in Cody's eyes the other day and he pointed at it and said, "Mommy, that circle is burnin' my eyes!" January 2009
Heres a list of funny words our kids have come up with for things: Fwaps (Cody's word for patting Darcy's back), bednight snacks, square noodles (ramen noodles), peeps, giant poops, dishwasher (Cody says this is where we wash clothes), low-low (lawn mower), regular grandma (Shelby's way of describing the difference between Great Grandma and her (regular) Grandma, oopadaisy (Shelby)
When we were building our house Shelby and Dallin spent a lot of time here with me working on it. One day when I was putting up the finish trim I couldn't find the hammer. I was looking all over for it and just didn't have any luck finding it. Shelby (2 yrs old) made two fists with her little hands and said, "It's okay Mommy, you can use my bammers!" November 2005
When Dallin was 1 yr old, he used to love making car noises. His favorite noise to make was the sound of tires screeching and then a crash. So EVERY time we would apply the brakes in the car we would hear his little voice from the back seat..."errrr kshhhh"
When Dallin was about 3 years old, he always liked to sit between James and I on the couch. But his way of saying it was cute. He would say "Can I sit in the tween of you?"
When Dallin was about 4 years old, I let him and Shelby skip naps because we needed to go somewhere. As we were driving on the road Dallin said, "Wow, look at all these people who are skipping naps too!" I guess he thought everyone had naps during the afternoon! Summer 2005