Stephen 36, Korbi 31, Beck 8 years, Paisley 5 years, and Penelope 2, and Baby Remington
This is my niece Hanna June Nelson at my wedding reception in Othello 8 years ago. She is now 10 years old. Hard to believe!
This is my baby Princess Paisley today (well, October 8th) in the same dress that Hanna wore for my wedding in the Salt Lake Temple to the man of my dreams, sigh, for time and all eternity! Isn't my offspring adorable?
If anything we make some great looking kids! I may be a tad bit biased... Just sayin'.
On our Anniversary I taught some gymnastic classes until 6 and I REALLY WANTED Dairy Queen because a) I had a gift card and b) their Pepsi tastes great! So Stephen obliged and we met him at DQ after I was done coaching and he pulled into town from Othello.
Then I lost said gift card after I went to the bathroom, so we didn't even get to use it and then I was too full to eat any ice cream, but the kids sure made sure that they had room for their ice cream.
7 months along and baby is grrooowing..... I swear that I am much bigger than I ever was before at this stage of the pregnancy. I'll have to go back and check my notes. 41" around and I made my first visit to the chiropractor today and actually scheduled a massage as well. Pain in my tail bone will be the death of me, for that I am certain and that psyatic(sp?) nerve, yeah killer. I feel old, my body feels old. My brain feels slow. I am certain that there is only 1 baby in there, so don't even ask, okay? please? unless you maybe feel like getting karate chopped by a ginormously slow pregnant lady? I am teaching a few gym classes just one night a week and I have great energy at the class and then when I get home I crash and it's really only a few hours of teaching. Between that and running kids around and frantically working on some Christmas gifts, thats about the extent of what I am doing mixed in with random loads of laundry and toilet scrubbing and the occasional 3-4 nights a week of a good dinner cooking. So no, the count down has not begun, we still have quite a ways, but I am planning on the Holidays going fast. :) I can count on that right?
I buy toys, I always do. I buy them no matter what. So I came up with a point system and then you earn a prize out of the box. I think it was Kortni's idea first, but she does it somewhat differently. Once the kids earn 20 points individually they get to pick a prize. They get 5 points for sleeping in their bed all night, that hardly ever happens, but once in a blue moon it jumps their points up quite quickly. They get points taken away for hitting, screaming, not doing what they are asked the first time. They get points for trying a new food for dinner, buckling their seatbelt the fastest, doing nice things. (Which they also get to put a "warm fuzzy" in the jar for nice things for other people and when the jar is full they get to take a friend to ice cream) When we first started I started it for Beck. He has such a temper, bless his heart. He was at negative points for a very loooong time before he ever first got to 20 points. I used to carry around a chart that stated things with pictures that he could gain or lose points for and I'd write on it with an erase marker and we'd tally up the points at the end of the day. But now I've gotten really good at just remembering how many points they each have. And Beck remembers too and always tried to tell me that he has more points than he actually does. Then they got o being good and always asking "Do I get a point for that?" SO now points are random, you never know when mom is gonna give you points. :) Nothing like making up the rules as I go along right? The 20 point prize box works very well. I get to buy toys that are clearnced and feel some sort of accomplishment as a mother that they are actually earning them. :) So it's a win win.
