My boys today.

HAYDEN/MOOCHY
He loves to pick up ANY phone and just start talking (even when there isn't anyone on the other end). His "conversation" goes like this: "Hello? Hi. Me. Sup? Oh. Sorry. Bye." haha. I'm not sure where he got the "Sorry" part from.

TORRIN/TOH-TOH
He's a month old today. How did that happen??? I took him to his 1 month checkup and he already weighs 9 lbs 5 oz. That's almost 3 lbs in a month!!!

ALLEN
He's an amazing dad. He has this natural calming ability when it comes to the boys. Kids in general are drawn to him. Random kids just come up and talk to him all the time... even when they have never met him. And babies often stare at him. I don't blame them. I mean, he is a good looking guy, but I wonder if these kids know something that I don't.

See you later, naptime.

It's a sad, sad day. We have been struggling with naptime & bedtime lately with Mooch. I thought it was just his way of trying to adjust to Toh-Toh being here, but now I'm not so sure. On the days he does get a nap, he will stay up until 10:00 p.m. and won't go to bed without a fight. And some days he will just fight a nap and want to play, and he'll be fine until bedtime. Then there are the days where he will miss his nap and fall asleep at 4 or 5 p.m. He'll get a good 10 minute "power nap" and be up again until 10:00 p.m. (He definitely takes after Allen.)


The other day, after a particularly difficult 2-hour struggle to get Moochy down for a nap (ending in my giving up completely), our neighbor came over to visit with us. She mentioned that her 4-yr-old quit taking naps at about Moochy's age. She said, he just didn't need them anymore. Hmmm. Interesting. I thought. Not my boy, though. He still needs his nap. (Or is it just his mom that needs his nap? LOL)


So, for the past two days we have been expiramenting. No naps. (And that means no naps for this sleep-deprived mom either). And wouldn't you know it... Moochismo has gone to bed both nights without much of a fight. In fact, two nights ago his eyes were closed before I even turned the light off, and he didn't need his precious two fingers to help get him to sleep. WOW!


We have now designated a daily "quiet time" (mostly for my sanity, but also for Mooch), where we will just relax, read some books, and/or listen to soothing music. I know that Moochy will still need naps on some days, but I'm hoping this "quiet time" will give him the chance to just relax and build up some energy for the rest of the day. And hopefully (fingers crossed) our bedtime battles will be a lot smaller.


Now, I can't say that this doesn't make me a little sad. When Mooch was a baby, I used his naptime as my workout time. It looks like that's not going to happen with Toh (I was hoping they would nap at the same time), so I'll have to figure out another time to workout or else incorporate them into my workout somehow.

Moochy loves his little brother.

I can't believe how big Toh-Toh is already.

Almost a month old!

Halloween 2007

Mastitis, thrush, and things that go bump in the night.

These are just a couple of things I've been dealing with. When Toh-Toh was about a week old, I went to bed one night with chills and felt achy all over. When I woke up I had a fever of 102. I discovered that day that I had developed mastitis. I was given antibiotics for the mastitis. The antibiotics worked to treat it, and the fever & chills were gone within a day. What I wasn't told was that taking antibiotics increases the risk of developing thrush since it also kills off the good bacteria that keeps yeast in check.

So, between the antibiotics I was given during labor for GBS and the antibiotics for mastitis, I pretty much have no good bacteria left; and here we are with yeast/thrush. It is terribly painful to nurse, but I'm determined to get through this. Luckily, Toh doesn't have the white patches in his mouth (a sure sign of thrush), but we're taking all the necessary precautions to make sure I don't pass it to him & he passes it back to me, etc., etc. And hopefully within a couple of weeks we'll be back to normal again.

Here is a picture of Toh-Toh with purple lips. LOL We are using Gentian Violet (among other things) to help treat this, and it stains EVERYTHING it touches. So, his mouth will be purple for a few days.

Carving the pumpkin and some other random stuff...

Last night we carved our one little pumpkin... The big one ended up being rotten.

Mooch hates getting anything on his hands, so it was interesting.

At one point he had a seed on his hand, and he just sat there staring at it. LOL

This is how Toh enjoyed carving the pumpkin.

Mooch likes taking new "toys" to the bath every night.
On this particular night, he decided to take my laundry basket.

Here are some pictures from our camping trip this summer. It has taken me forever to upload them. Our trip was to the Ensign Ranch, and Uncle Shawn went with us. Thanks to him, we got some pretty great pictures of Moochismo.

The river was freezing, but Moochy didn't seem to mind.

He loved to run off down the dirt road in front of our campsite.

I could never keep up with him, so I let the boys chase after him.

Before we left, we went to explore the rest of the ranch.

Nothing can come between a boy and his sticks.

The Best Diet Around.

Have a baby!

Ok, really though... I know I still have a long way to go, but it's nice to see the pounds drop so quickly after having a baby. I've lost 10 lbs since I came home from the hospital with TW (and that's NOT including the 8 lbs I lost in the hospital). Unfortunately, though, I had to actually GAIN the weight first. I still have 10 lbs to lose to be at my pre-pregnancy weight, and another 15 lbs to be at my first goal after that. I know I'll probably have to actually work to get those off, but a girl can dream, right?

What Allen has learned so far...

Here's a little list of things Allen has learned so far in his classes. Obviously, we don't share the same views as his professors and classmates.

1. Communism is the purest form of government.
2. Having kids is reprehensible. (When TW was born, one of his professors told Allen he should be condemned, not congratulated!)
3. Mormons and Catholics should be forced out of the country.
4. We should not help starving children in Africa.
5. People should not be allowed to live past 65. (These last three are b/c of over-population issues.)
6. The amount of respect you deserve is determined by the number of times you're arrested. (One of his professors thinks that students today don't deserve as much respect because they're not out there protesting and getting arrested.)

These are just a few of the things Allen has "learned" in class. LOL No wonder he is miserable in this program!