Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Unfortunately, I got sick with the stomach flu last night and I am still not feeling very good. Poor Alan has been watching so much tv today because I don't have the energy to do anything else. We are driving up to Canada on Friday and Saturday so as long as I am better by then and no one else gets sick I will be happy. I am so excited to go.

On Saturday we went to a pumpkin patch to pick out some pumpkins. Reed and I had a lot of fun but it was pretty cold so Alan was done pretty quick. He told me his hands were cold and then he went sprinting back to the van after a couple of minutes.

We found one pumpkin for eating and now Alan asks everyday if he can eat it. We will see if we get to it before we leave. I can't think of anything else that has happened in the last month...oh well.

Conner's 4 month check-up

Conner had his 4 month doctor's appointment about a month ago. He is doing very well. Here are his stats:

Height: 27 1/4 inches

percentile: 97%

Weight: 14 lbs 12 oz.

percentile: 50%

The doctor suggested giving him more tummy time. He absolutely hates to be on his tummy and now that he can roll over he doesn't get much tummy time - little stinker. Oh well.

All about Reed and Carissa

So, there isn't much to write about us but here is a quick update. I got sick with a sore throat last Thursday. I thought it would go away by itself but it just got worse. I was pretty miserable. On Monday I went to the doctor and he took one look at my throat and said he needed a culture. Ten minutes later he announced that I had strep throat. He gave me some antibiotics and I am feeling great now.

On Sunday our ward made a bunch of changes. I was changed from the 2nd councelor in the Y.W. to the 1st councelor - no big change. Reed was the 2nd counselor in the Y.M. and he was released and called as the Elder's Quorum President. We were both pretty surprised but we are getting used to the idea. That's it for now. Have a great week.

All about Alan

As you can tell this blog is all about Alan. Alan has pretty good language skills so he keeps us laughing with some of the things he come up with.
Funny Phrases:

"Are you happy?" - He asks this dozens of times a day, usually when I am starting to show my frustration. He will keep asking it until he gets the answer he wants (that I am happy)


"Of course.." He says this phrase a lot. "Of course I want to talk to daddy on the phone" or "of course I want to go outside".


"Didja know Jesus turned on the rain?" - we were driving in the car and it started raining and he just said that out of the blue.


Reed: You sure love your momma, huh?
Alan: Yeah, she's my favorite.


When we were all together with Reed's family this happened. Alan wanted a sucker so he asked me for one and I said "no". So then he asked Reed and he said the same thing. Then he went around the circle and asked all of his aunts and uncles and his grandma and grandpa for a sucker. All of them said no. Then he walked back over to Grandma, who was holding Conner, and said "I want to ask Conner for a sucker. He'll say yes."


This happened when I had been gone for the girl's weekend for a couple of days and Reed and Alan were sitting at the table at home. Alan was making a grocery list.
Alan: "Milk, what else? Water, what else? Mommy, what else?"
Reed: "Do you think we are going to pick Mommy up at the store?"
Alan: "Yes."


The pictures below are a good example of him saying "Of course!" I tried to take his picture and he covered his face and wouldn't put his hands down so I said fine and started to walk away. Alan lowered his hands and yelled "Oh course I want my picture taken!" The tone of his voice suggested that that should have been obvious.

Alan loves to swim. He is my little fish. He doesn't have much fear of the water so we have to be careful but I love how he is so daring in the water.

Alan loves his brother. He can usually get Conner to smile big and he will go find him toys when he is fussy. He is a little rough with him so we still have to watch him carefully. I think Alan is having a hard time waiting for someone he can wrestle with, because he keeps trying it with Conner. Luckily Conner usually doesn't mind (but I do).

All about Conner

This blog is all about Conner. Most of the pictures are from the girls weekend so he is about 3 months old in the pictures. Conner is more snuggly than Alan was as a baby.

Conner had just finished eating and he was making this face, even though he was asleep.

Conner, future Olympic skier

Conner is a VERY smiley, happy baby. Most of the time.

Unfortunately the girl's weekend kind of threw him off his sleeping schedule. When we got home he decided he needed to be nursed to sleep every time he woke up at night (3 times a night or every 2 or 3 hours). I wasn't impressed. So we started to put him in his bed when he was drowsy, but still awake. He was so mad! He screamed for a good portion of the first night and he is still waking up a few times a night but he just cries for a little bit and then he goes back to sleep. It will be nice when he sleeps for longer at night. Below is a picture of 4 month old Conner. I think he looks like he is pondering/dreaming of ways to keep his parents awake at night.

Conner's first swim

In August we went down to Denver and stayed in a hotel while we picked some people up at the airport. The hotel had a swimming pool so we took the boys swimming and it was Conner's first time. He seemed to enjoy it, although the water was a little cold. He played in the water for 10 or 15 minutes and then he fell asleep on some towels on the pool deck.

Alan had a lot of fun. Reed threw him up in the air and he landed in the water a couple of times. It was a lot of fun.

Storm

Today we decided to clean out the garage so we put everything in the driveway and set off a bug bomb. Around 4 o clock I opened up the garage to air it out and I noticed that there were some VERY dark clouds on the horizon. I went inside and when I looked outside 15 minutes later it was much closer. So Reed and I hurried outside and started putting our stuff back in the garage. We just finished when the storm hit and what a storm it was - high winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder. The tornado sirens even started going although we didn't hear them until the end of the storm because the wind was howling. Our power went out at the beginning of the storm and didn't come on again until 8:30 this evening. After the storm we started looking around at the damage. A block away a tree had fallen across the road.A block a way, a tree fell on some power lines so the lines were just hanging there next to the power poles. Our backyard even took some damage. A tree in our neighbor's yard fell across the fence into our yard (in the background of the picture below you can see our neighbors dragging it out of our yard). Also the big tree next to our house lost a few branches - luckily none of them hit our power lines. We have a lot of clean up to do tomorrow.