Spotlight of LuLu

Lacey girl got her haircut yesterday. I think her hair looks cute. When she woke up today she asked me if she still had her haircut. She keeps asking me that periodically throughout the day. I think she thinks it is going to wearoff or something. I love long hair but it was just turning into a battle to comb out her hair. She would usually win and end up looking scraggely (is that a word?) all day. When I was little my oldest sister would comb out my hair and I would whine and complain the whole time saying it hurt SO bad. So she decided that everytime I said it hurt I would have to kiss her. Of course, that was the most severe punishment EVER. I tried the tactic on Lacey but made the mistake of saying I would tickle her. Well, it just turned into a game of combing, complaining, and tickling which accomplished nothing. So here's to better mornings, softer hair, and a prettier girl!

Lacey's new thing is to wear mismatched socks and two sometime three shirts. I don't understand the logic but I don't fight her on it. I think she is going through a Punky Bruster phase even though she has no idea who she is. I think it is an innate phase girls just have to go through at some point in their lives. I know I went through it.

Funny things Lacey says

Mom, can you do me a favorite? (a favor)

She is constantly telling people that they look cute or she likes what they are wearing. A couple of weeks ago during Primary she interrupted the singing teacher to tell her that she liked her sweater. And when she gets mad about something she says it is BORING.

Her favorite things:

You guessed it.............LIPGLOSS

She loves lotions too and has a million purses. She loves to color and draw.

She has already had her chocolate addiction gene from her Grandma Nana (and mom) kick in,

and she just can't live a day without seeing Dora.

And..............her departing shot!

5 1/2 hours

First of all in celebration and mucho happiness, Cassidy slept for 5 1/2 hours last night. Yeah for that. You would think I would have been well rested but I woke up on my own at 3:36 (Hmm she isn't up yet, cool!) 4:10 (was that her? Nope just Ryan snoring ) 4:30 (holy cow she isn't up yet? should I go check on her) 5:03 (is she still breathing?) and then finally at 5:30 to her cries. Yeah, a night of paranoia. I don't expect her to do this again but I'm very excited about the possibilities though.

So I watched American Idol last night. I was surprised Amanda was kicked off but happy about it. She was getting on my nerves a little. I think she really is Rosanne Barr. While I was watching, I notice Ryan Seacrest's hairstyle and realized that Cassidy is sporting the same do. It is a great look on a guy but not so sure what to think on my 7 week old baby. What do you think? Pretty similar huh?

There is a local paper that we get every week and as I was flipping through it today looking for Easter Egg hunts this Saturday, I opened to a page featuring story time at the library and lo and behold there is my Lacey Lu. I saw the photographer there last week but wasn't sure where he was from. Lacey thought it was the coolest thing ever. Aidan was a little bummed he wasn't in the picture until I pointed out his leg. That seemed to suffice.

I got my hair done today. I was a little bummed about the whole deal. Back in November when I went red the stylist I went to gave me the BEST haircut. I was so happy to find a good stylist in the town I lived. I haven't had a good reliable stylist for a long time. This has been a long time annoyance of mine. I have tried person after person never satisfied with anyone. This has been going on since I moved from Utah 7 years ago. So I was finally very happy. Well this guy had some surgeries and was out of commission for awhile but when I called to make an appointment he was there. I was really excited he was back at work. Well, when I went in for my appointment he had called in sick because of a new medication he had started. So the other girl said she would do my hair. I should have just declined because I was not fully happy with her. I had decided to go back to a blonde color because of Ryan. I'm just going to flat out say that. He liked the red but LOVES blonde. I enjoyed being red and was tempted to go for another round. So the girl who did my hair made me neither here nor there when it comes to the color. It isn't blonde. It isn't red. So I came home disappointed and frustrated. I may give this salon one more shot if I can get in to see this other guy again but if he isn't available....I'm done. Which means the venture of finding someone "good" starts all over again.

Addictions

Tiffany-Oreos
Ryan-Surfing the Internet for trucks
Aidan-Lego Star Wars
Lacey-Lip gloss
Cassidy-Waking up at 3 a.m.

New Couch!

We finally got a new couch. I was so done with our old one that I wanted to through it over a cliff. We have been waiting for our new one to be delivered for over a month so we were thrilled that it finally came. It is a chocolate brown leather and has recliners on both ends. We are in heaven. Direct quote from Ryan "It is like sitting in butter." I guess sitting in butter is enjoyable for Ryan. The following video is how I feel when I sit on the couch.

Cassidy is now 6 weeks old. She smiled for the first time last night AT RYAN. He doesn't want me to forget that he received the first smile. Sadly I think he has won that title for all three kids. Right after she smiled though she made the biggest purched lip I had ever seen. I think I scared her because I was so excited she smiled. They were both cute nonetheless.

Ryan took Lacey to the bank the other day and Lacey asked if she could have a sucker. Ryan said sure we can ask for a sucker. Then Lacey said, "I'm going to ask for it in Spanish." Then she went on to mumble a bunch of words. Impressive huh?

The Peace of a Child

Today is my mom's birthday (my half-birthday by the way) so first I want to tell her happy birthday! I hope you have a terrific day! But I really have been wanting to do a post about her helping me after having a baby. My mom was here to take care of us just after Cassidy was born. She was here for 2 weeks and was so needed too because we were all sick. She made us dinner, did the laundry, washed the dishes, cleaned the house, played with the kids, changed diapers, bought me groceries, swept the floor and, made me take naps. I feel like I just sang the Cinderella song. You know this one:

Cinderelly, Cinderelly Night and day it's Cinderelly Make the fire, fix the breakfast, wash the dishes, do the mopping, and the sweeping and the dusting. They always keep her hopping. She goes around in circles Till she's very, very dizzy Still they holler Keep a-busy Cinderelly!

I appreciate her service so much. She is so giving of her energies and love. I have a GOOD mom. But you know more than all those things she did for me while she was here the most important to me is to see her love my kids. She has come to help me after every baby now. The time she is here, to me, is sacred. There is nothing like watching someone fall in love with your child. My mom will stay up late with the baby so I can rest. I know my mom loves the cuddles and she always says she has long talks with the baby. I really hope she has because I want my kids to learn to be like her and emulate her great qualities. Those first few weeks of having a newborn go so fast and I love that my mom can bond and love my child from such a sweet beginning.

My mom read to me an article in the Church News last week about little children by Sam Anderson. Here is an excerpt from it. It made me sob.

"The day before my oldest son's wedding was Sunday. I was serving in the nursery. I was so tight inside and about as wound up as I could get. One of the little ones was falling asleep and I picked him up, cuddling him against me. I stood there and rocked back and forth, like a mother does. It brought peace to my soul and tears to my eyes. It was comforting and calming.
Later when I thought on this experience it brought the Savior to my mind. When the people brought their little children to Christ to touch and bless, the disciples tried to stop them from bothering Jesus. But Jesus wanted them near; in Luke 18:16, he said, "suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God." They are the closest thing to heaven on earth. I believe amidst the thronging crowd, Christ found comfort in the little children, their innocence, their closeness to heaven."

It is true that there is a peace of a sleeping child nestled on your chest. I do wonder if Christ drew strength from them and needed them at that time to give him peace and a closeness to God. I can only imagine so because a child does have that power.

Never as Planned

I have disappeared from blogland because the FLU got us and it got us good. I thought Cassidy and I were going to be able to side step getting the flu but it caught up with us Friday. It was quite an ordeal with Cassidy because if an infant under 2 months gets a fever above 100.4 they need to go to the ER. I have been stressing about this happening all week and sure enough her temperature hit over 100.4. We took her to the pediatrician first and they confirmed that she did have the flu. However, because she had a fever they wanted to be 100% certain that the fever was coming from the flu and not something more serious. So Ryan and I (both of us being sick by the way) took Cassidy to the ER at the Children's hospital. There Cassidy had to have some tests done, one being a Spinal Tap. Yeah that freaked me out. I didn't really want my teeny tiny baby to have that done to her but we needed to be sure that there was no other reason that she might be fevering. We ended up being in the hospital for 10 hours. It was so exhausting and emotional. Plus we both were so sick. Cassidy handled everything quite well. The initial results came back normal but her white blood cell count was on the high end of normal so they opted to give her some antibiotics. We were grateful for that because then we knew that she was covered in case there was something more serious wrong with her. The final results weren't given to us until yesterday. Everything came back normal. She is doing a lot better now. This is a picture of her with her little IV in. Isn't it so sad?

We had planned to have Cassidy's blessing this Sunday. My parents and Ryan's parents had come for it. Instead of postponing the blessing we decided to get permission to do it at home. Not what I had planned but you do what you have to. So Sunday morning before church Ryan, my dad, Ryan's dad and Dave gave Cassidy a name and a blessing. And her name still is Cassidy Rose. Ryan even held her up afterwards for everyone to see her just like they do at church. She wore Lacey's blessing dress. I love the dress. So the whole event didn't really go as I had planned in my mind but it for sure will be memorable.

In all of this craziness I am grateful that my mom and dad were in town to take care of all of us especially the kids while we were at the hospital. If we were to get this sick this was the week to do it.