The Saga Continues.

This week and poop…honestly. Gross.

I’m shopping at Save-on yes(TURD)ay when I start to notice this awful smell. It seems to be following me around. I’ve noticed that before if you cross aisles with someone on the same aisle pace as you through the store, but today was different. This awful smell was coming from my child. She had waited all day until we were away from home without a diaper bag to do her business. We hurried to get the essentials and got in line at the check out.

Thats when I noticed it. The chunky. AHHHH. We were having a full on blowout in the grocery store. What do I do, what do I do??? So I pulled her shirt down over the doody until we got to the truck. It would have been easier if the check out girl had noticed my antsy frustration and gone a little faster. She was so slow. “Do you want to redeem points today”?AHHH. I look over to the film counter and wonder about the Film girl’s expression. Oh no! She noticed the doody. Ahhh.Thank You Taryn for laughing at me!! It had to be someone I knew didn’t it. grr.

After almost forgetting to pay because I was in such a hurry, I made it to the car. I pop the trunk and the hallelujah chorus plays. My hiking baby backpack is in the trunk with a couple of diapers and wipes in it. I don’t exactly know how I got Em undressed and changed in the parking lot, I think I’ve blacked big portions of it from my memory. All I know is that as we were driving away Emily tried her new words and sentences out. “Nasty poopy bum, bum gross, nasty nasty nasty!”

There is now a boycott in place. As long as Morgan is at home I will not be changing 1 diaper for the next 3 days. NOT 1! I think I could have held out for more, but 3 days seems good for now.

SIDE NOTE: I didn’t write this to gross anyone out, I just needed to capture the moment so when Emily is being all mouthy and age 9 and not into cleaning her room she can have a seat at the WordPress archive and gain a little perspective.

It happened

I expected it to happen. I had been told my entire life that it would happen. Some how I pictured it differently.

As per usual Morgan headed into Emily’s room to wake her up in the morning.(She just learned the word Morning and told everyone at church her new word today it was cute.) He always sings to her the good morning song. I was sitting at the Computer when I hear this “Courtenay. I need your help”. My response”Change the poopy diaper yourself.”But that wasn’t all.

To illustrate our conversation I have to first tell you that Emily still doesn’t say “R” yet. I cant do the accent in typing so I’ll have to use brackets and you’ll have to use your imagination.

Morgan: “Courtenay I need your help”
Courtenay: “Change the poopy diaper yourself”
Morgan: “It happened”
Courtenay enter the scene. Emily is only sort of wearing her onsie and no diaper.
Emily is standing in her crib holding something in her hand out to me.
Emily: “Shi(R)t, Shi(R)t,Shi(R)t,Shi(R)t”
Courtenay: “Thats right it is. How does she know that word? Morgan”
Morgan:*gag*”I didn’t teach her it.”*gag* “Grab her.”
Courtenay:”Um…no.”
Courtenay leaves and runs bath. Morgan laughs loudly in Emily’s room.
Courtenay deals with Emily and Morgan takes it like a man and cleans the poo poo off the wall and the crib and the sheets and the toys, and the music crib thing. Courtenay is sooo proud of Morgan.

As I was getting Emily re-dressed she kept saying “No Shi(R)t“. Thats when I figure out she means shirt and that there was poo poo on it and now there isn’t. Um gross.

I immediately had to phone my mom and tell her that Emily finally paid her back for my artistic moment at age 2 with the same medium. If you don’t have paint you use what you have ok. Then your parents just get better at pinning you in your clothes.

The goal this week: Teach the baby to say her “R”‘s!

L'chyim (Think Yiddish)

How many funny things can happen in one day? In my world the potential is amazing. I think of hundreds of things to blog about all day long, but then I cant remember them all. I’m tempted to carry a voice recorder and then have dragon naturally speaking transcribe it. Riiight. Since I’m that big of a nerd that’s exactly what I will do. or not do. Here is the lowdown of some of the funny things that happened in the last day.

I got called middle aged. Can someone help me with the knife in my back please.

Emily ate dirt and then…yep you guessed it…pooped dirt.

Emily choked on Timmys and Georgia rescued her.

Then she chucked her very full sippy cup which exploded in Timmys

Emily said the “F” word about a hundred times today trying to say “Walk”.

I cant remember them, but several times Morgan and I had word communication problems, which pretty much means one of us hears something absolutely ridiculous that the other person didn’t say.

Those are just some examples of my typical day. Not even counting our adventures in the supermarket. Again…I need to write a book about the weird things that happen to me. There could be a whole chapter on grocery stores.

I learned some new songs today. I’ve been trying to find some new things to play at youth. I found a bunch of good stuff. I burned L’chyim some stuff to try. I practiced a bunch of the new songs and I really like them. I’ve been playing my guitar so much lately. I love it. I’ve been learning alot and just having alot of fun. I’ve been playing my electric the most. Im turning into the noodle kid. The one that never shuts up. noodle noodle noodle. Its ok tho cause I wear my head phones.

I’m in the middle of a good book, so I’m gonna go read it and stay up late waiting for Morgan to get home again. I hate going to bed when he is still at work. It’s only till midnight tonight tho. So thats nice.

I put the "Bad" in Badminton.

The internet has a hole. I’m serious. Lets take this back a ways. This whole thing started when my sister got her hair cut into a Mullet. For those of you not familiar with the mullet check out this page. Especially the unfortunullett. Anyways… I digress. back to my sisters mullet. There are no good pictures or even songs to describe my sisters mullet. Luckily it isn’t an unfortunullet because she know she has it and is trying to think of a good way to deal with that. ok so this is where the hole comes in. The only way to describe Roxy’s mullet is to call her Linda from the wedding singer. If you haven’t seen The Wedding Singer you have other problems, but Linda has a serious 80′s mullet. Do you think we can find a picture of Linda anywhere???NO!!! what? There is actually something missing on the internet. What if I was 12 and doing my home work and I asked jeeves what Linda’s mullet looked like. Jeeves would probably freak out and all the planes in the world would crash or something. Someone needs to fix this hole and Roxy’s mullet ASAP or the very world could implode. P.S. “Roxy get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up!”

As for my daughters cuteness factor… She’s 15 months now and chatty like a choo choo. Her favy thing to say right now is “Rock-a-bye-Be”. So she misses it a bit, its still sooo cute. She grabs her doll and rocks it back and forth. Everything is a baby to her. Its the most common word she uses. “bye bye baby ducky” “bye baby daddy”"baby baby up rock baby daddy”. You get the picture. Morgan taught her to go “ho ha he ha ho” when he says “What does Yoko Ono say? So I taught her to go “uh huh” and put her lip up when I say “What does Elvis say?”. Some times she gets them all confused and when we ask her what daddy says she does Elvis or Yoko. She makes me laugh so hard.

She is just waking up right now. Singing and chatting to herself. She has been teething so badly. We have had several days of endless screaming. Nothing helps. Not Tylenol, not the ice cube in the cloth trick, not gin, nothing. You can even see her teeth. They are so close to the surface. It looks like she has rice stuck to her gums. Man teething would hurt. I am so sick of it and Em only has 2 teeth. grr. Today she was eating peas, but she kept saying poop. She gets things mixed up. haha.

Morgans shift changed this week. His weekends got cut so he started working regular week. It sucks. We are used to having daddy home so much more. Its a big change for us and its only been a few days. Last summer we traveled for 6 weeks. We didnt realize how awesome that was until now. Although it is nice to be in our own house for more than 2 days in a row. We are really hoping to make it out to the lake for a few weekends in August. We were just out there with Nathan and Danielle. We had such a fun time. It was so relaxing. Only the second time We’ve brought friends out to the lake with us. We were stoked that their schedule matched up enough with ours that they could come.

I think she’s up now. Dinner time.

Emily loves her Pasta

Nathan and Danielle at the Falls.

Daddy carrying Emily

Poop Smith

I’m taking a breather from packing to blog. I’m trying to get loads of things done for Avalanche this weekend. I’m soooo excited though.

I have a great Emily story this week. We had our friend Elisha come over and take pictures of us down at the park. There were so many mosquitoes that we couldn’t stay long so we went back to our house to just relax and play with Emily. It was bed time and so Emily had just finished her bottle and I took all her clothes off to let her run around in her diaper before putting her jammies on. It has been so hot this last week, so I decided Em could run around nudey buns for a bit cause she is all done her”business” bybedtime, plus I could take the opportunity to take some good nudey pictures for her baby book. About 5 minutes after I had taken her diaper off she turned and looked at me with this look that said “Here I go” and gave a super grunt. I hucked the camera on the couch and ran for the diaper bag. I grabbed a diaper and didn’t really even unfold it much before franticly trying to put it on her while she was standing up. I had exactly 1 second to spare. I just made it in time for Emily to poop a gooder. At that point Auntie Leesh says “I’m never having kids!That was sick!”. Anyways. It was pretty funny. I think Ill think 2 next time I decide to let Emily run around nudey buns.

Well I should get back to packing and getting last minute details all done like dinner. Catch ya on the flip side! Oh and I finally broke 170!! Its 169 for me.

Prickley Jeans

What a Mc-awesome day. It stayed gorgeous all day. When we got to Loon Lake I put Emily down for a nap and Roxy and I went exploring. We took the camera too so you’ll see some of those at the end of this post. We went across the creek and even found a couple of places we hadn’t been before. Mostly because of this rule about crossing through fences. I mean it was a good idea and all. A 10 year old would make a lovely snack for a bear. As usual I couldn’t help myself I ended up with my shoes off wading out to a log to stand on it. I didn’t get too too wet. Well at least I dried off before we got back. I think I still have prickle bushes in my jeans. Poppa made us wear these…uh…sweet…hats.

We fixed up the golf course. Put up the flags and de-cow-poop-ified everything. Then we had a round of golf. I’ve discovered that my long game is great. My short game…not so much. My dad got a hole in one. Roxy did too, but we weren’t playing that hole. haha. Overall it was a great day. We even made it home in time to see Morgan before he had to go to bed for work in the morning.
I had a bath with Emily tonight. I mostly stopped doing that except for the occasional shower. I don’t think she’s to big yet, but she usually has more fun playing by herself. Tonight we both needed a bath and I needed to keep her up longer before bed so into the bath we went. Em is so fascinated with my belly button ring. It’s funny. she pokes me and says “ohhhhh”. We had a really nice cuddle, Emily sang me a very nice song she made up and then I got her ready for bed.

She has been more cuddly lately. It’s nice. I’m ok with her not being cuddly cause I think I’m the one who really likes it most. Pastor Rick and Marci came over the other day and Emily crawled up to Pastor Rick and when he picked her up she just lay her head down on him and cuddled. It was so cute. She did that again with my Grampa today. I love it when she’s like that with other people.

What a Day!

It finally happened. Emily had a UFO(un-food object) in her mouth. She was rather enjoying the crunch and munch when much to her dismay mommy’s finger was shoved in her mouth to remove said UFO. and well…theres no good way to say this. It was poop. I have no idea how she got it, but she had her own crap in her mouth. So now when ever anyone says something tastes like crap…well we can ask Emily if it does. I gagged.

After the crappy ordeal, we headed out on our road trip. It was the most gorgeous day. Its been so cold and windy here lately, but it was absolutely gorgeous out. We decided to go to Marble Canyon because I had never been there before. We stopped for lunch at some rinky dink little restaurant in Clinton. It was called the Cordial Cafe. The first thing our waitress said to us was “I have to apologize for our service. I’m a crappy waitress.”Then when I asked for a glass of water she said.” Do you want bottled water because the town water looks like someone tinkled in it and didn’t flush”. It was awesome. We stopped at this little antique store and wandered through. I found a tortilla press for 2 dollars so I bought it because Ive wanted one forever and they are like 40 bucks new. Such a good find I think.

When we got to marble canyon we drove right past it. It just looked like bluffs on the side of the road. There was this little pull off and thats it. We drove around for a bit and found this spot my Dad remembered where there was a pictograph. It was really neat. We hiked a bit and took lots of pictures. It was Emily’s first real day to play outside. Last summer she was to small to do pretty much anything, but lay on the grass. She wanted to walk everywhere. We let her sit in this big grassy hillside and play. She loved it.

We saw some people rock climbing up by the cliff face so we decided to go up and have a little look see. My eyes are downright liars. They made the hill look like a stroll. We were extreme hiking for a bit. I had Emily in the Backpack so I was good and weighted down. When we got to the top we started talking to some climbers and there was this guy there who new Dad from the high school. Then around the corner comes Mr. Meville. My high school shop teacher. Ok so this gets weirder still. While my parents were in Arizona last week so was Mr. Meville. Only they were riding Harleys and he had a convertible. And now here we are way the heck out in the middle of no where climbing up a mountain and here he is again. It was just plain weird.

Well over all we had an awesome day and I think we took some good pictures too.