I spent a few minutes this morning changing my background. Thanks to the link on Elizabeth's blog, I found some cute backgrounds with super easy instructions. (I have never taken the time to figure it out, but now, I know and it is EASY!) I also added some friend links (if I didn't add you and you want me to, let me know, if I did add you and you don't want me to, I can take you off!) As I was adding the links, I noticed Leah had the same background as I do. I chose it because I could smell the plumeria as I was looking at it. So, sorry Leah, I am going to keep it for a few days.
Sometimes I miss Hawaii, the great smells, the clean air. Monday I went for a jog, and the air was so dirty I had grit in my socks and hair and mouth. NASTY!!! I was running around the temple, so it's not like I was on a dirt road or anything. Where does this garbage come from?!?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Good eats
As promised, here are the pics of James. He loves eating!
James is now rolling over. He doesn't do it much, but he has done it 4 times now. He can hold himself up pretty good.
He can hold his sippy cup pretty good. He doesn't know yet that he needs to suck to get something out of it, but its a start. He does like to chew on it, as he does everything else!
I love the highchair! It's one that sits on a chair so it doesn't take much room, and it converts to a booster. He seems to enjoy it too. He is super excited to eat. He loves it!
Here is our bathroom. It was green before, but we decided we wanted something different. You may be thinking, what about the rest of the bathroom. No, this is it. Basically, we both don't fit in it at the same time! Love on campus living!My Much Anticipated Return
Many of you are wondering, no new post since March 18th? Almost a month?!? Here's Kim and Kaitlyn who can do 2 or 3 posts a day, I and don't do one for a month? Well, here is what I have been up to.
Since my last post, we were nearing our "Go-live" at work. That means, PeopleSoft will now be live and people will actually be using it. We did go-live on March 27th. I worked about 13 hours of over-time for those two weeks. It was crazy. Poor James. Luckily, I was able to work all my overtime hours at home. I told my boss, that I would not work more than my 40 hours away from home, so they approved me to work at home. Things went rather well for the beginning, but I am now working (diligently, even tho I am posting at work!) to the next phases of the project. Fun times!
Work has been crazy busy and I haven't had much time to do anything else. You see, I usually update my blog and look at others while at work. I don't like to do it after work, because I want to spend the time with my little James. I don't want him to feel like he has to compete with the computer, so I never touch the thing after work. (Unless I am ordering Papa Johns or Cafe Rio online. I love the internet!) So, to all you who were expecting a comment on their blogs, I can now do so, for a few minutes a day. It's nice to not be so busy that I can use work time for personal time! (Bad me, I do justify it, however, by saying it is my break!)
I got the flu last week. Crazy, nasty flu. I woke up Monday morning with a gurgling tummy, by the time I got out of the shower, I felt like death warmed over. I got back in bed and didn't get out except to run to the toilet. Aho would bring James to me and we would nurse in bed, I was even too weak to hold him. It was nasty. It took me all week to get over it. The good thing is, I lost about 5 pounds with it!
Friday, I started feeling nasty again, thinking I was getting a cold, Kim tells me it could be allergies, well, lucky me, it is. I have never felt allergy season before. Why now? It stinks. I have no energy, my nose and head are always stuffy, and I want to lay down all day. But alas, I cannot, so I just trudge through it.
Saturday Aho and I finally got out to go run some errands (and spend some much needed time together) that we needed to. The highlights: we got a high chair and feeding stuff for James and we decided to change our bathroom. So, I spent the rest of Saturday (while I was locked up at home while Aho had the car at work) cleaning and updating my bathroom. You see, James now wants to sleep all the time. What's up with that. So, while he did that on Saturday, I cleaned our apartment, especially the bathroom. James is now taking baths in the big boy bathtub, because he is too big for the infant one, and I had to clean that good. Aho was afraid he would get a skin fungus, since I have cleaned it in months (how embarrasing to admit!) But, it looks good now, I will have to post pics of my new bathroom.
Finally, we started James on rice cereal Sunday. He loved it. He couldn't get enough. We have pics of that too, so I will post those when I get them downloaded.
So, basically, I have been up to nothing. My life is boring. James is growing so much, that I like to spend all my spare time with him so I don't miss anything. (He is rolling over now, and I did happen to be there for the first time. I saw it twice before Aho did, he was jealous!)
Oh, we did buy our ticket to Tonga. I am excited, but can you say, chhaching! It was super expensive. Thank you Pres Bush for the stimulus package. Even tho it will put the country more in debt, it helped me pay for the astronomically expensive airline tickets!
I am glad it is nicer weather outside and James and I can start going on our runs again. I am going to run the Susan G Komen cure for cancer 5k with Sheila (my sis). So, I am trying to get ready for that. Doing good so far. I am glad James likes the stroller. It makes it much easier.
Ok, this has gone on way too long, and I want a donut (do i put the 5 lbs back on and get one?TBD). Pics later.
Since my last post, we were nearing our "Go-live" at work. That means, PeopleSoft will now be live and people will actually be using it. We did go-live on March 27th. I worked about 13 hours of over-time for those two weeks. It was crazy. Poor James. Luckily, I was able to work all my overtime hours at home. I told my boss, that I would not work more than my 40 hours away from home, so they approved me to work at home. Things went rather well for the beginning, but I am now working (diligently, even tho I am posting at work!) to the next phases of the project. Fun times!
Work has been crazy busy and I haven't had much time to do anything else. You see, I usually update my blog and look at others while at work. I don't like to do it after work, because I want to spend the time with my little James. I don't want him to feel like he has to compete with the computer, so I never touch the thing after work. (Unless I am ordering Papa Johns or Cafe Rio online. I love the internet!) So, to all you who were expecting a comment on their blogs, I can now do so, for a few minutes a day. It's nice to not be so busy that I can use work time for personal time! (Bad me, I do justify it, however, by saying it is my break!)
I got the flu last week. Crazy, nasty flu. I woke up Monday morning with a gurgling tummy, by the time I got out of the shower, I felt like death warmed over. I got back in bed and didn't get out except to run to the toilet. Aho would bring James to me and we would nurse in bed, I was even too weak to hold him. It was nasty. It took me all week to get over it. The good thing is, I lost about 5 pounds with it!
Friday, I started feeling nasty again, thinking I was getting a cold, Kim tells me it could be allergies, well, lucky me, it is. I have never felt allergy season before. Why now? It stinks. I have no energy, my nose and head are always stuffy, and I want to lay down all day. But alas, I cannot, so I just trudge through it.
Saturday Aho and I finally got out to go run some errands (and spend some much needed time together) that we needed to. The highlights: we got a high chair and feeding stuff for James and we decided to change our bathroom. So, I spent the rest of Saturday (while I was locked up at home while Aho had the car at work) cleaning and updating my bathroom. You see, James now wants to sleep all the time. What's up with that. So, while he did that on Saturday, I cleaned our apartment, especially the bathroom. James is now taking baths in the big boy bathtub, because he is too big for the infant one, and I had to clean that good. Aho was afraid he would get a skin fungus, since I have cleaned it in months (how embarrasing to admit!) But, it looks good now, I will have to post pics of my new bathroom.
Finally, we started James on rice cereal Sunday. He loved it. He couldn't get enough. We have pics of that too, so I will post those when I get them downloaded.
So, basically, I have been up to nothing. My life is boring. James is growing so much, that I like to spend all my spare time with him so I don't miss anything. (He is rolling over now, and I did happen to be there for the first time. I saw it twice before Aho did, he was jealous!)
Oh, we did buy our ticket to Tonga. I am excited, but can you say, chhaching! It was super expensive. Thank you Pres Bush for the stimulus package. Even tho it will put the country more in debt, it helped me pay for the astronomically expensive airline tickets!
I am glad it is nicer weather outside and James and I can start going on our runs again. I am going to run the Susan G Komen cure for cancer 5k with Sheila (my sis). So, I am trying to get ready for that. Doing good so far. I am glad James likes the stroller. It makes it much easier.
Ok, this has gone on way too long, and I want a donut (do i put the 5 lbs back on and get one?TBD). Pics later.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Fun James
James is getting to be so fun now. He is now grabbing at things, and can hold on to his toys that hang from his aquarium mat. He loves to talk, and loves to squeal when he is done being on the floor. He is a very happy baby and loves to smile. He loves laughing especially with his daddy. Aho is really cute with him and can get him laughing like no else. He is not rolling over yet, but is almost there, and he is teething right now. Can't see the teeth, but he has all the signs (he cannot stop chewing on his hands...see the pic below), so they are coming. He loves going out in the stroller (who wouldn't...it's a GREAT stroller, now that it has air in the tires or tire in the airs, for Elizabeth), and he loves watching TV (what have I done to my child...) He weighed 17.3 lbs and measured 25 inches at his last checkup. He is now in 6 month clothes as well as a the last few 3-6. He is growing so fast and is so fun to be around. We love our little James!
My Crazy Life
Starting March I was told I couldn't work from home anymore, so I rearranged my schedule to go something like this: be to work at 7:30 work until 1:15, go home and feed James (I do one pump in the morning and he takes a bottle only once in the morning), eat a sandwich quick, put James in his car seat and bring him back to work with me for the last two hours, and get done at 4. I come home, feed him again at 4:30 and I go out for a jog (I am trying to get ready for a 5k in April), come home spend the next few hours making dinner, straightening up, and playing with James. I then get him ready for bed, read him a few stories, sing him a few songs, feed him and put him to bed. He doesn't like staying in his crib, so we play the "crib" game where he sleeps for a few minutes, wakes up, I put him back to sleep, back to the crib, sleeps for a few minutes, etc. We do this until 9:30 and then it is my bedtime and I just take him to bed with me, and start that all over again the next day. Don't I have the life!
My cute James
Here are just a bunch of random pictures of James (He is mostly 4 months in these, except for the first one): The first one is when he had to be under the bili lights when he was first born. How sad! (There is one in there with me...so you can kind of see my haircut!)
Look at how well he holds his head up!
Look at how well he holds his head up!
Saturday, March 1, 2008
I love Utah!
The other day I was driving home from work and saw two birds out running around at the ASB. One was a beautiful red color, the other was a pretty blue color. I don't know what kinds of bird they are, but they were pretty, and I have to say I have never noticed them in Utah before. Not to say they have never been in Utah before, but I was not a nature noticer before. When I moved to Hawaii I would notice nature things all the time. Hawaii have beautiful flowers every where you turn, their mountains are gorgeous, the ocean is breath-taking. I learned to notice nature when I lived there. Moving back to Utah I may have gotten back into my habit of being a non-noticer of nature (or NNN!) but I realized the other day, Utah has "beauty all around." Look at these "snow capped mountains." Sure, they are different from Hawaii's, but they can be just as beautiful. So, when I saw the birds, I realized Utah is beatiful too. From now on, I will be a NN (nature noticer!) (There's my baby waking up, so I will sign off!)
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