Doing Better

Well, I am a lot better today than I was the other day. Thank goodness. I still have no idea what I am going to do about Darcy's hair. Clint says just to leave it because it looks fine. I might just take a bit off the back and other side to get it closer to the same length and then just keep trimming the long until the short grows out. I don't know!!!

Here's what we have been up to the last few weeks (at least what I can remember)

On April 30 and May 1 I went to the BYU Women's Conference with my mother-in-law and sister-in-laws. That was a lot of fun. I was totally exhausted when I got home but it was a nice little break. I have to admit that I missed my family a lot though!

The kids have been sick pretty much solid for the last month and a half. I think Kale is actually over it finally and I thought Darcy and Wyatt were too but then the runny noses started again! Oh well hopefully they will be done soon.

Wyatt has grown up so much the last month. He is saying quite a few words. He says mama, dada, no, uh-oh, hi, bye, horsey, please, thank you, more, poopoo, Kale, go, nose, belly button, pee you, eye. That's all I can think of right now but I am sure there are more. He also nods his head yes and shakes his head no. He has started trying to jump. He is turning into a toddler! Clint and I both noticed it toward the beginning of the month. He has figured out that it is fun to play with Daddy. He used to be pretty much a momma's boy but now he loves his dad.

Darcy, well she's just Darcy. She's been getting into all sorts of mischief. I love her and she is fun but definitely a little handful. My sister picked her up some dresses and sent them in the mail. I saw the mail lady drop it off and I told Darcy something came for her so she went and got it. She was so excited. She didn't really care what was in the package she was just excited to open it up. Well, one of the dresses had a matching dress for a doll so we went and dug out one of her dolls (they were still packed up) After getting the dress on the doll, she said, "I'm going to carry her around like a princess" The next Sunday she wore that dress and of course the doll had to go to church with us. Everyone in the ward thought that was pretty cute.

Kale didn't go to school pretty much the whole last month because of being sick and with the swine flu going around I was a little worried. I haven't heard any cases of it here but with his immune system already weakened from the colds I thought if it came he would most likely get it and there could be problems. (I know a little paranoid) So he was mad but I told him it is Summer now and we don't go to school during the Summer. He is looking forward to going to kindergarten. I'm a little more hesitant and not ready but I know he is and he is going to LOVE it. He is such a little sponge right now. We have been having all sorts of gospel related talks. He also has one of the picture book of Mormons that the Church puts out that we read before bed. He has been looking at that all through the day and will tell me about the stories we have read. I can't believe how much he remembers. Now I am having to try to teach him things that I don't know how to explain to a five year old so he will understand. Like who Satan is and that he doesn't have a body and won't ever have one. I wanted to tell him he is kind of like a ghost but didn't want to scare him.

Clint helped his Dad brand cows either this week or last (the weeks kind of mush together lately). And I get a call, "Call the Naples Fire Dept. and tell them we don't need them anymore." a whole bunch of talk I couldn't understand with his dad and then "never mind" So I was worried that somehow they had started a fire and it was spreading through the field since it was really windy. I was kind of watching for the fire truck to go by but never saw it. So I thought maybe they decided to call them. I also kept looking to see if I could see a bunch of smoke but never did. Clint thought it was going to take two hours to get done but I think it was closer to four hours later when he came home. It was late enough I had put the kids to bed and I was laying in bed. Well, when the kids heard him come in of course they got out of bed to go get him. I heard Kale say, "What happened Dad?" "A cow kicked me." I thought he must have some black on him from the fire that looked like a bruise or something. This is how he looked when he came in the room.

He really had gotten kicked. Luckily he didn't get knocked out or anything. I guess he was trying to stop one of the calves and kind of jumped on it and his dad told him to just let it go and he rolled off and the calf jumped across him and kicked him. And the reason they needed the fire department was because Lloyd had the generator in his enclosed trailer with the exhaust right against the wall. The trailer caught fire. There was all sorts of good stuff in there: two guns, ammo, a propane tank, trapping scents, fuel that kind of stuff. I should go take a picture. There is not a whole lot of the trailer left. Sounded like quite an eventful evening.

So I am now on my second day trying to finish this post. What can I say I get bored when Clint's not around and sometimes kids are very demanding. Clint came home yesterday(only to leave again this morning) He finally agrees with me that there must be something dead in the garage. I am starting to wonder if there isn't possibly a dead mouse in the dryer too. The saddest part is we can't just sniff it out. With as potent of a smell as it is you would think that we could just go out and smell around and find it but we both have tried numerous times and cannot figure out where the smell is coming from. In fact we both think it is coming from opposite sides of the garage. I guess I am going to have to get really serious about unpacking this next week so we can find the stink.

I am starting to get HUGE! At least I feel like it. At my last Doctor's appointment I had gained EIGHT pounds since my last appointment. Yikes! I hope I don't keep it up at that pace. We also talked a little bit more about having the baby. The last two times I have gone in he has told me he doesn't think I will go to my due date since it is my fourth. And both times I have reminded him that I have had to be started with all three of the others. And again he says how unusual that is. (Thanks doc I needed the reassurance that I am an odd duck jk) This time he did tell us that if we wanted to pick a date after August 18 for my induction we could tell him at my next appointment and that would be the plan. We're not that anxious yet to have a date set. I'm sure by the first of August I will be though. I think we may have decided on a name. Clint and I both thought of it on our own and he was going to ask me about it but didn't for some reason but then I did ask him. So unless we come up with a different name that we both agree on his name is going to be Garrett. It's kind of weird because I haven't ever really thought of that name as cute or that I would name one of my boys that or anything I was just looking at boy names and saw that one and I thought hm.. I kinda like that. I am actually pretty sure that is going to be his name because we have such a hard time agreeing on names. Clint actually wants it to be Levi Garrett but my cousin's boys name is Levi and I don't particularly like to duplicate names in the family so it might be the other way around. But at the same time I want to use names that are closer family relation for the middle name. So that is not set. I'm glad we are getting closer though!

Oh and I took Darcy in to see Lisa and she fixed her hair as best as she could. She just tapered the sides back and cut the bangs all the same length(Super short) It is a lot better now. I don't think it really was as bad as I felt it was I think I just was having a bad couple of days and that just didn't help anything!

Anyway sorry for another long post. I don't really expect anyone to read these all I think it is more therapy to me just to get everything off my chest. :)