Jade is Six Months Old

November 2-8th, 2008: Sunday we came home from church to a weird sound downstairs. Aaron went to investigate and found our basement semi-flooded from the fishtank. He ran upstairs to discover that the entire north wall of our living room were the fishtank sits was wet. Water was leaking from fishtank, down the wall and into the carpet. It ruined the wall and we had to pull the carpet back to keep it from getting wetter. Aaron called Jeremy and he came over in his church clothes to help us. Little did he know what a big mess it would be. In six hours Aaron and Jeremy emergency evacuated the fish into buckets and drained the tank before it could dump more water into the basement. They also tore out the north wall and removed the fish tank. They pulled back our carpet and ripped out the pad underneath. I dutifully took care of Jade while they did the major clean up. It was such an awful mess. I'm just glad we weren't out of town at the time and that we caught it pretty much at the beginning before the water could leak completely. We were able to save the fish and Aaron put everything up on ebay. He sold all of the equipment, fish and even the sand within one week. He sold everything for about $1500. It was kind of sad to see our fish go. I've kind of gotten attached to them, we've even given them names. I hope they do well at their new homes. I guess the good thing that comes from all of this is now maybe I can convince Aaron to get a flat screen TV. That would be awesome.


On Monday Jade and I went to lunch with Grandma and Grandpa Gunn. Jade is getting sicker and sicker. She is still super congested and now she has diarrhea. She has diaper rash because of the diarrhea that I can't seem to get under control, no matter what kind of ointment or how fast I change her after she poos. Poor thing. She cries every time I change her. I have to give her props though. For feeling as poorly as she does she still is in good spirits. She laughs and smiles at everyone. During dinner I feed Jade pureed peas for the first time. She spit them back in my face. I take it that she doesn't like them. I don't blame them, especially pureed. Gross! For FHE Aaron and I voted for the next President of the United States via email. I had a tender mercies moment. I have had a difficult time knowing who to vote for this election. Both canidates make me nervous and there really isn't much that I agree with on either platform. So before voting I said a prayer that I would directed to know who to vote for. The answer I received was that I should vote for the person that I thought would hold the same church and family values in the same light as I did. Unfortunately, the canidate I voted for didn't win. It will be interesting to see what the next 4 years hold with Obama in power. Heaven help us! On Tuesday Jade and I lounged around all day. I officially have Jade's cold. So we didn't really do anything all day but eat, sleep and watch TV. I sure hope Aaron doesn't get it. Also Jade is learning how to scoot herself around using her hands and knees. It's super cute to watch her. She doesn't move far but if she is reaching for something she can move a couple of inches and get it. She's close! Oh no! Wednesday, Jade is 6 months old today. She is getting so big. She still doesn't have much hair but that's okay. She's still super cute. Aaron made the comment that he's really starting to enjoy Jade because she's getting a personality. She has her likes and dislikes. She's so easy going, loves strangers and special attention (not like she gets enough of that :)) always smiling, cries a little and laughs a lot. She is on a great schedule and eats and sleeps really well. She also really likes the boys. She flirts with them constantly. A boy walks into the room and instantly her attention is drawn to them. She smiles and blinks her eyes adoringly with her long lashes. She's quite the flirt. When she is older she is going to be trouble. We sure do love having her in our family and I can't imagine life without her. All day Thursday I've been in bed sick with flu-like symptoms. I've been sick in bed for the last two days...as in bed as you can be with a six month old. I was actually scheduled to work tonight but I was thankfully flexed for all 12 hours. It's bad timing to be so sick cause Aaron and I signed up for a half marathon in St. George. We haven't really trained as well as we should have for the race but healthy I think I could have walked/ran it and made it. Now that I am so sick I don't think I will be able to do it. I guess we will see. The race is in two days. On Friday we traveled to St. George with Clair, Roanne, Kylee, Austin, Mara and their kids. We didn't leave until Aaron got off of work so we didn't get to the condo until really late. By the time we got there everyone was already asleep so we just went straight to bed. I'm glad too because I didn't feel good at all. I'm still really weak and have a horrible chest congestion. On Saturday Aaron and Mara got up early and went to the race. I didn't sleep well last night because Jade kept me up most of the night. She had a hard time breathing d/t congestion and change of scenery. with the lack of sleep and not feeling well I just didn't think I could run the race. Instead we all went to cheer them on. Mara ran it in under two hours and Aaron ran it just a little over 2 hours which is really good for not training hardly at all.

Afterwards Roanne and I went shopping at the Outlets while everyone else went back for naps. Ro and I really had a great time shopping together. I decided where we went and she followed right along. We even got a brewski afterwards. It was great. I ended up buying Jade alot of cute baby clothes at the Carter's outlet. They were having a sale! That night we went to the Olive Garden and took cute pictures of her in the car. She did fine until dinner and then she had a breakdown. We had to wait for an hour to even get in and by the time we were done eating she was so tired that she was just plain ornry. It's not like her to do that. She's usually really happy, even when she is tired. I guess she was just beyond tired. Poor thing.

Sunday it started raining while in St. George so instead of going to Zion's, like we had planned, we just went home. We ended up at the Gunn's house for dinner and had the chance to meet Hudson's new girlfriend of the month, Vanessa.