August 4, 2009: I worked all night out at triage and I swear I could feel the new kid kicking or hiccuping. However I'm only 12 weeks along and the probability of me feeling it move are pretty slim. However I could have sworn I felt it move several times that night. Either that or it was muscle spasm.
August 5, 2009: Dad took Jade over to Gordon's store and there discovered a Two Step Push Car that Jade immediately feel in love with. She loves it so much that she cries if you try to take her out of it. Gord let Dad borrow it for a few days and since then Jade is constantly asking to go outside and ride in it. Unfortunately she has to be pushed in order for it to work. So that means someone has to go with her everytime. Yesterday I took her for a 45 minute walk before we went over to Grandma's house and she still cried when I took her out of it. Crazy kid! You know what this means? I'm going to have to buy one when I give Gordon's back. We'll try KSL.com.
Paige pushing Jade in her favorite car.
August 8, 2009: Mom and Dad are in Cedar City taking Auburn to SUU for the start of a new semester. This means the girls are by themselves for the weekend. We invited them up to our house to spend Friday night to Saturday with us. It was fun because we all went to the Hoogle Zoo in the morning on Saturday and had a great time. Jade loved seeing the animals, especially the birds at the bird show and it gave Cierra and Paige something to do.
We were only able to stay a half day because Aaron and I had to be in Bountiful by 6pm for Lisa's (Cade's fiance) live endowment session. Cierra and Paige offered to watch Jade while we went, which was super nice of them. The endowment session was lovely and it was nice to see Cade so happy. They are a really cute couple and we are both really excited for them.
August 10, 2009: We are teaching Jade her body parts by her pointing to them. She doesn't say their names, just points when you ask her where something is. She currently knows where her eyes, nose, mouth, feet, hands, belly-button and head are. We were at Grandma and Grandpa Gunn's house tonight for FHE and while I was getting Jade ready for bed, Grandpa Gunn said, "Jade, I can see your boobies." Jade looks down and points right to her boobies and then reached over to Cierra and grabbed both of hers. Needless to say we aren't saying the word "boobies" anymore.
August 11, 2009: Here's another body part story. So tonight Aaron and I went into Jade's room to check on her while she was sleeping. Aaron whispered to Jade, "Jade, where is your head." and to our surprise (because she is dead asleep) Jade lifts her hand and points to her head with her eyes closed. We were both so surprised that we just burst out laughing. What a funny kid!
August 13, 2009: I just thought I would gloat alittle on how domestic I am becoming. For the past two days, mom and I have been making dinners to freeze. We went to a Relief Society meeting in Mom's stake last Wednesday and a lady taught us how to cook 30 meals that you can freeze in one day. We decided to be ambitious and try it out. So this Wednesday we got together and made up our receipes and our shopping list and spent the rest of the day grocery shopping. Besides making 30 meals for each of our families we decided to get ambitious and make meals for both sets of grandparents. I know, we kind of got carried away but we decided to go big or go home. Today we spent all day cooking. It literally took us 10 hours but at the end we had made 80 seperate meals between the four families. The program that this lady taught us helps to minimize your time and effort so that it makes preparing 30 meals in one day do-able, and actually it really is. Both mom and I were super exhausted but it sure was fun to see the product of our labors. Plus we were able to help out both sets of grandparents. It will be interesting to see if we like the receipes we made. Some of them we had never tried before but just thought sounded good. So we will see. Who knows if we will ever do this again but it was fun to at least try it once. For the past two days, the girls and Dad have been doing a lot of babysitting while Mom and I cook. Cierra is super good with Jade and Jade absolutely worships the ground Cierra walks on. She always follows right behind her and calls her "Ra". It absolutely just makes Cierra glow. It's fun to watch their relationship. It's too bad that Jade won't remember it and that Cierra will go off to college and not be around when Jade will actually start to remember interactions with her.
August 13, 2009:
The men's softball team ended up winning the championship!
August 14, 2009: Today was Cade's wedding. We spent all day going from different event to different event. Poor little Jade was so exhausted by the end of the night but to her credit, she did really well and was super cute all day. Cade and Lisa got married in the SLC temple and Jade loved pulling her little toy dog around the grounds while we waited for pictures. It was a hot day outside but during the morning there was enough cloud cover that it made it bearable.
Jade has also got into this habit of whenever someone takes a picture and says "Say cheese!", she holds both hands up to her eyes and says back, "cheese." So you never get a picture of her without her hands up around her face. It can be a little infuriating, especially at an occasion like this.
Cade a Lisa had there luncheon across the street at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. It was a nice luncheon and Jade especially liked the decatant dessert of chocolate cake and stawberries.
And finally we ended the night with the reception. Jade looked adorable in her hot pink dress that Roanne made. However, the reception was held at a floral shop and they had tons of water fountains. Could I keep Jade away from the water? Of course not. She spent much of the night playing in the water fountains and lying in the gravel that they had spread around the different areas of plants. She had a great time but at the end of the night she was super dirty. We also discovered that Jade can twirl. They had dancing at the end of the reception and Jade had a blast dancing and twirling on the dance floor. We have the cutest videos of her cutting a rug. Needless to say, Jade slept the moment her head touched the car seat and she didn't wake up until late the next morning. Poor kid was exhausted!
August 15, 2009: We invited the entire Sorensen clan over to our house to have pizzas and play Rock Band. Jade loved playing with the cousins. We have pictures of her trying to sing into the microphone and play the guitar. However, her favorite instrument is the drums. She goes to town on those things and loves it!
August 17, 2009: Jade has discovered the taste of wintergreen Livesavers. They are her favorite. She doesn't get the whole thing cause I'm afraid she will choke on it but I will bite her off a piece and she'll suck on it until it's gone. I do occasional candy checks to make sure she still has it and she thinks it's a fun game to stick out her tongue and show me her candy.
August 19, 2009: Dad Gunn is seriously contemplating buying a used boat for our Lake Powell trip at the end of the month. He has been doing some searching on KSL.com and even taken us out to see a few. We of course, are all cheering him on because we would love to spend Lake Powell on a boat.
August 24, 2009: When it rains, it pours! Today we were playing softball with our co-ed team and Aaron had a great hit out into right field. As he was rounding first base to go to second, he turned to wide and in trying to make up for it, pulled his right calf muscle. He actually went down on both knees it hurt him so bad. He was able to make it to second base without getting tagged out but had to have a substitute runner come and finish the game for him. He couldn't even walk out to the car.
Also we found out that Roanne wasn't at the game because she was having horrible abdominal cramps. She had been having the cramps off and on for a week but I guess tonight they were so bad she couldn't even get out of bed. So after the game, I went with Clair and we got Aaron some crutches from his house and picked up Roanne to take her to the ER. I almost convinced Aaron to go and have his leg xrayed but he decided that he would wait a day or two and see how he did. Besides, we both thought it was probably just muscle and there's not much a doctor can do for that. So I sent him home with Jade and went with Roanne to the ER. Of course they were super busy that night but because I work there I was able to slide her in and get things started. I actually just took care of Roanne, did all of her labs and ordering and got her pain free until a MD could come in and take a look at her.
After about 4 hours of tests and waiting, we found out that she had Sigmoid Diverticulitis, which is an infection in her colon. That was great news because it's easily fixable. You take a weeks worth of antibiotics and pain medications until it goes away. AWESOME! By the time I got home though it was almost 4am. I could have worked that night and gotten paid for how long I was there. But that's okay. I'm glad I was able to help Roanne out. That's part of the reason why I became a nurse, so I can help out the ones I love and know how to take good care of them.
August 26, 2009: Aaron is still having problems putting weight on his leg. His calf is hugely swollen and you can see a bumb where we think his muscle has been torn. Aaron received a referral for a sports medicine place out in Alpine and he's going to go there and see if they can help him out a little. He's a little bummed that this had to happen right before we go to Lake Powell because he enjoys wake boarding.
Good news, Dad Gunn bought a boat today. He found a used boat off of KSL.com that some old guy has taken immaculate care of for years. Unfortunately the boat is a 1986. We were all a little sceptical when he told us how old it was but really it's in such great shape and looks so good that you kind of forget that it's more than 20 years old. Obviously the upholstrey is a little outdated but that can easily be fixed later on. And with how little he paid for it, even if we only use it for several years, he will have gotten his money out of it.
To help Dad Gunn be able to buy the boat, Aaron and I bought his jetskies. It cost us $2,000 but that way they can put the money towards the boat and we can still keep the jetskies in the family. So when we go down to Lake Powell in a couple of weeks we will have both the boat AND jetskies to play on. It should be fun.
August 27, 2009: I took Jade in for her 15 month check up today. She is 21 lbs and only in the 25 percentile in her weight. She is in the 50th percentile for her height and of course in the 75th for her head. The pediatrican asked if she was speaking yet. She said she should have at leasdt 20 words by now. Unfortunately, Jade is a late bloomer in the talking category. She does a lot of pointing and makes a lot of sounds and seems to understand directions. But she doesn't see the need to really say words. She does say words like "dad", "mom", "Huey", "Ra" (for Cierra), "wow", "ball" and "bow". Other than that she seems to be right were she should be developmentally. I know I might be a little partial because she is my first kid but I think she is so advanced for her age.
August 28, 2009: Tonight we had a BBQ at our hose and invited some of Aaron's old high school friends and their children. We had a really good time and actually one of the friends remembered that Aaron's birthday was the next day and she brought a cake to celebrate with. That was really nice and you could tell Aaron was touched that they remembered. We all ate outside on our back patio and the kids had a good time playing in our yard. The only problem is they wanted to climb the tall rock wall and I kept having to tell them to get down. Unfortunately, their parents seemed oblivious to the dangers so it was just me telling them to get down. Other than that we had a pleasant evening and it was fun to catch up. After dinner we invited everyone to stay and play Rock Band. They had such a good time that everyone stayed until past eleven.
Bill and his daughter.
The girls band.
After everyone left I asked Aaron if he wanted to open his only birthday present early and he said yes. So I gave him his present and was pleased to see that he was pleasantly surprised at the gift. I got him a GPS unit that I knew he needed and wanted. He seemed to really like it.
August 29, 2009: Today Aaron is officially 31 years old. He had an Elders Quorum Gold Tournament in the morning that he was in charge of. Which if anyone knows Aaron it seems almost comical that they would put him in charge of that when he hates playing golf so much. But I guess he did really well with the other 3 guys on his team and ended up winning tickets to any U of U home game of his choice.
Afterwards we met Clair and Roanne at Rumbi's for lunch for Aaron's birthday. It was nice to visit with them and they ended up giving Aaron $100.
After lunch we headed down to my parents and met them at Utah Lake were we tried out Dad Gunn's new boat for the first time. We all tubed and had a really good time. We didn't get off the lake until it was almost dark. Afterwards we headed back to my parents and finished off the day with a yummy BBQ. It ended up being a really fun day and I hope Aaron enjoyed his birthday as much as I did.
sure do love him and appreciate all the things he does for our little family. He is a great man, very loving and gentle. He is great with Jade and always willing to help me around the house. He is a hard worker and excels at everything he does. He is also very dedicated to the church and his calling. He is always willing to serve others by helping people move in and out of the ward and is ready at a moments notice to go visit someone that needs help. I sure am lucky to have him in my life and love him very much! Happy Birthday Aaron!
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