Words

Here are some of the words that Joseph can say now. Apparently, he decided that talking was more important than walking and he figured out a lot of words before he would start walking.

• Ball (the most used, besides "No" which I'm not counting)
• Light (second most used, he's obsessed with them)
• Kitty (pronounced with a "T", of course)
• Hi
• Bye-Bye
• Up
• Down
• Milk (which sounds more like "nook" and is used for any time of drink)
• Da-Da
• Cup (except he says it "upc")
• Book (mostly without the "B")
• Thank-you (Tay-To)
• Shower (Just the first syllable is said)
• Outside (which is said Ow-side)
• Eye (he pokes me in the eye when he says this)
• Nose (he tries to stick his fingers in my nose when he says this)
• Shoes
• Socks
• Soft

Some less often used words are:

• Door
• Blue
• Red
• Bear
• Apple
• Woof-Woof (SUPER cute when he says it, which is when he sees dogs or any animal closely resembling a dog)
• Duckie
• Ears

That's all that I can remember right now, but I'm probably forgetting a few. He's gotten so good at communicating that nobody cares it took him a long time to walk anymore. He's pretty much got the walking down, though.

Random Stuff

I feel like my life is too boring to post anything. We really don't that much.

We got a free dining table with chairs from our old Bishop yesterday. I love the table, but I plan on reupholstering the chairs some day. Maybe my mom can help me out because she's done it and I never have.

It rained a lot this week. Monday was awful because we had a bunch of errands to run and the sky was dumping water out at a crazy rate. We got really soaked.

Mitchell accidentally missed his graduation. We read the letter wrong and thought it was last night, but it was on Friday night. Luckily, he wasn't incredibly excited about going. He says the only graduation he's ever been to is his kindergarten graduation. I'm sure that we'll go when he graduates from BYU. And we'll read the letter correctly then, too.

Sunday was our last day in Nursery. We're being released for 2 reasons. 1) We're moving in 2 months and 2) the activity is getting hard for me because, in the words of Mitchell, I'm a weenie at being pregnant. His brother says it's takes a baby to make one.

Joseph is getting way better at walking. He walks 80% of the time at home and 60% of the time at church. He still crawls when he's outside, though.

I'm obsessed with Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series. I told Mitchell they are the perfect subject for me: magic, fairy tales, historical fiction. They are quite tame on the side of language and other such things, which is especially good with most authors now.

That's all I can think of for now. Tomorrow I'll try to post a cute video of Joseph talking to my mom on the phone. It's his new favorite pasttime.

Too Long

It has been way too long since I've posted. It's partly laziness, partly Joseph interference, and a little bit business that has kept me from posting. I decided that if I didn't post now, I probably wouldn't for another week.

Mitchell is done with school, yay! His graduation is next Tuesday. He will be graduating Summa Cum Laude, which is awesome. He accidentally forgot to take the final exam for his online Art History course, but he did so well in his other classes that he still had a 3.895 GPA.

He also quit working at Cal'z and is back at Chick-Fil-A full-time. They finally promoted him, so he's making more money and he has a little more responsibility. He doesn't hate going to work and he has friends there that he likes talking with, so it's been good for him.

We suddenly have tons of freetime and we've been at a loss for what to do with ourselves. Mitchell never gets off later than 2, so we have the afternoon and evening with nothing planned.

We took Joseph to the park one evening and he loved going down the slides with Mitchell. He didn't really like the swing, though. He liked crawling around in the grassy areas looking for flowers, too.

Joseph is finally getting better at walking, although he'll only walk at home. Everywhere else, he crawls. I think it's a comfort thing. He's still really wobbly and falls frequently. He curls his toes under and splays his feet out funny when he walks. He's also so excited to be walking that he loses his balance easily.

He was REALLY sick last week. He had a fever hovering between 103 and 104 for 3 or 4 days. He threw up a few times when the fever was really high. He lost weight because he didn't want to eat, which was bad because he's already underweight. He finally recovered, though, and is just fine now.

I'm going to be 17 weeks pregnant tomorrow. Because of multiple difficulties with the Medicaid people, I still haven't gone in to the doctor for an appointment. Right now, I just have to find a paystub that mysteriously disappeared and then things should be in order so that I can go to an appointment. By then I might be far enough to find out if the baby is a boy or girl!

Well, that's the basics of what's been happening around here. I'm going to try harder to post every day. I'll use the time while Joseph is eating his breakfast more wisely.

Depressed

Like everyone else, I don't like blogging when things aren't great. But if I don't, I internalize everything and blow it way out of proportion.

I'm super depressed today. It's been slowly getting worse over the past week or so. I'm not sure what to do. Maybe I should go up on my medication.

I'm supposed to go to church in a few minutes. I've been dreading it all day. For some reason, when I'm really depressed, church is EXTREMELY stressful for me. Being around all those happy people that keep asking me how I'm doing really freaks me out. Sometimes I will even have minor panic attacks during Sacrament Meeting.

Mitchell was scheduled to work this morning/afternoon for some stupid reason. Which means I have to wrestle with Joseph on my own and I won't have his support in Nursery. There is only 3 of us with about 10 or so rambunctious kids (at least 3 need special one-on-one attention to survive the 2 hours) and without Mitchell it will be 2 of us. I regret that I have little confidence in our new leader. It took her 2 months of spending Nursery with us every week before she even remembered who we were. Even now if I call her, it takes her a few minutes before she remembers who I am.

Basically, I'm not ready or excited about the rest of this day. I just want to stay curled up on the couch all day long and maybe eat some chocolate.

Herb Class

Yesterday, I went to a Relief Society Activity that was about growing and using herbs. It was good and bad.

The Good:
The sister who taught it made some awesome recipes using fresh herbs. We had crackers with Artichoke-Herb Cream Cheese spread, cantaloupe with a mint-citrus dressing, shrimp with cilantro-mayonnaise dip, and chocolate mint-infused water. It was all so delicious. I learned a lot and I got to bring home a little basil plant and a tomato plant. Now I just have to get pots and soil for them.

The Bad:
The class was during the time Mitchell is at school, so I had to bring Joseph. I found out when we got there that children weren't really invited. At first he was really good, but then he got bored. He was crawling everywhere, trying to get into stuff, and generally distracting everyone from the class. I had to go into another room for a little while because he was just so distracting. I felt really bad about it. But what else are the young mothers like me supposed to do? Not go to any classes? We have a lot of moms like me with young kids, but all of us have callings in Primary, and everyone in Relief Society is past the stage of having kids younger than 13. They seem to frequently forget what it's like for the rest of us. I can't get a babysitter when they have the class at 1 in the afternoon because everyone is in school at that time, except Joseph. They almost never have babysitting available at Relief Society activities, even though the Stake President has told them to a few times. They keep saying they'll do it, but they don't. It's really frustrating. Hopefully, my new ward in Provo will be better about this.

Old St. Patrick's Day Pictures

I don't have anything new to post about, so I'll post some old pictures.

Mitchell's St. Patrick's Day milk. He put green food coloring in it.

Joseph in his green shirt with his green milk. It's kinda hard to see, but I let him have green milk all day. He didn't really notice any difference, but it was still fun.

Giveaways!

I never do this, but I'm posting specifically for the giveaways on Cardigan Empire and Tatertots and Jello. I've been dying for a look book, but definitely can't afford one right now. It would be so awesome to actually win something because I NEVER do.