March

So at work it is the DEAD time, so I am totally bored. I have caught up on a lot of blogs tonight, and I still have an hour of just sitting here. It is driving me nuts because this isn't what I want to be doing. I want to be home soothing my grumpy baby, I want to be tearing apart the bathroom we are remodeling this next week with my wonderful parents, I want to be home with my husband that I have only seen for about 20 min today. I love my job, but could I take the month of March off?

So now you are wondering about my family. Jeslyn is still teething, but what can I do about that. She has also started realizing when mom is not home so dad is having fun each night I am gone. I love my children and it is hard to be away from them, but they need to build their relationship with their dad too, so I think it is ok to spend a few hours a week away so that that relationship can be built.

We are still renting, but our second bathroom is just not very good, and since Nathan's mom wants it changed so much we finally decided it was time to just do it. I am trying to do as much prep work as I can befor Dad gets up here to put me to work. The more prep work I do the more I am horrified with how it was put together. I started by taking shelves out of the closet in there. Each shelf was held up by 2 2x4s and each one had 5 nails at each stud. That was not fun to work out. Then I started taking the panelling off the walls. The closet wasn't to bad, it was just nailed to the studs, so pretty easy to pull out for the most part. Then I started taking it out in the main part. Another nightmare. So the walls had no sheet rock on them. They had one type of pannel nailed on the 2x4s with another type glued to that. Luckily the glue is old enough that when we take a hammer to the walls the glue just breaks away the the first panneling comes off. Next we get to tear apart the other panelling because the nails have been glued over and the panelling is not durrable enough to withstand a hammer pulling on it. Then between the walls is carpet padding. We aren't sure why that is there, we are thinking it is for sound proofing, but who knows. Another fun thing is all structural things were put in after the panneling so we are trying to rip the panneling away from light switche and outlet boxes. We have to take out the toilet before we can get the rest of one wall out and the medicine cabinet had to come out before the paneling too. I am getting pretty handy with a hammer this week and my hand are all scratched up. I didn't get a before picture, but if I take one before we tear out structure you will see it just as beautiful as it was before we started. I am so excited for next week and the chance to get a new bathroom downstairs.

The not seeing Nathan much isn't a new thing, he leaves for work just before I wake up unless Jeslyn thinks I need to be up a little earlier. On the days I work he gets home about 20 min before I have to leave. Those end up being long days, but the chance to save up for a house of our own is so exciting. Just one more month YIPEE!!! Have you done your taxes yet?

Avi's wisdon

So Dailynn can't be the only one who has tidbits of wisdom. We were driving around a few weeks ago and Avi informed us as to who lives where. So I guess we all take for granted what is taught in primary, I know when I was teaching I didn't think to be more specific whith my lessons. So Avi informed us that God lives in the temple, Christ lives in the church, and the Holy Ghost lives in our bodies. She isn't too far off, so it was kind of fun to hear her take on the Lord's house.

Growing too fast!!

So Jeslyn has been growing up way too quick for me. She is almost 4 months old and let me just tell you how much trouble we are in. At the beginning of February she started scooting across the floor on her nose. She was able to get her knees up under her and push forward rubbing her nose across the floor. Then a few days later she mastered the sitting on her own. She loves to just sit and watch us. After a min or so she starts falling too far forward, but for how young she is she is doing great!!! Then today she figured out how to roll over. I layed her on her stomach in hopes that she would crawl for Brittney to watch, and then she just rolled over. It was slow, but perfect. So I put her back on her stomach to see if she could repeat it. I went and sat down and looked at her again and she had just rolled the other dirrection. I guess she doesn't get to sleep on our bed during the day anymore.

Here is a pic of her sprawling out on the bed during nap time. We love bath time!!!

I love how cute she is in her towel.

We have a Dr. appointment on friday to see how big she is. I'm excited to see what the Dr. says about her acheivments!!!

Dailynn and Jeslyn

Lately Dailynn has been saying some interesting things. She has heard us talking about how I need to exercise so that I can lose weight. She wants me to exercise every day now and if I don't, then she gets rather upset with me. On Sunday in her dinner prayer she asked for me to lose my belly when I exercise. Nathan and I could not hold it in at that point. Then today we were driving in the car listening to Dr. Laura on the radio. Dai asks me "Mom when are you going to call Dr. Laura?" I inform her that I don't have a problem to talk to Dr. Laura about. "Well What if your husband is being mean to you?" I inform her that my husband is not being mean to me and that he is realy nice to me and us. "Then you should throw water on him so that he will be mean to you!" Yet again I lost it and had to call Nathan immediatly to let him know what was going on. Kids do say the darndest things.

Now Jeslyn is the baby everyone is jealous of. At just over 2 months, she is healthy, sleeps through the night, and is very well mannered. We have moved into the 3-6 month clothes because the 0-3 just didn't cut it anymore. Now she smiles at anything you say to her and is so close to laughing. We have so much fun with her and the sisters still love her. Dailynn actually likes trying to get her to smile too. Here are some pics from today.

Thanksgiving

So this week has been extremely hectic. Luckily we had school Mon and Tues so I didn't have to entertain the whole day so that made things a little easier. Tuesday night I got to go with 34 other women to watch New Moon at Jordan Commons. It was fun, but the best part was watching the lady that had watched it 2 times already react like it was her first time. I got home late, and Jeslyn had a night of waking up so I got very little sleep that night.
Wed I went to go see my sister-in-law and spend time with her since she is on bed rest so stuck in the house. Britt and I spent the afternoon feeding her and playing games. Then I went to my grandparents and spent time with my parents for an hour or so.
Thursday we left the house at 9:30 and got home at 10:30 pm from our fun day down in Provo. Of course we had dinner, but we also spent most of the evening playing games and visiting.
Friday Kristl invited us to tag along with them for the day. We hit the Bean museum and art museum at BYU, then picked up Nathan and headed up north. After the Clark Planetarium, we went the the Church History Museum, the Visitors center, and walked around temple square. After a quick visit to Grandma Blankenagel, we went and watched temple square get lit up. Then we headed to the conference center to let the kids see how big it is, and then tried to head home. After a late dinner we got home and while pulling into the driveway remembered that we left Nathan's car at Thanksgiving point. Not wanting anything to happen to it, and with the girls asleep in the back, we went back for it. It was another 12 hour day by the time we got home, and neither kid wanted to be changed for bed.
We had a great time and it has been a fun week, but thank goodness it is over. Pictures will come when the internet is not being so slow.

Perfect Baby

Just a quick note because I know that I like to know this info when a new baby comes around a friend or family member. Jeslyn is the PERFECT baby. She only wakes me up once a night, going 4 hours between feedings, doesn't cry much, and just sits looking around when she is awake. She still hates baths and having her diaper changed. Avi loves holding her every 2 seconds, and Dailynn loves her but could almost care less about the extra intruder. I am feeling great, and thanks to mom it is so much easier to clean my house when it is mostly clean already. THANKS MOM!!! All is good in our house.

She's Here

Last night at 10:40 I felt the baby move and then I was soaked. I spent the next 15 min in the bathroom wondering how in the world I was going to get to the hospital without looking like I had wet my pants. Well after going through one pair of pants, I gave up and didn't care anymore. The next hour was getting hooked up to everything in the place and getting the epidural. The next 3 hours were sitting around trying to fall asleep, and not getting much rest. About 3:15 my mom showed up and we were ready to get things done. I was only at a 6 at 3:30 but by 3:50 I was pushing, she was ready to come. The official time was 4:02 when Jeslyn Loris Anderson joined our family at a hefty 8 lbs 7 oz and a long 21 in. We spent the next 2 hours just getting settled in. The rest of the day has been nap, eat, nap feed, nap, make calls, nap, blow bubbles, sneeze, eat, nap, feed, etc. We are so happy she is finally here with us and I can finally BREATH. Enjoy the pictures. Oh yeah and she already sucks her hand.