Visits with Auntie CarCar & Uncle Spencer

I love, love, LOVE this picture:

Rebecca's wet hand print on CarCar's scrubs.

Uncle Spencer's silly self-portrait

Definition of Mary-Gail: the happiest baby ever!

Daddy and his girls on Mother's Day

All of us - that's me, lovey, and the girls - went to church on Sunday for Mother's Day. This was the first time we've all been to church together since last fall (October was the end for us). The girls were a joy to be with and everyone in the congregation kept "oohing" and "ahhing" all over them. Rebecca and Mary-Gail were eating it up!!

A day of painting

Carly took Mom to Color Me Mine on Saturday and I joined in the fun. Carly & I finished the projects we started last July (for my birthday) and Mom completed a fun, festive chips'n'salsa tray.

It was a great morning as we chatted and created and painted.

Spencer stopped by to see us...

...and showed us a Lamborghini parked outside.

My Mother's Day present

My fabulous sister, JoJo, invited me and my mom to join her for a GNO. We're in Park City through Friday. I told JoJo that this was my Mother's Day gift. We left our babies with our husbands (with a hope and a pray that they're OK when we get home late Friday night). JoJo picked me up this morning at 6:45, and I joined her for her Utah Medical Group Managers Association (UMGMA) meetings. We finished meetings at 4pm and Mom arrived shortly afterwards.

Now, we're just chillin' in our hotel room and we're ordering movies on the TV. Mom and I are going to the outlets tomorrow, while JoJo finishes her meetings. Then we'll go shopping again - maybe to Taipan Trading and IKEA on the drive home.

Ahhh. The simple life again...

A Perfect Fit

Rebecca's new favorite place

Rebecca demonstrates the art of climbing in the drawer she and Mary-Gail have emptied...

Now she'll demonstrate how to get out of said drawer...

Silent videos

I've been borrowing Mom's camera ever since I broke ours. The only thing is, her camera doesn't have sound capabilities. Oh well. I'll give you a play-by-play.


Rebecca is saying, "Cheese!" and Mary-Gail is saying, "Hi!"
Rebecca starts walking, falls, says, "Owie" and then crawls to my lap to say "Hi!" and "Cheese"




Mary-Gail is walking from the office to our bedroom to join her mischievous sister in the bathroom. I love Mary-Gail's little duck-tail curl in her hair (small and petite just like her). When Mary-Gail reaches the bathroom, I call her name and she turns and gives me a smile. It looks like Rebecca's ransacked the dirty clothes hamper (socks are strewn across the bathroom floor), and she's also accessed the bathroom drawers and pulled things out.

Rebecca's favorite past time: emptying our dresser drawers.

She did it at Grandma's!

Mary-Gail took her first "actual" steps on Tuesday, April 8th w/Auntie Darleen, but she didn't actually start walking until she was at Grandma's.


The girls and I stayed at my mom's house the week of Monday, April 21st - Thursday, April 25th. We were having a new furnace and A/C unit installed, I didn't want the workers and the girls to be in each other's way. Staying at Mom's those 4 days was the best thing ever, because Mary-Gail started walking! Actually walking - more than 4 or 5 steps at a time!!

When Mary-Gail would start to crawl, I'd say, "stand up," which she would, and then she'd just start walking. Walking!!! It was an amazing thing to see. I wanted to e-mail this video to all the neonatologists who had basically written Mary-Gail off due to her brain bleeds. Take that!!!

(P.S. Not to exclude Rebecca, she does make a quick apperance in the video - the flash of purple at the end is her foot trying to kick me to get my attention. Where does she get her attitude from?)

No wonder your nose bleeds

Rebecca likes to put her fingers in her nose. She doesn't "pick" her nose (yet), rather she just shoves her pointer fingers all the way up her poor, little nostrils! This was her last night, voicing her objection to me and her dinner.

Sunday at JoJo's

Last Sunday, 4/20, I took the girls to JoJo's house for Cy's 1st b-day bash. It was a kite flying birthday, and those that had kites were encouraged to bring them to fly them in Chrisman Park. Tony was sick and stayed home with his furry girls. :)

Mary-Gail bundled up after being outside watching kites fly

Un-bundled and using Cy's walking toy

Cy like to try and bite JoJo's lips

I think he got her lips!

I seriously love NPR!

My family thinks I'm crazing for only listening to public radio. But I love it! My local public radio station, KUER 90.1, has great programs:

• Morning Edition - most of the time I get my news from here since I'm too lazy to get up early anymore and catch CNN as I walk. They also air "This I believe" commentaries each morning.
• RadioWest w/Doug Fabrizio - I usually catch the 7 pm re-broadcast since I'm busy with the girls. Did you hear his interview with David Isay? David Isay is the founder and producer of Story Corps (aired on KUER each Friday morning). I love listening to Story Corps and want to seek out a Story Corps booth and record something. What about David's interview with blogger Frank Warren about his blog Postsecret? It was a very interesting interview which made me visit the his blog. There was also an interview with someone in PA who created a website for missing gloves. Very interesting...
• Fresh Air w/Terry Gross - Terry Gross is coming to the Capitol Theatre; wish I had money to see her (Tony would come w/me, but he'd moan about it).
• P.R.I's The World - I like their geo-quizzes, but I never know the location of where they're talking about.
• All Things Considered - I really like the news anchors
• Marketplace - Just a constant reminder that I need to roll my 401-k over to an IRA. Still haven't done it!!!

Saturday is a great line-up too:

• Weekend Edition - more news to catch up on
• Car Talk - seriously the BEST talk show and the brothers are hilarious. Very contagious laughter
• Wait, Wait. Don't tell me - another great news game show. I especially like when the cast has Roy Blount, Jr. & Paula Poundstone. One day you'll hear Carl Kasell's voice on my answering service.
• American Routes - listen to this all the time. I fell in love with old gospel and spiritual songs when we lived in Charleston. One song that sticks in my head is "Black Superman (Muhammed Ali)." "...that Black Superman. He floats like a butter-fly and stings like a bee..."
• A Prairie Home Companion - Garrison Keillor's dry humor is great. Plus, he can whip up a song in a heart beat. My grandma & grandpa next door would have listened to this radio program.