out of the mouths of little squirts

Yesterday, Brecken asked me if I could pull his toes. I asked him why, and here was his response.

Are you ready for it?

"So I can get taller!!"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

full of heart

Amy's dad is no longer on the transplant list- he got his heart!! He went into surgery on Wednesday night and after 19 hours of surgery, got settled into the ICU. Part of that 19 hours was the surgeons having to go back in a couple times to stop bleeding, but he now is resting and the doctors are happy with how he's doing. So far, no signs of rejection- pray that this continues so he can recover and use that new heart to the fullest!

word games

I wanted to get a picture of Brecken to use in some Valentine cards today. I told him this morning we needed to find something to wear that was Valentine-y. He said, "I KNOW!", ran to his room, and came back with this itty bitty baby shoe. He held it up and proudly exclaimed, "THIS is tiny!" It took me a minute to realize what he meant- to him, I said "Valen tiny". That shoe definitely was tiny! I had to try to explain what I meant, which didn't go over very well, so I had to start calling it "Valentine-ish". :)

milk- it does a body good

Brecken had his cup of milk sitting next to him tonight. If he even reached his arm out half way, he could pick it up. He said, "Mommy, can you pass me my milk please? I can't reach." I told him there was no way I could reach it, and was right there NEXT to it so he could get it himself. He said, "I can't reach." "Neither can I!" I replied. "Try", he told me. So I did. Yup, couldn't reach. So he says,

"Here! I'll pass it to you!"

And he did- passed it right to me, so I could reach, and pass it to him. What a commedian.

tag, you're it

That's about what it's been around our house the past week and a half! And I think it might continue this week, too. Josh and I take turns being home and being gone... keeps us on our toes, that's for sure! Last Thursday night, I had to stay at school late to run the concession stands for a middle school basketball game. Friday morning, Josh left for an overnight basketball trip to Kemmerer and Big Piney. He got home Saturday night, I left Sunday for All-State in Cheyenne and got home Wednesday. Next week, I have parent-teacher conferences in the evening on Wednesday and Thursday, while Josh has football stuff to do on Thursday night as well. Perhaps, just maybe, after next week we'll be able to remember what each other looks like. :)

In addition, Josh has won the Father of the Year award this past week. In my eyes, anyway! Our babysitter is still gone, and on Monday of this past week, our backup babysitter's kids got sick and were throwing up. Josh took Tuesday afternoon off, but had to bring Brecken to work with him on Wednesday all day (no preschool due to them having meetings) and Thursday afternoon after preschool. Brecken always amazes me- he was so good for Josh and no teaching the kids was sacrificed. Thank goodness for the invention of personal DVD players and lots and lots of snacks. :) What troupers, both of them!

Josh got pretty hurt at practice on Tuesday night. He was working drills with the kids and one of the boys jumped high and hard and his knee landed in Josh's ribs. He thought a couple might be broken, but the doctor here in town thinks they're probably just pretty dang bruised. Poor guy can hardly walk, his back is really, really stiff. Hopefully he will heal soon- I don't like that he is so hurt! I felt incredibly bad that I was still at my conference on Tuesday night when it happened- I couldn't be home to help him out with Brecken. :( I'm glad B is at the age now where he can be more independent and doesn't need lifted into the car seat anymore, that helped a lot.

Last night, my school staff had our "Christmas" party. We have it after Christmas, when things have slowed down (for everyone except me, I think. ha!). Josh did not have a basketball game last night, so he was able to come! I think it's the first Christmas party we've made since we moved here! :) It was held in a beautiful cabin in Riverside ("suburb" of Encampment) and Brecken stayed home with a babysitter. We got home and he was snuggling with her in a recliner, watching cartoons- I love that he snuggled with someone that wasn't Mom or Dad!!

B and I are headed to Hanna in a little bit to watch Josh's game. I really enjoy having away games that are close enough for us to go watch! :)

I realize that I haven't posted very many pictures of B lately- I'll try to fix that soon. :)

I heard a rumor that Amy's dad is now first on the transplant list. While it makes me so sad that someone has to die to give that heart, it makes me incredibly happy that it might give Amy's dad new life. Please continue praying for them!

my hero of a husband

Just as Josh texted to say he was in Rawlins on his way home from the trip, the pager went off for the ambulance to respond to a possible heart attack. I immediately texted Josh back, because he is the only one in town that is fully certified for cardiac. He got on the phone with the police department while I listened to the scanner, to see if they needed him. They do, so the bus is going to meet the ambulance at some determined meeting spot, where he will get off the bus and onto the ambulance and make his way back to Rawlins. Poor guy- long day for him, but I'm glad he'll be able to help out. Qualified EMTs are hard to come by where we live, and Advanced Intermediates are even harder. Josh. He's the one and only. There are a two other Intermediates, I think, but he's the only Advanced one. Makes me sad for the people in our valley because they don't have enough people to respond to them if something happens. :( As annoyed as I get when Josh is getting call after call and has to go, I'm glad he's there TO go, because if it were me, I'd sure want someone coming to my rescue. I'm glad he was on this side of Rawlins so he could meet the ambulance tonight.

my son, the funny one

This morning:

"Mom, can you do me a favor? Put away my toys."

I laughed out loud at him, to which he responded: "It's OK, they can stay right there."

HA!

We're almost done with Josh's second overnighter of the season- they went to Kemmerer and Big Piney this weekend. I definitely like home games better. :) I asked Brecken if he wanted to go to Encampment today to see their homecoming game, and he decided he wanted to stay home with me. I couldn't even bribe him with the concession stand at school- he didn't seem to care that there was popcorn and root beer there. I even asked if he wanted to go to Rawlins to see a movie this afternoon, pulled up the trailer for "The Princess and the Frog" and he giggled at it, but then said, "No thanks. I want to stay home with you". So, I guess we will be staying home this afternoon! :)

I'm off to Cheyenne tomorrow afternoon for the All-State convention. I look forward to it every year but hate leaving my boys at home. :( I didn't get to see much of Josh Thursday, then he left Friday, won't get home until late late tonight, and then I leave tomorrow and won't be home until Wednesday. We're kind of playing tag with each other for Brecken- "Tag, you're it- see you in a few days!"

babysitter bind

We got a call from Mary on Friday night, saying they had to go to Indiana all of a sudden this weekend for a funeral. They are going to be gone until Jan. 22. Panic started setting in, because as most of you know, backup daycare in this town is not an option. LUCKILY, Josh called a gal we know, the wife of a guy he teaches with. She has a 1 year old son and stays home with him, and she was gracious enough to take Brecken in for the next two weeks after preschool. Brecken has met her a couple times, but we went over to their house for lunch today (Thanks, Val and Jared!) and played a little, so he knew her house, and knew her when she goes to pick Brecken up from school tomorrow. She's a very energetic person, and her son has lots of toys, and Brecken had fun playing there. Hopefully he'll do OK with her picking him up from school tomorrow! Brecken also had a fun time playing with her baby. Her "baby" is as big as Brecken, however- they wear the same size clothes and weigh the same. :) Brecken loves babies though, and had fun "chasing" him and letting him chase Brecken. It was fun to watch them play.

We heard from our favorite babysitter ever, Amy, recently. Her dad is not doing well and is now on the heart transplant list. Her mom and dad moved to Salt Lake City for the time being. Please pray for him to receive a new heart soon, and pray for Amy because I know it's so hard on her to not be here anymore. We did receive a photo Christmas card from them in the mail before Christmas, and once I showed it to Brecken, he got all excited to see his 3 buddies again- Harrison, best buddy Dylan, and "Pooper", as he calls Cooper. He just gazed and gazed at that card with a smile plastered on his face, all the way up the hill from the post office to our house. It made me cry- he misses his buds and Amy sooo much. He asks about them literally every day!

We finally took the Christmas tree down today. We waited a while because we had Christmas here with Josh's family over New Year's. After that, work and practice started again and didn't have time until today! Last week was a very busy week, for sure. Josh even had his whole team over to the house for dinner Thursday night, and then was home for games this weekend against Wyoming Indian and Wind River. The scores didn't turn out in our favor, so I won't be elaborating. :)

This past week also marked 2 years of actively trying to conceive another baby. Before that was several months of not really preventing, but January 2008 we made it "official". Silly me, I thought it surely couldn't take as long for baby #2 as it did to get pregnant with Brecken... Ha! *sigh*

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Over on the photo blog! We had so much fun- we couldn't quit laughing when people kept falling down into the snow!!