Yes I'm alive/summary

Ok..so I haven't blogged in months...It's not that life was boring or too busy. I'm just lazy I guess. We had a great Christmas. My mom came out and visited. We saw my sister and her family over break as well as my auntie and her little family too. She was brave enough to have me and minions (as their daddy calls them) over for a sleep over too!!! We all had a blast. We went to the snow, fell on the ice, fed the ducks and psycho seagulls that attacked. Trav has gone to a convention and is headed to another shortly. Sophie has begun to babble and has wrapped her daddy aroound her pinkie with her "da da da da da da" She scoots...backwards, rolls everywhere and oh yeah...growls. Joshua is now a cub scout and gets baptized in less than 2 weeks. Audrey participated in a Christmas program or two and spelling bee. Krystia and Ian marched in a parade, spend hours at school for drama, and got rockin' grades. Trav hurt his back pretty good recently and is on the mend just in time to throw it out of whack once again at a convention. I have juggled school and church meetings, failed at blogging, housekeeping, christmas card writing and the such. I have also entered the world of facebook...but my sister burst my bubble by informing me that I need to post pictures. I knda like the grey blue question mark. It's curvy, like me.

Oh pooo!

Sunday morning was a bit more hectic than usual. As I scrambled to get myself and 5 children out the door before 9 I felt that I may have been on the brink of success. Our scriptures were ready, lessons prepared, talks written, hair combed, shoes tied, Sophie all dolled up in her cute dress and custom made hair bow to match. Then it happened. I lifted my darling daughter out of the exesaucer to place her in her car seat and discovered what? She had decorated her outfit, tights and all with poo! Well, we changed her, rushed out the door, and actually arrived to church about 5 minutes after 9. Not too bad.

30 minutes later I take the girl to the mothers lounge for a quick fuel up. As I stand her in front of the large mirror that is conveniently placed to aide mommy's in making sure they're fully put together after a feeding I discover that my blue sweater has something added to it.... A large yellow line from the earlier catastrophe! I have poo on my shirt, at church!!!! I return to sacrament meeting and tell my hubby of my discovery. He looks at it and proclaims that he could turn it into a Christmas tree if I give him a green marker. Isn't that soo sweet. Gotta love my man!

Baby's got a big butt....

My dear little Sophia was sick AGAIN this week with another fever. Not sure what this is all about. While I had her checked out by the BEST pediatrician EVER I asked him to take a look at her leg creases again. Some days they just did not look symetrical to me and I was hoping he'd see what I meant. Well, unlike the car that's making a weird noise until you take it to the mechanic, the leg creases were doing what I had been seeing off and on.... This means my already rolly polly baby has to wear 2 diapers again. So I put her in a size 1/2 (what is withthat odd size at Sam's club???) and then put a size 2 diaper over that. This limits most of her 3 month sized clothing options now because they become way too tight. BUT (hahahha) she does have enough 6 month clothes to get by for now. Unfortunately she has to be int this 2nd diaper set up until she is 6 months old. We are praying that this will allow the hip to grow in the socket properly. Until them my dear lil' Sophie has a big bum and fusses that her diaper changes take a bit longer. She's working on that rolling from side to side thing while I change her..so that does not help :)