This month has
been full of some great things! Our boys are doing so well. Michael
had an appointment at Primary Children's Medical Center to check on his foot to
see how he is healing. And Dr. Stotts said he looks great! We won't
have to take him back for another year. Michael was so cute with the Dr's
as well. There were a couple of rotation students at the appointment, and
Michael was telling all of them that his name was Captain America, and he of
course had his shield. So he ran for them, and showed them he can also be
the flash, and ran and jumped and showed them his super hero moves. They
were all pretty impressed. He let the Dr play with his foot, and move it
around and push on it and didn't have any problems. I was amazed!
Because he normally freaks out when he has to go to the Dr office. I
should have taken pictures, but totally forgot to.
Ammon is
doing really well! He turned 3 months on the first on Oct!
This month he learned how to roll over from his back to his stomach.
Problem is that when he gets to his stomach he gets mad because he hates to be
on his tummy! Haha, tummy time is an interesting time for us each
day! But he is also very independent. He doesn't like to just
snooze away or be set in the swing anymore. He likes to be in the bumbo, or
participating with us by playing on the floor or by being held all the time.
He loves to laugh and to talk to us, and sometimes it even seems as if he is
trying to say responses to things that we say. He is so cute, and is
doing so well. Ammon is also growing very big. His 2 month
appointment said he was 12 lbs 6.5 oz. And he is 23 inches tall. He
is growing in height very quickly, and is above average in that category.
He is average for his weight, and we are very happy about that. I have
been able to breastfeed him longer than I was able to do with Michael, and we
are still doing pretty good. I'm hoping we can make it to 6 months! That
is the goal. He also loves to listen to music and watch shows with
us. He is just a bundle of joy!
We went on
a trip up to see family in Brigham City the third weekend of this month as
well. The boys had a TON of fun with their cousins. They got
to run, and play, and they dressed up in their Halloween costumes and we took
some pictures since we won't be able to be there for Halloween, but all the
kids looked adorable and they all will have so much fun for Halloween. We
also went out to eat with Mary and Scott and their girls, Kathryne, Julianna,
and Christina. Mary is pregnant, and she found out this month what the
gender of the baby is. It's another girl! They have decided the
name will be Mariam Jyl Talbot. We are very excited for them and are
praying for a happy, healthy little girl. :) We also were able to see my
sister Gena's new baby, and she is about a month and a half older than
Ammon. We took a picture of them together, and they are so cute.
It's so amazing how fast kids grow, and the things they learn. Especially
when you don't see them for quite a while and then you do and they have grown
and learned tons! So fun!
Also
while I was up in Brigham I had the opportunity to talk to my best friend from
my childhood, my cousin Ashley. It has been years since we've really
spoken to each other, and lately I've been thinking about her. I've
remembered all the things we did as kids, and I was wanting to get back in
contact. I went to find something on her facebook page, and I noticed
that I wasn't her friend anymore, so I added her back. I always assume
that when that happens it was some sort of glitch. I guess she added me
back and saw my last blog post and she contacted me and told me about how
things are going for her and all the things she is feeling. I was so
happy she would talk to me about things, since it's been so many years and
things weren't exactly left very happy between us. But she told me that
she had deleted everyone from her facebook and was trying to find the positive,
because there was a lot of negative there and things are just really
hard. I won't go into details, since it isn't my story to tell, but she
said that she added me back and she read my blog and she liked it. She
said some things to me that really helped me to gain a better perspective, and
I also was able to be in contact with her. It's funny how life
changes. I have always felt that I was supposed to help her, but I
guess I just was scared, because I didn't really know how. But she has
helped me, and now I think I am getting Heavenly Father's help to be able to
help her and support her. I'm really glad that we are friends again. :)
I
thought of all the fun things that I used to do as a kid. The Blackers
would invite us over to swim in their pool. We would usually have pizza
and just hang out with our family and the cousins. We went to Idaho to
Island Park to see my Aunt and Uncle and that was a blast as well. I was
thinking, I can't always afford to do a lot with my kids, but I want them to
have some fun experiences, and make the most out of what we have and what we
are capable of doing. So I talked to Matthew about it, and we have
decided a new family goal is to go out once a month as a family and find
something fun to do; we are looking to do things that we may not have know
about, that don't cost a lot but would be fun to do with the kids. I am
very excited for this, and I think it will draw us closer together as a family.
Another fun thing happening this month is that we had a friend move in with
us. He and his family are moving and they needed a place to stay until
the place is ready to move into. So, it has been a fun adventure, and his
family will be joining us for a couple of weeks or so in Nov, so we will see
what it will be like to have 4 little boys in the house together! I know
Michael will love it, and he will have a lot of fun. Though us adults may
not get much sleep. ;)
We took Michael
and Ammon to go and see Hotel Transylvania 2. I'm so bad at taking
pictures, but I hope to get better, but it was a great movie, and the boys did
AWESOME! Ammon mostly slept, and Michael just loved the movie. I
think it's so cute the way he interacts with the movie when we take him to the
theater. It's a good thing we only take him to the kids movies, or we
might be in trouble for the noise. :) This was Ammon's first
movie theater experience, outside of the womb. I hope it goes this well
when we take the boys to see the new Charlie Brown movie coming out in
Nov.
High school
was a really fun time for me. There were things that were awful, because some
of those learning experiences aren't very pleasant, but I had some good
friends. One of those friends, Jamie, invited me out to get a pedicure
this week. First off, I should start off by saying that I have REALLY
ticklish feet. I don't like, or let, people touch them except for my
husband. I also have one toenail that has that gross fungus in it that I
can't get out, so I am generally embarrassed for people to see my feet anyway,
let alone subject someone to that on purpose so they can attempt to make my
feet look pretty. But I decided to go and try it; having a new experience
isn't always a bad thing. I went and it was actually really great!
It felt nice, and I didn't even have any issues with being ticklish.
Except when they were rubbing my calves. But it wasn't so bad I couldn't
contain it. I've only ever painted my toe nails like once in my whole
life, so it's kinda fun to have a color on them. We just talked, and
talked, and talked. We have never had trouble being able to find
something to talk about, and it was nice to talk to an adult, one who understands
some of the things I'm going through right now, and we can just shoot the
breeze. It was fun, and I hope that we can do it again soon.
Matthew and I have been working on the Halloween costumes for this year.
We decided to go as characters from one of our RPG's that we do. It has
been fun trying to find things to work for our costumes, and Matthew has sewn
most of his himself. Matthew won a gift card at work for Amazon, so we
were able to get a few things from there to finish the look of our outfits.
They look really cool! I just wish I was about 60 lbs lighter. Our
friend Alyna made Ammon's little chain mail outfit, and Michael of course is
Captain America! He just loves that guy, and he had the whole outfit, so
we decided that it would be perfect for him this year. It's kinda cute
because Michael calls me Black Widow, he calls Matthew Iron Man, and he said
baby Ammon is the Hulk. Too bad we don't all have THOSE costumes. :)
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