"Noddin my head like yea"

Me, my girly, and a little Miley

Girls night with my little ‘V’ (she made me laugh when she gave me permission to call her that). I am a little biased because she is my only niece, but I do have to say that Nav just might be the cutest little 5 year old ever! No joke. I just can’t get enough of her and her geniusness.

It was so fun to spend the day just the two of us. We went to dinner and then rocked out at the Miley concert. It took her a little bit to get used to her crazy aunt jamming to the music before she started getting into it herself. Next thing you know she was dancing in the aisle.

The funniest part of the day was seeing my little social butterfly in action. We saw some of her friends while we were eating dinner and our aunt Meri when we were in line getting a shirt, so she knew her friends and cousins were among the million of other girls in the crowd. The entire night she kept searching for her little friends, hoping to see them again.

After the concert…
Navie: “Um, can we just wait here on this statue for a minute?”
Me: “Sure, how come?”
Navie: “Ya know, I just want to sit and look for a minute.”
Me: “What are we looking for…your friends?”
Navie: “No, just looking.”
Long pause. Deep concentration as she obviously looks into the crowed pouring out of the Delta Center for her friends.
Navie: “Kaitlin was wearing a red shirt, wasn’t she?”

Lol! She is a hoot! On the way home I was asking her about her favorite part and before she could answer, the sweet girl was asleep. She was so tired after all the excitement! Oh man, I love that girl!

Dude, blogger keeps making my pictures blurry too. What the heck?

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Hellooooo world! Meet Mitzi!

This is me. Not the old me, the new me. I think I kind of lost myself for the past little while, but its way past time for my reappearance. So I figured while I'm taking the time to find myself again, I might as well find a new/improved/better me.

Hummm, what do I want the new me to be like?

• A girl that isn’t so scared...
• Someone full of goals and ambitions...
• A person who can do something for just herself and love every minute of it...
• Someone that laughs out loud (often and annoyingly loud)...
• Someone that stands up for herself...

Don't call me lame for quoting Dr. Laura, but I listen to her radio show whenever I can. I think I like her so much because a lot of her strong personality traits are my weaknesses. Do you think Dr. Laura needs validation? I don't think so. She's a woman, hear her roar! I'm just a girl that sounds more like a squeak. Anyway, she said on her program that we are the architects to our own lives and we can really build whatever we want. We can be who we want and do whatever our hearts desire and at the end of the day if we don't like who we have become, we have the power to erase the blueprints and draw up some new ones for tomorrow.

The new me is taking some risks for MYSELF (well and my little family). There is no reward without risks, so here I go. I’m going to risk it up. Risky, risk risk. I decided I am not going to just sit and watch Chris fight through this school situation by himself day after day. I can help us. No matter how vulnerable or nervous it makes me, I want to help out our little family. I want to grow, stretch my mind, and do a few things that I can feel good about at the end of the day. Old Mitzi, meet entrepreneur Mitzi. Call it a quarter life crisis, but la-de-da, it's a dang good one!

It feels good to write my thoughts down again and think. I hope I (we) like who I find at the end. This might be a little scary, but a whole lotta fun!

Bare with me, and I beg you to stick around to see where I end up. I’m curious myself.

Why am I all of a sudden singing Bon Jovi? "It’s my life, it’s now or never. I aint gunna live forever…"

A new trick!

We've been working on it a few weeks now, and he's still a little wobbly...

awww, but isn't he cute!

Last month we mastered rolling both ways, this month is sitting, next month sleeping through the night, right little buddy!?!

Summer

I just realized how much time we have spent outside this summer.

My baby loooves it!

Here are a few random pictures from our summer. outside at the air show at the beginning of summer

Hayes' reaction to these... ...was so funny! He wouldn't even blink!

watching dad and pop-pop golf in a derby

a little drive in fun

hanging out in Park City and at the cabin

Look really close at the outfit my dad bought Hayes. Yankees, Chris' family just loved that one!

and tons of swimming

(these ones are from a day at the pool with some teacher friends at Davis, I miss them already)

Summer was so fun! Now bring on the hot chocolate, chilly nights bundled in blankets, cozy sweaters, and (finally) some good TV!

White coat ceremony

Boy, you look good in white! So professional! Sucky that school already keeps you up way too late at night. At least one of us should be getting some sleep. Anyway, I just wanted to say that you worked hard to get here and we are darn proud...you little pharmacist (in training) you!

p.s. Update from last post...we didn't find a darn thing wrong with Hayes. Good news, but now we must look elsewhere for answers. A third medicine maybe, a voo-doo doctor, anything else we can think of... we are pulling out all the stops here.

Officially crazy!

It is way too hard to blog with one hand. In fact, it is really hard to do anything with one hand for that matter.

Let's just say that we have quite the demanding child (to say the least). I feel like I haven't been able to do anything for the last four months let alone catch up on a little blogging. Why? One hand is always full. All I do all day is try to entertain a fussy baby. He DOES NOT want us to do anything except sit outside and bounce his little stubborn bum. Let’s not even talk about the sleep issue. I know what you are thinking, just put the baby down and he'll get over it. I've heard it over and over, you have to let him cry it out and he'll learn. Nope, not this child. He'll cry all day and night and it doesn't even faze him. Hayes sucks at sleeping!

Lack of posts lately, that's the least of my worries. I still have a stack of thank-you notes to send out from baby presents. Oops! Seriously, I apologize to everyone for the lack of...well the lack of everything. I truly want to be thoughtful, but my brain can't get past the yearning for sleep. I am not trying to stare into space all the time, I really want to be normal but normal is hard lately.

The puking has to stop. Four months of wiping puke off everything is quite enough. We have tried everything from Zantac to Prevacid and rice cereal and nothing seems to work. I stopped eating dairy and chocolate (and just about everything else) for months, but still more puke. At times I think it is even getting worse.

So tomorrow Hayes has an ultrasound and Barium x-ray to see if we can find the problem. I'd love to tell you more, but my brain is already shut off and refocusing on the screaming child.

I do love you child. I wish we could figure out what's wrong so we can stop the puking/fussing.


Hayes’ 4 mo. stats…

Weight 13.2 lbs. 18%

Length 25 in. 57%

Head 23%

Oh you little stink, you are just too adorable!

And the winner is...

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How about a before and after

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