Sunday, January 22, 2012

And the winner is...

THE NY GIANTS!!!!! Tied with the SF 49ers 17-17 in OT and Tynes gets the Field Goal.
What was my beloved husband Markham's reaction, you might ask?
I got it on video . . .

The Lynner Days

Mostly this week I've been doing housework.  Except when I'm not doing housework, I'm catching up on some one-on-one time with my sweet little baby now that we're home and I don't have to compete with my mother or sisters for time with Lynlee. Wednesday, the ONLY day it snowed (blizzarded, really) I thought it would be a good idea to take a trip to Erie. Yikes. Well, we made it (barely) and I got to do a little car shopping, and then we went to Sam's and Target. Saturday we went back to Erie and I got my car! We decided that after the horrible roads on Wednesday that I really like life.. and if I want to keep it, I need 4WD. So we traded in my Mazda3 for a Hyundai Santa Fe and I am totally in love with it! I am not an SUV person but this one is SO nice. And I never thought I'd like a Hyundai, but seriously, it's awesome. While we were in Erie Saturday, after getting my car, we decided to head to Texas Roadhouse. I told Markham that after getting my wisdom teeth out, then as soon as I could fully chew again, I wanted a big ole fatty steak from Texas Roadhouse. So we went to celebrate my chewing abilities and my new car :] It was a pretty great weekend. AND now that I have 4WD I can drive to Ohio on the weekends to visit my friends!! I'm pretty excited about that.

Loooove it!
And it handles SO well in the snow!

Yep, she fell asleep like this. SO cute.

This is her Texas Roadhouse face. This is
how happy she was to be there haha. Oh and
she also loves their rolls :]


This is Lynlee LOVING her baby einstein's video.
She gets really into it. I love it.


This is Lynlee copying me. It's like we were having a conversation.

Lynlee trying to feed herself. This is how excited she gets about eating cereal. She totally loves it and always tries to take the spoon from me.


Every once in a while I'm going to do a post as a part of The Lynner Days Chronicles that will just include a random bunch of pictures or videos of my sweet baby. It usually won't include pictures of a new car.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Utah Week 4


What a great last week in Utah! At the beginning of the week we came to the realization that we hadn't accomplished everything we wanted to in the prior three weeks. Needless to say, our week was pretty crammed. One of my favorite things about going back to Utah is all the great restaurants. And since I still can't fully chew due to my wisdom teeth coming out, I didn't get to eat nearly as much as I wanted. But I think my waistline will thank me for that.

Monday we took Lynlee swimming again - this time with my family. It was super fun as always. Lynlee is really starting to love swimming. She kicks a whole bunch and loves splashing. She doesn't even care when she gets water on her face. It's so fun to watch her.
Lynlee loved splashing with Grandma!


Nikki and her kids. Me and my sad smile. My face
was still swollen from getting my teeth out.
 
For some reason this video is literally stuck to this picture. They move together and I don't know how to fix it. But the video is of Lynlee splashing. and the picture is from Wednesday when we gave Lynlee her very first pony tail!

Parker on the climbing wall next to the pool.
He got that high all by himself! We were
all so impressed.

Aspen playing with Lynlee after swimming.
Monday night I went to visit my dear friend Brittany!! who just had a little baby boy Liam!! and is SO dang cute. She was at her mom's with her sister Nikki and Nikki's daughter Chloe.

Lynlee and Chloe watching Princess and The Frog

Tuesday I spent all day with Nikki and her kids. We did some shopping and then took Lynlee to her very first movie - The Muppets! She did a lot better than I expected. When she first saw the screen her eyes got so huge!! But she actually really liked it. She was really hungry when we first got there, so that helped. Then she fell asleep for most of it but woke up for the last 20 minutes and just sat and watched it. She's such a good little girl!! And the movie, by the way, was hilarious. I went into it with zero expectations and loved it!! Later that night after I got back to my parents house Lynlee decided to go for a ride on our dog, Annie. Here's the video for that:


Wednesday I spent most of the day hanging out at my moms and then went shopping with my mom, and Julie so that my mom could spend her birthday money. I think Julie and I ended up spending more than my mom did. haha. Then we had the guys meet us with the kids at Jason's Deli for dinner. Yum!


This was on Tuesday when I went shopping
with Nikki. This hat is at Crazy 8's.
This was also on Tuesday. Right before going for a ride
on Annie. She LOVES that dog!

Thursday we went tubing at Gorgoza park with Ainslee and Nick. I had a freaking blast! I completely forgot how much fun it was. And the older you get, the better because there's more weight on the tube, which makes you go WAY faster and catch air on the bumps. SO fun. On a few of the runs we decided to go down all four of us. The next video is of that experience. Thursday night I went to dinner with my good friend Kylie! Love her :] We had so much fun, like we always do. And laughed pretty much the whole night, like we always do. We had dinner at Costa Vida and then dessert at Olive Garden. It was our own little tour of Layton. Haha. We're nuts, but we have fun ;]

Ains and I in the Warming Yurt after tubing
 Friday was the best day. We went swimming again. We had to go again because dad and Julie and her kids couldn't make it last time. They had the big slide open this time so Markham, me, Julie, my mom, and my dad all decided to go down it and let me tell you - it was SO much more fun than I even anticipated. It's deceivingly awesome.  You get going SO fast so by the end you just fly out the bottom and I got turned upside down every time. I loved it. And Julie's girls and Lynlee all had a blast again. Lynlee seriously loves swimming. Meadville has an indoor pool at their rec center and I think I'm going to start taking her. Good exercise for the both of us :] After swimming while we were getting changed, Hailey and Addyson decided to see if they could fit in the lockers. Guess what? They can.
Hailey in the locker. She's five. Addyson in the locker. She's three.

After swimming we decided to go eat at Cafe Rio, always a good choice. Then that night my mom, dad, Kristin, Jaron, Markham, and I all went to Pei Wei for dinner and then to see Jim Gaffigan (if I have to tell you he's a comedian, we're not friends). He's like my favorite. He's hilarious and clean (two most important things :] ). The show was amazing and Kristin and Jaron and my parents all loved it. Afterward we dropped Markham off at his friends house so he could hang out with them one last time and then went back to my parents and went to bed. The next morning we had to be up at 430 to make our flight. Saturday was a pretty miserable day. We flew from SLC to Denver, in which I expected a small plane. Then from Denver to Pitt I thought we'd get a movie, but it was an even smaller plane than the first one! It was so awful. But at least Lynlee was good on both flights. She's a pretty professional flier by now. Then after getting to Pitt we had to drive two hours to get home. I hate living so far from the airport. It's pretty awful.

So far I've had a pretty great week, though. I mean, really it's been nothing special, but it's just so nice to be back in my own house. With my own items. And my own bed. I even missed doing my own housework. (pathetic, I know). And we came home to a foot (at least) of snow.
Our porch. As you can see, it was still blizzarding and
we had to make a path to get up to the door. and my car,
along with a couple of my neighbors, is completely
buried.
Our back porch. That's our grill, and the thing in the back
is Markham's scooter. Completely buried.
Lynlee is now in 6-9 mo clothes. Which,
to me, makes her so big. This is an
outfit Markham's mom got her for
Christmas. And she loves standing
against things. The wall, the couch. She
can stay up for like 10 minutes. She's amazing.

She never falls asleep without one of us
rocking her, and being swaddled. Guess she
was too tired this time. I set her down to do
my hair and came back to pick her up and
she was out.
This is how she fell asleep in the car

Big girl model! Hand in her pocket and
everything!

Playing on daddy's belly
Where's Lynlee?!?

There she is!!
This corner in our living room had our rocking
chair in it, which we moved upstairs to put
the Christmas tree there and then when we
took the tree down I decided I liked the rocking
chair upstairs so we made it Lynlee's corner.
Now she's sleeping :] This pic was taken like two
seconds ago.
So that's pretty much it! Our vacation in Utah was amazing. We had a total blast, and I hope everyone else did too. Now this week is full of laundry, grocery shopping, baby shopping (diapers, formula, etc), buying a new wheel for a stroller because my dad broke it off (haha), and relaxing. It's amazing how you take a vacation to "get away" and "relax" but you come home more exhausted than when you left. But I'm glad to be sitting on my couch. And I'm sure Markham is glad that I'm sitting on our couch instead of going out spending all our money everyday shopping with my sisters :]

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Utah Week 3

This past week has been somewhat uneventful (at least for me). Monday was pretty great. We started Lynlee on Oatmeal for the first time! The pediatrician now recommends waiting until six months to start babies on cereal so that they can better digest it and have a smaller chance of becoming allergic to it. At first she didn't take to it too much. The second day I was feeding her (before my dr's appt) and halfway through eating she got this big grin on her face and started kicking her legs all excited and then swallowed really well. It's like all of a sudden it clicked and she knew how to eat. It was so cute!
First bite! And not really liking it... 

Later that same Monday, Markham and I went to lunch at Sonic, then went the Leonardo science museum, which was actually kind of lame, and then went on a real date by ourselves to Joe's Crab Shack in Sandy.

Markham and I at Joe's! Mmm.

This was our dessert. Smores on top of Chocolate Cake. Freakin Yum!!
It was pretty much an amazing "last solid foods meal" before getting my teeth out.

The next morning I went to Dr. Chandler in Layton and got my wisdom teeth out. I was a dental assistant for two years and I have assisted on wisdom tooth extractions. I know the exact procedure they were doing on me. Needless to say, I had them knock me out. haha. I did NOT want to be awake for that. But he was a really good Dr. and it took only twenty minutes. I only had three teeth to take out because only three ever developed. Tuesday was a pretty rough day for me. I didn't swell much, but my pain meds made me sick. I don't know if you've ever experienced or can imagine being sick when you have three incisions in your mouth, but it's pretty much the most miserable/painful thing ever. But I continued my meds because I was afraid to go off them.
Wednesday I swelled. It was a pretty rough day, but I didn't get sick.
Thursday morning I woke up super nauseated and ended up getting sick. So I finally went off the percocet but stayed on the ibuprophen. Which, you know, is like nothing compared to percocet. So while my pain is still only at like 30%, it's not a 0. Like it was with the percocet. Thursday afternoon Julie's girls Hailey and Addyson came over for my mom to babysit them while Julie went to work and Hailey (5 yrs old) made me a get well card.
Isn't it cute?! I'm not sure if those are mice, or kittens, or something..? but It's adorable.

My days pretty much all blended together this week so I'm not sure which day some of these pictures were taken but they were all this week. So here's LYnlee :] Markham and I won her that bowling pin at Boondock's Fun Center. It's like a stress ball, where it's made out of squishy foam. It's fine for now with her two teeth on the bottom but as soon as she gets a tooth on the top and can bite chunks out of it we'll have to take it away. But she loves the thing! She drums with it, and the top fits perfectly in her hand. In the picture on the right she looks like she's singing into it.

On friday I had to put a hat on and go with Markham to take Lynlee to the doctors. She's had a pretty bad cough the past week or so and we wanted to get it checked out. Luckily he says it's nothing to worry about so now we just have to wait it out. When we got home I put my hat on her. And then layed down and took a nap because I was pretty exhausted.

Friday night Kristin and Jaron and their boys and Nikki and her kids came over to visit me. I was feeling much better and could sit up and talk (sort of. I have a lisp). But as soon as Andrew came in the door the first thing he wanted to do was hold Lynlee!

That same night Aspen ended up getting into some medicine in Nikki's purse that stained her hands a neon orangey-yellowy color. It's also on the side of her face and chest but you can't see that very well in this picutre.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow!!!! For the first time since we got here three weeks ago, it finally snowed. So I gathered up enough to strength to get Lynlee dressed and take her out. Here she is with Grandpa.

This is Lynlee on a sled!

I think she liked it.

Lynlee standing in the snow! I don't think she liked that very much because she started crying right after we put her down.

A little while after taking her our in the snow I showered and got ready and waited for my sister Julie to come over so we could go shopping. When Julie got here I was working on my blog and I had put Lynlee in the exersaucer. Julie walked over by Lynlee to plug her phone in and said "I think she's poopy" and I said "no! I just changed her" and Julie said "no, she really is." So I walked over and picked her up and set her down to change her and when I pulled off her jeans there was poo everywhere! She had her very first blowout diaper (and Markham wasn't even there to see it hahah)! We took off her clothes and threw her in the tub in my little brother's bathroom. It smelled AWFUL and I was using so many wipes so Julie lifted up the toilet seat for me to throw them in there and there was more big ole nasty poo in there!! Someone forgot to flush! (again, we were in my brother's bathroom. typical.) We both almost threw up and then almost died from laughing and I almost split my stitches from laughing so hard. It hurt really bad after but it was the hardest I'd laughed all week so I felt ok about it. Overall it was a pretty ridiculous afternoon.
Later that day I took Lynlee over to Markham's moms house and went shopping with Julie. We went on quite the little spree. It was pretty fun. But most of the stuff I bought actually wasn't for myself. I bought a lot for Lynlee, and a present for my mom and for Kristin because both of their birthdays are this week. Saturday night we went on a double date with Julie and Ryan to the Olive Garden while mom and dad watched our kids. I got Chicken and Gnocchi soup, which is my favorite anyway. But it was SO good and the gnocchi was extra soft so it was really easy to eat. Then we came back to mom's and watched I Don't Know How She Does It. Which I didn't really like.
And now today is Sunday. And we're not going to church today because Lynlee was up all night with a fever. She seems to be doing much better today though. Hope it stays that way.
Today we're celebrating my mom's birthday (which is actually tomorrow).
And today is Lynlee's six month birthday!! Woo hoo :] Such a big girl!
Six Months Old!
Isn't she beautiful?!
That's her new thing now. Instead of smiling she sticks out her tongue.