Some things I've discovered about myself recently

1. I love LOVE peanut butter and honey sandwiches. I've been eating them since I was really little and they never seem to get old.
   
2. I'm a control freak when it comes to certain things. Like driving, cooking and Evie
3. I hate asking for help
4. I don't like letting other people clean my house, but lately I have had to because I can't
5. I have no sense of style
6. and no clear vision for what my house should look like
7. I'm not very creative, but boy am I trying
8. I have a huge list of crafts I want to do but may never actually get around to doing
9. I am a compulsive list maker and day planner. Seriously, my planner is the most used thing in my purse. It's full of papers, lists, budgets, and remembrances that it's bursting.
10. I have been married over 2 years and still miss my husband during the day. I hope that never goes away.
    

Evie Lou

Is four months old now. Can I tell you a little bit about her?

She....
slobbers ALL THE TIME
and consequently must always wear a bib
loves to talk and gurgle
sleeps a solid 9 hours every night
looks cute in everything
smiles constantly
giggles
is now grabbing for things in front of her
and sticking them right in her mouth
flirts with all the boys
can roll over, though I haven't seen it first hand
loves her dad and laughs at him all day
has become fascinated with rubbing her head. Not sure what that's all about.
completes me. (reference?)

Evelyn and Calvyn

So Lianne is here this week to help me out and we decided to take lots of pictures of our two little girls together. There are a lot of them, so I'm just going to post this one.

Side note: Look what I made today for Evie's bows. I'm actually pretty proud of it.

Evelyn giggles a lot now. It's so cute. We are completely addicted to it. I wish I could get her to laugh more, but man can Dan get that girl to laugh. She just thinks everything he does is hilarious.

Virginia Beach

We took a leisurely stroll down Virginia Beach yesterday so that mom could say she saw it. We felt bad that she wasn't able to do anything fun while she was here because all she did was take care of me and Evie, so we took her to the beach!
There are sand crabs all over the beach and they are so much fun to watch. We also saw a dolphin, which was awesome, seagulls, and some pelicans!
Before you get upset though, Dan gave me permission to take my back brace off for pictures. I can walk around and stuff as long as I'm careful and go really slow, so I was able to enjoy myself.
In other news, I decided to stop taking the heavy pain meds so I could nurse Evie again because I miss that little stinker so much. Luckily my pain really isn't that bad anymore and can be managed with Ibuprofen.
Lianne is here now this week, and I'm hoping since I'm more mobile and not in as much pain that we will be able to do some fun things while she's here.
Pictures of Calvy and Evie together to come.


p.s. I just re-read this and realized how disjointed it all sounds and that most of the grammar isn't good, but I'm very groggy and tired. Please excuse the terrible writing.

robots and leggings

to answer your question

No, I was not holding Evelyn. Thank goodness. The thought of falling down the stairs with her gives me nightmares.

Because of the heavy duty pain meds I'm on I cannot nurse her right now. I'm super sad about it.

I am not allowed to lift anything, so I can't pick Evie up at all. This made me cry.

So, my mom picks her up and hands her to me and I get to feed her bottles. It's not as good, but it's something. This will be my life for about a month.

I miss my baby girl.

I fell

I was going to write a post about how much fun we had yesterday at the Virginia Aquarium and show lots of pictures, but something a tad different happened yesterday that I thought I would write about instead.

Last night I fell down our stairs. Dan was downstairs with Evie and we were going to put her down for the night, so I went upstairs to get her binky. On my way down i slipped on the first step and fell the rest of the way down the stairs. Sad. Dan called an ambulance and I had to go to the hospital. All I knew at the time was that I was in an excruciating amount of pain, but I didn't black out and I could still feel my legs. They took some x-rays and FINALLY gave me some pain meds so I could start breathing normally again. In the end they told me that I have a compression fracture on my t7 vertebrae which is not life threatening and does not need surgery. It will just have to heal itself over time and I have to take it easy for a couple weeks. The doctor basically just said that it's going to hurt a lot until it gets better, so they gave me some pretty heavy pain medication to take, which doesn't completely alleviate the pain but it does make it manageable. So, my mom is flying out here tonight to help for a week because I can't do much to take care of Evie right now and Dan cant take any time off. We were supposed to give talks in church today but I managed to get out of that. Who knew that all I had to do was fall down the stairs. Dan had to call the bishopric this morning to tell them we couldn't make it and why and since then the ward members have been calling us and wanting to help out. The relief society president called this morning to see if there was anything she could do and now she's setting up people to bring us meals the rest of this week. One incredibly nice family brought us dinner tonight already and offered to babysit or drive me anywhere. We are so blessed. It's incredible how kind our ward has been already.

I will be relaxing and trying not to move too much for the next couple of weeks, so can you think of any things to do to keep me occupied in the meantime? Nothing that requires standing or walking.