The interning days

So far I have gone to intern twice. The first day was a prep day and the second, yesterday, I met the kids. They are from 3-5 years of age with mostly 5 year olds. When I did my practicum the children were all 3 so this is much of a change. The kids are either more obedient or more honory. Not sure which. But it was fun. The kids are very rambunctious and have attitudes. I think I will enjoy my time with them. The most tiring part though is keeping a couple of the kids either at circle time or to stay there when they get there. Some of the kids were shy and afraid of me but by the end of the day the ones who acted like they most hated me, they warmed up to me and liked me the most out of all of them. One girl really wanted to sit on my lap during circle time. She isn't allowed so I told her she could sit in front of me. She did and then turned around and gave me a big hug and did everything I told her to do. I think this was brought on by the fact that I wouldn't let her color with markers because we were all coloring with crayons and I sat down and helped her color her picture with her. Another child is really funny and he hated me but really liked me by the end. They would call me to watch them do something or would grab me and play. I can't divulge much because some of it is confidential but it was overall a good experience and a lot of fun. I'm excited for when I won't seem too new and they will listen when I tell them to do something. I don't think it will take long.

Happy Late Easter

So Easter Sunday was a great day. We listened to conference on the television and enjoyed our time spent with each other and Perry's sisters and mom. Grant enjoyed making funny faces at the camera. Easter is also the only reason Grant isn't wearing his pajamas. There is a bunny on the left of his outfit. That makes it eastery right? Plus the pastelishness adds to it as well.

We decorated eggs.

Grant is a stud muffin!

So we bought a couple of church outfits for Grant he wore one of the outfits this last Sunday to Sophie's Baby blessing. He was a stud! Here are some pics we took of him after the event.

He is exhausted from the whole day. And stayed down for the nap too!

Momma loves her stud! But he's not quite sure what kisses are for.

Yep he's a model.

And a family photo. Perry got me that shirt for our anniversary.

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

So Saturday the 1oth and Sunday the 11th we celebrated 2 years of wonderful loving marriage. Our anniversary was on the 11th. We went to see Alice in Wonderland and ate dinner at Hard Hat Steakhouse and Grill. Delicious. I got some St. Louis Ribs, which are comparable to baby back ribs and I asked for a half rack. They accidentally gave me a full rack with out charging me! It was awesome. We originally went there because we love their scones and cinnamon butter, however, apparently they are under new management and instead they do corn bread, which was pretty good, but I kind of wanted the scones for a reason. Sunday we made a wonderful Italian dish. It was garlic parmesan pasta with chicken in marinara sauce with mozzarella cheese and zuchinni slices. Soo good! We ate this as a picnic in our family room with nice wine glasses of apple juice. Oh and some garlic bread sticks. And then of course the rest of the night is history. Let's just say Grant went down at 9PM. Anyway, enough about what we did. The last two years have been wonderful. Perry and I love each other more and understand one another better every day we are together. I love Perry so much and couldn't ask for a better husband. He is my match. I'm glad I found him. Oh and the picture is actually just of a walk we took a couple of weeks ago.

Grant's Baby Blessing Day

April 28th Grant was blessed and given a name: Grant Ryan Stotts, of course! So I have beaucoup de pictures of him in his handsome stud muffin of an outfit. It was special for Perry to have his dad, Brent (Brother-in-Law), Zuriel (our neighbor), and the Bishop all in the circle to do the blessing. Perry was nervous but after he did it he was so happy and loved it and can't wait to do it again. There were a couple of things he felt impressed to say in particular which is always a cool experience. The Bishop asked me to come and bear my testimony of motherhood after the blessing was given so its a good thing I did my hair and make up and tried to look good that day! It has been a couple years since I formally boar my testimony. I enjoyed it. I wasn't nervous, it was actually just a different type of nervousness. Anyway I also felt impressed to talk about the covenants made in the temple sealing ceremony as well as how Grant has been entrusted in my care from God and he is God's child and I am his steward. We have an immense responsibility to raise him righteously or to our best knowledge and ability. So here are some cute pictures! Soon I will post some we took when he was officially 7 weeks old, with his 3 week old cousin in her blessing dress.

A Mouse!

We have mouse! And no it is not a pet! He is really cute superficially. But the fact that I'm not stupid makes him quite disgusting. They poop and pee and have diseases! This is not the first time we have had mice. Last year we had mice and killed them all. Apparently another has found a way into the apartment. We have a great trap so I'm just waiting to snatch him and kill him. I do not want to be paranoid about my already clean apartment having microscopic germs that could harm my baby. Ewe! Every surface the mouse touches I feel like I need to sanitize and I already know he has been above my canned items on my shelf. ARG! So annoying! He is a brave little mouse too because just sitting on the couch I see him poke his head here and there. I was talking on the phone and my music is on and it didn't even phase him. That makes me think he has grown comfortable around me and that means he has lived here a while. I just need to figure out what he is eating to survive. It is like he is taunting me because I see him and I can't do anything but wait for him to find the trap because we all know they are all too fast to just catch in a box or whatever. Bleh.

Cradle CRap!

So something that babies get is cradle cap, a scaly, dry, rash of sorts on their head, neck, eyebrows, forehead, ears, etc.. It can really be anywhere on the head. Grant is developing it on his eyebrows and ears. His head and forehead are kind of dry and his entire neck is covered in acne as well as a rash on his face. Babies have such sensitive skin! So there is no cure for cradle cap but just recommendations that may not even work. So today is Grant's bath day so we will be putting olive oil, mineral oil, or baby oil on his cradle cap 30 min before his bath. Then when we put him in we will brush his eyebrows and ears with a soft brush, and then rinse it and put a little more oil on it after the bath. This should help. I hope it does. Also I just need to remember to wipe his face everyday. I think the milk on his chin is causing irritation. Just wiping the burp rag on him doesn't seem to cut it. As far as his acne, he will just grow out of that eventually. Oh! My title is "Cradle CRap" because every time I say the word "cradle cap" I tend to say "cradle crap" instead! lol. That's basically what it is anyway. lol Oh and Grant may have a stomach virus because he has a lot of bowel gas and weird orange thick stools. The doc says it is either that or something I'm eating. I haven't been very good about figuring out what bothers him. I know for sure citrus bothers him because he had such a back stomach ache, curdled milk, and fussiness when I had citrus last. But anything else that has bothered him has been a mild irritation. He sometimes has curdled milk and acid reflux, but I don't think the acid reflux is due to food I eat. Maybe just the curdled milk. But he doesn't seem to have stomach pain, just ugly spit up. And maybe the gas. Anyway, do any of you have advice on how to isolate food. I feel like the only way to do it for me, instead of cutting from my diet to just eat a bunch and see what happens, because not eating it doesn't help because he just has weird spit up. I don't know if I'm making sense. I feel like I don't eat enough of anything that might hurt him to really make a difference if I don't eat it. LIke chocolate for example. Anyway, if it is a stomach virus that should last a week and we are coming to an end of the week from when the symptoms started. Luckily as I said in a previous post, that this isn't keeping him up at night because he is sleeping so well..LIke a baby I guess lol except for a long time.