Whale Songs

Hello Blog!

I feel like it's been too long.

Ryan started his 3 week CNA class yesterday. So far, he says its pretty slow. It reminds me of when you get a ticket and have to go to that stupid driving school and they teach 4 hours of material in 8 hours.

Long, and painfully boring.

Anyways, everything runs pretty slow for him usually, but this class is agonizingly slow I guess.

Its nice to have him up and going in the morning somewhere again though. Last night he came home with a stethoscope and a blood pressure measurer. He was playing with Alenna and listening to her heart beat and what not. I come down the stairs, saw him and

just melted.

He looks so amazing in his get up!!

I think my parents struggle with imagining him as a nurse (though he's not going to be a nurse for long, he's going to be a Nurse Anesthetist, but anyways..) and I had a little bit of trouble envisioning it too until I saw him last night all dressed up, it totally fits.

And, man, does he wear it well!

YUMMY!!

On to other things...Alenna is doing pretty well with potty training. Like I've said before, we're really not pushing it. Some days she does great and will go 2 or 3 times and other days she wants nothing to do with the potty.

That's ok, baby steps.

She speaks in 3rd person, which really makes me laugh because I haven't heard any of her friends speak in 3rd person, it's just her. Ryan assures me its totally normal, in his words "That's why they made Elmo speak in 3rd person. Because most little kids do."

She tells us, "Alenna happy!"

Or she will sit on my lap, sigh sweetly and say, "Alenna sad."

That's new and it still brings a quiet smile to my face, not that she's sad, just that she's so sweet about it. She loves her Book of Mormon, it has a picture of Lehi and Sariah in it, and she always points to Sariah and screams her name. (she has a friend named Sariah and she thinks they're the same person, lol) She loves to sing, she sings "Itsy Bitsy Spider" all the time and I can actually recognize the tune which is amazing. She loves "Book of Mormon Stories (that my teacher tells to me)", and she has the hand motions down! She runs in circles and jumps up and down shouting "Alenna dancing!" whenever there is music on.

For the most part she is a very happy child.

Brady is very close to crawling. He scoots a little bit and can turn from his back to his front and to his back again. He is discovering his voice and likes to yell whenever he can. He is on cereals now and totally loving it. Our "little" Brady is 20 whopping pounds, only 6 pounds lighter than his sister who is 2 whole years older than him! Brady has been a little sick lately, but we think he is coming out of it. Its scary to have little ones during RSV season. Brady absolutely adores his older sister and always want to be around her. She can always make him laugh, and I think the feeling is mutual. I swear they were friends in the pre-existence!

We have this little on-going joke about Brady being a whale. Whenever he suspects that he's alone in a room he begins to call out for us, much like whales do in the wild! Its a very disinct call, just like a whale song. Once he spots us, it stops. He is so funny.

I just love being a mom. I don't do it because I have nothing else to offer the world, opposed to what the liberal media teaches.

I genuinely love it.

I know I was meant to be a mom. It is my whole joy. Some people love to write music, some love to cook, some love to sing, I love to be a mom. My kids are every joy. I love seeing them do new things for the first time, discovering the world around them, feeling what the cool grass feels like on their warm bodies. What a cool job I have.

Speaking of which, my little whale is singing...