family pictures

 

I love our family photos from May! lets give a little family update shall we?

Brent: he likes being Bishop and I quite like it too. It makes church feel more interesting sometimes and also the ward feels more like a family to me. In addition I think people are extra nice to me because of it. lol. he is gone a little more than I'd like, but its very bearable. he always helps his mom with computer and financial stuff and it so kind doing it. he read all the saints church books and took twitter off his phone. but perhaps replaced it with cougar board. he does yoga sometimes now and my dancer self is so pleased.

Me: a friend of mine sent me a watercolor postcard in the mail. and it was so lovely. it made me buy some more paper and get a used book from this magical secondhand bookstore about watercoloring. we've been sending some watercolor postcards back and forth and i've loved it. (this was a few months ago, but it was a good time). I recently deep cleaned brent's office and im really proud of how it turned out. I also recently started learning how to cook steak and have been practicing. I saw a short video on instagram that made it look so easy and delicious.

Ella: starting 7th grade on wednesday. she's walking to school! she has a phone! I found a list on her phone of what to do the night before school starts. such an inspirational planner she is. she taught young womens last week about Job and how trials make you stronger and she did so well. she's always planning get togethers with her friends and she's so cool. she always wants to be dropped off at Tooele's new shopping outlet strip (always to buy squishies. they are all the rage the last month or two. five below, ulta, hobby lobby, tj maxx.) she loves a good skincare and makeup routine. 

Lucy: starting 4th grade. into mario kart video games and horses lately. when I tell her to stop playing on the nintendo switch she snuggles up on the couch with one of her books that she re reads several times and still loves. her hair is so dark and rich and she usually asks me to braid before she goes to sleep so it doesn't get all tangled. I love doing it. her two friends were in a local play, the chocolate chip nightmare, and lucy went to see it two times. what a loyal and wonderful friend she is. 

Jude: saying so many things:

fish, horse, I love you very much (I heard him say this to a barbie and give her two kisses. my sweet boy), Ella, Lucy, most of their friend's names as well- he adores their friends, help please, where the remote?, dress, where are you?, lots of animal names and noises, he'll ask to watch this specific episode of ms. rachel about farm animals by calling it, "ee I ee I o" because she sings old mcdonald had a farm. Jude is such a dear. he is always wanting to play barbies. he'll say bye to people when they leave unsolicited. I tried to potty train him, but it failed. next time.

Christmas and 18 month Jude

Ella and Brent were in the Clark Farm live nativity yesterday and we went and saw them. it was cold. but beautiful. ella said she did not enjoy it. lol. she was a shepherd and just sat on a bale of hay for an hour and every few minutes pet the sheep she was sitting by. 

Jude turned 18 months on December 12. He doesn't say much, but here is what he does:

-waves goodbye to me when he leaves my bedroom in the morning to go visit Ella in her bedroom

-says, Uh oh when he or anyone drops something. he forms his mouth in a pronounced little o shape.

-says, Thank you when you give him something. 

-will do a neigh sound when he sees a horse or plays with a horse

-can do a quack sound for a duck! he cant say the q sound, but he does the ending!

-loves playing in the water in the sink or bathtub. loves pouring and transferring water and other little things like marbles or puzzle pieces or oats or rice from one cup or bowl to another.

-will climb up on the couch and give me the remote to turn on ms rachel on netflix. then pat the couch next to him for me to sit down

-likes playing with lego people, especially the little horses. and of course will neigh. he will do like a come here motion with his hand for me to sit by him.

-he can say no! he will say it, but it kind of has an a sound instead of an o sound. he will also shake his head no if he doesn't want something.

-always sucks his thumb and clutches his blue blanky to go to sleep

 

might I be pregnant?!

 Hello. Self. Brent and I have been trying to get pregnant since June of 2025. Based purely on my desire to have a little buddy for Jude- which is a little debatable in its validity of a reason. 

No dice since June. However now, I am feeling some feelings that make me wonder, am I? of course I think this every month. This months feelings:

-feeling nauseous when I have low blood sugar

-I ovulated several days early which feels notable for some reason. but it really isn't?

-I'm hungry and its very early in the morning. that feels unusual.

-tired. but this happens every month. this is not unusual to this month and the above reasons are. Jude wakes up usually 2x a night. so it makes sense. I go to bed 11pm ish or so sometimes midnight. wake up 1am and 530am usually to get a Jude a bottle. Then fully awake sometimes between 7-8am and sometimes I just stay awake after the 530 wake up. 

This is unrelated to the pregnancy thoughts, but I am out of a pump at the moment and going MDI. I went very low yesterday. 31. very unpleasant for all involved. then rocketed to very high. 330. stayed in the 150s most of the night, which frankly was better than i expected given no lantus. but cant be good for me. My plan was to back up on the dash pump since i have a lot of them in storage, but i can't get the Dash pdm to turn on. bother. so humalog shots it is. The companies are kindly overnighting me some emergency omnipod 5 pumps and a new PDM. but i wont get them for another day i think. so now im researching the complicated interwebs about using my dash pumps with the DIY algorithm called Loop. But it is intense. you must build your own app. theres a lot of information to sift through. we shall see. though i have been wanting to try it out for a while. my current14 day blood sugar average is 130 or so, sometimes 120. but i want around 100 would be ideal. 

***update, i wasn't pregnant. lol. its fine.

15 month Jude things

Look at him hanging from the gymnastics bar!! I don't know if all babies can do this, but it is so cute. We had his 15 month doctor appointment today and it seems like he is a bit delayed in talking. He rarely says mama- and its debatable if that is what he is saying. But he DEFINITELY has said thank you multiple times in this darling rather inaudible way that sounds something like eng-oo. But other than that he is growing in all the usual ways. Poor little guy had 4 shots and it was so sad. I cried a little. and thats fine.

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