January 17, 2010 A Week Late…

January 18, 2010

Dear Family and Friends,

Here is our week in review. Monday was a pretty slow quiet day, grocery shopping, etc. M stayed home because his leg was very swollen and bothering him. We have decided that for most weeks for FHE we are going to give lessons from the new Gospel Principles manual that we are using in church. So for our FHE we talked about Heavenly Father. M and I are both excited about our new plan.

Monday night was a hard night with J. He has not been sleeping well ever since his top two teeth starting coming in. But his teeth have been in for weeks, and although he had a slight cold I just had no idea why this boy was not sleeping for long stretches. So I called the advice line at my doctor and ended up with an appointment so they could check his ears. I knew it wasn’t his ears, but I was so desperate that I went anyway just so I could talk to a doctor and ask all those things you think it could be in the middle of the night when you are trying to get them to go to sleep. J passed the physical, and the doctor said it is very common at this age for them to get into separation anxiety. And the doctor got some firsthand experience with how J can cry like he is in excruciating pain (when he is fine) when she was looking in his ears. Although I hate going to the doctor for nothing, at least I knew that he was fine, not sick, not hungry, etc… It makes all the difference in the middle of the night. For the rest of the week we embarked on some serious sleep training. J has always put himself to sleep, so that part was easy, we just had to train him to go back to sleep when he woke up. At the end of the week some major progress has been made! Hooray, now he is going ten hours at night without a feeding. And when he wakes up he goes right back to sleep. What a relief!

Besides going to the doctor Tuesday I also played basketball, and then went to mutual. Our class was in charge of a combined activity for all the Young Women and we played Family Feud. It went pretty well, except we were frustrated that the girls we had helping out from our class didn’t step up and do as much as we had hoped for. We’ll know better next time to be more specific about what we want them to do.

Wednesday and Thursday were more quiet days. Not a whole lot going on. We spent most nights watching episodes of “24.” Thursday night I was supposed to have a planning meeting for Young Women’s but I totally forgot and went to a scrapbooking party instead. Whoops!

Friday we had our family party. We made breakfast sandwiches and then watched “Kung Fu Panda.” We all loved the movie, it was very funny.

Saturday morning we were all up and going early. I had my first basketball game with the women of the ward. It was so fun to be out there playing. There are three of us that have been playing together for the last three years, and it is fun to see flashes of our high school selves. Of course those were just flashes, but it was still fun. The rest of the day we spent working around the house and being together. That night M went to a Wizard’s game with some of this friends. He had a great time with the guys. One of my friends (her husband was with the guys) got a babysitter and called to see if she could bring over dinner to get out of the house. That sounded like a pretty good deal to me. She brought some tasty pizza and we had a good time chatting. B-man loved having her undivided attention. When she left I put B-man to bed, and then had a few hours of quiet.

Not the cutest picture, but it is very Benjamin.

Sunday was a super busy day. M had lots of meetings, extra meetings that took him away almost the whole day. He did come home for a little in between meetings, and then eventually after church he made it home. I worked on my lesson and met M at church. Eventually after church we were able to eat and have some quiet time.

We love you all!

R, M, B-man, and J