dean, chelle, and our sweet little kara

Wow, I almost made it 2 months without blogging. I'm awesome.

But someone, let's caller her Rachel B., no, let's caller her R. Brown, was harassing and belittling me for not posting and told me I must repent and reform. I declare I have reformed.

Ok, highlights from the past 2 months. Let's see if my 9 month post partum brain can conjure up anything...

Kara is cuter than any baby should ever be allowed to be, and I'm going to eat her up because she is the most deliciously adorable thing I have ever seen in my life. She is crawling like a champ and pulls herself up on EVERYTHING. She stands there and is so proud of herself when she maneuvers herself upright and she starts yelling shouts of victory like a rockstar. Kara now has her 2 bottom teeth and those bad boys are sharp, but they give her such a cute little toofie grin. She jibber jabbers all day long, and she only cares about her toys for 2 seconds and then it's back to crawling all over Mommy and pulling herself up to a standing position a million times per day. She loves to go outside and sit and play on the grass and eat everything she can get her hands on. I love being her Mommy more than anything in the world; it is honestly better than I ever dreamed it would be, and everyday is a fun new adventure with my sweet little Kara Faith.

Dean, oh yes, I said Dean. And no, I'm not mad because I'm using his given name instead of Honig. I am just in a Dean callin' kind of mood. Dean went to Iowa for 9 loooooooong days (they seemed long to me) to take Part 3 Board review, and to take Part 3 Boards. He stayed with J&R Brownie Bites and had a good old time with them. Thank you again for letting him crash at your casa. He'll find out on Oct 23rd how he did.

Our fish tried to commit suicide. He jumped out of a bowl, took a 30 story plummet (from our counter top to our floor), flopped at least 10 feet across the floor, and was there at least 5 minutes. How do I know he was there 5 minutes? Because I walked right past him when I woke up in the morning and thought he was a dried out leaf. Five minutes later I'm on the couch texting Dean and our fish starts flopping!!! Excuse me?!! I started freaking out, grabbed a washcloth, scooped him up, and put him in his bowl where he just kept floating up to the surface. I thought he was a gonner. Alas, no, death was not his destiny that fateful day. Optimus Prime is still with us, just as spunky as ever. His color came back, he finally stopped floating to the top of his bowl, and he started eating again after 2 or 3 days. He's the fish that just keeps giving. Now try to tell me that he doesn't live up to his name.

A Mercedes SUV rear ended us a couple of days ago. No real damage to our van, just a little tiny dent to the rear fender, but it was enough to tick me off and want to put the lady's head under my hood and repeatedly close it on her.

We went to Arizona to visit Dean's Mom and Step Dad and brother and sister. We had a good ol' time and it was nice to be able to relax in the desert. We went swimming while there and our poor little Kara had an allergic reaction on her face. We thought it was from the saltwater in the pool but we've since come to find out that she was allergic to the spray on sunblock. Poor little bubby. Kara got some nice snuggle time in with her Oma, and she fell in love with the kitties and tried to show them love them by pulling their fur out.

We went to Idaho for my cousin Randy's funeral near the end of August. He unexpectedly passed away of a heart attack, and he left behind his sweet wife Lisa and two cute teenage daughters, Rachael and Saren. It was nice to see family, but it is always sad that it takes a loved one passing away to conjure up such a get together. Lisa is such a wonderful mother, and she and Randy had such dedication and love for one another that was obvious to everyone who ever met them.

I got a lovely staph infection in my left leg, and that sucker hurt. I got super sick, my leg had spreading huge red splotches on it and then it seized up on me and cramped up like I've never had it do in my life. Took a little trip to the urgent care and got some antibiotics and muscle relaxants. All is well now, but it wasn't so fun at the time. I had visions of it having to be amputated.

We went to a movie for the first time since November. Dean, Kara, and I went to a drive-in and saw G.I. Joe and Transformers 2. I'll give you 1 guess as to who picked what we were going to see. But when I say "saw G.I. Joe and Transformers 2", I use the term loosely. Kara fell asleep 2 minutes before the first movie even started and slept the entire time. I sat in the front seat and made fun of G.I. Joe and my eyes were sore the next day from how much I rolled them. Meanwhile, Dean is over there drooling at the fighting scenes and yelling "YEAH! GET EM!!!" at the screen. Then for Transformers, I decided that I needed to climb in the backseat of the van and lie down because surely my dreams would be better than that movie. Dean, of course, loved it. Apparently it wasn't as good as the first one to him. Point being, awesome date. Just like our first date, a lot of eye rolling and me falling asleep.

Dean is all done with his preceptorship. He learned a ton from the Dr. he precepted with, and he's really loving motion palpation now. He's still going to go into the office at least once a week to learn more from this Dr because he's a great teacher.

Our computer has a virus. We had to completely wipe the hard drive clean 3 days ago, and the virus is still there. Cruddy.

My 28th birthday was yesterday. Dean and I went to the Seattle Temple while Chelsey, my sister in law, was gracious enough to watch Kara for 4 hours. It was a big stepping stone for me because I've never left her for that long. I totally cried in the van right after we left Kara with Chelsey because I missed my little girl and I just get so worried about her even though I know she's in good hands. It's just overprotective mommy syndrome. But Kara was wonderful for Chels, and Dean and I had a wonderful time at the temple, and we really needed that to refocus and rejuvenate ourselves. Thank you so much Chels.

There's your catch up over our last 2 months. I'll see if I can wrangle up some pictures of Miss Buns in the next couple of days, but now my messy front room is calling and that mountain of laundry isn't going to wash itself.

Although it should.

Posted by dean and chelle at 9/25/2009 09:00:00 PM | 7 comments

I will destroy this Lego tower with one sweep of my chubby hand!

Run, Secretariat, RUN!!!!

Kara got her very first sippy cup on Saturday and she loves it. She's still getting used to the handles but she was so jealous of all the other babies sippy cups that we had to buy her one to satiate her. Money well spent.