Exciting moment missed #1: One of my best friend's little girl turned one on Thursday. Her party was on Sunday at 3pm, right? Right. I've been looking forward to this ever since I heard about it and have been planning on watching her party via webcam (they live in Oklahoma right now so her smart hubby figured out how to set it up this way so family and friends out of the state could still be involved). At 2:58 on Sunday I turn on the computer and, omitting my technical difficulties here, got the live video feed up on the screen. I could see sweet little Mia across the room, sitting in her high chair, eating something. Then I saw someone else come into view and give Erica (my friend) a hug and say goodbye to her. "Gee," I thought, "how sad - they're not going to even stay for her party and watch her do the cake or anything?" Then it hit me - 3pm in Oklahoma. That would be Central Time Zone not Mountain Time Zone. They are an hour ahead of us here in Utah. So really, the party was already over and Miss Mia was sitting across the room munching on her banana birthday cake. How did I miss that?!
*Note that the baby in the pictures is not Mia.
Exciting moment missed #2: Yesterday morning I woke up at about 6:30 like I do every morning (thanks to my alarm clock named Zoe), let the kitty out, and went back to bed. About an hour later I could hear Zoe outside our bedroom window meowing to come inside. Then I heard a rustling in the leaves. And a pounce! I opened my eyes and put on my glasses and found her attacking a praying mantis in our window well. She would bat at it and it would strike back at her (it looked something like this). I shook Chris awake and told him what was happening then raced upstairs to open the window and get Zoe inside. Right when I reached the top of the stairs he called for me to hurry back and see what was happening. When I got down there poor Zoe had the mantis attached to her whiskers and she was trying to shake it off; apparently a moment before it had somehow got on top of her head! Chris said she was trying desperately to shake it off the top of her head and it slid down the side and held fast to her whiskers. How did I miss that?! She gave up after he let go and came inside pretty quickly and we found him dead a few minutes later. Poor things, they both had a rough adventure, though I'm sure each went into it feeling a lot more 'big and bad' than they really are/were.
Exciting moment missed #3: While having Family Home Evening tonight Chris and I were sitting on the floor with Lynlee, who was rolling around and playing with her toys (and talking loudly). We looked at her and giggled while she screamed and growled one of the times, looked back at our paper, and then Chris stopped and said, "Did you put her like that?" I looked and saw our little girl sitting where she had been laying a few seconds earlier. SITTING! She hasn't sat up on her own (to our knowledge) yet. How did I - you get the point by now :)
I think I better start paying more attention!
On a different subject, school is growing great for Chris and me! We are loving our classes, Chris with his Ordinary Differential Equations and Astrophysics (don't worry, my eyebrows raise up too. Someone's gotta know the smart stuff though, right?!) and me with Trigon...well, Trig is going ok, but what I really love is my Criminal Investigations class. My teacher worked for the FBI for 25 years and his last name is Crook. How legit can you get? :) He's really a good teacher.
Ok, I've gotta have a quick moment of proud wifey time here. Chris is in his first astrophysics class this semester. In his class there are a lot of physics students that are close to graduating and pretty much just took this class as an elective to get remaining credits they need. Well they took their first test last week and got the results back today. The average on the test was 15; Chris got 30!!! He doubled the average on the test! I am very proud of him!
Lynlee is doing really well with her babysitters, which makes us happy. We have a hard time leaving her but she seems to have lots of fun and it's getting her around different people (and kids, she loves kids!). Today she was with Dana and Camryn. When we picked her up the three of them were just chilling on the front lawn and it was the cutest thing to see the little girls sitting there, patting each other and trying to steal the other girl's binkie. They are just 4 days apart in age so they are on the same learning levels and such. Chris couldn't resist snapping a picture of these sweet little girls when we got up to them.
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| they were both smiling up until the camera came out. this is still cute though - look at their cheeks! :) |
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| blurrry. my bad! |
