Last Week of Football

Tonight marks the last football game of the season.

I've taken pretty much no pictures. I've captured a pitiful amount of video. Zach played in maybe three of his 8 or 9 games (don't ask). Reid plays full time defense now.

My dad got some pictures of one of Reid's games... he's #26.

These two shots show him wrapping a guy up and making the tackle. It was a pretty impressive tackle.

This shot is of Reid chasing the runner down. He gained 52 yards. He was totally in the clear with the goal line in his sights, but Reid kicked it into high gear, made the tackle, saved the points, and was very pleased with himself.

As well he should have been.

So this Friday, I will not have to pick anyone up from school. But, "Rest-a while you can, monkey-boy!" because next week Reid starts wrestling. He's not sure if he's going to stick with it, but I think he wants to give it a try. If he does, their season ends at the end of February. FOUR months. FOUR. Kill me now.

My Friday

Mike got home late Wednesday night. Yea. So my Friday was considerably better than my Monday. It went something like this:

5:15 - Kira wakes up... I try to get her back down, but no luck

5:45 - Still sort of trying to keep Kira from waking up, I send Mike to get Reid in the shower

6:00 - Give up, get Kira up, get Zach up, make lunches

6:45 - Zach out the door for the bus

6:50 - Load Kira up, take Reid to seminary

7:05 - Home, start watching Survivor

7:50 - Sneak out to get Reid while Kira is playing in the living room

8:05 - Home, finish watching Survivor, start watching Amazing Race

8:50 - Ask Mike to take the boys to school and to take Kira, so Mike loads up Kira and takes the boys

9:20 - Put Kira down for a much needed nap

9:25 - Finish watching Amazing Race, watch Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty

11:40 - Kira up, lunch, play

3:30 - Zach comes home off bus... he didn't realize he had practice after school

4:50 - Reid home off bus... he actually didn't have practice today

5:30ish - I put in Gladiator upstairs and start watching it

8:30 - Zach loads the dishwasher and runs it

8:45 - Cole cleans the kitchen table

9:45 - Sitting on couch posting to my blog while Mike and the kids are upstairs

So I went out of the house a total of two times today. And one of them was without Kira. Ahhhh... I'll take more days like this anytime!

My Monday

Mike left really early yesterday morning to catch a flight to Boston. He'll get home super late Wednesday night.

So my day went like this:

5:45 - up, kids up, make lunches

6:15 - Kira wakes up

6:50 - Load Kira up, drive Reid to seminary

7:05 - Home

7:50 - Load Kira up, pick up "Morning Brothers" from seminary

8:05 - Home

8:50 - Load Kira up, take "Morning Brothers" to school, stop by bank

9:20 - Home

10:00 - Put screaming baby down for a nap

12:00 - Feel grateful that Kira napped for two hours

3:00 - Load Kira up, take food to Zach (who has a football game I can't go to because it's windy and rainy and not good weather for Kira to be out in)

3:40 - Home

5:20 - Load Kira up, pick up Reid from football

5:40 - Home

6:40 - Load Kira up as well as Reid, Jacob and Cole, pick up Zach from football game... it takes me 30 minutes to get across town because of a broken down truck on the highway... still rainy and windy and now it's dark, too)

7:20 - Get Zach, drive to book store to get book that Reid has needed for English class for over a week

7:40 - Park a million miles away from bookstore because apparently everyone is at the mall where the bookstore is located... leave all kids in car because Kira is sleeping... threaten them with their lives if they wake her up

8:00 - Home, Kira wakes up, screams for half an hour before going back to sleep

9:30 - Bed, pray that Mike makes it home safely because this whole single parent thing is not for me!

Piggy Flu and "The Bearded One"

So Mike has swine flu. He went to the doctor yesterday because he was running a fever. He figured it was an infection related to his poison ivy which now covers many sections of his body. (I told him he should have warned me of his defectiveness BEFORE I married him.) However, it was just that his body was kicking him while he was down and he tested positive for swine flu. The doctor gave him a steroid shot to help with the poison ivy and wrote him a prescription for some fancy ointment to help with the really bad spots. He also got a prescription for some super duper cough suppressant.

And he's feeling much better today. His fever is gone (the dr said it usually only lasts around 24 hours) and the steroid shot has really sped up the healing of his grotesque face. :) (I'M KIDDING!!!)

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Kira woke up this morning while I was taking Reid to seminary. Mike said she yelled out, then another minute later made a couple of sounds, so he went to her crib. At this point, she was pretty quiet and it was very dark when he picked her up. She reached out, felt his beard and burst into tears. I wish I could say that she wanted me because of my great mothering techniques, but we all know why she really wanted me...

Small Things

The church has early morning lessons for high school students called seminary. The class starts at 7am and ends at 7:50am. So every morning I drive Reid there, come home for a while, and then go to pick him up. Kira usually comes with me to pick him up. We also pick up two to four other boys who come and hang out at our house until around 9am when I drive them all to school. We call these boys Kira's "morning brothers". She loves them and they love her! They talk to her, sing to her, and have recently begun talking about what they'll call her when she's older. Right now they call her "Baby" and say it with much gusto!

Shaeson and Parker come over every day. Two other boys are more sporadic. Shaeson is the one holding her. He usually carries her in from the car when we get home each day. And Parker is the other boy. Reid is peeking in from the background.

And last week, we took the baby gate off the stairs. Kira can go up and down safely now. We are keeping a folded sleeping bag on the floor at the base of the stairs just in case she takes a tumble, but she's a little pro, so hopefully she'll do alright. While I was folding clothes just now, she went upstairs, played for a while, then came back down.

What a cutie!

I thought her birthday post should be about something that she both likes to do and is good at. She likes her puff snacks and she is quite good at getting into them.

See how the edge of the lid is starting to curl up? She uses her bottom teeth to pry it up. (And she has 10 teeth now. All four molars are in!) Then she takes the lid off:

And reaches ALL the way in! The only thing missing is a picture of them spilled all over the floor! I love how she has her whole arm inside the container!

She is such a precious little person. We are amazed that she is a year old.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Kira is 1!!!

I'll post a bunch of pictures of our birthday girl later in the day!