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(my messy little eater, he has gotten so good with eating...still no vegetables though)

wow, I haven't posted in a while. I guess I have been busy. Things just go by too fast now.

I have been feeling really good lately. I have recently (within the last month) taken up weight lifting. I just love it. My muscles all feel so strong and I just feel so full of energy afterwards. I never understood Joe's love for it til now. It can get addicting. For the past month I have been extremely consistent, going to the gym every morning at 7 am. I found the earlier I go, the easier it is to get it done. I just love it!

This has helped immensely with my tennis. I LOVE tennis. Joe bought me tennis lessons for Christmas and I must say, I loved the thought of it then and now that I am almost done, I just couldn't be happier with my gift. I have had 10 lessons and I have enjoyed it so much! I guess I am getting pretty good because the owner of the country club has invited me to play on one of the competive leauges! I am so excited! I am sure it is a beginners league, but nonetheless I am stoked and totally flattered that she asked me to play. Only 8 women were asked out of, well, I dont know how many that have gone through the program since last August, but quite a few I imagine. It starts May 10th and I am really trying to practice hard so that I can get even better. I have never really been into sports, but find that I am loving playing tennis and just itch to play again after each session. It's fantastic!

I am officially down to my pre-pregnancy weight and think that I am as fit as I have been since I was dancing every day in high school. It just feels so great! I highly recommend it:)

Easter and Ducks

Easter was so fun this year. Dallin was actually cognisant of what was going on. He loved the candy of course! He loved to look in his basket and find all the goodies. I tried on his bunny ears...


I tried to get him to put them on, but no such luck!

(he threw them down hard...hahha)

Dallin going through his basket

He especially loved that snicker eggs, here he is just smiling at them...

Dallin and his daddy on easter morn

We had alot of fun, just lounging and then watching conference. We went to my parents house for the first session and to have sunday dinner (really lunch because it was at 1pm, but for some reason we call it dinner) and had a lovely time. Yummy cooked ham and homemade gravy is just the best. You can not top that goodness.

We went home to watch the second session of conference because Dallin was just not happy about having to sleep in a pack n' play. We watched conference and then all fell asleep. It is not too often that this happens and it was just bliss. WE all napped on the couch together for a good hour. I woke up and snapped this cute pic of Dallin and Joe. So sweet.

Joe is slowing learning the guitar, and Dallin just loves to try to "play" too. His eyes just light up when he sees it.

His classic scrunchy face and another of him and the guitar. He seriously loves this thing.

A few days ago, it started to warm up, so we headed to the duck pond on campus for some bread throwin' and duck chasin'

Dallin didn't really do either, but he seemed content in my arms or Joe's.

We had a blast being in the sun. It looks like it is finally starting to warm up and I couldn't be more excited. I don't have much patience with the cold. I have my valid reasons, like being allergic for one, and two, I just can....hahaha. Here comes the sun, little darlin, here comes that sun, and I say, it's alright.....YES!

He won't eat them Veggies

I can not get Dallin to eat his vegetables, or even most meats for that matter.

Hence, he isn't getting the vitamins he needs nor the protein he needs.

All he wants to eat is crackers and vanilla wafers.

If anyone has some advice, please let me know it. I am all out of ideas myself and really really want him to eat healthy.

It all started when he got sick with pneumonia. He would eat almost anything, but once he got sick, he just wouldn't eat, so I started him on formula again. I know I had to, so he would at least get some nutrition when he was sick, but man, it has made life so hard now. Now that he is better, he is more pickier than ever and I just don't know how to help him stop.

Here are some questions:

Is it safe to let them go without a meal if they just won't eat anything healthy?
Do I just try again the next time? How long do I wait between trying to get him to eat a vegetable? How about meat?
Any advice on how to prepare the veggies so he will eat them?

Grandma Hansen, I am counting on you to help me with this? How did you get three boys to end up eating all the right foods?

This is the part of parenting that I highly underestimated the difficulty of it all.

He was so great eating before, and now he is like a completely different child when it comes to eating. I guess I am just wondering, if this is just how he will be, or will he grow out of this pickyness?????

Advice please.

The crankster

Dallin has been such a crankster lately.

He is usually so happy and laid back. He has been so sick, but man...he has been a grumpy baby lately.

I was wiping his nose and like usual he squirmed and threw his head back in defiance. And that is when I saw them...

Two huge molars breaking through his gums on top.

No wonder he has been so cranky.

Molars here we come! Finally, he will be able to chew with efficiency:)

28 or something...

So I know that you have like 28 teeth or something like that, if you don't have your wisdom teeth, which I don't. They were pulled when I was 16 and I looked like a chipmunk for a good 2 weeks.
I have had the worst luck with my teeth, or genetics, because I think luck really has nothing to do with it. I brush my teeth 3 times a day, I floss each night (should do it in the morning, but always forget) and I use mouth wash each time I brush. You would think that my teeth would be great, healthy and strong.

They are NOT.

Sadly, my teeth have given me the worst nightmares since they came in as a child. And it seems that no matter how hard I try to take care of them, I end up with another cavity, another root canal, another crown to put on, another apico to do, another retreat to spend money on...

About two years ago, I had to have a tooth pulled, do to a failed root canal, a failed apico and a failed retreat of the root canal. Soooo after spending, literally thousands of dollars trying to keep the tooth and putting myself through tons of pain. I lost it anyways.

It was so traumatic for me. I felt that not only one tooth was missing, but two were. The gap seemed larger than one, and I felt so self conscious. I was a hilly billy with missing teeth!!! I have been living with only 27 teeth and it has been so annoying. Everytime I want to chew something on my right side where the tooth is missing, I am abruptly reminded I cannot, when that sharp chip, or that cold icecream hits my exposed, gaping hole of a gum line, it hurts, it freezes like ice and throbs when it gets pushed on.

BUT...over the last year I have been going through the process of getting a tooth implant. I had a bone graft, a shaft placed and I had to wait for it to heal.

I am happy to say that tomorrow, after years of being a toothless hill billy...hahah....I am finally getting "a" tooth back. I won't be my own, but at least there won't be this huge gap where my molar used to be. Hurray!!!

I can hardly wait to chew on my right side again! The bliss!

I though it was

Spring...I thought it might be here. I even went outside for bike rides wearing capri's and flip flops. I went out to the garden and pulled out dead annuals and weeds, I raked it all up, it looked nice and ready for planting new flowers.

Then I woke up this morning and found it snowing. My heart sank....NOOOOOOOO! "I want Spring," I said.

If I can't have spring outside yet, then I guess I will make my own inside. I made these bright yellow flowers from paper mache and tree braches from my backyard. They brighten my kitchen, my bathroom and my living room. They literally cost 20 cents to make.

Take that snow, ice and wind.

hahahahahah, I am victorious :)

Prayer

Dallin is himself again.

Just a testament that prayers really do work. They surely do.

It is like he got better over night. No fever, very little coughing, no wheezing.

His little smile is back and those eyes are full of life again.

We went for a bike ride today. He LOVED it. He giggled alot. I looked back often to find him laying against the bike trailer, eyes closed and just smiling as the sun shone down on his face.

(our sweet ride)

Yes, he is doing much better today.

Thank you for all the prayers. I know they worked wonders on him. My little boy is back...