Buddha belly

MUDBOG!!

This weekend consisted of us driving down to Fillmore, Utah to help the in-laws with the annual ATV Jamboree. One of the highlights is the Mudbog. Pretty much they make a really deep, thick pit of mud and have contests to see who can drive through it. Its pretty fun to watch and I guess even more fun to drive through it. They also have races called "dash for cash" where they have the different age groups run through the mud to get $10 on the other side. Its pretty funny to watch, the little kids get stuck and the bigger kids just face plant because they get going too fast and when one goes, the rest of them usually trip over them. Thats some good redneck fun.

So, so very tired

just sayin'. I do have some smashing video of what we did yesterday in Fillmore and I'll post it today sometime. But now I'm headed for more sleep. We got home way too late and then i had baby duty all night. ugh.

The last few nights have been challenging with the wee one. He's starting to get hungry a lot sooner so he wakes up soooooooooooo many times a night I forget how often I'm up. I'm thinking its about time for him to meet rice ceral. They can be friends while mommy gets to have her all night sleeping parties back.

My sweet baby boy

a little update:

the wee-one has been suffering from Thrush for the past month (almost). Originally the doctor gave him some sticky yellow medicine that we had to do four times a day, one mL in each cheek (you know how much liquid a baby's mouth can hold? not that much.) which resulted in me trying to catch the sticky yellow goo as it came back out of the mouth. Four times a day. Usually I was not very successful either. This we did for two whole bottles worth.

And it still wasn't gone.

So, back to the doctors we went. Upon careful observation his doctor announced that it indeed had not gone away. (I could've told you that and saved us the time and 20 bucks it cost us to show up!) Not hard to see. Aaaanyway, she prescribed something different. I guess its much stronger because its only once a day and he only has to swallow .75mL. That was Monday. The thrush is almost gone now! And we're breathing a collective sigh of relief. Why, you might ask?

For those who don't know, Thrush is an infection in the mouth. Not just any infection. Oh no, no, no. A yeast infection. The doctor said she thinks it was because they gave him a course of antibiotics in the NICU when he was born and it predetermined him for Thrush (since the antibiotics killed off his good bacteria in his mouth and let the little yeasties roam wild and free). And for him, not a huge deal because it wasn't causing him any discomfort (although sometimes it can) it was a concern for me because his little infected mouth has a lot to do with certain feeding procedures. Which could get infected.

I hear it feels a lot like fire.

Thaaaaank heavens I didn't have to experience a yeast infection in the milk-glands. Thats all I'm gonna say. Thank heavens.

So now that his little mouth is turning back to a lovely shade of pink (previously covered in the tell-tale patches of white) I can stop playing Russian roulette 8 times a day.

Destry so lovingly demonstrated what the beginning stages of Thrush looks like. Freaky picture, right? It makes me laugh every time I look at it. But this was at his blessing. Thanks to my super smart sister for pointing it out in the first place. She's just so dang smart!

Musical Furniture

Yesterday I played a great game of musical furniture. All caused by the addition of a changing table for the nursery. The problem was that there was a couch in there to begin with and both wouldn't fit soooo...

the couch went into my room but that caused a problem because we had our dresser in there. Sooooo that went into our closet.

but that caused a problem because that was where we kept our safe and both wouldn't fit. sooo that went to another undisclosed location :D

and this is the changing table. I spruced it up a bit with some paint because it has some water-damage. And I got sick of painting and we wouldn't have enough to finish the project so we went for the two-toned approach. For once in two years I had to figure out what to put in the cabinet because it was EXTRA STORAGE SPACE!!!! Woh, nelly. I am stoked. Still figuring out what to put in there....

What Kolt got from Destry

awwww, isn't it cute?! I figured I'd share it with you all because I was pretty proud of myself...you know how hard it is to get a three-month-old baby to keep his hand straight while you apply the paint and then transfer it to paper? Really hard. He still wants to keep his hands in fists while he sleeps so yeah. But we did it after a few attempts. And his fingernails still have a little green tinge to them but hey, it was worth it!

yet again

I'm number 3345 for the pioneer woman's giveaway today. A lovely yellow mixer.

Some explaining to do...

As you can see my blog has become highly interactive. I'm still figuring things out so there will be more changes I'm sure. But feel free to click on stuff, vote, search google, and whatever else I discover to stick on here.... :D did I mention click on stuff??

Happy Fathers Day!

Now that we're parents these spiffy holidays in honor of us are pretty neat. So, in honor of Father's Day, lets take a brief walk down memory lane with Kolt on his very first dad day.

here is the little heart breaker working with his dad at his shop. He loved to go and "fix stuff" so his mom made him some coveralls and he was a happy little man. Cute too, eh? You can see where Destry gets it.

Here's the pretend four generation photo...pretend since it's on his mom's side so it doesn't really count for the "official" four generations of Davies....but it is a nice one of the grandma, great grandma and great grandpa. This was last month. He's sooo big now it's crazy.

And last, but definitely not least, Kolt in his first few days of being a daddy. And quite convenient that his daddy is in it too. Three generations. Although, he could be holding a melon in that blankets for all we know since all we can see is the little round noggin. But I can testify that it is indeed our son. Besides, who would want a peach hairy melon? eww.

now look at 'im!

Looking back, this is what we started with. Nice round little head, button nose, (and two eyes made out of coooaal) jk-- and a nice round belly full of organs.

Now look at him! round head, even cuter button nose and his belly is now full of milk and all his organs fit too! wow.

sorry for the blurriness, my camera doesn't like to do up close and personal very much.

Aww man!

didn't win my food processor. :( i won't be making any pesto or creamy soup or super fast pie crust any time soon. No-sir-ee-bob! Not like I was planning on it but those were what I could come up with in the 30 seconds it took to write this post. Sooo now everyone knows that someday, for a spectacular gift, i would just die for a super nice food processor.

and one more thing

just like to say that i'm growing EGG PLANT this summer!! So i'm on the look-out for good egg plant recipes. Found and interestingly tastey-looking one on Pioneer woman. mmmmmm go here for that if you care. But! If you know of a good way to cook egg plant, i'm all ears.

Luck be a lady tonight!

For all you readers who are not familiar with "the Pioneer Woman"s blog, you should stop by for a visit. Its full of recipes and photography and stories and pretty much just darn entertaining. On occasion she gives away stuff from her sponsors and today it was......

drumroll please.....


two Cuisinart Classic 14-cup Food Processors!

Oh, how I long for a large, strong, muscular food processor. I neeeed a good food processor. I dream of food processors. Ok maybe not dream, but I think about them quite often and how my two cup mini-processor just doesn't really cut it. So I entered. I'm #16408 (yes that's how many people have entered before me). Cross your fingers!

Possibly the smartest baby ever.

Destry rolled over today--tummy to back! This video is the second roll over since I was completely surprised by the first. I laid him down on his tummy so he could look around and ten seconds later he went FLOP! Right on his back again. So I hurried and grabbed the camera turned him back on his tummy (much to his dismay. All that work...) and it took a little longer but he did it again! He may or may not be a complete genius. He'll be doing astrophysics and organic chemistry in no time. :)

My sexy little brother brian

Just thinking today about my little brother Brian. Spent the day yesterday with him getting a few things done so he can move out of the parent's house soon. He's pretty much super cool and even though he has a mohawk currently, we don't hold it against him. :) jk He needs a job badly so we're trying to get him employed. We had to go buy a shirt that he could wear to look somewhat responsible when going to interviews so of course we headed to Gateway Mall in SLC. Apparently there were no other stores between here and there that would fit the bill. But he wanted to go to Urban Outfitters so I figured it would be worth the drive. It was.

These pics are from a few years ago but we all agree he could start his modeling career with them. He's got such a strong profile it's ridiculous.

This is for my dad

You wanna know the difference between an outfit and a costume? Well, the following qualifies for a costume and not so much an outfit. Cute either way...

Confessions of a Me Monster--Laura Edition

so I was tagged by Jenna and I'm not entirely sure what this is all about but I'll try to figure it out. This clip does tell a little bit about it I guess. It's pretty funny--->Brian Regan--Dinner Party

1. For some reason this is always the first thing that comes to mind...but in 6th grade I jumped the fence during recess with two girls (who convinced me it was ok to do this if it was during recess) and we went to Albertsons to buy candy. We totally got caught and ended up in the principals office crying our dumb little 11-year old eyes out. The part I remember most was when we came over the fence and saw the "duty lady" walking up I crammed my bag of candy into Gabe Thaynes hands so there would be no evidence. Then after all the drama with the principal and missing class and having my little brother see me (thanks to Gabe so brilliantly pointing me out to him) it ended up with my candy being consumed and I sure as heck didn't get any. That whole incident totally traumatised me for years. I couldn't got into an authority figure's office without wanting to completely come unglued. It still hits a little sore to this day but I mostly laugh about it now.

2. Sometimes I'll put destry's mouth up to my chin or my nose when he's hungry so he'll suck on it. It just feels so funny and makes me laugh.

3. I find it extremely hard to vacuum my carpet. I think its due to the fact that my vacuum is smelly ("oh it isn't smelly." "Oh yes its smelly. And i hate it! i hate it!") and my carpet needed to be replaced several years ago. The motivation just isn't there. Someday I'll have nice carpet and a vacuum that actually does its job and I'll still probably find it hard to vacuum. But I'll do it because I'll think about this nasty carpet and how people before me probably didn't vacuum it when it was nicer.

4. We let Destry watch TV when he's grumpy. That kid loves TV. He has since day one. It just makes him so much happier and entertained much longer than toys or singing with weird voices or any of that other baby-entertainment monkey stuff.

5. I really want to be able to sew baby clothes and sell them but its too hard to start something like that. But maybe if I get requests....

6. I'm mostly anti-social. (jenna can attest to this) But I find it really hard to "hang out" with people or go and do stuff with other people. Its weird because I like other people and have friends but for some reason you try to get me out of my house and my insides start doing the mamba (and not a happy mamba either.) Its always been like this ever since I started the whole friend thing at like 6. When I actually get out and do stuff with people I'm glad and I have fun but its the getting part that sometimes is hard. I'm just lame like that. Honestly, I think it's because I never really had a good friend after Megan Matthews in like 4th grade until Jenna in 10th grade and I missed a few lessons in friendship.

7. I really like plants. I like to buy them in the springtime and plant them anywhere I can. I've played with the thought of pulling all my grass in the backyard and making a fun garden out there but we really couldn't afford that and I think Kolt might have some beef with the idea of no grass. And Kobe wouldn't have a place to poo, although it seems that he favors pooping in my small flower bed anyway.

8. Two years from my life that I wouldn't miss: 6th grade and 12th grade. 6th because of the before mentioned incident with the duty lady and also because it was the start of the "I'm not cool enough" phase that hits around Jr. high. 12th grade, well because I really didn't like high school very much and it was probably one of the most stressful years of my life simply because I was a student body officer and that's all I had time for. They made us do everything and there were days where I would go to school early and not get home until that evening after dinner. Not to mention boyfriend drama and friend (or lack of) drama (mostly because of stupid boyfriend drama) .

9. I love cereal. My pregnancy was split into cereal phases. There was a fruit-loop stage, a Frosted Flakes stage, a cocoa puff stage, a short rice crispy treats cereal stage...capt'n crunch made an appearance...all ending in an addiction to Reese's Puff Cereal that I'm still battling. Destry doesn't do chocolate so I have to avoid it if I don't want baby vomit all over me all day long. I have developed a liking for Cheerios and with enough sugar they are downright tasty. And the baby doesn't mind sugar as far as I can tell.

10. I'm surprised that I thought up nine things to write about in this list of confessions. I really don't have too many secrets because mostly I'm boring. I am reading Harry Potter right now--the one for the movie that will be out this summer. That's about it for crazy. Woo-hoo. Harry is a rebel. and i Loooooove it. :)

Don't know what to think about this one....

So kolt just informed me that a lady at his work has been diagnosed with....


SWINE FLU!!!!! H1N1 VIRUS OF DEATH!!


ok, so maby I went a bit over board with the whole virus of death bit but still a cause for concern. And the best part was when Kolt was telling me on the phone he started to cough. nice. I told him he couldn't come home if he starts getting sick.


I'm sure we're under some form of legal obligation to tell everyone we've had some link to the disease...

Tub time!!

yeaah...

note to self: don't eat too many of the croissants. It might make you want to puke all night long. I dunno, could be that pound of butter...

I may or may not have eaten (well, lets just say several) several of those bad boys and pretty sure the calories tried to ban together to usurp my digestive system. ugh. Talk about a french Revolution. hehehehe

I'em Frensh!

Ok so maybe not but I did try my hand at making croissants from scratch today. Oui, Oui!! Aaaaand they turned out pretty good, I know what I did wrong so in the future they'll be better. But they are quite tastey and when you're home all day anyway, the labor is not so bad. Just stretches through the whole day. seriously. I started this morning at 8 making the dough (I actually prepared the butter last night) and now its 4:35 and they are out of the oven. Whew. My house is kinda warm too. ugh. Nevertheless! Checked that off my list of things I want to try to make someday.
And for all you who would like to know what recipe I used, go to Epicurious.com's recipe for croissants and you too can enjoy hours of bakery fun. And for some reason they have a separate recipe for the actual baking of the croissants so go here for that. I guess if you use the dough for something other than the traditional moon-shape you'd have to do something else.

Golf anyone?

Destry is totally ready to golf...well, at least he has the outfit! We'll work on the whole stand-up and swing-a-club thing.

Destry update

I mentioned in the fishing post that Destry had his two month appointment. He now weighs in at 12 lbs, 14 oz. Measures 24" tall and his noggin is pretty normal too. All his measurements put him in the 75% range so he's a little bigger than average, but still in proportion (no huge head or anything---like sputnik, spherical but quite pointy in parts...) :D Mostly he was having a good ol' time until they started sticking him with needles. Then his eyes got all huge and he started wailing. it was cute. Sad, but cute. It took him a while to calm down after wards. I had to have uncle Brian go get some tylenol afterwards because Destry started to do the whole fever thing. Plus, his leggies were hurting him and anytime he moved he would cry and if he didn't move he would moan. hehehe poor little guy.

But now he's doing great and he even slept through the night again last night. Which was good since I was super tired having to be up so much the night before.

Free Fishing Day

Saturday was Free Fishing Day in Utah so we decided to take advantage of the day. We went to Salem Pond (which is in springville-ish) and had fun fishing for a few hours.


Kolt only caught a couple of these little tiny BlueGill's but it was still nice to get out of the house for a bit.

This guy came prepared with chicken livers so he was catching catfish. We've done that before and it's pretty fun but I don't like the taste of catfish very much. Nonetheless, he was the only one successful in his fishing endeavors. He also found the need to show us all his techniques to ensure our success in the future. He was nice...a bit off, but nice. :)

Destry slept pretty much the whole time, only waking up to eat half-way through. Then he went back to sleep. He had a rough night the night before because he got his 2 month round of shots that day. He didn't feel well after that and would only sleep for 20 minutes on his own so I had to either hold him or let him come sleep with us in our bed. He is a little snuggle bunny so its kind of nice, but not for the whole night.

Spoiled Rotten

That would be me. Destry totally slept through the ENTIRE night last night. I put him in bed around 9:30 (I'm pretty sure at least...) and woke up at 5:00 this morning realizing that he hadn't made a peep all night. So after checking to make sure he was still breathing I went back to bed (he's still asleep at this point--and breathing for that matter) for another HOUR!! Wow. Haven't felt so rested in almost a year now. He's been doing 5 hrs in a row these past few nights but man, this was awesome. And now it's 7 am and I'm getting ready for the day because he went back to bed. I love this kid.