Some interesting things have been happenin' round here:
Recently, for some reason Eli thinks that this flip flop tastes good, but only the back side, and he only likes to suck on the peg poking through. So he just sucks on it and walks around like that #wheredidhelearnthat #ihopehedoesntdie #ifhedoes #hideyoflipflopsfromyokids
Also, the other night for FHE, Nate asked me what I wanted to do for the activity, I told him something that would make us laugh. So he told me I could pick....we totes played "down by the banks" hand clapping game. You know, like me and my sister did when we were 10? He got it down pretty fast :) and yes! we did get lots of laughs out of it! I almost did "miss mary mack" but he said one was enough. #itslikehesmanlyorsomething #hesagoodsport #lovehim
Here's some other good news: Eli's face looks much more normal now! Yesterday morning, he looked like THIS:
and yes, it drove me nuts all.day.long! until it naturally fell off. I told nate I was having the hardest time not picking it off myself #doesanyoneelsehavethatproblem??? Nate thinks i'm weird, but i dont think so. I am a picker and a biter....a nice biter. I mean, i bite all my hard candy really fast. I'm pretty sure if I was part of the Marshmallow Study that President Uchtdorf talked about (find it here), I would have lost it in a few minutes.
Anyway, he is looking lots more normal now. I am glad I dont get those "what did you do to your child" looks anymore. I was sick of giving back the "stop judging me, he's a toddler!" looks!
#sidenote he blows the cutest kisses
#doublesidenote these Tommee Tippee bibs ARE AMAZING!! we went through a few to find the right ones, and these are awesome! they never get smelly and you can wash them fast and they don't have to dry, and never get stained!
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So, yesterday I was all excited about SUMMER!
but i decided to stay in and get stuff done.
then when i woke up this morning, i was ready to get out and play (well, sit somewhere and watch eli play)...and we had this:
#lookhardtoseethesnow #thebushesarecovered!
so I got all ready...
#6monthbump
#ihadtocelebrate3rdtri
but no friends were able to hang out with me. but i wasnt going to let a little...ok, a lot of snow and coldness, and no one coming with me, stop me and Eli from having fun. So we hopped in our car (as nicely as pregnant ladies hop, I probably plopped), anyway, so we plopped in and went to the rec center indoor playgroud #freeisawesome
BUT....a gazillion other people had the same idea! It was crazy. Eli just sat there
#side note --when i typed gazillion, it didnt tell me to spell check it...is it a word??
#backtothestory
Anyway, Eli mostly just sat there and stared at all the kids running around like crazy. But hey, I got out of the house, Eli got his play time in, and now we'll probably be super sick from all the kids' germs #orflipflopgerms we have recently contacted. But i'm glad we got out
Then I came home and read this AMAZING talk in the April Ensign
It is called "It Isn't a Sin to be Weak"
It was amazing. I think every woman should read it. I think that most women are consumed with this disease of "perfectionism." (Yep, I think that perfectionism is detrimental.) And with this disease, nothing we do is ever enough, and we compare (thanks to social media making everyone else's lives look perfect) and critisize (mostly ourselves) and put ourselves down. So I think its wonderful to realize what is really a problem, and what is really not a "sin" but is something that we can use the atonement's grace to overcome.
I know its possible. We can all become better, but not by cutting ourselves down, but by looking up!
Good luck to everyone today!
You are not your to-do list
You are beautiful and worth everything
#herestobeingreal
#herestolovingourselves
Plopping into your car made me laugh so hard!!! I'll have to read that article. Thanks for sharing! Ps. You look amaaaaazing and your belly is oh so cute! So is Eli :) pps. I played down by the banks yesterday!! But it was at YWs and we were getting everyone excited for girls camp :) was it hard to play with only 2.5 people?
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