She imitates EVERYTHING he does. The cutest yet is when she puts her hands in her pockets just like him!
See all the excitement!
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Today is my sweet hubby's birthday. He is turning 27! In honor of the birthday boy, here is a list of 27 things you may or may not know about Josh. Thanks Amy for the idea, I totally stole it from your post on Micheal's B-day!
1- Middle name is Dean, which covers him being named after 4 different people.
2- If he is really tired, you cannot chew around him. He can hear every last bite like you are eating in a megaphone in his ear. Thanks Kathy, jk!
3- Talks in a little girl voice to Chloee. If you have been lucky enough to have heard him do it, you know how adorable and funny it is!
4- Hates black shirts on himself.
5- His parents were divorced when he was only 10 years old.
6- Crapped his pants on a news paper route when he was little! So funny, I had to put it in.
7- He served an LDS mission to Sao Paulo Brazil.
8- Speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
9- Has 23 brothers, sisters, step and half, including himself.
10- Was very close to his grandpa Jones, who died while Josh was on his mission.
11- Has eyelashes so long, thick and beautiful, they go all the way up to his eyebrows.
12- Hates fish, seafood, etc.
13- Has an incredibly strong testimony.
14- Played soccer 1 year in high school.
15- Is OBSESSED with airplanes and has been since he was a little boy. We get to hear all the planes from HAFB around here. He always tells us what they are. I don't know how he can tell, they all look the same to me.
16- He works on landing gear for the F-15 at work. LOVES THAT!
17- When he was a kid he wanted to be an F-16 fighter pilot.
18- Had only dated 2 other girls before me. One was for over 2 years though.
19- Loves to cook and is AMAZING at it!
20- Eats ice cream with milk in it.
21- Went on a 21 day church history tour when he graduated from high school.
22- Loves Star Wars and Star Trek! Yes, that's right, my husband is a Trekkie. Not a freak Trekkie though, he didn't dress up like the characters when he saw the movies in the theater.
23- Forgot to get down on his knee when he was proposing to me.
24- Is extremely determined. If he wants to know how to do something, he will work on it non-stop until he knows how to do it! Not joking, will not stop, many late nights!
25- Favorite color is blue.
26- LOVES DARK CHOCOLATE!
27- Can't do a cartwheel. Remember Mom and Amy when we were dating! Oh, so funny!
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I have seen this tag floating around lately. I was tagged by Andrea and I am just getting around to doing it. Looks fun, here it is:
A - Attached or single?
Attached - Married for 5 years this summer.
B - Best friend?
Josh, obviously... I miss my best friend, he's in Canada now on business! :(
C - Cake or pie? Pie!
D - Day of choice?
Saturday. I love Saturdays when we can just do anything we want and especially when we don't have to travel anywhere. It's nice to just stay home once in a while!
E - Essential item?
My blue sweatpants that Josh hates but they are so comfortable, I'm constantly wearing them.
F - Favorite color?
Green, all shades.
G - Gummy bears or worms?
Gummy worms.
H - Hometown?
Hyrum, Utah
I - Indulgences?
Pinching your pennies, blog hopping and NEW YORK BAKED CHEESECAKE!
J - January or July?
July. I love celebrating the 4th of July and I just love the feeling in the air in the summer. January is gloomy and depressing.
K - Kids?
Chloee, almost 2 years old.
L - Life isn't complete without?
Josh's homemade sticky fingers, or pretty much anything he makes and my Chlo and Josh.
M - Marriage date?
July 29, 2003
N - Number of brothers and sisters?
2 sisters (Amy & Annie), 2 brothers (Jordan & Matthew) And all the great bro and sis "in-laws". I won't even attempt to name them all because there are WAAYYY too many. If you count all of Josh's brother's & sisters and steps and halves, it amounts to 23.
O - Oranges or apples?
Oranges, hands down. I love oranges especially after they have been chilled and in the summertime.
P - Phobias or fears?
I am so superstitious, I don't even want to write it. It does have something to do with dying! Must be something in the blood, you read Amy's and she had said dying from a brain tumor. Weird! I also hate mice and spiders! Blah!
Q - Quote?
I was blog hopping one day and found this on someone else's blog: "The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only-and that is to support this ultimate career." - C.S. Lewis
R - Reason to smile?
Josh's birthday is on Saturday, which means that neither of us have to cook dinner that night!
S - Season of choice?
Fall! I would love to see NY in the fall!
T - Tag Seven: Maren, Stacie, Mandy, Krysta, Jen Burbank (Jer's wife), Kimberly and Sandstone Writings!
U - Unknown fact about me?
When I met Josh, I was not active in the church.
V - Vegetable?
jicama, sooooo goooood!
W - Worst habit?
Saying a naughty word when I get scared!
X - X-ray or ultrasound?
Ultrasounds. After last month with Chloee when they did ultrasounds and x-rays. The ultrasound was much less invasive for her and didn't make me bawl.
Y - Your favorite food?
Pasta, especially Josh's pasta, so yummy!
Z - Zodiac sign?
Gemini.
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I was doing laundry this morning, as I do every Tuesday. Of course I had to scrub Chloee's shirt from yesterday. If there is one thing I can never let us run out of here, it is SHOUT! It is the only thing that saves Chloee's clothes from not looking absolutely disgusting.
I was SHOUTING her shirt and I hurried and ran downstairs to the laundry room because I had remembered that I didn't put the detergent in. Coming back upstairs I see Chloee holding our SHOUT bottle with the nozzle in her mouth spraying it. I said, "Chloee, did you drink this?". Her response was, "Yeah, nummy!". What? What kind of a kid drinks SHOUT and LIKES IT!
Immediately I called my mom and asked her if I should call Poison Control. Well, just so happens that my sister, Annie, her little girl did the same thing a little bit ago, so my mom told me to call her. I got a hold of Annie and she said that Poison Control contacted the SHOUT company and they said that it is majority water and perfume so she should be okay. What? 2 comments here.... If that is all SHOUT pretty much is, I need to start making my own. Also, of course, I was relieved that it wasn't harmful in the amount she took either. She just said I need to put lots of fluids through her and food and the most that will probably happen, if anything, she will have a little bit of some diarrhea.
Obviously, I need to not leave the SHOUT on the counter in the bathroom. Chloee gets into everything and she's sneaky at it too. Yesterday, she was drinking out of her cousin's glass when Josh told her it wasn't hers and to put it down, she said, "No". He started walking towards her to take it away. Chloee, knowing darn well what he was going to do hurried and got some more swigs in before he could take it away and just smiled at him like, "I got the last laugh and it was on you daddy".
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Chloee's new thing is to say "yeah" to EVERYTHING, excluding anything I ask her to do. You just never know what to believe. Take for example these two recent stories.
I was at Arctic Circle with a friend this week and our kids were adventuring the playground inside. We were minding our own business when a little girl (not mine, shocker) started screaming. The parents went and grabbed her and asked her if someone hurt her. She pointed right in the direction of my child and someone else's was standing next to Chloee. I shouted from the bench, "Chloee, did you hit that little girl?" This was her response, "Yeah". I haul my rear end up there, grab her and take her over to the little girl to apologize. I asked, "Did she hit you?". The little girl looks at me and says, "No, it was that one" and pointed to the other child that had been standing by Chloee. Why, Chloee, Why? Why would you say that you hit someone when you didn't? I just don't get it.
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Am I crazy? Because I feel crazy... We finally have decided to bite the bullet and get rid of the binki (insert scream here)!
Yes, I know we should have gotten rid of it a long time ago, she is going to be 2 in June, blah, blah, blah! Well, my friend Maren talked me into doing it this weekend. Oh, the drama. I remember her saying how bad it was for her little boy but then come to find out, he had an ear infection and that was what was making him so bad.
Call me attached, in fact I am probably more attached to it than she is. OK, I don't know about that but I feel bad. I feel like I am being mean by taking away something that she loves so much. "Awan my binki" or "Where binki go". I can't handle it. She has become especially attached to it the last little bit. She wants it everywhere when it used to only be at naps and bedtime. When she goes to bed she always has the 3 "B's". Her binki, blanky and baby! I guess we'll see how it goes. Any extra advice would be great. Thanks Maren and Mandy for all your help and ideas!
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