First Injury

I thought I should document Darcy's first injury besides just a bonk or a scrape here or there. We were just out on a walk and she tripped and face planted into the pavement. It was so sad and it gave her a bloody fat lip. I have always been so nervous about how I would deal with injured kids. At first when I saw the blood on her face I wanted to cry too and I wanted to yell for help. Since it really was a very minor injury I'm glad I didn't do either of those things. Just a couple minutes after it happened and I had cleaned her up and held some ice on her lip she was as happy as a clam. A clam with a fat lip.

Here she is with her fat lip.

A close-up of the fat lip (and up her nostils). It is actually even fatter now.


I just wanted to add this picture because her eyes look so blue.

Finally

Last night Drew got the offer from PNNL! We are relieved and excited. We were both having a hard time sleeping over the past few weeks waiting to hear from them. Now we are having trouble sleeping again because we are anxious about all the details that need to be taken care of to make the move and get Drew all set up for work. We know there are lots of people out there right now looking for work, so we feel really blessed that this has worked out for us, and now we get to be close to our families! YAY!!!!! (My brother Luke would be totally annoyed that I put five exclamation marks, but in this case it really reflects how I am feeling. HA!)


Side Note: Thanks for all the tips about throwing fits and shopping with babies a couple weeks ago. Things have gotten much better. We go shopping with lots of snacks. :) The biting thing ended up being a really short phase. One time she bit me and I was stern with her and she got mad and bit her own arm. It made her cry and she did it again and cried again. I was having the hardest time controlling my laughter. It was the craziest reaction ever! She hasn't been into biting since then. I read online that if a baby throws fits at this age you are just supposed to ignore it, so that's what I've been doing. I also decided she was really just doing it when she needed attention like when I'm cooking or cleaning...or maybe a little distracted by the computer or something. So I've been working harder at always having things for her to do. She lives in the spotlight. She really is a happy girl if she has something to do or someone to pay attention to her.

Here's the happy girl this morning!

Pictures/Almost News

We thought we were going to hear today whether or not Drew was getting the job in Tri-Cities, but they are waiting on one more guy to give the OK. They told us we will know for sure by Tuesday. They said he will be getting an offer, we just have to wait to see what the offer is. We are so excited and anxious. It just sounds like such a dream come true to be there so close to our families. We will keep dreaming for a few more days I guess.

I have been waiting to update my blog until we got the news about the job, but I am getting in trouble with my family for not posting. So, here are lots of pictures of this last week to tide them over until Tuesday. :)

Darcy needed some shoes that weren't sandles for the fall, so we went shopping. I think her new shoes look so cute on her and I had to take some pictures.

A close-up of the shoes.
We've been getting crazy with Darcy's hairstyles this week. Here is the pig-tail messy buns look.
I just thought this was cute.
I do a little yoga every now and then (seriously not very much) and Darcy must be watching because one day out of the blue she bent over and did downward dog. Sometimes she will be walking along and just stop to do downward dog and then move on. She is serious about her stretching.
The other day I was filling up a water bottle and Darcy wanted whatever I had. She was crying at my feet so I decided to just hand her an ice cube. I figured she wouldn't like how cold it was, but I was wrong. She was so excited about it. She just kept switching hands and sucking on it and talking and laughing. The strangest things make her happy.
Another hair style. Today I did a french-braid across her head. I added a flower for the clip later and she looked so cute.
The french-braid with the flower.
This is just really Darcy's favorite thing. She would hang out all day outside on and around this step if I would let her. Some days we spend a lot of time out there.
I just really wanted a cute picture of me with Darcy so I had Drew take some today. The headband I'm wearing I made at a church Young Women's activity I was in charge of.
Oh so naturally having so much fun together on the door step. She seriously is fun to have around! :)
Trying to get away from the camera.
I made my first cheesecake today. It was meant to be a celebration cake after we found out good news about Drew's job. The news was only semi-good, but we ate the cheesecake anyway and it was "totally" good. (We just got back from playing tennis so don't judge us for looking nasty.)

Fall Dress/Spaghetti/Sniffing

My mom bought Darcy this dress last fall when she was here and I had her get a bigger size because at that point Darcy was growing so fast, but then she basically just stopped growing. So last year she was never big enough to wear it in the fall. Luckily, a year later, she fit in it for fall. I just love this dress!!
Again in her church outfit. We went to an air show with her a couple weeks ago and we would always point up at the planes. Now she is really good at recognizing the sound of an airplane or jet even if it's far away, and she always points up into the sky when she hears them. While I was trying to get a picture of her in her cute outfit a jet just happened to fly over.
We are in the stage where Darcy wants to try to feed herself. Nine out of ten times she makes a huge mess. Spaghetti was particularly messy, but she loved it! You should have seen the floor.

Darcy has started scrunching up her nose and sniffing. It is one of my favorite things.

What is Going On?

I just have some questions for all the baby experts out there. Darcy has started throwing fits. I really really don't like it. If she doesn't get exactly what she wants or if I take something away from her she thrashes around and sometimes even tries to bite me! I can't figure out where she got that. Drew and I certainly haven't been biting her when we're mad. :) Does anyone have any ideas or things you have tried for this kind of thing?

Also, I think I will never go shopping again. She doesn't want to stay in the cart. She wants to walk around and be free. If I don't let her out she screams. What do you do with your kids when you shop?

When do you start time-outs? Is she too young still?

Random Update

This past weekend Drew flew home to Washington to interview at PNNL in Tri-Cities. It is the job we are really hoping he gets. It would mean we could live close to both of our families, and it is a job he is really interested in to boot. He spent countless hours preparing for the 40 minute presentation he had to give. He feels good about how the presentation and the other three interviews went. Now we just have to wait for the news. They told us we would know within two weeks. That seems like forever to me. We are crossing our fingers and saying our prayers.

Drew got to go wakeboarding while he was home which he was really excited about, but he ended up hurting his knee and now he can hardly walk. So that's not so exciting.

I am the second counselor in the Young Women program in our ward. I gave a talk in church on Sunday about virtue which is the new value in the Young Women Theme. I was so nervous about it as usual, but it ended up going really well and I am so grateful for that. After reading all about virtue because of this talk I can't stop thinking about how important it is to teach our children to live virtuous lives and what a major difference that can make in the world.

A couple Darcy updates:

- Where we live there are tons of cobblestone roads everywhere. Darcy has learned if she says "ahhhhhh" while we drive on these bumpy roads her voice will shake and she loves it so she does it over and over for the whole ride. Basically every week Darcy falls asleep on the way home from church. Last week she was making her "ahhh" noise on the way home from church. At one point I was really surprised she hadn't fallen asleep yet so I looked back at her. It turns out she actually was asleep she was just still making her "ahhh" noise. Drew and I couldn't stop laughing about it.

- She snuggles with her teddy bear who we named Wayne.

- She loves shoes. She always goes and gets our shoes and her shoes and brings them to us. If we don't put them on it makes her mad. The other day she took Drew my bright pink crocs for him to put on. She finally squealed enough he gave in and put them on. It looked so funny!

- She just figured out how to go backwards down the stairs.

- Yesterday she went and grabbed the feather duster and started dusting the TV. I don't know if I should be happy that she has taken the initiative to do chores herself, or sad because she felt like the TV was so dusty she just had to do something about it. :)

Here are a couple random pictures from this week.
This is her favorite thing to do at the moment. She loves to go outside and sit on our step and then go for little walks around our apartment.
I am so happy I captured this moment. This is classic of her. She is in the middle of throwing her head back and fake laughing. It is so funny.
I just bought her this hoodie at Carters and I think she looks so cute in it!

Make-Shift Pool

I kind of had a rough time adjusting to being home alone with Darcy again after having family here for two weeks to help entertain her. For the first couple days after everyone left she was really cranky and I honestly couldn't remember what I was supposed to do. I hardly had to do anything for her with everyone here. I decided I was being way too boring for her and I had to put my thinking cap on. We went on long walks outside in the morning, but it was soo hot outside during the day it was no fun to go out. My solution was a little make-shift pool. I emptied my sewing container and filled it with water and toys. Darcy loved it. I am glad that worked, but I need more ideas. She is one BUSY girl!

Lots of pictures of the same thing, but I just think they are all funny. I wondered a little what the neighbors might have been thinking. Probably that we are hillbillies. I won't deny it.