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Does this little boy look a little strange to anyone else?...

Here is what a normal Ammon ear looks like.

Saturday's Ammon ear-- The flash made this much lighter than the purple it was.

You can see he has a mosquito bite on his forehead--and I sprayed everyone right when we got there. He also had a couple inflamed ones on his leg, so I thought maybe the ear was also a mosquito--Trav thinks it must have been something else.

We went to a ward campout (in which not one family actually camped out) and made campfire dinners and played, and the next morning Ammon's ear was very red and swollen. Mosquito bite or some other culprit, who knows. But I have never seen anything like it and it had us a little worried. Benadryl didn't seem to do anything, but it wasn't getting worse throughout the day, and now it's gone.

And More Still...

More Video

No one really has to watch this, it's just more of the same with a better camera, that's all. I just posted it for grandparents, and other people who like to watch cute little boys.

Trying out the new Cam

I had such a fun Mothers' Day! I'm not even sure what made it so nice, except that it was a good family day for sure. Here are some highlights that probably put me in a great mood...
--Trav got up with the kids, made crepes for breakfast and set up a little computer/picture clue system to lead me all over the house and computer to find the camera he got for Mother's Day. We have been thinking we need a new one anyway, but with him leaving soon, we realized that it might be nice for him to have one as well as us. Our old one did 30 second videos with no sound. The new one cost half as much as the old one and it's at least twice as nice. Yet it's still nice and simple and small, which is what we need. So these pictures are just playing around with the new one. I keep wanting to take video. I am so excited to have the sound! And 35 minutes of video. Technology is crazy amazing!
--Trav took Micah to priesthood during church and our bishopric supposedly had some special thing for all of the women in the young women room for the 3rd hour. So I went there wondering what cool flower they might have for us, and there was a full up feast set up for all the moms and they served us and talked about how wonderful we were =). It actually felt a little strange to be eating a nice lunch and visiting while we expect a RS lesson, but it was very thoughtful and nice of them.
--During sacrament meeting the primary went up to sing a couple of songs to the mothers. All of my kids except for Micah are in Primary now! Aaaah. Kaden very sweetly took Ammon by the hand and led him up there, and then during the entire 2-3 songs he stretched his neck up and grinned with the best smile and deep dimples and sang right to me. He was so happy and proud. I love those moments.
--We had friends over for dinner, and we love spending time with friends.
--Our friends brought a big ice cream cake for dessert, and it is perhaps the yummiest thing I have ever tasted. Please tell me it's also healthy?
--Trav put the kids to bed. He does that most nights and it's wonderful. But I heard Kaden come out and ask if I could come and give them a hug, and as I went up there, I got the best hugs and kids telling me they loved me and saying "Happy Mother's Day, Mom". (Then Kaden looked up at the top bunk and lovingly said to Noah "and Happy School Day tomorrow, Noah!").


I probably have this kind of picture posted every other entry or so. I just love his smile so much. What a ham.

Another Ham.

So handsome.... We borrowed a DVD from a friend that is the conversion story of Glenn Beck. It was awesome. I love to here people's stories and how they are lead to the church, especially dramatic ones like his. The reason I mention this I guess is because we watched it yesterday and that's what Travis is doing here.

My boys minus Noah, after he was gone to school this morning.

Trav and I tried out the self portrait mode. I sure like this guy a lot. Heavenly Father really blessed me to lead us to find each other. He is so talented and so good to me, and such a good example.

walking progress

Micah is actually walking much better than this but this is the only one I have caught. The kids still exclaim every time they see him, though...."Look, Mom! Micah just walked across the room!!!"--Yes, he's been doing that for a couple of weeks now. This is the first child we have had that all the other kids get so excited at his accomplishments, and new stages. It's so fun.

Oatmeal

Micah LOVES to feed himself. So there have been a few morning when he is a bit crabby and I am trying to get Noah's lunch ready and get kids fed and do lots of tasks at once to get Noah off to school, and Micah thinks he is starving, so I give him a bowl of oatmeal and let him go at it. Noah's description..."He's tries with the spoon and it doesn't work, so he takes a bite with his left hand, then tries the spoon with his right hand and it doesn't work, so he grabs a handful with his left hand". Anyway, it's a lifesaver in the moment and keeps him happy and occupied. But afterwards I have to wonder if it saved me time or not when I have to bathe him in the sink (the other boys loved that!) and clean his chair and table. Hmmm, come to think of it, I still need to do that for this morning. I had planned to go right to the gym, and haven't done that either. I hope that doesn't mean I am not going to get anything done today...

New Project

Travis just had a week of leave all last week, and this is the first time he has ever taken leave and just stayed home. Any other time he takes leave, it's so that we can go somewhere. It was so nice and so fun (and sad to have him go out the door this morning, back to work). We got lots of yardwork and projects done, did some fun things, bought our piano, went on a lunchdate, went grocery shopping together (kind of). We should definitely do that more often. Anyway, here is the storage bench that Trav made with all this free time on his hands. It's fun to see his mind start to whirl as he just decides to make something and figures out how to do it and does it. I have such a talented husband. I like him kind of a lot =).