Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to David. This year for his birthday I'm making him his family's special cake. He's been asking me to make it for him for 8 years now and this is the year I'm actually going to do it! Also tomorrow we're going to this pizza place in Scottsdale that has been voted the best pizza in the US. Sometimes the waits can reach 3-4 hours! Then on to Amazing Jakes on Thursday night for a joint Eli/Daddy birthday party with friends and family. Love you honey!

Maylee is 4 months (and one week)

Our little girl is growing up! She's 4 months now and learning to do new things all the time! This month she started laughing, though it's really more squeaking and shrieking than laughing. She's got her Daddy's lungs too because she can make a lot of noise! She's found her hands and her feet and loves to chew, chew, chew on both. She can roll easily from back to front and somwhat less easily the other direction. She's the happiest baby I have ever seen, always smiling and laughing and wanting to play. David and I call her our little sunshine. We got her a bumbo last week and she really likes being up and looking around. We had our 4 month check up yesterday and she was 11 lbs 9 oz and 25 inches.

April is Gluten-Free Month

At least at my house it is.

Ever since Maylee was born I've been having a lot of trouble with my PCOS. The symptoms have become way worse then they were before I got pregnant and I just need to TRY SOMETHING to get rid of them. So after reading a bunch of medical articles on PCOS, and discovering that a large majority of women with PCOS have a gluten intolerance, I've decided to give it a try.

So I decided I would devote one month to non-gluteny eating and see how I feel. I started yesterday.

Of course I forgot that we have 4 birthdays in our family in the month of April. Sigh. Good-bye birthday cake. (No, I will not be making my poor family eat birthday cake made out of rice & sorghum flour. I will suffer alone on those days.)

And I also forgot that I'm going on vacation the last week in April. Yay...gluten-free on a road trip. That will be fun.

In retrospect it might have been smarter to start in May. Oh well.

I thought it was going to be really hard to find things to eat until I found this blog. She is amazing! Her food is yummy, simple, and for everyone (not just the gluten-free weirdos). Seriously, go look at her recipes. You'll be glad you did.

Day 1 - Oatmeal, Chicken Pad Thai, rice chips and hummus, Chicken and Broccoli rice bowls, and dark chocolate. As you can see I'm really suffering. :-)

Babies are the best accessories...

They make everything look better.

You are my Sunshine

I finally got some pictures of Maylee smiling! She is absolutely the happiest baby I have ever seen. It's 1 am and I'm desperate to be asleep and starting to get angry that Maylee is still awake, and then she gives me her big toothless smile and I'm laughing. Here ya go.


We have had this frog for all three of our kids and it's always been one of the most popular toys! Here's Maylee with it.

Sunday Shot

Here's one from the week we had whooping cough, so no church.

And here's one from yesterday, with the kids in their Easter clothes. Eli insisted it was his turn to hold Maylee. Note the expression on her face as she slowly falls farther and farther over.


A quick little "mommy brag" about Eli. We were sitting in church yesterday listening to a beautiful song by our ward choir (well David didn't think it was as great as I did but he is handicapped by his musical snobbery) and Eli told me, "I can feel my heart." Aaaaahhhhhh. I could feel my heart too. :-)

All right, one more!

I just found a new favorite site. It's a live cam on a barn owl with 6 eggs. One of the eggs has hatched and the others should be hatching this week. So cute!

http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Live_Owl_Nest_Box_Cam.html