Sick Day

Our whole family has been sick this week!  It's been an adventure.  Poor little Brian has had upper respiratory problems since he was a newborn so he gets pneumonia and ear infections pretty easily.  He's been a good sport about it though.  The doctors usually think he is less sick than he actually is because of his good attitude so I have become pretty pushy when it comes to hospital visits so that they don't write it off as a little cold.  That's what mom's are for, right?  Protecting your child to the point of being unreasonable at times?  Right?  My husband is embarrassed to go to Brian's appointments with me.  (By the way, I just learned that embarrassed is with two "r's" and not one.  Thank you little red squiggly line!)

Anyways, i'm staying home from work today to get some rest and get over this cold.

Yesterday my husband bought me a treadmill from Costco!  I think he's telling me it's time to lose the baby weight, especially since Brian isn't a baby anymore...We were pretty excited when we brought it home, until we looked at the instructions.  Let me just say, I am impressed that someone was able to draw that complicated picture on such a small piece of paper.  I'm not even sure if they are instructions.  Mostly arrows and numbers.  The jury is still out on whether or not we will try to assemble it ourselves or if we will use the only legible instruction on there, which is "call a certified technician to assemble this product."

Joel is such a good sport about it though.  He got home super late from work last night and still went and bought it for me, then used all his man strength to get it out of our truck!  His friend is going to come over tonight and hopefully help him put it together.

We moved Family Home Evening to tonight (don't know what family home evening is?  Read about it here!  family home evening.)  It's my turn to give the lesson.  We've had a great time with FHE, Family Home Evening, from now on will be referred to as FHE :).  So we've had a great with FHE, especially since Brian has been old enough to sit for a few minutes with us.  We've been singing primary songs with him and he is starting to catch on that we're singing and sings along!  So adorable.  I'll have to take a video sometime.  I'm pretty bad at those things.  I get so caught up in watching that I don't think to grab our camera.  I bring up FHE because we started doing a weekly overview during FHE so we know what's going on the week, who has appointments, meetings, activities, etc...and it has been sooo helpful!!!  No more "Oh by the way I have an elders quorum meeting..." which is usually followed by, "well I have a primary meeting..." and then "who's going to take Brian?"  We usually solve this with rock paper scissors...Anyways, now we can plan ahead for the week.  We are slowly becoming more organized!  I love it.

For those who don't know, we attend a small spanish branch (which is similar to a ward but smaller)  here in Lacey (What is a branch/ward?)  Our branch, the Rainier Vista Branch recently created it's own Primary!  (see previous link and scroll down)  It has been such a blessing to have our own primary.  We are able to focus on our children and their individual needs.  We have a small group of kids.  Sometimes it's just my son and another little guy but I love it!  We get to sing songs with them, and teach them little lessons about how Heavenly Father loves them.  Especially since my own son is in my class.  I'm so grateful that these are things that I can share with him.  Something that i've realized is that it is hard to prepare a 5 minute lesson for toddlers!  You would think that you wouldn't have to study to teach an 18 month old but I've realized that I have to study a lot more!  It's takes a greater knowledge and understanding of the gospel to be able to teach it so simply that a child can understand it.  It has been very humbling.  I thought I had a pretty solid knowledge of at least the basics, but as I sit down to read the lesson and think, how would I explain this to child?  I find myself learning a lot more!

Back to the point of my post.  I'm home sick today and need to prepare for FHE.  We're going to make FHE and sabbath day activity jars!  I'll post some pictures once we're done.

P.S.  I realize I use a lot of vocabulary that may seem foreign to some people, like FHE, wards, elders quorum.  Feel free to check out this website, lds.org, or send me a message if you have any questions!