THE ANDERSON FAMILY
Can I just say my mummy bear arrives in 9 DAYS!! I just can't put into words my excitement. She actually leaves Australia today and is in England for a week doing some family history and then is on to us here! Too exciting!!
We are off to Utah to do some visiting with family, meet our new nephew Jacob and just have a fun time with the relatives. We are also excited to celebrate the 24th Utah style.
I have been attempting to grow my hair since the beginning of the year pretty much and got to the "I am going to chop all my hair off" stage because it was at that ugly length and I had grown alot of my color out and therefore alot of the texture and lustre so I decided to (well with Alicia's help) cut my layers to my shortest layer and make it a little easier and nicer when growing it out. My hair was 'trained' to flip out and it would annoy me a bit so I got a cut that can do both!! Hooray for Alicia my wonderful friend and hairdresser...
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Cade woke up with a fever of almost 103 yesterday so I took him to the Doctor and it turned out to be a bit of a sore throat. We hung about home, dosed him up, went for some walks and he so badly wanted to play so I let him have a play out on the lawn for a little bit and then he was just so tired, considering he hadn't napped all day this was not a surprise that he got tired at 5pm and fell asleep for about an hour. Last night he went to bed pretty well but woke 4 times before 1:30am, each time soaking wet with sweat, poor little man.
This morning he woke bright and early and had no fever, was doing good. But once again WOULD NOT take a nap. He was tired from about 10:30am on but finally at noon I had fed him and told him in no uncertain terms that it WAS nap time. Shyeah right, this is a stubborn Anderson boy I am dealing with! He has always taken naps really well, and once down sleeps for a good 2-3 hours, so this no nap business was not working in my world. I let him cry it out for about 15 minutes and he was just sobbing. I went to get him and usually when he is picked up he is instantly quiet and consoled, well not today. HE WAS A NIGHTMARE! Carrying on crying, totally inconsolable. He cried for about 20 minutes and I was so done! Cory was due home for lunch at any time so I called him and asked to make it snappy... None of my mummy tricks were working and thought 'fresh hands' would do a world of good. (Fresh hands is something Cory and I have called it when Cade, even as new born got a little fussy and would completely settle with the other person). Well the fresh hands worked... for about 20 minutes until Daddy attempted to put little man down for a nap and oh my goodness, NIGHTMARE! I ended up taking Cade to the car and driving until he fell asleep... now this is where my title comes in... I swore I would NEVER do this, console a child by driving around endlessly... well NEVER SAY NEVER!! He fell asleep less than 5 minutes into the drive and was so zonked out he was laying on the arm rest of his car seat! Was cute... now that he was asleep... As soon as we got home a truck pulled up and woke Cade ARGH!! He started back up again and thankfully was happier than previously. Cory amused him in order to give me a break and I took a much needed nap. He still hasn't napped, not more than 20 minutes all day and I have so missed him napping, he is so much happier for it and so am I. Lets hope this is just illness related and that he isn't giving up naps. Oh I do not look forward to that day!!
When Christian and Andrew came for the day it was all fun and games for these 3 boys. Cade was so happy to have his cousins to play with.
It was Jesse's baptism today and it was really nice. Chad and Joan (Cory's parents) came around lunch time and we had a nice lunch with them and Christian and Andrew (Cory's nephews who are having a 'holiday' at his parents), Jesse and Alisa. Cade was TOTALLY in his element. Loved having his cousins there and Grammy and Grandpa. I really enjoyed the day. Then it was off to church, Jesse is in Ridgeview, our old ward so it was nice to go support him and see all those familiar faces. Actually there was not a lot of people there at all, did not even feel like the Ridgeview I knew. Then we came home to visit before we headed back to the church for Jesse's baptism. It was a really good turn out and I was so thankful for the support of the ward, what a blessing to Jesse! His parents were also there to support him and it was a surprise as they were actually meant to be out of town. Another blessing of the day!
Jesse and Alisa
Alisa, Jesse and his parents
Chad (Cory's dad) and Jesse. Chad baptised and confrimed Jesse.
We had a great 4th of July. We decided to go to "Freedom Has A Birthday" in Washington Park, and I seriously had a blast. It was really nice to get out on such a nice. I can actually say Laramie was hot, yes hot! There was absolutely no wind which is amazing I know, so it was great day! Cade did really well, loved petting everyones dogs walking around, I am sure he thought he was in heaven! We left earlier than we would have liked but knew that Cade would have been hurting for a nap. We got home and he was out within minutes. That evening we had Jesse, Alisa's boyfriend (Alisa is Cory's youngest sister) over for a BBQ and then Robyn, Andrew and James came over for some games and Alisa and Jesse headed for the concert. We played games for a while and then went out beside our apartment for the 'perfect' view of the fireworks. It was nice not to have to fight crowds or traffic I tell ya. Cade did so well, went to bed at 10:30pm which is atleast 2 hours past his bedtime but he did so well and had napped for over 3 hours in the afternoon. I am slack and don't have any photos, I totally spaced our camera.
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