Easter Bunnies

We have bunnies that live in our back yard. Anastasia likes to watch them from out the window. They have a better view when they are in their high chairs. Two Sundays ago Anastasia made major strides in walking on her own. While Mike was gone to Utah to fetch some printing equipment with a friend for his business, she has made the transition from being a crawler to being a walker.

Amelia will stand up and walk on her own, but she is still pretty convinced that crawling is the way to go. She is also much more interested in raising her arms and getting people to carry her where she wants to go.

They have also both cut all four of their 2-year molars. When I was their age, I had 4 teeth total. What is silly, though, is they refuse to chew. They like to shove a bunch of stuff in their mouths and just swallow.

Their nap schedule has been off since daylight savings time. They are cutting back on the number of hours they sleep and are loosing a little of their baby pudge. Did I ever tell you I gave them their first haircut? Mike was not happy, but I am glad they no longer have a kentucky waterfall.

They fight over toys now--or over mom. They are doing a little bit of hitting and pushing. Then, sometimes when they play, one will be silly enough to stick her finger in the others mouth. She ends up crying. But they also giggle and hug each other, and will even comfort one another when one is sad.

Well over a month ago, I went to Emylie's Solo and Ensemble festival. She got a 1 on her solo. I snapped a few while she was hanging out with her friends. Andrew and Claire are the ones without matching shirts. The girl on the left is Emylie's buddy Samantha. Emylie has the short hair and choker.

Disconnected

It has been a really long time since I blogged. A big part of that is because my internet provider went out of business. Every month we have a 24hr minimum outage. If it happens over the weekend, it will not be taken care of until mid-day Monday. My jobless IT skilled husband has gone up to the office and offered his expertise for hire every time this happens.

Service went down early Thursday evening. Mike went up Friday morning prepared to actually go to work and not take no for an answer, but they brushed him off again. When we still did not have service on Monday, he went back and the office was closed--permanently. Thank goodness the credit card had a glitch when he tried to pay them, or we would be out 50 bucks for no reason.

The reason we went with that company in the first place was that our homeowners association has blocked the major providers out here, so there are only 3 choices--2 now. He found another company and pressed them for immediate installation. They got it set up on Wednesday--just short of a week after the other went down indefinitely.

Mike spent some time tracking down the Homeowners Association to complain as well. He was told that when they laid out the development, they installed fiber optics and are working on a contract with Verizon for FiOs delivery.

In the meantime, Mike and I got so behind on our online school work that we had to drop the classes. I can't describe the emptiness I felt not being connected to the world.

Spring Break

Everybody is here for spring break. But I don't really have a spring break for my online classes. So I don't have anything like a break. Claire is not feeling well today and the babies are still off and on with...uh...loose bowels.

Amelia had to be changed during Sunday school after I had been bragging about how I hardly knew where the changing tables were in our new building because my babies just didn't usually do that at that time of day. It wasn't a big mess, but there was a penny in her poopy panties. Last week Anastasia ate a bracelet. I thought my daughter had turned into an oyster and was turning out pearls, but those pearls I preferred not to fish out.

Perhaps this implies that my daughters need more supervision. Or that my house needs more keeping. But maybe I just need more help.

Life Beyond Blogging

One of the most important things I have had to do that has kept me from blogging, is get the final achievement in Hexic on the XBox. I can't explain the compulsion of it. I only wish the truly important things in life were as compelling. But I succeeded in getting over 2 million points after creating 6 black pearls and joining them in a circle. And, yes, I am a better person for it.

It was in pursuit of that goal that I noticed how quiet the kitchen was. As I expected, both babies had fallen asleep over their animal crackers.

They also have become afficianados of the Xbox themselves. I let them play with the uncharged extra controllers and the push the buttons. They cuss (euphamistically of course) and cheer the game like I do.

My digital achievements pale in comparison to the relief of getting our tax return. With 2 new baby deductions for 08, and a new home deduction, we are sitting pretty. Well, we would be if we weren't so far behind from being out of work for the past 6 months.

The girls can both walk, but do not. They still think crawling is a lot faster. They are 14 months old and one day. They h-a+ve bee+n really fu+ssy the+*96+st*9*99999 past few days because they have messy sick.d It has been really hard for me to get anything done. That was Anastasia's signa-ture, by the way. I don't know where Amelia is, but I am sure the click of the keyboard will lure her soon enough.

I missed sacrament meeting on Sunday because of stupid daylight savings time. Apparently they just decided to go with the songs the previous ward had used on the board, and I have no idea who ended up leading the music (because that is all my job, see).

I gave the babies their first hair cut yesterday. They do not have their cute little curls anymore, but they no longer look like they have mega-mullets. I am trying to help their short top hair catch up with their long back hair.

It was almost too warm here last week. I actually had to use the A/C. Now the heater is back on because we got a very wet cold front. We had tons of rain yesterday (2.6 inches). So I am stuck in the house, bored out of my mind while Mike parties in Denver because he had to go up there and pay a traffic ticket in person. They told him he would just have to pay and that would be the end of it, but they told him when he got there that he needed to appear in front of the judge and they needed 3 business days to get the paperwork together and set the date. We cannot afford to have him going back and forth, so he pushed them on the time frame and will be there until Monday, which will be nearly a week since he left.

I have actually talked to people on the phone lately more than read blogs. It is a kind of nice change, but I miss reading everybody else's. I am really far behind now.

I am enjoying my math class because I don't have the textbook everyone else has, so to make up for it, I have just been looking up stuff on the internet and came across coolmath.com Great website for all types of math. Get your kids on it. Tell them they can't play video games and surf the net until they have spent a certain amount of time on it--I'll tell you if that actually works for me over spring break.

I am going to grab some pictures for you and then I need to find both of the babies. I just remembered I left my bedroom door open.

Blasee

I made it through my first week of online math class--not sure if I passed it, but I made it through.

I have a few pictures to post, but I do not have the camera up here. I noticed that it has been a while since I posted anything, and I wanted to let you know that I still think about you and love you. After I check my email, I may read some of your blogs, but I doubt it, since it is after 11 right now and I did not get to sleep until after 3:30 am "last night."

I am profoundly grateful for the blessings of hot water and central heating. We were without for nearly 5 days. There is no good reason why. Suffice to say, I hate my gas company. Still I love my modern luxuries.

Yep, I am falling asleep as I type. Time to go.