Poor little Connor :(

Connor's had a bad diaper rash for the past 4-5 days. It just seemed like it was getting worse and worse. Then yesterday, he started to get blisters, more welts, and red spots all over his diaper covered areas. His urine also smelled REALLY really bad, it burned my nose. We're leaving for a 4 day trip to Arizona tomorrow, and I didn't want it to get worse while we were gone, so I decided to take him to Urgent Care this morning.

He was such a good boy at the doctors. He just sat next to me and Aaron in the waiting room the whole time (almost an hour... until the doctor decided to show up). Then he let the nurse take his temperature and stats without a fuss. When she went to weigh him and check his height, he even took her hand and walked with her (that's not normal for him). He was fine with her checking his height (2 ft. 10 in.) but not so okay with weight (29 lbs.). He's got this MAJOR fear of heights/uneven surfaces and he just kept saying "whoa! whoa! whoa!" when we put him onto the scale, and grabbed onto me.

When the doctor came in to look at him, she checked out the rash ("wow that's bad"...really?! I didn't know... lol). Then she was kind of talking to herself and said something like "well... we can't check for infection with a urine sample... because obviously he's not going to pee into a cup..." and I said "well, he might." I think that shocked her a bit, since he's not even 2... but he's usually pretty good about going in the potty at home, so I thought at least we could give it a try. Well, he sat on the potty, and right away said "I want Dada" and refused to pee. Of course I wouldn't give up and let him play in the sink water a little bit, and tried again. Nothing... just "I want Dada"... so then I said "you can have Daddy if you pee" .... he peed :) (smart little stinker!)

Turns out he has a urinary tract infection... poor little guy. I've had those before (many time) and they are no fun!!! So now he's on an antibiotic as well as a diaper cream and powder to help the rash. My only worry was that the last time I had a UTI (last month), they put me on bactrim, which is when I had the VERY bad allergic reaction (that the doctor told me wasn't a reaction)... and my mom, aunt, grandpa and a few others on that side all are allergic to it too. But I figured I'd just keep watch on him and if he seems off, or anything seems wrong, I'd take him back right away and get another medicine. But so far, so good :) He loves his medicine... grape flavor :) He asks for more when I give it to him, lol.

He seemed a tad bit fussier than normal, but he's still his happy little self. My sister watched him today for me so I can get some stuff done in preperation for our trip, and she said he was "an absolute angel!"

WHAT?! he's never an angel for me!!!

Promotion

After Aaron lost his job about a year ago, he searched for a few months and couldn't find anything. Finally, in Feb. of this year, he got a call from Chick-fil-A (where he had filled out an application and interviewed a month or so before, and at that time, they told him that they just couldn't afford to hire anyone right then). They decided that they could hire on someone else and wanted Aaron to start a few days later! So, he started off as a cashier. We figured it wasn't a great job... but at least it was something to pay the bills!

In the past 9 months, he's moved up from cashier to trainer, to team leader, and now to manager! He's doing so good there, and loves his job and his boss' and fellow employees! He's now at the highest position at his store (besides the owners, of course!). He's the night manager, usually working 2-11pm, which can sometimes be a little rough on me and Connor... BUT we're lucky enough to have him home in the morning, and Connor probably gets to see him more than other kids get to see their dads! So we are very blessed, and VERY proud of Aaron! :)

Aaron's 1st day as a Manager (11.04.10)

Trunk-or-Treat

We decided this year to celebrate Halloween on Saturday and go to my parents tri-ward Trunk-or-Treat party. That way, we could have LOTS of fun on Saturday, and go to church and then stay home and enjoy a restful Sabbath :)

Our little Cat in the Hat (who I guess turned into the Cookie monster!) :)

Connor's trick-or-treat bag that I made (along with my mom!)

Cat in the Hat with Thing 1 and Thing 2 :)

Connor LOVES his Uncle Nate!

He was making the silliest faces that night

He was having a deep conversation with Dr. Seuss

That night, he learned how to say "Trick or treat" and "thank you" and he said it to EVERY person that had candy! :)

The ONLY piece of candy that Connor had on Halloween... a dum dum sucker :)

(he didn't ask for more... that was enough for him... and the next day, he didn't even remember he had a bag full of candy!)

still smiling after a LONG night, in his jammies and ready to go home and go to bed...

Happy Halloween!

Ten Women, Ten Stories... Ten Lessons For Our Day

The Relief Society in my parents ward was doing a RS visiting teaching conference, where they wanted to do a play/musical of the parable of the Ten Virgins (CD cover pictured above). They had women try out for the parts, but there weren't as many as they'd hoped, so they brought in some ringers :) Katie and I happened to be a few of them. I was going to try to put up a clip of the song that Katie and I did (we had the only duet in the musical... all the other songs were solos), but I couldn't figure out how to do it :( Anyways... it was lots of fun, and I had such a great experience. There were even ladies from the Stake there, and they decided that they wanted this performed on a Stake level... so we're back into rehearsals and we're doing it again in January :)

top left to right:Stephanie Kennelly, Renee Kalanui, Lisa Hanes, Kay McKnight, Katie Arnott, Donna Lutz

bottom left to right: Emily Montoya, Rylie Prescott, Ashley Dotter, Tianna Prescott, Michelle Rawls

Pumpkin Carving

I guess I'm a bit of a party pooper, because I was so not into pumpkin carving this year... actually, it's been the past 3 years (3 years ago I was hugely pregnant, last year had a baby who was into everything, & this year... not sure why). But I still got a pumpkin for Aaron since he's TOTALLY into it, and that way Connor could still get the experience :) I also got Connor his very own little pumpkin which he loves... and carried it around everywhere saying "pun-kin"

Here's Connor with his cousin, Chloe :)

"No more pictures, Mom"

Helping Daddy get the guts out of his pumpkin

He looks like he's saying "I have an idea!"