18 Months

Tucker had his 18 month check-up this morning and lucky for us it was kind of fun because he didn't have to get any shots! He only gained a pound since last check-up, but that's normal, kids start gaining less because they are so active. I don't know why but Tucker feels a lot heavier to me than his actual weight. I pick up kids that weigh more than him and for some reason Tucker feels heavier to me. Maybe it is just because he is so wiggly when I hold him. Here are the stats:

Weight: 23.88 lbs 23.4%

Height: 32 in 42.1 %

Head: 19 in 64.4%

Tucker still loves playing outside even though I try to convince him it's too cold. His favorite thing to do is go on a walk around the block.

We went to the park last week and there was a ramp going down. He was so cautious that he started to crawl down backwards, until he realized that it wasn't that steep and then he walked down it. It was pretty funny, for some reason he doesn't like walking down hills, I guess it would be harder for a little kid.

L O V E

warning! super-long post!

Someone told me yesterday that I don't blog very much, and while I don't blog every single day I am proud of myself that I blog usually every week and sometimes more. So I was a little annoyed by this comment, so maybe to get revenge on this person I am going to start blogging so much so that he will get totally annoyed. Actually, probably not, but it is a nice thought. Besides, nothing really exciting happens in my life and I can only post so many pictures of Tucker :)

To update on what's been happening lately, the Saturday before Valentine's Day I had my old roomies over to decorate sugar cookies. I got so excited to have them over that I went out and finally bought a Wilton Cake Decorating Set. I have been wanting one forever and just needed an excuse to get one. I was proud of myself that I was able to get it %50 percent of at Roberts. In preparation for the girls coming over I even made an experimental batch of sugar cookies and decorated them to see how they turned out. I used royal icing to decorate them and watered the icing down a little and then poured the icing on so it would turn out super smooth. For a first attempt I think the cookies turned out very good and they even tasted good!

This cookies I mixed two colors to get a marbled effect. You can't see it very well in the picture, but it looks really cool.

This was the only cookie Sheldon decorated, he always knows how to make me feel so loved ;) If you can't read it, it says "Love Hurts." I guess I can't really expect Sheldon to make cute flowered cookies though.

I didn't get enough pictures of my friends because we were having so much fun decorating cookies and I didn't even get a picture of my cute pregnant friend Miriam. Which I can only blame on the fact that I got two hours of sleep the night before, which I will explain later. At least I got a picture of her cookies she decorated. My favorite is the one that says amor.

Kyna hard at work decorating her cookies.

These are all of Kyna's cookies she decorated, I love her cursive handwriting!

I think was my favorite cookies of her though, a double-decker deluxe cookie!

Don't I have the cutest friends? Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Cami's cookies, and they were so cute and creative.

Here are two that I decorated, I'm still getting the hang of bows as you can tell.

Who doesn't love polka dots? I think I stole this idea from Cami.

And now on to our exciting story! Sheldon and I celebrated Valentine's Day on the Friday beforehand, we checked out the new nickelcade where I dominated at air hockey. Actually I think Sheldon won but they were pretty close games. We then went out to dinner at crazy crowded Carrabba's, which was delicious but the service was so not good that I don't think I will ever go out to a restaurant around valentine's again. Then we came home and Sheldon surprised me with his valentine's present. You aren't going to believe it, but he got me a massage table! Sounds a little crazy but it is actually really nice and it folds up and stores really easily. He got an amazing deal on it, I think it was like 75% off, and now I don't have to pay tons of money to go get massages! I may need to take a few classes to give Sheldon massages though, because I am not a very good masseuse. Anyway, after all that we decided to stay up late and watch Hitch. At the beginning of the movie Sheldon said his heart wasn't feeling too good, but he just thought it would go away. At the end of the movie it was still doing weird things, I could feel that his heart was beating irregularly. This is what a normal, healthy heartbeat is supposed to look like:

This is what Sheldon's looked like:

Some fast and then slow beats and crazy all over the place. Since we aren't doctors and problems with your heart seems like a bad thing we took Sheldon to the ER at 1 o'clock in the morning. They said it was a good thing we brought him in, if something like that goes on for a long time you are at risk for a stroke. They said he had atrial fibrillation, which is where the top 2 chambers of your heart are having a hard time pumping blood into the bottom 2 chambers. This kind of heart problem is normal in 80 year old men, but definitely strange in a healthy young guy. And SHeldon always says he is young at heart ;) maybe he is really old at heart. Anyway to make a long story shorter, because this story is already long enough, his heart problem cleared up on its own before they to do anything to make it start beating normal again. They don't really know what caused it, but SHeldon has a follow-up appt. with a cardiologist this Friday so I guess we will see what he says. So far it just seems like a weird freak thing that happened, he hasn't had any more symptoms and seems totally healthy. I just love the irony of it, heart problems on Valentine's Day :)

blogger problems

I realized that sometimes my videos that i posted through blogger aren't working. It's really annoying so I am now uploading my videos through youtube because they seem to have less problems. I hate going to the trouble of uploading videos and then the videos not working. Hopefully this will solve the problem. I was looking through some pictures from last month and found this cute video. I changed the last video I posted about Tucker singing to Beaker, so if it didn't work for you last time you can try now and see if it works.

Beaker's Ballad

My sister sent me this muppet video and I thought it was pretty funny. Tucker also enjoyed it so we watched it a few times together and he started singing along. Watch the muppet video first and then watch him singing along below. I love his face when he does it, he kind of looks like beaker.

sWiMmInG

Last year we went to the Legacy Pool in Lehi. Desperate for something for fun to do last weekend and wishing summer were here already, we went again. It was so much more fun this time now that Tucker is older. We were even able to teach him to put his face in the water and blow bubbles. I wish I could have gotten it on camera, but I am always nervous using my camera around water. I love tucker's flip flops in the picture below, we got them in Brazil and they fit him perfectly! I hope they will still fit him when summer starts.

Tucker's showing off his ripped biceps and six pack to the ladies.

We had tucker try on a life jacket, but he wasn't a big fan.

Later that night we went out to eat, because Sheldon got a gift card from work. It took a while for us to get our food and I was worried it wasn't going to be a nice dinner because tucker doesn't like sitting in high chairs for too long. He was actually so good though, he sat and colored and ate the broccoli we ordered for him. I know, broccoli? This kid seriously loves green vegetables. Peas, green beans, and broccoli are his favorites. I sometimes wonder if he's going to turn into a little green alien because it doesn't seem normal for a 1 year old.

tucker + avery

Remember this post a while ago about Tucker and Avery, it seems like not much has changed since then, except for their looks. These were some pictures I took this week while they were playing together that I thought were cute. Avery was just sitting on the fireplace swinging her legs, so I had to put tucker next to her and they had fun just sitting there and swinging together.

This one is my favorite, it looks like Avery is making a play for his hand :)

A Tucker Moment

This picture is from about a week ago when Tucker got a little black eye (If you look closely please excuse the little booger in the picture, I promise I wipe his nose!) Tucker doesn't get too many bumps and bruises because he is pretty cautious, but he sure does look cute whenever he gets them!

Saturday night Sheldon and I babysat Avery for a few hours. We keep our cat food on a bench in our kitchen, so the kids can reach it. Tucker knows that he is not supposed to play with the cat food and he is pretty obedient. Whenever Avery comes down to play one of the first things she will do is eat the cat food. So gross, I don't know why she does it. She is the pickiest eater, but for some reason she does not have a problem with dirt, grass, or cat food. So on Saturday we were cleaning up after dinner and while I wasn't watching her, Avery got into the cat food. Tucker comes running over to me saying, "No, no, no," and pulls on my pant leg. He ran over to Avery, pointed at her, and said, "No, no, no," again. He was totally tattle telling on Avery! It totally happened again, because I didn't put the cat food away thinking Avery would listen to me and leave it alone. Of course she got into it again and Tucker ran to find me in the living room saying, "no, no, no" So not only does Tucker understand he is not supposed to play with certain things, but that means nobody else can either! Such a smart and funny kid!

On another topic, I am revamping the blog. So for all you people who use google reader, go to the site and let me know what you think. It's a work in progress, but so far I like what I have done! And my good news for the day, Sheldon gets President's Day off! Hooray! Does anyone have any fun plans for Valentine's Day weekend?