Question of the Day #1

I've decide to periodically post a question of the day...because I love to read your comments! Feel free to write as much or as little as you want. Here's today's question:

If family, job, etc. were not a consideration in where you chose to live, where would you most like to live?

I like living in Utah. This is where I want to live. Sure, the winter gets too cold and stays too long, but I haven't found any other place that has more benefits and/or fewer drawbacks for me. I actually prefer cold weather to super hot or sticky, humid climates. I love Bountiful because of the old neighborhoods and established trees, etc. I mostly just want to live where there is a community of people doing their best to be good people and I feel I have that in our neighborhood.

I like that pretty much all the places I want to go are nearby (the Olive Garden is still way too far away, but at least now we have Texas Roadhouse!). I have no particular love of the ocean or "the city" or anything like that. I also love that it's not too far to get to lakes for waterskiing or mountains for camping.

Breathing a Sigh of Relief

After an hour and 50 minutes at the doctor's office today, Dynamite, Cutesome and I left with a nebulizer and a prescription for albuterol. That's right, Cutesome has asthma. It is a real relief to have an answer to the problem of Cutesome's breathing difficulty. When Dynamite was about his age, he also needed albuterol to breathe well. Luckily he has outgrown his need for it and is as healthy as can be now.

Anyway, Cutesome has had two treatments now and is still breathing really loud, but hopefully by tomorrow morning's well-child visit he'll be improved enough to confirm that it really is asthma.

Dreamer Spoils Me!

Dreamer bought me the cutest tiniest little laptop ever. Wasn't that so nice?! I love it when he spoils me!

I love how little it is because it's truly portable - it fits in the diaper bag! The only thing I don't like about my other laptop is that it's really big....well, and that the battery doesn't hold a charge. Anyway, I'm so so so happy to have a tiny little computer to take with me anywhere I go! The screen is 8.9" and the base is just the size of the keyboard. It has plenty of memory for pictures, music and family history and, of course, gives me access to the Internet wherever there's a router it can pick up. I'm excited to take it with me this weekend to St. George and I can take it when I finally get around to visiting cemeteries in southern Utah for family history and I can take it to the family history library and to my mom's house when I go there and to the park and....well, I can take it anywhere!!! It was only $300, which makes it even better! I got the blue one! Try not to be jealous.

Poor Little Cutesome

My poor little baby is sick. He's had a slight fever since Friday and a cough that's getting worse and worse. This morning I could hear Cutesome in the baby monitor, coughing and coughing. I went and got him out of bed and gave him some Tylenol and tried to give him a bottle (he's not wanting to eat much) and then held him in my bed so I could listen to him breathe. His breathing is getting louder and louder and I'm worried about him. So I woke Dreamer up and asked him to listen to him breathe and after we talked about it for a minute I told Dreamer I was going to leave the baby there and take a shower so I could take Cutesome into the doctor as soon as they open. Just then, Dynamite (who slept on our floor) got up and left the room. I figured we were too loud for him, so he decided to go back to his bed to sleep. I took my shower and when I came back to my bedroom I found Dynamite laying on my bed, fully dressed, including shoes. He said, "I'm going to Cutesome's doctor appointment". Then he followed me back to my bathroom and said, "Don't tell dad, but I think Cutesome might die. Sometimes I shake him and you said if I shake him he could die." Of course, he doesn't mean violent shaking, just the normal 5-year-old not being careful enough with the baby stuff.

Right now, even as I write this, Dynamite is trying to convince Dreamer to go to Cutesome's doctor appointment. He just said, "Don't you remember how worried mom was about Cutesome? You need to go to Cutesome's doctor appointment." He is so darn cute!

How Cute Is That?

This morning at breakfast Dynamite said the following:

"Cutesome is really smart and Vivacious is really good at making people laugh and Confidence is good at making cool things without instructions. But what am I good at?"

Dr. Phil?

My brother made a good point. He essentially said that the "Dr. Phil Personality Test" on Facebook may not have anything to do with Dr. Phil. So, just because the personality type it gave me doesn't match me at all (I didn't think so!), we shouldn't label Dr. Phil a complete idiot....well, unless you consider him a complete idiot for other reasons, I mean.

Krista - if you really think that describes me well, we should definitely spend more time together!