Non-mothers??? WHAT!?!?!?!?

So, today someone at church said (in effect) happy mothers day to "non-mothers." I know he was trying to be nice but man is that an offensive way to put it.
I just wanted to say Happy Mothers Day to every woman I know because I FIRMLY believe that any woman who loves children--nieces, nephews, neighbors, their own children or just random children they meet--are mothers. The bearing of children does not make a woman a mother. It is the loving of children that makes a woman a mother. So, from someone whose worst day of the year for several years was Mothers Day from the rude comments and actions of untold people I say Happy Mothers Day to anyone who may have had a rough day.

Anyway, my day was great. Richard has just been treating me even more sweetly all week and yesterday he gave me a cd of Norah Jones--I love her music and HE HATES IT so that makes it even sweeter! This morning he let me sleep in and I got a shower alone! He gave Abi a bath while I made breakfast---and don't think this is a bad thing. I LOVED to be able to make what I wanted for breakfast and that I didn't have to give Abi a bath. It was wonderful. The poor guy didn't feel so well today and he took a cranky Abi home after sacrament. They were asleep when I got home so I got a lunch alone and a nap--which were both very nice! At dinner he watched the kids at grandmas so we could all relax. He was soooo exhausted afterward. Anyway, thanks hunny for a wonderful day. I really enjoyed the alone time and the card from Abi!

You know what that smell is....

So it's 2:45 a.m. and your sweet little darling is crying again after a miserably sick day and you open the door of your own room and almost pass out from the smell coming from her room. How many diarrhea diapers did we change last night and yesterday and today already? Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! is what I have to say to that. Our poor little darling.

Picture Catch Up

You may not be able to see it but this is the letter A that Abi drew on her finger. Yes I let Abi play with pens and 98% of the time she is good. The other 2% is when I find her drawing on her fingers. She drew this and came running at me yelling "A! A!"

Abi finding an egg at the Easter hunt at Grandmas

Getting ready to find eggs (or just run around in her pretty matching dress with her cousins)

She doesn't know anything about posing...

So we had several tantrums the week before Easter all due to eggs. She is obsessed with hard boiled eggs. We finally just gave her the carton and let her have at it. She picked apart the remaining 5 0r 6 eggs and nibbled at them and then we threw the rest away and the tantrums were over.

This is Abi smiling with an egg yolk in her mouth. It doesn't make me as sick looking at it this pregnancy but if I had looked at it while pregnant with Abi I would have certainly lost it.

Our little grape bibber is so addicted to grapes. I can't ever leave them on the counter if I want to have any left over for Richard or I--she would sit there and eat them all if I let her.

She loves hats lately. Her she is playing with the homemade playdough. Let me know if you need the recipe. It is awesome stuff!

The one and only time she has let me do real pigtails in her hair. Don't you just love the whole ensemble with the stripes and wings and all?

Spring break 2009. Abi has a rock in one hand and she is stepping on my columbine. We had fun in it. I was one of the few Utahns happy to have it. We got to play in the snow one last time.

We have no need for a cat. Abi is better at making a mess with a ball of yarn any day.

Abi and I flew up to Washington last week to see my folks and sister and friends while Richard was on a business trip back east. I wouldn't do it over if I had the chance but I am glad for the most part I got to go. Here is cousin Garett:

Abi playing with the play tools.

My sister Tawni and Riley

Abi, Me, Garett, and Riley

My friend Beth and I and our girls

Abi and my friend Beth's little girl Emily. Abi really wasn't that much shorter than Emily, she was just slouching.

Abi and Grandpa or "Pa" as she called him in their hats.

"Why isn't there another plane to watch right now?" Abi was obsessed with watching the planes take off and land. She loved it and was upset when there wasn't a continuous stream of them. She did really well on the plane. Better than me. I didn't do well on the landings. I hope I never have to fly while pregnant again.

I didn't get any pictures of my mom on the trip. Sorry. I wasn't much of a picture taker. I was exhausted and Abi was a bit cranky for most of the trip. A BIG SORRY to REBEKAH for not seeing you for more than 20 minutes!!!! Things didn't work out so well for Abi that day and I'm sorry we didn't get to see you again. Anyway, that's all I'm posting about the trip because I took a phengren and I'm dozing off. Night.