Poor Blanket

This is just a funny little story that happened to us this past Saturday (the 26th of Feb) and I have to write these things down or otherwise I will just forget them and I don't want to do that. So Adam had the day off on Saturday. I went to this wonderful women's conference on Saturday morning and learned a lot of great things. When I got home, Adam and I decided to go to the mall and walk around and look at stuff and then we decided to go to a movie. So we get to the movie (Little Fockers) and we are sitting down watching it and trying to get Shelby to go to sleep (which we failed at) and so to get her to sleep in her car seat, we usually have to wrap her up tight with her blanket around her. I go to look for the blanket, which is supposed to be in the car seat, and it is not there. I asked Adam if he saw if in the aisle anywhere and it was no where to be found. So Adam goes outside to find it and guess where it is....in the parking lot!! haha! Silly Shelby had kicked it off of her in the parking lot and we didn't even notice! And when Adam picked it up, he had noticed that some one had ran over it. So the poor little blanket had gotten ran over and had nasty tire marks on it. Hopefully our handy dandy washing machine can get it out because it is one of my favorite blankets of hers! Parenting is great and we are continuing to learn every day. Maybe by our last kid we will have it figured out!

put up the gate

This is when she wanted some of her daddy's popsicle. Anytime she sees food, she goes for it!

How do I know she is Adam's child? She loves cars too!

Shelby loves to play! she is the cutest thing ever and so I just have to post these pictures of how cute she is. She also loves to play, especially since she is CRAWLING now! I can't believe it. Shelby is just moving around and will get across the room before you know it. We had to buy a gate and put it at the top of the stairs so she doesn't fall down them. I can't believe that she is only 7 months today and she started crawling a week ago. It was so nice when she was immobile and you didn't have to worry about her getting into things. Now we have to make sure everything is put up that needs to be. She also loves to crawl up our legs or try to pull herself up holding onto the couch. We will enjoy the crawling for a while because before we know it, she will be walking. She is getting wild! She will dig her hands into the carpet and use her hands to help move herself forwards. She is still getting used to floors that are not carpet. In our kitchen, we have this stuff called flex-floor. It is sorta similar to a laminate. So she will just stay on the carpet and put her arms out and touch the floor for a little bit before she will crawl on to it. It is pretty funny. My friend Cherie babysat for me yesterday while I had class (I was so grateful for her helping me out). When I went to pick up Shelby, her and I were just talking. I told her how Shelby was crawling and she told me that Shelby had crawled over to her kitchen floor and just started licking it! And I just thought, well she is a Sorensen and they do things like that. This little girl is so funny and brings so much joy into our home.

And let the teething begin...

About 3 weeks ago, Febuary 5th, we realized that Shelby had 2 bottom teeth. Adam was changing her diaper and while he was changing her, he noticed that she had two little things popping through her bottom gums. She has been a little fussy and had these narly diapers so we figured she was about to get some soon. Even though they have popped through, Shelby continues to have these terrible diapers. We love HER so much but the diapers not so much! I put my fingers in her mouth to see if I can feel any other teeth about to pop through and she will bite down and it hurts! Even though the teeth are still little, they hurt, so don't let size fool you! She is still putting anything and everything she has in her hands in her mouth.

Getting ready to crawl

It has been a month since i've done a post! Life has just been so busy this last month I havn't had a lot of time to blog but a lot has happened. I did my Leadership clinical, for which I was in the ER at Portneuf. It was quite the adventure. I was able to get a lot of experience with many great nurses and with my preceptor Steve. I was able to start tons and tons of IV's, which is fun because it is so nice to be able to start them with just one try! I was even able to start a 14 gauge IV which is absolutely huge and I seriously hope that I never have to have one of those myself. It is just about the biggest one they make, if not the biggest! I got it on the first try and I was very proud of myself! I did CPR for the first time in my life on a real person, not just a manequin. I got to know many of the police, as they come into the ER quite a bit! I would not mind working in an ER somewhere one day. Adam was so great during this time I was doing this clinical. He had to spend 6 whole nights with Shelby all by himself! He did a great job though. Anyways, enough about me and now i'm gonna tell about our little Shelby. Shelby has been moving around a lot lately. About 3 or 4 weeks ago, around the end of January, Shelby started scooting herself around, except she would only scoot herself backwards. And she would scoot until she was under the couch. She would get under the couch and make sure you saw her and then she would smile and giggle for a minute and then start crying! Here are the pictures to prove it!

I am just a moving-scooting girl!

happy birthday mom

Today is my mom's birthday and she would have turned 53. I love my mom so much and not a day goes by that I don't think about her. It is so hard on our whole family not having her around. I am so grateful for the gospel and for the temple ordances that allow us to be a family forever. Her most happy times are when we were all gathered together as one BIG family. I do not have very many pictures of her because my mom hated having her picture taken and so she would avoid the camera at all cost! My mom was wonderful and she would do anything for anyone. This one time when I was younger, probably like 11, her and the neighbor did not get along at all and so to try to make things better, my mom bought her a patio set for her deck. My mom loved doing things for people and especially her kids. My mom really loved her grandkids. She loved to give them candy and some of her Diet Coke. I know my mom would have really loved Shelby. Heavenly Father has a plan for all of us so cherish each and everyday and make sure you tell those you love that you love them. The thing that brings me such comfort with my mother's passing is that the week before she passed away, she had done the baptism temple work for her mother, her sister, her grandmother, and 2 other female relatives. The last time I talked to her on the phone we talked about this. She and her mother never had a really good relationship until right before my grandmother passed away because my mom was going to visit her frequently. So to be able to do that temple work for her and for her sister was a great blessing in her life. It was so touching how much it ment to my mom. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for us all and I am so grateful for mothers and for all they do for us. Even though I wish I would have learned how to cook more or at least had her recipies written down, I still am so grateful I had her in my life as long as I did. (it was my fault, I wouldn't listen to her when she tried to teach me some cooking things!) Also, a great book to read is called, "The Gateway We Call Death" by Russell M. Nelson. I hope to continue to learn to have the patience, love, and charity that my mother had.

6 months old

Shelby is 6 months old today. I can't believe it! Time goes by so fast and I just want it to slow down a little bit! But i'm sure that is asking for too much. She is the best thing that has ever happened to Adam and I. Our little family has grown so much closer because of her presence in our home. Shelby and I are both so blessed by Adam. He is such a wonderful daddy and we are both grateful for that. On days that I don't have class, he wakes up to go to work, but before he does he changes her diaper and makes her a bottle. This means a lot to me because I will admit that I love my sleep. Shelby loves to play with her dad! I love it when Adam comes home from work because most of the time Shelby and I are in the living room and she hears the door open. She will look over at the stairs and just wait to see her dad walk up them. She smiles, giggles, and starts to move her arms like crazy when she sees him! I think she loves him more because he will give her some of his sorbet and pop-sicles (naughty dad). It just makes my heart melt how much she loves him and how much he loves her! Shelby is 6 months old now and she is sitting up like a big girl, eating lots, putting anything and everything in her mouth, playing like an animal, getting up on her knees like she is going to crawl but doesn't, jumping like crazy in her jumper, helping mom with turning pages in books, almost always smiling, and lastly, she is best at just being so darn cute!

(PS, I will post pictures tomorrow because it won't let me today!)

funny little girl

Shelby is so funny. This girl loves to sleep just like her mom! We lay her down for naps or for bed at night and we go to check on her and this is how we find her:

(she was seriously sleeping like this)

We still love her so much even though she is so silly. She is the cutest thing, especially when she is sleeping. She likes to keep her head in corners or up against the sides of the crib. It scares me to death of course because nursing school has taught me all of the bad things that happen to people. But I try not to relate those things with Shelby. She has been sleeping great lately, like last night she slept from 930 until 630 this morning. We are very blessed with such a wonderful baby girl and we are so thankful to Heavenly Father for blessing us with her. Though sometimes I think we were so blessed with her so we will have another one! Adam and I keep hoping that she will be a good little girl the rest of her life, because we were both kind of crazy teen-agers. So hopefully the saying "what goes around, comes around" doesn't happen to us!