Archive for May, 2010

The mom cold, and baby cold, and dad cold, and torn quad made for very little house cleaning last week. So this morning I’ve been productive and swept, and mopped, clipped the baby’s nails (hands and toes), washed some dishes and am doing laundry. My staff meeting got moved to tomorrow so I’ve got the day off, work wise at least. These next few weeks are a little lighter work wise, while there is a break between spring and summer bible studies. I am hoping to take advantage of the break and get into a better routine cleaning wise, and maybe see if Hannah falls into a napping schedule. Speaking of Napping, Hannah just woke up so I’m off to change and play.

Adam now has the cold, poor guy. Hannah is still coughing a fair amount, but she hasn’t been wheezing much today so that’s good. I twisted my leg funny Sunday at work, then tuesday during kickball I didn’t stretch (silly kate) and managed to twist it again. It’s been hurting pretty bad so I went to the doc today and he said I partially tore my right quadricep, ew. I’ve now got this fancy brace that forces me to keep my leg straight, I have to wear it for at least a week, and no running for a month. The doctor knew how to get me to actually follow the instructions, he said if I didn’t it might tear the rest of the way and have to be repaired. No more kickball for me, boo. I’m glad it was me, not Adam, since he loves kickball so much and scores lots of points for our team. =)

Hannah has her first baby cold. She doesn’t seem half as bothered by it as Adam and I are. I had to stop making sad faces every time she coughed because then she started making sad faces, now if I get excited and cheer when she coughs she smiles, funny how much babies reflect us. She’s doing pretty well with it, plus she got a fancy new humidifier that looks like an elephant. I’m not a big fan of the saline stuff I have to spray up her nose, and neither is she, but she’s being her usual delightful and easy to sooth self. The only sad thing is that I don’t get to take her to birth-to-three or the nursery because I don’t want her to get other kids sick. Luckily Adam can watch her tonight when I go to work.

About 2 months ago we noticed water leaking out from under or water heater in the garage. We called a water heater company and they came out and the guy looked at the heater for about 0 seconds and said it was broken, and we had to get a new one, since the leak wasn’t coming from the lines going into the top, it couldn’t be fixed. He told me that it wouldn’t hurt to keep using it if the leak didn’t bother us too much, until we could get it replaced. So we’ve been intending to get it fixed, but having a baby and all, we weren’t in too much of a hurry, we just hoped over the little stream in our garage when we’d go out to do laundry.

Monday Adam had a company come out, and they gave us a price we liked so the guy installed a new water heater, and it started leaking. Awkward. The installer thought maybe the new heater wasn’t welded right, so he came back Tuesday afternoon and installed a second one. Still leaking. He thought maybe that whole batch of heaters was bad, so he drove to home depot, bought  different kind, installed it, and it still leaked. So he started poking around and noticed the wall behind the heater was wet. When he took out the board that was patching the wall there (suspicious, almost like the wall had been cut open because something had happened there before) he noticed the copper pipe behind the wall had a nail puncturing it, and it was leaking. So for the last couple of months a pipe has been leaking and saturating that wall, and then running out under the water heater. Today Adam got our home owners insurance involved, and we’re having a plumped come fix the pipe this afternoon. Hopefully then we can turn our water back on, Hannah and I stayed at my parents last night, who were gracious enough to host us and share their water. Then we’ll have o see what it will take to get the wall repaired. It stinks because the first company charged us $80 to give us misinformation, and if we’d been told then we had a leak, we could have fixed it without ruining a wall. Oh well, you live and learn, and your homeowners insurance premium goes up, and we’re thankful I got a job.

Also exciting in our life, we’ve been looking for a second car. The goal is to find a car that will fit 4 adults (us and another couple), Hannah and the dogs. So we could go with some friends o the dog park, or to the beach. We found a mazda protege that seemed like it would fit us. Then we had a brainstorming session with my parents and realized that the minute kid number 2 comes along, that car would seem small. So we started thinking bigger. Adam has been resisting the mini-van idea, and suggesting SUVs, but they don’t hold as much, and they aren’t any cheaper. So Adam, being the flexible and open minded guy he is, agreed to go look at a Honda Odyssey with me. He saw the sliding doors that opened automatically and have a sensor so finger don’t get shut in them, and he was sold. We had the car checked out by our mechanic and it looks good, so hopefully we’ll make an offer this afternoon and maybe get a van!

Baby colds, leaky houses, possible mini-vans. Life is exciting at the Becker ranch.

Oh and we won another kickball game last night!

Hannah is keeping me pretty busy, so I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like. I’m hoping now that we have Picasa as our photo storage, and it’s super easy to import pictures into a post, I can post more often and with more pictures. Today we had Hannah try rice cereal for the first time. It was so fun! I was expecting her to spit most of it out, and for us to need to wait a while before we tried again, but she didn’t spit out very much at all. She would get all excited and flail her arms, and open her mouth and lean forward. Everyone has been saying rice cereal tastes disgusting, but I tried it and it wasn’t terrible, and Hannah seemed to think it was yummy, or at least fun. So now we get to decide what food we’ll try next, maybe bananas.

Hannah has gotten really good with her hands, she can reach out and grab things, and get them to her mouth, unless they are  shape that’s hard to fit in her mouth, then she just slams them against her face until she starts crying. She’ll stand in her exersaucer for 15+ minutes touching all the toys and flailing excitedly. I’ve been having her sit in her little chair top high-chair while I eat, and she slams her toys against her tray and smiles at me. She’s mastering the baby crunch and loves if we let her use our fingers as support so she can pull up from laying to sitting and then flop back down again. She is so enamored with Adam, if she hears him she’ll stop eating so she can turn and watch him, and she is usually pretty happy if she’s sitting with him. It’s crazy how it seems like just yesterday she was this blob that cried and ate and pooped and slept, and now she’s this little person who can play by herself for a few minutes, and who smiles all the time.

My new job as the Nursery Director at First Baptist going well, I’m starting to feel like I know the ropes. Hannah is doing so well there. She can have a terrible morning and I’ll be dreading taking her because she’s screaming, but the minute we get there she stops. She has a staff member that she loves, and it’s mutual, so Hannah is enjoying the attention. She has even started taking naps in the cribs there, which is awesome, and it’ll make it possible for us to have a bit of a schedule, and ideally I’ll know when she needs a nap rather than waiting until the crying begins and then figuring it out.

Right now she’s in her crib working on falling asleep. She was playing with lil’bla (her blanket) for a while but that was just getting her all worked up, she she’s lost her arm privileges and been swaddled, which usually works to help her fall asleep. I’d love to stop wrapping her arms up, but most the time when I don’t she either just lays there flailing, or if she’s wanting a pacifier she keeps ripping it out and then crying. I don’t want to create bad habits, like her always needing to be swaddled or have a pacifier, but when things make her so happy and she sleeps so well, it seems stupid to change it. When she’s 6 and still using a pacifier and being straight jacketed for bedtime, you all should tell me it’s time to stop. =)

Life is good in the Becker household, God is good.

Look at my rad bib!

I’m ready, feed me.

Surprised face?

Yummers

food for eating and for wearing

Watching the dogs mop the floor with their tongues

That was fun!