Superpower?

I am not a huge fan of Spider-man, Superman, etc. because they have some awesome ability(s) but they're the only ones and so they're expected to save the world all the time.

But, I do like the X-men or Fantastic Four or Heroes (and now the Twilight Series Vampires' abilities) because it's normal people who can do some crazy awesome things or have some very useful, but not obvious, abilities.

If you aren't familiar with their powers, some examples are:

Flying, reading minds, influencing moods, starting fire, able to heal from injury & not able to die, power over elements, stretchy, go invisible, see the future, incredible strength, time travel, etc.

If I could choose one ability, it would be to read people's minds. It would be great for car rides with Jeff when he is staring out at the road and I ask what he is thinking about and he says, "nothing." Maybe that is true, but I don't know how he does it, cause I am unable to turn my thoughts off. Ever. Actually, on second thought, maybe the ability to turn your thoughts off and not think about anything would be pretty sweet instead.

But I think I'll stick with reading people's thoughts. Flying does come in a close 2nd though.

It's one of my new favorite questions: What would your superpower be?

Twilight Series Confession

About a month ago I was at Costco and saw the book Twilight on CD. At that point I felt like my brain was going to ooze out of my head because I'd been watching so much TV. I figured it would last me awhile, and that I would just listen to it while nursing Elea.

It didn't quite work out that way.

I put the first CD in on my way back to Cedar City. Then I came inside and put it in the CD player at home and continued to listen to it every possible moment that Jeff was sleeping or not home. Needless to say, it was a lot better than I expected and definitely more suspenseful than The Awakening by Kate Chopin, which is what I had been reading.

I ended up buying the second book, New Moon, 2 days later and finished it 2 days later. Then I bought the next 2, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn and finished both of them within 4 days. It was a fantastic discovery to realize that I could hold Elea and/or nurse Elea while reading. Duh. Sometimes I am kind of slow grasping the obvious.

But then I finished the books and wasn't too thrilled with the ending. Sort of a let down. But besides that I really liked them. A lot more than I expected too. And I really wouldn't mind being Stephenie Meyer's version of a vampire.

While I was visiting Angie in Omaha we looked up the Twilight movie that is coming out November 21st. I got all goofy excited and I am not one of those people who goes to a movie the day it comes out. But this one-- definitely gonna be there and I just hope it doesn't break my heart by not being fantastic.

Very excited.

So I checked the mail today and this is what I found:


Season 1 box set! This is one of those randomly wonderful shows that I have come across in the middle of the night while nursing Elea. Gwen is pretty amazing at picking out gifts and ordered it for me for my birthday.

What's even more exciting is that when I looked up the picture I saw that there are 5 seasons! I had no idea. Very thrilled.

Thanks Gwen!

Random pictures.

I keep forgetting to post/take pictures of Elea when her hair is wet and not poofed all crazy. We have about 15 seconds before it dries all crazy.

I don't know why I am surprised, but Jeff can get her smiling better than anyone.

Thomas used to always wear his hair like this for his Volleyball games. This was our first trip to the grocery store with Elea (mid august)-- I came out to the living room and Jeff had her all strapped in and ready to go-- headband and everything. I busted up laughing-- she looks like a tennis player from the 80's with her sweatband, I mean headband, like that.

how to pronounce her name . . .

I've been meaning to post about this since before Elea was born. But then I didn't really think it was necessary-- but I guess it is. As a mom, any version of her name is okay, I will leave it up to her to like or dislike different nicknames or pronunciations.

SO:
eh-lee-uh.

or.

uh-lee-uh.

Either one works. Or just call her L, or L-E, or leah. We aren't picky.

2 month check up

Elea had her 2 month check up on Monday. The doc said everything looked good. We're still keeping an eye on her cross eyed tendencies. . . She has 4 months to grow out of it before I get to be worried! She weighed 11 lbs 11 oz. so her weight gain has slowed down a bit, believe it or not. She measured 21.75 inches long, so she has grown 2 inches in 2 months, that is insane to me. Even though she is growing in length, her percentiles don't show it.

Height- 25th percentile
Weight-75th percentile
Head Circumference- 45th percentile

So she doesn't have a big ol' head like we originally thought she might-- even though her 2 inch fro may make it look otherwise! We've come to the conclusion that she is built like her dad-- long body, short legs. As ang put it, "built like Jeff with a feminine flair." Let's hope there's a lot of feminine flair kickin' in- I don't think there is a big & tall store for toddlers!

Also, she got her first round of immunizations. Since she doesn't have any other siblings, Elea isn't used to anyone manhandling her at all. Actually, besides family and friends, no one ever touches her-- I have people stopping me all the time at the store, commenting about her, but no one reaches out to pinch her cheeks or grab her feet or anything like that (thank goodness because I don't know that I would react too kindly . . .). So anyway, when the nurse pinched her thigh to give her the first shot she start to scream/cry. It was her ticked off cry more than her pain cry-- and she kept crying for about 30 more seconds for the other 2 shots. After the nurse was finished it only took about 10 seconds for her to stop crying. I felt so bad. Part of me worries about the whole Autism-immunizations link and wonders if it's worth it. . . but if she did get sick and it could have been prevented I would feel horrible.

The rest of the day Monday she did pretty good-- she slept a lot and was sort of ornery, and if you accidentally touched her leg where the shots were she would get pretty mad. Tuesday she did pretty good too-- I was holding her most of the day while I finished the Twilight series-- but that's a post for another time.

Happy Birthday to Us

Today was Jeff & my birthday. He turned 27 and I turned 25.

There are some great things about having the same birthday-- if you forget it's their birthday then you get off the hook really easily because that means you've forgotten it's your birthday too. I baked him a German chocolate cake last night and felt pretty dang proud of myself and pathetic at the same time because it is the first birthday cake I've baked for him since we've been married. Having the EXACT same birthday causes this weird canceling out phenomenon. We don't really celebrate either of our birthdays. Or maybe it's just that we're getting old(er) and growing out of the thrill of the "birthday."

Last year I was in Arizona and he was in Utah on our birthday so I worked and he went to school to celebrate our birthdays. This year he had an away game in American Fork (they won 56-8 or something ridiculous like that) so he was gone all day. However, Elea was a little darling today and slept pretty good and I hung out with Gwen in St. George for a few hours. That combined with listening to the book Twilight by Stephanie Meyer on CD pretty much made my day.

Anyway, yay for being 25. And 27.