Sunday, November 29, 2009

baby simulator!!!

Can you see the pissed-off look in my eye from Mom waking me up from a NAP to FORCE me to take this picture?!?! gah! well that's how it seemed like at the time anyways....

hey! Sarah here!
so of course, me being me i thought an over-the-weekend baby simulator would be FUN and a "good experience" Yeah...
The crying and cooing noises still haunt me even though it's been a few weeks since i had it. Well it's not like it was all THAT bad...just it kinda sucked by the last day. So after much debating her official name was Jabuka. it means "apple" in Serbian. But I kinda forgot and called her Abby. (sorry!!) She turned on at 3:00 on Friday at the Alta football game at the U. Yes, i am possibly insane but i don't care. She stayed with her Auntie Dominique for the first bit then I got her again. It screamed a couple times during the game and i only got a few dirty looks from people, and only one 10 year old asked what the crap i was doing with a doll so I see that as a success! YAY!! The bus ride home was interesting a we got a couple of pissed off kids but that is expected. But actually this one guy really liked the reaction he was getting from all the girls when he held the doll once so he constantly was yelling "pass back the baby!!" it was pretty hilarious.
For the rest of the weekend she tended to be nocturnal and liked to wake up about 7 times a night and sleep all day. Typical baby huh? And luckily she didn't cry or anything at church!! Well i gained back sleep over the next 2 days and so it's all good in the end...

p.s. i probably will NOT do that again. Once was pretty darn good for me!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Mississippi Hot Dog!


Taylor and Alex have always wanted to play instruments. This harmonica was the latest hobby of Taylor's until...Violin, yea! I didn't realize how inexpensive it would be until I looked at KSL and found a 1/4 size violin for Taylor and bought it the next day. I just got Alex's 1/10 size violin today - we ordered it online. It's so tiny! There are actually 2 sizes smaller!


Playing the first rhythm in the Suzuki method is "mississippi hotdog" - that really brings back memories for a lot of us I'm sure.
Such tiny violins! Can you tell I'm excited?