The Nelson Family: Sorry for the Long Absence!

Friday, July 17, 2009

Sorry for the Long Absence!

I am finishing up my online classes this week, so I have been super busy after Deagan is asleep with homework and what not so I have had no time to blog. I can't wait for my classes to be over! Our poor apartment has really been neglected! That is saying a lot because no matter what I have going on, I HAVE to have a clean house. But with everything I have had to get done there is no way I could keep up with everything! I am honestly looking forward to give my house a good cleaning one of these days!

In other news:

We got a new pet! I have been begging Greg for a cat or dog for the longest time, and I realized that there was no luck on that issue. I decided that a smaller animal might be better, so after a lot of discussing Greg let us get a guinea pig! Well he said a small animal, and he wasn't with me when we bough it, so he didn't exactly say those words. He still doesn't even know that we have it yet because he has been gone playing music at a friends house. I went to the pet store with every intention to get a hamster or something, but when I asked the sales person what kind of small animal would be good she said a guinea pig because they are so much more sociable and don't bite. I was sold there. Deagan and I had a fun time looking at the different ones and holding them, but decided to go with this little guy:

Deagan helped me name him Sulley, from Monsters Inc. I was asking him all sorts of names, and that was the first name that he said yes to! So this is Sullivan aka Sulley. That name might change, but for now that is what he is going to be called.

He seems totally scared of us right now. I can't really blame him though. Poor thing probably misses all of his little friends! I read in a book tonight that they like to be with other guinea pigs, so I might have to get another one! I feel so bad for it! Deagan is so excited about it that he was going a little crazy around him as well, which probably didn't help the situation at all. Deagan loves him and want to hold him all the time. I let him hold him a couple of times, with me holding on to Deagan and the guinea pig, and he loves it! He gets a little too excited though, so he only holds him for a few seconds before I get too nervous.

I would still love to get a cat or dog sometime, but for now we will enjoy little Sullivan!

We also had the chance to go to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, NY this past week. It was so amazing! I was so grateful that we got to go! Deagan did awesome at it. He actually ended up falling asleep pretty much after it started, so it was nice that we got to actually watch it! This is one thing that I love about living in this area is that we have all of these amazing historical sights around us! If anyone wants to go next year, look us up!!

Mommy and Deagan

I couldn't really get a good picture of the whole set up because our camera is lame, but this is what the staging looked like before it began.

2 comments:

Miriah Griffith said...: I think i posted this on facebook, but we had a guinea pig once. They're fun, but require lots of clean up once they get comfortable, ha ha. It looks like you and Greg are settling in nicely :0); July 18, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Nicole said...: That's such a cute guinea pig! I remember I had a hamster once... it got caught in the heat vent. So every time the heat would come on it would stink up the house. Looking back it is hilarious, but during that time it was so tramatic! :); July 20, 2009 at 3:46 PM

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Kids do and say the darndest things...

I don't want to forget all the cute things that my children have said or will say, so check back often to see what the Nelson family has to say!

March 26, 2013

Kayden: Do I still have my eyeballs or are they still at Grandma and Grandpa's house?

Me: I never knew they were there...

January 8, 2011

I was tired this afternoon, and I needed to nurse Kayden. I felt too tired to go pick up Kayden from where he was, so jokingly I asked Deagan if he would go change Kayden's diaper, nurse him, and then put him down for a nap.

He took it seriously, and said, "I have little boobies mommy! But do I have milk?"

Me: "No you don't have milk. I was just kidding."

Deagan: "But do I have water in my boobies?"

Needless to say, he did not follow through with what I said:)

January 6, 2009

*We went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight, and after the waitress brought us our breadsticks my son yelled after her, "Thank you lady!"

*My oldest loves to bring toys with him to bed. Tonight he had a couple of toy dinosaurs that he got for Christmas. The rule we have of bringing toys in bed is that the toys can't play, they have to sleep too. Tonight, he was having a hard time just letting his toys sleep, so I kept asking him to stop playing with the dinosaurs so he could go to sleep. He was getting really frustrated at me because of this and towards the end he started saying, "I am very mad at you!" It was so hard for me not to laugh at that.

January 4, 2009

He has done this for a while now, but whenever we are in the car he will ask, "Where are we going?" in a annoyed kind of voice. Later on he will ask really sadly, "Where did my house go?"

October 29, 2009

My oldest woke up really early this morning, and was whiny and impossible to please. At this point, I am dreading the day ahead and it is only 7 a.m. My oldest was sitting on his play table coloring and playing with his paint box (that was empty). He dropped the paint box, and began whining for me to pick it up. The conversation went something like this:

D: "Pick it up Mommy!"

Me: "It is right by you, you pick it up."

**Pause from Deagan**

D: "Michelle! Pick it up!"

I couldn't help but smile when he called me Michelle. Maybe this day will be better then I am expecting.

September 6, 2009

I think that wanting your privacy while going potty is a natural instinct that we are all born with and that develops over time. D is beginning to show signs that this privacy is a very important time when going to the bathroom. This afternoon I was making dinner and came in to the living room to check on him. As I walked into the room, he held out his hand and yelled, "No Mom! Go back!" I can always tell when he is done by him allowing me to stay in the same room with him.

August 30, 2009

D wants me to always watch what he is doing regardless of what it is. His new favorite thing to say is, "WATCH MOM!" over and over.

July 11, 2009

I was taking a bath, and locked D in the bathroom with me while I did so so I could keep an eye on him. During this process, D was very interested in his old nursing buddies (if you get my drift) and kept saying "Yummy!" "Yummy?" I asked him. "What did it taste like?" "HOT DOGS!" He replied!

July 8, 2009

D is a big help around the house. He puts things away when I ask him to, sometimes. He helps me fold the laundry, by that I mean he lays in the laundry. He is just a great help. One of his new things is to throw away his diapers after I am done changing him. After a diaper change this afternoon, he proceeded to pick up the diaper and head to the trash. His normal trash that he uses was out of reach, so I told him to go into the bathroom right off of the kitchen and to put the diaper in the trash right next to the toilet. I think all he heard from that was, "Put it in the....toilet." because that is where he put it. Like I said, very helpful! :)