A very MOVING birthday

My birthday was a bit of an adventure to say the least.
We discovered that Joshua was as backed up as an LA freeway and the situation needed to be dealt with. He tried for about 2 hours off and on with no success and he was starting to get upset and was crying because it hurt. I tried to coach him through it, but it was a no go. I gave him a warm bath, which didn't solve anything, but he was able to relax a bit and at least take a nap.
Here's where the fun really begins, we decided he needed an enema. The other more pleasant options could take up to 3 days and we didn't want to torture him any longer.
I'll skip out on the really graphic details, but the poor kid was able to "evacuate. "

It was so heart breaking to see him in pain and not really able to help him much. As I was telling him that he needed to push so he could feel better, he would tell me "It's ok, Mommy do it." He had such faith that I'd be able to take care of his problem for him and it was just awful not to be able to fix it.

You could say I had a crappy birthday. {ha, ha, ha} Other than that adventure, it was a nice relaxing day.

Ryan took me out to Texas Roadhouse and to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist on Saturday, so I'd say those were the real birthday festivities.

HAPPY 200TH POST TO ME!

27 Random Ashley Facts

In honor of my 27th birthday, here are 27 random facts and stories about yours truly.

1. I sleep with 6 pillows on my side of the bed, although I usually only use 1 under my head
2. While we are talking about sleep, I find the most comfortable way to sleep on the bed is horizontally.
3. I also sleep with my head at the foot of the bed a lot too. I picked up some weird sleep habits towards the end of my last pregnancy just trying to find a comfortable way to fall asleep
   
4. I chose Brussel Sprouts for my 5th grade vegetable report and Lichtenstein for my 6th grade country report because I wanted to be unique
5. I don't like corn, canned, cobbed, popped, you name it-I don't like it.
   
6. I love language and building my vocabulary- even if it is slang
7. I've played the piano for 20 years. Wow, I sound old
8. I prefer watching other people play video games to playing them myself
   
9. The only B I got in college was in Calculus. I don't mind though, because the B was just a sneeze away from being a C.
   
10. I worked at Baker's shoes at AZ Mills mall during high school. During that time I knew all the shoes by style name and could tell you where they were located in the store.
    
11. I was a band nerd in Jr High and HS. I was in the marching band and played percussion
12. One of my biggest pet peeves are forwarded emails that contain chain letters or warnings about some horrible fate that will befall you. 99% of the time they are bogus and with the smallest amount of effort can be fact checked.
    
13. I have wanted to move to Alaska since some time in elementary school
14. When I was 14 my best friend Carolyn and I created our first website, it was dedicated to the Beatles.
    
15. I made the first move on Ryan by using a pick-up line my cousin taught me to get him to hold my hand. {For the curious the pick up line is this: "Hey can you hold something for me?" When they say yes, you give them your hand.}
16. My sister and I are both named after types of trees. Cedar and Ash. I think I got lucky, I could have been Knotty Pine.
    
17. I really love watching almost any show on Discovery Health, including surgeries. The only ones I can't handle are rhinoplasties. Nose jobs give me the willies.
    
18. When Ryan and I were engaged I was dead set against getting a sleep number bed because I thought everything should be "ours" and didn't want there to be my side of the bed vs his side. I was such a goof ball. {We did end up getting a sleep number bed, FYI}
19. I LOVE to shop. I really like things like yard sales and thrift stores. Ross was my favorite store ever because I love going through and looking at everything and waiting to find the awesome deal or hidden treasure.
    
20. I don't really like feet, that includes mine.
21. I've loved to collect things ever since I can remember. {Dolls, pencils, coins, stamps, beanie babies, stickers, pens, kitchen utensils, scrapbooking tools/supplies, etc}
22. I think potty humor is hilarious, unless it is super gross. Ryan jokes that he can just say the word "Poop" to me and I will start giggling
23. Even though potty humor is funny, I hate public restrooms. I will use whatever avoidance techniques I can to avoid using public bathrooms.
24. I really love that Christmas decorations are already up at stores. It fuels my need to plan ahead.
    
25. I lay awake at night, sometimes for hours, because I've had some project pop in my head and I want to work out the details.
26. Once, I told my friends parents that my family vacation was going to be going around touring different OUThouses. {I should have said light houses} I was totally confused about why they were laughing hysterically at me.
27. Ever since I was old enough to know what a Golden Birthday was, I was bummed that mine occurred when I was 5 and too young to appreciate it.
    

Well that is some truly random stuff about me.

Oh and I should through in a very Happy Golden Birthday to Monica(Sept 27.) I really truly did think about the fact that it was golden birthday and I was a little envious.

Random Pictures

Last post for the day! I wanted to post some of the cute random pictures I have from the last few days.

Morgan is a master at crawling now and is even venturing into climbing. At my parents house she crawled over to these train boxes, climbed on one of them and just sat there proud as can be. A few minutes later she fell forward flat on her face.
I'm pretty sure the most important thing is that I have it documented that she was up on the box though.

Here is a cute story about Joshua. He has been going to story time at the library recently and today my Mom took him because a state representative was reading a story and handing out a copy of the book Corduroy. Anyways, she took a different route to the library due to road construction. Joshua was telling her that she was going the wrong way to the library. My Mom was trying to tell him that they were still going to the library, but we was insistent. When they got there, he started saying Yay! Library!

Now for pictures! Oh and that is Joshua's Thomas train whistle in the picture, he was trying to learn how to use it.

This month is such a special one!

Yesterday marked the beginning of my birthday month! Usually I don't declare the whole month as mine, but we went out for my birthday dinner with my parents, so why not?
We went to Rainforest Cafe and it was SO fun. I had never eaten there before but I have wanted to ever since it opened. The ambiance was so cool and the food was pretty good too. We lucked into going on Family Night, which means kids eat for $1.99. The typical kids meal is $6, so that isn't so bad. Next time we go, we are going to order Morgan a meal too and really do the family night right. I highly recommend that you save your pennies and check out the Rainforest cafe, even if is just to say that you tried it.

I have several pictures that we took from the evening.






I also have this handy dandy video of Morgan's latest parlor trick. She can wave! She will wave at Hi, Bye-Bye, or Night night. It is awesome! We will take a better video sometime, but I wanted to get something up.



Stay tuned this month for some special posts....

Ryan's birthday bash

We had some friends over last Friday to celebrate Ryan's birthday and it was a lot of fun.
I borrowed my Mom's Thomas Play tent and added it to our little Thomas play tent for the kids. The men played Wii and the women sat around the table and talked.

We had cake, ice cream, banana bread, and apple dip(yummmy).