First Swim!!

We have been enjoying our last week before the spring semester starts! Kason is feeling much better.  After reducing the number of treatments each day, he stopped vomiting and seemed much happier.  We are excited to go to the doctor tomorrow and follow up on his progress.  He has been just a little spoiled this week! Since he has been sick, he has spent a lot of time with his mom and dad.  He spent even more time over the break with us, since we didn’t have school.  For the first time this week, he has seemed to be very much a momma’s boy.  He isn’t quite the social butterfly that he has been, but we are hoping with school starting this next week that we can work on getting him a little more social again! Kason has started interacting with his toys a little more and really strains to reach them.  He likes to sit on the floor and have a LOT of toys around.  He will eventually get onto his belly and scoot around to different toys.  He gets tired pretty quickly though, and we are anxious for the day when he realizes he can move farther distances and places all by himself. 

He has regressed quite a bit this week with sleeping and eating.  He is doing great with the 30 minute naps and hour long intervals at night! We are tired ALL the time! Kason also had his first well-balanced meal with rice cereal, chicken, beans, and bananas. He is skeptical of any new foods and only eats them if I mix them with bananas! We are anxious to get back to our usual routine hopefully soon! Kason also untied Grandpa’s shoes this week all by himself! He also got a new basketball hoop this week, and he thought he was pretty cool when he grabbed the rim for the first time.  It is fun to see babies learn new things!

Monday night I started my Women’s volleyball league at The Zone in Rexburg.  It is my 3^rd year playing in that league, and I love it! It is great to get back to playing volleyball, and it’s a good workout too! Natalie is also on our team this year!  It sure makes me miss playing in high school and college.  

I spent a lot of time at work this week printing checks and getting 1099s ready to send out.  I was grateful to be able to keep Kason at home with Kolt, so he could get better.  I am excited for my last semester because all of my classes are online.  I have 2 online classes, an independent study, and an internship which I am doing at the Post Register.  It will be great not to have to leave Kason, but also a challenge to find time to focus and do my homework.  I am welcoming this challenge! Kolt has another tough semester this year, but his schedule worked out really nice, and it looks like he will even be home to take Kason a couple days, so I can have some time to work as well. 

On Friday, Kolt helped at ISU’s Freshman Orientation at the IF campus.  Afterwards, we went into town and did some shopping and hit dinner at Sizzler.  We had a good time together! On Saturday morning, we watched Rope play basketball at 7:30 and Evan play at 8:30.  Both boys did great! Rope had a couple nice baskets, and Evan made a basket too! The highlight of Evan’s game might have been the boy on his team who was running in circles around the court to avoid his defender! Kids are sure cute at that age! After the games, we went up to Green Canyon with my parents.  We met Kristi & Bryant there and went on a snowmobile ride.  It was sure pretty up in the mountains! While Kolt went on a big ride with Bryant, the rest of us went swimming.  Kason had a great time swimming for the first time.  He kicked and kicked and even liked Grandpa Lindley’s dunks.  He never even cried! I think he was trying to keep up with his cousin Kamrie! He sure liked watching her.  After swimming, we had some dinner and let Kolt warm up in the pool.  We had so much fun up there and are very grateful for Kristi & Bryant inviting us up! 

We had a great Sunday.  I played the organ and Kolt taught the Sunday school lesson.  Kason is getting to be a little more of a handful during meetings, but we made it through! We had a great block of meetings, and we are anxious for the Stake-split next week! We are looking forward to a good evening of dinner with family and celebrating Grandpa Lindley’s birthday.  We sure love him!