Fancy seeing you here...

Yeah, I know. I've been busy. I haven't forgotten about my blog, its just that when I think about updating it, I also think about sleeping or laundry or the ever-reproducing bucket full of bottles :0)

But since darb is asleep, and I like hearing the rain and not the dishwasher this morning, I'll try to speed everybody up to date on life.

February started off with a blast... we had a super bowl thingy with Dave and Keara, and ate lots of super bowl type food. Then we went to our first neurologist visit at UCLA. I have to say, I wasn't super happy with the facilities, but I do know that they are under construction and are making do with what they have. The doctor was nice, but its never a good idea to make a mom wait with her 3 month old, in one large waiting room with sick kids coughing up a lung right behind her... (I'm a strong supporter or sick waiting rooms and healthy waiting rooms). ANyways... enough of my complaining, the doctor was good and we are switching darby's medicine to a kinder-less-side-effect kind.

Then.... we went to Santa Barbara for a wedding! Yea for weddings! We had a wonderful drive up there as we toted Karl along with us. We got to visit with Jason, Christin, and Kaden too! Christin was the matron of honor, and so wore many hats that day. We took the opportunity to hang out with Kaden and Jason as they kept themselves occupied. The Hunt's hadn't met Darby yet, and so it was great to finally have our little families together. We took plenty of pictures and we are hopeful that one will show up on their dorm room door as they go to college together later in life? Ha, we can dream right?

Kaden kept trying to eat Darby.

holding hands :0)

The ceremony was especially beautiful and Jason and I were truly blessed by it. Life gets crazy when you have a baby... suddenly his needs come first before thinking of your spouse's. Stressful evenings give way to cranky mornings and tired afternoons, and before you know it you're at odds with your partner and don't know how you got there. But as we sat and listened to the charge from the pastor, we remembered what we promised to each other almost 3 years ago... to love each other, serve each other, and put each other first in all we do. That its only by God's power that we can do that and love each other in the way He wants us to. So thank you Robert and Angela, for inviting us to your wedding and letting us be encouraged in our marriage.

Then, you won't believe what i got to do... "Come on down!!!!" Yes, I went to a taping of The Price is Right! My wonderful sunday school/church age group... I don't know what to call us except that we call ourselves The Gap (Grads and Professionals?)... we had a fundraiser for our retreat that we are having NEXT weekend. The Price is Right was giving us $20 a person to go to a taping, and so we got a huge group of us (24!) and went down to hollywood and participated in this once in a lifetime event. It was fabulous. The waiting for 6 hours out in the cold was grueling, but the experience was just plain awesome. I didn't get to go to contestant row, but hopefully you can all see me on TV. Set your TV to record on MARCH 23RD!!!!! Thats our airdate!

Since I'm such a control freak, we decided long ago to put someone 'in charge' of certain holidays and events... mostly valentines day and our anniversary. This year, it was Jason's turn to do valentines... so he surprised me and took me and darbs to the park and we had a nice picnic with yummy french bread and blue cheese and salami :0) and of course, chocolate.

Today, i am taking Darby to his first physical therapy appointment. The neurologist noticed that his muscle tone looked a little weak, and recommended that we see a PT. She said it was normal for a child that had a brain bleed to have some physical weakness. However, she was encouraged that his cognitive skills were right on for his age. I have no doubts that this PT will be really great for Darby. He's picking up new motor skills all the time, and this is going to be a great step of progress for him.

Then thursday we have our ultrasound and visit with Dr.DP. My mother, who is the best ever, is being a HUGE sport and coming up, AGAIN, to try to help me with this appointment. She came up last week to help with it, but it got cancelled at the last minute. So it was rescheduled and she feels very sure that she doesn't want me going alone. Jason can't be there, because he teaches class on that day, and so she's being a huge help for both of us :0)