The Johnston Family

The Johnston Family

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Life update

I had the best of intentions on posting yesterday, but woke up suddenly and ran to the bathroom to throw up, and it only got worse through out the day. By the time Tony got home my entire body ached, I was four layers deep and still shivering, I'd only eaten 4 saltine crackers and my stomach still hurt beyond reason, and to top it all off my head was pounding. So I didn't get this posted yesterday sorry. Luckily I think it was one of those extremely nasty 24 hour bugs, as I'm feeling much better now, not quite one hundred percent but much better. My sweet husband stayed home from school to take care of me, and Liz(so I didn't have to) he watched Liz while I took the hottest shower I've taken in over nine months, then crashed on the bed for four hours. He even made me soup, and brought me apple juice! He's the sweetest!! Anywho, so Elizabeth is a month old now!!! I can't believe it! she's gotten so big already! We went to the dr last fri for a weight check, and I was floored when the scale finally settled on 8 pounds exactly!! The nurse told me to try and up the amount of formula she drinks in a sitting, as she was still only usually taking 2oz, and she wanted her to be taking closer to four, so we have been and she takes usually 3 but sometimes 4oz, every 3 to 4 hours, which is soooo much better than feeding her every 2!!! She also wore a dress for the first time Sun, on her one month birthday! She looked sooooo adorable!! My cousin had her 2nd baby boy the day after Elizabeth was born, and they did his blessing Sun. It was cool because Danilo(my cousin's husband) is from Peru, so he gave the blessing in spanish, I didn't understand more than a few words, but you could still feel the spirit of his words.
On a more bizarre note, last Tue Tony had quite the experience. He called 911 for the first time in his life(don't worry no one was hurt) Elizabeth and I were at a baby shower the relief society was giving us(where we got lots of cute blankets) and tony was at home with some assignments. You see when I went to get in the pilot to go to the baby shower the doors wouldn't unlock, which we thought was odd, well when we went to start it, it wouldn't start either. The battery was dead, so Tony tried jumping it to no avail, so he took us over in the Focus, and took the battery in to be tested and came home, he was looking through the grocery ads(as his other assignment was to go grocery shopping)when the doorbell rang. When he answered the door it was a young man who told Tony he wanted to "live here". Tony said no and closed the door, well he came back 3 more times, pounding on the door and window, so Tony called 911(he was the 3rd person in the condo complex to do so, as this guy was trying to get into cars also). So when I called him to pick us up from the shower, the last thing I was expecting to hear was that he couldn't come right now he had to talk to the police. So a nice lady from the ward drove us home, and we pull into the complex and see 5 police cars!!(apparently this guy had a bit of a rap sheet already, that night alone he was very drunk, and most likely high)It was cool to see all our neighbors pull together though, we were all watching out for one another, and that's a good thing to know. No real damage was done, he left a bit of a footprint and slight dent on our screen door, but that was it. But it did make us think that it's too easy to get into our place through the living room window, which doesn't lock, so Tony went into work late the next day and fixed that. Well I think your up to date! Here's some pictures of our growing girl(as we've had a few requests) Enjoy!!


Our pretty dress!!



This was taken this morning!(above)



Our new swing!!






Not a big fan of baths right now

1 comment:

PrincessKatie said...

cute new pictures. I can't believe she is already a month old> They sure do grow up fast. Love her new dress!