Cat-Fish Chronicles: A weekend out

I feel like I have been neglecting my other children!! Poor Bastain and Sukisue have spent more time in that back room of late than I can count, so I feel kinda bad for them. Poor dears. So I've been trying to let them out and spend time with them. They are scared of Tristan still, so I haven't had to worry about them eating him. They have both discovered the geckos though, which means I have to keep a constant eye on them to make sure they aren't getting into the tank.

A couple things going on with us lately…..
On Saturday, I realized how cooped up I have been, so Nick suggested we go out and do something. We ended up driving to the Lehi Smith's and poking around. Tristan handled it exceptionally well, considering he was asleep and covered up the whole time! While we were looking through the clothing section (Nick said I should look for a dress or something to celebrate my skinniness), Nick saw a rack of Real Salt Lake shirts. The one on the dummy was really nice looking, so he went through the rack trying to find his size. There weren't any. So he looked on the tag on the on the dummy and it was a small. I was like, Nick, just take it off, there's a pricetag. Haha, so we undressed the dummy, put a different top on him, and happily went on our way. We probably looked really funny to the people walking by…..

Then Sunday, a family from our last ward came to visit and see Tristan. The little girl, Megan, was in the primary class Nick and I taught. Her mom is soo awesome, she always tells us how much we meant to Megan, and what great teachers we were. It always makes me feel really good. We really had a fun time teaching, even though we only had the two little girls. They brought us diapers and wipes, a very useful gift! We told them how much we appreciated it because dear little Tristan can mess 4 in an hour……

And yesterday, we took a trip up to Tooele to visit my sister. It was quite a fun drive……it was a torrential downpour and I probably was sliding like a maniac all over the road doing only 50 mph. Scary? Yeah…..and it didn't help that Nick and I had been awake since 1 AM after only getting to sleep from midnight until then. Tristan has a bad habit of not sleeping at night. But we made it in one piece. We stopped in Salt Lake to go to the Smiths there. Nick wanted to get Becky a gift, so he picked out a couple trays of Sushi to take. I had made this awesome looking ricekrispy cake before we left because I figured her kids would love it too. Becky was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and we wanted to go and spend some time with her before she got busy with doctors appointments and treatment. It was a lot of fun too! Talking to adults is always fun when you spend all your time with a screaming infant…….and Becky said he was cute and held him for a super long time, which I can't complain about either!! It was pretty funny though when it came to feeding time, because I still haven't quite mastered using a blanket and keeping my shirt on…..so I ended up pumping and giving him a bottle instead. Which made it super hard to feed him when we got home, little booger. But! We played a fun game with Becky's husband Matt while she took a nap called Forbidden Island, where you are trying to collect artifacts and get off the island before it sinks. We all died both times we played…..haha and then we all just sat around talking. It's sad we live so far apart from each other, they are really good company. But I'm sure we'll be visiting again soon. It was funny, Tristan pooed his diaper like 3 times in a row that afternoon, and Nick and I kept arguing over whose turn it was to change him.

The drive home was long…..because I almost fell asleep like 10 times…..not good…..and then smart me driving to and from Tooele 3 weeks post C-section? Yeah, it was a heavy dose of motrin and off to bed as soon as I got home. But Nick slept the whole way back, so I'm glad I was the one behind the wheel!

Here are a couple pictures!