Exploring

I'm a few days late, but Talia turned 10 months last week! She is getting so big and cuter than ever. She is still not crawling, but she manages to get around by scootching on her bum. Davin is learning the fine art of protecting his toys or moving to higher ground. Talia is such a great eater! She is by far the least picky child we've had so far. She also sleeps wonderfully (almost all of the time). She has three teeth. I think there is a fourth coming in on top too. Talia babbles constantly and likes to "sing" with me. I'm impressed with her pitch matching skills. :)
Our fun thing this weekend was that Ian and I got our new iphones! This is my first smartphone and it was a few months overdue. I was scraping by with Ian's old old Sony Ericsson since mine died a couple weeks ago. I love my new phone! It's so much fun and so convenient to have music, directions, people, games, and info right at my fingertips. I am very impressed with Siri so far too. She is quite good at understanding what I ask and doing it. So obedient. I like that.

Our phones came on Friday, so we spent the evening setting them up and playing on them. I'm always up for a game of Words With Friends, so look me up! We also took the kids to the park to enjoy the fantastic weather.
Saturday morning I had my MRI at the University of Utah hospital. I was a little nervous, but it went fine. I had an MRI on my knee back in high school, so I remembered the big machine and the loud noises it makes. Apparently it's a little different when you get your brain scanned though. I had to wear a hospital gown with weird hospital issue pants and a robe. The MRI machine was in this crazy airlocked room. Seriously the door was huge and rimmed with green lights and made a big whooshing sound when it opened. It was intense.

I got all situated on the table with my head in the headrest and then the nurse says she's going to start an IV. What?!? I didn't know this was part of the deal! I do not like needles, especially IV's, so I panicked a little. I asked why and she explained that halfway through the MRI they tested for changes. I have to admit this nurse was the best at putting an IV in that I've ever had, so that was good. She gave me headphones with classical music playing and then put this plastic cage like thing over my face. In the first few minutes I thought I was going to throw up and I was pretty anxious, but once I willed myself to relax I was fine and it was over in about half an hour. My hands went to sleep and I was pretty dizzy when I tried to stand up, but it really wasn't too horrible. And now it's over and my doctor just emailed me this morning to tell me that the results were all normal. Hooray!

Saturday afternoon Ian took Davin with him on a walk to do some Friends of Scouting fundraising. They saw this cool butterfly on their walk!
We spent the rest of the day watching the BYU v. Oregon State game on TV. Ian's parents were there sitting in the midst of the Oregon crowd, but we didn't see them. The game was a fun one to watch and BYU won! Go Cougars! For some reason Davin insisted on cheering for the Beavers. Weston even helped him make a "B" for Beavers sign. He was sad at the end when his team lost. It was pretty hilarious. He was walking around all Charlie Brown style hanging his head. Silly boy.
After the game we went outside to BBQ some burgers and zucchini. We ate outside for the last time this year. It was really nice out and we all enjoyed hanging out in the backyard and playing some ladderball after dinner.

Sunday afternoon found me in a grumpy mood. Not entirely sure what my problem was. We decided to go for a drive up the canyon and see the Fall leaves. It was a good idea. We went up to Snowbird and did the Barrier Free trail up to a lookout point. It was really fun to be outside in the crisp air and see the amazing Fall colors. The boys loved it too. We saw a squirrel and a fuzzy caterpillar and got caught in some leaf rain. I love hanging out with my little family.
Last night I noticed Davin's eye was all red and swollen. It didn't look any better this morning, so I took him to the doctor and confirmed he has pink eye. Blah. We already started his eye drops, so hopefully no one else will catch it. In the meantime we are taking it easy and doing laundry and watching Toy Story. Also it is sunny. I like it when it's sunny. The end.