Rash gone bad...

So over the past couple of days Lincoln has had a rash on his cheeks. It looked like it was getting better with a home remedy of corn starch, but just yesterday it didn't look pretty at all! It just kept oozing liquid. I made an appointment with the pediatrician for this morning and the whole time Lincoln was such a trooper and happy as can be. He seriously is an AWESOME baby boy! His poor cheeks looked so painful. :(

The pediatrician looked at it and checked everything saying that everything looks great he's in the 95th for weight and 90th for height. Then she went on to say that he has a 2nd degree infection on top of his eczema. Owie! So she prescribed and antibiotic and also gave me some cream samples to try on his skin after the antibiotic does it's job. So hopefully he gets better soon. Here are some pictures. They don't do his poor cheeks justice.

Taken the night before :(

Taken at the pediatrician's office. Looking happy.

Curious of what's going on. :)

Pain tolerance

So here I am one who had all natural birth with no pain killers, thinking I could handle pain. HA! Little did I know I was wrong haha. On Sunday I was shaving my legs for church and Stella was watching. I wasn't even shaving in a hurry when PSSht my razor snags my skin. I didn't even realize that I cut myself until I look down and see whiteness and blood. EWWWW! Stella was like "Uh oh, uh oh, owie" She gave me a hug and patted my leg and said "Kay, kay" I told her I'll be ok, but as I put the shower head to rinse off the blood, I couldn't help letting out a small yelp of pain. Then I got out dried my legs and put a bandaid on. Done. Today I remove the bandaid to see how it looks and it looks super red. Curtis is like "That looks nasty, maybe you should put some hydrogen peroxide on it." I was like "Does that hurt?" He said "It usually doesn't, but it sometimes does." Here I'm thinking "What kind of answer is that?!" So we busted out the hydrogen peroxide and I was getting ready to put it on a cotton ball and Curtis, with a face of "Come on, it's common sense," said "That's not how you do it." I said "Well how do you do it then?" He got a paper towel and draped my leg over his lap with the paper towel underneath to catch the falling liquid. I was like "Wait, wait, let me grab something. I can't do this Curtis. No, no don't put it on yet." The whole time I was expecting an excruciating sting, but it didn't even hurt hahahahah. I was embarrassed. Curtis to make things more funny was like "And you thought you had high pain tolerance Hah!" We both just sat there laughing at my silliness.

Coupons

So I was really excited about using my 10% coupon from Joann's tomorrow, since they have a labor day sale going on. I have visited Joann's multiple times in my anticipation and even have gone to Michael's to compare prices. I even kept showing Curtis all the stuff I wanted to get, he didn't care much haha. Tonight I decided to look on their website and add up the things I wanted to get. I got up to $42.69 and then I figured "I'm only saving $4.27 LAME!" So I'm really not that excited now.

Harry Potter touches our hearts

I had a burning desire to watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, so I borrowed it from my parents. We watched it last night and Stella got way into it. She would be glued to it and add some commentary like "Whoa!," "Look, look" and during the part where Hermione is crying because Lavender Brown and Ron kiss after the quidditch match, she kept looking at me and and pointing to the tv saying "Sad sad". She had such a sad face that she seriously looked like she was on the verge of tears. It was such a sweet moment hehe. Quick update on Lincoln- he is GINORMOUS!! haha He has the chubbiest cheeks that you can't get enough of! Loves to jibber jabber all the time. His sister always wants to hold him and love up on him and especially when someone else is holding him. She's like "Holt Holt baby," "Peas, peas, "Mine," "Kinken," etc. She talks a ton! She says nonsense stuff, while adding a few actual words. She's actually pretty good at communicating though. Her new phrases are "Get it, get it," "Do it, Do it," and "Gen (again)." Lincoln also loves music like Stella. I got way into Horton Hears a Who and sang the line that Joe sings at the very end "I can't fight this feeling anymooooooooooore" and he just stared at me smiling and making "Aaaa, ooo" sounds like he was singing too :) Love my chunky boy.

Cutest Moment Ever!!!!!

While in church, Curtis and I were in the hall walking to our Sunday School class and we happened to pass by Stella's nursery class. They were heading to snack time and Stella was reverently walking with her arms folded and she looked up at us and just kept on walking. Oh my goodness I'm going to have that image in my brain forever!! On another note, Lincoln has been jibber jabbering all the time and he LOVES to smile! He's been smiling since he was born! :) He is such a sweet handsome boy. We love him, especially his big sister haha. Oh and one more thing...in church today we had an anouncement from the Stake President saying that our current bishop was getting released next week and that we would be sustaining the new one. I'm sad about that. Curtis took this opportunity to pull off an EVIL joke on me and my sister-in-law Rachel helped him. He came home after his home teaching and he was sitting on the couch with Stella when he got a call. I was working on the computer and didn't think anything of it, since he is always getting calls about Scouts and stuff. Well I look over and he has this look of fear in his face. I ask "Who is it?" and he says it's Billy Reed! He takes his phone and he shows me the name that is popping up. I was like "Oh he's family he's probably calling about something else. For those who don't know, Billy Reed is the Stake executive secretary and we just had that anouncement about getting a new bishop in church. Bishops in our ward have a tendency of being called extremely young, for example our current bishop was called at age 28, the one before that was called at 25. Curtis is turning 25 this Friday!!! Curtis just kept letting the phone ring and he didn't answer. I was like "I thought you said that they probably already called someone since they need approval from the first presidency?" He was like well I don't know. I was starting to FREAK OUT!! A voicemail was left and it was RACHEL saying "Hi I thought I would make it more official by leaving a voicemail." Curtis had changed Rachel's name in his phone to billy reed. How evil!!! I don't know if I'll ever forgive them hahah. PS- Lincoln is always hungry hahaha.

Shameless Plug For Curtis's New Website.

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Rainy Night Fun

Curtis decides that he wants to rent a redbox movie and stay in, but one little problem where is Curtis' wallet???? As I was giving Lincoln a bath Curtis and Stella were in a vigorous search for his wallet. After I finish getting Lincoln bathed and clothed I hear the front door open and Curtis says "Ashley are you almost done?" I say "Yeah why?" Curtis, "I need you to come out here and watch Stella." I'm thinking to myself, wait a sec isn't it raining outside??! So I go outside and Curtis tells me "Now Ashley don't stress if Stella decides to lay on the ground or go in the grass." She was soaking wet!!! I couldn't really be mad at her since she looked soo adorable. Here are some pictures of our wet fun :D Thanks to Curtis for helping me be chill about this sort of thing haha.

Come and play with me is what she's saying :)

Ring around the rosies

Not wanting to go inside

Family pic :) Lincoln freshly bathed and passed out haha