April Fun

Easter: 

I dressed Bostyn up in some bunny ears.  She was my practice run for the preschool activity I was in charge of.  I think they turned out pretty cute:)  We spent Easter weekend with the Hallows this year.  We went on an Easter Picnic on Saturday and rolled Easter Eggs.  I experienced my first Easter egg rolling.  Ok, I didn't actually roll any eggs but I watched everybody else roll easter eggs.  I have never understood what the purpose was of rolling Easter eggs.  I have learned that there is no purpose to rolling eggs--it's just for fun.  I guess that is what happens when you marry somebody...you take on new traditions.  Its fun getting to take on new traditions and to have some differences in the families.   

Ladd's Birthday

Ladd just turned 24 on April 16, 2010.  He has such a personality...after looking at the pictures I think you would agree.  He keeps me laughing and smiling all the time. Happy Birthday Ladd!!!

Growing up

Bostyn is getting strong enough to stand up.  She didn't stand up by herself, I put her up but she was able to hold the stand for a little while. 

 This is around the time she started crawling.  She was crawling towards me in this picture.

Stink Bug

She started this little stink bug crawl in April.  Sometimes she would just get in this position and just look underneeth herself.  Then she would start crawling like this.  I think it is becasue she didn't like her knees on the floor all the time.  I don't blame her.  I guess I should put pants on her more often?

Scowls and Dirty Looks

Bostyn is learning how to figure her face how she wants it to go.  She started this scowl one day and we thought it was really funny.  She learned that it maked people laugh so she did it all the time.  A lot of times she would give it to me when I went to get her up from bed.  It was really silly.  It lasted for about three weeks.  She would do it to strangers most often.  She must have liked the reaction she got from them:)

More fun pics.

The Flood

We had our first flood in April a few days before we were leaving to Houston.  It was a mess but the story behind it is really sad.  It all happened sometime in the early morning.  We were sleeping and Ladd woke up sometime early in the morning to the monitor making what he thought was a staticky sound.  He disregarded it and turned the monitor all the way down so he couldn't hear it anymore.  I never heard anything and slept through the whole thing.  Well all of the sudden around six in the morning, Ladd jumps out of bed and rushes downstairs.  I was still practically asleep and was just thinking he was going to the bathroom or something but then I hear him yell, "Laurie wake up!  The downstairs flooded and Bostyn is all wet!  I hurry and get up in a frantic and he hands me Bostyn and she is just as cold as can be and shivering and doesn't even know what is going on.  This picture of her is pretty soon after we got her upstairs.  Anyway, what turned out to be, was the montior's supposidely staticky sound wasn't static, it was the water bursting from the hose to the washer!  When Ladd woke up around six, he realized to himself that it was the sound of water spraying and not static.  Ladd has no idea what time that was at in the morning so it could have been hours!  In fact it was probably hours because there was a few inches of water on the floor even though there is a drain in the middle of the floor. The hose that broke sprayed water directly over Bostyn's crib where she was sleeping.  So she was getting the most of it the whole time!  When Ladd went down to get her she was on her belly holding the blankets over her head just whimpering.  She looked up at him with such a sad look on her face not knowing what was going on.  Anyway, we hurry and put some warm clothes on her to get her warm.  I would have put her in a warm bath but the water hose that broke was the hot water so the hot water was complely out.  Luckily, the hot water didn't burn Bostyn!

How it happened was, our Landlords were there the week before fixing our pipes to the bathtub becasue it was plugged.  They had to move the washer and dryer to do this.  When they put it back they didn't put it where we had it.  They had the hose stretched more than it should have been.  We didn't realize this or else we would have moved it back.  We already have it totally rigged like hics anyway and they were precisely put where they had to be considering leaks and everything else.  We had to move just about everything upstairs, take the carpet out and it was just a big mess!  I never want to have a flood again.  Luckily it didn't ruin anything but it was hard to clean up and it was right before we were trying to pack up and leave.  Oh well, it all got cleaned up, Bostyn was fine, and everything is back in order.

 

This was the hose that broke

This Garbabe can is full to the brim of water