Who Will Win?

I found this on the internet, thought it was funny.

Alex's Room

Look how cute Alex's room turned out.

MY NEW STOVE

So lately I've been doing a lot of research on stoves. We knew we needed one and we wanted electric glass top. I originally wanted a convection oven, but we needed to get it at a relatively cheap price, so I decided that wasn't something that I had to have.

Anyway I found a nice stove at Home Depot (Sorry Matt) online for $448. I wanted to see what it looked like in person so tonight we went and checked it out. When we got there it was marked at $499, so I asked a sales rep what the deal was. He looked it up and I was right (of course). The guy went through the process as if we were to buy the stove and this stove came up at $399 (the guy said corporate messed up and marked it wrong. Good for us.). We jumped right on that. After much convincing, Peter gave in (if it's not computer related he has a hard time spending more than $50).

Any way a couple of the features that I love about this stove are:

• Oven Lock for child safety (really important)
• Delayed Oven Start
• Self Cleaning
• Glass Top with two 10" burners in the front

We are (mostly me) really excited about getting to cook on this thing. I also love the glass top, because it is really easy to clean and adds extra counter space.

For those who are worried about having to help move this, NO NEED it will be delivered free of charge to our new home it two weeks, March 20th.

My Operating System

Melly took the Windows XP sticker off of Wendi's laptop and put it on her chest. The following conversation ensued:



Hope you had a good laugh. We sure did.

Everything Melly said:
My Operating System is Windows XP.
I operate (as she takes the sticker off her chest and puts it on Daddy's leg.) on Daddy's leg!
(She also thinks of stickers as band aids.) All better Daddy!

Our OTHER Chickenpox Monster

Ten days ago yesterday was Alex's birthday and also the day he got the Chickenpox vaccination. Never again will I get this vaccine for my children. I don't see the point in it if they get them anyway.

When I voiced my concern to the doctor the about letting him get it he told me that it rarely rarely happens and he didn't have to get it. I thought about this and decided that I would give this vaccine one more chance.

Unfortunately the spots were not dark enough to photograph and only lasted a day, but they were everywhere. This is all still proof enough that we won't be getting it again.

Minor Mistake

I was making cookies tonight for a family thing. I borrowed a couple ingredients from my AWESOME neighbors. I was thinking of giving some to them, well because they loan me stuff. We were also going to take some to my Mom when we went to visit tomorrow, so I decided to double the recipe...BIG MISTAKE! It made 90 cookies. Thankfully it didn't take to long to bake. I guess for the benefit of the other neighbors they get cookies.

I do love my new found love of baking.

Names

Today Peter's Sister and Brother-in-Law took Melly to Activity day at Lowe's (Uncle Matt works there in the lumber department). I don't know the whole story, but at some point Katie (sister-in-law) and Melynn had the following conversation ensued:

Katie: "Is Uncle Matt Handsome?"
Melly: "No, JOHANSEN!"
Katie: "Oh, Is that your name?"
Melly: "No, Melly Name!"

I later asked her to say "Melynn Johansen, Mommy Johansen, Alex Johansen" or any name with the Last name Johansen. Her answer everytime was "NO". I think she knows that it's a name, but she just doesn't understand how.

I only mentioned her last name to her one time a couple weeks ago. I can't believe she remembered it from that long ago. And just because HANDSOME somehow to her like JOHANSEN. My super cute, smart little girl.

I'm a Princess!

Yesterday Melynn hauled over her little pink stool and placed in on a box (Peter's senior project/robot box), a few minutes later she comes back with a pair of my heels(two different heels of different heights) on. She climbed onto the box and then the stool. She threw her arms in the air and proclaims "I'm a PRINCESS, Mommy!". What do you say to that other than "You sure are Melly. Now hop down before you get hurt. I love you!". "I La You, Mommy!" and she climbed down and went off to find something else to play.

It's times like this that reassure me that this is right where I want to be in life.

UPDATE:
We are now in the third day of potty training. Wish us luck. Any advice would be great!

Our House

Here are a couple of pictures of the outside of our house.

My Sweet Little Chatter Box

Many of you don't know that Peter's work is only about 7-8 minutes or 5 miles from our soon to be home. On Wednesday we did the inspection on our house (only a couple of fixes and we should be good to go). It was past our usual dinner time so we decided to stop and pick something up and eat at Peter's work. For the 4-5 minutes we were in the car after picking up dinner Melynn speed talked the whole time and at least 3 of those minutes she talked about Backyardigans. I don't think I've laughed so hard. I love her so much.

When we pulled up to our house for the inspection, Melynn very excitedly says "I found the house, Mommy. I found it.", my response was "You sure did, Melly.". I'm pretty sure see remembers seeing it before. When she first saw the house I asked her which room she wanted and she ran to one of the rooms and said "this one". She is too cute.

For awhile we were thinking about making an offer on a house here in Spanish Fork. So we would ask her (we still ask her) "Do you want to live in Spanish Fork or Pleasant Grove?" and with out fail every time her answer is "sanish spork". She definitely has her mind made up.

All in all I think I have the cutest little girl.