First Family Walk

After the robot competition on Tuesday, it was such a nice night that we decided to go for our first family walk. We took our stroller out and used it for the first time. Can I just say that it is a super nice stroller. Thanks to our friend Matt!!!! It can also be used for a running stroller. Kind of cool but I don't know if I will use it for that because the handles are a little high and it is a little awkward to run like that. But the option is there which I might use this summer. We walked for 45 min and Lydia did so well! She loves her walks and I know she will be so content in the summer when we are there...that is if she doesn't get too hot!

Robot Competition

All year long Kelvin has been working on a robot with a group of other students at the U. Every year one of the classes he has to take, has this competition from groups in the class who build a robot from scratch. They are given computers and other parts but they have to build it and program the robot to do what they want it to do. This year was the King Kong Challenge! There was a building in the middle and the robots had to grab a "Faye Raye" doll and then climb the building. It was a really cool idea and everyone was really excited about it, but it got frustrating to actually implement. This was because the teachers changed in Spring semester and all the rules would change every time they had to pass a certain section off. Things would start off having to be built one way and then it would be changed a few weeks later. This made it almost impossible to get ahead and make a good robot. Also, the equipment they were given, namely the sensors, were not good quality and had a really hard time picking up what they were supposed to so the robot knew where to go. So amid all the frustrations and set backs, they were able to get things put together and did very well in my opinion with what they had to work with. Then they had the competition they put on for the public on Tuesday. It was REALLY cool to go and see what these guys can do! Some robots actually made it to the top and even though most didn't do very well, I was very proud to have such a smart husband who can build something like that! Dan and Braden came to the competition too and they had a great time seeing all the cool stuff. Braden was so excited about the robots and LOVED watching them. We all had lots of fun and Kelvin and the rest of the class is very excited to be done with this project!

The tower and course for the robots. Braden pretty much stayed right next to the course the entire time.


There were even little airplanes circling the building! This would have been really fun and is a good idea, but once again, it was a last min change and they were informed of the airplanes about a week before the competition. This of course cause some of the teams to get their robots caught in the wires for the airplanes because they built their robots tall to grab the building and pull the robot up.


This is the actual robot Kelvin built. Channel 2 news was there covering the competition and Kelvin's robot made the evening news! In fact, they only showed 2 robots and the other one only got a few seconds coverage while Kelvin's was shown for the remainder of the time. It was pretty awesome and we were all so proud!


Here is his robot in the competition. You don't get to see it move up the building because too many people were getting in the way for him to keep filming but it's fun to see none the less.


Here we are waiting for his turn on the course! I don't really like this picture because the lighting was so bad we both look like we have greasy hair and our faces look chubby, but I had to put proof that I was there.

First Time at Church

We took Lydia to Church for the first time on Sunday and everyone was so excited to see her. We got a lot of compliments on what a cute baby she is and even more comments about how she looks like Kelvin or I. It was funny at all the different reactions because one person came up and said that she looks just like her mama and then 2 min later someone said she looks like her dad. A few min after that another person said she looks like me again. So who knows, we have just decided that she looks like Lydia and left it at that. Some days she will looks more like me and others it will be her dad in her. No one will know until she grows up I think. Anyway, she really did well at church. When we were in sacrament meeting and it got really quiet for the prayer, Kelvin and I looked at each other and thought "Oh no! This is gonna be bad!" Sure enough, she started to cry! Little stinker. Mornings are her fussy time and she let that be known on Sun. Everyone in Primary loved her though and it was fun to hear about how some of the guys in Priesthood were reacting to the baby when Kelvin took her. There are a few that are also having babies in a few months and they were really excited to talk with Kelvin to see how it is being a first time dad and get to see her. One guy even got to hold Lydia. His wife is having a baby in a month and he is so in love with his baby girl already and was so awed at the sight of Lydia. You could tell that he is so excited and concerned to be a dad but Kelvin talked him through a few things and seeing the baby really helped him I think.

Lydia all ready for church. She is actually wearing one of my dresses when I was a baby. I think it is so cool to have this dress to be passed down and it is so cute on her too. When people found out at church that it was my dress from when I was a baby, everyone loved it even more and thought that it was the coolest thing to have that.


"Can we just go already?"

The Move on Medication

As I posted earlier, I have been sick. The only thing I didn't know was just how sick I was until I thought my head was going to explode on Thursday night before we moved. I was certain that i had a double ear infection and had LOTS of trouble sleeping that night. So Friday morning instead of packing first thing, we ended up going to an instacare. When the Dr checked me out, he spent all of 5 min with me before telling me that he was going to give me the highest dose of antibiotics he could and that I had to be very religious in taking them everyday and also that I needed to take Mucinex. I asked if I had an ear infection at that point and he laughed and said no but I had such a bad sinus infection that it was putting a lot of pressure on my ear drums causing me to feel like I had an ear infection let alone that it had spread throughout my entire face! When he checked my sinuses in my face they all hurt and I was surprised that I had an infection so bad. So now I get to take 2 horse pills twice a day! He told me to take the Mucinex because it was so bad that it could take up to 5 days for me to start feeling better just on the antibiotics and the Mucinex would help clear things up. I am feeling a little better but not a whole ton after being on the antibiotics for about 4 days now. This I attribute to a lack of sleep. The baby has been having some issues lately and has not been sleeping very well. I'm sure it's because her environment keeps changing and she keeps having to adjust. She will be just fine though and will learn quickly how to adapt!

The move itself went pretty well on Sat. We had quite a few people helping us and we got it all loaded up and moved into the storage unit in a couple of hours. It's not cool to be living out of suitcases again but that's just how it goes. My parents have really been awesome through this whole thing and my mom even cleared out her quilting machine so we could have the entire room downstairs for the 3 of us for these 2 1/2 weeks we are in transition until we move to Texas for the summer. (I have also heard that Maritza moved her sewing machine in Texas for our room there. These mom's of our's must surely love us!) For now we are really excited to be out of that dump of an apartment away from all the smokers, dogs and their waste laying all over the place, the crazy people whom you were afraid might break in your apartment in the middle of the night, the gangsters and the horrible management who couldn't care less about what was going on in the complex! It was a little bitter sweet leaving though. Only because we have made so many memories in that place. We were there for about 1 1/2 years. Lot's of good times but we are ready to be moving on. So farewell to this chapter in our lives...let's see what comes next!

Future Ballerina?

What do you think? Do we have a future ballerina on our hands?

Weekend Blues!

From my last post you know that I was sick at the beginning of last week, and it continued throughout most of the week. Well, starting about Thursday, Kelvin started to get sick with a bad cold. All weekend long he was not feeling well at all! I felt so bad for him and we stayed home all weekend to get lots of rest. We were both good when we were sick to sanitize our hands before we touched the baby, but unfortunately this wasn't good enough. She got sick on Sunday afternoon. It has been so sad to see her little face looking up at you letting you know that she doesn't feel well. She is so young and doesn't understand what is happening and why she feels this way. We have been holding her a lot and rocking her more than usual. Poor thing has not been eating very well or sleeping very well. Combine that with an all over achy-ness and you get a sad and fussy baby. We took her to the Dr's today because we were told by a nurse that she might have an ear infection. But she checked out ok at the Dr's, no infections, just sick. he Dr told us also that she is in the low 50th percentile for growth and moving right along schedule. I took some pictures of her before she got sick. She is starting to show her little personality more and more. She is also starting to smile a lot more and I have been able to get a few out of her even when she hasn't been feeling the best. She is such a sweet baby and I can't believe how much I love her already. The bond between parents and their children is quite strong and something that you can't explain completely. If you are a parent though, you understand completely.

Mom, what are you doing?


I love the little smirk she has on her cute face!


I just missed the smile she gave me when I took this picture.

Thank Goodness for Mom's

The past few day's I have been pretty sick. Don't know what I had but I was very achy and felt like I had a bad flu. I felt it coming on Sat but just took some tylenol to help me feel better. Sunday night I really started to feel sick. We came home early from Easter dinner at my mom's and I went to bed while Kelvin fed Lydia her late night meal. When Monday morning came I was a mess! I could hardly get out of bed and the baby wouldn't take her nap. Kelvin called to check up on me after his first class and I burst into tears. He asked if he needed to come home and I said yes. That alone told him that I was really sick because I don't accept help very often. He came home after his classes and called my mom to see if she could come and spend the night so I could rest. She told him that she would be up in a few hours. He then told me to sleep and took the baby to her 2 week check up at the Dr's office. I wanted to go but since I could hardly get up, Kelvin confined me to the bed for the rest of the day.

Lydia's 2 week check up went really well. The Dr was pleased with the weight she had gained considering she is a formula fed baby. Apparently, babies gain weight faster when they are breast fed, I thought it was the opposite. So she was doing great that way and she checked out in all other areas! We have a healthy baby on our hands. She is 22 inches long and weighs 8 pounds 14 ounces.

Soon after Kelvin came home my mom arrived. She was such a blessing. She took care of the baby so Kelvin could take care of me. One good thing about having to formula feed your baby is that other people can take the baby all night and you can sleep! My mom stayed until Tuesday afternoon when she thought I was a bit better. I rested all day Tuesday and all afternoon today. I am feeling better, but still don't feel great. My problem is that I don't rest when the baby rests and then wear myself out and get sick. For goodness sakes, I just had a baby 3 weeks ago and I'm thinking I can do everything like normal again. I better be careful or something worse than getting sick will happen. All I can say is thank goodness for mom's!

This is the play mat that Kelvin's parents got for the baby. Originally they got her a swing, but it didn't work right and she didn't really like it. So we took it back and got this. She loves it!!


I love her eyes.


Here are some pictures of me with the baby.


Don't mind the messy hair, this was a week after she was born and I was still having trouble getting up and down.


She loves this penguin on the play mat.


She is so alert and active for being so young.