Familaversary

We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary this weekend. Marriage really gets a bad rep. these days, but it is awesome. We celebrated as a family. First we went out to a little Pakistani 'Fish & Chips'  restaurant we have been eyeing since we lived here last time. We then took Ira and Eliot to the volunteer Firefighter fundraising carnival. 

If you can't tell Ira is a little stiff and stoic. He was sad when we left, so I can only assume he was having fun.

below are some pictures.

 They had a great assortment of rides for little kids. Ira finally got to feel like he was driving a car! 

 A rare smile before the ride started.

 He was pretty excited to ride the horse.

 This is the more typical expression he had most of the night. Quite the contrast to the other kids who were pure energy with their hands flailing and screaming.

Life is Carousel, I'm glad I get to ride it with my best friend.

Mothers Day

Hi Fam,
Happy Mother's Day!

Lots has happened since I last wrote. Ant and I celbrated 3 years of marriage by getting a babysitter and going to the movies... Alice in Wonderland in 3D. I loved it. It reminded me of how obsessed I use to be with Alice growing up, and how I've related to her a lot growing up, so now I'm re-reading the Anotated Alice and loving it. Being married to Ant is a blast. It seems to get better and better each year.
We went to a Lamaze reunion...which is really just an opportunity to tell your birth story and answer questions to the pregos currently taking the class. Ant and I were one of four couples who showed up to tell the story, and we were the only ones who seemed to have the birth experience we wanted. A scarey contrast was a couple who's experience seemed identical-almost. 1 1/2 cm for about 16 hours. 7 cm at 24 hours...started pushing...monitor picking up uneven heartrates...and then this is where our

stories diverge. Ours went that, my midwife could tell the difference between my and Ira's heartrate and took off the monitor. Pushed without drugs, and recovered quickly. This other woman, got an emergency c-section, and still can't feel below her belly button! Perhaps it was entirely essential. And the most important thing is that we both have beautiful, healthy babies. But it made me happy that I had a good midwife and husband to help me through it all.

Our summer of being nomads has begun. We packed up our stuff, said farewells to church and work friends (includeing my preschool students) and shipped out. This is the first time that Ant has had a substantial amount of time in Lancaster, so it's been fun trying to figure out how to be a tourist in my home town. So far we've spent Mayday in Maytown, gone to Root's farmers market, Gettysburg (which has a totally knew and improved museum by the way), and a free tour of the Snyder's pretzel factory. Saturday we went down to the temple and met up with our Pittsburgh ward to see a friend go through for her first time. Very cool. It's also been fun to catch up with some of my closest friends from growing up. Life is good.

Ira is amazing. He is scooting around a little, and has figured out how to pick up things and put them in his mouth. While he's taking a nap, I often find him sucking his thumb. He's a pretty big flirt, and loves making eye contact with just about everyone. We're a little worried about his rash though. The doctors in Pitt told us he had a yeast infection, and told us to use this pretty expensive anti-fungal creme for it to go away in a couple of weeks. It's been 2 1/2 weeks and it's smoothened out, but the red has is spreading up past his nipples and down past his knees! sigh... We're thinking maybe it's eczema? Anyway, let us know if you have any thoughts or advice. We're going to see if our insurance will cover an appointment here. But prayers would be helpful.
Alright, gotta go. We love you! 


Sharon