I feel soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy tonight...I logged on here to write a post and I always check my comments first. Well usually I just make sure that the last comment on there is the one I read last and it usually is well tonight, I kept going down and down and down and down and there was so many new comments. I was thrilled!!!! I love to hear from ya'll so thanks so much for leaving comments and making me feel so darn special!! :)
We are very excited about our pregnancy as well. I think I kind of already established that in my last blog but the true definition of pregnancy is with us now as I scarf down a triple layered pure chocolate cake with like twelve spoonfuls of frozen whip cream. Wow! I'm crazy. Usually I would eat chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream but I just can't tell you how delicious this whip cream tastes. It's amazing!! Is anyone hungry? The irony of this little snack is that tonight Craig and I went over to another couple at our churchs house for "dessert night". There was TONZ of people there, hence TONZ of desserts. ha ha!! Wow I'm fat already. Just kidding, that's just it. The fact that I even am able to keep down anything let alone a dessert is amazing so I just take it one day at a time, and if my body wants chocolate cake, my body gets it!!! I started to realize though that pregnancy cravings don't just randomly come on. I think you have to hear someone say something about it or see it on TV or something because I never craved anything really wierd in my last pregnancy and this craving for major chocolate cake came on after hearing something about chocolate cake. It's more like my brain is wired that if it hears something it wants, it doesn't get over it until it gets what it wants. I read in parents magazine today though that a lady was craving cigarettes when she was pregnant, but she's NOT a smoker. ????? That's so bizarre and she's totally full of crap. You can't crave nicotine if you don't even know the sensation of it or the feeling it has on your endorphins. ha ha! I'm making no sense. I've been craving Olive Garden for like a month now. It's so sad because when we went to Utah the wait was like 90 minutes so no one would wait. I now continue to crave it but we are fairly far away from one so it's not easy making it to dinner there. But I'll continue to crave decent italian food until I can get my hands on some. The only "italian" food here in Columbus is Papa Johns. Pizza? Yeah I'm thinking more like....Mmmm....the breadsticks dipped in alfredo sauce and their yummy house salad with olives and parmesan cheese. Oh and the fettucine alfredo with grilled chicken. Or their cheese ravioli's with marinara sauce....Dude... I can't handle it anymore. And tomorrow is Monday!!!!! That means the possibility of getting to an Olive Garden is still five days away or MORE! :( so sad. I'm pathetic. I can't believe I'm rambling on about food when I have so much more to blog about!
So I found out tonight that the doctor I'm scheduled to see this week is the worst doctor in the world. I was referred to this clinic that supposedly is the best ever, and every doctor there is amazing EXCEPT one and it just so happens to be the one that I FINALLY made an appointment to go to. Wow, I have the worst luck ever. Tomorrow I will call and change it to a highly recommended doctor and the world won't end for me like it would have!
So like I've said before, I'm going to have to do some catching up on some family times that we've had that have been laid by the wayside. We've done some fun things and had some kodaks that I need to put in our family journal. So whether or not the time or season is now, I'll be throwing random blogs in about the fall of 2007. Can you believe it's already 2008. Were living the future! That's really crazy. We are supposed to be driving flying cars by now and have our SS#'s microchipped into our wrists! Oh well!
Ok so I have a list of things I've wanted to post on in the past and I just randomly chose our visit to the zoo for this time. There's actually a pretty funny story attached to this so here goes. Mostly I'm just doing this for picture posting reasons...
Holy crap that picture was put on here super large. HA HAHHA! Oh my, ok well there you go. So this is us at the zoo. This is some scary bird that I'm really glad wasn't on the loose. Birds are freaky. I have a friend here that's like PETRIFIED of birds and hearing her talk about it just makes so much sense. They are wierd! Well ok I love birds, just Magpies are freaks of nature and need to be killed. Also there's this happy bird here outside our house that is happy... ya know... when you aren't? You know, like you are trying to sleep and they are singing. And it's no pretty tune it's like the same damn thing over and over and you just want to shoot it with a sling shot. You know? Ok well that was a bit of a tangent, but yeah birds are amazing and wild and scary and so cool at the same time. This next picture is a bald eagle that completely and totally fascinated Craig and I. See-- now that's a cool bird. Bald eagles are amazing. And huge!!! 
I've been watching a lot of shows on the national geographic channel though and birds really are pretty impressive. They actually have some smarts. I saw one dive into the ocean and grab a friggin snake with it's bare hands and fly off holding this huge old fat anaconda or something! It was crazy.. I also saw a clip of a bird doing a fly by on this sloth that was in the wrong place at the wrong time... on a limb of a tree just slothing it's way to where ever...sloth- ville I guess. I didn't actually know sloth was something other than the character on goonies until I saw this but anyway, the bird just flew by, grabbed the scary looking monkey thing and flew on and gave it to her babies to devour. Amazing! You're all thinking...duh we know birds can do those things but I just think it's very impressive to be able to time and see when a snake happens to surface and have the skill and speed to grab it and then carefully carry it so you don't get killed by it. That's impressive! This picture doesn't do justice for how large this bald eagle really was. I'm talking it was like half as big as me. No kidding. It was way bigger than Linkin at the time. How in the world does a bird get that big. And keep me out of it's path too! He kind of looks dirty and ugly in this picture too but he was beautiful! Poor guy. I need a better camera.
Linkin loved every minute of the zoo. He was kind of wierded though I think. Like what the heck is that Mom. You can tell by the serious look on his face in every picture. He's usually staring at some animal. Except for these cute picture of him being kooky in his stroller! 
He's always putting his feet up on things. It reminds me of myself because I cannot go in the car without putting my feet on the dash. I did it when I was in junior high driving around with my Mom - it was an occasional argument with her and I do it now and Craig still treats me like I'm in junior high, and tells me to take my shoes off if I want my feet up there. When will I ever have independance?? Just kidding. That's a legitimate request I think. I should have named this post...TANGENT... because I've gone off on one too many. Anyways... Linkin.. yeah he's cute. I like him! 
Look how cute! A Kangaroo. I've always LOVED kangaroo's and have always wanted to visit Australia because of them, but this day I realized the true hideous-ness they posess. Aren't they just ugly? Ok they are kind of cute but Craig says they are like large rats to the australians. No one likes them? I don't know... I may have just made that up. I can't quite remember! Look at that green grass. Oh how I miss the warmth of the desert. Oh how I dread the warmth of the south! Craig and I actually thought it was unusual to see a kangaroo at the zoo because we don't recall having them at our famous Hogle Zoo in Utah. Man that zoo stinks and this one, well it's even more pathetic than the Hogle Zoo! ha ha! The highlight of the whole zoo is this BEAUTIFUL cat. Look at it. Oh how I wish it was my pet and sleeping in my bed purring each night. It's so cute and sweet! It was just the right size too. Oh I love it!!! 
Isn't it so sweet?? AWWW!
Here's my boys... 
There's a crazy smile from my crazy boy!! ha haha! That's hilarous to me. It's like a cackle smile. He should have fang teeth. Oh which reminds me. Linkin only has three teeth to his name. He's almost 16 months old and he only has three teeth... but one of them is one of his fang teeth. ha ha! It's so funny to see it sticking out when he laughs or smiles. I love it!! When will he get more teeth? The thing is though... he doesn't need them! He chews just fine without them and can eat almost anything!!! Such a funny boy! He's got the kookiest personality I've ever known! Goofball city~! Here's them again...
So I am a big monkey lover. When I was young, I literally thought that someday I would beat the odds and own a pet monkey. I was determined to make it happen no matter what the cost or responsibility! Now I can't even take care of a dog, so a monkey is so far out of the question it's not even funny! But needless to say, I love seeing the monkeys at the zoo. Chimpanzees, Baboons, Monkey, gorillas anything. I love the species. So we sat an watched them for quite a while and then also watched them again on the way out. Well one monkey was really fighting for my attention. He was running and jumping up on the fence where I was leaning to take pictures. He jumped up and then stared and then jumped more and stared. Literally, showing off! Like honestly, trying really hard to impress me. No lie. Craig knew it. Everyone knew it. And he wasn't doing it at Craig, it was at me. Smart thing man. He really has taste I think! Just kidding. Anyways... the point of the story is that it got a little more graphic sooner than later with him as his little weeny rose to the occasion and he began to please himself if you know what I mean. Unfortunately being the capture every moment person I am, I busted out my camera as soon as possible only to miss it by a stroke. Nasty!!! I can't believe I'm actually typing disgusting things on here. I really am sorry. It's just a story that I had to share! Here is a picture of the little pervert. Not a very good one but there is a video of him being a nerdy monkey that I took afterwards. Feel free to watch it! 
Ewww what a creep!!! They are so close to humans in nature that it's really awkward to even be around them. Especially when faced with unusual circumstances! So our time at the zoo was short and sweet, but we had fun and Linkin enjoyed his first zoo experience. I look forward to taking him to the decent zoo out here when it warms up. I wish I was a fun Mom. I was reading my friend Andreas blog and she had pictures of her and husband sledding with their baby. (gosh I think she's about 9 months now?) Anyways, I was impressed and thought that in my next life, I wanna be their kid. Although my parents had us constantly entertained too so I guess I'll keep my childhood! Thanks for sharing my life with me. I love all of you!! I know I keep asking but if you haven't already sent me the link to your blog, then PLEASE do as I really would like to see everyone's! Yay! Here's the monkey video.... yeah I guess I don't have it. Can't find it anymore. Lucky for you!!! Have a good day! 
Okay, I laughed out loud literally more then once on this blog. Your monkey story cracked me up. You wrote that so well. You need to write a book, I think I've mentioned that once or twice. Then the "fang teeth", I don't know who you were talking about but when I read that and looked at Linkin I laughed so hard. Yer too funny!!
Posted by: Jos | January 14, 2008 at 06:44 PM