A New Stage

Still dealing with the mullet of all mullets: But Sofie has officially hit the Pony Tail stage of hair length! I'm so excited!!

Although, the headband was still needed to catch the side stragglers.

Now I just need to figure out how to get her to leave it in for more than a minute and a half!!

Motherly Tidbits

As a mother, I feel that I have learned many things, like: Patience, Unconditional Love, Multi-Tasking, and most importantly, how to use a baby food mill to turn a perfectly good homemade chicken pot pie into something that even a puffy-cheeked, loritab popping Mommy can eat :)

Appetizing huh?

(ps, I recommend this contraption to anyone trying to teach a baby how to eat food, it'll grind up anything!!)

Day 3

The swelling is supposed to be the worst today, then get better. If this is the worst, I think I'm doing alright! Just wish I could find a quiet enough place to take a nap.

Only 3

I did it! I survived and I survived WELL! I got my top two and bottom right wisdom teeth taken out yesterday morning. My favorite part was when the Surgeon came in and said, "Well, looks like we've got 3 Wisdom Teeth to slip out today." I thanked him for using such a wonderful verb. "SLIP" I had imaged "YANK", so slip was a great thing to hear, like taking raisins out of pudding!

Swelling hasn't been bad. In fact, I can only notice it on that bottom right side where it looks like I have a marble stuffed in my cheek. That was the hardest one to get out because they had to break it into 3 pieces in order to not damage the nerve it was entangled with.

I love Loritab, it's wonderful. And I've been able to stay well fed, as I bought a bunch of baby food (I really like the squash...) so I could stay away from the sugary-lack-of nutrition in most easy-to-eat foods. I am very determined to heal quickly and get right back on track, so I figured baby food would be a great way to stay on top of vitamins and nutrients.

The 3 culprits. I actually feel better now that I'm not "teething" anymore. :) And I love that I look more like Sofie than ever with my puffy-cheeks. She's so darling, she could tell something was up yesterday after the surgery, so she kissed me over and over and over. Made my day!

Last Supper

So, tomorrow I (Andrea) am going under the knife to have 3 wisdom teeth yanked from my head, and I was hoping to have a great meal tonight as my last real food for a while. Fortunately, we all decided that we should have a combined Derek/Whitney b-day party as well. So we settled on a Sushi Night. :) Couldn't have asked for much better.

ps- sushi is not "raw fish", although sometimes it may contain raw fish.

Scott and Andrea rolling. (Whitney and Derek helping out)

Derek working on the Tempura veggies.

Scott slicing up the fish. He usually is able to buy the fish from restaurants, however, this time he was only able to order a bunch of Sashimi from Happy Sumo. We just used that and sliced it thinner for the sushi. We had tuna, salmon, yellow tail, scallops, etc. We also used a bunch of veggies and imitation crab. So good!


We made TONS! Didn't count, but most likely it was over 10 rolls. But even after all the fancy fish we had, my favorite is still the simple and boring California Roll -cooked crab, avacado, cucumber. I also made a sushi that most people are unfamiliar with, one that I LOVE -Inarizushi- which is just sushi rice stuffed inside these soy pouches that have been soaked in soy sauce, sugar and vinegar. Yum!

The Tempura (Sofie loved the sweet potato and zuchini)

Halloween Amendment

Here are some better pics of Halloween night and our little Pegasus.
Princess Sierra and her trusty sidekick Unicorn.

Trick-or-treating with Mom

Trick-or-Treating with Dad

My Baby Beethoven

Sofie is taking after mom's side of the fam. :)

Halloween Times

I'm a little slow with the pics here, I know, I've been chastised. The problem was I didn't really have any pictures for a while, and I had the flu, and we moved back into my parents. It's been a busy few weeks! We also went to a work party, and later another family party that I don't have pics from yet. But here are some of the other festivities!!

This was the Halloween treat I found on the front porch. I almost died. Thank you Derek for being brave and taking him on to the next life.

The Porcaro Halloween party. Sofie is a little "Unicorn Fairy" (as she was called by a friend). I promise that although she's not smiling in any of these pictures, she did love it! I was getting over the flu, so I had a mask on with a "swine" snout drawn on it. Derek was Derek.


Halloween night, baby Unicorn Fairy (also known as "Charlie") went trick-or-treating just around the block and she loved it! She kept trying to grab the treats out of her bucket.


Trick-or-Treating with cousins!

Sofie discovering the loot. She still hasn't made the connection that the stuff inside the wrapper is the same as the treat mom let her have. Thank goodness.

G-pas Funeral

Grandpa's funeral was really wonderful. Gorgeous day in Pleasant Grove. All of the cousins but one came (which NEVER happens). Grandpa's coffin was carried by a horse drawn carriage to the Pleasant Grove cemetery, which was so cool, but I have no pictures yet. But the great thing was to have so much family here. I rarely get to see my brother Tom. Unfortunately Roo wasn't here to join the reunion. Cousin Rhett, Brother Tom, Brother Scott, Cousin Kayle

So much fun to see the boys together again (even if they do get a little obnoxious...)

My brother Tom. We never get to see him so it was wonderful that he could come for the funeral! G-pa's namesake, the Fifth Tom Adamson (who knows he's supposed to be working on the 6th!)

Scott and Whitney in G-ma's garage on his bike. (Scott hating the fact that this was a perfect picture opportunity. He hates nothing more than to pose for a picture. Especially one like this :) But I couldn't pass it up!!)

Me and Shayla at the graveside.

Best picture ever (reminds me of the Conference edition of the Ensign!)

Punkins!!!

Sofie exploring the Pumpkin snot.

Daddy carving!

Sofie getting a little more brave with the squish!

Mommy carving! (ps, don't worry, I survived the flu...)

And eventually, we couldn't keep it out of her mouth...so she went to bed :)

Admiring Mommy's Pumpkin! (the socks and diaper were the only things to survive the pumpkin goo)

Andrea's Pumpkin

Derek's Pumpkin