Another Water Slide and Selective Memory

So we went swimming at Fairmont Pool when my mom was here. They also have an indoor water slide - but this one has a strict "one person at a time" rule - which means I couldn't ride down with Dot on my lap. Stupid rule but anyway.
Dot really wanted to go and I gave her the choice - go down by yourself, or not go down at all. She of course chose to go down by herself. I walked up with her and sent her off. Up on the stairs I had a perfect view of her the whole way down.
At the first turn she slid around backwards and spent the rest of the trip on her back headfirst with a look of terror on her face.
Grandma caught her at the bottom and she said, "that was scary"
I told her she was so brave.
When Cory picked her up later she had a different story.
"Were you scared Dot?"
"nope, I'm brave."



After swimming we took the Canadians to Macaroni Grill. Dot was pretty well behaved...




in case you can't hear - Dot says "a worm dancing"

Ben and Straight

Our wonderful wonderful friends Ben and Sarah finally came up to Utah for a peek at Townes. I hope our little smiley guy was worth the trip. Even though they live in sunny San Clemente they chose our mountains to shoot their family photo.



They look so at home....if you move here Cory will give you your wedding video....

The title comes from when I was teaching Dotty how to pump on the swing - we were chanting "bend and straight...bend and straight" At least, I thought we were....she thought we were saying "Ben and straight" and smiled "just like uncle Ben!"

We're back

...but still unpacking. I'll post lots of pictures from our two week Canadian adventure soon.

easy summer entertainment

I had a four day weekend and Greg came down to visit. We had a blast, and I'll post the highlights, but first I wanted to show Dotty at her white trash finest, enjoying a fountain in a downtown SLC shopping center.


That's her in her diaper there in the middle. We walked up and she immediately said, "take off my dress please!" so we complied. But then we felt bad for her and ended up getting her a cheap Old Navy suit.

Grandma Teacher

Grandma was big into teaching Dotty new tricks and Dotty was really into learning. We discovered she gets really focused when she is trying to learn to do something physical - these skills don't come very naturally to her, but she loves to push herself and its fun to see her improve!



learning to ride her trike


learning to crawl on the spider


learning to run fast and slow

Family Fun

Mom, Dad and Anne drove down to Utah last week before flying to New York. We had a day and a half before they left.



We went to dinner and Dotty played "run run run stop" with Anne and grandpa.
The next day they went to the playground, for a walk and to the swimming pool. When I got home from work I found a very tired Dot.



We had even more fun when they came back from New York the next week. so much to post.

We miss you Guys!

Pictures Pano

Dotty missed waking up to all the girls and all the toys when we moved over to my parents' house later in the week, but the piano made up for it. She played it at least three times a day. She'll sing the songs she knows as she plunks out random keys. It is really cute. Everytime I tried to catch it on camera she would run to me saying "pictures pano" She wanted to see the pictures I had taken of her on the piano. So I only got pictures.

Christmas 08

Dotty had a charmed christmas! Had her first boyfriend kiss with Luke dec.21, went caroling christmas eve, openened presents with grandma Donnay christmas day, witnessed a huge snowstorm, had a fun christmas with D&P, flew to Canada boxing day and just had a whirlwind time with her girl cousins and uncle Greggy in canada. I bought a new camera to capture all the happiness, so look forward to a new post every day.

We're Back

We are back from New York and then Boston to gas prices at $1.63! I don't know whether to be happy or really really scared.
I will post more pictures soon.



dotty running through central park

Dotty is a Fan

I always bring home a present for Dot (and something for Cory) whenever I go away on business- just like mom bringing me home a tropical shirt from Orlando...
This time I saw an elmo and a cookie monster shirt at a little shop between my hotel and the showroom. I finally bought them on my last day.
money well spent.
Dot has worn them both to bed twice and she wore Cookie to Beth's yesterday and Elmo today. She wore regular pajamas to bed last night and in the morning she said "mummy" and "daddy" and when I pointed at her and asked "who is this?" meaning Dot...she got upset when she realized Cookie wasn't there.
She is a serious fan.








Part of me is like...really? Am I really buying my kid some shirt with a character on it? And then I remember these are the guys that taught her how to count to urteen, so they're cool.

CKLN or Greggy in the Morning!

So I travelled to Toronto from New York to coordinate 3form presence at the IIDEX/NeoCon Canada tradeshow. My first night I stayed at Greg's humble abode and we stayed up chatting like schoolgirls until 1 am...even though we had to get up at 5am for Greg's radio show.
I was the guest host on CKLN's Rude Awakening- Eyeopener addition. I delivered enticing commentary on subjects ranging from terrorism on campus to bedbugs!That is before we got shut down by scaredy-newsy pants. Here are the pics.




fyi- that is a batman shirt Greg is wearing, not a corona shirt...if you were worried. Make sure you check out Greg's exciting posts on the eyeopener link just to your right!

Hudson and the City

So I just got back from New York. It was a work trip interspersed with family fun. It was so much fun to see my nephew Jack get baptized- look how excited he is to be a member of the church!



When the weekend ended I headed to the city and to my hotel. Monday night Anne came and spent the night with me. We had a great time in the rain. We walked down Jerry Orback way. (you can't see the sign in this picture but its there...)


and did some tagging


And the very last night I was there Erin, my parents and Anne went to see wicked which happened to be right down the street from my hotel. After their show we went to grab some coldstone. I remembered to take some pictures this time.

HUDSON 08 RECAP

The family reunion went off as planned with all Andrew Hudson family members in attendance who had working, functional pancreases (pancri?)
I need to send an email to all the attendees and get a complete photo library. Right now the only pictures I have on this laptop are ones that Karen sent of the babies after bathtime, and they aren't quite internet appropriate.
So this is a call for all pictures of the event.
As a recap, these were the highlights of the trip.
1. mom and dad playing Rock Band
2. mom stressing that she couldn't answer my phone because she was trying to answer Dot's toy phone- "but there are two green buttons!"- yes mom, and there is also a star, heart and diamond on the top of the huge plastic phone...
3. max showing off his "tricks" in the pool- really cool moves
4. temple quarry day hike
5. rocking out on the microphone with ella

Things I will try to remember to do next year
1. take more pictures
2. take video
3. don't forget to make my mom a t-shirt
4. take a family picture with us all in our t-shirts (I can't believe we didn't do this, what was I thinking?)
5. Take more pictures

Asher & Mo

Hung out with this little superman today at the show and it totally helped with being so far from Dotty. His name is Asher Kal-El Fritz, and isn't he a great set up for Dotty? This little guy made me feel good. Laughed at all my jokes, and agreed with all the things Mo and I talked about. He's a great conversationalist.

Also great to be with his cool mom/former 3form model(She does pretty good behind the camera too)

Thanks for keeping me company on my last day in 3form land Fritzes.

Chicago

This was our view from a party on of the nights. Great skyline. This is my co-worker/roomate/fitness inspiration Egan. She made the trip so much better.

San Fran #5

On Monday the girls headed to the city on the train to do some shopping. Dotty said "Hi" to people on the train until she was tired of being the same place then she said, "bye- go go"


Here she is paying a street drummer (who she loved) 50 cents. He couldn't get mad because she was so cute! Smiling at him the whole time.




This was also the day we bought these. She will leave them on all day if we let her. She puts them on and claps and says "yay, yay". Doesn't she look like an Olsen Twin circa 2006?





To see all of the pictures from our trip, check out our picasa site. There are so many more cute pictures that I didn't have time to post about. Tomorrow I'll post about the giant woman standing in our stairwell...I know you are intrigued!

San Fran # 4

On our visit to the Pier, we discovered (thanks to Mindy)a great mechanics museum display. Dotty loved all the old music machines. I would have thought she'd be scared of them...


but they played music so she was down.



Here she is displaying her second passion- chairs. I love how she looks like a kid from the fifties. She was all wet from her waterbottle so we stripped her down to her t-shirt.



They also had an old photo-booth. We are obviously out of practice.

San Fran #2

On Saturday night Sarah and Ben invited us to a multicultural night at the Oakland Temple. There was great food and fun spanish dancing from various countries in South America.
Dotty of course LOVED IT!
The people around us remarked at how much she enjoyed the show as she clapped along, laughed and of course cried when it was over.
Here is a picture of her doing her one finger clap-along and then her distress when the bright-colored, twirly dancers were finished.



Also, there are two fountains outside the Oakland Temple so you know where Dotty spent the rest of the night...

San Fran #1

On day one we walked around Berkeley. Dotty got a feeling for the campus life. We didn't get far though because Dot got distracted by this fountain. She really wanted to get in, and since it wasn't a very hot day we told her it was a bad idea.




She wouldn't back down, and so we had to hide in the bookstore and distract her with a new book. We found this gem, and signed by the author! Dotty made us read it five times in the store.