This is Hilarious...

My Grandpa e-mailed me this the other day and I couldn't stop laughing. Any gal who has ever been to the gynecologist will appreciate this. (apologies to my male audience, if there are any out there...)



"A gynecologist had become so fed up with malpractice insurance and HMO
paperwork and is burned out. Hoping to try another career where skillful hands
would be beneficial, he decided to become a mechanic. He went to the local
technical college, signed up for classes, attended diligently, and learned all
he could.

When the time for the practical exam approached, the gynecologist prepared
carefully for weeks and completed the exam with tremendous skill.

When the results came back, he was surprised to find that he had obtained a
score of 150%. Fearing an error, he called the instructor, saying, "I don't want
to appear ungrateful for such an outstanding result, but I wonder if there is an
error in the grade."

The instructor said, "During the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly,
which was worth 50% of the total mark. "You put the engine back together again
perfectly, which is also worth 50% of the mark." This equaled an A. After a
pause, the instructor added, "I gave you an extra 50% because you did it all
through the muffler, which I've never seen done in my entire career."

BABY UPDATE: As it tuns out, the 23rd is not Earth Day. Earth Day is actually the 22nd. So, we will be having the baby the day AFTER earth day. Lame. (On my calendar it says the 23rd is 'bring your child in to work day,' so I crossed it out and wrote: 'bring your child into the world day.' Much more fitting.

Longest. Post. Ever.

Well, I have quite a bit to update here. I feel like my blog has kind of been like laundry. If I do a little bit everyday it's not so bad, but I like to wait until it piles up and then I'm spending hours and hours all due to my carefully honed procrastination skills. Anyway, here is a flash flood of Tulett news:

POTTY TRAINING: check. Yes, I really think I can check this one off. Reid can now take his pants and undies off by himself and go pee all by himself. He often stays dry during his naps, and will even stay dry overnight every once in a while (but he will usually wake up in the middle of the night asking to go potty if he does this). Pooping is a little bit of a challenge because he will do like 10 little poops before he does a real one, so on poop days (every three days or so) we spend a lot of time getting on and off the potty. He does great though, he will read or sing while he's pooping, and he's really proud of himself when he is done. I am such a proud mommy. Now I am just praying that he won't regress when the new little one gets here ( I have heard stories...).

BABY UPDATE: I went in to the doctor at 30 weeks and he did an ultrasound to see how big the baby is, (I had a c-section with Reid because he was big and I am small) and he was already 5 pounds! At 30 weeks! How do I make such monstrosities?! Anyway, the doc. said he would most likely be about 10-11 pounds at full term if he kept growing at that rate (Reid was 8 lbs 7oz 2 weeks early, so 10-11 pounds just will not work). So, we scheduled another c-section for the 23rd of April. Earth day! I really wanted to do a VBAC, but it was sadly not in the cards for me. Anyway, that's when he will be here unless I go into labor early! (yea, right)

TUMBLING CLASS: I signed Reid up for this awesome tumbling class 2 days a week. He loves it, and Nate hates it because they do ribbon dancing to Disney songs, and that's Reid's favorite part. He runs around giggling and twirling his ribbon like a total girl. I love it!

Here he is with the instructor, Kirsten helping him do a flip.

FUNNY STORY: So, Reid totally has a crush on this little 3 year old girl from class, (older woman!) and he and this little girl and another little girl climbed into this box together, and the instructor said; "hey, that's pretty good odds for Reid, two girls and one boy," and this little girl that he followed everywhere said; "yea, but I can see boogers in his nose." Poor little guy. Shot down on his first try!

MY BIRTHDAY: So, I had an awesome birthday weekend, (the 15th was my actual birthday) we all went to the zoo on Saturday and had lots of fun.

Dad and Reid on the train ride.

Reid trying to be like the giraffes.

I love this picture. Elephants are amazing animals!

Then that night I wanted to do something different for a fun date, so we went and painted pottery and then saw an excellent play at BYU. I am NOT going to post the after pictures of our pottery because they turned out TERRIBLE. I am not being modest here. We are not an artistic family. At all. (Don't mind my pregnant lady puffy face)

Then on Sunday we had our niece, Katrina over for dinner because her b-day was the day before mine. I made her a special dinner, and my lovely friend Jen made me a special dinner and we all partied and carried on.

Wow, you're still here? Well, then I will finish with a fun little list like I did for Nate's birthday last year. In honor of my 25th birthday I have come up with 25 fun facts that you may or may not know about me. Here we go:

25 Things You May or May Not Know About Carlee

1. I don't like romances. Novels, movies etc. I cannot handle sappiness. So, no I have not seen or read Twilight, and I do not intend to. Blech.

2. I have a highly sensitive nose. Nate thinks he can fart in the basement while I am upstairs and get away with it, but he is wrong.

3. At the elementary school I went to (The Montessori School of Tacoma) they had a contest to see which student could come up with the best new logo for the school, and I won! To this day it is still on their sign in front of the school, and on school sweatshirts etc. (Ironic because I am a terrible artist.)

4. I cannot stand made-up words that are passed off as real ones. Many people know that my biggest pet-peeve is when people say "irregardless" It's NOT a word!!! It makes no sense. I get angry just thinking about it. Where did our school system fail us so miserably?

5. I throw up through my nose. Gross, I know, but I can't help it. It takes me 30 seconds to empty my stomach, but a half an hour to get the "chunks" out of my sinuses. Yuck. Makes morning sickness a good time.

6. On that gross note, I can regurgitate on command. Is it not a miracle that I ever got married?

7. I can stick my entire fist in my mouth.

8. Instead of "March Madness" I get "World Cup Fever" really, really bad. Nate will attest that I am crazed. I could go on and on about every world cup since 1998.

9. I went to the state track and field competition 4 years in a row in high school for the 100 and 200M dash. My Sophomore year we got 3rd in the 4X100M relay. Good times.

10. My favorite author is Herman Mellville.

11. I was two classes away from minoring in astronomy in college. I could not quite make it through the physics without tanking my GPA. I still love astronomy though (NOT astrology. They are so, so different).

12. Speaking of space, I have never seen Star Wars. Any of them.

13. I have really small feet, and sometimes buy shoes from the kids department.

14. I was a vegetarian for two years, and often consider going back.

15. I cannot STAND the feeling of cotton balls. Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.

16. My favorite animals are Alpacas. (kind of like llamas, but better)

17. I was a phlebotomist for 2 years, (blood draws) and I realized it takes a lot to gross me out. I am actually quite fascinated with the human body.

18. On that note, I think I am going to ask to see my placenta after this delivery. I have never seen one, and I would really like to.

19. I don't like candy or soda at all really, and I am really picky about other sweets too. While I CAN eat an entire pan of brownies, I never even have a desire to get anything at the concession stand at the movies.

20. I really only drink water. I will have juice every now and then, but it's 99% water for me!

21. I love almost every vegetable raw, but have only come to enjoy a few cooked. I just feel like vegetables are meant to be cold. Is that so wrong?

22. I graduated from college in three years, and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Kind of a braggy one I guess, but I worked REALLY hard for it, and since I won't be writing any resumes soon, I am going to brag on my blog.

23. On a non-braggy note, I almost flunked my journalism class. As it turns out there is a lot more to journalism than being a good writer.

24. I once accidentally got the end of my glasses stuck in my ear and almost caused myself to go deaf in that ear. Not graceful.

25. I love, love, love being an at-home mom, and am so excited to meet my new little family member. I feel so blessed!

Fin.

Mr. Nice Guy

(Aside from stealing Happy Meals Nate is actually quite honest.)

So, for those of you who have not known Nate that long I will tell you that he sometimes gets misinterpreted as being a "goodie goodie" at best, and a little judgmental or self-righteous at worst. In fact, this is what kept me from wanting to date him for so long when I first met him! ANYWAY, the truth is that he always has his heart in the right place, and is just the kind of person that has an over-active conscience. What this is all leading to is that someone at BYU nominated him for the "Brigham Award" which is described by the BYU website as follows:

"The Brigham Awards gives students an opportunity to nominate other students, faculty and staff who give service and are not highly recognized for their efforts.

The Brigham Awards spotlight the "unsung heroes" on campus.

They are genuinely good people who don't expect to get anything back."

Apparently he was one of five finalists, but lost to some other jerk-face award stealer (just kidding!). So, there you have it. Nate was actually nominated for being extra "Christ-like" at BYU of all places. Man, he really IS a goodie-goodie! Unfortunately, now all of his friends at school make fun of him, and tell him he deserves some kind of award every time he does something nice.

Although it's kind of a funny award, and he didn't actually win, I am really proud of him for being such a good guy! Way to go, Nate!

Tagged: My Secret Is Out...

OK, so I saw this whole "6th photo from your 6th file" tag going around the blogging community, and I knew it was only a matter of time before I got hit (thanks, Andrea). Here's the thing: I never even THOUGHT to put my pictures into INDIVIDUAL FILES. Genius! So, the secret is out; I am retarded and only have ONE file of like 700 pictures, so what you are looking at is the 6th picture I took with my digital camera period. This happens to be of my friend Jessica Morgan's little boy, Ian. He's like 3 now, and we haven't seen him in forever!

This is the actual the sixth picture in my one and only file. It's out of order for some reason, so I thought I would post both pictures. This is from my child birthing reunion class. I loved that class! These are all of the cute babies lined up in birth order (Reid is 3rd from the left). I can't believe these kids are all 2 now!


So, there you have it! I am going to go and maybe organize my pictures into different files now. Who thought of this idea?! Brilliant!

Also, I guess I will tag Jessica C. and Jessica M. (seeing as how I posted a picture of her son and all...)

I heart Andy

If you haven't had the pleasure of getting to know Andy Bernard from "The Office" you are totally missing out. I cannot stress this enough. That is all.

What we've been up to.....

Well, so far I have kind of stunk at keeping my new year's resolution to be more bloggy, but I don't feel bad because January and February have been very busy, so here's what we've been up to:
you know how a lot of my pictures of Reid have been kind of overshadowed by "the bink?" (see picture above) Well, I decided to get rid of it during the day, and I let him have it at night. BIG change, but he has done GREAT, and he doesn't even ask for it anymore.

In other news: when we got back from Washington we had Reid in the tub, (one of his favorite places) and our shower head came crashing down on him. It was HILARIOUS at the time because it didn't hurt him, but it scared him so bad that he freaked out and jumped out of the tub and ran around the house naked and screaming. Unfortunately, it kind of scarred him, and as you can see from the picture above he wouldn't even stand in the tub fully clothed for fear of the shower. That's a problem, because let's face it, kids need to bathe.

I called lots of people for advice, and Grandma Tulett suggested that we try bubbles. So, we started calling bath time "bubble time" and dad would fill the tub with bubbles and sit in the tub while Reid stood there and played, but he still wouldn't get in.

Then after a few days of this, Reid finally got in, but wouldn't sit down. After a few days of this he would sit down but ONLY if dad was in there too. Fortunately, he has finally come around, and once again enjoys the bath by himself...but ONLY if we call it bubble time. Silly boy. Whew! It was a long and painful process! I never IMAGINED that something like this would be part of being a mom!

Next up on the docket: Big boy bed. I decided that Reid needed to be comfortable in one before little brother gets here, so we got this little beauty. I let it sit in his room for a few days before I decided to attempt the switch. I cannot believe how smooth it was! We got this right after we got home, and he hasn't fallen out once! It has really been a breeze! (which is rare, because Reid likes to make things difficult sometimes...)


I just thought this was cute. My two cooking and cleaning domesticated guys. I just love modern society...

The biggest news of all (and the most time-consuming) is that I decided to take the plunge and potty train. We started one week ago, and went cold turkey. No diapers of any kind, (except at night) only big boy underwear, and we set the timer so that every 20 minutes is "potty time." Boy has it been a tiring roller coaster, but I have to say that after a week he generally has no pee accidents all day long. The hard thing now is that he has only pooped on the potty a couple of times, and doesn't enjoy it, but he has done amazingly well and I am SO proud of him! My friend Jessica is doing this same method with her little boy, and is a few days ahead of me, so I have had a lot of support from her. It's nice to have someone a few steps ahead of you to show you the light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks, Jess!

So, that is where I have been these past few weeks. I have been too worn out to do much else. Reid has really grown up a lot lately, and I find myself really missing my little boy! I will keep you all updated on how the potty training is coming along!

Finally, Something New!

So, I am here to tell you the two reasons why I am lame 1.) I haven't posted anything in FOREVER, and 2.) I spent almost a month in Washington and hardly took any pictures. I guess I didn't really think about it, so I have NO pictures of Reid with his wonderful grandparents/ aunts and uncles. I will have to do better next time!

One of the fun things that we did was we went on a train ride with Nate's family to the "north pole" to see Santa. It was sooo cold! I tried to take a self-portrait with the Reidster and I, and this is what we came up with (see giant faces above.)

Here Reid is sitting on a kind-of-creepy Santa. He wasn't super excited, but he didn't scream bloody murder like he did last year. That's progress, baby.

My cute nieces with Santa.

Now we are jumping over to Christmas morning at my dad's (Papa's) house. Reid kind of "got it" this year and was pretty excited about all of great gifts. Papa sure spoils him! (and us too!)

We did a lot of other fun things too! We went and visited Nana (my mom) on Christmas eve, and we got to see my brother Josh and his family, as well as my sister, Icel and her family. (of course, I am too much of a space cadet and didn't take any pictures!) Washington had the biggest snow storm ever, and since Seattle doesn't "do" snow we got a little home bound, but that just meant more time with family. Also more time with TV shows that I haven't watched in ages. Woot.

For whatever reason I got real camera happy when we took Reid and his cousin, Audrey to this neat little jumpy castle place. Reid and Audrey have the greatest time together, and when you combine that with blow-up slides you get pure joy...

See what I mean?

Audrey rockin' the basketball court just like her daddy!

So, Christmas was awesome, and one of my new year's resolutions is to be a better blogger (and picture taker!). I just get so lazy sometimes!