I may be getting a little addicted to wii fitness, Running with the Alma's wii mii ogling me, getting a little freaked out by TJ's freak creation ogling me, becoming obsessed with my center of gravity (apparently the keystone to all fitness- maybe a strange Japanese thing).

Also I have discovered I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when it comes to vaccines. It is hard to do that when you have seen kids die of completely preventable diseases and I am supposed to be sympathetic to the mom with no education except for random web sites and Jenny McCarthy on Oprah! I think the problem is we take our good health for granted. No one remembers when children and babies dieing was a common occurrence. But let me remind you- babies died all the time- and they don't now. Why? Mostly because of vaccines. Read some pioneer journals written by mother's during a diphtheria outbreak, it is just heart breaking. But we take all this for granted, and assume that everyone else will get vaccinated to protect our children for us. Ugh. I need to stop. I wasn't planning on going off on this but I just feel so passionately. If only I could take you to the hospital room with me and have you see an innocent little child die of something so easily prevented.

Fun in the Sun with Cousins

The whole crowd- I just love Annie's little personality.

Aislyn enjoying a classic childhood pastime.

The boys- Coen and Dade love playing and they just loved playing with the big boys.

I am so greatful that the little boys have such fun with the big boys. I love how sweet Grant and David are with the boys. They genuinely love the little guys and it shows. I don't mind the hero worship when their heros are such great kids.

I was going to blog tonight but Marika called so now I am going to go hang out with my teen girl friends. Here I come Mika and Em- And may be I will run and get the salad for the funeral tomorrow too.

IT was Laura's birthday celebration tonight. She is one of the best sister-in-laws and the best aunt in the world. She loves babies and toddlers. If they don't love her back she just keeps bribing them until they do. I love her. I admire her. How can I not love a feisty mouthy woman? She hates pictures of herself- so here she is holding Beckett at Jackson Hole last year and an over exposed picture of her holding Aislyn on the same trip. Did I mention she loves babies? Love you Laura. Happy Birthday.

So I am having the worst call night EVER. The only consolation is that I did get to do wii fitness for and hour. But literally have been on the phone 6 times about a prescription for DIAPER RASH CREAM. More proof that the stupidest people in the world work in pharmacies (sorry to my pharmacist friends I don't mean you obviously). Also a mom I have talked to every single night I have been on call for the last two weeks called, again. And just let me say if the doctor on call tells you to head to the ER immediately don't spend fifteen minutes trying to talk her out of it. I just needed to vent a little tonight.

Just a little update- the parents with the kid with the head injury that I told to go to the ER RIGHT NOW and hour ago just called again to see if they really had to go to. I officially revoke their parental licence.

I will confess I do like public confrontations with minions. Non-minions I avoid any type of confrontation.

This is a clarificaton for Becky.

Are you all sick of Coen stories? I have some great pics trapped on picnic, my account is having issues. So as soon as those get free I will have some fabulous pics. And tomorrow Malinda and Susan get here- so I am sure there will be tons of cute cousin pictures. How about this cutie from 4th of July?

And here is one I have helped escape from the clutches of Picnic (don't get me wrong I love it, it is just having problems with my account).

This summer is great, lots of swimming, lots of popsicles, cool weather until this week, lots of NCAA football- on the XBox on Cougarfan, we are gearing up for the year. (Now whenever Alma plays he plays as Coen as the quarterback and Coen takes his wins quite personally.)

Last night 11pm both boys are making noise I have been ignoring it for a while but deside to go check on them. Every stich of clothing in the room is on the floor (which is about everthung sixe 6mon-4t because I have been trying to organize hand me downs from others and ours to others- this is a lot of clothes for example we have currently 22 pairs of 12 month pants!) Beckett is jumping up and down in his crib and Coen is pretending to climb the wall ala Spiderman. I explained that Spiderman has to go to sleep or he won't have any spidy powers in the morning, tucked them in and kissed them good night. As I walked down the hall Coen was wailing, "I not Spiderman, I Coen Dean Clove. I not Spiderman!"

Coen is full of cuteness this week- and an obsession with boobs which he calls booboos. I don't know why. This morning he told me he wanted a little squeeze and then a big squeeze and then a little squeeze. He then pinched his nipples and told me look mom I have teeny tiny boo boos. He was then very disappointed to learn that he would never make milk but at the same time disgusted at the thought that he once drank my milk. "I not do that mommy, I never do that." said with complete revulsion dripping in his voice.