Blog name change!

We are officially changing our blog to www.daEllsworths.blogspot.com, read "duh-ellsworths", stands for Duane and Angie Ellsworth, inspiration from Audra and Justin Owens's blog. Thanks! (even though you didn't know we copied you till now) hehehe...

Watch your language!

As many of you know, Duane is working the night shift and gets home at 8:30 in the morning; just as we're crawling out of bed. Usually when I hear him coming in the door (which is downstairs) I'll talk extra loud to Kalvin to keep him from hearing the door screech open so Duane can sneak up on Kalvin.

This morning Kalvin and I were in the kitchen getting the cereal and bowls down when we heard a very loud noise that was either high pitched flatulent or one of Kalvin's balloons exhausting it's contents. Immediately, Kalvin turned to the living room where the disturbance originated and said, "What thuh?...". We found Duane hiding behind the stair case. Duane swears the sound came from a balloon.

Later in the morning, we went to a nature preserve about 10 miles away with two other neighbors and their kiddos. It was beautiful! I think it's where we're going to take our family fall pictures when the leaves change in October-early November. Family is welcome to come for a FREE photo session (CD included) when we take our pictures (you just take care of the plane ticket to and from here and we'll take care of the rest). ;)

At the preserve, Kalvin saw many animals, wild and tame in the park and out: horses (actually at a house across the road), 2 deer in someones front yard, an owl, a bee hive, a large turtle in a huge lily pond, butterflies, fish, fish, and fish. Sadly, we didn't get pics of all the creatures.

Duane captured captured Tristen's preciousness.

The toddler, "cheese".

Duane, putting his great eye for landscape photography into action. (This is part of the lily pond)

Although there is no perception of size in this photo, this turtle was the length of Kalvin!

I love how Tristen posed for the picture too.

Logo Poll! Get your vote in by tomorrow!

Hey everyone, we need your help. We are looking to get a new logo before we buy some business cards so we sketched out a few ideas. Which one do you like? Please vote A, B, C, or none in the poll on the right of our blog. We are pushing this faster than Obama wants healthcare reform so get your vote in.
It is supposed to read "a s p".
Thanks! And if they are all to hard on your eyes, give some suggestions please!

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So excited for them to be best friends!

When I put Tristen on Kalvin's tummy Kalvin laughed and laughed. He thought it was so funny!

Kalvin is the best big brother! He really loves little Tristen. Whenever Tristen’s upset, he’ll run and try to "fix" the cry: give him the pacifire, kiss his nose, and very often he’s nice enough to give Tristen his cherished “blankie”. I can hardly wait to see them grow up being best buds! I’m sure they’ll have their moments (especially when Tristen is old enough to fight back), but for now I’m enjoying their sweet love.

Kalvin keeps very busy! Here he is eating Daddy's yummy pancakes and soaking his burned finger. As Duane says, "Another day, another burn." Poor kid... he's just so curious about things and it's hard to keep him away.


Silence is never a good thing when it comes to Kalvin. When he's playing its sounds of jumping and laughing, but silence=trouble.

Here, he's taken 1/2 a stick of butter and spread it over the piece of bread he left over night while I was in the other room getting Tristen ready for a bath.

(See video at www.duaneandangiesworld.blogspot.com)

The summer in Albany means humidity, rain, and mosquito's. The rain I love (actually in July alone we received as much rain as AZ does all year!), but the humidity is not ideal, and mosquito's are worst of all (though they mostly come out at sunset). We keep this netting on Tristen's bouncer to keep the mosquito's from eating him (except the first time we used it I found 2 mosquito's inside sucking his blood, but most the time it's great).

He actually really likes the netting. It seems to be comforting, is breathable, can eat it, and he can see through it.

Boxing Down The Stairs

What better way to end the night than to have Daddy push you down the stairs in a box filled with pillows and your favorite blankets?! You'll notice the video cuts for a second while I was taking pictures in the middle of the movie.

He loves it!

Bubble beard!

Tristen Dean Angel Baby Ellsworth

I call Tristen Angel Baby because he rarely complains and LOVES to smile!

The spider Bite

Kalvin came into the room last night at 11:45 and I let him stay. This morning at about 7:00 he suddenly woke up and said, "bug.". I thought we was telling me about his dream (since he's been doing that a lot lately), so I asked to hear more. He just continued to say, "bug." pointing to his pillow. I read this as him telling me that he dreamt of a bug while laying on the pillow.

We made some muffins for breakfast and Kalvin burned his arm on the hot pan for which he has a blister now. He burns himself ALL the time! He rarely complains much about them though.

At breakfast I noticed a little red mark on his right temple but didn't think much of it since he is constantly hurting himself (lol). After eating, Kalvin and I went to the store so Duane could have some time to work on the talk he gets to give this Sunday on Sacred Home Sacred Temple (or something close to that). While we were in the checkout at the store, I noticed the red mark on his temple getting bigger.

(he's got a little leftover lunch on his cheek)

When we got home I showed Duane who'd heard about the "bug dream" and he suggested it was not a dream, but that he was bit. Duane marked on Kalvin's face where the redness was, gave him some benadryl, and sent him to take a nap. After the nap, it was slightly bigger, and we gave him some more benadryl.

We'll have to see how this ends up. Hopefully not too bad...

Just before bed, I took another mug shot to get the blister on his arm (closer to his hand), the bug bite, and a skid mark (closer to his elbow) from when he fell on the sidewalk yesterday.

He's such a great poser! lol. As long as he gets to see the picture after.

Update from NY

A couple weeks ago, while we were in Sacrement meeting at church, I heard Kalvin saying "Jesus". I looked down to see him pointing at a picture of Jesus on our program. I had Kalvin show Daddy who nonchalantly replied, "Yep, he's a smart kid."

Kalvin likes to jump from the tall kitchen chairs to the love sac. A couple days ago while Kalvin was doing superman from the tall chair, Duane suggested to him that he should close his eyes. The next thing I saw was Kalvin climb the chair with his eyes CLOSED, turn around WITH HIS EYES CLOSED and jump off backward (with his eyes closed), almost missing the love sac! It was pretty scary for me AND for him. He never closed his eyes the whole time again, thank goodness! We later taught him to close his eyes AFTER he climbed the chair.

Follow this link to see the video (if reading this in an email) : www.duaneandangiesworld.blogspot.com

Kalvin loves playing with the blocks Grandma bought him for his Bday! Everyday we build about 10 different trucks with them. Here's one of our creations! I built the base and he built the "trailer". He's getting pretty good with it!

Little boys will be little boys...

Another ouchie! Kalvin likes to sing "Five Little Monkey's" to himself and jump off the couch. A couple days ago, he was on the love sac singing the song, and jumped from the love sad to the couch, missed his target and busted his lip.

Lots of popsicles and a movie can cure almost anything for Kalvin.

On a less exciting note though equally stressful, I spoke in church today on the topic, service. It went well. Actually, the speaker after me chose to base his talk off the SAME talk by Dallin H. Oaks 1984 October General Conference Session. It was interesting to see how we interpreted the talk from different perspectives.

Kalvin is getting to be pretty good buds with the girl downstairs. Actually, yesterday evening Kalvin was outside playing with her and got to be too ornery. He wasn't following rules and started holding his breath (for those of you who don't know; when Kalvin is very sleepy he will cry easily and and can't breathe, his lips turn blue and he kind of looks like he's having a seizure), so he had to go to bed early and leave his friend. She was so upset by it that she cried herself to sleep, too.

Tonight was much better, we had a little BBQ with them and the kids had such a blast together. They were laughing so much and Kalvin would run up to her and they'd give BIG hugs. Her mom thought she was going to plant a kiss on him, but I haven't seen any smooches yet!

To come: pictures of the porch when the kids toys are out! We joke that it looks like we run a day care or have about 10 toddlers.

I feel your prayers!

You know just a couple days ago I was thinking 'I should be a lot more depressed right now. I should be upset that I'm so far away from family with a newborn and a homesick toddler. I should be crying everyday that it's so hot and pasty that Tristen doesn't even want to eat because we practically melt and stick to each other since we don't run the air conditioner.'

And then two thoughts came to me: 1) We both have such caring families who must be praying for our well-being and 2) Duane is being, well, himself. He helps wherever he sees me struggling and is Kalvin's best friend.

Two months ago, I thought I'd be much more homesick than I am now. Don't get me wrong, there are many things I miss about good 'ol AZ (the heat not being one of them), but we're surviving.

It also helps that Tristen is so sweet to us also. I call him my little Angel Baby because that's just what he is, an angel. Last night he slept 8 1/2 hours! By the time he woke up I was begging him to eat and even then it was only about 5 min. before he drifted off to sleep again. Silly boy!

I landed a job in AZ and am coming home!

My sister, April, can take full credit for getting me this wedding in September. It's actually her sister-in-law who's getting married on 9/9/09! What a neat day to get hitched!

Duane has an extra hard rotation the month of September working in the NICU with 80+ hour work weeks and we wouldn't see him much anyway (and if you only count when he's in his right mind without sleep deprivation, I don't know that we'd ever see him), so I'm taking the kiddos and jetting out of here! Don't get me wrong, New York is beautiful (and humid), but there's no place like home!

Kalvin has started talking SO much! Lately, he's been telling me his dreams just as he wakes up from sleeping at night. The first dream he told me about was that he went home (AZ is what he's referring to I'm sure) and something about Grandpa. Another dream he's had was that a bee stung him. It was cute to see him tell this story, he said, "Bee! bzzzz.... OUCH!" and of course he had all the actions to go along with it.

I've decided to get my NY real estate license. We'll hopefully be buying a home at the end of Dec. and it should make finding a home much more convenient if I have my license, plus I'm excited to learn all about the buying process (since I feel very uneducated on the matter at this point). It's an online class and after completing the 75 classroom hours, I will take a proctored exam in NYC followed by the state exam.

We are lucky enough to live just above a girl Kalvin's age! She's a cutie and they like playing together. Just this morning Kalvin was asking where she was.

A couple days ago we made a trip to a park just a few miles away.

Kalvin came and sat by his friend and I had to snap a picture before the moment was over.

And an update of the baby.

There's been a lot of rain, so puddles will naturally be splashed in...

(click on the image to see it enlarged)