The grossest moment of my life....(don't read if you're queezy)

So I'm doing this blog thing about as good as I do my journal, sad to say. Oh well, on with the story. WARNING: The following content may not be appropriate for some readers. If you are pregnant, easily grossed out, quick gag reflex, or have bad dreams of roaches crawling on you (Rachel) think twice before moving on. Ok....so, Sylvie is 6 months old now and crawling everywhere. I'm having to RE-baby safe the whole house as she's making her way behind couches, under tables, and into every nook and cranny I've left un-dusted for the last several months...ok, years. ANYWAY, with all this exploring I've been carefully following behind to grab any small pieces of what ever that's made it's way onto the carpet from her little fingers so she won't eat it and choke. (I have a rule about that...it's not allowed.) - You may see where this is going.... So earlier this morning I was distracted by Ella and when I turned to Sylvie she was digging at something beside the fireplace, I tried to scoop it from her mouth but after a few chocks and coughs, it was gone. I figured she hadn't really gotten anything. She likes to fake cough a lot, but as the day went on she was coughing quite a bit and even gagging on occasion. I checked several times in her mouth but found nothing. Well, it's 7 pm and I just changed a diaper. Let's just say that Sylvie is still a nursing baby and only eats a bit of cereal twice a day. So I was surprised to see something that didn't quite match the normal diaper filler but couldn't tell what it was until I picked it up (with a wipe, of course). AAAAAHHHHH!!! It was a BUG!! Not a little bug or a cute bug like an ant or a lady bug. It was a HUGE MASSIVE BEETLE with REALLY LONG LEGS!!! YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY!!!!!!! The poor little thing! - Not the bug...SYLVIE!! I can't help but think back to all the choking and coughing! Was that bug...could he have been alive...I can't even say it. EEEWWW!!! So now I'm so grossed out and needless to say I had the boys pick up everything in the living room and computer room and we super vacuumed to make sure there was nothing else she could get her little hands on and eat! This was not what I had in mind for her first solid food! Oh well, I guess as my dad would say, good protein. EEWW. So that's that. On a funnier note....

...Yesterday Ryan and I took Dade out to IHOP to celebrate his first trip to the Temple. It was a great night. Now my Dade is a smart kid but has never cared much for spelling or grammer so I had to laugh when I asked him a question and he told me I needed to be more Pacific. Ryan of course quickly noted that Pacific was an ocean, to which Dade added, I know, like the Alantic. Ryan laughed and said...you mean ATlantic. Dade was a bit embarrassed but after a thoughful pause said, Well I can say China! - (My family may be the only ones that laugh at this or it may just be a "You had to be there" moment, but I laughed and laughed and laughed....and laughed.) I love my family!