Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
9 months!
Wow, this pregnancy has FLOWN by! I am already 9 months pregnant...crazy! I had an appointment with my midwife yesterday, I am 50% effaced and 1 cm dilated! He has dropped, and she said he is on the smaller side, probably between 5 1/2-6 lbs right now! I am totally ok with a smaller baby, if you catch my drift! She also said that she thinks things are going to go pretty fast for me once they start, so we need to be in a bit of a hurry once full on labor starts! She also said it is unlikely that I will make it to my due date! I have thought he would come a couple weeks early this whole time, so that puts us out probably 2ish weeks! Ahhh, I can't wait! Today, I am going to finish putting all my bags and stuff in the car! Here is my 36 week picture!
Here is a cute picture of Riley!
Here is a cute picture of Riley!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Aydia!
My little Aydia!
You have become such a little sweetheart. You love to give hugs and kisses and tell everyone you love them...if someone has even been remotely in our lives, you love them and you will tell them!
You are always a mess! Your hair is wild (and beautiful at the same time!) and there is always something on your face!
You are now potty trained! You woke up one day and said, "I want to wear panties, I don't want to wear diapers anymore." So, on the panties went and you did great! I always knew the key with you was to wait until you told me you were ready! (Not to mention that the day before, you pooped in your diaper and I was telling you how tired I was of changing your poopy diapers and that you needed to start going on the potty and you said, "Well, I wouldn't poop in panties, I only would poop in diapers.")
You are such a goofball! You are always doing something silly or saying something so off the wall, you are in your own little world most of the time!
You love music and singing. In the car, you always ask me to turn the music up...and you usually know the song that is on the radio!
You are a bit of a pest. You are constantly poking at Riley and doing things to bother her.
You love Riley to death. You find a lot of comfort in her. If you get upset, you will go to her and tell her what is wrong. If we go to a park or mall play area, if you can't find Riley, you will come sit next to me until you find her.
You are not too keen on trying new things or doing things for yourself. I think if you don't feel confident that you know what you are doing, you just don't want to do it. For example, you will go potty by yourself and not even tell anyone that you are going or need to and you can put your own shirts on, but you don't want to put your pants on, and second guess where your legs go in your panties and usually end up getting pretty frustrated about it.
You are very sensitive. We have to watch how we say things to you because you will just break down and cry if we are a little harsh. At the same time, you can have quite the attitude and are testing out your, "No, I don't want to" phrases!
You get excited about everything! It is adorable! If we say we are going to the park, you start jumping up and down saying, "Yay, the park, I love the park! Are we going to the park? Did you say we are going to the park? I love the park, yay!" If I tell you that it is time for dinner, you start jumping up and down saying, "Yay, dinner, dinner, I love dinner! Did you say dinner to me? It's time for dinner!"
Going along with you getting excited about everything, at Christmas, you opened a gift that was in a box and you didn't even try to open the box, you just kept saying, "Yay, a box! I love this box!" It was so sweet! There was something better inside it, but you were so excited just to get a box!
We are so glad God gave you to us! We love you so much!
You have become such a little sweetheart. You love to give hugs and kisses and tell everyone you love them...if someone has even been remotely in our lives, you love them and you will tell them!
You are always a mess! Your hair is wild (and beautiful at the same time!) and there is always something on your face!
You are now potty trained! You woke up one day and said, "I want to wear panties, I don't want to wear diapers anymore." So, on the panties went and you did great! I always knew the key with you was to wait until you told me you were ready! (Not to mention that the day before, you pooped in your diaper and I was telling you how tired I was of changing your poopy diapers and that you needed to start going on the potty and you said, "Well, I wouldn't poop in panties, I only would poop in diapers.")
You are such a goofball! You are always doing something silly or saying something so off the wall, you are in your own little world most of the time!
You love music and singing. In the car, you always ask me to turn the music up...and you usually know the song that is on the radio!
You are a bit of a pest. You are constantly poking at Riley and doing things to bother her.
You love Riley to death. You find a lot of comfort in her. If you get upset, you will go to her and tell her what is wrong. If we go to a park or mall play area, if you can't find Riley, you will come sit next to me until you find her.
You are not too keen on trying new things or doing things for yourself. I think if you don't feel confident that you know what you are doing, you just don't want to do it. For example, you will go potty by yourself and not even tell anyone that you are going or need to and you can put your own shirts on, but you don't want to put your pants on, and second guess where your legs go in your panties and usually end up getting pretty frustrated about it.
You are very sensitive. We have to watch how we say things to you because you will just break down and cry if we are a little harsh. At the same time, you can have quite the attitude and are testing out your, "No, I don't want to" phrases!
You get excited about everything! It is adorable! If we say we are going to the park, you start jumping up and down saying, "Yay, the park, I love the park! Are we going to the park? Did you say we are going to the park? I love the park, yay!" If I tell you that it is time for dinner, you start jumping up and down saying, "Yay, dinner, dinner, I love dinner! Did you say dinner to me? It's time for dinner!"
Going along with you getting excited about everything, at Christmas, you opened a gift that was in a box and you didn't even try to open the box, you just kept saying, "Yay, a box! I love this box!" It was so sweet! There was something better inside it, but you were so excited just to get a box!
We are so glad God gave you to us! We love you so much!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Baking cookies!
The girls got this Paula Deen cookbook for Christmas!
We let them go through their cookbook and pick out what they wanted to make...of course, they pick the cookies (they are definitely my children...we love our fruits and veggies, but we love and don't deprive ourselves of sweets!)
Sweet sister's in the apron's I made them for Christmas!
Pouring in the sugar.
The girls job of unwrapping all the kisses.
These next 2 pictures are a true tale of how opposite my kids are and really captures a lot of who they are!
Aydia's are all thrown into the bowl all together...wrapped kisses, unwrapped kisses, and the wrappers.
And here, you see Riley's kisses. All the unwrapped ones in a nice, neat row, and the wrappers on the outside of the bowl, then the still wrapped ones sitting in a group.
Putting in the hershey's kisses!
The final product!
We let them go through their cookbook and pick out what they wanted to make...of course, they pick the cookies (they are definitely my children...we love our fruits and veggies, but we love and don't deprive ourselves of sweets!)
Sweet sister's in the apron's I made them for Christmas!
Pouring in the sugar.
The girls job of unwrapping all the kisses.
These next 2 pictures are a true tale of how opposite my kids are and really captures a lot of who they are!
Aydia's are all thrown into the bowl all together...wrapped kisses, unwrapped kisses, and the wrappers.
And here, you see Riley's kisses. All the unwrapped ones in a nice, neat row, and the wrappers on the outside of the bowl, then the still wrapped ones sitting in a group.
Putting in the hershey's kisses!
The final product!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Top 5 of 2009
I was tagged by Raising Baby Cheap to tell you all my top 5 things in 2009! Here they are:
1) Spending our first year in our first house!
2) Adventuring out into the sewing world!
3) Our trip to Colorado to visit my family!
4) Finding out we were having a baby boy!
5) Josh starting his new adventure of becoming a paramedic...this has been crazy and difficult at times, but it is still exciting!
I am not going to tag anyone specific, but you should play along!
1) Spending our first year in our first house!
2) Adventuring out into the sewing world!
3) Our trip to Colorado to visit my family!
4) Finding out we were having a baby boy!
5) Josh starting his new adventure of becoming a paramedic...this has been crazy and difficult at times, but it is still exciting!
I am not going to tag anyone specific, but you should play along!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Ezekiel's room!
Well, it is finally finished! Here are the pictures of Ezekiel's room! This is the first nursery I have been able to decorate (yes, I do realize I have 2 other kids...we lived with people until just last Christmas!), so it was sooo much fun to be able to prepare a place for the baby, plus, I got to do a room for the girls too, which was also really fun!
I painted these canvas painting that are over his crib! (Yes, I realize the side is off the crib, and we will put it up when he is ready to sleep in there, but for now, that is Aydia's nap-place!)
I painted all the E's and the branch. My friend made the banner for my baby shower...I won't leave it up there forever, but it is just so cute, I had to put it somewhere for a while!
I am sure we will spend a lot of time in this chair in the middle of the night! At least it is really big and comfy!
Josh and I did the tree together. He drew it on and I painted it!
My mom made the curtains!
I painted these canvas painting that are over his crib! (Yes, I realize the side is off the crib, and we will put it up when he is ready to sleep in there, but for now, that is Aydia's nap-place!)
I painted all the E's and the branch. My friend made the banner for my baby shower...I won't leave it up there forever, but it is just so cute, I had to put it somewhere for a while!
I am sure we will spend a lot of time in this chair in the middle of the night! At least it is really big and comfy!
Josh and I did the tree together. He drew it on and I painted it!
My mom made the curtains!
Friday, January 8, 2010
8 months...
I am in my 8th month of pregnancy! I am SOOO glad it it almost over! I have decided that there is not really anything fun about the last 2 months of being pregnant! We are in the, pee every 5 seconds, contractions, baby running out of room, feeling so full you think you may explode, leg cramps, heartburn, exhaustion, yet can't really sleep phase! I know that all of this just means that it is getting closer to the day we get to meet our little Zeke! We have all of our baby gear, swing, car seat, all that good stuff now, so other than washing clothes and packing bags, we are ready! Next week I start going to my midwife every week! I can't believe we are there already! I got all my stuff in to have the water birth and just last night, we tested everything out to see how long it would take to get everything ready and make sure the pool didn't have any holes in it! I am also almost finished with the book my midwife gave me to help me prepare for a natural birth (since I have not done one before!), so I am really starting to feel ready and confident that I can do it! The last thing in his room to do is to hang 2 shelves, which we are doing tonight, so I will get the final pictures up soon! Here is my 32 week photo!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Baby Showers!
Over the last month, we have had 2 baby showers! We are so blessed with lots of family and friends that wanted to help us prepare for our little boy! We needed quite a bit of stuff, since we only have 2 girls, we had NO boy stuff! They were awesome and lots of fun! Who doesn't love a baby shower, right?!
The awesome decorations, I have some pretty creative friends!
Me and the food! Yummy!
This is one of the games we played...you put chocolate syrup in a diaper and put it on a doll. Then, you get in teams of 2 and you can only each use one hand. You have to change the baby's diaper, wipe them clean and all! It is fun!
We won! Yeah!
Some gifts that friends made for me...or for Zeke actually!
Yay, diapers!
Me and my preggo friend, Maria! She is due 5 days ahead of me!
Me and my preggo friend, Jenny (obviously, I am due first...I think we are about 14 weeks apart)!
These are all from the Family/Family friends shower!
Awesome fire truck and fire hat cookies!
This says, "The Best Baby Brother!"
Car seat, yay!
Cute little sweater!
He has plenty of stuff with fire trucks on it to wear now!
Zeke's stocking! It isn't done yet, but of course, it is firefighter themed!
His first pair of converse!
The awesome decorations, I have some pretty creative friends!
Me and the food! Yummy!
This is one of the games we played...you put chocolate syrup in a diaper and put it on a doll. Then, you get in teams of 2 and you can only each use one hand. You have to change the baby's diaper, wipe them clean and all! It is fun!
We won! Yeah!
Some gifts that friends made for me...or for Zeke actually!
Yay, diapers!
Me and my preggo friend, Maria! She is due 5 days ahead of me!
Me and my preggo friend, Jenny (obviously, I am due first...I think we are about 14 weeks apart)!
These are all from the Family/Family friends shower!
Awesome fire truck and fire hat cookies!
This says, "The Best Baby Brother!"
Car seat, yay!
Cute little sweater!
He has plenty of stuff with fire trucks on it to wear now!
Zeke's stocking! It isn't done yet, but of course, it is firefighter themed!
His first pair of converse!
Friday, January 1, 2010
CrAzY fAmIlY...
Hang on to your seats everyone, this will make you jealous that your family pics don't look like this!
We call this one, "the dancing faces!"
Haha! The crazy aunt's and uncle peeping in on the cute pic of the girls!
The 5 of us!
All of us girls!
The men, so full of Joy!
Grammy and Ola with the girls!
All of us!
The great grandma's with their great granddaughters!
We call this one, "the dancing faces!"
Haha! The crazy aunt's and uncle peeping in on the cute pic of the girls!
The 5 of us!
All of us girls!
The men, so full of Joy!
Grammy and Ola with the girls!
All of us!
The great grandma's with their great granddaughters!
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