Still waiting.

As I was sitting in church today and baby girl was running her foot along my ribs (comparable to running dirty laundry on an old-fashioned washboard), I wondered about the tv show "I Didn't Know I was Pregnant." I've never seen it. But I've also never had that problem.

Yep. Pretty sure I'm pregnant.

Since this is all I'm blogging about these days, the countdown is on and a week from Monday is the big induction date. Yay! So excited (that is until the first hard contraction hits). :) Thanks for love, prayers and support!!

While we're waiting.

I found an idea in Parenting to make a castle out of a cardboard box. So we did. And it was fun and made my children happy.

I'm to the point...

*that I don't even try to bend over anymore. I either have the kids pick it up (who knew older siblings were SOOOO good for something) or think I'll pick it up in a month.

*my favorite subject is birthing/pregnancy stories with all my expectant friends.

*food? Yes, please. Every hour. I'm like a hobbit: I have 7 breakfasts.


*if I sneeze, I wet my pants.

*the most exciting news of the week: the doctor telling me I'm dilating.

*the most depressing news of the week: the doctor saying things are looking good, so we'll just go until you're 39 weeks (last week, he had said 38).


*if I stand up, I piddle.


*I panic b/c my baby isn't moving as much.

*then when she does move, it is like she is climbing in my ribs and it makes me gasp.



*I get asked how far along I am and I want to say "13 months."


*then I usually get asked if I'm having twins.


*toes? What toes?

*if I cough, I wet myself again.


*nightly trips to the bathroom are often accompanied by a bowl of cereal because, apparently, I'm starving.

*please, for the sake of my pants, don't make me laugh.

*and lastly, I have to keep reminding myself to be patient and that when this is all over....I'll probably want to put her back in so I can get some sleep!!!!

Where's Riley? There she is! Under Mom's belly!

(PS-Despite all of my complaining, I'm so happy to be having another baby and my very favorite part about being pregnant is to feel that baby moving in there. It really is a miracle and babies are just little gifts from heaven! And I really am grateful that things are going well and the baby is healthy.)

Once there was a snowman...

snowman, snowman. Once there was a snowman... tall, tall, TALL!

In the sun he melted,

melted, melted. In the sun he melted small, small, small....

On a sunny, Enterprise afternoon...

Riley and her icecream cone getting a little intimate. Notice the hair? I try to do it every morning and by every afternoon, it is pulled out. And then the EXCITEMENT! We heard a fire engine siren, and had to go look. Right behind the apartments, a firetruck arrived. And then an ambulance. And THEN.....

I'm pretty sure it was just a drill, but according to Hy, "It was tool (cool)!"

30-ish days

But who's counting? MEMEMEME! I will probably be induced around the weekend of March 18th. And I'm totally nesting. Today, I got the bassinet washed & set up. Riley put her "baby" Allie in it and is as excited as I am. I even pulled out a newborn diaper just to look at it. They're SOOOO tiny!
My latest time-waster besides continuos eating, is Pinterest. I can't even pin my own pins; I have to steal from everyone else and repin. I need Decca to come and give me a tutorial. This lovely fruit concoction is an idea I got from Pinterest. I think Mom & Dad were slightly impressed! Hyrum was in charge of the oranges and did great! (PS-it's supposed to be palm trees and it is sideways) And the big news: Hyrum has lost his 3rd tooth. 3 in 3 weeks. He is rich. He lost one tooth while in Vegas with Poppa & Grandmummsie. I guess the toothfairy is richer in Vegas--he got $1 instead of $.50. Hy had a blast spending time with them at the World Ag Expo in California. He's a pretty lucky boy. Everytime you ask him what his favorite part was, it changes. Monster trucks, swimming at the hotel and just seeing the farm equipment have been some of his answers.

Riley and I had a lovely girl's weekend and some good one-on-one time. She's my "big girl" and pretty excited for "baby sister!"

All right. I'm going to go eat something! Chow ;)

Toothless

Hyrum lost his first tooth last night! I can't believe I have a child old enough to lose a tooth. Probably one of my first memories is of losing my first tooth at Grandpa & Grandma Spencer's. I was gabbing on the phone with Janelle and he came up and said I have something weird in my mouth. I looked and he had twisted his tooth so the back was facing forward. I laughed and told him to keep wiggling it. Then he yells, "Mom, my tooth came out!!"

Anyway, we made phone calls to grandpas and grandmas and Hy kept saying "I'm like Austin (Humphries)!" It was exciting.

Then this morning he woke up super early with his dad and I hear, "The tooth fairy didn't bring me money!"

I had totally forgotten. I jumped out of bed, grabbed some change and waddled into his room. He was crying and I said, sneakily slipping two quarters under his pillow, "Are you sure?" He lifted his pillow again, and there were two shiny quarters!! Whew! That was a close one. Sometimes I'm not sure about my mothering skills :)