What We've Been Doing . . . This Week

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The kids and Dave had Veteran's Day off this week. So, we went on a hike to see more Indian caves in Bandelier National Forest. We got to go up and down a few ladders.This was a fun ladder to go down with Ty in the Baby Bjorn on my chest. Poor kid. I didn't bang his head on the ladder or break the camera, so things turned out okay.
Friday, November 13, 2009

I took Kate and Jack to see this movie at the theater.
The kids were so excited. They liked the movie until the end when there was a giant food storm. We haven't been to a movie for two years (since we saw Enchanted). And we probably won't go again for another two years. Poor Kate gets a little motion sick. She threw up two years ago during the movie and on Friday she threw up when we got home. Actually, all the food flying around in the movie made me feel a little nauseous too. Maybe it's a good movie to watch on a smaller screen at home.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Yesterday we went to the BYU vs. UNM football game in Albuquerque. There were tons of people from our ward there -- kind of fun to see people that we know! It sprinkled rain on and off pretty much the whole game. It was chilly, but not too bad. The sun came out for two minutes and I snapped these pictures.

Jack was pretty upset that his BYU shirt was being covered up by his sweatshirt, so we put it on top. He wouldn't put his coat on during the game. He is quite the little BYU fan!

Ty did great during the game. He was really warm, all bundled up.

Ty is 4 months old now! I took him to the doctor Thursday and he weighs 13 lbs, 12 oz. and is 25" long. He can roll over from front to back and back to front, but he doesn't do it very often. He tries to stick anything he can in his mouth and loves to chew on his binkie clip. He has been sleeping great (try not to jinx myself) from about 8 pm to 4 or 5 am (it's heaven!).

I snapped these pictures of him tonight.

We're Still Here...

All right, I guess it's time that I post something. We've been keeping busy, but haven't taken many pictures in the last few weeks. I've had good intentions of taking pictures, but it hasn't happened. So, here's what we've been up to:

We bought a membership to one of the pools here (they are all private and expensive and not-so-nice-because-they-are-old), so I'm trying to get as much use out of it as we can before the baby comes. Kate started swimming lessons this week and has improved so much! Jack is no longer totally freaked out by the water. So, it's been a good thing. Hopefully the weather warms up a little (we skipped swimming lessons this morning because it was only 48 degrees out and raining).

I found a smaller bike for Kate at a yard sale on Saturday. We bought her a bike for Christmas a year and a half ago, but it's too big for her to ride without training wheels. Dave took the pedals and training wheels off of the smaller bike, so she can get used to balancing. Hopefully someday she'll ride it without training wheels (with pedals). Jack tried really hard to ride the bike, but it's a little too big for him and he had a few wrecks before finally believing us that it's too big for him.

Our neighbors gave us their bunk beds last week. So, Dave's been busy sanding them down so we can paint them and then put them back together. The kids were really excited about having bunk beds. They slept in them for a few nights before we started working on them.
We've been spending a lot more time outside these days. We had breakfast outside on Saturday after trying out the new bike. (if you look closely in the reflection you can see my lovely ever-growing figure).I'm just waiting for July to come, so this baby can come out. Kate helped me wash the baby clothes and other baby stuff, so it can be ready. It will probably just sit in my room for another month or so, but oh well. I like to be prepared.

Anyway...That's what we've been up to. Lots of words and few pictures, but oh well.

Random Thoughts

Well, I don't have any wonderful pictures to post today. I just have a couple of random things to post about.

Kate got this game for her birthday from one of her friends. The whole family played it with her yesterday and it was pretty fun! A great gift for any 5 to 8 year old. I liked it better than the real Monopoly game. The game actually ended too! (I ran out of money first, so Kate won.)

Our Easter plans were disrupted by the ton of snow that we got this weekend. We were going to hide eggs on Saturday in the trees behind our house, but it snowed a lot on Saturday, so we had to hide a few in the house instead.

I finally finished scrapbooking Jack's 1st year yesterday. My goal was to finish it before the baby comes. Now I feel like I should work on the other years of Kate and Jack's life instead of just their first. We'll see if that happens.

Soccer season started again. Dave's coaching again, but this time there are 11 kids! That is a ton of 4 and 5 year olds (9 boys and 2 girls). I'll be glad when it's over.

And, most importantly (is that a word?) of all, Dave is done with his dissertation! I keep forgetting to call him Dr. Judi. Kate isn't convinced that he is a Dr. since he doesn't work at the hospital.

Well, I think that's about it. So long for now!

It's a . . .

BABY!

I decided that it would be fun to wait until we found out the gender of the baby before blogging about being pregnant. Although, it seems like I have been pregnant forever! And, it's only been 18 weeks. Hopefully the next 22 weeks go by faster.

Anyway...So, today I had an ultrasound and we found out the gender. (The picture is actually from my 12 week ultrasound, but works.)

Here's how some of the ultrasound went today:

Dr: Looks like it's a girl.

I think: Are you really sure? I couldn't even tell he was looking between the legs.

10 minutes go by.

Dr: Wait a minute. It's a boy.

The doctor shows us the little boy part. Kate bursts into tears. Jack just wants to go play basketball.

So, it's a boy! I kind of thought it was a boy, but I wasn't counting on it actually being one since the majority of the babies that are born here are girls. I don't know if it's the altitude or what... Kate's okay with it being a baby brother now. She told us at dinner that she would take care of the baby if I had to go anywhere. And, when we were talking about her crying during the ultrasound she said, "Sometimes it's just hard for four-year-olds."


On an non-baby-related note, here's something funny that Kate said today that I wanted to write down. We were driving past the high school and I pointed out a bunch of kids waiting for the county bus. Kate said, "Mom, those kids shouldn't just stand there. They should play duck-duck-goose or something."

What We Like

Since my blog is really our only family journal/photo album/etc. I thought I'd write a post about we are all enjoying these days:

Jack
Popcorn
Throwing balls (and anything else he picks up)
Jumping off things (the higher the better)
Pretending to be a puppy
The Jungle Book movie
Biting and pinching Kate and pulling out her hair (lovely!)

Kate
Preschool
Playgroups
Playdates (she feels this need to play with someone every day after school at their house -- which doesn't happen every day which makes her think that I'm mean and makes her sad)
Coloring with her colored pencils that she has been earning when she's been good
Her new pink skirt

Me
Early morning runs
Baking (which cancels out the calories burned from running)
Quiet time while Kate is at school at Jack is sleeping (heaven!)
Spending too much time on my food blog and checking other people's blogs (I need a new hobby!)

Dave
BYU football (he's not enjoying it so much since they aren't so good anymore)
Jazz games (I can't believe basketball is already starting!)
playing basketball at the high school gym two nights a week
Getting closer to becoming Dr. Judi

Anyway...That's what we've been enjoying.