Pointless Post

Don't say I didn't warn you because as I start this post I don't really know where I'm going with it. Tonight is Kyle's last night of working his normal schedule before the break. While he is on Christmas break he gets to work more hours and also work normal hours so he will be home at dinner time every night instead of leaving for work after dinner every night. Very much looking forward to that. We finally get to watch our regular Christmas movies that we haven't been able to get in. Christmas is a little over a week away. For the first time in our marriage we are staying in Provo for holidays. Kind of a bum in some ways but not really in others. Obviously it's no fun not getting to spend it with our families but I'm pretty excited to enjoy my own family of 3. It won't be a family of 3 much longer. I'm excited to start our own traditions and just lay low and focus on each other. Not that I don't want to go home and see family but it will be nice not having to rush rush all the time because I only have so much energy at this point. I thought once the time got here I would start to get really homesick but it hasn't happened yet. Either way we are moving home in 4 months and will be with family all the time. It's just starting to hit us that we are in fact moving back to Portland in 4 months. Wowee. Our shift button isn't working for some reason and it's getting rather annoying. I never realized how much I use it until now. Lucy took some crazy pills tonight before bed. When we were doing our family story and song time she kept cracking up and then all of a sudden go completely stone faced. She kept doing it over and over just to entertain Kyle and I. We were both in tears laughing. Love that girl. She only has a few weeks left of being an only child and I'm very glad Kyle will be on break to give her lots of attention with me. Not that with my mom visiting and Kyle's mom visiting after the baby is born won't make her spoiled rotten but it's just not the same as some one on one with mom and dad. She has stopped saying dad recently and it's pretty funny because she calls Kyle mom. Even if you tell her to say dad she will say mom. Kyle doesn't get such a kick out of it but I think it's hilarious. I don't really have anything exciting on the pregnancy front. I'm 34 weeks right now. This kid has 3 more weeks and his lease is up. Oh boy this is really pointless. Sorry for putting my 2 readers through this. I will be updating our Christmas festivities after it is over and hopefully a birth story shortly after that. May your days be merry and bright!

Why I love having a girl.

Lucy's beautiful curly brown hair is getting so long and it's been so fun being able to play around with it. Here are some of the things I've come up with so far.

French braids. These actually last a lot longer in her hair then I thought they would.

Probably my favorite. This one is great too for getting all her hair back when it needs to be washed but it's not bath time yet.

Love this too. She looks like such a precious little girl with these in!

But of course there's always the straight out of the bath look. (PS Look at those gorgeous brown eyes!)

So much fun. Not that I won't love having a little boy but he definitely won't be as fun to dress up! I can't wait until her hair grows more and she has long ringlets down her back like I did when I was little. Kyle asked me when I think I'll cut her hair for the first time and I said probably not until shes like 4. I love my sweet girl!

Long Day

One day last week I decided to pick Kyle some subway for lunch because it was his long day that he's gone from 730 to 630 then work from 8-midnight. After dropping it off to him Lucy and I were on our way home to put her down for a nap when this happened...

I was on the road right outside my apartment when I pulled up behind a BYU maintenance truck. As we were driving along the truck came to a stop which I didn't really think anything of because the grounds people are always stopping to pick up branches and stuff. So I stopped too so I could go around them. Little did I know that this truck had other plans and all of a sudden started going in reverse. My first instinct was to back up to because I thought they were only going back a couple of feet. I realized quickly that they had no idea that I was there and just kept on reversing. I was honking my horn like crazy but they couldn't hear me either. It wasn't too long before they hit me, luckily just side swiping because when I was frantically backing up I somehow swerved my car all the way to the curb. I have feeling that if they would have hit me head on things would have been a lot worse for me and my car. Someone was definitely looking out for me, my little girl in the back seat, and my little bun in the oven. From the sound of the impact they finally realized I was there and stopped. I'm happy to say that Lucy and I are completely fine. I went to the doctor later that day and the little man is fine as well. I did have some painful cramping the rest of the day but it's all ok now. The police came and took our accident reports and what not. The car still drove minus the flat tire but the maintenance crew was nice enough to put a spare on for me so I could make it home (about a block). The driver door didn't open though so until I dropped it off at the body shop a couple days later I was crawling over the passenger side to get in and out. The next couple days were spent on the phone with various insurance companies, doctors and car shops. So glad that part is over. Now my little neon is getting all pampered and we are rolling around in a rental for the time being. Words can't describe how grateful I am that this wasn't as serious as it could have been. Thinking about having my kids in the car during a serious accident is so terrifying. I hope that's something I never have to experience. As for now all is well!

In case you don't know what these trucks look like this is the closet I could find online.

Lucy's got the moves.

Lucy has a favorite show on Nickelodeon called "Bubble Guppies". It's just a goofy kid show but she absolutely loves the theme song. Every morning when it comes on she lights up and shakes her groove thing. Even if she's in the other room she runs to the tv and starts dancing. In fact just watching this video on the computer she is dancing away. It's a pretty hilarious way to start the day.

Lounging and watching her favorite show.

Proof the previous post is true.

 

 Talking to my Mom while she was in New York.

Some animal sounds.

 

 Most of her signs.

Learning to feed herself.

Very proud of herself.

We had an incident with my makeup.

Mommy's favorite little helper.

Trying out her new stroller with her baby.

Baby boy about 2 months ago.

Baby boy about a month ago.

Update

It has been quite some time and a lot has been going on.

I'm sure anyone reading this already knows that Lucy is getting a little brother in January. As far as the date goes that is so far unknown. For some reason they are having a hard time telling me from the ultrasounds. I can tell you it's sometime between Jan. 3rd-24th. Yes I realize that's a difference of 3 weeks. Whenever anyone asks my due date I just say January because I don't even know if it's the beginning, middle or end. Kind of obnoxious. I do have another ultrasound scheduled a week from Tuesday on the 4th and they are hoping to finally give me a date. This pregnancy has been a little different from Lucy. I've had a lot more back pain and just general stiffness all over. Depending on my due date I feel like I have a lot more movement than I did with Lucy at this point. Well that's only if I'm due at the end of the month. If I'm due at the beginning then I would say the movement is about the same. This whole pregnancy just kind of seems unreal because I don't even know how far along I am. Hopefully the mystery will be solved next week. We also got a 2nd crib for this little man and double stroller. I'm excited to use them both. He's going to be in our room because I don't want him to disrupt Lucy at night. Hopefully when we move in April he'll sleep decent and they can be in the same room then.

Lucy is just chugging along and putting up with me all day every day. We usually keep pretty busy. My pregnancy has been keeping me pretty stiff like I said before so we have been going on about hour long walks every morning to keep me moving and this little boy happy. Lucy enjoys it pretty well too because we have scouted out where all the neighborhood animals are so we will go find them. The weather has been so great lately too. Finally not too hot so we have been spending several hours outside everyday just hanging out on the playground outside and making friends with the other kids. She's usually the youngest out there that can walk but she keeps up pretty well. She just last week figured out how to go down the slide on her bum all by herself so that has been pretty fun for her. She is growing so fast and learning so much all the time. She's not really talking yet so we started doing signs with her and it is amazing how fast she picks them up. I think she's just so excited to be able to communicate better. So far the words she knows are please, thank you, eat, more, milk, all done and if you say "we're going to say a pray" she will fold her arms. Sometimes you don't even have to say it she just knows when we are going to pray and will fold her arms. Like when you put her in her high chair or when Kyle and I take her into her room at bed time as soon as we sit down she folds her arms for the family prayer. Goodness I love that girl. She has a hard time with saying please though. She great at saying it without even being prompted like when she wants a bite of something or when she hands me a book and will automatically sign please. The trouble comes because she doesn't quite get that saying please won't get you anything you want. Like when I'm on the phone and she wants to talk so she says please over and over but still doesn't get the phone. At least she says it I guess.  Her favorite thing right now is giving kisses. She's finally done with the "baby kisses" and actually smacks her lips instead of the wonderful open mouth usually with tongue kisses. Sometimes I'll be sitting on the couch or doing something and she just walks over to me with her lips puckered to get me a kiss without me asking for one. Or at night time I will lay her in bed and sing her a song then when I go to leave I'll say I love you and she will lift her head up and blow me a kiss then drift off to bed. Those two moments are probably the best moments a Mom has. She also loves giving her baby doll kisses and the pictures of animals in her books. Speaking of animals she's also working on her animal sounds. Right now she can do a dog, elephant and monkey. The elephant is my favorite because she basically just blows a high pitched raspberry and lifts her arm in the air. Such a clever little bug. She has her 15 month appt coming up on the 10th so I'm excited like always to see her stats. I know that she weighs 19 lbs but I want to see what percentile she's in. Hopefully she's finally broken the 5th percentile barrier! Well I doubt she has but I'm still curious.

Kyle is plugging along as well. He's been back in school for a month now and it seems to be going pretty well. Working hard like always. He's assigned to the Men's Volleyball team this semester and enjoys it ok. It's pretty laid back because the sport isn't in season so he doesn't have to worry about too many injuries because they aren't really practicing to hard or have any games that he has to get ready for and go to. He's still working in the Library as a janitor every night from 8pm to midnight. He is usually home by about 6 and then has to leave for work a couple hours later. At least we get to have dinner with him everyday. Poor guy is never home but he is making it possible for me to be home with Lucy and I sure do love him for it. At least there's an end in sight. He graduates in April and we will be moving to Portland and it couldn't come soon enough.

We don't have any plans made as of yet for going home and seeing family before the baby is born but hopefully that will happen. The goal is Thanksgiving since Christmas is not an option being so close to my due date. After he comes it is pretty unlikely that we will make it before we move back. I just have to meet my sweet little niece Kaeley before she is 7 months old!

The end.

Far too much.

So much has gone on since I've written on here and the thought of posting it all is kind of overwhelming. I guess I'll do my best! We are in Portland now and have been so for over a month. It has been an eventful month indeed. We have had a lot of fun spending time with family and everything. It's also been such a blessing to have such willing babysitters on demand. We have definitely been taking advantage of it too! Lucy is officially weaned too which is wonderful because she has gotten to have 2 sleepovers at my mom's house. One of those nights we got to go camping which would have been a disaster with her since she is refusing to walk. She can definitely walk she just chooses not to. I wouldn't really care other than the fact that I know how much she would love to be running around everywhere with her cousins. She will randomly stand up completely on her own and walk across the room like it's no big deal but won't use it as her main form of transportation. She's been able to take steps on her own for about 6 weeks now. Oh well she'll figure it out soon enough.

Anyways the biggest event of the last month was probably Lucy's birthday! I can't believe this year has gone by already. We celebrated by taking a family trip to the beach. The weather was absolutely amazing! I've never had that great of weather on the Oregon Coast. It's a very rare treat! I dressed Lucy warm because it was supposed to be cold and overcast so when we got there I just had to strip her to her diaper. We had a lot of fun together as a family. After the beach we went back to my mom's for some pizza and presents from her. The next day was Saturday and we had a birthday party for my side of the family. The party went really well minus Lucy's very large freak out when we tried to do the cake. I don't know what's wrong with my child but she does not like cake whatsoever. She loves ice cream though. The whole thing was a disaster but it all calmed. The next day we had the party for Kyle's side. She still refused to eat the cake but it was not accompanied with ridiculous amounts of screaming and tantrums. All in all her Birthday weekend was a huge success. She got away with a crazy amount of loot from the ones who love her most. Thank you to everyone who helped out and came to celebrate with us!

That's all I got for now and I'm too lazy to upload pictures so a picture post will shortly follow sometime when I feel like it.