Everyday Life

This is just a bunch of stuff from our everyday lives. Hope it isn't boring! Fall Foliage
One of the many Squirrels

Alexis's dance class

We are really getting excited about our house going up. They are just about done with the electrical and getting ready to finish the outside and put up the sheet rock.

It is fun to see it all coming together. Living Room

Backyard

Colbie's room

Alexis's Room

Garage and Laundry room

Basement

This is Colbie in her new present from Shaun's Family. It is this cool chair that even newborn babies can sit up in. We put her in it and she smiles. She must think it's fun. They also got us a cool snap on tray so we can use it as a booster seat. Thanks for the awesome gift!

Poor Colbie! Mom was so embarrassed! While sitting in the waiting room at Alexis's Dance class Colbie had a poopy "blowout". I took her into the adjacent bathroom to change her. I realized I only had pants in the diaper bag and not an extra onesie. I decided to try and salvage the outfit by cleaning it off with a wipe. Well...... Colbie had other plans. She peed all over. I came out of the bathroom with Colbie in just these pants to a waiting room of smiling and laughing mothers a few of them said "blowout?" I just smiled and nodded and said I didn't have an extra outfit. I sure felt like a mother of a newborn... totally unprepared without the extra outfit!

Alexis sure loves preschool. She goes everyday from 12:15 to 3:15. The teachers are great. Alexis's favorite thing to do right now is art. I don't have room for the several drawings she does a day. She also does more art drawings when she gets home from preschool. It is cute to see how she is with her little friends. I've noticed that she is the leader of the group. When I drop her off several of the little kids yell "Alexis!" and gather she then facilitates a game of tag until the teacher comes. It will be interesting to see if that changes as she gets older or if she continues to be outgoing and social. Her class is pretty diverse and she has some Spanish speaking friends. She has taken to making up her own Spanish words. Her new word she made up on the way to preschool was "donprecito". She was convinced it was a real word. She loves to copy other hairstyles of the little girls in her class. If I don't get them just the same she gets pretty upset. She is really particular about her hair and clothes. I can just see the teenage years coming!

So far we are adjusting pretty well to having two kids. It has been a pretty smooth adjustment with having an older child to help out. This week (week 3 of having a newborn) has hit us a bit though. We are pretty tired lately. It is totally worth it and such a blessing to have Colbie here though. We all went on a walk tonight. It felt liberating to not be pregnant! It was a beautiful fall day and the trees and flowers are just so vibrant her in Nebraska. I love the fall!

Imaginary Friends, Various other activites

For those that want to see how huge I am now. Here is a pregnancy photo
Alexis and her new bedding a steal of a deal from Wal-mart.

Winter Quarters Temple

My latest creations

These didn't turn out so well. The pattern was hard to read

For awhile Alexis has had an imaginary friend named Julianna. Julianna sometimes does naughty things and so Alexis has to go and have talks with her or put her on time out. It is so funny to hear her talking to the air. As she has gotten older the imaginary friends have expanded to a Grandma who is a chain smoker and won't quit no matter how much Alexis reprimands her. Today Alexis was telling me about her whole pretend family. What imaginations 4 year olds have. I love it! Her imaginary family consisted of a Grandpa who like her real Grandpa drives a Tahoe. His name is Grandpa Will and her imaginary Grandma is Grandma Pill. They have an aunt named Sarah (her real aunt) and she has a baby named Jan (her real grandma's name). The funny thing is that they all don't have brains. Except for Grandpa who she said went to the doctor and got surgery to have a brain implanted. Later today I heard her saying that her grandpa kept saying stupid. I told her it's not nice to pretend that and she said "remember mom they just don't have brains that's why!"

Lately we have been getting stuff ready for our baby to come. We still need to order a car seat and get some furniture to put clothes in and change the baby on, but I have gotten all the baby clothes washed. For my birthday Shaun got me a few crochet patterns from a website called Etsy. I have been making various hats and shoes. It has been fun. Tomorrow we are going to the temple and I have been trying to find a dress that will fit me while I'm pregnant. The temple here doesn't rent out clothes. I think I found one that might work. It will be really nice to go to the temple with the Branch presidency and the wives. Saturday we are hoping to go to the new Harry Potter movie if we can get a babysitter. I am pretty tired lately and my feet have swelled up considerably. So far I'm measuring exactly on my due date. The baby has already turned upside down and dropped quite a bit. It's nice for my ribs not to feel as cramped but now It's harder to walk! I have had a great pregnancy other than a lot of ligament type pain when walking and sleeping. I didn't even throw up at all with this one! Our last Doctor appointment the doctor was saying the heartbeat sounded like a boy and wanted to know what he had told us we were having at our ultra sound. We told him a girl and he said he has been wrong before. We still think it will be a girl, but it would be quite a shock if she ends up being a boy! It is hard to imagine we are having another little baby. I am so out of the baby mode with having a 4 1/2 year old. We are getting really excited to have our baby girl here!