Swimming

We went to Lava today with some friends.  It was AWESOME.  I can't actually swim yet, but everyone else got in and it was soooo fun!  P loved going down the kiddy slide, and jumping into the arms of Seth, our friend.  I didn't make E wear clothes at the pool and she loved every second of it.  P was a swaddle kind of kid and he could have spent every second curled up in a ball.  E spends a lot of time with her legs straight and since it was so hot she stretched her arms out too.  It's funny how they're different.  He wasn't a pacifier kid and she DEFINITELY is.  He didn't want to have anything to do with nursing and she loves it. It's so fun getting to know her.  I think she and P look exactly the same (you can see pictures of P at this same age here).  She's a little darker in her hair and skin, and she's a little hairier than he was (it's super cute now, but will be a bummer later in life).

Not his greatest smile...

Some sun a day keeps the jaundice away...

Being silly...

My Life is a Gift EDIT

For whatever reason, I've been singing this song at least a few times a day since E was born.  It's so pretty, and I want it to go in her (& P's) room.  So, I made it into subway art!  I already have a frame that I'm looking forward to putting it into.  If you'd like it just email me and I'll send the file to you.  

EDIT:  I didn't notice that two of the fonts were the same.  I also reworked some other things I didn't like. 

Miss Lina's Ballerinas

I read this book and think it's divine.  If I could have a choice, I'd have E's life feel like this book.

More

I don't want her to get jaundice, so I sit her in front of the window for a few minutes.  She's soakin in the sun.      

 P talked a lot about the different things he wanted to do with E when she got here, and one of them was watch movies with her.  Now she can.

This started out as kisses, and at this point is now just blowing on her face and laughing.  

A few more of E

Here are a couple more pictures...

In these I think she looks like a flapper with her headband and "fur" wrapped around.

                                               
                                                 

She's Finally Here!

July 21, 2011, at 12:55 in the afternoon Emma Gray was born.  She weighed 6lb 14oz and was 20 inches long.  She's a superstar.  We don't have super great pictures of her yet, but we'll put more and more up.  P's been pretty good happy about the whole thing, so far.  We'll see how it goes.  She has really pretty skin and dark hair.  Labor was a dream, because I had an epidural and everything worked the way it was supposed to.  I pushed 3 times and she was out.  It was fantastic.

Sparklers & Update

J bought some sparklers discounted after the 4th and we had  BLAST with them.

Baby Update: E still hasn't shown up, yet.  She's 4 days overdue, today, but Thursday is my next induction date.  If the pitocin still doesn't work, I'll have to have a c-section, which is not something I ever wanted, but we'll just see what happens!  I'll keep you all updated!

4th of July

We went to Malad (like always), for the 4th of July and had a blast (of course)!  P didn't really get the concept of getting the candy off the ground in the middle of the road, so he cried a little because of us all yelling at him to go get the candy.  It was cute.  He then started out just getting the candy one by one and by the end of the parade he was stealing candy from other kids...We had a great day, and P loved the fireworks at the end of the day.  Grandma Bodily bought P a matching shirt (matching with her) and they wore jeans & red converse shoes for their 4th of July outfits.

Groucho Marx

P discovered one day he could drink chocolate milk with no milk...I've never seen a kid so in heaven.  Then when I took his cup full of chocolate syrup away, he just licked the remaining chocolate off the table.  It's been a fight ever since to make him put milk in his chocolate milk.

Also, I'm now pretty antsy for E to get here...my friend Linda says E wants to grow out her hair before she shows up so she looks less like an old man and more like a little girl.  I might work on trying to check off some stuff on my 25 things list today to pass the time...

Home from Hospital--Emma's Still Inside

We went into the hospital this morning, took the pill, walked around for a few hours, got measured (had increased to 1 1/2 centimeters...), started the pitocin, and 2 hours later was no different.  My body seems to have a hard time with medication--sleeping medicine doesn't do anything, and it seems like pitocin doesn't either.  So, they sent me home and we'll have to wait until E shows up on her own.  I was disappointed...but it'll be fine.  She'll get here when she gets here.  It'll give me some time to make some ruffle bums for her.

Thanks everyone who sent encouraging texts, etc.  I really appreciate every bit of it, and I'll keep you updated!

Oceans Eleven

With P, I used the Andy Warhol quote for waiting for P to come, but as I was editing E's picture, all I could hear was the bril line from Oceans Eleven with the Mormon twins at their track where the one guy says to the other "Waiting, Sweetheart, just waiting..."  The "sweetheart" isn't actually a name of affection in this instance, and while I am SO excited for her to get here, I feel the same facetious tone , so if you don't know the line from the movie, read the line with some sass.  The first image is 2 days before P showed up, and we'll see how long it takes before E shows...

Baby Update

Went to the dr's today--I'm not any more dilated than I was before (bummer), and someone's getting surgery done when I'm supposed to be induced, so my induction date has been changed from July 6th to July 7th.  I'll go in at 6am, take some pill to ready my body, walk around for 3 hours, and then they'll give me pitocin to get going.  All of that is if she doesn't come before.

A little ride...turned into a big ride

We went on a 4-wheeler ride that was only supposed to last an hour or so and it ended up taking 4 hours because we got SUPER lost!  We went off-roading (not really on purpose), it got dark (it was then 10:30 at night), and we couldn't find our way out and got stuck inside a fence right next to the road to our house, so we walked 1.2 miles home.  I had contractions the last hour of the riding part and the whole walking part...but I knew they'd stop as soon as we'd get home, and they did.  It rained and hailed a little, but P was a great sport about the whole thing!  It was certainly a fun adventure!  Anyway, I got lots of good pictures on our ride! (some of them are blurry but I like them, anyway)  You can see that there were sunny and rainy parts of the ride...the sun peaked out of the clouds on and off the whole night.

Drive In Movie

We are pros at drive-in movies.  I love them so flippin much, and I'm so glad J's a genius so figures out how to make it as comfy as possible...  I REALLY wanted to go to the drive-in last summer when J's whole family was here, but lots of stuff happened and the drive-in wasn't one of them...SO, when we saw Rio was showing, we KNEW we had to go.

Here is what we brought:
P's old crib mattress
3 couch cushions
Black Panther (J's mexican blanket)
The Big Blanket (I don't know why J calls it that, but he does...it's his denim blanket I made for him for Father's Day last year)
P's quilt (again, don't know why we call it that because I didn't make it for P...I made it for me, but somehow he gets to sleep with it every night)
All of the bed pillows in the house
Extra socks just in case
2 liter of soda
Water bottles full of ice
Candy

At the drive-in we bought their food (but it wasn't that great, so we won't do it again), set up the mattress behind us in the back of the subaru leaning up against the chairs (that were leaned up as far as they would go), put the couch cushions under us, put a blanket down, and put 2 of the other blankets on top of us.  We stayed warm, and enjoyed the food and movie!  P got kinda antsy 20 minutes to the end and started to climb around, but other than that he watched the whole thing!  It was a blast!

(This picture isn't great, but you can see our set-up)

You Look Great! (NOPE)

P chooses his clothes, often. That's fine--most of the time he looks great.  Most of his shirts are blue, and you can't really go wrong with jeans or khakis...sometimes I wish he'd wear different shoes, but most of the time it's ok.  Not today--today was a disaster.  Thanks to J, he only walked around the house and sat in the car in this outfit, but there was NOTHING I could do to persuade him to change his clothes.  My only word for what he looked like (other than ridiculous) was a gigolo...and that really doesn't even apply.  He just HAD to wear his cowboy boots (usually soooo cute...today, not so much), and I got a pendant for my necklace with E's name on it, and he not only wanted her pendant by HIS, but he wanted to wear it too! (yay for happy about her coming....not so yay about how he looked...).  He had his Buzz shirt (one of 3) and royal blue gym shorts on, so the combination was sooo ugly!  I didn't take a picture of it, so I recreated it on paint.  Enjoy.

Boise

We went & visited some friends from college in Boise and had a BLAST.  Love them.  We went to the temple grounds and let the kids play (on the grass and in the fountain), went swimming (divine...), and just played lots and lots!  Tori (the little girl) had a power wheels (jealous), and P had a GREAT time with it!  He figured out how to go forwards & backwards and just drove around and around (as you can see in the video).  It was so fun to hang out with them and for P to have a friend.  So glad we went!

P.S. If you enjoyed that video, please appreciate that it took so flippin long to load that I almost smacked J in the face for his horrible snoring, which I usually make him roll over for, but couldn't because then he'd tell me to get off the computer but I couldn't because the video was STILL LOADING...grrrrrrrrrr.......

Going for a Drive

Good Father's Day Videos

The 1st video is when we went to Boise last week and the 2nd one is from last summer.

Happy Father's Day!

Divine Dream

The blog I've created for the stuff that I'm loving that doesn't have to do with the family is adivinedream.blogspot.com.  It isn't set up completely yet, but I want to keep posting the food stuff, so I'm going to post even though it's still in the creative beginnings.  Go there today for a great bread recipe I made yesterday!

Emma Update

I had a dr's appointment yesterday and I'll have an appointment every Wednesday from now until she shows up.  I got to have an ultrasound because I hadn't gained any weight and wasn't measuring any bigger from last month (which even though I've seen NO emotion this whole 8 months from my dr he got freaked out about, which freaked me out too), in which we found out that she is just fine!  A good healthy size--she's exactly 6 pounds, and I thought she was supposed to gain a pound a week (which made me want to die), but it's closer to a half a pound a week (an ounce a day is more exact), so that's a lot better.  We tried to have her gender checked again but she was being modest (actually, everything's just so squished together), so J still thinks we're having a boy...whatever.  What we did learn though is that her legs are long (measuring 36 1/2 weeks instead of 36), her head is little (measuring 35 weeks [just like P was...]), her belly's right on what it should be, and there's still a good amount of amniotic fluid inside.  We got to see her face, but the picture is ridiculous in that I can't almost tell it's a person.  If she does look like her picture though, she has J's straight nose (which J HATES), so she might look just like J ("poor kid" -J).  We'll see.  I don't have the scanner hooked up, so I can't post the picture, but maybe (yeah right...)

I haven't started being checked to see how dilated I am (which I was really hoping...), but we've scheduled her induction for 7am on Wednesday, July 6th, but I'm kinda thinking she might be a 4th of July baby--let's be honest, though...I really have no idea.

I took a tour of the hospital last week and asked if they had a jacuzzi I could be in during labor (not when she comes out, just during contractions--it was a dream during P), and they said no, but since I requested it they got a portable tub.  What service!

That's the update!

P.S. That picture was taken yesterday (in front of the stove--super classy, right?), and I'm wearing a shirt I got in Boise last week for $7 at Anthro.