Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Chalk It Up!!

So I came home from work on Monday and Abbi had discovered the chalk in my church bag for my lessons. I didn't want her to ruin it (let's face it, anything you don't want a 19-month-old to touch and they gets their hands on is ruined) so I took her outside with some big crayola chalk. She kinda got the idea of what you are suppose to do with it, but she likes having mom and dad draw stuff and then carrying all the chalk in her arms, refusing to share. She recognizes stars now, but pronounces it with kinda a "g" at the front. Its cute! We went out yesterday and today and drew some more! Here are a couple of pictures we took!

"GSTAR"


I wrote Abbi, Dad, Baxter, Mom and Josh wrote smells after Abbi's name.




"Chalk"

Running towards dad as he tries to take a picture of us.

I totally love this picture! Its totally "in the moment"!

Not sure how I was bending like that! We had a hard time getting Abbi to take a picture with me!

This is what we ended up with!
So I'm 22 weeks now! Baby Girl #2 is in the 74% for weight! JOY! Another big baby! I have to go in AGAIN in a week for another ultra sound. This will be #5 within 7 weeks. I only had one with Abbi to find out that she is a girl. I had one last week and now they are thinking the hemotoma has grown... not sure how that happens or what that means. It may just be something with the angles of how it was shot. I'm not too worried about it, but I'll keep you posted!!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

So today is our 4 year wedding anniversary! I can't believe we have been married for only 4 years. It seems like we've been married for way longer than that!! Josh is an amazing husband and I can't imagine life without him! He is so good with Abbi and helping out around the house!Abbi also turned 19 months yesterday! Woo-hoo!! Here are some quick updates on everyone!


Josh
Josh is in his second semester of nursing school. He really loves being in school and learning all he can about his future career! We can't wait for him to be done in December 2010! He is also in 3, yes I said 3, fantasy football leagues. His work is doing one, his friends are doing one and then there's the "FHE" that involves friends, wives and kids (I'm in that one and my team name is Sailor Mouth). He is still at University of Phoenix and he hates that! He would like a new job, but just hasn't found anything that works. Josh also purchased the new Madden Football game for Xbox 360 and is pretty disciplined about playing it. He stayed home from work on Monday because of an ear infection. He was able to clean the entire house (good surprise) and also manage to squeeze in a few games :O)


Julia
I've been back to school for about 3 1/2 weeks and I really dislike it! With all the crap I've been dealing with my pregnancy and some changes they've made at school, this has been really hard year. I've had to spend a lot of my "prep" time away from school at doctor appointments, which makes it hard to keep up on my grading and lesson planning. I had to go in for a Level 2 ultra sound and they said I have a large hemotoma (like a big blood clot) and its going to take AT LEAST another 4 weeks to drain! That means AT LEAST 4 weeks of bleeding, joy! And repeat visits to the doc to make sure I'm still ok!! But I'm trying to take it easy so that I don't have to end up on bed rest! But on a good note, I was able to talk to my principal (who's been amazing with everything) and they are looking at hiring a part-time math teacher and they are going to take away one of my classes so that I don't have to teach all day without a prep (since I teach block I have a two hour prep every other day). This will be EXTREMELY helpful!!


Abbi
Abbi had a hard time at first going back to the baby sitters, but has since adjusted. Its kinda comical in the mornings dropping her off. She waits until the Sara (her sitter) opens the door and then tries to do this pathetic don't leave me here cry. She's fine 2 minutes after I leave. She also figured out how to climb out of the playpin and now has to sleep in the crib at Sara's. We bought her these new emerica skate shoes that are super cute and she plays with them all day long. She puts them on, takes them off, puts them on, etc. She also thinks she needs to blow her nose any time she sees kleenex or toilet paper. She's growing so fast, I can't believe she'll be 2 soon. Oh and she's been going to nursery and loving it! The nursery leader says she is very curious and likes to climb on everything! I told her good luck :O) She is sleeping through the nights again and we are taking her off the bottle. I know, I know, I'm a bad mom for not doing this sooner, but she's so stubborn and this summer was really hard with my first trimester. So we decided that since we are going to Blanding, UT this weekend, we are just going to do it and get it over with! Abbi is also starting the "I can do everything myself" stage, so things are a little more interesting.



BABY #2
Baby #2 needs to be here now! (I'm only 19 weeks and ready to be done) :O) We found out about 2 weeks ago that its a...... GIRL! It was during #2 of the 3 ultrasounds I had in the last few weeks, the tech was able to tell us it was a girl! Josh couldn't stop smiling and I became irritated! With this being a completely OPPOSITE pregnancy than Abbi's, I was for sure it was a boy. Everyone else was for sure it was a boy! So then I began bugging the ultrasound tech to make sure she was sure and asking all types of annoying questions, like on a scale of 1 to 10, how positive are you and what exactly are you looking at and what not. Then when I was waiting to see Dr. Huish, Josh was still smiling in the waiting room and I was mad. Completely opposite reactions when we found out about Abbi. I also hid it from a lot of people that I knew it was a girl until my level 2 ultrasound confirmed it. Seeing her dance around during the level 2 was so much fun and I've since gotten over the fact that I'm having another girl and I'm excited! We are working on a list of names and have narrowed some down! We are probably going to end up naming her when she is born.


That's it for now! Off to pack for our trip to Blanding! I'll post pictures later!