A Few Weeks of Action

The last few weeks have been action-packed, and we have been enjoying every minute of it. Here are a few of the pictures from all of our fun adventures (all of which took place in less than 2 weeks).

My brother's wedding reception in Utah

Camping with the girls

Pretending to be a chipmunk. I love her expression. :)

The Fourth of July was a blast! The day consisted of pancake breakfast, bbq, swimming, pinata, marshmallow shootout, second bbq, and fireworks show in the evening.

Roasting marshmallows in Grandma's backyard. (And "sort-of-a-belly-pic" for Denise. :))

2.5 weeks to go! Yea.

Well, we will see. When I went into the doc on Friday, he said the baby was stationed at a -4 and that nothing at all is happening so far. We may have an August baby instead. :)

Issues

So, blogger has not been my friend lately. Let us see if I can actually post something successfully this time. (Making comments on others' blogs is useless too, but that is another story).

The happenings of late have been many:

-Oldest daughter finished Kindergarten

-We went to same daughter's tri-annual eye exam and need to patch again for the next 4 months.

-One month left until new family member's arrival :)

-Husband celebrated his 30th birthday (on which I tried to post about, but was unsuccessful :()

-Went to Utah for a short 3 days to celebrate my youngest brother's wedding (Manti, Ut Temple)

-Planning a camping trip this weekend and fun 4th of July activities

-Little man will be two in 3 weeks (he counted to 10 in the correct order for the first time today, actually up to 13. :))

-I have been taking the kids to our pool tons lately since it has been hot, but today it actually rained all day (strange for CA in late June). Both girls have learned to jump into the pool without anyone catching them. We're finally making progress!

-Oldest daughter lost first tooth one week ago

-Second daughter hit major growth spurt, but it seems from only the waist up (she wears size 3T bottom clothing and 5T top clothing)

-Trip to Utah reaffirmed to me how much I just love all my family and miss them so much!

Hopefully I will have a post soon on the new little one (but not too soon ;)).

There is one in every family...

...And our oldest daughter would be that one.

*Forehead glued twice,

*Forehead stitched once,

*And now a fractured wrist.

*And she just turned 6?

Life is always exciting with our highly energetic daughter! :)

Two conversations

This past week I was able to stay at my husband's parents' home for oldest daughter's Spring Break. I snuck a baby monitor into the room the girls were sleeping in because sometimes I like to listen in on their bedtime conversations. Here were two of them:

#1

*Younger daughter: I know what the name of our baby brother should be?

Older daughter: What?

Younger daughter: Sha-conga.

Older daugher: Oh.

Younger daughter: Actually let's just name him " " (same name as current little brother).

Older daughter: But then they would get mixed up.

Younger daughter: No, because one would be a big " ", and the other would be a little " ".

Older daughter: Yea, and one would look different, and the other one would look...different too!

:) That makes perfect sense to me.

#2 (This was the second night we were there. This conversation stems from the fact that they thought they heard a strange noise in their room earlier, so they were feeling nervous going to bed.)

Older daughter: I feel homesick. That means I am sick of being somewhere that is not my home.

Younger daughter: Me too.

Older daughter: I like being at my own house, in my own bed, where there is peace and love. ;) But when I feel scared, the spirit can comfort me, and when I feel better, then I know it was the spirit making me feel that way. And my pet dog (the stuffed animal she had in bed) can comfort me too.

I am glad that she thinks our home is a nice place to be.

But as soon as we were driving away from Grandma's house, they were telling me they missed being there already.

Fun News

Little Man is going to have a brother. Middle child was really hoping for a sister so she was a little disappointed initially, but once she saw the pics from the ultrasound, she seemed okay about it. I am just happy that everything looks healthy. Although it is a nice bonus that Little Man will have a younger brother to do boy things with. :) I thought the picture was cute of his leg. ;)

And it is a...

Any guesses?

A playmate for Little Man? or is brother going to be surrounded by sisters?

My sister is also staying with us this week and it has sure been wonderful having her around. What a wonderful family I have.

Funny

Oldest daughter: "Mom, I lifted up my arms and my shirt just purped up!" (Meaning, I need to buy her longer shirts; interesting way to say it though ;)).

Middle child: " I ate all my lunch and didn't leave a single chuck." Hmm. Okay.

I just love the things kids say.

Speaking of kids, my due date is July 28th. So my current youngest and this one will be 2 years apart by a few days. Hopefully they won't share the same birthday. That stinks for a kid. :)