Happenings

Since I put all the blogs I check on google reader, it's saved me lots of time, since I'm not jumping from one blog to the next. However, it means I rarely look at my own blog and therefore I don't notice that's it's been a while.

We have been busy though. There are walks to take, the garden to weed, friends to see, and water to play in! Bridget was less impressed with her little pool than I thought she'd be. Not that she didn't like it, she just acted like it was a bigger bathtub. She's just as thrilled with a bucket of water, and since it's much easier for me, well...the pool is just sitting in the garage.

In other news, although I'm sure pretty much all readers know this already, but we're having a little BOY! I'm super excited about it, but I just can't picture myself with a boy. It's a little weird. People have told me that girls clothes are so much more fun to buy than boy's. I totally disagree. I have just as hard of a time resisting buying all the little boy clothes as I did with girls.

The beginning of this month we celebrated my mom and dad's 25th anniversary by going to Biaggi's with all their siblings, and then to my aunt and uncles for dessert. We also celebrated my brother's 20th birthday (sorry, no pics), and between those two and Father's Day, Bridget has learned that grandpa will feed her ice cream. :)

Almost 8 months

*Sigh*

Our little pumpkin will be 8 months on Tuesday. She's growing up too fast. Time, please stop for a while.

She's made great strides in the past month.

-crawling. Anywhere and everywhere

-pulling herself up on everything. Nothing under 2 feet is safe anymore.

-trying to stand up in the middle of the room. Def hasn't gotten anywhere near standing, but she attempts it anyway.

-is a CHUNK. Seriously. I'm guessing she weighs close to 20 pounds.

-has shown a recent fascination with babies. Hopefully this liking them continues.

-LOVES to be outside and instantly heads towards any open door

-trying all sorts of new foods: cookies, cereal, popcorn, and lots of other stuff she finds on the floor (no wonder she loves to be under the kitchen table)

-went jeeping for the first time. Fell sound asleep after about 5 min. How she stayed asleep I have no idea.

-Discovered her voice...for real. And now we hear her chattering loudly at all time of the day (or night). Makes for interesting times in church.

-Got her 2 top teeth and a bottom tooth in the same week. Thankfully it only took a couple days or I might have given away for a while. :)

4 years ago...

Happy Anniversary babe! I'm so thankful for the past 4 years!

Love you!

she's just so entertaining!

I've watched this so many times, and I still think it's hilarious!

A post from Bridget

Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of posts. Mom has been very tired so she lays around a lot, and I've been busy getting into things. I'm mobile now, and I can get around pretty fast with my crawl/scoot/worm like moves!

Mom and dad forget I can move real fast now and leave lots of stuff on the floor. I've had lots of fun getting into wrapping paper, plastic bags, folded laundry, food, magazines, and all sorts of no-no's.

I love it when mom takes me shopping in my stroller. I sit and happily scream and anyone who looks my way. :)

I started piano lessons from Aunt Wendi, and they're lots of fun!

I think Uncle Luke is hilarious, and love it when he gives me attention. Somehow whatever he does is WAY more funny that when other people do the same thing...

I like to snuggle with daddy the best. Sometimes I'll let mom rock me, but mostly I like to snuggle dad.

Mom and dad drug me all the way to Princeville one night to see Mark and Kate. I had to go to bed in my car seat while they all had fun decorating Easter eggs.

There's a new baby calf in our back yard and I love to go outside and see them. Dad repeats over and over. "Cow, moo, cow, moo"

Sometimes I hang out with my friends. Judah is lots bigger than me, but I like to watch everything he does so I can learn :)

Daddy teaches me words when he gets home from work. We've been working on: mommy, daddy, Bridget, baby, grandma, grandpa, and my numbers.

I can almost sit up by myself. But who would want to sit still when there's so many things and places to explore?!

In other news, mommy and I had been growing lots. I'm 7 months now, and already wearing the clothes mom bought me for this fall. I guess we'll have to go shopping some more! Yay! My little sibling is growing too, and the Dr says it is measuring 3 weeks bigger than it should be. I'm not too worried though. I eat LOTS of food so I'll be a huge chunk before it's born!

It starts early

Nesting, that is. With Bridget I was hoping nesting would kick in early. It did, somewhat, eventually. I cleaned out every closet, cupboard and drawer in my house. And I was happy.

Now I'm only 13 weeks (or somewhere close to that) and I have this overwhelming urge to clean out.

Case in point: the other night, (after informing Luke I wanted to buy a bookcase for the living room) I was worrying to Luke about what to do with cribs/beds/pack n plays once that baby is born. Do we buy another crib, put the baby in a pack n play, put Bridget in our queen sized bed and the baby in the crib, buy a toddler bed for Bridget...?

It was quickly decided (by me) that Bridget will stay in her crib and the baby will go elsewhere. I really can't put my little girl in a queen bed by herself when there's a good chance she won't even be able to walk by the time she needs to go in it. Same story with the toddler bed.

Then comes the (ie: my) problem with guest room that we'll move Bridget's crib into. There's already a queen bed and a dresser in there. We have to get rid of something to fit the crib in. We're also going to need another dresser. All my clothes are in the guest room and Luke's are in our room. Bridget's clothes are in her closet, but I won't be able to fit her clothes and the baby's clothes in there. So we discussed what to do with the guest room bed and dresser. There was no good option.

After a few moments of silence I commented that we have too much furniture and we need to get rid of some of it. Luke asked what I wanted to get rid of.

I couldn't think of anything. Except for the fact that while I was desperate to get rid of furniture, I was also needing to buy 2 more pieces of furniture!

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have the need to go clean out the kitchen cupboards.

I lied

Just for the record, when I wrote the post about the van and said I wasn't pregnant, I was, but didn't know it.

Just so you all don't think I lied on purpose. :)