Pictures of Gavin

Every time I try to get pictures of Gavin without fail he scratches or bumps his head just before I'm about to set the appointment. I normally take the boys to JCPenney's to get their pictures taken but they don't "edit" any of their pictures. So you are left with whatever they take. Which is a good and bad thing. The pictures you get are true to life pictures. But little blemishes like a scratch on their face I'd like to have removed if possible. Enter Deanna. I happened to mention this to her and she recommend a place that her friend had gotten her child's picture taken at. She contacted her friend and got the name... fotofly in Draper, UT. I looked them up on their website and they looked really cute. For $79 you get all the pictures from the session on a CD. NO other charges. No sitting fee, no additional charge for extra people in the picture (immediate family only). And no obligation to buy any prints. Of course they sweeten the pot by offering same day prints for only $4.00 ($3.00 if you order in the first week). I liked their concept and their photo gallery was really cute. Unlike JCPenny's when you look at their photo gallery the pictures could have been taken at ANY JCPenny's. Also I liked that their backgrounds and props weren't cheesy. They had natural looking backgrounds that weren't curtains (well two are curtains but they are super contemporary looking). So I booked a session that worked with our schedule and within a few days of being told of this place I had Gavin's pictures taken.

I must say I am really happy with how they turned out. The girl was awesome with Gavin. From the get go she had him smiling (which if you know Gavin he doesn't smile until he assesses the situation and deems the person worthy of a smile). I really did love the backgrounds.

So take a look:







Gavin is such an awesome little kid. He totally understands what we are saying to him. He loves to help and is always taking care of his garbage and clothes. Well the garbage thing is a little annoying because he throws EVERYTHING away. He's done with a bowl; into the garbage. We'll have to hide our keys, when Zack was in this phase my mom and Bob lost their keys. (we found mom's keys a year or so later -- bob's are still missing). And I did find my phone floating in the toilet. That was a fun week. Luckily Bob has a work phone and my Aunt Jolene was getting a new phone and gave me her old one. Gavin loves talking on the phone. He can say ball (which was his first real word). And he says lo lo lo on the phone. He calls Zack-- Kah. When it's nap or bed time I ask him if he wants a bottle which he gunts a yes and nods his head. Then I say you want to go to bed? And again grunts and nods his head. For the most part he just rolls over and goes right to sleep. His naps are about 2-3 hours long and he totally sleeps through the night. He's a rock star!

Gavin we love you so much and you are such a wonderful addition to our family. You love brother so much. You are definitely a momma's boy but when you need special attention Daddy is your favorite. We love your little personality. You are growing up way to fast but it's been so much fun to watch!

Do the Wave

It's been a pretty crazy month in our household... have I said that before!?

Zack is still potty training... tell me it will end soon. We may have to try another tactic because the only thing that seems to be working is letting him run around the house naked. And out in public that is no bueno. There was one night we accidentally put him to bed with his underwear on and surprisingly the next morning he was dry. He does good for a little bit then the next thing we know he's naked. It's just a never ending cycle. But he's only 2 so he's okay. Now if in 2 more years I'm still saying the same thing, we are in trouble.

Gavin has gotten his first tooth... make that first two teeth. Both are on the bottom. Now it really hurts when he bites your finger. He actually handled it really well minus the 30 minutes it took to realize there was a tooth there. Hardly any drooling, fever or runny nose. After the teeth came in he started getting a fever so that was odd. He's also had what looked like baby acne round one of his eyes a few months ago. It comes and goes so I wasn't too concerned. Then the other eye started getting it. Now he's got what looks like a rash on his eyes, forehead, some on his back and also where his diaper is. Now I'm worried. I've called the doctor and we go in on Tuesday to have a look at it. I kind of hope it sticks around so we can finally get it taken care of.

Which leads me to the next fun thing. Our car is having troubles. Beginning of September I was driving home from being out all day and just as I was turning from the highway to another street my car died! D.I.E.D In the middle of the intersection. And this particular intersection is not a fun one. Normally only 2-3 cars make the light so with my dead car in the intersection trying to turn left I had some very unhappy people behind me. 3 lights it took me to turn. Ugh! It was a nightmare. It was also a day that I was late getting home to pick up the husband and his friends so we could go to a BYU Football game. So needless to say we left the car on the side of the road and got it later. And wouldn't you know it when Bob picked it up later that day it worked fine. Didn't die once. It hadn't had a problem since until my birthday. This time I had my cousin with me so she could confirm the fun ride we had home. Bob was home so he took it out for a spin and got it to fail that time. The next day we took it to the dealership to have it diagnosed and wouldn't you know they couldn't get it to fail. Two days they had it without a problem... ugh. I hate faulty cars.

On top of that our computer hard drive crashed and burned. It was fine one minute then I got the blue screen of death. I tried to restart the computer and it started making a horrible noise. My brother in law and brother both looked at and confirmed that it wad dead. Luckily I had backed up all my pictures last month so what wasn't backed up was still on my camera. Unfortunetly a few movies and music that we downloaded hadn't been backed up. But what is upsetting me the most is all my "favorites" are gone. I had a awesome catalog of crafts and cool websites that I had found. Oh well if that's all we had lost it makes us pretty lucky.

And since all things come in Three's. Our faucet started leaking and we had to drop $130 to get that fixed. The fun of being a homeowner :)

Now my news....

I am finally employeed. I am the newest member of Bed Bath and Beyond.... yeah I'm excited too. It will be fun. Every once in a while I'll get to work with my good friend Sharma so that will rock. The pay isn't that great but I will work mostly late afternoons/Evenings so I'll be home with the kids but still bring in a little bit of money. I did interview with Nike the day I started at BB&B so we are crossing our fingers they pay more and offer me a job. I 1/2 way interviewed with Discover but they called just as I had gotten Gavin in his car seat which he proceeded to have a meltdown when I left the room to take the call. Needless to say when I had to get off the phone with them and asked the women to call me back in an hour or so she didn't :(. Which makes me sad. Discover would have been perfect for me because they pay more and they had a shift from 5-1am. Oh well, I tried.

Do the wave

It's been a pretty crazy month in our household... have I said that before!?

Zack is still potty training... tell me it will end soon. We may have to try another tactic because the only thing that seems to be working is letting him run around the house naked. And out in public that is no bueno. There was one night we accidentally put him to bed with his underwear on and surprisingly the next morning he was dry. He does good for a little bit then the next thing we know he's naked. It's just a never ending cycle. But he's only 2 so he's okay. Now if in 2 more years I'm still saying the same thing, we are in trouble.

Gavin has gotten his first tooth... make that first two teeth. Both are on the bottom. Now it really hurts when he bites your finger. He actually handled it really well minus the 30 minutes it took to realize there was a tooth there. Hardly any drooling, fever or runny nose. After the teeth came in he started getting a fever so that was odd. He's also had what looked like baby acne round one of his eyes a few months ago. It comes and goes so I wasn't too concerned. Then the other eye started getting it. Now he's got what looks like a rash on his eyes, forehead, some on his back and also where his diaper is. Now I'm worried. I've called the doctor and we go in on Tuesday to have a look at it. I kind of hope it sticks around so we can finally get it taken care of.

Which leads me to the next fun thing. Our car is having troubles. Beginning of September I was driving home from being out all day and just as I was turning from the highway to another street my car died! D.I.E.D In the middle of the intersection. And this particular intersection is not a fun one. Normally only 2-3 cars make the light so with my dead car in the intersection trying to turn left I had some very unhappy people behind me. 3 lights it took me to turn. Ugh! It was a nightmare. It was also a day that I was late getting home to pick up the husband and his friends so we could go to a BYU Football game. So needless to say we left the car on the side of the road and got it later. And wouldn't you know it when Bob picked it up later that day it worked fine. Didn't die once. It hadn't had a problem since until my birthday. This time I had my cousin with me so she could confirm the fun ride we had home. Bob was home so he took it out for a spin and got it to fail that time. The next day we took it to the dealership to have it diagnosed and wouldn't you know they couldn't get it to fail. Two days they had it without a problem... ugh. I hate faulty cars.

On top of that our computer hard drive crashed and burned. It was fine one minute then I got the blue screen of death. I tried to restart the computer and it started making a horrible noise. My brother in law and brother both looked at and confirmed that it wad dead. Luckily I had backed up all my pictures last month so what wasn't backed up was still on my camera. Unfortunetly a few movies and music that we downloaded hadn't been backed up. But what is upsetting me the most is all my "favorites" are gone. I had a awesome catalog of crafts and cool websites that I had found. Oh well if that's all we had lost it makes us pretty lucky.

And since all things come in Three's. Our faucet started leaking and we had to drop $130 to get that fixed. The fun of being a homeowner :)

Now my news....

I am finally employeed. I am the newest member of Bed Bath and Beyond.... yeah I'm excited too. It will be fun. Every once in a while I'll get to work with my good friend Sharma so that will rock. The pay isn't that great but I will work mostly late afternoons/Evenings so I'll be home with the kids but still bring in a little bit of money. I did interview with Nike the day I started at BB&B so we are crossing our fingers they pay more and offer me a job. I 1/2 way interviewed with Discover but they called just as I had gotten Gavin in his car seat which he proceeded to have a meltdown when I left the room to take the call. Needless to say when I had to get off the phone with them and asked the women to call me back in an hour or so she didn't :(. Which makes me sad. Discover would have been perfect for me because they pay more and they had a shift from 5-1am. Oh well, I tried.

35 Week Update

Only about a month left of the pregnancy to go. It's very exciting and scary at the same time. We keep asking ourselves are we ready for two kids. But ready or not it's going to happen. We've been trying to tell Zack about babies more. We point to my stomach and say baby, and every once in a while he'll point and tell us baby as well. While looking at books/magazines he always points at babies and says Baby. So he's understanding that babies are smaller people. So hopefully that is a good sign of what is to come.

This week I started the weekly doctor appointments. We did the strep test (I don't know the full name). It's a test to make sure that if I have the strep virus (not the throat kind) that the baby would need special mediation/treatment after he's born. The doctor checked to see if I was dialated (which I'm not) but said that my cervix was soft so I shouldn't go past 42 weeks... um thanks!

Other then that there isn't really much to update. The baby is moving just fine. We still haven't picked a name... yikes! We keep suggesting names to each other but one or the other doesn't like the name. So far we have Gavin, Jordan and Justin on the table, but nothing is for sure yet. And it's funny because people say that they wait until they see the baby to pick a name, but we were wondering how they do it. Do we just call him different names until he responds.. LOL. Names are so hard because it's so permenent. Maybe we are secretly waiting to see who wins the Superbowl before we pick a name; in that case it may be Peyton or Drew.

Hmmm.

35 Week Update

Only about a month left of the pregnancy to go. It's very exciting and scary at the same time. We keep asking ourselves are we ready for two kids. But ready or not it's going to happen. We've been trying to tell Zack about babies more. We point to my stomach and say baby, and every once in a while he'll point and tell us baby as well. While looking at books/magazines he always points at babies and says Baby. So he's understanding that babies are smaller people. So hopefully that is a good sign of what is to come.

This week I started the weekly doctor appointments. We did the strep test (I don't know the full name). It's a test to make sure that if I have the strep virus (not the throat kind) that the baby would need special mediation/treatment after he's born. The doctor checked to see if I was dialated (which I'm not) but said that my cervix was soft so I shouldn't go past 42 weeks... um thanks!

Other then that there isn't really much to update. The baby is moving just fine. We still haven't picked a name... yikes! We keep suggesting names to each other but one or the other doesn't like the name. So far we have Gavin, Jordan and Justin on the table, but nothing is for sure yet. And it's funny because people say that they wait until they see the baby to pick a name, but we were wondering how they do it. Do we just call him different names until he responds.. LOL. Names are so hard because it's so permenent. Maybe we are secretly waiting to see who wins the Superbowl before we pick a name; in that case it may be Peyton or Drew.

Hmmm.

A little late... Christmas update

Oh well, if it's January 12th and I'm just getting to the Christmas update.

We had a great Christmas this year. I was hoping to get to the Mall to have a picture of Zack with Santa but I think I'll have to leave that tramatic experience until next year.

Bob and I are trying to have start the tradition where we get new pajamas on Christmas Eve. So far it's worked out pretty well. Bob is really hard to buy p.j's for because he's pretty picky about what he'll sleep in. He gets hot at night so he hates the flannel or the fleece bottoms. And they have to be pretty loose on him. Normally I end up buying him some type of workout pants. But it works and he's happy. Me on the other hand I love anything warm and fuzzy!

Here is a picture of our family with our new Christmas P.J.'s!

Zack must have a been a good boy this year, because Santa came to our house. He filled our stocking and left some wonderful presents for all of us.

Christmas morning we invited my mom and Bob's parents to come over to watch Zack open presents. We figured this was a good year to do that because he was already curious about the newly wrapped presents under the tree. It was a lot of fun having them there and Zack sure likes his Grandparents! And boy do they spoil him!

Bob's parents got Zack a new chair, a talking car he can ride and his uncle Blaine gave him a Hammer set that he could bang on.

My mom gave Zack Car garage and a toy that when you push buttons animals pop up. Santa gave Zack puzzles, another chair, a toy that you pull the arm and the middle spins around and makes the animal sound that is lands on and a bucket to help him learn shapes.

Mom and Dad gave Zack clothes, and a toy car.

In the end Zack had a lot of new toys that he loves to play with!

This is the mess after we'd opened all our Christmas presents!

And here is a picture of the baby bump on Christmas morning. I have to say I'm feeling so much better then I did with Zack. I do think the little guy has dropped, as getting up has been really hard and a bit painful (lots of pressure "down there").

The rest of the christmas day was spent at my sister's house for breakfast then at my grandma's house for dinner. It was super yummy and great to spend time with family!

A little late... Christmas update

Oh well, if it's January 12th and I'm just getting to the Christmas update.

We had a great Christmas this year. I was hoping to get to the Mall to have a picture of Zack with Santa but I think I'll have to leave that tramatic experience until next year.

Bob and I are trying to have start the tradition where we get new pajamas on Christmas Eve. So far it's worked out pretty well. Bob is really hard to buy p.j's for because he's pretty picky about what he'll sleep in. He gets hot at night so he hates the flannel or the fleece bottoms. And they have to be pretty loose on him. Normally I end up buying him some type of workout pants. But it works and he's happy. Me on the other hand I love anything warm and fuzzy!

Here is a picture of our family with our new Christmas P.J.'s!

Zack must have a been a good boy this year, because Santa came to our house. He filled our stocking and left some wonderful presents for all of us.

Christmas morning we invited my mom and Bob's parents to come over to watch Zack open presents. We figured this was a good year to do that because he was already curious about the newly wrapped presents under the tree. It was a lot of fun having them there and Zack sure likes his Grandparents! And boy do they spoil him!

Bob's parents got Zack a new chair, a talking car he can ride and his uncle Blaine gave him a Hammer set that he could bang on.

My mom gave Zack Car garage and a toy that when you push buttons animals pop up. Santa gave Zack puzzles, another chair, a toy that you pull the arm and the middle spins around and makes the animal sound that is lands on and a bucket to help him learn shapes.

Mom and Dad gave Zack clothes, and a toy car.

In the end Zack had a lot of new toys that he loves to play with!

This is the mess after we'd opened all our Christmas presents!

And here is a picture of the baby bump on Christmas morning. I have to say I'm feeling so much better then I did with Zack. I do think the little guy has dropped, as getting up has been really hard and a bit painful (lots of pressure "down there").

The rest of the christmas day was spent at my sister's house for breakfast then at my grandma's house for dinner. It was super yummy and great to spend time with family!

Fall is in the air

I'm not a fan of the changing seasons. Especially this year. It didn't seem that we had much of a summer. It rained the entire month of June started getting hot by the end of July into August, then September came and went and now it's October. It's already started snowing in the mountains and next thing you'll know we'll have snow here in the valley.... not a fan!


We've had a great month so far. I love experiencing all the new things with Zack. He's now getting the the age where it is fun to take him out to do things. He doesn't need to be carried quite as much and he's starting to enjoy the things that we see. I know that he doesn't quite understand what we are doing or seeing but it's still fun!


Every year Gardner Village decorates the grounds outside the stores with witches. It's really fun to go see them. My friends and I went to the shops with the kids and we had a great time. We shopped, ate fudge, and took pictures with a few of the witches on the grounds. Zacks favorite was the witch that would lift up her dress to show the cat chasing the mouse underneath.



This past month we took Zack to a corn maze. It was so much fun! We tried to go early so it was still a little daylight but by 7pm it was completely dark. But we still had a lot of fun. Too bad I didn't really think about the fact that Zack had to get 5 shots that same afternoon and we didn't exercise his legs very much afterwards. So while walking in the cornmaze he was getting pretty cranky and whiny. I thought it was just because he was cold and tired. Only to realize later that he was probably in a lot of pain. His poor legs were bruised by the time we got home! That quickly went away with a nice warm bath that night.




And yes we did have Zack on a leash, I wasn't going to loose my baby in a corn maze!


Instead of buying a pumpkin at the grocery store, this year we went to a pumpkin patch. The prices were good and we get to go out into the field with our wheelbarrow and pick the perfect pumpkin. And oh my the choices! How can you decide? It was also a great place to try to take some fall/pumpkin pictures. And wouldn't you know out of the entire pumpkin field Zack was able to find the one golf ball! We had a good time and was able to get some pretty good pictures. Too bad I can't figure out how to get Zack to smile. The only time he really smiled was when a lady walked behind us and made a face for Zack. What a stinker!





Zack has been learning a lot of new words and actions lately! He's such a smart little boy. If you ask him where his ears are he'll point to his ears, he also can point to his eyes, belly (even lifts up his shirt to show you his belly), and his toes/feet. If you ask him where his tounge is he'll stick his tounge out... it's so cute! Some new words that he's been saying are off, hello, grandpa (papa) and done.

Fall is in the air

I'm not a fan of the changing seasons. Especially this year. It didn't seem that we had much of a summer. It rained the entire month of June started getting hot by the end of July into August, then September came and went and now it's October. It's already started snowing in the mountains and next thing you'll know we'll have snow here in the valley.... not a fan!


We've had a great month so far. I love experiencing all the new things with Zack. He's now getting the the age where it is fun to take him out to do things. He doesn't need to be carried quite as much and he's starting to enjoy the things that we see. I know that he doesn't quite understand what we are doing or seeing but it's still fun!


Every year Gardner Village decorates the grounds outside the stores with witches. It's really fun to go see them. My friends and I went to the shops with the kids and we had a great time. We shopped, ate fudge, and took pictures with a few of the witches on the grounds. Zacks favorite was the witch that would lift up her dress to show the cat chasing the mouse underneath.



This past month we took Zack to a corn maze. It was so much fun! We tried to go early so it was still a little daylight but by 7pm it was completely dark. But we still had a lot of fun. Too bad I didn't really think about the fact that Zack had to get 5 shots that same afternoon and we didn't exercise his legs very much afterwards. So while walking in the cornmaze he was getting pretty cranky and whiny. I thought it was just because he was cold and tired. Only to realize later that he was probably in a lot of pain. His poor legs were bruised by the time we got home! That quickly went away with a nice warm bath that night.




And yes we did have Zack on a leash, I wasn't going to loose my baby in a corn maze!


Instead of buying a pumpkin at the grocery store, this year we went to a pumpkin patch. The prices were good and we get to go out into the field with our wheelbarrow and pick the perfect pumpkin. And oh my the choices! How can you decide? It was also a great place to try to take some fall/pumpkin pictures. And wouldn't you know out of the entire pumpkin field Zack was able to find the one golf ball! We had a good time and was able to get some pretty good pictures. Too bad I can't figure out how to get Zack to smile. The only time he really smiled was when a lady walked behind us and made a face for Zack. What a stinker!





Zack has been learning a lot of new words and actions lately! He's such a smart little boy. If you ask him where his ears are he'll point to his ears, he also can point to his eyes, belly (even lifts up his shirt to show you his belly), and his toes/feet. If you ask him where his tounge is he'll stick his tounge out... it's so cute! Some new words that he's been saying are off, hello, grandpa (papa) and done.

Moving on

Update: Photos added!

If your reading this post and there aren't any pictures I'll try to update it soon. I was just tired of seeing the prego stick and wanted to update ASAP.

I've been meaning to update this blog for a while now. But to be honest I have NO time. Zack likes to be near me at all times. If I'm on the computer he's right there beside me. Usually getting in to my scrapbook stuff, pulling on computer cords or climbing on something.

This isn't a very good pictures but shows that Zack is trying to climb onto the couch. My foot is there to help "boost" him.

Zack has become quite the little climber lately. He can mostly get on the couch by himself now, every once in a while he'll need a little boost. He has no problem climbing on our glass coffee table. That is a big problem seems how we put the table away at one point because one of the legs broke. We "mostly" fixed the leg, so we are still a little nervous about it's unstability. He'll also use toys to help himself up onto a side table that we have between the couch and chair. He's also mastered climbing from the lovesac to the chair that is next to it. It's pretty funny. He flings himself over the armrest and lands on the cushion. He'll even go into our room and get a laundry basket and drag it into the front room to stand on. He gets up on top and he's so proud of himself!

This picture is of Zack going from the Lovesac to the Loveseat. I wanted to post a video but it's not working, so this is all you get.

Zack has also started a shoe fetish. He loves giving people their shoes. This has become a problem because we are constantly missing one shoe. He also loves to wear shoes. He'll bring me one of his shoe, plop himself into my lap and lift up his foot. I'll put the shoe on him and he'll be happy. Most of the time he'll just have the ONE shoe on. it's really funny. And he'll walk around for as long as I let him with only the one shoe. And if I try to take it off he gets very angry! We've tried to hide a lot of his shoes so we don't have the above mentioned problem with missing shoes. We are still missing one of his sandals. Either he's thrown it away or it's hidden somewhere.

We've finally trained Zack to throw garbage away. It's so cute. He'll eat a fruit snack and when he's finished we'll tell him to throw the wrapper in the garbage. He'll do just that! But if there is any chance that he can get it back out he will. I've also seen him pick up random garbage and thrown it away! I love my little helper, if only I could get him to put away his toys! He loves to pull things out of the garbage and give it to us. He's our little garbage man. I have caught him a few times throwing his balls in the garbage along with other toys. I'm sure a few of his stuff (and maybe ours) have made it to the landfill. Zack has also figured out how to open the toilet seat. We've caught him a few times playing in the water. He's also thrown my slipper into the toilet at one point... not cool! He's such a troublemaker, but we love him!

As for the pregnancy everything is going fine. Currently I am 17 weeks along. I feel fine other then being tired alot. Normally in your second trimester you start getting your energy back, but I haven't. I'm sure alot of it has to do with the fact that I don't sleep very well (thanks abbie!) and 3 days a week I have to get up earlier then I'd like to be awake. We had a fun ER visit because I was having pains in my chest and the doctor thought it may be a gallbladder problem. It wasn't an emergency my doctor just told me to go to the ER because they would be able to get the test results quicker. Thanks for that, now I have to pay an ER bill and waste 4 hours of my life! Everything ended up being fine, they think it was just reflux. Which in my opinion is a "I don't know what is wrong with you" diagnose. I've felt fine since then and haven't had to take any prescriptions... (knock on wood).

Ultrasound picture is when I was 15 weeks

We should find out what we are having on October 12th. I am excited. It's hard to tell what we may have. This pregnancy has been very different then with Zack. With Zack I started getting sick right at my second trimester and pretty much couldn't eat or think about dinner at all! With this pregnancy I started feeling sick earlier on, but was able to contain it with eating every few hours. I really haven't had too much morning sickness, which has been nice. Bob thinks we are having a boy. But I'm leaning towards a girl. We'll be happy with either one. Deanna is convinced we are having a boy because we did the wedding ring thing a while ago and it said I was going to have 2 boys. It will be interesting to see the outcome. My Aunt and Grandma (and I'm sure my mom) would like to have a granddaughter. If we could pull it off, this would be the first grand daughter for my mom and the first great grand daughter for my grandma. I've already broke tradition by getting pregnant a second time, we'll see if I can break it again by having a girl! But like I said I'd be happy with either.

I'm also fighting not to wear my maternity clothes yet. I don't know why, I guess I'm worried about gaining so much weight again. My pants are starting to not fit but thanks to the bellaband I can still wear my pre-pregnancy clothes. My shirts on the other hand are starting to not fit properly. I may have to cave and just pull out the maternity stuff. It's so funny because when I got pregnant with Zack I couldn't wait to wear maternity and now I'm the opposite.

So that is the update as of right now. I'm sure I've missed a few things but that's what preggo brain does.

Moving on

Update: Photos added!

If your reading this post and there aren't any pictures I'll try to update it soon. I was just tired of seeing the prego stick and wanted to update ASAP.

I've been meaning to update this blog for a while now. But to be honest I have NO time. Zack likes to be near me at all times. If I'm on the computer he's right there beside me. Usually getting in to my scrapbook stuff, pulling on computer cords or climbing on something.

This isn't a very good pictures but shows that Zack is trying to climb onto the couch. My foot is there to help "boost" him.

Zack has become quite the little climber lately. He can mostly get on the couch by himself now, every once in a while he'll need a little boost. He has no problem climbing on our glass coffee table. That is a big problem seems how we put the table away at one point because one of the legs broke. We "mostly" fixed the leg, so we are still a little nervous about it's unstability. He'll also use toys to help himself up onto a side table that we have between the couch and chair. He's also mastered climbing from the lovesac to the chair that is next to it. It's pretty funny. He flings himself over the armrest and lands on the cushion. He'll even go into our room and get a laundry basket and drag it into the front room to stand on. He gets up on top and he's so proud of himself!

This picture is of Zack going from the Lovesac to the Loveseat. I wanted to post a video but it's not working, so this is all you get.

Zack has also started a shoe fetish. He loves giving people their shoes. This has become a problem because we are constantly missing one shoe. He also loves to wear shoes. He'll bring me one of his shoe, plop himself into my lap and lift up his foot. I'll put the shoe on him and he'll be happy. Most of the time he'll just have the ONE shoe on. it's really funny. And he'll walk around for as long as I let him with only the one shoe. And if I try to take it off he gets very angry! We've tried to hide a lot of his shoes so we don't have the above mentioned problem with missing shoes. We are still missing one of his sandals. Either he's thrown it away or it's hidden somewhere.

We've finally trained Zack to throw garbage away. It's so cute. He'll eat a fruit snack and when he's finished we'll tell him to throw the wrapper in the garbage. He'll do just that! But if there is any chance that he can get it back out he will. I've also seen him pick up random garbage and thrown it away! I love my little helper, if only I could get him to put away his toys! He loves to pull things out of the garbage and give it to us. He's our little garbage man. I have caught him a few times throwing his balls in the garbage along with other toys. I'm sure a few of his stuff (and maybe ours) have made it to the landfill. Zack has also figured out how to open the toilet seat. We've caught him a few times playing in the water. He's also thrown my slipper into the toilet at one point... not cool! He's such a troublemaker, but we love him!

As for the pregnancy everything is going fine. Currently I am 17 weeks along. I feel fine other then being tired alot. Normally in your second trimester you start getting your energy back, but I haven't. I'm sure alot of it has to do with the fact that I don't sleep very well (thanks abbie!) and 3 days a week I have to get up earlier then I'd like to be awake. We had a fun ER visit because I was having pains in my chest and the doctor thought it may be a gallbladder problem. It wasn't an emergency my doctor just told me to go to the ER because they would be able to get the test results quicker. Thanks for that, now I have to pay an ER bill and waste 4 hours of my life! Everything ended up being fine, they think it was just reflux. Which in my opinion is a "I don't know what is wrong with you" diagnose. I've felt fine since then and haven't had to take any prescriptions... (knock on wood).

Ultrasound picture is when I was 15 weeks

We should find out what we are having on October 12th. I am excited. It's hard to tell what we may have. This pregnancy has been very different then with Zack. With Zack I started getting sick right at my second trimester and pretty much couldn't eat or think about dinner at all! With this pregnancy I started feeling sick earlier on, but was able to contain it with eating every few hours. I really haven't had too much morning sickness, which has been nice. Bob thinks we are having a boy. But I'm leaning towards a girl. We'll be happy with either one. Deanna is convinced we are having a boy because we did the wedding ring thing a while ago and it said I was going to have 2 boys. It will be interesting to see the outcome. My Aunt and Grandma (and I'm sure my mom) would like to have a granddaughter. If we could pull it off, this would be the first grand daughter for my mom and the first great grand daughter for my grandma. I've already broke tradition by getting pregnant a second time, we'll see if I can break it again by having a girl! But like I said I'd be happy with either.

I'm also fighting not to wear my maternity clothes yet. I don't know why, I guess I'm worried about gaining so much weight again. My pants are starting to not fit but thanks to the bellaband I can still wear my pre-pregnancy clothes. My shirts on the other hand are starting to not fit properly. I may have to cave and just pull out the maternity stuff. It's so funny because when I got pregnant with Zack I couldn't wait to wear maternity and now I'm the opposite.

So that is the update as of right now. I'm sure I've missed a few things but that's what preggo brain does.

Some Videos

These are a couple videos of Zack from the last couple of days.

He has mastered climbing the stairs. We aren't normally (ever) in the basement so I'm not sure where he learned this, maybe at Bob's parents house. He does like to climb on my mom's VCR and DVD player they have and they do look like stairs. I thought he learned at the babysitters house but she seemed surprised to see him doing it when I got there this afternoon. (I did record it sideways; sorry about that!)



The next video is just me feeding him. About the middle she starts spitting. Something he has just started to do and I hope it's not a habit.



He's learning new things everyday and he definitly is learning from other people. It will be fun to see what he learns to do next.

Some Videos

These are a couple videos of Zack from the last couple of days.

He has mastered climbing the stairs. We aren't normally (ever) in the basement so I'm not sure where he learned this, maybe at Bob's parents house. He does like to climb on my mom's VCR and DVD player they have and they do look like stairs. I thought he learned at the babysitters house but she seemed surprised to see him doing it when I got there this afternoon. (I did record it sideways; sorry about that!)



The next video is just me feeding him. About the middle she starts spitting. Something he has just started to do and I hope it's not a habit.



He's learning new things everyday and he definitly is learning from other people. It will be fun to see what he learns to do next.

Slow posting

I'm getting really bad at posting what's been going on in our lives! Things in our house is constantly on the move! With work, church callings, groups, basketball and day to day stuff; we are ALWAYS busy!

Here is a sample of how a typical week looks for us.
Monday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-11:30; At 7:00 I go to a workout class with my mom.
Tuesdays - Bob works from 7-5; I work 1:30-5:30; Depending on the week we either have Pack Meeting with the cub scouts or I have craft or cooking group. Bob plays church basketball at 8:30.
Wednesdays - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-11:30; this is our only free day. We usually try to get things cleaned up in the house, grocery shop or just catch up on DVR. At least once a month I have Bunko on this day so those weeks are CRAZY!
Thursday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 1:30-5:30; Bob plays church basketball at 8:30 (I think, could be earlier).
Friday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-5:30. It's the end of the week so DATE NIGHT!

It's no wonder we are always tired; we are constantly on the go!

But we've gotten Zack into a semi-schedule. Depending on the day he gets up around 9ish then naps after about 2 hours. Usually this nap is about 2 hours long. Then he's up for about 3 hours and down for another nap. This one can last anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. We try to get him to take his last nap around 6 but we wake him up at 7:00. By 10:00 it's bedtime for Zack! He sleeps through the night on occasion.

Some other things to note is Zack has another tooth. It's not one of the top two front teeth like I thought he would get next but it's off to the side. He's also crawling like a stinkbug now! It's so cute! And sometimes his feet move faster then his hands and he face plants it. He's such a funny VOCAL little boy. He loves to terroize the cat too! This afternoon while my mom was watching Zack she said he tackled Abbie. Abbie is so patient with Zack; he's a great big cat brother.

So that's about it, I'll try to be better at posting!

Slow posting

I'm getting really bad at posting what's been going on in our lives! Things in our house is constantly on the move! With work, church callings, groups, basketball and day to day stuff; we are ALWAYS busy!

Here is a sample of how a typical week looks for us.
Monday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-11:30; At 7:00 I go to a workout class with my mom.
Tuesdays - Bob works from 7-5; I work 1:30-5:30; Depending on the week we either have Pack Meeting with the cub scouts or I have craft or cooking group. Bob plays church basketball at 8:30.
Wednesdays - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-11:30; this is our only free day. We usually try to get things cleaned up in the house, grocery shop or just catch up on DVR. At least once a month I have Bunko on this day so those weeks are CRAZY!
Thursday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 1:30-5:30; Bob plays church basketball at 8:30 (I think, could be earlier).
Friday - Bob works from 7-5; I work 7:30-5:30. It's the end of the week so DATE NIGHT!

It's no wonder we are always tired; we are constantly on the go!

But we've gotten Zack into a semi-schedule. Depending on the day he gets up around 9ish then naps after about 2 hours. Usually this nap is about 2 hours long. Then he's up for about 3 hours and down for another nap. This one can last anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. We try to get him to take his last nap around 6 but we wake him up at 7:00. By 10:00 it's bedtime for Zack! He sleeps through the night on occasion.

Some other things to note is Zack has another tooth. It's not one of the top two front teeth like I thought he would get next but it's off to the side. He's also crawling like a stinkbug now! It's so cute! And sometimes his feet move faster then his hands and he face plants it. He's such a funny VOCAL little boy. He loves to terroize the cat too! This afternoon while my mom was watching Zack she said he tackled Abbie. Abbie is so patient with Zack; he's a great big cat brother.

So that's about it, I'll try to be better at posting!

7 Month Photo shoot

A couple weeks ago I got pictures taken at JCPenney's for Zack's 7 month pictures. I know most parents get their kids picture taken at 3/6/9/12 but I'm a procrastinator, plus when I scheduled Zack's 6 month pictures he got sick and so we waited until he was better. So here are some of the pictures we got. They look bad becuase my scanner isn't the best and obviously needs to be cleaned, but you get the idea.

This one is my favorite because of the look on his face!

And some other ones with his silly face.

7 Month Photo shoot

A couple weeks ago I got pictures taken at JCPenney's for Zack's 7 month pictures. I know most parents get their kids picture taken at 3/6/9/12 but I'm a procrastinator, plus when I scheduled Zack's 6 month pictures he got sick and so we waited until he was better. So here are some of the pictures we got. They look bad becuase my scanner isn't the best and obviously needs to be cleaned, but you get the idea.

This one is my favorite because of the look on his face!

And some other ones with his silly face.