Doctor appointment, Sicknesses, and Birthday...

I had another Dr. appointment today. When she checked me she said I was almost dilated to a three - last week she said I was at a three...hmmm. It's always a little disappointing to go to an appointment in your last weeks and find that you haven't progressed (or even regressed - if that's possible), but I'm grateful that this little bun is still in the oven. About four nights ago Ellie was sick and threw up four times (poor thing), so I was glad that the baby didn't come that night or the next day. Then, the night after that Carly had a really bad asthma attack. She has had a cold and a cough for the last few days and in the middle of the night she started coughing and called out for her daddy. I laid in bed hoping that she would just fall back to sleep without either of us having to get out of bed. But then she kind of cried/whimpered again, so I went in there. I am so glad I did because she was barely breathing and probably wouldn't have been able to call out to us again. So scary!!! So, she slept with me that night and I spent the rest of the night listening to her breathing (and occasionally gasping). Luckily we had her inhaler on hand (which we haven't had to use in almost a year - I was really hoping we were over this asthma stuff). So, I'm also glad the baby didn't come that night or the next day either. Well, the girls are still sick (and Aaron's getting it too), so I'm hoping that we have enough time to get everyone well again for when the baby does come.


My birthday was last week and my parents had this t-shirt blanket made for me. These are a bunch of t-shirts from girls' choice dances, student government, family vacations, softball, dance team, cheer leading, etc. It was so fun to look at each t-shirt and recall the memories.


During my birthday dinner Aaron asked the girls what they loved about Mommy. I thought their answers were pretty creative:

Carly: “Play blocks with me” (I don’t even know the last time we got the blocks down.)
“Feed my fish with her” (um….what fish?)
“Cuddle with her” (now that’s true!)
Ellie: “When I get her baptized”
“When she writes with me”




We're still planning on making our blog an invite-only in the near future (obviously didn't happen this past week like I thought). I was excited to see how many people have commented and I'm glad we'll be able to keep in touch. So, leave your e-mail address if you haven't already. Thanks!

Going Private

Hey everyone! We're going private with our blog, so please leave your e-mail address and we'll invite you! This will happen in the next week or so (unless the baby comes...then it will happen when I have a spare moment...) I seriously love being able to keep in touch with people through blogging, so I hope we get your e-mail address - yes, I'm talking to YOU. :)

Fridge Quotes VI

December 4, 2008
Ellie was eating Cheez-its and dipping them in water. She said, “I’m baptizing my cracker.”


December 26, 2008
Aaron was reading a book to Carly and Ellie and about half way through they both lost interest, but Aaron kept reading aloud. While he was still reading Carly said, “Um Daddy? Did you notice that nobody is listening to the book?”


January 23, 2009
Daddy: “Girls, what is something you love about Mommy?”
Carly: “Play blocks with me” (I don’t even know the last time we got the blocks down.)
“Feed my fish with her” (um….what fish?)
“Cuddle with her” (now that’s true!)
Ellie: “When I get her baptized”
“When she writes with me”


January 2009
Carly and Ellie have been really concerned lately with who is bigger than who.
This is Carly’s phrase: “Okay, so let me get this straight; I’m bigger than Ellie, Ellie’s bigger than the baby, and Heavenly Father is bigger than all of us.”

We celebrated Ellie's 3rd birthday yesterday and the first thing she asked me this morning was "Mommy, am I still three?" What a little sweetheart! She just makes me laugh so much. I wish I could put up a video of her to show her personality - I can't describe how cute and funny it is. She is just the type of girl you want to squeeze! :) Some of Ellie's favorites:

-Brushing Mommy's hair - this has been her passion for the past several months (she LOVES to do this and will spend lots of time at it - she totally gets into it too)

-Eating sweets

-Being independent

-Doing puzzles (and she's really quite good)

-Singing, dancing, reading, coloring, playdough, workbooks

-She just loves to do whatever Carly is doing and to be wherever Carly is

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I had a doctor's appt. today and I'm 3 cm dilated and 50% effaced - Yipee!!! I was definitely not expecting to have progressed so much because I have had such a nice 9th month so far - not too much pressure and my Braxton-Hicks haven't been too frequent or too strong (I'm comparing this to my 9th month with Ellie...which was NOT fun! Very uncomfortable.) People keep saying "Oh, I bet you are SO ready to be done with this pregnancy" or "you look so uncomfortable"... but really I've been feeling pretty good, so I think I can wait a little while. (I know that the baby is a whole lot easier to take care of right now than she will be after she's born - baby's are so much work! But SO worth it!) On the other hand, I do want the pregnancy to be over soon just so I can meet this little baby and hold her and nurse her and dress her and listen to her breath and smell her... and all that good stuff! Oh, I just can't wait to have another little sweetheart!

So, I'll keep you posted....

37 weeks

An Entertaining Story...

At preschool today Carly and Gabe took turns making up this story:

"Once upon a time there lived some humans and they were not poor. One day a horrible snow monster came and threw snowballs at the humans. The humans got some hot chocolate and poured it on the terrible snow monster. The snow monster died. The humans went to bed. The next morning the humans got married and then they had children. Then they ate a giant computer and lived happily ever after (but they got sick from the computer)."

The End

An illustration by Carly

(The human is throwing a snowball back at the snow monster)

My friend, Sara, was the teacher today - Thanks Sara!

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The other day Ellie had me come in their room with my eyes closed. The suprise is that Carly was all dressed up and ready to dance. She loves to dance and she really feels the music!

Of course Ellie had to have a turn too.

Welcome to the World Blake James

Aaron's brother and his wife, Brett and Heidi, just welcomed the newest little addition into their family... more than 4 weeks early! (Heidi was originally due just a week before me). He's still in the NICU, but hopefully he'll be going home soon.

Blake James

Born on January 5, 2009

weighing 6lbs 14oz (huge for 4 weeks early)!

CONGRATULATIONS to Brett and Heidi and older siblings, Megan and Brock!

The Day Spa and The Dog House

For Christmas Aaron got me a gift certificate to the Sanctuary Day Spa for a pregnancy massage. I went today and, basically, it was WONDERFUL!!! I would love to make it a monthly tradition - but I don't think our budget can handle that. It will definitely have to become a 3rd Trimester Pregnancy tradition (although I'm not sure how many more of those I'm going to have). Anyhow, I'll somehow make an excuse to make it a tradition. :)

So, speaking of Christmas gifts...this is a commercial that my parents showed us on YouTube. (click the link)

JC Penny's Dog House Commercial

Obviously this doesn't apply to Aaron right now. And actually, I'm not too hard to please when it comes to gifts - if I needed a vacuum and Aaron got me a nice one - double bags...ha ha - I would probably be very happy. (Although I don't know how happy I would be if Aaron gave me a thigh master as a surprise - ha ha!) Anyway, I just thought this was pretty hilarious!