The Begining of a Great Break

Other than yesterday's drama this Thanksgiving break is starting off great! And FYI, I'm feeling a lot better and I slept nearly 12 hours last night, which was greatly needed.

I bought Lexi this lion "backpack" for our trip to Washington next month. It has a tale or leash attachment which will be great when we're in the airport. Yes, I'm one of those moms who has a leash for her kids. Lexi loves this backpack though. She always wants to wear it. I think it makes her look older.



We also got Lexi this little used pop up tent off of Bulletin board and it's a hit. She LOVES it! And she always wants Daddy to go in it with her.



Sean wanted to watch "Up" so we got it from Redbox. And we watched it together this morning. Lexi even laid on the floor on a pillow (for a few minutes).



And today we went to H-AIR at the Rex. It's a bounce house. Lexi LOVED it. Especially the slides. For all you Rexburg moms, Lexi was free and one parent gets to play free too. So if anyone wants to go there for play dates this winter, call me!

I'm so excited for this break. We're staying in Rexburg and planning on having lots of family time.

Scary E.R. Visit and Pregnancy Update

This week I've been having trouble sleeping. So last night I look a Unisom sleeping pill. Not long after that I was experiencing REALLY intense stomach pain. I couldn't sleep at all and was so miserable! I wasn't sure if the pain was related to the pill but I knew that something wasn't right. So at 2 am this morning Sean took me to the hospital. Our amazing neighbors listened to Lexi's baby monitor for us.

I was in tears when we got the ER. I was worried and so tired from the Unisom. My blood and urine tested normal but they had trouble finding our baby's heartbeat. It look more than a minute but felt like an hour before they found the heartbeat. Sean later said that if they took much longer to find the heartbeat he would have started crying, which is saying a lot because Sean NEVER cries.

They couldn't determine what was wrong so they gave me some pain medication and a drink to take to clean me out incase I was constipated. Which I knew I wasn't. On the way home I started drinking that nasty liquid and instantly started throwing it up. Good thing I had brought along a bowl just in case.

This morning we went back to the hospital for an ultrasound. We got hooked up and the technician told me that I needed to go drink 3 water bottles full of water and come back in an hour. I drank a ton of water and some orange juice. I drank so much that I felt so sick. When we were walking back up to the hospital, I felt horrible. I threw up all my breakfast and all those liquids right on the grass outside the front entrance. So all that hard work was for nothing!

Our ultrasound went good. At first the tech wasn't saying anything which made me worried. She thought there might be a problem with my cervix she later told us but ultimately she determined that everything looked great. Our baby is healthy. "Pat" has a good heart rate and is VERY active. During the ultrasound the baby flip completely several times. We were hoping that we'd get to find out the gender today but our child wouldn't let us get a good look. So we have to wait until the 1st still. This baby is reminding me a lot of Lexi. She wouldn't cooperate in her ultrasounds either.

The tech did tell me that she saw me having contractions on the ultrasound. So that probably was what caused all this. I never even thought of that.


The highlight of it all is that we have a healthy baby.

Christmas Came Early

I'm super excited for Christmas this year. I can't wait to be with family and to see Lexi's excitement on Christmas morning. So I decided to put up some decorations last weekend. It's not much. We don't really decorate our apartment because we're never he for Christmas but it has put me in the Christmas spirit. And yes, I have already started listening to Christmas music.




I found some fun things on bulletin board (BYU-I's version of craig's list) for Lexi. I'm calling them Christmas gifts. I can't take these toys to Washington next month and don't want to hid them in my closet so Christmas came early for Lexi. Oh well, she doesn't know any better.

We got Lexi a small inexpensive kitchen set which she loves! There are dishes and food too. She's played with them ALL day. It's amazing! When she gets older and bigger I want to get her a really nice kitchen (listen to me, I sound like a snob) but for now this is perfect.




We also got her a Little People Barn. It came with a few animals and makes sounds. And it was only $2, such a great deal! I'm looking on ebay for some more animals to go with the set.

Snow

It's snowed a few times here this year but it hasn't lasted long and hasn't been enough to play in. Well last night it snowed pretty good for 30 minutes. So, I bundled Lexi up and took her outside for her first experience in the snow. She was mesmerized by it. She kept saying snow over and over after I told her what it was called. She loved it... for the first five minutes until her hands got cold. Then I took her inside for a nice warm bath.

All bundled and ready to go outside.
A look of pure amazement on her face. I love it.

Touching the snow. I wonder what she thinking.

She looks like a pink marshmallow!

Boy or Girl...

I had a regular check up today. Nothing special, just pee in a cup and check the heart beat sort of appointment. I scheduled my ultrasound!!! Dec 1st is the big day. I can't wait! (Like you couldn't tell I'm excited by the giant countdown at the top of my blog).

When I was pregnant with Lexi, I KNEW I was having a girl. This time around, I don't having a gut feeling about the gender. Today Dr. Allred guessed I was having a boy by the sound of the heartbeat but at my last visit a different doctor told me the heartbeat sounded like a girl's. So who knows. Anyway, I put a poll up. So vote on what you think the baby will be and in 19 days we'll find out if you're right.

Either way, Sean and will be so excited. We have LOVED having a little girl and would love another but it would be fun to have a boy and by ties for church and trucks.

16 Months Old

With each passing month, Lexi changes so much. She is always learning new things. Here are some pictures of Lexi this week...

Dancing to the "If Your Happy and You Know It" song. Here she is clapping her hands along with the words. This is one of her favorite primary songs.

Frustrated that I'm blocking the door. She is trying to close it so she can be in her room all by herself (one of her favorite things).

This isn't a great picture but it will work. If you look closely you can see that Lexi has a blush brush. One of her latest obessions is... make-up! That's right, make-up. A week ago she saw me putting it on and was curious so I put some blush on her cheeks. Now whenever she sees me putting on make-up she points to her cheeks. She likes to use the brush to "put" blush on herself and her stuffed animals.

Another obession is tupperware. I was finding spoons and measuring cups in and under the couch and all over the place so I went to the dollar store and bought her some of her own.

We've had some really nice days this week (I have a feeling that is all about to change). Lexi loves going outside. She brings me my shoes and her shoes and points to our jackets on the coat rack. She tries to do everything she can to get me to take her outside.

Lexi's hair is starting to look shaggy and falls into her eyes. So I'm trying to figure out the best way to style it. With these make-shift pigtails, I think she looks like a bug.

Some more of Lexi's favorite things are:

1) ...Elmo. She loves him. She freaks out whenever she sees him. She calls him "Momo." I need to get this girl a Tickle-Me-Elmo.

2) Lexi also loves coloring. She loves to carry around a notebook and crayons and scribble. Sometimes she likes it when we draw with her and other times she just takes away our crayons.

3) Lexi's favorite snack is popcorn. She points to the popcorn box ontop of the cupboard every afternoon. And once Sean puts it in the mircowave she opens the cupboard and trys to pull out the bowl on her own. I've popped it in the air popper a few times for her and she seems to enjoy that too.

4) Now when we ask her, "Where's Lexi?" she points to herself. It's adorable! She loves to point to things that she knows. Everyday I ask her, Where Nana Krisit is and she points to the picture on the wall and says Nana. She also points and say "Gigi" for my mom. We haven't got her to say grandpa yet but we're working on it.

5) Lexi loves the fridge. She loves to open it and name all the food she recognizes. This girl would love a little pretend kitchen!

Preggo Pics

So this pregnancy is flying by! One of the perks of being pregnant with an active one year old. So I was religious at taking pictures of myself every two weeks when I was pregnant the first time. I haven't been that good this time around but I believe it's because 1) I don't shower and get dress everyday and 2) I don't feel like my belly has changed that much yet, seriously. Looking back at pictures of my last pregnancy, I'd say right now at 16 weeks I look like I did at 12 weeks with Lexi!

Alright her are some horrible pictures to proove my point...

Here I am at 16 weeks and I think I look pretty good.

This is me at 16 weeks wearing a tight shirt and FYI I just ate, so I look a little bigger than normal.

And this is me at 16 with Lexi. Crazy, huh? I'm huge already!

Halloween at our House

I decided to post some pictures of some of our decorations and things that we have been doing this Halloween season...

I got his idea from the Food Network website. It's just melted peanut butter and chocolate chips and the pretzels legs and white chocolate chip eyes.

"Mummy Dogs." The eyes aren't very good but it's festive, right?

Our living room window. So fallish.

I put these leaves on Lexi's bedroom window to had some festiveness to her room.

These pumpkins were probably Lexi's favorite decoration. Most of the time they were on the floor and I just let her play with them. They started her fascination with pumpkins.

I bought this at our local craft store. I love it! I just wish I could have found some little plastic baby spiders to put in the web.

This is the easiest craft ever. Take a roll of T.P. and wrap some fabric around it and tuck it in the ends. And then just some finishing touches.

I got the idea for this craft from Val, my sister-in-law. It's just a pot with muslin wrapped around it.

Sean came home from school yesterday with a surprise for me and Lexi, some flowers. Luckily, we had a pot to put them in. Haha.



Check out our amazing carving skills!

Lexi with the pumpkin I carved for her - a flower.

When we carved pumpkins Lexi was sleeping so I got another one to carve today because I thought she'd like playing with and touching the "guts..."
...Lexi did not want anything to do the guts of the pumpkin. She would not touch them or put her hand in the pumpkin.

All ready to go trick-or-treating.

When Sean found out that there were $.50 corn dogs at Sonic, he knew where he wanted dinner. Sonic was packed with dozen of high school and college kids. It look like the were getting their money's worth!

Tonight was free taco night at Taco Bell so we went and got some free black taco's.

Then we went to G's Dairy Delights and I got a $1 ice cream cone and Lexi got a free baby cone. She loved the sugar!

Lexi scratched herself on the nose. So since she was a lion, we decide that she was Scar from the Lion King.

The night ended with a big bubble bath and then sitting on the couch watching candle light dance on the wall. It was a memorable Halloween.

A Little Update

Nothing too excited has been going on. I had stomach flu a few weeks ago and then Lexi got it. And now I'm worried that I have strep throat but I haven't been tested. Other than being sick this pregnancy is going great.

I felt "Pat" move several times this week which is really exciting. "Pat" is the gender neutral name Sean decided to call our baby. We have no intentions of actually naming our baby that though. If it's a girl, Sean is set on the name Reagan, which I like too. The middle name is still up to discussion. Sean's sister Andrea really wants us to use her name as the middle name but that probably won't happen. Other girl names that I really like are Paisley and Hazel. And if Pat is a boy, he's nameless because we can't agree on one we like.

Something kinda neat is that I have a 15 month old who will be 16 months old next week. And a 15 week old fetus who will be 16 weeks next week.

Sean is keeping busy. He is looking for an internship for next semester. His plan is to graduate in April the week before I'm due. After graduation we aren't sure where we're going or what we're doing. That is something else we are trying to figure out.

Lexi has had some bad nights lately. She has been waking up a bunch at night screaming and whining. I think she's having night terrors. And I'm not sure how to help her. I just rock her and sing Primary songs to her. I hope this phase will pass soon. Let's just say if I wasn't already pregnant then I'm not sure I would want to be because I'm sure not looking forward to being up at night again. Haha.

Over all we're doing good.

Pumpkin Patch Pictures

Last week we went to a "pumkin patch" in Rigby. It was basically someone front yard. Anyway, we got some pictures taken by a local photographer who actually lives in our complex. Annelise was really fun to work with and I think we got some good pictures. She posted some of the pictures up on facebook and her blog today. If you want to look at her blog it's: annelisewoodwardphotography.blogspot. Here are some of the proofs...

I think this one is my favorite of us three. Even Lexi is looking at the camera.

I also think this is a good one of us three (well, four, haha)

I love Lexi's cheesy smile in this picture.

There was a cat in the field, which was purrrfect because we used the cat to get Lexi to look towards the camera.

I LOVE this picture!!! This is Lexi's lion costume. I'm so glad we got some pictures of her in it.