Artistic Baby

This is Grace's favorite past time as of late. She loves to color. I recently let her stand on a chair with it pulled up to the counter. This usually works pretty good because she will stand there and color quite contently, while we cook and clean the kitchen. Look at that concentration! The only bad thing is if she drops or wings crayons off the edge, then I found out that the tips break. (And look how clean my counter is! Love it!)

She loves to color and we let her have a max of about 5 but usually about 3 at a time, that way we dont have crayons all over the place.

She has only fallen off the chair once, and who knows what happened because I didn't see it. Not that it really matters that much anyways because she can move those chairs around and climb up on them all by herself now anyways.

She is such a good girl. She has a bad diaper rash tonight and so when we said our prayers we prayed that her little bottom would get a lot better by morning. Also have I mentioned she is finally cutting herself another bottom tooth? So now she hasher top 2 teeth and the ones next to them. Bottom 2 teeth and one on the left is coming in. And she has molars popping out one on each side on the top and we think soon we will see molars on the bottom. Daddy thought he felt swollen gums back there on the bottom the other day.

Today I am 23 weeks and the little boy is still apparently a large mango, about 11 inches long and one pound. I had the thought today that I think this little guy is going to be one baby that will like being rocked to sleep. It seems to me that almost everytime I am still he starts kicking or poking or wriggling. And that when I am moving he is a chill little boy, probably asleep!

I got a mattress topper for our mattress today. I ordered it off of Overstock and hopefully it will help me sleep. We have had some issues with our mattress. When we first got it we loved it, then we started getting indentions in it, and then we made it firmer and now its almost too firm for my pregnant body. Since you can only really sleep on your side I find myself tossing from side to side all night long and shaking out numb shoulders and arms. So I am hoping that, that will help with the sleeping. Because with Grace I didn't toss and turn and not sleep as much as I am with this one.

I also got a Moby Wrap ordered to carry the little one in. I am excited to see how it works. And have I mentioned this one lately? Probably not because it was just Saturday I was thinking and researching it, but I am considering doing cloth diapers with this one. Cloth diapers have a lot of expense upfront but then the only added stress is supposedly about 1-2 extra load of laundry a week. We can afford the cost now, and I think that might help us financially when I am at home with the kiddos. Also if I buy them second hand (supposedly they resale well too) then I would save even more. Or even get the pattern and have them made. There are lots of different options with cloth diapers now and it can be a bit confusing but I have been thinking and looking into it, so we will see. If anybody has heard of people's experiances with cloth diapers, let me know!

Well I think that I need to get off this computer and see what my sweet hubby is doing. HUGS!!

4th of July

I realized last night that I never posted our pics from the 4th of July when we went to go see fireworks. We found a park that hosted a fireworks show. For those of you not from Utah, all the celebrating for the 4th of July and Pioneer Day (July 24th) are done on the Saturday before if the holiday falls on a Sunday. Well I thought that there would be a fireworks show on Sunday night and we did find one, luckily, because we stayed home on Saturday night! Also since it stays light till about 930pm here, the show actually didn't start till 10pm so the Lil Miss got to stay up really late. This was her reaction the whole time during the fireworks show. I think a lot of that was the noise and sleepyness factors.Poor thing she was not oving from Daddy's lap he was her protector from fireworks.

But before the actually show started, we got there around 920ish and Grandma bought Grace this princess light sword/wand thing that you push the button and it lights up in different patterns. She loved that!

She still loves it in fact and once she figured out the button, it was even better!

Of course here she is waving it around, I did manage to survive 2 separate eye pokings one in each eye, thank goodness!

Oooo and Aaahhh!

I took a couple of videos but I think this is the best one. I am not sure what you can here, but at one point she did smile. Although, when the Grand Finale started she went back into silent mode checking everything out.

Saturday Afternoon at the Pool

A shot of the pool. I tried to get pictures of Grace actually in the pool but by the time I got out to get the camera, she was really ready to get out!

Mommy stuck the leftover grapes in the diaper bag and she was just munching on them when we had to get out of the pool every hour for a 10 min sunscreen break.

Grace did pretty well in the pool, she a couple of face plants when she got into splashing and I think next weekend we will try some swim wings or something at another pool.

And no sunburn babies or mommies or daddies so that was good too! The only adventure was Grace making a beeline out of the locker room when I was throwing away her diaper. Lucky for us some lady chased her down, but daddy was waiting outside by that time too.

And yes I did brave a bikini with my pregnant belly sticking out! Ha ha! I love summer!!!!

Some more Hair Pics

I took these tonight again right before bed. Daddy was playing with her and making her laugh and smile which is a bonus for all of us, because she was cranky tonight and last night. Unfortunately last night we think Grace had some bad gas. She woke up screaming at 10:30pm and cried and cried until about 11pm. We gave her some Lil Tummy's and that helped I heard a burp and toot, as well. But we let her watch some Sesame Street to get her mind off and finally she made it back to bed around ten after.

But then tonight the girl was not interested in eating at all and we finally figured out that it might hurt to eat. Because Daddy made a pork roast and homemade mashed potatoes and gravy. Normally mashed potatoes are one of her favorites and she was only kind of eating them, and the meat loving baby wasn't really loving the meat either.

So we gave her some Tylenol and put her to bed and hopefully that helps her little gums and teeth.

I kept trying to get shots of bangs and face but only the first shot was a good one.

My prenatal appointment went good and everything is clicking right along. Next appointment I have to do the dreaded glucose test....and I am planning on fasting for that one to increase the odds of not having to do the three hour test. I told the Dr. when he asked how much the lil boy was moving, a lot! The last few days he moves all the time. The doc says that is good, because we want active babe.

Everything is doing good here! Time to head off to bed!

Can you Tell What I did?

I did it,I couldn't help myself. I couldn't stand it anymore. I tried to get a better pic, but it was late and I was using my cell phone. So this is as good as it gets tonight. Can you tell the difference?? Well if you guessed that I trimmed Grace's hair and gave her bangs then your right! Her hair was getting kind of long in the front and not so much on the sides and since I dont have time in the mornings to put it in cute little pony tails. I sat her on my bathroom counter and combed her hair forward and with one swipe of the scissors they were no longer in her face. I confess I didn't want to and I had to save the little bits of baby hair.

What do you think?

Chips and Salsa Anyone?

Its amazing isn't it? What our children like and don't like? Grace has never been a condiment kind of gal. She doesn't like ranch or ketchup, she prefers her meat plain. Unless its meatloaf in which case I make mine with salsa in it. I also make her scrambled eggs with cheese and salsa on the weekend and I am pretty sure she prefers those over pancakes!

So it came really as no surprise when she figured out that when she dips her chip in salsa and tastes it, it actually is good and tastes like salsa! Of course the end of dinner time was not fun and I had to take her out because she was whining and screaming really loud and its quite echo-ie in Don Antonios. Plus there were that many people so it was totally noticeable!

She is so cute though, and when we got back home she got to color with her crayons for a little bit and we bounced a new bouncey ball we got at the grocery off her head a few times. (Thanks to Pepaw she thinks thats funny and now ducks her head into the toss lol!)

I don't know about you all but I am glad its Tuesday and tomorrow is Wednesday. Although I am sad that the last of my long weekends have come to an end and I have to work this Saturday.

I am 22 weeks today and our lil baby boy was moving a lot today! This morning, around lunch time and dinner time as well. Normally I just feel him around morning and about 8pmish. I felt pretty good today, not so tired so that was nice. I got a new pair of black maternity work pants and they have a big belly band waist. I had rolled it down this morning and it rolled up by itself. I had thought it was going to bug me but I never felt it at all, all day! The best 20 bucks I spent on work pants! I probably will wear those till I am done! Which is nice because nothing has been comfortable to wear to work lately. Home, yeah, I can wear whatever slouchy clothes I want. But looking semi decent and pregnant is a pain! So I am thrilled about my purchase, also I got a cute maternity dress as well. Its more summery and nice for weekend wear but I think it might be ok with a sweater tossed over for work. Our prenantal appointment is Thursday and I will update you, till then hugs!

Some of our weekend....

We found out how good of a climber Grace is now this weekend, this is one way. She walked over to the ladder at the party and started climbing. Yes daddy was right there the whole time, so ran and got the camera to document her fearlessness.

....and because I am trying to watch a movie at the same time I am going to make this a short post as far as me jabbering goes. Which may or may not suit you... :)

Saturday morning we were invited to our friends and former landlords place for a breakfast party and to watch a small parade that goes by their house. It was a lot of fun. They had their breakfast party with their neighbors (who have a such a neat yard with ducks, a goose, dogs, lots of shade trees and little ponds and streams) we lined the sidewalk and Grace loved the parade as soon as she realized she could go pick up candy they were throwing!!!

More to come later!