Around the House

Daddy's work has been slammed this week. We don't complain, it's great, but he has had some long nights getting things done. The nice thing is, it's right by where we live and some nights we can go hang out at the office while he gets stuff done. The kids love it there, and they are too entertained to get in Daddy's way. Gabe is very into coloring, drawing, and letters right now. Some letters she can write by herself, but right now she loves copying things you write. Here is her great attempt at her name. She was so proud, not too bad for an extra long name eh? We do officially have her enrolled in a preschool for fall. it actually was kinda stressful finding one we felt good about. She is stoked and tells us she wants to practice for it. She also is getting really interested in trying to read on her own, so that's nice. 

This is her drawing a picture of her bear sticker. She likes to find things, and then try to copy drawing them. She's getting pretty dang good if I do say so myself. 

Ollie being his cute self. I love those big eyes, they are my favorite.

 

Gotta love Daddy teaching him how to be destructive 

This week I ventured our to a ward Girl's night on Thursday. It was a little random, but nice to get out and meet new people. I was very proud of myself, cause group things are not my thing. I'd rather just hang with a few people. Then Friday night we got a babysitter, one of the substitute BOA's from Adam's work watched our kiddos. Her name is Tamera and the kids love her. She's an older lady who doesn't have younger grand kids anymore or close ones. So she asked if she could watch them while we went to a work dinner. They all had a blast, and Ollie did great. It was nice to visit with the other FA's in the area and their wives. 

 My wonderful hubby let me sleep in Saturday and he hung out with the kids. They played with some leggos that Tamera let them borrow. They got us some take out breakfast, and did some fun things around the house. 

While Daddy cleaned the garage, the kids played. Gabe is very into her bike right now. She needs a new big girl one. (bday plans) Daddy even hooked up the trailer. It worked well and she could easily pull it, despite the video where she gets stuck and yells, "Come on!" She got that phrase from Daddy.

 

Also Saturday I asked Ad to build me these shelves for our storage bins that I saw on Pinterest. We didn't want to spend tons of money on shelves for the garage knowing we wouldn't live here too long. So this was the cheaper nice option. I can still stack my bins, and have them easily accessible to slide around without moving all the others. Once we get our stuff from up north, they'll all be filled. Thanks Babe you're wonderful!

 When Gabe and Daddy ran down to St George to get supplies at Home Depot, they took a detour to a golfing range. Gabe got some golfing in as well. When I asked how she liked it, she told me it's lots of fun, and like the library cause you have to be quiet. 

Here's some footage of her skills

Back to AZ

So Adam is back to AZ for training this week. In the past when he went he'd go from Sunday to Friday. From now on when he goes every six months or so, he does "short" trips. So that means Sunday to Wednesday. Still feels long to me, but I am glad it's not until Friday.This time they didn't have late Sunday flight options, so he had to leave early this morning. He also flies in Wednesday at 11 pm. This morning we had to wake the kids up to take him. It's a little further now that we live in Hurricane. On Wednesday I guess I'll just throw the sleeping kids in the car and go get him and see how things go. We kinda already predicted Ollie will wake up, stay awake the whole time, and when we get home, not want to go back to bed for a few hours. Then he'll wake up at six in the morning and be crazy all day. SUPER FUN. Gabe will sleep through it all most likely. Hey at least one is easy.

Since he already has an office, and not all of his classmates do, they have higher expectations for him. Bigger goals to hit. He has to open a certain amount of accounts and get a certain number in goals. He's not too thrilled, but oh well. He did find out that one of the guys he became friends with who got behind and couldn't come to the last one, got caught up and will be there this time. That's nice to have people you get along with. Plus he's from Reno, so they get along well.

Gabe has already asked twice when Daddy will be home and broke down crying once when I again explained how many days he'll be gone. Gotta love a Daddy's girl. She also had me send Daddy a picture of her pretty hair, cause he wouldn't get to see how cute she looked that day and she knew he would just love her hair. I found out I probably should have grocery shopped prior to him leaving, when finding we didn't have what I thought we did in cupboards. Even though I don't do a lot of "real" meals when he's gone, cause my kids never end up eating what I cook. So I end up cooking a lot for just myself. So I guess the nice thing is our meals will be quick and simple to shop for. Gabe has already given me a list of things she wants to go do, so we'll see what we can handle. Wish I wasn't huge and prego this time around while you're gone. It'd be a lot easier to entertain. Oh well, such is life.

I will try and do my usual daily blog updates for Adam to see if I can. We really don't get time to talk to him when he's there. So he likes being able to see what we were up to. I however, can't guarantee it'll happen. Only cause once the kids are down for the night I have a goal to get caught up on some blog book projects that I am REALLY behind on. So if it doesn't happen babe, I promise i'll try and text pictures. Love you and miss you already!

At 30/31 Weeks

I have gone to do a post for each of these weeks multiple times. I never get finished. I had a combined one almost done, and when I came back to it, blogger hadn't saved it. It probably was my fault, cause I really don't understand their new system or layout stuff. I am catching on, but I don't think I love it. Oh well. So here is a quick overview of the last few weeks.

I had another doctor appointment and gained two pounds. Not bad, but not as good as I would have liked. I haven't been eating as good though. I'm back to it now, and it really does make a difference in how I feel too. It just takes time to eat good. I'm sooo tired this whole pregnancy, so anything helps. Anyway I have gone back to my first trimester nausea. It's kinda a sick joke really. I didn't have that with either of my others. Every morning it takes a few hours before I feel some what functional. It's oh so lovely. I can't decide with is worse, the nausea, or the pain and uncomfortableness I had with Ollie. It's kinda a toss up. Every little thing seems like such a huge chore lately. Mainly cooking and bending to give my kids baths. I know that sounds so pathetic, but it's true. I don't have the energy to wrestle and battle with Ollie either. It's getting harder.

This baby also is still sideways in me. It's really weird for me, cause my other two have always been head down in my pelvis laying on my nerves in my third trimesters. I like this a lot better. :) I feel so much better. I probably shouldn't say that, cause then baby will decide to flip on me and I'll have nerve issues. :) The only thing I DON'T love about sideways baby is sleeping. It kicks my ribs, and if I roll to the other side I feel like I am laying on it's head. Poor thing. It will eventually flip when I get closer to being due, but right now I actually think I prefer it this way. I felt baby have hiccups a few times. Usually at night when I am sleeping. I feel bad for it. It shakes my whole stomach, it's gotta be jerking the kid around in there.

I have started to get better at practicing my breathing at night for hypnobirthing. One night I got in bed before Adam and I was determined to relax myself and fall asleep before him. Ha! Adam got into bed and I kid you not, was snoring in two seconds. It was so fast. I couldn't believe it. He says he just gets into his sleeping position and relaxes. Oh is that all it takes? Maybe I need relaxing lessons from him. We also have been trying so hard to narrow names down. I kinda don't love it, and we are both kinda over it. We finally took some that we loved the most and asked Gabe what she thought. She was very certain that the baby should be called certain ones. She has started to call the baby by the girl name that she loves the best. It's kinda funny, but not. Only cause I think it kinda will make us all used to calling it that, and if it is a girl she won't want to call it something else if we want to change it later. Ha. Guess we'll find out.

Baby weighs 3 pounds and is about 15-16 inches long. It has some good head hair by now (hopefully) and it's eyebrows and eyelashes have formed. It's also getting that fuzzy body hair all over. It's head is my proportional to it's body now. It's bones are hardening and calcium is being formed. It's eye sight is slowly getting developed some.

I feel like I am finally getting used to the fact that I'm gonna have three. Ha! About time huh? Now I'm just wanting all my baby stuff so I can have some fun baby shopping for things that we are missing. I think my biggest stress is probably my kids adjusting. Ollie is such a Mommy's boy, which I love most days, but will be so hard for him when baby gets here. Gabe also is in this dependent stage where she can't do anything by herself all of a sudden. It's tricky and hopefully it gets better in two months. Is that possible? Anyway that's about it for now.

Ollie's 18 Month Check Up (1 month late)

We had Ollie's 18 (19) month check up today. We moved it back to April, because he only had one shot left to get until he goes to school, but it had to be a certain amount of time from his last shots. So instead of paying for two appointments, his doctor told us to come in April. So today it was. Can I just tell you after our stitches experience, Ollie hates doctors. He doesn't love it. They just make him soooo nervous. He really had this terrified look on his face the whole time, and is almost in tears at certain points. He was a trooper though and did okay. He did not want to be touched. Every time the doctor or nurse did, he would shove their hands off him. He finally got better towards the end, and then he got his shot. Ha! Bummer.

I really do like his doctor. I love the information that she gives, and how much time she spends with us in an appointment answering questions. She sends me home with all sorts of info as well. Pretty nice. Anyway, even though our Ollie boy is growing like a weed, it's not so much his weight. He weighs 27 pounds, which is around the 63 percentile. He is only a few pounds lighter than Gabe. (according to our home scale-Gabe's 4 yr appoint is next month so we'll see) His Length has shot up like crazy. At his 16 month appointment he had, he was in the 75 percentile for his height. NOW he is in the 91 percentile. He shot up like crazy. He is 34 inches long. He's pretty tall for his age right now. His head is also large and round in the 98 percentile. He's always had a bigger head, hope he grows into it some day. I had to fill out an Autism questionnaire as well, he passed that with flying colors. We talked about sleeping, behavior, language, etc. Everything looked great. Even though he refuses to spout words left and right like his sister did and still does, he does know a lot more words than is recommended for his age. He also makes up his own signs for things, which is good as well. She thought it was funny that he kinda refuses to learn the words we want him to, and teaches himself stuff like napkin and bib. Silly boy.

At every appointment they send you home with growth milestone papers with information. It was amazing to me to see part of it talk about looking for potty training readiness between 18 and 24 months. Dang, don't feel ready for that, even though he does seem intrigued by it. As much as I would love having him out of diapers when baby is here, I'm not about to attempt that until I know he's ready. It talked about appetite diminishing, which made me feel better, cause his has. She also talked to me about his oral hygiene and having no flouride in the water here. So he and Gabe get to take fluoride tablets until their permanent teeth come in. Kinda nice, hopefully that will help prevent horrible teeth. Now we just need to get dentist stuff set up in the next little while for them both. Anyway, there is the latest and the greatest for our little man.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Well we finally got around to flying our kites from Easter. Sort of. It's not that we haven't wanted to, we just haven't had wind. Who would have known "windy" Hurricane isn't that windy in the Spring. I guess it's usually a fall/winter thing. Well you live you learn. Poor Gabe has been begging multiple times EVERY day to go and try to fly her kite. We have explained we need to go with Daddy and when it's windy. She tries to check for wind every few minutes. So last night Adam left work in a hurry to try to catch some of the breeze that had picked up. We had a picnic dinner, and headed up to this park on a hill to better our chances. Well we weren't that lucky. There was a slight breeze. So we ran and ran trying to get them up. Yes I ran and ran for a bit too. We got a little flight if we kept moving. 

He spotted a dog and was excited..

He then decided to be one himself.

Ollie was content just to climb up the stairs and go down the slide over and over while Gabe and Daddy tried and tried to get the kites in the air. 

He did eventually want a turn

We decided to take a break and play for a bit. When we were talking of leaving, the wind finally picked up. We got some good flights. Gabe was in heaven, and thought that was a lot more fun than running and running trying to get them up.

She kept posing for me 

Ollie could drive the steering wheel all day. He looks for them at every park we go to.

SUCCESS!!!

So then Ollie wanted a turn, and liked it too. He kinda walked off with it and eventually just let go.

If you look close you can see Ollie pointing to his kite flying away. And you can see the red handle on the ground a ways away. I promise the power lines were a lot further away than they look. A lot of people fly kites there, because of the space on the grass. Well when you let go and it's in flight, it soars for a while we learned. Ha! Over into power lines and into the dog park. 

After a tangled mess, Daddy did rescue his kite

She was so excited to have it finally work. Seriously, I think the last time I flew a kite was when I was a little kid. It was so fun. Gabe was already begging to do it again when we were leaving. So I guess it is gonna have to be done more frequently. 

Around the House

One day I promised Gabe we'd make something yummy. I wasn't feeling too up to it, so I ended up making sugar cookies from a box. So nice we had it on hand. Adam and I started a house project, and Gabe wanted to frost the cookies pretty bad. So I sent her to it. It was her "important" job and she took it very seriously. She was so excited that she was the one in charge of doing it all on her own. They turned out delicious. When she was done she made us all close our eyes and come up to the table, where we opened our eyes to her yummy cookie surprise.

Gabe fell asleep for a nap, which hardly ever happens. Ollie woke before her, and was so excited to be able to be the one to get her up. She wasn't quite as excited by his enthusiasm to cuddle her and climb in with her. It was pretty cute though. She pouted and he cheesed it. 

Cooking anything is such a chore for me right now. Especially since it's so blasted hot in the kitchen when we do. So we BBQ often. We all love it. We usually make enough for salads and left overs for the week.

Doing a lot of park trips with the nice weather. I tried posting some videos, but it wouldn't work. Dang blogger. It's been doing so well lately. Not anymore, it's giving me issues again.