February 7, 2012

Keric has his very first ever "Balentimes Day" a.k.a. Valentine's day party in a week. His teachers asked that he have his valentines all done and brought to school on Friday so that they could get their little bags all put together.

So after I picked him up from school today, we went to Wal-mart and picked out a few things for him to give to his class for Valentines day. I LOVE all of Wal-mart's 97cent things during the Holidays! I love even more that he has exactly 24 kids in his class, which means I only have to buy 2 packages of pretty much everything, and I have no left overs! :)

So tonight after dinner we put together his little Valentine bags. I found some really cute cellophane bags and we filled them up with suckers, smarties, conversation hearts (of COURSE!) and a tiny little bottle of bubbles. The little bottle of bubbles was the one thing Keric really wanted to put in his little treat bags, and since I'm fairly sure each child will only be able to blow about 5 bubbles out of each bottle, I figured the parents couldn't be too mad me. :)

After we filled the treat bags, I helped Keric sign his name on the Transformer Valentine's that he chose, and then we wrapped them all up and got them ready to go for Friday.

He was so cute while we were filling the bags. He kept telling me that he was having so much fun with his "Balentimes" and how much his friends were going to love them. :) I'm so thankful that he has so much fun at preschool and has such great teachers and friends. :)

February 6, 2012

Today was another 2 week Dr.'s appointment in SLC with Dr. Holmes. I sort of had a feeling that today's appointment would be a little different. Not that anything "bad" would happen, just something you kind of know in your gut, but need to hear from your Dr.

I believe Dr. Holmes exact phrase was "You're growing one big baby in there aren't ya?" Yep...I'm huge!! No hiding that fact!!

I am measuring 4cm bigger than I should be right now, and even though I had lost a little bit of weight this time, Carson is estimated to weigh about 6lbs right now. It's sort of weird to think that he weighs MORE right now than Keric weighed when he was born at just under 36 weeks!

I have an ultra sound scheduled for Monday Feb. 13, and I think the results of that ultra sound will most likely determine my fate.

There of course is an off chance that I just have a lot of fluid, but I don't know? I don't have any swelling, and I haven't hardly gained any weight. I'm not sure that I just have lots of fluid is honestly going to be the outcome.

I have been having some contractions off and on. Nothing really major or consistent, but contractions non the less.

So our conversation with Dr. Holmes was basically that depending on the ultra sound, Carson may come early on his own, due to his size and the contractions that I have been having, or she may end up taking him early via C-section because of his size. She said she didn't want to risk hurting my new hip trying to deliver a 10 pound baby. I'm glad, because I really don't want to mess up my hip!! ouch!

Of course no one knows what my body would have done or will do naturally since I had to be induced with Keric, but I'm hoping that the C-section thing can be avoided if at all possible!

If that is what is best for Carson, then so be it...I of course will do it, and I will be as happy as I can about it. :) However my ideal situation, at least in my thinking today, would be that I just "naturally" go into labor around 36 weeks and deliver a half way normal sized baby on my own!

Right now I think Chris and I are trying to mentally prepare ourselves for a C-section outcome. Guess now all we do is wait. I'm GREAT at waiting as we ALL know!

February 5, 2012

Some days it's hard to find one main event to take a picture of and post. Other days it seems like lots of things happen, and I just kind of have to choose the one I think best sums up the day.

Today I suppose there are lots of "pictures" that I could post. I could post a picture of us at Stake Conference and write about how excited Keric was to go to a "new church" and how excited he was to watch a "movie" and then 5 mins. later tell me how he really didn't LIKE the movie and wanted to go back home.

I could post the winning score of the Superbowl between the Patriots and the Giants. By the way the team I wanted to win did! :) That never happens! I was routing for the Giants simply because the last time they played the Patriots in a Superbowl they lost, so I figured it was their turn to win, thus my reasoning for cheering them on. I know...real great logic, but hey ya gotta route for the underdog right?

I could post pictures of all the food we ate at Mama Anne's house, and talk about how we all stuffed our faces watching a game that I don't think a one of us really truly cared about!

I could also post a picture of all the news coverage that has been happening about Josh Powell and how he killed himself and his two little boys in a house explosion this afternoon. I could write pages about how upsetting this story has been to listen to and to watch. I could write about how I honestly cried for those little boys as I read and listened to the news through out the day.

But instead I decided to post a picture of me and Keric right before I tucked him in to bed tonight. My hair is a mess, it's taken at a weird angel, and I'm sure I look like I've been crying off and on all day because...well I have, but this seemed like the picture that was best to record this day.

I'm extra thankful for my little boy, and for his safety today. I'm thankful that as I tucked him in tonight I know that not only does he have a Mommy and Daddy who love him more than he understands, but that he has a Daddy who loves his Mommy. A Daddy who would never do anything intentionally to hurt his Mommy or to hurt him, and a Daddy who will always keep us both safe!

As I get ready for bed tonight, I hope the NY Giants and their fans are having a wonderful celebration party tonight. I hope it's as big and full of confetti, cheers, and hugs as I'm sure the party in Heaven has been today between a Mom and her two little boys. My party tonight will instead be very low key, no guests, no confetti, just me, my thoughts and my quiet prayers of gratitude for my wonderful family.

February 4, 2012

Yesterday Chris started prepping the bathroom for paint. Earlier this week he re-did the caulking and let that set and dry, and then today he started taping. The plan was that he would do the prep work, and I would paint the walls.

Well...lets be honest. As much as I honestly really DID want to paint the walls, I have had little to NO painting experience, and even though people make it look easy, I'm sure it is far from it.

When it got right down to it, me climbing up on ladders, walking around the rim of the tub/shower, and trying to kneel on the vanity was probably not the smartest of ideas. I mean we all remember the dusting of the light fixtures incident around Christmas time right? I still have a bump on my ankle from that little trip and fall.

As big as my belly is, and as bad as my balance is with and I suppose even without the belly, we decided Chris would paint the bathroom. He was willing to do the high parts, but that's just silly to do part of it, and have another person do another part. Just paint it and be done.

In true Christopher fashion, the poor guy was up until 6:30 a.m. this morning finishing up the paint! Poor guy!! I don't know how he does these all nighter projects!

The bathroom looks beautiful! I seriously LOVE the color, and again my pictures don't do it any justice! Chris took the light fixture out, so I tried to get a picture with the natural light coming in, but it still looks a little weird in the picture, sorry.

So I guess you'll just have to trust me that it's very pretty, and I'm really excited about everything coming together! I'm not the only one who is excited...Keric is beside himself with excitement! He even prays for his Mickey Bathroom every night in his prayers. Silly boy! :)

February 3, 2012

I'm pretty sure that most EVERY day at preschool is Keric's "favorite" day, but he gets just a little more excited about Show and Tell day. The first Friday of every month is show and tell day, and he asks me about every other preschool day if it's show and tell day yet! So when I told him today was FINALLY show and tell, he was SO excited!

I love to see each month what he chooses to take. I've never told him what to take, I just tell him to go find something to bring to school and show the kids. I let him choose it all on his own. Sometimes I THINK I know what he will choose, but it always ends up being somewhat of a surprise when he emerges from his room with that months Show and Tell.

Today he chose his Optimus Prime Transformer that Grandma Anne bought him a couple weeks ago. He told me that it was his favorite toy! Hmmmm guess I didn't know that. :)

I wish I could be a little fly on the wall and watch him each month during Show and Tell. When I pick him up I always ask him what he told his teacher and the other kids about the various things he brings with him, but his answer is always the same "I don't know." *sigh*

February 2, 2012

Keric is going through a new phase of life. One that I am trying to embrace a little more each day.

I thought that it was just little girls who liked to pick out their clothes, but I guess that is just a myth. Keric likes to have a say in what he wears every day. Some days he is more opinionated than others, but trust me, there is always something he is wearing that HE picked out, and I didn't.

Some days he asks to just keep wearing his jammies, other days, he wants to just wear his unders, and he has even asked a couple times to just be naked!! If it isn't a school day, and we aren't going anywhere, I let him decide what he wants to wear, unless the request is unders or naked!

Thankfully all of his clothes from last summer have been put away, so I don't have to have the fight about whether or not he can wear shorts! :)

This morning we woke up to snow. I guess we have had so little snow this year that Keric believes snow = Christmas. He told me several times today that it was Christmas. There is no use trying to debate this topic... I tried!

After his bath we went to get him dressed and this was the outfit he insisted on wearing! His Santa shirt...! Of course because it's Christmas! I forgot the shirt was even still in his closet!

Oh well...we don't have anywhere to go today, but if we DO happen to, I hope people won't judge me too harshly. At least it isn't his jammies!

February 1, 2012

So my picture for today doesn't look like much, but this is the beginning of another project that I have in mind for the Mickey Bathroom.

I found a Walt Disney font that looks like Walt Disney's handwriting, and I am planning on cutting the words "Tubby Time" out in vinyl and placing them on the little sign. I also have some Mickey ears that I want to put on there as well.

Around the sign I want to hang black and white pictures of my boys during "Tubby Time". I have a ton of pictures of Keric in the bath at various points in his little life, and plan to have just as many of Carson when he gets here. I guess it will be a project in the works for a little while seeing as how half of the models aren't here.

My hopes were to finish the little sign today, but I ran out of White vinyl, and I'm not sure I want to do the letters in Black. So...there it sits...unfinished. Hopefully it will be done tomorrow!