HAHAHA!

Here are some random photos left from October. Andrew is such a funny kid some times. Some of the photos make me laugh out loud every time I see them! Just thought I'd share. Enjoy.

Andrew picked out his outfit.

Andrew didn't want us to put away the Halloween pillows yet. If they are going, I'm going too mom!

Tee-hee! No explanation needed right?

He goes "nigh night" in some random places. It's funny when we discover him.

Ok, so these photos make me laugh every time I see them. He was being so funny this day. It was hard to get a good photo because of the light in the room and reflection of the flash, but you get the idea. (Just finished showering)

I'm literally crying right now as I type this from laughing...

Hope you enjoyed our funny little guy!

Happy Halloween!

We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween yesterday. We wanted to take Andrew out one last time as Mickey. We went Trick-or-Treating around our neighborhood with some friends and had a lot of fun.

Andrew wasted no time opening his candy.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!



And just in case you're not sick of seeing Andrew in his Mickey outfit, here are a few photos taken a few weeks ago. We wanted to make sure he'd wear his costume. He sure did!




Hope you enjoyed our little Mickey Mouse. Happy Halloween everybody!

Trunk of Treat

Our Church ward does a fun Halloween activity called Trunk or Treat. Last night a bunch of people got together and we ate chili and rolls and then started the traditional Trunk or Treat. We met at a school parking lot where people can decorate their trunks and hand out candy. The kids walk from car to car trick-or-treating in a safe environment with people they know. It's really fun and Andrew seemed to have a good time. It took some convincing to get him in his Micky outfit but we told him he'd get candy if he did. He didn't quite understand the "trick or treat" concept. He just handed out his bag to people and got candy. Or he would grab a handful and try to figure out how to hold it, get the sucker he was eying in his mouth, and put the rest in the bag. We don't give Andrew much candy, so I was surprised to see how much he wanted it. Mainly the suckers because that's about all he knows. We got some pretzels from a car and I thought that would be a good treat for Andrew. He was enjoying them until he spilled them all over the ground. Poor little guy was heartbroken so of course we had to dip into the good stuff.

We found Minnie!

Andrew was a little nervous/timid at first, but once he learned that they gave him candy, he'd walk right up to them holding out his bag.

At one point, Andrew found an empty chair and climbed in and started digging through his bag. He came up with a bag of skittles, which must be the best form of fruit snacks he's ever had. I was a bit behind Ryan and Andrew so when I came up to him sitting down and eating his treasure I thought it was pretty funny.

The skittles detour didn't stop him though. He kept on going to other cars with his bag.

I'm not sure how, but he figured out how to open a tootsie pop. He had much fun eating that one on the way home.

We had a lot of fun at Trunk or Treat! And since I'm now waking up early (4am because I'm sick) I can post these things right away! I do have more photos of Andrew in his Micky outfit that I'll try to post later.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!

It's a ......

I'm sitting here eating my cereal and checking email, but I've been up since 6:30am. For those who know me, that's not only early, that's crazy that I would actually get out of my warm comfy bed and start my day. I've got some cold or something that is acting weird (sore throat one day, fine the next, stuffy nose next day, fine, etc) Weird. Allergies? Anyway. I couldn't sleep very well last night and I am actually very very very nervous about today.

Today we find out if our next heir will be a boy or girl. It shouldn't really matter right? This pregnancy has been so tough on me. I know I can get through it, but it really sucks sometimes. I had about one week where I actually felt better, but then I fell back to the familiar first trimester symptoms.

The hardest part for me is that I don't BELIEVE we're having another kid. One is enough for me right now. Andrew is starting his "no" phase. Great. Plus his throwing tantrums over the fact I won't give him scissors. Really? Of course I'm not going to give you scissors! He's not my little obedient little boy anymore. I used to brag about how good he was. Ok, he's still a good kid, but he requires more patience. I don't think I was born with patience so this is hard for me. Plus now I'm sick and tired all the time my patience level is almost zero.

Andrew did throw a fit in Walmart. He wanted out of his cart so I let him out. He then went down the can foods isle with his arms our wide trying to hit each can. He didn't hit it hard enough to knock it over, but enough to move it. I didn't want him to knock them over and make a big mess so I told him to stop. He freaked out and started crying his fake cry. I walked about 10 feet away and just waited. Every few cries he would look up to see if I was watching. I would ask him if he was done. He would scream NO! and I said ok, well, get it all out! A mom walked by and looked at him, looked at me and smiled. She said, "You're such a patient mom". I thought that was funny because I was just too exhausted to fight him and didn't care if he cried in Walmart. Maybe patience comes in different forms.

Ok, I'm getting off topic. So I still don't feel pregnant (well, of course besides all the awesome side effects) I just feel off. I think today it might become real and that scares me. I want another little one in our family, I'm just nervous for the transition. Not just for Andrew, but for me. I know I can do it. We wanted the kids to be 2.5 years apart, and that's exactly when this baby is due. I guess I'm just scared for the unknown. I know how to take care of a boy, but if it's a girl...I don't know how to take care of a girl! I have no girl clothes. Although I have awesome toys from my childhood in the attic. I guess that's a start.

Why am I panicking? I don't even know. Ah!

I will post more when we know...

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Alrighty here we go!

Back from the Dr. Here is his/her beautiful close up :) Any guesses? Boy? Girl?

It's A...................



GIRL!

Andrew 2 year apt.

Hey all. Yes it's been a while since an Andrew update. He had his 2 year dr. appointment this week. Here are his stats.

As of 10-5-10:
Weight - 27lbs (35%)
Height - 35 3/4 in (80%)
Head - 19 1/2 in (70%)

He got 2 shots and the flu puff thingy. He did very well.

New favorite

One of those days...

So, now that the word is out about my pregnancy, this blog may become my ranting space for a while (just to give Ryan a break). :)

Soooooo.... I woke up with a slight sore throat on Sunday. I thought, great, I'm getting a cold. But the sore throat went away quickly with out any other cold symptoms so then I thought I just slept with my mouth open or something. The same thing happened on Monday but the sore throat lasted a bit longer. By the afternoon I had this horrible headache that almost made me dizzy. I took a nap for a few hours, which did help some, but the headache lingered. I noticed my neck really hurt (I thought I slept funny on it) and my eyes burned! It hurt to watch tv or open them for a long time. I thought I was just overly tired. I took some Tylenol and went to bed.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I had the sore throat again. I'm still able to eat and swallow so I'm not really sure what's going on. About once a year I get post nasal drip which is a bad sore throat with lots of drainage (tmi?) but my sinuses were fine so I was confused. I finally looked in my throat and, wa-la! My tonsils which are usually large are more red and have little white dots on them. (yuck, I know). So I call my Dr. and they want to see me right away. But I guess right away means the next day. I call my OBGYN to make sure that I'm not in any danger of having to rush in right now or something. They say I'm ok, so I take a shower and call Ryan.

My throat is getting worse and I see the spots are too. I call the Dr. again and they move me to an afternoon apt. Great. 1:00. I have to leave by 3:00 to take Ryan's parents to the airport. I can do it. 2 hours is plenty of time. I know I'll be sitting a while so I borrow Ryan's mom's book, The Hunger Games (third time reading it, still love it). I get in and do the paperwork (this is my first time to this family dr.) and I hear, "oh is that the pregnant one?" I guess it's better than "oh is that the one with the ugly face?" It's good they know I'm pregnant though because the shirt I'm wearing doesn't give any clue.

So the nurse does the typical blood pressure, weight, etc tests and I'm waiting for the dr. He comes in and he says, "hey, it's good to see you again". I think, hmm, I've never met this man before but ok. I tell him this is my first visit. He looks at me and says, "are you sure?" Silly man. I told him my friend was in a week ago and I've heard (multiple times) that we look alike. He remembers her (so he says) and says ohhh yaaaa.

Anyway, he's super nice and friendly and did his studying or fellowship or whatever at an OB's office so he's very familiar with pregnancy and us fat girls so that makes me feel more comfortable. He orders a strep test from a nurse. When he goes out to tell her to do it I hear him say, "Remember she's pregnant and has bad nausea. Put on your rubber scrubs." "oh great" "ya sorry". Um, hello!? I can hear you! They were joking, but still. I promised the nurse I wouldn't throw up on her. She didn't seem convinced.

She did the test, which hurt by the way, and went off to the lab. I'm reading my book. Forever passes and I need to leave for the airport in 15 minutes and it takes me that long to get home. I'm about ready to go tell someone I need to leave when I hear the nurse knock on the door next to mine and say "negative on strep" So that's good news. I'm waiting for her to come in, but she doesn't. The Dr. comes in about 5 minutes later. Yay no strep, but tonsillitis. Easy to fix he says. He writes me a prescription, I thank him and hurry home.

Ideally I wanted to drop off the prescription at the pharmacy, but now there is no time. I think I can drop it off with Ryan at his work and he can take it for me, but Ryan is not answering his phone. I'm hungry (because I didn't want to eat while they are poking around my throat) and tired and just want to go home to sleep. Of course there is a train in my way. I think I can beat the system and go a little farther down and cross over to the neighborhood there. Nope. It was another neighborhood with no exit that I could find. So I wasted time there, then get stuck behind a slow car all the way to my street! (a 10 minute drive turned into 15). DAH! I have to get back.

I park, leave my door open, run in, make a sandwich, go to the bathroom and we're in the car going to the airport. I didn't even remember Andrew's diaper bag! Good thing Ryan's mom did. Ryan's dad offers to drive, but driving sometimes helps keep me from getting motion sick so I drive.

Houston people drive crazy. They all drive fast and really close so I don't love driving on the freeway. Luckily Ryan calls me and tells me there is traffic downtown and to go another way. Pretty smooth sailing to the airport. I make it there in just under an hour. I give Ryan's mom her book, and say goodbye. We're on our way back, take another way home and I'm back before 5:30. Awesome.

I have time to drop off my prescription. I'm too tired to do it so Ryan says he will when I get home. Great. I get home and I can't find my prescription form anywhere! I tear the car and my purse apart....

I put it in the book...

Great. Now my prescription is half way to California.

I go inside and just break down. I feel awful and I just want to sleep. Ryan and Andrew come in to check on me and Andrew gives me lots of hugs. It helps. I figure I'll just call my Dr. in the morning and have them send the prescription over and I'll go get it.


TODAY. WEDNESDAY.

So my OBGYN's office wakes me up today. I had blood work and other testing done on Friday and she was calling with the results. I'm a little foggy because she woke me up and my voice is weird from the tonsillitis. She said I tested positive for strep b. I told her no, I don't have strep, I was tested yesterday. I have tonsillitis. She said strep b is something totally different. Oh ya. I forgot. I'm confused though. She said it's ok, I just need to be on some antibiotics now and when the baby is born. I tell her I have tonsillitis and that I'm going to be on antibiotics today already. She has to check to see if those antibiotics will work for both things.

Meanwhile, Ryan is now getting sick. Andrew is still sleeping, but yesterday on the way to the airport he threw up a little bit. It is so rare for him to do that, but I didn't think much of it. After doing some research, kids who get tonsillitis sometimes throw up.

I have a feeling it's going to be a long day...


(thanks for letting me vent!)

News...

In case you haven't heard...we are expecting another baby! I am 14 weeks pregnant and due in mid March. It still doesn't seem real to me. This pregnancy has been much harder than the first (and I thought that was bad!). I've been sick every day and I have been getting a headache every day for a month. The sickness varies from a combination of being punched in the stomach, hunger pains, eating so much I could explode and nausea. (it's confusing too, am I hungry or full?) I have very little strength and energy and need 8-12 hours of sleep. Some nights I go to bed when Andrew does around 8 and I wake up when he does at 8am. I usually wake up 2 times, and stay away for an hour each time. Not ideal, but if I wait to go to bed later then I'm super sick and I can't relax to go to bed and I end up with less sleep than if I wake up in the night. Oh well.

I've had a lot of help, especially from Ryan. He has been doing triple duty! He comes home on his lunch break when I'm really sick and feeds Andrew and puts him down for a nap. Then he feeds me and puts me down for a nap. Then feeds himself and goes back to work. Then he comes home from a hard day's work and takes care of us and makes dinner! What a husband!!! Some days I'm just too sick to be around food and Ryan really keeps us from starving. Literally. He makes sure I'm eating a little bit all day to help my nausea. At night, when I'm my sickest, he reads to me to keep my mind occupied and he rubs my back all the time. He cleans the house and plays with Andrew and NEVER complains. What did I do to deserve such a husband? I don't know but I am so grateful for him and his unconditional support and love though this tough time.

Andrew has also been my little trooper. On days when I'm so sick I just cry, Andrew will come over to me and pat my knee and say "mommy tay?" (mommy ok?). Sometimes I tell him no, and he gives me a hug and kiss and asks again. I'm always "tay" after that :)

Also when I'm lying on the couch, sick, he says, "mommy owie" and points to me or my tummy. We haven't tried to teach him about the baby yet. In due time.

Well, like I said, it hasn't set in yet and I don't think it will until we know if it's a boy or girl. Maybe not even then. Ryan is so excited and ready for a little girl. I have a feeling it's a boy though. Who knows. I just want him or her to be healthy... and stop making me sick.

:)

Ok, I figured it out

I'm a big nerd. I figured it out.

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Ok all my blogger friends. I seem to have forgotten how to change the colors of my blog! I can't find that option anywhere! Can someone please help?!

Also, just fyi, we've had some problems uploading videos on the blog and we're working on it.

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Well that didn't work. I'll have to re-do that last entry to add the photos. Sorry about that.

June Update

I know it's July already, but I didn't post much about June. Let's get you caught up.

(I'm also creating this post in Microsoft Word for the first time so let me know if there are problems)

I coached for the local swim team here this summer. The season started in March and ended at the end of June. I had a lot of fun and I'm glad I did it. I don't know if I will do it again next year, but it's a nice feeling when the board members tell me multiple times that they want me back :)

Andrew has been growing by leaps and bounds. (What does that even mean?) He's talking more, and is able to have little conversations and do things. We're trying to teach him that when he's done with his drink, he puts it on the kitchen counter etc. He's catching on.

We went to Chuck E Cheese a few times and I have to say I really like it. It's so kid friendly and Andrew loves to run around with his friends and touch everything.

 

Andrew got another hair cut…

Andrew loves watching Mickey Mouse Club house…

And he gets into trouble…

But he's just so darn cute, that I don't mind.

 

 

That's it for now. I have no idea how big the photos will turn out when they transfer over to the blog so I hope they aren't too big or too small.

Happy Father's Day

Just a little post to say Happy Father's Day to two very important people.

Happy Daddy's day Ryan. Andrew and I love you very much! You are a wonderful father and husband. Thanks for playing with us and making us laugh. I love racing you to get Andrew up from a nap, and we both know Andrew's a Daddy's boy. He loves you so so so much! We are so lucky to have you in our lives. Thanks for all you do for us!

Happy Father's day to my dad. I love you and appreciate all you did for me as a child, and all you do for me now. Thanks for making me climb tall ships and taking me to the zoo in the boogie buggy. Thanks for baseball games and coming to my water polo games and swim meets. Thanks for taking me camping and letting me get dirty. I love you!

Happy Daddy's day to all the Daddys out there!

Disney World Videos!!

I wanted to post some videos from our trip to Florida. Photos will be in the next post. We had so much fun! Enjoy the videos!!!

Before we went to Disney World, we played a lot with our stuffed Mickey here so Andrew would know who he is. We showed him the show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and now he'll climb on the couch and point to the TV and say "Mimee" (Mickey). He loves Mickey.

It was hot and Ryan's parents go this squirt bottle that sprayed water and had a fan on it. Andrew really enjoyed it...

Animal Kingdom

Watch for the bright yellow shirt towards the back...

More fan fun..

Vroom!

Hope you liked our videos!!!

California

The Long Post.

Andrew and I flew back to California for my mom's birthday. I was very worried about the flight. That's an understatement. I got so worried that I couldn't eat anything and juts felt sick with fear that he would cry and scream the whole way. (The last time we came back from California, I was flying with Andrew alone and he cried the whole way. I cried most the way. I had friendly grandparents and flight attendants hold him and try to soothe him (and myself). It was extremely stressful and I vowed I would never fly along with Andrew again.) So I felt my fears were justified.

The flight there was fine. I had struggles getting down the ramp thingy to the airplane because I had to get Andrew out of the car seat and fold up the luggage carrier. (I attached the car seat to a luggage carrier so I could just pull/push Andrew around in that instead of bringing a stroller - absolutely brilliant!) The flight wasn't full, yet two (large) men decided to sit next to me. I'm not sure why, I was in the last row and had a kid on my lap, but whatever. Andrew fell asleep for about half an hour, but I tried to readjust him and woke him up. Drat. He was really sleepy because we were flying during nap time so he just hung out on my lap most the way. I was worried because he could have either been super sleepy, or super crazy because he was so tired. I'm glad it wasn't the latter. He had a few moments where he went a bit stir crazy, but all in all, I was pretty proud of my little bubba.

A new favorite photo.

Andrew got to play with Grandpa.

And our cat Abby. He loved her. He would chase her around saying "tiddy, tiddy" or he would actually call her by name.

Andrew had lots of fun playing outside. My mom and I were gardening, so he played in the dirt.

My parents have this wooden statue of a miner on the deck and Andrew just loved this little guy. He tried to water his mining bowl...

And give him offerings of cat food in his bowl...
And when that didn't work, he tried to feed him the cat food.

Andrew got to spend time with Grandmama too.

We got Andrew a Sharks hat while we were there. (We just had to! They don't sell them here and they're in the playoffs!) We were all impressed at how long he would leave his hat on. We had lots of fun with it.

He played the piano AND sang to us. :)

He loved hiding back behind the chairs.

I love these photos. This was my coat when I was little. There are photos of me in it when we went camping so I made him wear it when it was cold so I could take photos. He loved the coat too!

Katelyn!

ORANGES!

I found him hiding...

I have really missed watching hockey, namely the Sharks, while living in Texas. We don't get the games (until playoffs). So while we were there we all put on our jerseys to watch the Sharks. Andrew got his jersey for Christmas from Grandpa and it says Kearns on the back. My jersey was from when I was a kid. When Andrew sees hockey on TV he raises up his arms and says "gooooooooo" (meaning "goal" because I scream it when they score...) It's very cute.

Working in the garden with Grandmama.

I was worried when he started getting into the cabinets, but he just wanted to point out the apples on the shelves.

te-hee

The flight back was great too! The plane was just over half full, so I had a whole row to myself. We were able to take Andrew's car seat on the plane and he stayed in it the whole time! Even when I got him out so he could move around, he just went back to his car seat. Thanks to our friends who lent us their portable DVD player. Andrew watched Baby Signing Time and other kid videos most the way. He had a few moments of frustration when he didn't want to play with the toys I brought, but other than that, he was great! It was such a blessing!!!!!

(photos from my Mom's party coming soon!)