Father's Day

We were on vacation this father's day so we celebrated a week early at our house. Molly got her daddy a basket of things with the word "pop" in them because he's the best pop there is!

Let me just take a minute to talk about what an amazing father Matt is.  I knew he would be great when I married him, but he has exceeded my expectations! This guy LOVES Molly, and it shows.  He would wake up at night and bring her to me and then want to have her fall asleep on him when she was done eating.  He never complains about changing diapers, giving baths, or any of those kinds of things. He LOVES to check on Molly every single night before we go to bed, and often shows me the funny positions she's sleeping in by doing them on our bed. Haha. I couldn't be a good mom without him and his help and support and I thank Heavenly Father every night for scoring such an amazing husband.  He taught seminary every morning this year, and still helped out with Molly and the house.  I'm telling you... I am so blessed! Just today, Matt took Molly to story time at the library while I went to my doctor's appointment.  I love Matt more and more every day, and love watching him with our daughter.  Thanks babe, for all you do!

Here's some adorable daddy-daughter photos from this past year:

Pregnancy and Other Things...

So, we've known for a few weeks now but I need to document it on the blog. We're having a BOY!!

I kinda knew it was a boy all along, so I wasn't too surprised but we are sooo excited!  The anatomy scan looked great, and we could definitely tell it was a little boy ;)  Baby boy had his hands up by his face pretty much the whole time (just like his sister) and we got this cute photo in what Matt calls boxing position.

This pregnancy is going by WAY TOO FAST! I'm feeling pretty good these days, though starting to feel heavy.  I have tums every day, and have some pretty bad ligament pains when I start moving after being still, and am sooooo tired, but other than that I'm doing pretty awesome! I feel a lot bigger than with the last pregnancy, but it's not too much of a difference when you look side by side.... I think I'm carrying  a lot lower this time.

With Molly

23 Weeks with baby boy

We have so much to do before baby is born so I feel kinda stressed, but don't worry I've been relaxing quite a bit :)  The baby's room needs paint, a ceiling fan, and closet doors fixed.... and then furniture! It takes much longer than last time to get this stuff done because we now have a crazy little toddler to keep busy.



In other news.... we averted a crisis!!

On my birthday, (happy birthday to me!) Molly learned how to climb out of her crib! I was in tears because I was looking forward to a long birthday nap.  Also, we had just decided to keep her in the crib when the baby comes because she was sleeping so well in it. Sooo... I tried to get her to nap but after about 10 tries, I gave up.  That night, she went to bed like nothing happened.  Hallelujah!

So the next day, I was preparing for disaster.  I put her in bed for nap, and watched the video monitor.  As soon as she even looked like she wanted to climb out, I rushed in and told her to lay down. I did that about 12 times, and then she finally got too tired and took a nap. YAY!

Since then it's like she's forgotten she can climb out.  Thank goodness.  We will be watching her carefully, but I think we're good for a little while at least.  I bought a toddler sleep sack just in case it happens more so we can try that, but Molly and I both need a little more time before the switch to a big girl bed.

Love this girl

My Birthday:

Matt bought me chocolate chip muffins and orange juice for breakfast which was awesome and then we opened presents.. I got some wonderful things so thank you everyone!

My dear sweet husband bought be a tub of books from the school district.  I'm talking a bucket as big as the Walmart $5 movie bins.  It was ridiculous! He did it because he saw Sherlock Holmes on the top and knew I had been wanting to read it. So we have books. LOTS of books. EVERYWHERE! I sorted through them and kept one normal sized box of them, but there were some weird books in there.  There were a few capitol punishment books,  a book about PCP (the drug), and a bunch of out of date history and science books. Haha.. it was a good thought, but boy is the clutter driving me nuts, so I hope those books are all out of here soon!

Not even 1/4 of them

Matt went to work, we had the nap crisis, I tutored a high schooler, and then Matt came home a little early from work which was pretty much the best gift ever.

We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, and they made me sit on the saddle and "ye-haw".  I had a hard time getting on it with my belly and round ligament pain haha but it was pretty fun.  I'm 28 and that feels so close to OLD! But my life is so blessed, and I couldn't be happier!

California Trip

We just got back from a week long trip to California.  This was our first real vacation with a little one, and we had an awesome time! I learned a lot about traveling with a toddler and Molly did so good!

We flew from Denver to Orange County on Sunday.  I was super nervous to fly with Molly and to top it off we couldn't find her birth certificate! A hospital bill ended being OK to use as something with here name and birthday, but they did ask for it both ways!

Our flight out was at 8:15am, so we had to wake Molly up at 5:15am to get to the airport.  Security took a while to look through all our baby stuff, and they examined her liquid medicine for about 10 minutes.  She LOVED the moving sidewalks at the airport so her and daddy went up and down them for about 30 minutes while we waited at the gate.

We got to board early which was nice, and a nice older mom sat next to us.  Molly did AMAZING on the flight.  We gave her a different activity about every 10-20 minutes and she was so good. She liked opening and shutting the window, and playing with her stickers best.

We got to CA at about 11:00 so we headed to find somewhere to eat lunch.  We drove to a mall, and let Molly sleep in the car for about an hour before going in to eat and play.  Luckily they had a really nice kid area and rest room since we couldn't check into our condo until 4pm.

Family bathroom at the mall

Monday was our first day at Disneyland. We started in California Adventure.  Molly's favorite part of the day was probably meeting Doc McStuffins.  She liked watching lots of the rides, but once we were on them she was very scared.  She liked the Monsters Inc ride a lot, but other than that she could have cared less about them. I was a little disappointed that I couldn't ride Tower of Terror, but I did ride California Soarin' which is a fun one!

 

Day 2 we stayed mostly in Disneyland.  This time we went home to nap in the late afternoon and came back after dinner.  I wish we would have done this everyday! The park at night was fun.  We got to catch a little park of the awesome parade after getting stuck on It's a Small World.  Molly loved Small World, the Storyland boats, Finding Nemo's Submarine, and waving her magic glow wand around.  Some of those kiddy rides are SCARY and she did not like the dark ones (which is like all the classic rides). I got some nasty blisters on my toes from walking so much that day.

The whole crew!

On It's a Small World

Still on Small World....

Still on Small World...

Day 3 was exhausting for me.  This pregnant lady was tired, blistered and jealous that she couldn't ride anything exacting. I may or my not have had a meltdown around lunch time... I did get to ride Splash Mountain a couple times even though it said it wasn't recommended for extant mothers. It was no less jerky than some of those kid rides so I feel fine about it. We rode most of the kid rides that we hadn't gotten to yet, and watched the afternoon parade.  Molly loved the parade, and a dancing monkey came over and played with her.  While we were waiting for the parade, Matt helped a guy in a wheelchair get unstuck from the train tracks.  A manager saw this, and gave us a skip the line pass for 6 people! We used it on Peter Pan since it was pretty much the only one we hadn't ridden yet because the line is ALWAYS too long.  I'm so glad we went to Disneyland, but boy did I sleep well for days (and still am actually).

After 3 days in Disneyland, we drove to Thousand Oaks to visit Matt's brother's family.  It was the first time they had met Molly and the first time we had met 2 of their little ones.  Molly's cousins were so excited to meet her, and she did pretty well with all the attention.  Unfortunately it rained all weekend so we weren't able to hit up the beach, but we had a fun time playing and relaxing which was just what I needed.

The flight home was rough. It wasn't full so we were able to take Molly's car seat on the plane for her to sit in... I thought this was going to be awesome and that she'd fall asleep.. not the case.   She was whiny the whole time, hungry, and tired.  We also had to circle around the Denver airport several times because of bad weather so our flight ended up being about 30 minutes longer than expected.  Luckily my wonderful hubby let me read and rest and her took care of our crazy child. ;)

Overall we had such a fun trip, and I'm so glad we went! Molly seems to still be trying to catch up on sleep because she's sleeping until about 8:30 every morning! It's nice to be home, but the bad weather just follows up wherever we go... we're in for another snowstorm this weekend and I'm sure I'll be wishing I was back in California.