Attack of the Prickly Things

I just opened my door and found this.....

I could not get out of my door, so I had to move these (up), to be able to see these....

It is soooo windy here right now. And of course the wind is blowing west, which is directly into my house. Lovely. These buggers are really loud when they hit your house too! This is going to be fun to clean up....later.

And of course Ms. Savannah had to see what was going on. I can't get this girl to give me one good picture lately. Good picture = looking at the camera and no cheesy smiles!

Savannah just did and said the cutest thing. She put her crayons in a Target bag. She then put her shoes on by herself. She stood up and said, " I have to take the crayons to Daddy's work. Target."

and now....she just said to me, after going and looking outside the window...

"We can't go outside." Mommy says, "Why?" "Because the sun is outside. " pauses for a second. "Come on Mommy, I have to show you the sun." "Come on Mommy, get up."

Ahhh....the things they say.

Things are coming along

I had to post these 2 cute pictures of Savannah walking around in my high heels. She walks really good in them too!

Daddy looks tired in this picture....

So we have a long list of things to do before little baby boy gets here, and we're working on them. A couple weeks ago we switched Savannah's room up. We took out the crib/changing table and put this full size bed in there. We have a frame for it, but we wanted to get her used to sleeping in a bigger bed and we didn't want to have to worry about her falling out of the bed. She has done remarkable with this transition. So far she's dealing with all the change very well. She goes to bed 90% of the time with no problem. Sometimes she wants to play or will be needy and want us, but she has adjusted really well. We've started saying prayers at night with her and she'll say her own little one too. It's so cute. She loves to take people up to her room and show them her "bed". She helps me make her bed and put her stuffed animals on it. We loved this quilt (which is actually a twin) and got it on sale at where else... but Target. I've been working on painting frames and have an idea for a wall collage that would spell out her name. I just need time to work on it and make sure that it looks good. I'm not sure how it will turn out just yet. To be continued...

Baby Boy's room is coming along too. All the furniture is ready to go and we're trying to nail down how we want to decorate the walls and stuff. The crib is full of junk though because for now, there's no where else to put it. haha. We have far too many clothes already, with a full closet and half full drawers. It's too fun buying clothes. We also moved our computer down to our main level. Otherwise, it was going to have to stay in the baby's room, and now that all the furniture is in there, their is no way we could have kept the computer and all the crap that goes along with it , in there. We got a new computer table that we really love and it fits perfectly just where we needed it to. It is sooo much more convenient. Although, out of nowhere Carter and I have developed an addiction to Solitaire on the computer. Carter's never really played it on the computer, but maybe once a year I'll get an itch to play and do it for a couple days. It's been more than a couple days now. We love to play this game! We fight over who gets to play at night! We really sound like total geeks.

I'm feeling pretty good these days. I have my days of hurting feet/legs/back and being tired, but it's not as bad as before. I definitely have a kicker/pusher in utero though. And lately I really think he's full on doing somersaults or something. My stomach really feels like it can't grow anymore. It's so tight and unfortunately I'm seeing the beginnings of those nice little purplish lines. I just don't want them to get bigger. I never got one stretch mark on my stomach with Savannah, just my thighs. I guess this one wants to stake claim on my tummy. I'm proud of myself though because I've only gained 11 lbs. so far. I think I'll be able to stay under the 20 lb. mark, which I mainly contribute to not being insanely swollen and retaining large amounts of water this time. Only six more weeks to go though, and that is crazy!

A Breach in Security

In the last few months we have put door knob covers on some of our doors to keep Savannah from getting in or out of a particular place. They have seemed to work pretty well, or so we thought. Jake watched Savannah last night while we went to the Jazz game, and when we got home he was telling us how Savannah pushed open the pantry door to get in, even though it has a door cover on it. In the 2 1/2 years that we've lived here, we've never know the pantry door to just "push" open. Well, he showed us exactly how to do it. Apparently Savannah had already figured out this little trick, so the door cover is useless.
Then there was this morning. Carter got up to go to the restroom and Savannah must have already been up, waiting for any sound of us. Right after Carter gets up I hear her start to say something and knock on her door. This is what she does when she's ready to get up and get out of her room. Not 20 seconds later does Carter come out of the bathroom and is on his way to get her, that he stops in our doorway and goes, "Oh my gosh!", which of course alerts me out of my somewhat aware sleep. Savannah had literally pulled apart (somehow) and taken the door cover off of the knob, opened the door and was holding it and said, "I break it!" What is the use of childproofing your house if the childproofing products don't work! I'm sort of hoping she just got lucky and didn't really figure out how to take them off or we might have a problem keeping her out of things and places. She's a smartie, that one.

Jazz Game

On Saturday night we went to a Jazz Basketball game with my Dad and a family friend Dave. My Mom was supposed to go, but wasn't feeling well. We had a great time and the game was very exciting, especially the 2nd half. It had been awhile since we'd been to a game, and without Savannah at that. We both were talking about how fun it will be in the future when we can take Savannah and ______ to a game and get them awesome little Jazz jerseys. I already called the Kyle Korver jersey for myself!

What we've been up to....

At the mall she wanted to ride this carousel horse over and over again.

We made Valentine cookies.

Savannah likes to "change" her animals diapers. Except they don't wear diapers, but she wipes them down reaallly good.

Down to the Nub

That is what this girl has done to her crayons recently. She LOVES coloring right now. Once she gets started, she is completely focused.

We have been trying to figure out for awhile now how we are going to work the situation of Savannah and the baby...and the crib. I started getting the itch to decorate ______'s room about 2 weeks ago, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I want it to be ready for him and just know that it's done and I don't have to worry about it after the fact. Which means, I need the crib. So, we are going to try to put Savannah on the full bed that is currently in _____'s room. But we didn't have any full sheets or cute bedding for her. I've been working on that. I'm hoping what I found will work. We have so many things to do, and I really wish we could get them done all in one day, but that's just impossible. We have to take apart the crib because it won't fit through the doors. I need Carter for that one. We, or I, want to move lots of stuff around and see if it works better. Organize organize organize! Big projects. I hope we can get everything done in a month. That's pretty realistic in my mind. In other news...my belly is definitely growing and is so tight that I don't feel it can grow much more. He is very low and puts a lot of pressure on my bladder all day. He is a pusher. He kicks too, but man does he push. Or stretch. I don't know what he's doing, but I'm waiting for a foot or something to pop out and be clearly identifiable. Savannah still isn't fazed much by my growing belly. She likes to go to the doctor appointments and get stickers though, and she's very watchful as they check me. Every now and then when we talk about the baby she'll mumble something and then says, "come out". We hope she does well with the whole switching of beds, and re-doing of her room. We want her to feel special and like she's not left out. And that she's a big girl. Not a baby. I wish we had people around with little little babies so that she could understand it all a little more. She is growing and talks so much. I still can't believe what comes out of her mouth sometimes. If this little guy is anything like Savannah, we will be in stitches all the time!