The Nalders

she's my baby

2012-02-05T15:19:00.004-07:00

I have been waiting for this to happen, it took her two weeks to figure it out. Emma loves to be apart of anything Micah does. She sits in his car seat at church, she crawls on the floor with him, and she even stands next to him in his high chair while I feed him food and I swear she is saying "FREE FOOD!" as she opens her mouth like a dog and tries to get me to feed her too.

Look at Micah, that confused boy. He's thinking "Hey! I thought this bouncer was for me!? Let me in!"

I could NOT get her out of here, She probably ~~tried to~~ bounced in here for forty minutes until she got out. I am seriously considering raising the straps up so she can use it too! Zachary joked about buying a cage with a bowl of water for Emma, but this might work too.

Here is Micah trying to scale the side of the bouncer.

This morning Emma went potty on the floor twice, and the second time she was jumping in the puddle.

Yes, she just want's to be a baby I guess!
I guess we will just keep you in diapers, with a onesie on and you can hang out in here all day!

Micah

2012-02-03T16:03:00.000-07:00

Who wouldn't love to wake up to this face every morning? .. and six times a night.

Micah, the sweetest little boy.

almost 8 months

He is always so happy to see you. I love coming in to his room when he wakes up because this is how he looks every time. jumping up and down, just thrilled and almost surprised!

He started crawling a month ago, and just recently has started to pull himself up a little. He loves to follow his brother and sister around, eat stuff off the floor, and make funny noises.

I just discovered that he loves yogurt and rice puff cereal (the kind in a tube for babies).

Such a happy baby!

go team!

2012-02-03T15:44:00.000-07:00

Here are pics from Jonah's last game.

This is right before he made his first basket in the game, can you tell he's upset everyone is blocking him?

He sure loves basketball!

Sleepy Head

2012-02-03T15:03:00.002-07:00

It's the beginning of the end.
Her naps are becoming fewer and fewer.
My days are becoming longer and longer.

Emma dear,
I know you're tired. You won't sleep in the crib anymore. I don't blame you though, after sleeping in a bed once, who would ever go back to a plastic mattress in a cage!?

The other day she refused to take her afternoon nap.
and no, she is not watching the tv.

totally zoned out.

Stop fighting it sweet heart. Just close your eyes!

artists

2012-02-03T14:38:00.000-07:00

Right before bath time I mixed shaving cream with some food coloring and let Jonah and Emma have some fun "painting" in the tub.

Ever wonder what Emma's bed head looks like?

I had no idea they would be so excited about it! It was so fun to watch them, and such an easy thing to do and clean up!

After a while they started rubbing it on themselves.

Jonah tried to keep the colors separate, and Emma just mixed everything up.

And when it was over I just turned on the water and washed everyone and everything cleaned!

The End

Jonah

2012-01-19T19:43:00.000-07:00

Look at this handsome young man! Ok. He's only four! Geez. How did he grow up so fast? I look at Micah and think "wow. that used to be Jonah."

Jonah is a sweet, loving, energetic boy. He loves everyone and everything. When he prays at night he always asks heavenly father to bless daddy, mommy, Emma, Micah, his fish, his caterpillar (that died months ago), his cat (That we kind of abandoned at our rental), valentines day, Santa Claus, oh and his grandparents.

This boy is the most outgoing, friendliest little guy you will ever meet! True Story- The week of Christmas we were grocery shopping and Jonah noticed a little old lady shopping alone, he asked me if it was alright if he wished her a Merry Christmas. I told him ok and next thing I know Jonah walks off down a different isle trying to keep up with the little lady yelling "Excuse me! Excuse me!" I waited at the end of the isle and watched as he got her attention and totally caught her off gaurd, Then Jonah smiles and says "MERRY BRISTMAS!!! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Goodbye!!!"

The look on her face was priceless.

Jonah talks to everyone! We've had numerous discussions with him on not talking to strangers and he just doesn't get it. The other day I read him 'The Bearnstein Bears learn about Strangers' and when I asked him what a stranger is Jonah answered, " A stranger is a bad guy who carries a sword and tries to kill you!"
I said, " No. Jonah .." and then he went on " OH a stranger hides his sword? And then he will take you to his castle and you will say "I don't know you! Don't hurt me!" ha ha ha where does he come up with this!?

He is so animated and gets excited over everything!!!He has such a pure heart if he isn't nice to Emma he always says "Oh Mommy I'm sorry I hit Emma!" or he'll hide from me and then cry and say "I'm sorry!"
He loves to build towers and play with his cars, he especially LOVES paper airplanes and could spend all day flying one around the house. He is constantly saying "Watch this mommy!" and I'll say "Wow! That went so far!" and then instantly he replies "Ya, now watch this!" and that could go on for an hour straight with me making remarks on every single airplane flight.
His favorite games to play are dragons and karate fighting with daddy. He and Emma are starting to play together a lot which is nice. He loves chasing her and always tries to wrestle which is hilarious to watch. Jonah has started earning an allowance and he always wants to hold onto his change and show me how much money he has.

He is also becoming such a good helper. I can always count on him to clean up his playroom, put his toys away, even vacuum! He loves to wash our kitchen table, and he is good about grabbing things for me like diapers and wipes when I need them. Whenever I go to the store he holds onto Emma's hand and tries to tell her not to touch anything, and when she does he picks it up and puts it back as he says very seriously, "Emma ... Don't touch anything!"

Jonah will tell me he loves me at least 5 times a day. Always randomly while he's playing or eating. Just says "I love you mommy!" and I'll say it back then he replies with "I love you sooo super giant much!!!!!!!"

He also loves asking me questions about Heavenly Father and Jesus, always asking such in depth questions about where Heaven is?, How we get there? How does Jesus come to Earth? Can Jesus Fly? What is Heavenly Father's name? How old is Jesus?

He loves to sing me songs! Today he kept trying to remember how Old McDonald went and did not want me to help him. He loves writing letters especially his name though lately he has started writing his name totally backwards. Not sure what that's all about but we'll work on that!

I bought him a pack of watercolor paint and he is hooked! He makes the coolest paintings and says "This one is to send to Wo wo! And this one is to hang up for Valentines Day!"

We love you so much Jonah! You are one clever boy.

Emma

2012-01-18T09:22:00.001-07:00

Emma is now a TWO year old!

She is a busybody!

Also in the past few weeks her vocabulary has really taken off. The main thing she does is mimic me. If Micah is crying I'll say "Oh Micah, it's ok. Oh Micah." and Emma says (as she strokes Micah's head) "Oh Midah, Oh Midah. Oday Midah."

She especially copies Jonah! It was soo hilarious the first time I heard Emma say (in a very dramatic way) "OH. MY. DOSH. " Just like Jonah.

She is still hard to understand but we love that she is finally able to communicate to us her needs and it definitely makes it fun for Jonah to play with Emma now that she can kind of talk.

Emma loves:

-Toy Story dolls mainly her Jesse doll

- To Draw and paint!!!

- She is very attached to her purple doll with the glowing heart. Which I have Zach's mom to thanks for that! But I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a little girl! It is the best doll ever and a great crib buddy especially with a built in night light. She will use it to find her binkie in the dark. HA HA.

- Her Daddy. Every single time I take out the trash, as soon as Emma hears the Garage door close She screams, "DADDY!!!!!" thinking that daddy just got home.

- large legos

-Playing outside in our backyard full of dirt!

-riding their horse from Wo Wo and grandpa.

- Her Binkie and Silkie

-Racing

- the slide

- Being Chased

-Leap Frog Movies

-DRESS UP

-Dancing!

-Brushing her teeth

-bath time!

Singing ' Happy Birthday' to Emma

I tried to make a cute cake for her birthday party except I forgot to put frosting underneath the fondant. So it was kind of bare. Oh well.

We went to the Christmas "party" at our club house and the kids got to meet Santa. Jonah was super stoked but Emma...

She only sticks her fingers up her nose when she's either upset, scared, or going #2.

She was not amused.

She finally calmed down when we bribed her with a candy cane.

She is a sucker for her grandparents. My dad is so good about spending time with them and picking him up Saturday mornings. Poor Emma isn't quite old enough yet and she just sobs at the door until they leave then suddenly she's fine again!

We sure love our little miss curly. She definitely keeps me busy, always one step ahead of me. Yet as energetic as she is, she still lets me know when it's nap time and time for bed and I appreciate her desire to rest. ;)

december and january

2012-01-17T13:14:00.000-07:00

These are in no order. How long has it been since I posted on this blog!?! WOW! It's about time! I don't have time to write captions right now. I'll come back later and write. But this is a little Christmas and just some randoms.

lunch

2011-04-30T20:17:00.000-07:00

The Past week I've been taking the kids to the park after Emma wakes up from her morning nap. I pack a lunch for Emma (Jonah usually eats before we go) and it is so easy! I love not worrying about her throwing her food on the floor or making a huge mess on her tray. She loves being outside and we will be sad when its too hot to play at the park. Its still in the 80's but that's not going to last much longer! Just grateful our resident's club has a sweet water park. Not looking forward to making sure Emma doesn't drowned! She loves water.

4-25-11

2011-04-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

Delicious Easter cupcakes by Kaci

The Easter Bunny dropped off some goodies!

Crazy on Papa and Mormor's new trampoline

Today we enjoyed some beautiful weather.

Camera Shy

Watched movies in bed.

The End.

big sister

2011-04-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

Emma Pooh,

I can't believe you're about to become a big sister. You are still my baby girl and I don't want you growing up that fast!

But then again, I am so grateful to have such an independent 17 month old! I don't have to worry too much about having another baby so soon because I know how easy going you are. (let's hope it stays that way!) It has been so different having a girl. You tease a lot. Jonah was never that way. I guess I expected you to be just like your big brother and want to rough house all day. But you are so girly and cuddly, I love it. You want to walk around in my shoes, play with your pretend jewelry box and brush your crazy hair all day! You definitely have a major goofy side to you! The way you will eat anything we put in front of you amazes me. Where are you storing it all? Aunt kelley says she is sending you a box of food for your birthday.
I melt every time I see you run to the door to greet your daddy. You have such a special connection with him. Jonah and you are becoming best friends and I love that you two play together and make each other laugh all day. Jonah loves you so much and really watches out for you.

What a lucky girl you are! You are loved by so many and will have three men protecting you the rest of your life!

I love you Emma! -Mommy

march fun

2011-04-09T20:11:00.000-07:00

I know this is way overdue. I really am going to try and be better, for my own sake. These are all a mix of pictures from the zoo and the park back in early March. We went to the zoo with Jonah's preschool and had a blast! It was so fun that Zach had the day off and was able to join us! We try and do a lot on his days off and make the most of the time daddy's home!

Most of these pictures are of Miss Emma, since Jonah was constantly chasing his friends around the zoo! She is changing so much. Even these pictures are too old because she already is looking so much bigger and her hair is finally starting to grow!

We took the train that rode around the zoo and got to get close and personal with all the wildlife.

Excuse the graham cracker mouth.

We ate at the zoo's park and let the kids run free!

She absolutely LOVES the slide. We can't keep her off of it But the scary thing is that Emma will literally walk onto it and probably break her back going down if we let her.

Probably the coolest (well I thought so anyway) was feeding the giraffes. I never knew that giraffes have the craziest tongues! Check this out!

And that's nothing.. his tongue came out twice that far to snatch up food! EEW, but very cool.

And here are just a few random from the park by our house last month.

We are so obsessed with these two and can't believe another little boy is coming so soon! I'm 30 weeks now. Time is flying by and life is always changing. I love our little family and couldn't be more blessed.

2.8.11

2011-02-08T20:24:00.003-07:00

This morning we visited a farm with Jonah's preschool!

Jonah was so anxious to get there he kept yelling "Drive faster mommy! Hurry!"

What I didn't expect was how much Emma enjoyed it too.

She would have rolled around with the pigs if I had let her.

They each got to hold a baby goat.

Look how affectionate Jonah is.

Emma ran off to show me the cows.

Look at her point!

She's saying "I'm going to touch them okay!"

But she got a little too close and had to make a dash.

Everyone got to take home an egg too

but I think most of them cracked before we left.

Okay, so instead of writing a huge post about Jonah.

Tonight I'll just share a few notes I took on him today:

This morning (like every morning) I have pretty bad nausea.

Jonah wanted me to help him build his trains and

I told him my tummy was hurting so I couldn't.

Jonah said, " Mommy I tickle your tunny and make it all better? Mommy need to go to hospital to make your tunny better?" ....." Mommy did you eat monster food?"

"Is there wots of monster food in your tunny that makes your throat choke?"

Later on..

me: "Jonah do you want to go down the slide?"

Jonah: " No, when I'm big and strong I will."

And here are a couple from sunday. Jonah came into our primary class because he didn't want to sit in sharing time. When we asked if he wanted to go back to sharing time he said " No. I'm so cold! I need to go home and take my clothes off and get in bed. I need to get cozy."

And as I was typing this Jonah started yelling for me from bed so I went in to see what he needed and he said" Mommy I need to get out of bed. I'm coughing myself."

"your coughing yourself??"

"Ya, I'm coughing myself. I need to get out of bed."

I told him that he just needed to go back to sleep and he said,

"No. Sleeping won't make me better."

So I told him we were going to the big park tomorrow and he got super excited and said,

"Mommy! You need to make me eat lots of really giant food so that I can grow really big and strong and go down the giant slide all by myself! Oday?"

I love him. I laugh so hard every day.

2 . 7 . 2011

2011-02-07T22:07:00.000-07:00

Wow! Way to start on my New Year's resolution. Better late than never right?

Well since it's been like a year since I've really sat down and blogged. Much has changed.

One is we are very excited to have another BOY this June!

This post is pretty random but here are some pictures as of late.

We went to Peter Piper Pizza with Jonah's preschool and then again like a week later. It's Disney land to Jonah.

These are just a mix of both visits.

Jonah is too hard to snap a picture of

so it's mostly just Emma.

Making personal pizzas

Emma absolutely Loved this game!

She really tried so hard.

And that's all I got. Good times!

We've been at the park a lot lately..

This picture makes me laugh just because Jonah posed all on his own and it ended up making the perfect "staged" pic. He is getting so big, and such oh my SUCH a CHATTER BOX! He says the FUNNIEST stuff. Next post will be all about Jonah's sentences.

Emma. Can't keep her still. She will take off the minute she gets a chance.

She is turning into the biggest goof!

She is about 15 months now and blabbers and twirls.

She is so goofy, We love it!

a little bit of christmas

2010-12-29T22:00:00.001-07:00

My computer is hardly working so here are just a few pictures of Christmas. We had a wonderful one surrounded by our family. One of my new years resolutions is to blog regularily, since I've been a huge slacker! So if i don't post anything else I will for sure be back next year!

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gone fishin

2010-10-17T09:38:00.000-07:00

Zach and Jonah have been fishing together a lot lately. I only went once and decided it's just not for me. Emma wasn't loving it either. She was forced in the stroller otherwise she really would have jumped in the lake.

It was hot and miserable. It's cooled down though, so maybe I should give it another chance?

It's so funny to me that my husband will break a live worm in half and skewer it through a hook with his bare hands but yet he wont touch the fish without gloves. I guess if it were me I wouldn't do any of it! I am not a fish person.

When I said smile Jonah said "buzz whiteyear to the resdue!"

hooray for father & son activities! I'm glad they have so much fun together!

buzz whiteyear dake!

2010-10-14T05:59:00.000-07:00

Jonah's wish came true Monday evening! He has been asking for a "buzz whiteyear dake" ever since he saw one at the grocery store's bakery months ago. (i try to avoid that section when we go shopping now) I didn't have time to make a cake and I just happened to find this buzz ribbon and a perfectly matching cake at the store!

Every one had a blue mouth.

Emma thought all the attention was for her.

Lots of great presents

Preschool + Birthday

2010-10-10T18:26:00.000-07:00

We got to attend the little party preschool threw for Jonah's birthday. He was so e n t h u s i a s t i c about it.

I mean come on! Check out that smile glued to his face! This is what he has been waiting for all year...

It was fun for Zach and I to see him in preschool. He really loves it.

Lady's man

baby Joshua

2010-10-10T17:43:00.002-07:00

Congratulations to Kaci and Salesi! They had a beautiful baby boy this morning. Lucky day of 10-10-10!

Robert Crow Uipi (named after our (6th) great grandfather?

Joshua Lonati Uipi

6 pounds 13 ounces

19 inches long

he is such a cutie. But the poor little guy inhaled meconium and is in the NICU being treated for pnemonia probably for another week or two. Pray for the little guy. His mommy and daddy want to take him home soon!

it broke my heart mostly because the poor guy isn't allowed to eat! They are nourishing him through an iv. I'd be hungry! But I guess since he is breathing so fast they don't want to risk him inhaling anything else.

Check out my handsome nephew.

Lots of dark dark hair.

These are the only pictures I could take. Every time the camera clicked he started to fuss.

School already?

2010-10-08T20:43:00.001-07:00

I don't think so Missy!!

But your mommy is a big nerd who makes you do these things while your brother takes a nap!

You don't mind. Good thing your teeth still aren't in. (And you're almost a year!)

wow. 11 months. You are so much fun! And you sure blabber a lot! I love it.

three

2010-10-06T20:51:00.000-07:00

Today my little boy turned three!I can't believe it. Jonah you used to be my chubby baby boy, and now you're three and going to preschool!?

Celebrating his 1st birthday

Jonah,

Time flies. We are so blessed to have you in our family. I still remember wondering if you would be okay as I was rushed to the operating room in labor. It was one of the happiest moments when I head you cry. You are such a tough boy and have been through a lot in thefirst three years of your life.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised at how head strong you are now.

You really can do anything.

I thought today how lucky we are that you were our first, because I had no idea that it was abnormal to have such a sick baby all the time. You are a blessing Jonah. You have the softest heart and so much love for every one you come in contact with. It worries me a little because you are too trusting sometimes ;)

It's bitter sweet to watch you grow, but I can't wait to see how you change and progress. I know you are going to do great things!

I love you buddy. -Mommy

Ok, I promise no more mushy letters.. but this is a long post! I guess I am making up for my lack of it lately.

We aren't going to celebrate his birthday till this weekend when family is all in town, but here are some pics of going to the park today. Jonah was lucky enough to have beautiful weather on his b-day!

I love that she is walking!!!!!! And look at those kankles! (but boy what a pain it is to keep her from eating sand )

and there you have it. The looongest post ever. I sure love my kiddos.

Kaci's baby shower

2010-09-20T16:52:00.002-07:00

I threw kaci a baby shower Last Friday. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun! (I had to haul every thing over an hour drive to Mesa) I think everyone had a good time and she got some really nice gifts!!

Now on to the decor..

I knew Kaci would love a picture of herself up! ha ha

My hands were green for a day from stripping leaves off my backyard branches. You'd wonder why i was ripping off perfectly good ones only to glue fake ones back on!

We ate those left overs too fast!!! mmm...

Kaci wont know what she's having till birth,and I totally think it's a girl! I Can't wait!!! Emma needs a little cousin to play with.

bed time walk

2010-09-15T15:07:00.000-07:00

Last night I took Emma along for a walk while I took some maternity pics of Kaci. She was such a good girl and so easy going. I just had to post these pics I took of her, She's so happy ALL THE TIME! We are so blessed to have this little pumpkin in our home.

I know this is out of focus but just showing off her cute bottom teeth!

Looks just like her daddy.

the end of summer

2010-09-11T18:26:00.000-07:00

We've been enjoying our community's boat house this past week. Zachary even wants to take sailing lessons once a month. The first time we went, we took both kids on the paddle boat and I swear Emma was trying to jump over board the whole time! Either that or she felt as if she was drowning in her life jacket.

So this time, Emma and I stayed ashore and watched Zachary and Jonah "head out to sea"!

Emma and I had a little photo session while watching the boys.. and then my camera died.

By the way. Emma is now ten months! Time sure is flying by.

4 years ago....

2010-09-02T07:21:00.000-07:00

I married my eternal sweetheart.

* I know this doesn't count as a real post,.... I'm working on it....

9 months

2010-08-17T15:28:00.002-07:00

- two bottom teeth

- cruises furniture and crawls

- starting to walk! She takes two steps then keels over

- slept through the night one week straight now is waking up 2 to 3 times since getting a cold (my poor baby)

- waves bye bye and claps only for mommy, I swear she does!

- has grown very fond of her daddy, she only cuddles with him.

- eats ANYTHING she finds, really motivates me to keep our floor extra clean

-happy happy girl, but really needs lots and lots of attention , hence the lack of blogging nothing wrong with some extra tlc

-she definitely has lots of love for our cat Conrad, she giggle every time she pets him and squeezes his fur

- It's really hard to shop with her, she hates sitting in a shopping cart and I don't enjoy shopping with one arm. I get so many comments when I shop with both kids, because its usually me holding Emma in one arm, pushing the cart in the other and taking stuff out of Jonah's hands. People always say " Wow, looks like you're having a busy day." as if I don't normally have two kids. And even though I'm sure they really just want to say "you're crazy" I always smile and act like every thing is under control.

-Emma loves food soo much. Jonah was eating a pb&j at the table and she snuck up underneath and snatched a huge chunk of it right out of his hand!She really didn't want me to swipe out what was stuck on the top of her mouth.

She really is the sweetest little girl, makes the funniest faces, and is such a joy to have in our family. Happy 9 months Emma Pooh!

by the way, I couldn't resist the bare bottom picture, my blogs private right?? But really!
Look at the big booty on this girl! If it stays that way, how will I every find jeans to fit her bottom?!;)

tears

2010-08-15T19:42:00.000-07:00

..were streaming down my face from laughter as I took the last picture available on my memory card. Why? because after I took this sweet picture .. and this one too...

I said, "Jonah can you smile really big!?"

..and he did just that.

random pictures

2010-08-05T18:09:00.000-07:00

No comments really, but i KNOW i should post something!! Jonah got into sprinkles while I was showering.

This is like the only picture I have of Emma as of late. I promise I will be better about posting!!!

..Last is one of the kids going crazy while I washed my couch covers. They thought it was awesome.

Emma is turning nine months so I will try and update at least for that soon. Chow.

dance par-tay!!!

2010-07-26T20:07:00.003-07:00

I just uploaded these pictures and I can not help but laugh! .. Even though most of them are really blurry, you can definitely tell that these boys (Jonah and Charlie I mean) were movin and groovin like crazy!

Luke thought the whole idea was really, really immature. He did not want to dance, At first he just stood in the boys way, than he started wandering in and out of the room every time he would stop and tell Jonah and Charlie not to dance.

Luke got upset that they didn't stop so he started to pout on the couch in hopes they would stop dancing and ask what was wrong.

Jonah and Charlie definitely connected through this dance party. They are now the best of friends.

Maybe Luke was just a little jealous.

p.s. check out Conrad's reaction to them.

children's museum of phoenix

2010-07-25T18:28:00.000-07:00

Cristin and her boys came to visit last week! I'm still recovering from having so much fun.. and I know we hardly did that much. I think the heat makes one activity more exhausting than it normally would be. We mostly lounged by the pool (Our community's club house water park) and did things like take the kids to petsmart and eat lunch at target. woo. hoo. That sounds even lamer now that it's written down.

The children's museum was a w e s o m e.

They just had crazy bizarre stuff there that you would never think of. Definitely a must if you are in the Phoenix area. The kids did not want to leave.

They even had a three and under room with areas specifically for babies and a nursing corner. After I saw that, I could stay there all day.

While there, we took the kids to a swimming safety presentation. Emma thought she should get to listen in as well. She cracked everyone up because every time the life guard asked questions Emma would nod her head up and down as if in response.

This noodle jungle freaked me out! It said no running but as soon as you get inside< you literally can't see past the closet noodle to your face and kids would just smack into you. We lost Charlie once and for a split second I thought Jonah was gone. Only went through once.

They had the coolest art. This is a wall of sprayed or cemented shoes letting you know to take off your shoes.

So much fun~ definitely will be back!!!!!!!!

the look

2010-07-06T07:27:00.001-07:00

{who wore it best?}

emma and conrad

2010-06-29T17:39:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to Vak and Kelley:

This is how Emma is as of late, These snap shots are exactly how she looks while she laughs and eats.

And our cat Conrad seriously has issues with Emma. He does not want to be apart from her! I often hear her crying in the crib only to find little Conrad trying to snuggle up next to her. . or most likely attacking her feet..

For example: Jonah and Emma often hide behind the drapes and play together..

But as soon as Jonah leaves Emma alone....

Conrad makes his move!

I don't think she saw that coming.poor girl.

It's just a good thing she can crawl away at super speeds.

She really REALLY wants to walk, and I won't be surprised if she is in a couple more months.

Part 2: Salesi and Kaci

2010-06-22T14:29:00.003-07:00

family pictures part 1

2010-06-20T10:32:00.002-07:00

Happy Father's Day! I'm home sick, about to get in bed but I had to eat something or else I know I'll feel even worse. Just emailed Kaci these pictures I finished editing. We went and visited Kaci and Salesi on Friday and had a little Father's day dinner. We also took each other's family pictures. Ours were kind of a bust after Jonah burned his feet really bad. More on that later, but here are some good ones of Kaci and Salesi. They are just too cute. I can't wait to see that baby!!!!!

And one of Zach and I.

Even though my sister Cristin and I were texting each other this morning about how sometimes every day feels like fathers day.. ( I mean that in the nicest way) I truly am grateful for dad's. I often wonder what my life would be like if I was a single mom and Jonah and Emma had no father. I know how much support my dad gave to me growing up and Zachary is an amazing dad, who does and teaches or children so much. So Happy Father's Day to all the dads! We mom's need you!We couldn't stay home, watch kids, and do all the house work if it weren't for you getting up early every day and going to a long, hard Job. I know they do it for us. So today just relax, kick up your feet, and reflect on how awesome your role is.

p.s. Thank you to my brother in law Ben for getting me started with photoshop! I must be a loser because I could not figure it out at first!! Ben was very patient with me. Thanks BEN!!!

another month!

2010-06-16T07:51:00.000-07:00

She is getting to be s o m u c h f u n!

I walked away and forgot to move the jar of food and when I came back I found her covered!
She l o v e d finger painting with carrots.

As I was folding laundry Emma pulled herself up to get a better look.

As you can tell, I love having a daughter.

Kaci gave Emma this Tutu and even though it's still too big, I couldn't help myself but put it on!!on her of course. But I secretly wished it fit me too!!! I'm so weird.

..Then she kept pulling her headband off!!! No!! Does this mean she's not oblivious to whats going on up there anymore??

Emma is getting such a little personality!
She has this endearing smile where she kind of moves her eye brows up and down. It makes me wonder what it will look like when she's sixteen!
Emma is crawling like a pro. She will crawl after me and chase a ball around the floor.
She does not like it when when Zach or I walk away from her. She's probably worried Jonah will take control of her.
She is a terrible sleeper!! Last night she was up every hour~ Her pediatrician refereed me to an Ear Nose and Throat doctor. She thinks Emma has the same things going on as Jonah. Great.

But, aside from all that She is a happy girl. She l o v e s baby food, nursing, and when I give her tastes of water with my straw.
She tries to clap and wave. Yesterday I was attempting to teach her to say Mama and she actually started to watch my lips and copy what they were doing!

She wants to walk so badly!!! I'm guessing she will be walking at ten months. Sometimes when we set her down she stiffs her legs so she can't sit.

Happy 7 months baby girl! We love you!

just for laughs

2010-06-15T08:52:00.000-07:00

Right now Jonah is going poo-poo on the toilet. Emma crawled in the bathroom and I can hear Jonah saying:

"Hi Emma! I'm going Poo-poo!"
"Wook Emma! Ja-Ja is pooping on towet!"
"Here I doe!" "GRRRAHHH!" (pushing and grunting)
"Ah! It's stuck Emma!"

Now Emma is in here with me and while I type this Jonah is yelling,
"Mommy!!!! Suh prise!!!! Mommy!!!! A Curious George Fruit Snack pease? pease? pease?!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gotta Love that potty talk.

{look who's talking}

2010-06-14T19:20:00.001-07:00

Six months ago we took Jonah to a hearing specialist to have his ears checked. His pediatrician was concerned about his lack of vocabulary at two years old. According to the "development chart " At two years old, kids should be have a vocabulary of around 200 words minimum, and should at least be putting three words together in a sentence. Jonah's vocabulary consisted around 10 words and well, obviously he couldn't exactly make a sentence.

The hearing test came back normal, and a week later (and $200 worth of medical bills) a light must have come on because Jonah really started talking.. and hasn't stopped since!

To some, Jonah probably doesn't sound like a very clear speaker. Some may even think he doesn't hardly make sense. He definitely has a hard time sounding out words correctly.. must take after his mommy.

(I was in speech therapy till the 5th grade! Yikes!

Don't even get me started on my memoirs of that!)

But for Zachary, his grandparents and myself, we are thrilled at how far he's come!

Jonah still hasn't grasped certain sounds like the "k" .

And it makes for some pretty cute sentences.

He says things like "Look mommy! a red dar! It's so fast!" (car)

"Shoo! Shoo! Ditty Dat! You are in big trouble!" (kitty cat)

"Mommy? A choc choc dee-dee please, please, please???" (cookie)

He also struggles with the "T" sound and calls Thomas the Train "Bhomas the Train"

Yesterday, after a lot of practice he finally said "Jon..nah!" rather than his usual "Ja- Ja!"

It's the funniest thing when people hear him saying , "No! Ja- Ja do it!" or "Ja- Ja 's Milk.... Ja -Ja's toy!... No! Ja -Ja sing the song!!" Every one always asks me, "What is he saying? What's Ja- ja???"

"Oh, that's just what he calls himself."

We are really careful about the words we use in front of him now. I have a bad habit of saying "crap".
Lucky for me, in Jonah's language it translates to "brap" But I hear him say it to himself all the time when he drops something etc. and I know it's going to look Really BAD once he says it correctly!! oops.

Jonah also loves to mimic me and it's sometimes very hard to discipline a boy who thinks it's fun to "discipline himself". Up until this last week he was taking his diaper off and pooping in a closet almost every day!!! Boy was that exhausting!! He always came out with poop in his hands saying "Bad jaja! Don't do dat adain!!!" and then it would just kill me when he would say "oh dosh." under his breath just like I say "Oh gosh."

Every building is a "house"
Jack in Box is the "Lunch House"
the hospital is "Doctor's House"
Grocery store is "Food House"
Church is "Nursery House"

Emma is a "Bad Boy"
He always says "Mommy? (or) Daddy? Hold you?" when he wan't us to hold him.
If I say. "Do you want to do it? " He responds ," No! Mommy! Ja-ja do it!!"
I am crossing my fingers that his terrible twos has hit it's peak and that he will slowly not be such a know it all.
If I read him a book. He has to read it. If I sing him a song. He sings it. Not mommy.
Every toy is Ja Ja's toy. Not Emma's.

He's not all boss though. Jonah is always giving hugs and kisses and the sweetest thing is when I tell him to do something he responds in "O-day mommy." without fail.
When we say "I love you Jonah. " He says "You too mommy. "
And even though sometimes he won't stop running around screaming the Thomas song at the top of his lungs. I wouldn't have it any other way.
We love you, Ja-Ja.

Surprise Party

2010-06-11T12:28:00.001-07:00

Tuesday was my Mom's birthday so Kaci and I had the brilliant idea of throwing her a little surpise party. Very little. Just me, Kaci, Salesi, and my dad. (Zach had to work). We had my dad in on the secret. He was supposed to take my mom out to a birthday dinner and then have an excuse to stop at my house.

Well.. somewhere through communicating, my dad missed the part about us making our mom dinner..and that he was supposed to tell her he was taking her OUT to dinner. Luckily I called my mom right as she sat down to eat a dinner she just cooked up. I told her to drop everything and come over because Jonah had a special birthday surprise he had been working on all day. She reluctantly did as I told her too, got my dad out of the shower (YES THE SHOWER! of course he happened to be in the shower while my mom started eating dinner!)

We will probably never throw my mom a surprise party again. But in the end it still turned out, and I think she enjoyed the food Kaci whipped up.

..One of Kaci's growing belly!

Happy Birthday Mom! We love you!

Happy Birthday Adam!

2010-06-07T09:01:00.002-07:00

We celebrated Zach's big brother Adam's birthday Saturday. Adam was nice enough to share his big moment with Jonah.

Everyone went swimming after cake and ice cream . It was over 100 outside so the pool was nice and warm. Almost too warm.

Ben had a little too much sun.

Happy Birthday Adam! Thanks for having us over for your special day!

2010-06-05T22:03:00.000-07:00

We're having a great weekend with these two kiddos..

hope you are too.

picked on

2010-06-04T06:30:00.002-07:00

I know what it's like to be the youngest. Always picked on, accused of being spoiled, never involved in all the fun games.

She sits like this every night after dinner, just watching Jonah. I know what she's thinking too. "Maybe this time he won't shove me away." " Maybe just maybe, if I give him a big smile, he'll let me me suck on his trains."

So she goes for it.

But once again, that million dollar smile doesn't melt his little heart. Instead, he places all toys out of arms reach. Emma's arms that is.

Nice Jonah.

I wonder what he'll do when she can pull herself up?

fancy

2010-06-03T16:11:00.001-07:00

Come on. Did you really think I'd never make my baby girl put on an uncomfortable tutu and do a photo shoot? I've been counting down the days till she could sit up!

What a natural.

wednesday overload

2010-06-02T08:04:00.003-07:00

my new ride:

Woo! Hoo! My stroller came last week and my life has forever changed! I was a little worried that Jonah would fight me on this but he thinks it's a pretty sweet ride too! I guess he was ready for a change. Poor guy went from trying to keep up with me to demanding me to "go mommy! Go!!"

My first Sugar Cookies!!!

Is it sad that I have never made sugar cookies before? Jonah saw a kids show where they made cut out sugar cookies and I knew he would have the time of his life if we did it together. He used his Play Dough rolling pin and cookie cutters. In the end he did care too much for the finished cookies. Maybe he lost his appetite from all the dough he shoved in his mouth?

Kaci and Salesi

Sadly, this is the only picture I snapped of the night. Kaci whipped up a delicious dinner as usual and for dessert we had strawberry short cake.

Outdoor fun with Papa

These pictures crack me up! Look at Emma's poor face! I don't think this pool is big enough for a floating saucer.. or maybe Jonah just needs to keep out of Emma's space. My dad was so good about watching them. Jonah has so much fun at their house.

Jonah plays with Play Dough every day!

Here he is showing off his pet snake he made. It's so much fun to see him starting to make believe. He comes up with the funniest stuff all day!

*The other day he was ~~torturing~~ playing with the kitten and he was saying, "I'll tell you what ditty dat!" (ditty dat is kitty cat)

*He took off his poopy diaper and came to me saying, "dosh jaja," (thats how he says Jonah) Don't do dat adain!! Bad boy Jaja! Yucky! Big trouble jaja! don't do dat adain! Big no no!" It made is really hard to know how to discipline him when he was doing it himself! I was trying so hard not to laugh.. he makes it really hard to be mad sometimes.

*He tells Emma how "dute" she is all the time.

* he calls every little boy a "boys" and every little girl a "Emma"

I hear him in the play room talking to his trains, saying "woops. sorry train. uh oh! Aero!"

* He is very polite and never forgets to say "Thank you mommy much!" or "thank you daddy much!"

Swimming at Grandpa and Grandma's house

This picture of Emma is so funny because it makes it look like she can't stand the water! But really she loves it. We weren't going to put her in but she wouldn't stop making a fuss over it. Ben is here visiting, and he was the only one who was willing to get in with her and Jonah.

Grandma (aka Woah Woah or Woe woe or wo wo????) gave Jonah a Thomas boat. Can you tell he was excited??

Zach had to use his parents fax machine before we left and the kids were pooped out. While we were waiting to leave Jonah took off his clothes and made a bed for himself on the couch. They were ready for bed.

father & son

2010-05-26T14:22:00.004-07:00

Emma had a doctor's appointment early in the morning and as I came to say good bye to these boys, they were already in their zone. Zach said, "Now you know what we do when your gone."

Oh! I was wondering why Jonah's never dressed and the house is always chaotic when I come home! Excuse the mess, but I couldn't help but snap pictures of this scene.

Zach and Jonah are two peas in a pod. Jonah watches his daddy so closely these days, he wants to wear his shoes, his hat, glasses, he wants to drive Zach's remote control monster truck ( yes my husband has a remote control car. Does yours?)If Zach says, "That's Sweet!" Jonah says, "Dats SWEET!".
When Zach gets home from work Jonah always screams, "MOMMY!!! DADDY'S HERE!!! HUWWY! WOOK!! DADDY'S HERE!" in his Tiny Tim voice, it's so cute.

So oh well if they play rock band for the whole 4 hours I'm gone. Maybe Jonah will be a great drummer one day because of it.

Then I get to listen to him practice every night. yay.

taking off

2010-05-24T23:24:00.003-07:00

Emma has become so mobile just in the past week! She loves shoes. Takes after her momma. Today I put her down in the playroom, left to change Jonah's diaper and when I came back she was in the hallway trying to eat my sneakers!

Then she pulled another trick today. As I was snapping pictures of Jonah I looked over and she sat herself up! These shots catch the moment perfectly! Emma was flailing her arms and practically bouncing up and down with excitement! Yes, she was one proud chunker.

My parents loaned us a walker from their house, and today while Jonah was driving his little red car around Emma started chasing him in the walker! I have never laughed so hard watching her bounce up and down to him! He thought it was pretty funny too.

Jonah, just you wait till she can walk!

When your kids wake up at 5 AM

2010-05-22T21:43:00.003-07:00

It's a challenge to wake up at 5 every morning to Jonah eating ice cream out of the carton on the kitchen floor or sitting on the counter in my bathroom brushing his teeth (with my tooth brush of course!) So I try and motivate myself to get up every morning by taking the kids on an early walk. It's a good way to wake myself up and begin my day of mothering. I took some pictures from our walk the other day, it was starting to get hot out and I was really wishing I had a double stroller! This is getting ridiculous:

So I finally broke and bought a double jogging stroller online today.. aww... my life will forever change. I can't wait.

Jonah loved feeding the ducks his sandwich.

And as always, Emma was having the time of her life in the swing!

Jonah played with sand. He has really loved the dirt lately. He's always playing with dump trucks outside. My mom even bought him his own gardening set!

I love being a mom to these two. Jonah is such a loving big brother and Emma absolutely adores him!

He often makes me stop on the walk to check how Emma is doing in the stroller. She smiles at him of course and he begins to tickle her toes, then gives her the pacifier and a kiss. It's so sweet to see his love and concern for her. So now you have a taste of our mornings. Can you tell I was in a black and white mood putting these photos together?

5.21.10

2010-05-21T08:39:00.001-07:00

We took advantage of Zach's day off yesterday and once again, spent it in the sun. I have never seen such a water baby before! She is going to love The Little Mermaid!

Jonah on the other hand won't dare get deeper than his knees. He will only get in if he can ride in Emma's floaty. I think next summer we'll give swim lessons a try.

Emma passed out after an hour and was snug as a bug.

So while Zach and Alex went snorkeling in the pool, Jonah and I joined in. It was a great day. Haven't I been so good about posting lately!? I'm really trying!!

summer has arrived

2010-05-20T09:44:00.002-07:00

It's getting hot here in Arizona and when that happens there's no better place to be than the pool!

We've been swimming a lot lately either at our club house or Wo wo and Grandpas. As I type this I am reminding myself to buy some aloe Vera for that bad sun burn on my back.

These are pictures from the water park last week.

It took Jonah a while to feel comfortable in the water, I think his favorite cousin Alli motivated him to be brave. By the end of the day he was all for it!

Emma was a little pool bum.

She stayed like this the whole afternoon. (We were only there for a couple hours)

We are loving the sun right now and I'm sure that's only because it's in the 90's. Don't know how we will feel once it hits the triple digits.

I'm just throwing in these pictures as documentation:

This is what I say all day long. Emma is a good sport for the most part but you really have to watch Jonah like a hawk. Now that Emma is starting to crawl he seems to think she can be thrown around a lot more.

They really love each other though.. and he always apologizes.

All Aboard!

2010-05-14T06:49:00.001-07:00

We took the kids to the Railroad Park in Scottsdale yesterday. It was almost as good as Disney land for Jonah. His dream came true when he got to ride in a real life train! Tunnel and all! He was smiling like this the whole ride.

After the successful train ride (I really thought a kid was going to go overboard, it didn't exactly have walls or seat belts.) We went to the play ground.

Jonah came running to us with ice cream all over his arm, apparently some little girl was sharing her cone with all the children on top of the slide. nice.

Emma wanted in on the fun too.

I took her out once she started gnawing the swing.

After Jonah split his lip open, we headed to the merry go round.

We ran out of tickets so decided to leave and meet up with my sister Kaci for ice cream.

Overall it was a great experience! We will definitely be going back!

5.10.10

2010-05-10T21:48:00.003-07:00

*Always smiling and squealing LOUDLY

*rolls to where she wants to go

*Chubby Cheeks and even chunkier legs

*She wrecks her brother's train all day

* Her legs are constantly on the move.. it's impossible to keep her still.

* She rolls across the house in her walker

Emma is getting more and more fun every day. We love this girl.

Best things in life are free

2010-05-07T10:14:00.005-07:00

No it's not Jonah's Birthday.. Even though he definitely thought it should be! Zachary turned the big 24 yesterday! I will have more on that soon.. but this post is really to show off his birthday present to himself.. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!!

Meet Conrad (aka Oreo)

don't tell me I'm crazy... i said the same thing.

our free craigslist kitty

I don't really understand why he wanted a kitten so badly. Ever since we got rid of poor George Zachary has missed that little guy so much. I tried to remind him of his allergic reaction to cats but he has insisted it was really due to the fresh flowers they had all over the hospital.. sure. Zach also says his seasonal allergies are so bad why not throw in a cat! So we will see. Jonah has been a little better with this one. He wants to put it to bed, and never wants to put it on the ground. He's a cute little kitty though. Only seven weeks. light green eyes, a little white spot on its tummy, and litter box trained. He scales the side of our bed too! Good entertainment!

Emma showing Conrad how to play with broken electronics

More on this guy later and Zachary's B-day. Wish us luck! I hope he lasts longer than George.

2010-04-18T21:17:00.002-07:00

Is five months old!!!! (8 days ago..I am a slacker)

We Love this little Chunk sooo much!! She is such a happy happy girl!!

She is in the 50th percentile for weight

75th for height

25th for head! Complete opposite of Jonah who was short, fat with a BIG head!~

At five months Emma:

*Rolls over on tummy, but can't (or just doesn't) roll back over. I don't think I have ever seen her try. Tummy is best! I can't get her to stay on her back any more.

* For the most part, she only will laugh for her big brother. He doesn't even have to be looking at her and she will just bust out a huge giggle! If she sees him throwing a fit, that makes her laugh too!

* Started giving her rice cereal at night and she absolutely LOVES it. She doesn't even need to wear a bib.

* Still waking up between 2-3 maybe 4 times a night? I think a lot of it has to do with teething and her acid reflux. But hopefully her new meds will help with that. (because I am sooo tired. all. the. time.)

* She grabs anything and everything in arms reach! Jonah doesn't like it too much when she grabs his trains going around the track.

* She BABBLES and coo's very loudly and all the time. Especially at five in the morning, when she wants to wake up. She is going to be a chatter box.

* Emma is starting to push herself up on her arms and tries SO hard to crawl.

* She doesn't want to be rocked , just lay her down in her crib with her binkie and she dozes off fast. It's amazing.

* She is very very squirmy, I can't remember if Jonah was like this, but she kicks and is bouncing around constantly!

We love her sweet spirit in our home and I can already tell she and Jonah are going to have a lot of fun growing up together!

the singing bee

2010-04-17T17:18:00.004-07:00

Jonah loves, I mean LOVES to sing! Sometimes in the car I can hear him trying to sing a song he has never heard of on the radio. The funniest part about it is his lack of pronunciation. He tries so hard to keep up with the song but he can only sing the last word in every phrase. I just caught him singing along with Little Einsteins. Excuse his lack of clothing, that's just how he rolls.

Notice his arms prancing around just like the cartoon? It just KILLS me!!!

baby on board.. HELLO!!!!

2010-04-14T23:09:00.005-07:00

I have WAY too many posts I need to catch up on but I will instead take a minute to talk about an important matter: IDIOT PARKERS.

WHY is it that every time I drive with Emma (which is basically every time) I park in a nice open spot, but when I return to my car somebody has decided to park AS CLOSE as they possibly can to my car?! I mean, it is ridiculous how often this happens to me. Maybe its Arizona, but one time it was so bad that I had to climb through Jonah's car seat, with Emma's car seat to strap her in!!! There is no way that driver was even able to open his door. They had to have climbed out the passengers door! I know there is an obvious solution to this which is to park WAY far away. I don't mind doing that except that I have a bad back, lugging around a 50 pound car seat and sometimes you can't get a shopping cart until you get inside. The worst is when I have both kids with me. I just don't get how people can be so inconsiderate and so lazy that they can't even take 2 minutes to re-adjust their parking job!

I have come to the conclusion that families with kids under 1 who are required to be in a rear facing car seat should have a handy cap tag. Those baby carriers are HuGE and annoying to take in and out of the car, but it's not like she is big enough to walk or sit up in a shopping cart yet!

One more thing that has been getting me lately are stores with no cart returns! Do they really expect a mother with little children to leave her children unattended in the hot car while she walks all the way back in the store to return the cart?? I normally am really good about returning my shopping cart too.. but when there is no cart return and I am with the baby, I will just shove that shopping cart in the nearest corner. I'm thinking of getting a baby on board sticker.

Does that really make a difference? Maybe I should put a big sign on my car that says, "PLEASE LEAVE AT LEAST 3 FEET." and if that doesn't work than I will just leave a note that says, "Sorry for the dent on your car, my baby carrier is HUGE."

blessed

2010-04-07T23:13:00.001-07:00

Zachary gave Emma a beautiful blessing Easter Sunday. Jonah was blessed at church but I found that doing the blessing at home is much more personal and flexible. It was comforting to know that I didn't have to have her happy and ready at one exact moment.

I was bummed that I wasn't able to make her a matching white headband in time, both kids were sick last week. But it was a wonderful Easter with our family. I will post more pics later of the day and our week with family in town. Kaci can you please e-mail all the pictures you took too??

Can you stay this way forever?

2010-03-21T09:38:00.002-07:00

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved,1987

when mommy goes bye-bye & daddy stays home

2010-03-16T22:43:00.001-07:00

When I came home after getting my bad hair cut the other week,I walked into the house to find this.

Emma wrapped up in Jonah's baby blanket, Jonah feeding Emma with a bottle, my whole bed spread thrown across the room, and I think Emma was naked under that blanket too?

But..as you can see, they were both very happy. It's times like these that we moms need to see so we don't feel so insecure about the job we're doing. I think I'm doing just fine.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY

2010-03-12T21:30:00.008-07:00

aww. barbies. When we moved to Arizona, my mom informed me that she had stuffed some boxes in our garage for me. I had no idea what she was talking about and two months later I finally opened them to find my barbies! I remember begging my mom to save them for me about ten years ago, arguing that one day I might have a daughter, and I'm so glad I did.

Everything is exactly how I had left them: butchered hair, strange outfits, and drawn on makeup. Oh and the Barbie my sister Kelley helped me melt the hair to her head (using a blow dryer) hoping to turn her into a homemade ken doll.Remember the night time barbie with the eyes that would magically close when you wiped a cold cloth over them? I had her. She was great.

It made me think, I wonder the last day I played with these, and decided I was never to play with them ever again. What stopped me from opening up this tub to make up my little barbie house and make believe? I probably realized I was the only one still playing with barbies and was forced to stop! Isn't it crazy how time flies by?

I brought my barbie tub inside and let Jonah have a go. I don't think it's wrong to let a two year old boy play with dolls, but it did make me feel better when the only thing he cared about was my Barbie bicycle and the Kelly doll jeep. You see that canopy bed infront of me in the picture? Jonah kept trying to squeeze inside to take a nap.
I hope Emma enjoys Dr. Barbie and Posh Spice Barbie as much as I did.

February

2010-03-09T09:09:00.000-07:00

Wow! have I blogged at all lately!? Okay, I really need to keep this updated. I always go back and read my posts from two years ago and see how different Jonah was, stories I have forgotten about..all the stupid things I say on here,.. Now I'm such a slacker! Not any more! You know what another great thing about blogs are? If your computer crashes and you loose all your pictures, If you are keeping up with your blog, you have some!! (I guess you could also you picasa, photobucket etc. but you get the point.

         I titled this post February because I just have a bunch of random pictures from last month and instead of spreading it all out in five different posts, I'm just going to quickly get caught up, so we can move on to March! Sounds good? (Is anyone even reading this anymore? Probably not.But that's okay :)) 

Jonah is turning into the sweetest big brother! The other day, I was standing in line at Target, Jonah was in the shopping cart seat and Emma was in the basket in her car seat. Jonah kept turning around and sticking his hand through the bars and tickling Emma saying, "Tickle Tickle Tickle EMMA! hahaha! Tickle Tickle Emma!" She absolutely adores him! Everyone in line thought he was just the sweetest thing. (Good thing he didn't start hitting her after that.)

The other night while eating dinner Jonah was upset because Emma didn't get a piece of pizza, I tried to explain that she couldn't eat it, but finally gave in and just set a piece on the high chair she was in. Jonah wiped his tears and said, "Thanks mommy, thanks mommy."

He wants to help me change her diaper, he is always trying to jam her pacifier in her mouth and he says," OH NO! Emma's sad!" when she starts to cry. We were having a dance party one night and Jonah climbed up to Emma's seat and tried to make her dance saying "EMMA DANCE!!" I hope the love continues, and that when Emma is old enough to play with Jonah's toys that he remains just as sweet.

(notice the slice of missing hair above his ear.)

Jonah is becoming more and more reasonable, I don't mind taking him to a store as much as I used to. He is talking so much more and I'm starting to love this age! He loves to read books, sing his favorite songs, and he LOVES to color!

Miss Emma is growing up so fast, and becoming such a chunk! She smiles at EVERYTHING!

Emma can roll over, she has started to play with her feet, and she is getting really good at holding her toys. I love this chunky baby stage she's at! She still doesn't sleep through the night, I don't know if I should try baby cereal at night? Anyone has success with that at four months? She has been waking up at five every morning which kills me!

Oh and we bought a baby bjorn! Can not believe I lived without one of these for so long!! Emma Loves it! I make Zach wear it most of the time because of my back, but it's great if I have to take both kids out in town alone, and Zach just wears it around church and the house. She's always happy in that thing. The best part about it, is I bought a new one, then found a used one for TEN bucks on craigslist. So we returned the new one and this one is In great condition except for being navy blue, I can't believe how cheap we got it for!

 I Chopped off ALL my hair! Long story short, I got the WORST hair cut  ever. I wanted a really short bob but the lady did not get it and instead gave me a mullet or something close! Oh I cried and cried. But thanks to Katie, she helped me find pictures of exactly what I wanted and I went the very next day and got it fixed! I felt so naked walking out of the Salon, but I have grown to love it. It's SO much easier to style now. My hair was so long and thick, now its light and I can dry and style in half the time! So here is before:

(now I miss my long hair looking at it here.)

After:

I know, what was I thinking right? These are the cell phone pics I took the day I got it chopped (the good hair cut. I wont even show you the bad.) 

Any way, fresh hair for summer, just need high lights now. That was the longest post ever! But I'm all caught up. Life is great and crazy. Just grateful to not be in snowy Utah or Idaho. 

After a year..

2010-02-27T20:04:00.000-07:00

..of debating whether or not to go private, I decided it's about time. When I brought it up with Zach yesterday, He thought this blog had been private all along. (shows how much he reads it)
Hopefully even though I have been a slacker lately, you will all still check in on our little family once in a while. If you'd like to keep reading. Leave me your e-mail and I will add it! I will go private Friday, March 5th. So make sure you do it by then! Oh but wait! Since I figure it's not TOO personal, and for those of you who could really care less about the picture Jonah colored, or how chubby Emma is getting, I will keep my Sugar & spice blog Open to the whole wide blogger world. I'll just fill that with all my projects I'm always doing on the side. Thanks!

i have paint under my nails

2010-02-24T23:52:00.000-07:00

For the past few days, i have been slaving away, refinishing furniture with my hubby. And since I am way too ADD, I added two (or three) more projects in the mix, and I'm not sure what I was thinking. It's hard to do this kind of stuff only during naps and after bed time. I just keep thinking how much faster this could all be done if I could paint more than five minutes at a time. Slowly but surely it will happen. I just hope I have something to show for it!

big girl

2010-02-14T21:50:00.000-07:00

You probably can't tell from this picture, but her nose is a little swollen and green from her big brother trying to play with her that day. (she is going to grow up tough i guess.)

She started sucking her thumb.
Her eyes are SO blue, and i don't know what color her hair is! Is it red? Brown? Blonde?
Emma has the chubbiest cheeks, yet her body is still so petite! I spy some rolls growing on her arms though. She is always so happy, she loves watching Jonah play, and she blabbers SO much! She is already teething, and is about to roll over. We love this little girl to death!

my reality

2010-02-06T20:37:00.000-07:00

with two,

it takes twice as long to wake up in the morning.

twice as long to eat breakfast (my breakfast)

twice as long to take a shower.

twice as long to put on makeup.

twice as long to clean the house.

twice as long to get the diaper bag ready.

twice as long to change diapers.

twice as long to leave the house.

twice as long to get out the car.

twice as long to play with kids.

twice as long to fold laundry.

twice as long to make dinner.

twice as long to post a blog (that's why lately all I have are pictures, or nothing.)

twice as long to go to sleep.

my day is over.

wake up. start over.

This is my reality. The hardest part of having two little ones is how exhausting and time consuming it is. I have a list of 25 projects I have been dying to do, but before I know it, the kids are in bed and I want to be in bed too. Tomorrow will be different. nope. still tired. TOMORROW I will sew that!! NOPE. too tired. TOMORROW I AM STAYING UP LATE AND DOING EVERY PROJECT I HAVE! I can't. I am SO tired and the baby is probably going to wake up in an hour.

How do some of you women do it!? it's unreal.

Zach had this weekend off so this was my chance!!! Guess what. nothing done. and i am so tired.

At least the dishes are done, and my kids are happy right? That's all that matters.

Monday. I will paint and sew Monday. I can do it.

family

2010-01-27T13:22:00.000-07:00

Not only did Cristin and her kids come to visit, but Kelley, Vak, and Kaci showed up too! It has been over a year since all my sisters and I have been together. My mom and us girls (including miss Emma) all went out to P.F. Changs, and we had a barbecue with the whole family at our house. Here are all the pictures from the visit. Please come again soon you guys! It was so much fun!

week of fun

2010-01-25T15:56:00.000-07:00

Cristin and her two boys came to visit last Monday. Three boys under the age of three was quite the adventure!
Jonah worshiped his older cousin Luke (age 3) for the first two days here, until he realized that Luke did nothing but take all his stuff, and manipulate Jonah
into doing whatever he wanted. Cristin's other boy Charlie (age 1) loved playing with Jonah until Jonah started sitting on him, taking his toys, and pushing him down
all the time. After that Charlie was a little frightened to be alone with Jonah the rest of the trip. They are sure cute though.

The first day we took all the kids to the park and let them run wild.

I'll post the rest of the pictures later, I took a lot while they were here!

Emma hung out and enjoyed the nice weather.

Cristin showed me how to use the play ground equipment.

Luke and Jonah

Charlie took a pretty hard fall , but that didn't stop him! He got right up and chewed on sand the rest of the day.

random pictures: last week

2010-01-18T10:05:00.000-07:00

sit still PLEASE

2010-01-13T12:12:00.000-07:00

Trying to bribe him with candy to smile. No luck.

Jonah has an ear infection and croup. Every day for the past week, Jonah starts running around the house which turns into a coughing attack and throwing up his breakfast. Have you seen The Office episode where Pam has morning sickness? That's how I feel every time Jonah vomits. It's getting really old cleaning up his puke. (Luckily Zach has done most of the dirty work)

I have been trying to find activities to keep Jonah calm and his food down, but it has definitely been a challenge keeping my VERY active two year old calm.

Jonah playing with a quarter

For example: The other day I attempted to take some pictures of him. Let me just say, I have a lot of respect for photographers! At first I bribed Jonah with treats to hold still,which didn't work, so I then bribed him with a visit to Grandmas, which made him think we were leaving to Grandmas, and that led to letting him hold a quarter, thats right. For some reason he really likes change. Probably because I always take it from him. For one photo I told Jonah to fold his arms, then I couldn't get him to UNFOLD his arms. It was a very difficult ten minutes. This is why I haven't taken him to a professional yet!

Things are improving with him. Jonah doesn't throw nearly as many temper tantrums as he used to, he is much easier to take to the store, and he is talking more and more each day which helps a lot! But with all that comes new challenges. He seems to get smarter each day, and wants to be very independant. He has been taking off his poopy diaper every day and trying to play with his poop. Don't know HOW to stop that, except for catching it before it happens!

Jonah is going through an airplane phase. Ever since he saw Stuart Little 2 and we flew on the big airplane, he holds a plane every where we go. It's really cute to watch him pretend to fly his plane all around the house.

He loves his sister to death! Besides trying to suffocate her with her blankets, he has been pretty sweet. He is absolutely in heaven living by both sets of grandparents! We all are. One of my new years resolutions is to take more pictures of my kids and try to journal more. I have a lot of pictures and catching up to do.. but no time to do it! So we'll see.

bliss

2010-01-11T14:26:00.000-07:00

Here I am..trying to describe just how good it feels to be outside

Arizona, I love you right now.

In about three months you might burn me alive, but as of right now.. you are paradise.

2 months

2010-01-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

Today my baby is two months old! It's weird, most people might say, " It seems like just yesterday I brought her home from the hospital." I don't know if something is wrong with me, but I can't remember life without Emma! I can't believe she is ONLY 2 months old! And it's not that she is a hard baby either, she is the BEST BABY. Really, maybe it's just cause Jonah had (has) so many health problems but Emma is such a calm, happy child. I could have ten children if they were all as easy as this! Lets just hope it doesn't change. ;)

I definitely think the lord knew I needed an easy baby. Our life has been pretty crazy with new jobs, moving, Jonah's problems, and having a colicky newborn might have just threw me over the edge. Emma is changing so much every day! She started smiling around five weeks old, and hasn't stopped since! She loves sitting on our laps while we coo and aww at each other.

At first, Emma hated her car seat! I dreaded every time I had to strap her in, because she would scream for about five minutes straight until she eventually fell asleep.

Now, she loves it! Almost every time I set her in, she looks up at me with the biggest grin. Then she will coo and make little noises while we drive. It's really cute.

Her hair is still long in the back and sort of falling out in the front. I can't tell if she is turning blonde or red! Whenever I take a picture of her using the flash, her hair turns out so red looking. It will be interesting to see what it looks like in a year.

She loves it when her big brother comes over, kneels by her face and says "It's okay Emma." or "Izamo memma" . .She smiles until he starts pinching her cheeks.

Emma looks a lot like Jonah yet sometimes, I don't know who she resembles! She is almost able to roll over! I can't remember at what point babies roll over but she is almost there! It's a little scary to me!

I can take Emma anywhere. Zach and I take her on all our dates, and she usually just sleeps the whole time. I forgot how easy new babies are! I remember thinking what a pain it was to take Jonah anywhere when he was a newborn. After having a two year old, I see it so differently now.

Emma sleeps pretty well too. She sometimes will sleep for six hours straight which is pretty incredible to me! Because of her reflux, she sleeps in either her swing, car seat, or in bed with me. She also takes a pacifier now, which Jonah never did.

I haven't taken her to her two month check up yet, but I think she is around 12 pounds. She still fits into her newborn clothes, though they are getting pretty small.

Emma has been such a joy to have in our family. We love watching her grow and change each day. We can't wait till she and Jonah can play and fight with each other... or really just until she is big enough that I don't have to worry about Jonah smashing her or something.

forgotten

2010-01-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

My little Emma has been a little neglected on our family blog. Well actually I just have been neglecting my blog. Things are finally settling down, I only have about 3 boxes left to unpack. Tomorrow Emma turns two months old! I am really going to try and take some more pictures of this cutie and make an effort to post them tomorrow. So Kelley, you will finally get what you have been asking for! Hang in there just a little longer.

2009-12-29T12:56:00.000-07:00

We took Zach's brother's electric wheelchair out for a stroll on Sunday.

That chair is fast!Adam plays special olympics soccer in it. The chair can go up to 5 miles an hour I think.

We took turns using the chair. Jonah thought it was pretty awesome.

Here I am taking a Sunday stroll... using no muscles but the tap of my finger. I put that baby in fifth gear and I was flying past houses!

And then while zach was taking a picture of Jonah on my lap, Jonah reached over, pushed the controller and we FLEW off the sidewalk onto the street and I could not get it to stop!!! I almost had a heart attack. So the rest of the time, I held Jonah like this.

We are one strange family, I know.

christmas overload

2009-12-29T10:14:00.000-07:00

Upon kelley's request, here are A TON of christmas pictures! They aren't in order like they should be and I am not even going to write comments about each one. Christmas was great as always! It was so much fun to be with family and Jonah was spoiled once again by his grandparents, aunts and uncles.

This is Kaci's paparazzi shot, and Zach's modeling shot. .... What else are you going to do in a backyard full of rocks?

lots going on....

2009-12-20T12:56:00.000-07:00

I feel like I have dropped off the face of the earth! My mom just informed me that my phone's voice mail is full. That explains my life right now! I won't go into a whole bla bla story of all that's been going on but I will try to breifly break it all down. Zach just accepted a job in Arizona that starts the very beginning of January. We have to have our house completely packed and ready by this Wednesday (we leave x-mas eve). We have also all been sick so if I'm not packing, cleaning, un-packing stuff my husband boxed up for me.. you know like my boots, coats, oh and stuff to cook with for the next week..very sweet though, trying to find a house, trying to rent this house, changing diapers, putting Jonah in time out, nursing, suctioning noses, doing breathing treatments, cleaning poop off the walls and carpet (did I mention putting Jonah in time out?) ...I am closing my eyes.

I sadly haven't even gone christmas shopping. I don't know when I will. We are excited to move and be near our family, but I don't think I will EVER move again.. ya right.

These pictures are from earlier this month. Jonah loves the snow! Or Mose as he calls it.

Jonah has been asking for Mormor and Papa ever since my parents left. My poor dad couldn't get Jonah to pose for a picture with him. That's just how Jonah has been lately.

So much for putting up my Christmas Tree! If only I knew it would be coming down two weeks before Christmas. We can't wait to get out of the cold, and spend Christmas with our family!

last weekend in review

2009-12-08T20:41:00.000-07:00

My mom is here visiting and wow what a help she is!! Every time she asks if she can take a nap, I tell her she needs to clock out first. What am I going to do when she leaves!? Geez mom, sit down and eat some ice cream!

My maid at work

Lots of yummy soups and dinners...

Zach had the weekend off..

Emma drooled...

and went crossed eyed...

Jonah played Geo Trax and Cars... with no pants on of course.

..and then it snowed!!

It's SO cold.

It's for her protection..

2009-12-07T19:12:00.000-07:00

chicken legs

2009-12-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

It's getting pretty chilly here and nothing will fit these skinny little legs. The smallest socks fall down her ankles, and even though these tights fit nicely around her waist, her legs are swimming in them!

Check out her little beauty mark on her left arm.
She is my little doll. I can dress her up super funky, and I L O V E it!

keeping my two year old happy...

2009-12-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

has been quite a challenge lately.
Yesterday, he probably threw ten temper tantrums. He is definitely testing my patience every day. Since it is too cold to play outside, and I can't exactly take him anywhere (for a good amount of time) I am trying to come up with inventive ways to keep Jonah occupied and happy. Yesterday for example, Jonah helped me make cookies. No, this was not the morning, he just wore his pj's all day. And do I care that my son wears his pajamas ALL day? NO. I'm just grateful he is wearing clothes. Zach's mom sent us a package, and in it was a bag of hershey kisses. Perfect for Peanut butter cookies, and perfect for Jonah to help me out.

To my surprise, Jonah followed directions very well. He didn't eat a single chocolate or cookie the whole time. After unwrapping each Hershey kiss, he placed them in a nice line.

While I was turned around to take out the second batch, Jonah realized how delicious the cookies were.

And that's when the activity stopped, and I had to find a new one for him.

two weeks

2009-11-26T11:06:00.000-07:00

7 pounds
19.5 inches long
She has grown so much in the past two weeks! Then I realized that most babies are born bigger than this.

Katie visits

2009-11-22T12:30:00.000-07:00

We were thrilled to have Aunt Katie come up and visit for four days! We miss her already. She was so much help while here, I started thinking how I ever got by with out her. She definitely went above and beyond, and I hope she will visit again when I haven't just birthed a child! I promise I will be much more alive katie ;)

Her last night here, she turned my kitchen into a salon. Her friend Jesse came over for some pampering as well. Poor Zach really wanted Katie to bleach his hair like Justin Timberlake in 1998, but oh darn. we ran out of time.

Every time I had to stop to feed Emma, Katie and Jonah would have a little photo shoot. Jonah is getting really good at following commands.

Yes, Zach definitely had his hands full. . . This picture was taken seconds before Jonah tried to hit Emma. She will definitely be a tough girl. . . and why won't my son wear clothes!?

Anyways, we loved having Katie here. I hadn't seen her since her wedding day! She definitelty pampered me, and brought life back into my hair! If anyone wants a great stylist back in Utah! She is seriously awesome!

Thanks for EVERYTHING Katie! Jonah saw these pictures of you, and started to whimper. We all can't wait to see you again!

Now you think your feeling better, but you keep on getting wetter..

2009-11-16T13:23:00.000-07:00

Jonah's new favorite phrase lately is, "It's stuck!!!"

For example. If the door is locked he yells, "The door is stuck! It's stuck!" and so on.

So earlier today, Zach and I were looking up the diarrhea song online. You know the diarrhea song? My sisters and I used to make up lines and think we were SO funny!! Anyway, as Zach and I are dying laughing, I look over to find Jonah obviously going number two in his diaper.

Me: "Jonah are you stinky? Are you making the poop face?"

Jonah: looking very uncomfertable "it's STUCK!"

Maybe it's because we were just singing a song about it, but we were dying.

life with two

2009-11-13T19:06:00.000-07:00

It's definitely been an adjustment here..for all of us. I love being a mom of two yet I am not afraid to say, this is really hard. I know it should get easier in ways, especially once I get my energy back. Will my energy come back?

Zach has been so great since we have been home. He's up all night bringing Emma to me, and changing her diapers all night long. Jonah has been waking up twice a night for some reason and so Zach has been going back and forth between our room and his. This is for my mom, who is so worried about me eating well. I normally cook dinner around here so it was a little surprise for me to see how well Zach did making dinner last night. He even set the table! Notice he set the fork and knife on the opposite end, each with a napkin. I asked him to make a salad, and he even had a bowl of olives with ranch. I would have never thought of adding that.

The hardest part has been keeping Jonah happy, and away from the baby. I thought I would try putting the swing in the family room, but as you can see, it lasted about one minute.

He's just so rough and scary with her. It's all out of love, but he wants to clap her hands together like he does with his Handy Manny doll. I'm really scared for Zach to go back to work, and be left alone to nurse her. I know it's going to be a huge process of keeping the crazy monkey away.

On a positive note, Emma so far as been such a calm, sweet baby. She eats well, sleeps well, and poops very well. I can't wait to watch her grow and change each day. I also can't wait for my sister in law and mom to come!!

going home

2009-11-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

Our celebration dinner before we were discharged. Mmm.. nothing like hospital food served on a table cloth.

Jonah Loved the movie Up and eating jello with his hands.

Strapping her in the car seat which is HUGE for her.

And here are my two children this morning.

Jonah...

Emma...

She is changing so much already.

And here is a little letter for Jonah.

Dear Jonah,
Thank you for throwing our camera across the room yesterday. I know we were upset but it was just the push I needed for daddy to buy me the Nikon I wanted. You must have known. Your such a smart little guy.. why didn't I think of that. Thanks for being so loving and sweet to your new baby sister. I know she really likes it when you give her kisses and poke at her face.
Love, Mommy

She's Here!!!

2009-11-11T07:32:00.000-07:00

Please welcome..

Emma Susette Nalder

Born: 11/10/09 @ 5:02 p.m.

6 pounds 6 ounces

19 inches long

I can't believe she is really here! We love this girl so much already! Since I can hardly sleep, I decided I need to write down her story before I forget all the details. It's pretty long, so feel free to skip it and just enjoy the pics. ;) I have to do this for my posterity.

I went in to my midwife on Monday morning because I had been having really intense back pain. I couldn't sleep at all, and I didn't know if it was due to labor, pregnancy, or it was just my car accident back starting to get really irritated from the pregnancy. But it had definitely gotten worse in just the last week.

My midwife said that the baby just needed to come out. Since she knew I do hypno birthing, and was planning on going natural, she was worried that if it kept going on like I was, and my back pain kept getting worse, than my body was just going to get really worn out, and my labor would not go as I wanted it to. As much as I didn't want to force the baby out, I agreed that I wasn't sure I would last much longer, especially running on such little sleep and not being able to take any pain meds for my back.

So Zach and I came into the hospital yesterday morning at 7:30 for my midwife to break my water, and hopefully get things going!

i am huge! This is probably one out of three pictures of me this whole pregnancy. sad.

After they monitored me for a while, around 8 or 8:30 a.m I was dialated to a four, and she broke my water. Nothing significant really happened. I walked, or "speed walked" the halls and would have a good contraction here and there. I think around 11:30 or noon, my midwife came back to check my cervix and said there had been no change. Our last resort was pitocin.

The plan was to start up the IV, and then turn it off once I started having cervix dilation and could tell I was in active labor. Within 30 minutes, my contractions were coming every 5 minutes or so and with every contraction I could feel a shooting pain up my back, but nothing I couldn't handle. I thought I had totally had everything under control. I was amazed how easy this was when you have relief in between each contraction! With Jonah, I was in labor for 48 hours, with non stop pain for 24 hours. There was no reason I couldn't handle this!!

After a while the contractions started coming every two to three minutes and the pain intensity shot through the roof. With every one, a sharp pain would radiate up my back, also causing this strange shot of pain down my legs as well. No matter what position I tried, nothing seemed to help. I was hesitant to get in the tub because the pain was so strong through my back, with every contraction I had to lean forward and cling (more like choke) Zach's neck and shirt. After four hours, at around 4 p.m., my nurse said she could tell from watching me, the baby must had made some huge changes, so she better check me. It took everything I had just to lie down and be checked though the contractions. So.. After four hours of all that, I was STILL at a four. How was this possible!? My nurse said I was tensing up so much through through contractions, and if I could find a way to relax, the baby might move down faster. I broke down and sobbed. Why was this SO hard!!? How could I have back labor for 48 hours straight yet I couldn't handle this!? She wasn't even posterior! Through my snot and sobs, I realized it wasn't me, it was my bad back, and probably the pitocin. I had lost all focus. I was crying so hard, I knew physically and mentally I had lost it. I was so discouraged. All I could think about was how many more hours of pain I might have until my cervix would progress anymore.

I told my nurse to send in the anesthesiologist and get me that epidural.. fast!

I was told it would probably be about three more contractions until he was there, and so with each one, Zach would say, "it's your last one. You can do this!" I probably had about 15 more in the 20 minutes it took to get my epidural going. Thanks for being so positive honey!

The funny thing about this whole labor, is that my epidural didn't work on my left side..and in my butt.

As soon as he was done getting the epidural going, my nurse checked me again. I was dialated to an eight! I had gone from a four to an eight in about 20 minutes. Within minutes my midwife was all scrubbed up and I was pushing the baby out. Within 10- 15 minutes she was out! Zachary delivered her which was really special for him. It was such a different experience with my delivery this time. I was able to put Emma on my chest right away and kept her there as long as I wanted. She instantly pulled out her arm and grabbed onto my hand. I felt such an overwhelming love for this sweet little spirit who i had barely just met. Having a baby is such a testimony of our heavenly father's love. She is such a beautiful miracle. I'm so grateful to have such a healthy, happy baby.

Kelley came and watched Jonah through my whole labor. It was so great to have her there!

Thanks for everything Kelley!

Daddy and his little girl

Jonah was so sweet with her. He looked a little freaked out

when he first came into the room but he just wanted to hold her.

I swear he doubled in size as soon as he did! I totally forgot how TINY newborns are.

I can't believe I have TWO kids.. what was I thinking!? just kidding. 60/40

And thats all for now! Jonah just threw our camera and shattered the lense. (jealousy already begun?) So I made Zach run to buy a new one before we are released from the hospital tonight. Lots more to come!

will beg for candy

2009-11-01T16:15:00.000-07:00

The only picture of Jonah and his fairy friend trick or treating.

I'm not going to pretend like I am sad halloween is over this year. I am so ready for pumpkins, spooky decorations, and candy to be gone! I feel sick today from eating so much candy that we never handed out. That's what we get for taking our own kid trick or treating. By the time we got home, no one else came to our door. Now we are stuck with SO much candy though Zach must have eaten most of it in bed last night. When I woke up this morning there were snickers wrappers all over our bed.. and he wonders why he feels so sick today.

Jonah loved trick or treating. The first two houses he opened the door and walked right inside.

The best part of the night was that we kept running into our neighbor's boy who was wearing the same bee costume (same age as Jonah). Every time we passed him on the side walk Jonah and he would stop, get right in each other's face and stare each other down. So farewell Halloween! I secretly wish we could skip Thanksgiving and put up our Christmas tree.

my little man

2009-10-25T08:37:00.000-07:00

Jonah is becoming such a big boy lately! He has the funniest personality and I love watching it come out more and more!

We took Jonah to our ward's halloween party/trunk or treat. I wasn't sure if he would wear his costume but he was the complete opposite! He was a bee, as you can hopefully tell, and the only funny thing about his costume was his hood was really tight. It looked so uncomfertable to me, and he would not let us take it off! I think the picture really shows how smooshed his face is. Funny boy.

I should have taken more pictures of the night. Jonah loved showing off and comparing his costume with all his friends. Oh and trick or treating was like the night of his dreams! After each candy was put in his bucket, he would want to stop to observe and eat each piece. After a couple trunks, he knew exactly what was going on.

Then, when he woke up after his crazy fun filled night, he came down stairs looking like this:

Notice the smeared makeup.

I sure love this guy. He makes every day very interesting!

finished

2009-10-23T21:59:00.000-07:00

..and only three weeks left. more or less.

I'm so happy to finally have her nursery complete! Wasn't sure if I would have it done in time. I thought it would be so easy to do a girls room but it turned out to be much more difficult deciding what I liked. I just hope my husband doesn't find all the fabric that I never used. oops.

I think I can, I think I can

2009-10-16T17:58:00.000-07:00

Jonah is still sick. I know thats not too surprising, it seems like he is always sick. Poor guy. So I took him to our new pediatrician, who I loved, and she really thinks he has asthma even though it's "too early in life" to tell. It makes sense though. He's perfectly healthy every summer but as soon as the cold hits he gets sick and can't breathe. Plus it definitely runs in our family. It's interesting to me that non of the other doctors considered it really, but he definitely had a lot more going on other than asthma!

So the cure for this? Oh heaven help me!!!!! During the winter months, Jonah will get Three breathing treatments of Pulmocort a day, (pulmocort is a preventative steroid) and while he is sick: Three albuterol treatments a day on top of the Pulmocort!! So as of right now, he gets SIX breathing treatments a day!!!!!! If I didn't have anxiety, I do now. A breathing treatment for Jonah is like hell and back. Really, it's that horrible.

I truly feel like my prayers have been answered though. Since his appointment yesterday, I prayed that I would have the stength to do this and that Jonah would learn to be okay with the treatments every day. I asked Zachary to bring home a mouth piece for our nebulizer, Jonah has been using the mask, and I had Zach help me with first treatment this morning using the mouth piece.

To our astonishment, Jonah loved it! We let him play with it and told him it was like a whistle and all day long he has been asking to use the nebulizer! It really is A Miracle! I was feeling so scared and overwhelmed all day with all his health problems going on (this is only one part of it) and today I am positive and hopeful for Jonah. I'm so grateful. I know our father in heaven truly does know us individually. I know that as long as we are doing all we can and truly put our trust in him, he will be there to help carry us through our trials and give us the strength we need. As little as this problem might be to some, I have never felt more relieved and blessed!