Week 22: Jewelry, recipes, crying, the force, friends, the nail(s), and a water park

Week 22 September 7

Feeling pretty good. After Week 20 with being irritated after church, we decided that before church pictures would go better. I'm happier, feel prettier… world is better… :)

C was so funny after I put on my jewelry. He wanted to look like Mommy and wear pretty earrings and bracelets, too. So I put my Choose the Right bracelet on him and found some stickers I wouldn't need and put those on his ears. He loved it. haha

We made these the weekend before and they were really yummy! (c.o. Our Best Bites) Have I mentioned how much zucchini our garden has produced?? HOLY MOLY!!! We have gotten some HUGE ones! the cute picture of the bowl from last week? Yeah, take that times 4 and that's the size. Then there are about 4 of those!! 

Big boy bed training is rough.

But if you act better and your mom is tired enough, you can watch a movie!

We saw a video similar to this online and had to try it out. C hadn't seen the video, but somehow knew exactly what to do. Nerd? Sure!

Headed outside in a chilly morning. I love the "MOOOMMM! Stop taking pictures" face.

With his neighbor/church friend, Lolo.

Reading about Pooh and Tigger ("poohteeko!") while I jogged.

So after about 3 weeks, the nail decided to really make a good effort to fall off! He came in to where I was and showed me his finger. He was probably playing with it a little…

I called my mom and she said check with C's doctor and my dad-who is a doctor.

C's dr didn't answer. It rang and rang and rang. It was weird. Usually, I get answered and then put on hold. So after sitting for 5 minutes, still holding his hand still, I gave up. 

When I called my dad, he asked for some pictures from different angles. (works for this bloggin mama!)

 His advice was to clip it short so it wouldn't snag and wait for the nail to fall off. It would take its time, but it's better to wait.

So here's clipped short (No, no bleeding, just gross skin under the nail.)

And a cute bandaid.

He loved his bandaid. :)

On a walk to deliver some goods to another preggo friend. I needed the stroller since it was long enough I didn't want to carry it. What I love is that as he was pushing the stroller, he'd say "vroom!" when he went and "Errr!" when he turned every now and then.

Remember getting Gelish for my birthday?

I ordered my lamp and set and stuff and here's my first time using it! It's an LED light, so it only needs 10 seconds to cure! Crazy!!! with my sister's lamp, it took me 1.5 hours. With my new lamp, it only took me 45 minutes (I couldn't trust the 10 seconds, yet, so I went with the 30 second option for my first time. :) )

At the beginning of the summer, we got free tickets to Roaring Springs. When I found out I was pregnant, we postponed it trying to figure out the best use of our money, since slides aren't really an option.

And then it was September and we had to use them stat! 

So we went on the very last day possible. It was fun! 

We started at the kiddie pool with fountains and a few slides. C was more interested in looking, so we walked around for a while. 

We watched Daddy go down the HUGE slide that goes straight down (Not kidding, the floor drops out from under you!) and then we went on the lazy river while he went on more slides. The river was COLD! But if you sat in a tube, only your bum got wet and you got used to that. I sat in a tube and he sat on my tummy/lap. He would snuggle every now and then and we just sat absorbing sunlight. The current was better than the water park I grew up going to, so it was nice that I didn't get stuck.

C's favorite part was the wave pool. It took some getting used to, but then he LOVED it! I liked it most because it was warm!! (the day was in the 80's and a little overcast) He liked to jump over the waves when they were cute baby waves at the end. We sat there and let the water lap onto us and walked around there. 

J went on a few more slides and when he got back, we left. It was really quite fun!

The straight up and down one is the purple and white one just behind the yellow ones seen here.

A good week, yes? :)

21 Weeks: zucchini cake, a chair, bees, bruises, learning, barbarians, and motivation

Week 21! August 31

Feeling a bit better from the cold, but I don't think it was all the way gone yet. Part of me wonders if it was partially from the color run and getting all of that dust/corn starch in my nose. Since it lasted longer than that, I'm going with stress and maybe it was instigated by the color run.

Pregnancy-wise, I'm basically in only maternity clothes. It's comfier and easier to deal with as far as pants falling down and such. :)

I feel comfortable, my ring fits, and yes, I get those lovely pimples to remind me that my body is doing weird things. :)

My boys admiring the airplanes from the airshow that continued on Sunday as well. Having WWII airplanes soaring overhead in the middle of the Sacrament makes for an interesting Sacrament...

 J's parents came over with dinner that night. Usually we go to their house 30 minutes away, but they offered to come over. It was definitely really nice. We made chocolate zucchini cake. 

Oh. 

My. 

Goodness.

DELICIOUS!!! (who wants the recipe??)

It was Labor Day weekend (Have any of my readers given birth on Labor day? Someone should sometime. That's a cool claim-to-fame), so we wanted to buy C's big boy bed the next day with all of the mattress sales.

So the nursery needed to be rearranged.

This is what it was like before. I LOVE this room. The alphabet may or may not be my favorite part.

Part of getting a twin sized mattress was the requirement that this chair go away. We used to have it in our living room-Linda found it and thought it would make a great gaming chair for J while in college. We've had it since.

They took it home with them to give to a man who moved into their ward and had ZERO things. Pots, pans, lamps, couches… Glad it went somewhere helpful!

We started making the zucchini cake that night without realizing we had no eggs. I asked our good friends if they had any eggs we could have. She gave me her garage code and said to help ourselves.

Of course, if you have free reign of someone's house, you may as well leave a "hello."

We stacked all of their Honey Nut Cheerios in a tower and mounted a flag atop the Cheery Cheerio Tower.

The next day, she sent me a text apologizing for the messy house we had to "endure" as we made our way to the kitchen. I told her it wasn't even noticed and asked if they noticed our "hello."

She said they would go and find it. 

I got this picture in response. 

Score! 

That afternoon, we hired a babysitter to watch C while we went on a motorcycle ride!!

J's best friend, Brady and his wife joined on their motorcycle. (The guys have the exact same bike. J's is 2 years newer. That's it. I think they love that fact.)

We drove out to Marsing the scenic way. Then we went to Homedale for ice cream and back home past peach and plum orchards. It was beautiful!

Here's the four of us!

This picture was harder to get, but I like it.

 I had an interesting experience with a bee on our final stretch.

Ready for this one?

I have a half helmet, so there's a space between my ear and the straps there. 

A bee hit it. It hurt because we were going so fast (55mph?). The problem is that then it got stuck! So I'm kinda flailing around trying to get the bee out from in between my ear and the straps.

I must have turned my head, because once it was gone, I felt a little movement in my shirt!!

EEK!!

So I pull aside my shirt, and lo and behold, between my boobs is a bee! YIKES! 

It's kinda rolling around trying to figure out what to do. 

So I scream, scoop it out, and freak out a little.

Poor J is driving a vehicle on 2 wheels, at 50mph while I'm freaking out, so he's slowing down, swerving a little, and freaking out not knowing what's going on. haha

Brady then freaked out behind us because he sees me flailing and sees J driving less-than-normally…

We stopped at a stop sign a little later and I got to tell them about the bee.

Oh man, it was scary!

I didn't get stung, so that's the best part!

Anyway!

Here's C's nail from that week. Looking a little worse. Thankfully, he doesn't notice it at all.

Shredding cheese with Daddy

Not only are we working on saying more words, but we are trying to learn some colors as well. 

At this point, he can say Blue and Yellow. If I tell him the color's name and put it in a place, he can then put the other ones in that place, too. So I give him a purple 3 and say "this is purple" and he will put it in the purple pile. We're getting there!

This is how we empty the dishwasher.

Sorry about the tons of movement. Maybe I'll get a video taken by J so you don't get to see how I run… lol

Veggies from the garden! So pretty!

Before we got the big boy bed, this was how the room was set up. Kinda cute! The only problem is how close the crib is to the window. Looks like we may have some training to do for the new little Mr.

Here's the room with the big boy bed!

We got Thomas the Train sheets for it, so it's called the choo choo bed.

I'm taking some notes, so once we are used to the bed, I'll tell you how the transition went.

We went shopping with Nana C earlier this day and when he woke up and she wasn't there, this was how he reacted. Poor boy!

Ready for a geek-out??

This is my mini for our DND game. (they start out silver, made of a metal of some kind)

Her name is Ruby. She is a halfling (think hobbit size)

She wields a hammer called Onyx and gets mad easily. When she gets mad, she goes into a rage (barbarian) and deals about twice the damage.

She's kind of awesome.

She's my favorite character I've ever made. That includes any video game, any other DND game, anything. 

Amanda (one of the girls we play with and the other wife on the bike ride) went to beauty school where she learned how to paint nails -small objects using a small brush, right?-

She figured she'd try out painting minis and found she not only liked it but did a fantastic job!

She painted Ruby for me!!

Isn't it amazing?!

I'm so thrilled!

 I mean, seriously. The thing is less than 2 centimeters tall!

 So cool.

k, geek out over.

here's my boy as I went running to prepare a little more for my 10K I had coming up… And I started to think "What was I thinking?!"

His nails grow really quickly, so I had to clip this one back a bit further than the others. It looked like it was peeling back a little. Fun stuff! 

Apparently we are kind of suckers for door-to-door salesmen. We should probably put up a no-soliciting sign… (but we haven't, because they can be great opportunities. For instance, we took one lady with us to the temple open house!)

A girl came by selling really fantastic books at a really good price for what you're getting. They're educational, colorful, and C loved them.

Here he is reading away and identifying the pictures. His favorite is the panda (By the way, Kung Fu Panda is called the "black and white movie" if you're ever saying it in front of him!)

I got a sweat band from the color run and C loves to put it on. This was his hair after wearing it for  a few hours one day. So hilarious.

While home alone with Daddy one night, they discovered the joy of jumping off of things. This is our Rock Band Ottoman we keep in our room. It holds games, controllers, guitars, the drums. I love it. 

Anyway, it turned into something where C would stand up on the chest and demand saying "Go C" over and over with fists pumping. See video below.

Overall, a good, busy week! I love 4 day weeks, too. More time with the hubby is always wonderful!!

Week 20

This is week 20. Looking at this picture, I know I was tired and annoyed, but pregnancy-wise, I felt pretty good! It was the day after the color run and my body was telling me it had had enough and was tired. I got a yucky cold that week.

J's parents have a 3 hole golf course in their neighborhood along with a little putting green. We've come up with a horse-like game and play it often. 

Here's Auntie K and C walking back from golfing.

I got an oil change-my head was starting to really feel icky by now.

Proof of my pretty nails before I peeled them all off! I got my own set of Gelish for my birthday, but had to order it and wait for them to come, so this was my own set of polish that I used with my sister's lamp and stuff before I left Arkansas.

Here's the Superman apron

I've been wanting a shadow box for C's baby things for a long time. I finally found what I've basically had in mind at Babies R Us. Some cute booties, his and my bracelets from the hospital, and the silver ingot his namesake got for him. (Fun fact: C was born in the year of the dragon. He's going to be an awesome man one day.)

The mornings started to get colder and colder, so while I sat hoping my icky cold would go away (why, pregnancy, must I not be able to take my favorite medicines, why??), C watched a few movies snuggled in blankets.

here's the bruise forming under his nail from the door

This week, he was obsessed with making everything fit into a small space. 

He did that with animals (I had to put them all on)

And he did it with "his" dice.

I saw these at the store and thought they were awesome. I also love the ones with mustaches on them. 

So cute.

Saturday, while J was at a hike with the 11 year old scouts, C and I hung out outside. 

(by the way, check out that overgrown garden! Holy Moly!!)

There was an airshow nearby, so we ate our leftover pizza on the grass and watched the planes.

Fresh peas from the garden. Is there anything better straight from the garden? (maybe tomatoes, but this you could jus bite into)

The picture doesn't do it justice. Those planes were right there and really noisy. 

So helpful of him to sweep the grass!

He got this big brother shirt from friends last weekend. I love it.

I grew a boy in my flower pot!