Blue's Clues

London gets up right around 5:30 every morning. She comes into our bedroom, gets as close to my face as possible, and says "ungie.. ungie" (hungry, hungry) and if I don't get up in 2 seconds (literally) she starts crying and yells "UNGIE, UNGIE!" We have to immediately go to the kitchen, get a sippy cup, and get oatmeal cooked. She goes into the living room, drags out the bean bag chair, plops down, and waits for me to turn on Blue's Clues. It's a favorite around these parts and we all watch A LOT of Blue's Clues.

One day I was trying to get stuff cleaned and Kyle was on kid duty. I heard them in the other room and they were playing blues clues, going around the house and finding "clues" and drawing them in a little notebook. There wasn't any real rhyme or reason to their clues and they were just drawing pictures. It was about nap time so Kyle and I decided to make a real Blue's Clues game out of it. I kind of felt like it would be mean for the first guessing to be "Blue wants you to take a nap!" so we did a different one first instead. I cut out some paw prints, sent Macy and London into a room to count to 20, put the paw prints around the house, and let the girls play.

The first clue was Barkley....

 She wanted some help in drawing him.

The second clue was a dog bowl...

  the third clue was dog food...

 They sat down in the "thinking chair" and Macy guessed in about 3 seconds that Blue wanted them to feed the dogs! 

 So she did...

 In the next game the first clue was her blankie...

 the second clue was her bed...

 and the third clue was her music.

She guessed that one right away too, but then when we said "okay, now we need to do what Blue wants us to do" we got a definite "this was such a set up" look from her. They had a lot of fun with finding the clues around the house, I kept the paw prints and we will for sure we playing Blue's Clues again.

Stitches

Well, I think we have officially been broken in as parents. We did the broken leg thing and now we've got stitches under our belt.

On May 6th we were at Kyle's Mom's house for Sunday dinner- I was heading to the bathroom and London wanted to follow me. I was only going to be a minute so I just shut the door behind me and figured she could just wait for me. Once I shut the door I heard her scream, not a "Mom just left me in the hall" scream but the I'm really hurt scream. I opened the door and London just fell to the ground grabbing her finger. She had gotten it pinched in the door on the hinge side. I figured she had got her finger in the door, but didn't realize how bad until I picked her up and there was blood all over her hand and my shirt. I yelled for Kyle, swept her into the bathroom and put a massive amount of paper towels around her fingers. She was wailing all over the place so Kyle and I were both trying to look at her finger to access the damage but it was kind of difficult. Kyle finally got a look and immediately said "We gotta go to the ER." We hopped in the van and off we went. I had to hold onto London's finger/paper towel wrap or it would bleed everywhere so London just sat on my lap the way there. I think her defense mechanisms kicked in and she fell asleep on the way to the hospital. We go to Show Low to Summit Healthcare, so it's about an hour away and I think she pretty much slept the whole way there. I still hadn't seen her finger, so when I knew she was good and asleep I slowly lifted up the paper towel and immediately felt sick to my stomach, it was pretty gross and I felt so bad for her. We were definitely a sight walking into the waiting room with Kyle holding London and me holding her finger with blood all over my shirt. Once they got us checked in I ran to the bathroom (pregnant woman needed to pee over an hour and I had unborn child on my bladder and London on my lap, ya- I really had to go) and they called her in while I was still in the bathroom, so it was pretty quick that they took us back. 

London didn't like the nurses touching her one bit but we eventually got the bleeding to stop and were able to get an x-ray to make sure nothing was broken. I never actually saw her finger at the hospital, it was too gruesome for me and made me sick if I even thought about looking at it, but Kyle got a pretty good picture pre-stitches.

They did the stitches while Kyle was holding her down with help from a nurse. I couldn't stay in the room, made me sick, and it was awful hearing her scream while they did the stitches.  People kept poking their heads out of the rooms to see who was torching the poor girl and a nurse even came up and asked me if I needed anything, apparently I looked a little stressed. After they were done I went back into the room and picked her up, poor girl was exhausted and cuddled right in.

 After Macy broke her leg we had to go to Walmart to get some pain meds and a toy, so we did the same for London. She is in LOVE with baby dolls and Walmart had a super cheap and super cute baby doll just for her.  While we were waiting for the stitches and x-ray she kept asking for a "ink" (drink) and "ungy" (hungry) but the nurses told us no in case she needed surgery, so when we got to Walmart we got her a drink and some teddy grahams too. You would have never thought that 30 minutes ago she was screaming bloody murder. 

 She got a total of 4 stitches and the doctor said he probably could have done another one but decided she'd had enough. It healed up really well and just a few days later she wasn't babying it or anything. It was definitely an adventure. Since everyone tells me it's worse with boys, I guess our girls are just breakin' us in.

Let's Go Fly A Kite...

For Memorial Day weekend we went CAMPING. It was very fun, and very relaxing. We met up with my Grandparents, Steph & David, Amber, Mom & Dad, Derek, and Chris & Kati and their kids. There was a lot of chillin' around the non-existant campfire (fire restrictions), good food, and card games. Sadly I don't have any pictures, but it was very fun. While we were there Aunt Steph gave all the kids kites, which they loved. Luckily we live in windy Holbrook and finding a good time to fly it didn't take very long. The girls loved their kites and they could seriously just walk and the kite would pick up and fly. They loved their kites, Thank You Aunt Steph!

I was talking to someone the other day about how I've never had a pedicure ::insert gasp here, I know I know:: and they made the comment "Once you get one you can never go back". I've been thinking about it and obviously if I've never gotten a pedicure and I get one, I can never go back to not having one before. It's funny the phrases people use and come up with and use, when they don't really make sense.

My biggest pet peeve with phrases? "I could care less" meaning it doesn't matter to them. It's not "I COULD" or that means you care, the phrase is "I COULDN'T care less" which means you really couldn't care less. I have to admit I used to be a "I could care less" person until one day I said it and realized it didn't make any sense. So, if you are a "could care less" user, now you know, you've been forgiven, and please- let's "couldn't care less" now k?

Tumbling Recital 2012

Macy took a big step this year! She took her first tumbling class! I wish I could say she loved it, but she didn't really. She was the youngest in her class and had quiet a few 5+ year olds in it, so I think she felt "little" a lot. She just isn't strong enough yet to do handstands, somersaults, and cartwheels... but it was sure cute watching her try. I think we'll hold off a little longer to put her back into anything, I just don't think she liked it enough to put in the time and energy getting her to class twice a week. Maybe we'll try again in a few years if she shows interest in it.

Here are some pictures of her recital, we don't have a zoom lens so it's kind of far but I'll tell ya what she's doing. 

Here is her doing a handstand. 

When she first came on stage she stared at the audience for a while and then stopped at the mat and said "I need help..." 

 Here is her cartwheel.... 

 Back bend

 Walking on the beam. I wish I had video to show everyone how funny she was. Everyone was laughing at her (in a good way) because she was just so little and adorable.

 Her back roll. It was more of a flop-backward-teacher-flip-me-over kind of roll

 Running and "jumping" on the bouncy thing. She was supposed to stop and finish but just ran off stage while everyone cheered her on.

 The Strut Your Stuff participants. 

 Tumbling 1 kids, these kids were hilarious to get a picture of. Macy decided she was going to be a diva. 

The photographer told everyone to put your arms up and you can tell Macy was having none of that. 

 No idea what this girl is doing, pretending she's in Shakespeare I suppose. It was too funny.

Home Stretch!

We've made it! 3rd trimester! We're almost done! 

If you ask any given website or doctor when the 3rd trimester starts, they will tell you different things. I've heard from 26 weeks-28 weeks. 

Since I'm 27weeks and 5 days, I'll make it my own job to claim I'm in the 3rd trimester :)

To mark the occasion, here's the bump! 

If you know me at all, I don't post belly pics.

 (I always feel like I look dumb)

I started filling out Baby Boy's baby book and realized I hadn't taken a single belly shot.

 I started feeling guilty; headed to the bathroom, closed the shower curtain, almost cleaned the mirror but then decided if I didn't take the picture right then it wasn't gonna happen, grabbed my phone and snapped it

... and what-do-ya-know, I don't think this one is too shabby so I'm bloggin' it. 

Here ya go little boy, your Mommy does love you!

Bye Bye Birdie

Last month was CaaRaZy. That is for sure. To sum it up, it was "musical season". Which means Kyle would leave for school at 7 a.m. and wouldn't be home until 10:30 p.m. for about 3 weeks. Luckily he comes home for lunch every day and we went and had dinner with him in his office, but we didn't really see much of "Daddy" last month- just Mr. Gardner- and it's different.  Luckily here in Holbrook Kyle doesn't have to be in charge of everything by himself. Holbrook has a Drama Teacher AND a Band Teacher that helped with the musical, a big difference from Kyle just doing it all on his own. All the hard work really paid off and the kids did AMAZING and the show was really fun to watch. 

Here is a picture of the cast:

  

 Miss London chillin' in the seats... probably waiting to go home :)

Now that the musical is over and we have "Daddy" Kyle back he's been doing a lot of yard work and helping around the house, which is fantastic because this pregnancy is starting to wear me out a little. I've been really good about walking at least 5 days a week but pregnancy is just pregnancy- it wears on ya no matter how much you try and prevent it! Tomorrow we start the 3rd trimester, and I haven't gotten ready at all... but I still got time :)