19 month old Jade

Jade:
Clothes: Mostly 2T but some 19 months
Shoes: Just bought her some size 8 which are way big on her but hoping they will last until next year. she is probably more like a 5-6.
Fav food: Grapes, Strawberries, Cheese, Milk, Juice, Chettos, Chips, Ice cream, Chocolate Eclairs, Cereal, Oatmeal, Chicken pot pie, PB&J, Chicken roll ups, Fries.
Fav movies/Tv shows: Leap Frog, Frozen, Home, Despicable Me, Toy story.
Words she says: Mommy, Daddy, No, Yes, ball, down, out, bye, night night, I love you ( I la jyou) Thank you (tha jyou), please (ppssss), Chips, Milk.
Things she likes:

• I have been working on animals and sounds with her. She likes the snake and ssss sound it makes. 
• Reading books and look at the animals in them. 
• Pushing her baby or even elephant around in the stroller. She also likes to feed her animals her baby bottle.
• Following Aiden around on her bike when he rides his bike.
• Doing puzzles. She is the best at the animal ones but she is getting better at doing the letter one.
• Going on walks and gets so happy. She loves collecting rocks, sticks, & flowers along the way.
• Going down the stairs by herself and out to the playground. 
• Building blocks with Aiden & playing train.
• Running naked around the house. She has gotten really good at taking her shirt of.
• Bath time, splashing and making a mess with Aiden.

 Oh just playing in the tub at grandma Neesey's and papa Als.

 And climbing up where she shouldn't.

 Holding cousin Aliese on her lap. She likes her more and more every time we see her and just wants to be a helper. 

 Swinging with Papa Al. She really likes to swing.

 Taking a ride in the Cat.

 Like I said she really likes to go on walks. She wanted to sit in the stroller really bad.- with cousin Jace.

 We went to Hyrum Dam and played in the sand. She loved throwing rocks into the water. I didn't get hardly any pics of Aiden cause he was on the boat the entire time.

 Throwing rocks with cousin Jace.

 Tired little girl.

 Too tired to wake up for a diaper change.

 We took the kids to Toys R Us and they had a blast looking at all the toys.

 She really likes chap stick.

 We went to Village Inn for Breakfast on Daddy's birthday.

Aiden ate like 4 big chocolate chip pancakes by himself.

 The kids really liked blowing the candles out with Daddy.

 My cute little bath towel baby.

 I went to a clothing swap for our ward and found a shirt, binky & hat for her baby doll.

 She loves that cupboard... I don't know what its really snug in there.

 The best kind of helmet. 

 Feeding her bear milk. I love that she does this. She will feed us too.

 Little stink likes to sneak out of the bath tub by herself but then will jump back in the tub when we ask her if she is done.

 Cutest little piggy tails.

 She likes to climb onto daddy's desk...

 Playing with the abc puzzle board. she can put the letters D, O, o, S, I V in by herself.

 Playing patty cake with baby's feet.

 Making each other laugh.

 Kisses for Daddy.

 Being dangerous on her bike while watching a movie...

 She decided she coloring was much better while shirtless.

 I love how she rests her face in her hand like this.

 Giving Mommy pats.

 I can do anything you can do!

 Going down the slide by herself.

Decided to eat dirt and it wasn't as good as she thought it would be.

 Tired little girl.

 Lately she has to have her baby or elephant to eat with.

 I love how she says the P sound when she says chip.

Bath time. Getting them both to look while taking a bath is getting harder and harder.

34 weeks

How far along? 34 weeks

Current weight/ Total Weight: 155-157lbs. I have been cutting back on the sweets this last week. 

Workout: RI30 week 1 with modifications and moves from other weeks for when I can't lay on my back or do planks that might cause more ab separation. Also 45min walks after dinner= 2 miles every day since Sunday. Walks help other than I really have to pee half way through. Also going at 7pm is better when it is cooler, my hands swell less and I have less BH. 

Stretch marks? Hard to tell the new from the old.

Sleep: My sides must get sore because I wake up on my back a lot which isn't that comfortable either. My hips have been hurting at night so its hard to sleep.

Movement:  He is kicking all the time. He gets the hiccups a lot. I feel what I think are feet mostly on my right side under my rib. He may have dropped a little cause my ribs haven't been hurting as much.
Best moment this week: If baby came this week he would have a good chance of survival are really good and drs wouldn't do anything to stop labor. Not that I want him to come this week!

Miss anything: Sleep
Food cravings or things you can eat: apples with peanut butter, strawberries, bananas, purple grapes, peaches, oranges, fruit smoothies, yogurt. I'm really trying the last few days to eat more healthy and eat less sweets until baby is here. 

Anything making you queasy or sick: Hamburgers and cooking eggs. 

Symptoms: Ligaments are doing ok. Heartburn is doing so much better after taking heartburn medication day & night. Rib pain some times in my back. I have been sitting on my exercise ball more which seems to be helping.

Bloating: I don't know.

Gender: B.O.Y.

Names: Kasen Merrill 

Belly button in/out: OUT
Wedding Ring on/off: On, but it gets tight in the heat. It's getting cooler so I'm not having too much problems. 

Happy or Moody most of the time: depends on the time of day. 

Looking forward to: Dr. appointment on the 21st.

Aiden 41 months

Aiden:

Clothes: 4T- Size 6

Shoes: Just bought him size 10 but they are really big. Hoping they will last. He is more like a size 8.

Undies: We have had in in night undies (pull ups) at night since we started potty training him. He has never been a bed wetter but every now and then he wouldn't make it and he would pee in his night undies. For the past oh I have lost track probably since May he hasn't been having accidents in his night undies any more. (Or thats when i started noticing he was staying dry) The week we moved to Utah I had him sleep in just undies and he peed the bed. I haven't tried since this last week. He has slept in undies for a full week and hasn't had any accidents! Good job Aiden! No more night undies!!!

Fav food: Grapes, Strawberries, Oatmeal, Pb&J, Chicken nuggets, Chicken roll ups, Pizza, Eclairs, Birthday cake, cookies, Granola bars, M&M's Peez candy: We call them turtle treats cause they go in his TMNT Peez, Bananas, Cheese, Smoothies: he calls them Smoobies.

Fav Movies/TV: Super hero shoes on netflix, Leap frog, Little Einstein's, Dino Trux, Magic School bus.

Funny phrases he says: We had tried teaching him not to say: Move or get out of my way when he wants us to move. Instead we have him say excuse me, so now if he wants our attention and we aren't giving it to him he will say: "Excuse me Mommy!" "So much bigger."-when something is really big. "I'm busy."- when he doesn't want to do something. "Whats next?"-when he doesn't know what to say next in his prayer. "Where's my friends go?"-when we go to the park and his friends aren't there. "Super fast!"- he got that off of Little Einstein's and says it when he is going really fast on his bike or running. "My Hunter, My Jaxon." he really likes his cousin Hunter McBride and cousin Jaxon Vincent.

Naps: Unfortunately for me he has stopped taking naps. I would much rather him sleep at night than during the days so...

Fav things to do: 

• To run and play outside & playing with the kids around our apt. He really is drawn to older kids and plays best with those who are at least a year older than him. 
• Riding his bike although we haven't let him ride it outside while living here. We only have a parking lot and the cars are going too fast to let him ride on the side walks. 
• Playing with his blocks & train.
• Playing on the iPad and picking what netflix show to watch... he has way too much screen time.
• Play with Jade although he still gets really excited and gets too rough with her sometimes.

Playing with his cousin Porter. He had fun playing with pretend hand cuffs.

Flying a kite with Papa Al.

Cute baby Walter.

:)

Aiden decided to take some pictures with my phone: he says, "I take your picture?"

So excited to eat brownies on a Sunday after noon.

Playing Lego's at Grandma Achatz's house.

Aiden and his "noculars"

Splashing Jade... She actually is laughing too.

"You draw a map Mommy!" so he could trace it with his finger.

How we get him to eat his corn, by telling him it will make Grandma Neesey and Papa Al sad if he didn't eat their corn & telling him he will get big strong muscles. 

Riding the Cat at Grandma & Grandpa Nielsen's house.

Sunday naps with Daddy.

We went to Hyrum Dam with Ash & John and Alan & Janese. This is the only pic I got of Aiden playing at the Dam cause he was on the boat the entire time. He got to ride on the tube with Jerel and loved it. He didn't want on at first but really liked it and then didn't want off.

Cute snuggles with Mommy.

His turtle needed to be in the pic.

We went to Babies R' Us and found this cute Dino. He had a lot of fun running around in it and being cute. Too bad it was like 50 bucks!

Helping Jade do the ABC puzzle.

Woke up to this cute face waiting patiently for Mommy & Daddy to wake up.

Looking through Daddy's hair. He was concerned there was dirt in Daddy's hair. 

His shorts make the perfect pocket for his puzzles pieces i guess.

33 weeks

How far along? 33 weeks

Current weight/ Total Weight: 158lbs at the OB... Yikes. That's what I get for eating so much cake from jerels bday. 

Workout: RI30 week 1 with modifications and moves from other weeks for when I can't lay on my back or do planks that might cause more ab separation. Also 45min walks after dinner= 2 miles every day since Sunday. Walks help other than I really have to pee half way through. Also going at 7pm is better when it is cooler, my hands swell less and I have less BH. 

Stretch marks? Hard to tell the new from the old.

Sleep: I def feel like my workouts and walks together help me sleep better. 

Movement:  He is active throughout the day. The bigger he gets the more painful the kicks become.
Best moment this week: Saw my OB for the first time tue, Dr. Harward. He is very nice. I am measuring right on track at 32cm. Baby's heart rate was about 150. I will have a ultrasound at my next visit which is at 35 weeks on the 21st. I will also get tested for Strep B. The ultrasound will tell us how big he is and if he is head down. Dr. Harward said because my labor was so quick with Jade, being 2 hours start to finish he would recommend & prefer me being induced at 39 weeks which is the 15th of October. I kind of like the sound of that because then we will be able to plan for jerels parents to come stay with the kids instead of leaving them with the neighbors until Jerels parents get here. So I think that is the plan if he doesn't come earlier which I doubt he will. So 6 more weeks!!! He told me that they would give me pitocen & break my water which will cause more intense and faster contractions but probably won't be much different from jades labor & I will be able to do it without and epidural if I choose too. 

Miss anything: Not having to pee so often! 

Food cravings or things you can eat: apples with peanut butter, strawberries, bananas, purple grapes, peaches, oranges, fruit smoothies, yogurt. I'm really trying the last few days to eat more healthy and eat less sweets until baby is here. 

Anything making you queasy or sick: Hamburgers and cooking eggs. 

Symptoms: Ligaments are doing ok. Heartburn is doing so much better after taking heartburn medication day & night. 

Bloating: not too much since we have been going on evening walks. 

Gender: B.O.Y.

Names: Kasen Merrill 

Belly button in/out: OUT
Wedding Ring on/off: On, but it gets tight in the heat. It's getting cooler so I'm not having too much problems. 

Happy or Moody most of the time: depends on the time of day. 

Looking forward to: Jerels sisters baby, Aliese is being blessed the 13th. Ultrasound the 21st of course.