Recent Happenings

The Best...
Last week I had to attend a YW presidency mtg. Nicole, our YW president, had to bring her children along. After a while, she asked them to wait in the gym. Then her two oldest came in where we were and asked us to come into the gym when we were done. Apparently, they had something for us. Nicole and I get to the gym and these kids created an awards/talent show. Below are the awards that I received. Thanks Hannah and Brittany!!! Brittany is Hannah's BFF and both of them are as sweet as can be. I love you guys, too!

Best Leader Award.

Best Laugh Ever Award.

Greeting Daddy

Saturday I sent Scarlett to her room to clean it up. When Jeremiah came home, I told him to go see what his baby girl was doing. Instead of cleaning, she decided to do what she wanted to do and read. Side note: she only reads 2 or 3 pages and then moves on to the next book. Anyway, my favorite part of the video is at the :20 mark when she discovers that Jeremiah is home. Every. Single. Day. She has this exact same reaction when Jeremiah comes home. She hears the garage door and takes off to greet him. It really is one of the sweetest things that she does. I'm glad that she loves her daddy so much.

McCheap

At some point on Saturday Jeremiah's glasses broke. Scarlett had an arm in each hand and she was pulling in opposite directions as hard as she could. When I checked them, the glasses seemed fine. Then, Jeremiah discovered that the frames were cracked on the left side. Great. His solution: plastic wire ties. Honestly?!?!

Insurance won't cover new lenses or frames until Jan. It wouldn't be that much to replace the lenses and frames. Being the penny pincher he is, he decided to fix the frames himself. He took something from the garage and was able to bond the frames back together.

All proud of himself! Whatever he used is some pretty strong stuff. Back in the day he used this bonding stuff to fix something on my Rodeo. Man, I miss that suv :o( Anyway, every time J would try to talk to me, I would burst out laughing. How can ANYONE take someone looking like this seriously?! After the bonding stuff set, he took the wire ties off and his glasses are good as new again.

Back To School
Monday was the 1st day of school, YAY!!! Last week I took Liz to get a haircut. Trust me, she needed it. She wanted me to flat iron it for the 1st day and I did. She loved her hair and so did I!

All dressed and ready to go!

Our 5th grader! Go get 'em kiddo!!!

Liz came home and crashed on the sofa after school. It was the 1st day! What happened on the 1st day that would cause this kind of exhaustion?! I think she wore herself out being excited. I love how Scarlett is staring at Liz. I think Scarlett was trying to figure out what the commotion was all about.

1st Day In Nursery

Sunday was Scarlett's first day in nursery at church! There was a lot of weeping, crying, stalking, tantrums, sadness, ranting and raving. Scarlett did fine...I was the one that had a hard time!!!

Once again, I have another story for you...

I was in the hallway talking and when I turned around I saw Jeremiah at the other end of the hallway. Naturally, I looked down to make sure Scarlett was with him and she wasn't. When I looked up, I realized that he was standing right next to the nursery door. I took off and flew down the hallway. In the pit of my stomach I knew he was up to something.

When I got to him, I was all business. I asked him firmly and specifically "where is my baby?" He was grinning ear to ear and said "she's in nursery." He was all proud of himself and he wouldn't let me go in! I looked through the peephole and there was my baby...in nursery!!! I stood at that peephole for 40 mins, in 3 1/4" heels, at 21 weeks pregnant & watched my baby...in nursery! People were trying to comfort me by saying how she would be okay but I wasn't interested...not even a little bit. When the bell rang and nursery was over, Scarlett ran straight toward me and peace was restored in my world again :o) She did extremely well. She played and sat in her chair when she was suppose to. I didn't expect anything else and she took nursery on like the champ that she is!

After we got home, I told Jeremiah why I think I got so emotional. You see, I had envisioned that Scarlett's 1st day in nursery would be much different. I had hoped that Jeremiah and I would give her the "you will do fine" talk and say things like "you'll make tons of friends" and "be sure to obey your teachers" and "you'll do fine" and "I'll pick you up before you know it". Generally, Scarlett does exceptionally well in any environment. I think that I honestly felt that he robbed me of giving Scarlett "the talk" and I did NOT take it well and he heard all about it!

All of this got started because Jeremiah opened the nursery door and Scarlett just walked right in and never looked back. Apparently, she was wanting to play and Jeremiah felt bad about telling her no and sushing her while he was in priesthood. So, he took her to nursery so that she could get her wiggles out. By the end of the day, I decided to let Jeremiah live and he made me some rice krispie treats with strawberry marshmellows...my favorite :o)

Scarlett's 1st picture that she colored in nursery!

Just getting home from church.

Happy as can be and seriously wired!

Nap time with daddy.

Out like a light!

Then my flash finally woke her up. She ALWAYS wake up like this. We are so blessed :o)

Girl Or Boy?

We went in for our sonogram today and found out that we are having ANOTHER girl! She is completely healthy and her development is coming along quite beautifully. The doctor confirmed that there weren't any signs of birth defects. I'm sure he said that because I'm an "advance maternal age" patient. May God bless him for not saying it. If one more doctor uses that term just one more time...

Anyway, the doctor wants to see us in 4 weeks to have another look at the baby's heart. He said everything looks fine and there is no need to worry about anything. He just wants to look at the heart after it has developed some more. I'm fine with that. Here are some pics of our baby girl's photo shoot. She cooperated wonderfully!

Moment of truth. The tech asked me what I thought it was. I said "it's a girl". She said "yep!"

I'm thinking that this baby may actually turn out to look like me. See that colossal size forehead?! The pointy chin is a little tricky. I'm thinking it's me but it also could look like Jeremiah because of the wide cheek bones.

Since Jeremiah took the day off, we spent the afternoon having lunch at Pappadeaux's. He said we were there to celebrate the newest member of our family. What a sweet thing to say...that's my man :o) He also thanked me for giving him babies. In the meantime, the manager was playing peek-a-boo with Scarlett. Before I knew it, she came over to our table and we started swapping stories with each other about our children. Toward the end of our meal, our waitress brings us a dessert trio and said that it was on the house!

Needless to say, today was a good day and I am feeling exceedingly blessed!!!