Busy Christmas

Well, Christmas was as busy as ever this year. We had four stops, starting at ten in the morning and ending at nine thirty in the evening. It's so nice to see everyone, but very tiring! Our first stop was Shaun's mom's house. It a tradition every year to open gifts and eat scrambled eggs, with cheese, green chiles and ham and blueberry muffins. Very yummy! Emma's gifts included a tricycle, I got a breadmaker (which I have used twice already) and Shaun got a huge gun that he had wanted really badly.

(Here is Emma on the way over)

And on her tricycle.

Then, we stopped at home and loaded up the car for the next stop. (And un-loaded all the gifts) Emma then got a kitchen set and an easel, among many other things! I don't know where we are going to fit all of these gifts! Two more stops rounded out our day. I love Christmas, but sometimes it can be pretty stressful! Below are some random pictures.

(Here is Emma with her cousins Charlotte and Jane)

(Emma got into some hot chocolate)

(Opening presents)

I had my 37 week ultrasound on Friday, the baby is still breech. Which I knew since I can still feel his head in my ribs. They estimated his weight at 7 lbs 1 oz. I don't trust their estimates. When I was pregnant with Emma they estimated that she weighed 5 lbs 9 oz and she ended up being 9 lbs 2 oz 2 weeks later. So, I guess we will see very soon. Tomorrow, I'm going into the hospital and they are going to try to manually turn him into the head down position. I hope that it works and saves me from a c-section. But, if it doesn't work I will be having a c-section on January 8th. So, please pray that it works!

PooPoo in the potty!!

I forgot mention in my post the other day that Emma pooped in her potty for the first time. She has only done it once. But, now every time she sees her potty seat she points at it and says. "PooPoo." And I just tell her, "Yes, that is where you are supposed to go poopoo." I will admit that I did take a picture, but I won't share that with everyone. It will be nice when she is potty trained and I won't have two kids in diapers! (I just put a cute pic of her sleeping, since the poop is too gross!)

Random Stuff!

Last Saturday we had our first gingerbread (graham cracker) house making night at Shaun's Aunt Erin's house. It was pretty fun. But, it took a while. This is our creation. We had to cut it short, since it was getting late.

On Monday I had my 35 week check-up. I was dilated 1 centimeter. I also asked the Nurse Practitioner to check and see if she could tell what position the baby was in. I had a feeling that he was not head down. It feels like his head is in my ribs. Well, sure enough I was right. (not that I wanted to be!!) He is in the Frank Breech postion. Or in other words, BUTT DOWN! I almost started crying right there, but waited until I left the office. I do not want to have surgery. But, we are hoping and praying that he turns around.

This past month was very busy for birthday parties. Here are a few pictures of Emma enjoying herself at Chuck E Cheese and Peter Piper.

1st Time in Nursery!

Yesterday at church Emma went to Nursery for the first time. She isn't 18 months yet, but close enough. She seemed to like it. Of course she was shy, but she played nicely with the other children. She really enjoyed snack time, bubble time and free-play time. Shaun and I stayed in the room pretty much the whole time, but we did leave her for about 15 minutes and I don't even think she knew we were gone. Looks like I will be able to actually go to Relief Society and listen to the lesson. Well, only for like 2 months, then I will have another baby to distract me.

Joys of Motherhood

So, last night I was having a good sleep when all of a sudden I wake to hearing Emma whining over the baby monitor, at 3:30 am. She makes noise in her sleep, so I listened for a second and she stopped. I was just gonna lay back down and continue sleeping, but I just had a feeling I should go look at her. I go in to her room to check on her and what do I find...my naked little angel. Sometime in the night she took off all of her clothes, including her diaper! I was horrified! I felt her skin and it was kind of cold. I picked her up so that I could put a diaper on and re-dress her, and felt the blankets. They were soaking wet! She was just sleeping there in her pee for who knows how long! So, then I had to take all of the linen out of her crib, wipe it down and put in fresh linen. And clean up my little angel and get her dressed and back to sleeping! This is not a nice way to wake up! After I finish doing all of this I lay back down and cannot sleep for another hour! Oh, the joys of being a mother! But, I guess I was lucky it wasn't poop! (Sorry, no picture)
Does anyone have any ideas of how to get her to keep her clothes on? I put her in onesies and overalls and she gets them off. The only that works sometimes is putting her diaper on backwards. I am going crazy with my little, peeing nudist!

Doctor Appointment and Silly Emma!!

I went to the doctor today for my 29 week check-up. All is well. I am measuring a week larger. But, I don't have diabetes, high blood pressure or anemia. Good news! I have been so afraid that I was gonna have one or all of these issues. And so far I have gained...30 pounds! How disgusting is that?! I am so afraid that little Spencer is going to be a huge beast of a baby! Emma weighed 9lbs 2 oz, and the doctor said that boys are typically bigger than girls! So, please pray that he doesn't weigh more than Emma did!!

And about Emma...

She has this purse that my mom gave her. And the past week she has started putting in on her shoulder and walking around saying, "Bye-Bye." And waving to me. It is so cute!! She also has started saying I see you! She will peek her little head around the corner and say, "I see you." She also talks on anything that resembles a phone at all. This includes calculators!! I love the cute little things that she does and catches on to. I guess I better make sure I don't do anything I don't want her to do!!

Trunk or Treating and Pumpkin Carving!!

Happy Halloween! Man was it a HOT one! This was the hottest Halloween I can think of. And of course all of us had costumes that covered our entire bodies!

Well, we went to our ward's trunk or treat . It was pretty fun. There was a BBQ and games for the kids. And Shaun won funniest costume in the adult costume contest. After that was the trunk or treating. Shaun took Emma around while I passed out candy. It took a while for her to get around once. But, she was content sucking on a Butterfinger. She was so adorable in her monkey costume. I couldn't take many pictures, since she wouldn't stay still for one second. Oh, and in case you can't tell what Shaun and I are. He was a monster and I was a CareBear.

On Thursday we went to Shaun's Aunt Erin's house to carve pumpkins with the family. And I found out that with this pregnancy the smell of pumpkin guts makes me wanna puke. But, eventually I carved a little pumpkin. And Shaun carved a big one and made it eating a small one. We had lots of fun and got to hang out with family. I love Halloween!!

Shaun's B-day Party and More..

Yesterday Shaun's dad, Kevin, had a belated birthday party for him. It was fun. We got to just sit and talk and of course eat! We had yummy steaks and baked pototoes. Shaun's step-mother decided to make him a redneck birthday cake. (Pictures below, if you have never seen one) It was very interesting! And I made some Halloween treats for us to eat also. (Also pictured below) I saw the recipe in a parenting magazine that I got this week. They are Rice-Krispie Frankenstein heads. So cute!

Also this weekend we went and bought Emma a potty seat. I know she's not quite ready yet (16 1/2 months), but we wanted to get her familiar with the seat. Well, we tried to put her on it and she screamed her head off! For some reason she is deathly afraid of this potty! Now we just have it sitting around so that she can investigate it herself. And get over her fear of it. Poor baby!!

My Little Person

I've been noticing lately how big my baby is getting. She is turning into a "person" so fast. She likes to help put the dishes away, do the laundry and just wants to do everything herself. She even cleans up after herself and blows her own nose! She is getting to be so independent. She only wants me to help if she has tried to do something herself a million times, and can't. I just love her little personality and her little attitude. My baby is growing up so fast!

The Fair

We went to the fair last Tuesday. It was so much fun, but very tiring! We went around 5 pm and the weather was perfect! There also wasn't very many people there, which was really nice. We went with my sister-in-law Sarah and her daughter Charlotte.

Emma loved to eat the greasy fair food. She had piggly wiggly fries, a navajo taco, a sno cone, funnel cake and a corn dog. I think her favorite was the funnel cake. She played in the Safari zone, which grossed me out. But, she had so much fun tumbling around on the mats. Then, she pet the animals in the petting zoo and played in a maze made of hay. It was a good time. Too much walking though. I felt like I was was going to die when we finally left around 10:30.

Our Baby Boy!

Well, it's been a long time since I have blogged. A lot has happened in the last few months. But, the biggest thing is that we found out that we are having a baby boy! We were both shocked. We totally thought that it was going to be another girl. Here is the most recent ultrasound picture, from today actually. They said that he looks perfect and big. He already weighs a pound and a half. And I'm 23 weeks.

Emma is ONE!!!

Emma turned one on May 30th. I can't believe that it's already been a year! We had a party for her on the 31st. I was so stressed out about it for weeks, but it ended up going really good. The cake was adorable, there was a good turn out, and tons of gifts. I was worried about the blend of families. But, everyone mingled and that made me happy. Emma wasn't so sure about eating her cake at first. When she got it on her hands she started to cry, but then she got in to it. I had to give her a bath afterward. The party was a success and I'm glad it's over

The Reed's

Well, I'm not sure where to start. I'm new at this whole blogging thing. Shaun and I have been married for three years. We have a daughter, Emma, she will be one on Friday. I just found out a week ago that I am pregnant with baby number two! I went to the doctor for a pain in my side, I just figured I had an ovarian cyst. So, they decide to go ahead and do a routine pregnacy test. The medical assistant drops the "liquid" on the test and reads it immediately. She says, "It appears to be negative." And leaves the room. The doctor walks in, asks me if I was trying to get pregant. I said,"We weren't trying, but we weren't doing anything to prevent a pregnancy." Then, she said You are pregnant! I was shocked. But, the girl just said it was negative! Well, she didn't wait the four minutes to read the test! Then, still in shock they send me STAT for blood work and an ultrasound to rule out an ectopic pregnancy, which needless to say, scared the crap out of me! One long day later, we found out that it wasn't ectopic, but I did have two large cysts on both ovaries. Lovely! And that I was about 5 weeks along. Then, on Friday I wake up bleeding! I was so scared, I thought for sure I was miscarrying! But, four and a half hours and many uncomfortable tests later I found out that everything was ok. Man, what a week!