One Month Left!

Yesterday was the 29th – I’m due on April 29th!  I have one month left!  Ahhh!  This is so exciting yet puts me in a panic.  : )  I feel like my list is not complete yet – but he does have clothes, blankets, and a place to sleep… so technically he can come.  It is just those finishing touches like actually getting the clothes in the dresser that would make me feel more ready.

I finished painting the kids room on Sunday.  Of course Mallory had to assist me.  She loves painting – hm, wonder where she got that from?  : )  She has to have a paintbrush and a little paint tray.

I’m sure there are some of you out there that are cringing that I let her pretend to paint on freshly brand new painted walls – but it kept her occupied for a really long time!  And sometimes that is all that matters.  : )

Yes, I’m busting out of my clothes.  It drives Mallory crazy!  When my belly is sticking out she comes right over and says “Momma!  Momma pull shirt down!” and yanks on my shirt and covers my belly.

I don’t remember busting out of my shirts with Mally – however I don’t believe I carried her as low as this little guy is.  I know she never kicked me in my hips before and he is constantly kicking (or punching I guess – his kicks are in my ribs) my hips.  It is the strangest feeling!

Jesse decided he was going to get the snowmobile out and take Mally for a ride.  We didn’t tell her that was our plan.  He just went outside and started it and she took off running out of the room and starting looking for him out the window yelling about “nomobile”.  I got her all dressed up and took her out and then thought I should get a picture of them out there.

Except Jesse needed to put oil in it and I was out there waiting and waiting and waiting and by the time he was finally ready she wasn’t going.  She was coming back inside with me.  If I would of only just not needed that picture and took it from the window where she couldn’t see me.  Next time.

Mally and Maggie are still little buddies.  She yells “MAGGIE” all the time.  Yesterday we were outside and it was actually pretty nice out.  We got out the sidewalk chalk and colored and then threw snowballs for Maggie to eat.  Mally would giggle and giggle every time Maggie would eat our snowballs.  It didn’t get old for either of them.  Mally kept throwing and Maggie kept eating.

Here is the finished wall.

I can’t take all the credit for this adorable room.  My Mom helped me pick out the color and she actually painted the wall and drew on the circles and animals – I just painted the animals.

While I was taking pictures of the wall – Daddy and Mally were reading bible stories.

Usually while I am painting Daddy and Mally bond over youtube and watch Jeep videos.  She loves it!  And so does Jesse!  : )  Mally sits on his lap and they both just watch video after video of Jeeps.  I’ll hear Mally say “big hill” or “stuck in mud” or “clapping”.  I guess the people in the video clap when they get un-stuck.  She is starting to turn into a Daddy’s little girl!

Now – maybe I should go re-organize Mally’s dresser and see if I can get rid of any clothes and make some room for Baby Boy’s clothes.  For Mally’s first year I seriously have like 7 totes of clothes (all from my sister) and for Baby Boy she brought over 1 tote and it is for newborn to 12 months.  I laughed pretty hard!  Guess you don’t need as many clothes for boys as you do girls!  : ) 

Eve Time Out!

Mally has been doing excellent with her new bed.  She now stays in it when she wakes up.  She just lays in there and sniffs her blanket or reads a book.  She doesn’t cry when she wakes up!  Yahoo!!! 

With her new bed we started a new routine where we read her a bible story in bed.  She loves it! 

This morning she woke up and I went to get her and she wanted to read another bible story.  So we sat in her bed and read the story of Adam & Eve.  Eve ate the fruit that God told her not to.  We finish the story and I’m getting her dressed and she says, “Eve eat fruit.”  I say, “Yes Eve ate the fruit.  She wasn’t suppose to eat it.”  Mally says, “Eve naughty.  Time out.”

I just had to share that cute story and now I must go figure out how to get this dumb dog back inside.  The dog wanted to go outside and I said, fine go and let her out in the garage where she can go thru her dog door to the backyard.  Now, we are having huge ice, snow, wind storms.  I told the dog she wasn’t going to like it out there but she insisted on going.  Now, she is barking to be let back in and I can’t get any of the back doors open because they are iced over.  I’ve tried sticking my head out the dog door and yelling, whistling, clapping… she apparently can’t hear me.  Ugh.  Stupid dogs. 

And now Mally is telling me there is “mouse hair” and she is looking in her bowl of cereal.  Really?  Mouse hair in your cereal?  Where does she come up with this stuff?

Picture Download

Hold on this is going to be a wild one.  I am so far behind on my posts and in an effort to get caught up I’m posting everything in one. 

Valentine’s Day (Yup, I’m that far behind).  Jesse came home with two roses – One for his baby girl and one for me.  The flower place even took all the thorns off Mallory’s so she could run around with it.

A few days later we left for Indiana.  Jesse was doing a trade show for his business and Mallory and I were going to stay with some good friends of ours that live there.

We drove down to Indiana – it is a long drive.  Who was the most awesome traveler?  Mallory!!  I can not tell you how proud I was of this little girl!  She was so good.  Never once did she cry.  Melt down on the way home in the KFC – sure, but not in the truck!  : )

It was so nice in Indiana.  They were having 50 – 60 degree weather while we were there!  It was fantastic!  I took the girls for a walk and let them play at the neighborhood park while Natalie baked cookies for the girls to decorate.  Mally’s first experience (since she can walk now) with a park.  She loved it.  I pretty much had to peel her fingers off the slide steps and carry her home crying.  Can’t wait for her to have more slide fun this summer at the park.

Here are the girls waiting so patiently for their cookies to decorate.

We just gave Mallory one cookie with frosting and sprinkles.  She ate the sprinkles and the frosting.

Every morning the girls would stand here and brush their teeth and take turns letting me do their hair.  Ever since Mally got to stand on this stool and brush her teeth – she has moved her stool into the bathroom and has to brush her teeth on it every morning.

My friend, Natalie, and I were both pregnant while I was there.  She was days away from having her baby… we were trying to get her to have the baby while I was still there – no luck.  She did have her baby a few days after we left – Baby Boy named Owen Matthew and he is stinkin adorable!

We attempted to get a picture of the four of us.  We were leaving early the next morning and I had just finished putting our things together and was a hot mess.  It was bed time for the girls and Miss Mallory did not want to stand by us – she wanted to sit in the Nintendo chair and talk on the phone.  I wrangled her for a quick shot and this is what we got…

One of the days we went to visit Jesse at the show.  Here is his booth/display he had set up.

That’s fake snow that he got off the internet.  It is powder form and you add water and it turns into snow.  The guys had a sign that said something to the effect of “don’t touch the snow”… well leave it to us to walk in it (on accident) and we were only there for a minute or two and we were destroying the booth.  And it wasn’t the girls that walked in it… it was the adults!  : ) 

Our drive home from Indiana was a stressful one.  There was a mega snow storm going on once we hit Wisconsin.  The roads were awful and we are pulling a trailer (with precious cargo) behind us.  We saw cars in the ditch every mile it felt like.  Cars hitting the back of semis.  It was a mess.  We all made it home in one piece and our very awesome neighbors had plowed our driveway so we were able to pull right in. 

Here is a picture of my future painter.  She loves to paint.  This picture was taken back when she was sick all those days.  I was trying anything and everything to entertain her.

She doesn’t like to actually paint the paper.  She just likes to dip her brush over and over into the water and into the paints and watching her water change colors.

There.  I feel better being all caught up on my pictures.  I don’t print my pictures – seriously I do not have a single picture printed of Mallory – besides professional ones and I’m terrible at ordering her professional ones too.  I use this blog as my picture organizer and as my form of “printing” pictures.  Dear Internet – please don’t ever crash and destroy my blog.  Thank you.  : )