Seeing the Lights!

The weather was pretty decent this morning and early afternoon, then while Isaac was napping, the rain started falling. And falling. By dinner time, I was worried that we wouldn't be able to take a trip downtown to see the lights, but I looked out my window to the north and it didn't seem like the weather was too bad, so we dug out our warmest winter clothes and went to see the Lights! As it turned out, it wasn't all that cold and the rain stayed away the entire time we were gone, yeah!

I didn't want to worry about finding parking and having to do more walking than necessary, we hopped on TRAX to go downtown. Isaac loved looking out the window and seeing everything pass by! By the time we got to our stop, I think he was ready to get off the train, but over all, the ride was very pleasant.

We went with our friends Les and Mindi andd their little boy Kaleb. The little boys liked seeing all the pictures of Jesus and we all appreciated getting warm inside the visitors center. It's always cute seeing all the sister missionaries walking around. A cute sister from Africa showed a cool little video about a 90 year old blind woman who made thousands of quilts (while blind!) to donate to the humanitarian center. Wow!

Isaac loved being able to walk right up to the temple doors. He marched up the stairs and started knocking! He and Kaleb had fun posing for portraits. Isaac gets so excited when he sees pictures of temples and he loves seeing them from the car, but I think it was really neat for him to be able to actually walk up and touch the temple and feel the smooth walls. He talked about seeing the temple the whole night!

I think Isaac's favorite part about seeing the lights this year was seeing the water fountains and the reflection pool. He loved seeing the lights floating in the water and wanted so badly to play in the water. I kept having to remind him that the water is coooooold!

Pedi Day!

This morning, Michele and I treated Mom to a manicure & pedicure (and got pedicures ourselves, of course!) at the nail salon at Walmart. We're celebrating Mom's birthday a couple weeks early while I can still get out a little bit, and even the snow couldn't deter our morning of beautiful feet!
Don't our feet look sexy??? Mine are the red ones on the left, while Mom and Michele chose more tame colors. At least Michele is finally putting color on her toes! Last time it took begging and pleading to get her to put any color on at all! She'll have bright red toe nails too before she knows it. :)

We have a climber.....

Yesterday afternoon, we put Isaac in his room to take his nap, and being exhausted myself, I also laid down to take a nap. Well, he didn't sound like he was going to go down easy, but we left him in there anyway (locked in his room with the baby gate) and hoped that sleep would overtake him.

About 45 minutes later, I had dozed off, but Jarom came upstairs to see how things were going, and a beeping noise startled me out of sleep and we realized that somehow, Isaac had turned his monitor off. Jarom went in there to see how he got to it this time and this is how he found Isaac.

How on earth he climbed up to the top of his dresser, we will never know, but needless to say, we went over to IKEA last night to find him a shorter dresser that will be a lot less tempting to climb!!! And we will be securing it to the wall this time too. Yikes! We would be getting him a new dresser soon anyway so that we can use this one for the baby, but this little episode just hurried things along a little faster.

No Gender Today

We just got back from my doctors appointment, hoping for an ultrasound to take a peak at Baby's gender, but they didn't need to do one like I had wished. My next visit will be at 18 weeks and then they will do the big ultrasound with all the measurements, so we'll hopefully find out then for sure what Baby is. We kind of have an idea since after my cerclage they did a quick ultrasound and the doctor thought that she could tell, but at that size, it can be hard to detect either way. So stay tuned and we'll make our announcement soon!

And even though we didn't get to see Baby today, it had a good, strong heart beat and is moving like crazy, so that's good. My belly seemed to have popped out this week so I'm feeling more pregnant than ever! :)

Halloween

Isaac had a GREAT time with Halloween this year and he very, very quickly caught on that if he said "trick or treat," people would hand him candy! Amazing! He would go up to the doors, knock or ring the door bell, then stand back a step or two, hold up his "pumpkin purse," and say his line. And he didn't get too greedy about taking more than a piece or two at each house (for the most part!).

This picture is him right before we went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. He's showing off his little glow stick.


This picture is at the ward Trunk or Treat standing by his best friend Kaleb the dragon. I think he was tempted to go around the circle of cars a few times, but once had to suffice.










After the trunk or treat, he begged for a piece of candy. And since he didn't take a nap earlier that day, by the time we got home, he was exhausted! He couldn't even make it through a whole sucker!
(notice the drool dripping onto his shirt, yuck!)









As if the opportunities to get more candy weren't sufficient, Isaac also went trick-or-treating at Jarom's work. He's standing next to his cute friend Emma. It took a few tries to get a picture of both of them looking at the camera! They look thrilled though, don't they?

The first entry

I suppose that it's about time to start our own Blog since it seems like everyone else is doing it, and goodness knows, we don't want to be left behind! :) So here we go, embarking on another exciting chapter in our family history, so we might as well document the highs and lows!

As of today, I am 15 1/2 weeks along in my pregnancy and it seems like things are continuing to do well. I had a cerclage placed a week ago Monday (not the funnest experience), and I'm still feeling pretty sore, but most days I'm able to get around well enough. My next doctors appointment is on Monday and we should have a better idea of Baby is a boy or girl! We have a little bit of an idea since they did a quick ultrasound after the cerclage and thought they could tell, but it was still pretty early. We'll make the big announcement (assuming we are able to get more confirmation) on Thanksgiving.

Isaac is still the best little boy a momma could ever ask for. The other night, though, he started having a really barking cough, so we took him to the doctor in the morning and found out he has croup! He seems to do ok during the day and sleeps well enough at night, so I know that it could be a lot worse, but he doesn't seem to have it too bad. Still, whenever he starts coughing, my heart just breaks to see his little body going through that. He's wearing his Thomas pj's this morning and things that Thomas is great! He says "Hello, Thomas!" just like the narrator on the show. He knows all the engines by name (I know their names but can't tell them apart!) and is fascinated any time he sees a train out his window. He loves everything that moves, especially trucks too! He loves to point out semi-trucks, semi-trailers, garbage trucks, cleaning trucks, money trucks (armored vehicles), delivery trucks, you name it! He only needs to see a type of truck once and he remembers what it's for.

I'll have to spend more time later talking my little boy, he really is the center of my world and I don't know if I could be any more crazy about him. One more quick thing, though. Isaac was still saying "Happy Weeeeen!" since he thought Halloween was the greatest holiday EVER, so we've been working on saying "Happy Thanks (pause) Giving!" and he enjoys saying that too! He gets very excited seeing Christmas lights that are already up, so I think he's going to really enjoy the upcoming holiday celebrations now that he understands things a little bit better than last year.