simply me

29 weeks

My c-section is scheduled for the morrning of January 15th. 

Mr. Scientist, Spiderman and the Doctor

 

I picked up these costumes at Target last night 75% off.  The kids are loving them. 
  

 
  

Happy Birthday Danika Lynn

 

 

  
  
  Danika at age 2:

• Is very girly
• Loves dolls, purses, shoes, necklaces and bracelets
• Plays very well by herself
• Is a little pack rat.  She sits down in her little chair and surrounds herself with toys, blankets, dolls and pillows.
• Is bossy to the boys, especially when she doesn't get what she wants.
• Says a lot of words, but usually when you ask her to repeat them.
• Loves her pacifier.  When she sleeps she usually has one in her mouth and one in her hand.
• She sleeps with her blanket, pacifiers, her yellow care bear and a sippy cup of water.  If we forget her water when we lay her down she says, "drink, drink."
• She is a really good sleeper and goes down for naps and bed time easily.
• She likes pink.  When we get her a plate or bowl she says, "pink, pink."
• She likes to hide, especially when we take her diaper off to change her she will run as fast as she can and dive under Gage's bed.
• We will often call her name and she puts her hands over her eyes and sits really still to hide from us.
• When she has a poopy diaper she comes to us and says, "poop, poop" or "stinky."

She is our only sweet little girl and we love her so very much!  Happy 2nd Birthday Danika!
  

 

This morning I took Jaden to school, ran a few quick errands and came home to find that Gage gave Danika a haircut. I saw some hair in the trash can and asked where the hair came from.  Gage piped up and said, "I did it."  I said, "You cut Danika's hair!"  That's when Tyler came out of the office (where he was working while the haircutting was going on) and said, "What!"  Thankfully he just cut her bangs a little, they were past her chin and now they're about cheek length.  I won't tell Gage this, but I was planning on trimming her bangs just a little this week anyways because they were getting really stringy and not curling like the rest of her hair.  Maybe I shouldn't have bought him new scissors last week.

An evening at our house when Tyler is out of town.

Here's a glimpse of what we do when Tyler is out of town.  This is an email I wrote Tyler tonight.

 

We were in our pajamas by 6 pm.  We watched a movie and ate popcorn.  Actually Gage and Danika watched the movie.  Jaden and I scrapbooked then I put Danika to bed after I hid  the remaining pieces of your gum in your desk....she just goes and helps herself and you know she doesn't chew gum long before swallowing it.  She went right to sleep of course.  Jaden wrote a book for you, it is so cute, but I cannot tell you what it says....he won't let me.  Gage did a little craft and then he learned to write Tyler, Powell, Daddy.  I taught him how to make P's and R's....he was so proud of himself.  Now it's 8:30 pm and the boys are in bed with me.  They are playing their DS and leapster.  Going to bed soon, my stomach is so sick today...ugh! 

I just made my nightly rounds of checking on the kids to make sure they are sleeping soundly and here's how I found Danika.

Wow, these pictures are huge, but I don't want to go back and re-size them.  I'm using Tyler's computer and it's taken me long enough already. :)

watching a movie

Now that Jaden goes to kindergarten every morning it is just Gage and Danika around here.  They play really well together and make my mornings pretty easy.  This morning I was in my bedroom and could hear Gage saying, "come on Danika, let's watch a movie!"  I go to the living room and they have all the couch cushions and pillows on the ground along with their blankets and pillow, ready to watch a movie.  Pretty cute pretending, considering we don't even have a TV upstairs for them to watch.

Needless to say, not so cute after I took this picture.  I could hear Gage telling Danika to stop spitting her apple juice.  I went out there to find her shirt drenched and the couch cushion very wet too.  One good thing about it, the couch cushions are getting cleaned.  We have cloth couches, ugh!  I took the fabric off the cushions (there is a zipper thank goodness) and threw them in the wash.  Next for all the throw pillows to be washed.  I'm going to have to find a laundromat to wash the huge pillows though, not fun.   I will have a clean couch though!  Just some fall cleaning getting done.

hApPy bIrThDaY kiki!

Happy 7th birthday Kiki!  Have a terrific day!  We love you!

First Day of School

Gage had his first day of preschool last Wednesday.  He only had to go for 1 hour and I was able to stay with him the whole time.  He has been so excited for preschool since Jaden went last year.  He goes Monday, Wednesday and Friday 12:15 pm - 2:45 pm.  It was just Gage and I in the car on our way to school and he was so quiet.  I think he was really excited.  I tried to talk to him the whole time and he finally loosened up a little bit.  While we were in his classroom he asked me to take a picture of him in front of the apple tree bulletin board.  This surprised me because he is not typically one who would ask me to take his picture, so I thought it was cute that he asked me to and was specific about it being in front of the apple tree.  He chose to color for his first activity, which was surprising to me.  He doesn't usually color at home and if he does, he might color for a few minutes.  At school he sat and colored for a long time and he was very diligent about coloring in the lines.  I was quite impressed.  He missed his 2nd day of school because we went to Boise, I'm sure he will be excited to get to go to school tomorrow.

      

Jaden had his first day of kindergarten today.  He goes to school Monday through Friday 8:40 am - 11:20 am.  We live out of the area for him to ride the bus so either Tyler or I will take him to school and pick him up every day.  After school today he said he liked school, he had PE and that they had an assembly and their principal told them to wear a helmet when they ride a bike, a scooter or skateboard.  His only complaint was that they didn’t do any “academics” today.

   

   

* I wanted to share a few more pictures so I added a photo album to the sidebar. 

 

   

some scrapbook layouts

I've been working on Danika's 1st year scrapbook.  I really want to get it done before our baby is born.  The past week I was able to get her first week and 1st birthday done.  Thought I would share.  I added an album on the sidebar of others that I didn't post here.