Children's Museum

This last weekend we took the girls to the Children's Museum. They have $5/weekend nights for the month of February so we decided to take them and see how they did.  They LOVED it.  We had such a fun night so be prepared for a ton of pictures.

I almost went by myself so Shane could get some stuff done but I'm so glad he decided he wanted to go because although the girls played together part of the time, a lot of time they were in totally different parts of the museum.  When Siena goes off she kind of looks every once in a while to make sure one of us is around.  When Aria takes off she just starts walking and she never looks back, ever.  So I was happy we could split up and they could go wherever they wanted.

Aria loved the balls...or mostly what I call the Plinko board (from Price is Right).  They both loved playing in the water for a long time.  They loved the little kitchen that was just their size and it was so nice that I didn't have to tell them to stop touching the stove knobs every 10 seconds.  Every time I'm cooking in our kitchen they come and turn those knobs either off or full blast on my stove.  I always stand right there but still sometimes they reach right around me and turn them.  Luckily they aren't tall enough to touch the flame yet, but it's coming.  Siena loved pushing the shopping cart around and probably spent 30 minutes pushing that from one end of the museum to the other.  She only stopped when she saw a piano just her size to play and some kid came and swiped the cart from her, which she was fine with.  The other thing they loved was a huge, plastic horse they could sit on.  They love their rocking horse at home so they got on this life size horse and kept rocking back and forth.  Several times we tried to leave the horse and they went running back and wanted to sit on it again.

I turned into a little bit of a protective mother a few times when these 6 and 7 year olds would come running over and just push there way through to see something with no regard to the little kids.  I mostly just watched to see what my girls would do and mostly they didn't really mind but it bugged me.  I had to say something one time when we were in the under 3 years old area and trying to get Siena to go down this slide when a 7 year old came up and tried to cut right in front of us.  To his credit he did say excuse me but I just turned to him and nicely said 'you're going to have to wait your turn.'  What I really wanted to say was, go find somewhere else to play because you aren't under 3. 

At the end of the night Siena found these stairs with a little hand rail just her size so she started learning how to go up and down stairs standing up instead of crawling up and down them.  She stood there practicing for about 10 minutes, such a big girl.  Sorry they are blurry.

I didn't know how long they would last or how much they would really like it but it was a great night and a ton of fun for them and us.

Tutus and Leg Warmers

My friend from High School, Konstantina, came to visit this month.  It was a quick 2 day trip but we had a good time catching up and she spoiled the girls.  She got them these ridiculously, stinkin cute leg warmers and tutu's.  Look how cute they look in them.

We had Brigitte and Tyler and kids over for dinner, went to my parents (where I sweet talked my dad into making us breakfast.)  And even made it to a movie one afternoon.  So even though it was short, we had a lot of fun.

They really did love Konstantina and they even had a little dance party on Sunday while Shane and I were at church.

3 Musketeers

Yes, it’s true, I’m Pregnant!

Baby Glover #3

Due August 2, 2013

We are thrilled and excited to welcome another baby into our family. And yes, for those wondering, it’s just ONE!

Finding Out

A little bit about this pregnancy so far.

I suspected I was pregnant over Thanksgiving when we were in California. On the drive home that Sunday I started feeling a little nauseous and there were enough symptoms that by Monday morning when I took a pregnancy test I was going to be shocked if I wasn’t pregnant. Shane had a dentist appointment that morning and I had the day off work so while he was gone I decided to get out the Christmas decorations. I decorated our fireplace mantle and put up our stockings. I went and grabbed a little tiny stocking that we had gotten from somewhere and put it up as well. So when Shane walked in I thought he would notice it right away (he’s really observant usually) but he didn’t. So I told him there was a present for him on the mantle. As he walked towards the mantle he said, ‘Congrats you’re pregnant' jokingly…I think he even came back and gave me a kiss. I didn’t say a word. He looked at the mantle and still didn’t get it, so I told him it was in one of the stockings. I think he touched all 4 stockings before he looked at the fifth one, reached inside and found my pregnancy test in it.

I feel really blessed and excited that we didn’t have to do any fertility this time. I think it really does take a long time to get over all this chemo as I can tell a difference in my body this time around as compared to the first time trying to get pregnant. In fact, we’re both in a little shock we got pregnant so fast and so easily. I told my doctor that one of my first thoughts when I found out I was pregnant was ‘That was so fast and so cheap…who knew it was so cheap to get pregnant!’  :)

I’ve been more sick this time than I was with the girls. Not horribly sick but just nauseous and yucky feeling. It’s mostly passed now but I still have my moments here and there (like this morning for instance.) They say you’re usually doubly sick with twins but in my case I never felt sick at all. I feel way bigger then I ever did at this point before. I’m totally showing and pretty sure I’m going to be bigger with one baby then I was with 2.   This is a picture of me at 13 weeks.

It really is just one, we had it confirmed via an ultrasound at our first appointment. Here’s a phone shot of the ultrasound picture…you can’t really tell what it is but it’s a baby and it’s just one.

Announcing

Here is the video I made to announce to our family that I was pregnant.  I reduced the size cuz I’m paranoid about taking up space on the blog, so the quality is really bad, but you get the idea.  You don't need your sound on.

My family caught on pretty fast what was going on.  Well most of them did.  Shane's family all thought the signing was so cute that they didn't even get it.  Even at the end, his mom was just going on and on about what good little baby signers the girls are.  Shane had to replay it for her and tell her to really watch it this time...lol.

Top 5 for January

Because I've been a little neglectful of my blog this month, I thought I would give you a synopsis of our January.  The weather has been in the teens as the high for the day all month with yucky inversion, grey, gloomy skies.  It doesn't make very many of us happy and wanting to get out and do anything.  But we have managed a few highlights for the month.  So here are our top 5 events of the month.

1 - Shane and I got to go to the Jazz game.  We were given 3rd row seats to the game and even got to eat with the Jazz 100 club.  The food was soo good.  I ate a ton...then you get free snacks at half time. The game was so fun.  I loved being so close up and sitting on the soft seats.  It was a fun date night that Shane and I got to spend together.

2 - We hired a nanny 2 days a week.  Between my work and everything Shane has going on, we decided we needed to find some babysitting for the girls.  Shane now goes into an office for work 2 days a week.  We considered finding someone we could take them to, or even a daycare but finding someone or place for just 2 days a week that had openings for 2 toddlers was a little crazy.  So we decided to have someone come to our house.  We interviewed a few people but ended up finding a girl in our ward that we are good friends with her and her family.  It has worked out so well.  Emily has been great and the girls seem to like her and everyone is getting along and adjusting well.  We are happy to have Emily, someone we know and can trust.  Emily...I need a picture of you and the girls (do you still blog stalk me?)

3 - Getting over sickness in our house.  Shane got the flu (like influenza flu...and yes he got a flu shot) It lasted for 10 days.  He got an ear infection, fever, cough, congested and just plain achy.  It was miserable for him and not very fun for me.  Since I didn't want it and certainly didn't want the girls to get it, we pretty much just had to stay away from him.  Which meant I was a single mom for a lot of that time.  I even slept in a different room for several days.  It made the evenings and mornings a little crazy around here.  I was certainly happy to get my husband back after 10 days.  I got a cough for a few days but felt ok.  The girls both got fevers a few days apart but they were pretty low grade and snapped out of them after about 24 hours.  So about 1/2 the month we just stayed inside and tried not to spread sickness while trying to recover.

4 - We got out one afternoon for a trip to the mall to ride the train.  We were going a little stir crazy being indoors so much so when we finally felt better it was nice to get out and do something a little fun.  The girls had a good time on the train and Siena kept waving her arm up and down everytime I would say choo choo.

5 - Because we've been sick and it's been so cold, we haven't really gone out in the snow but one Saturday morning we bundled the girls up and took them out while Shane was snowblowing our driveway.  The girls had a good time just looking around and then decided to go see dad at the bottom of the driveway.  Well what I didn't realize is they've never walked on a slanted surface before.  Their little legs started going faster and faster and they were trying to keep up until they just couldn't and each one fell.  Luckily they weren't hurt at all but it was seriously pretty funny to see their legs going so fast down the hill.  We'll have to work on that with them when there isn't snow and ice on the driveway.  And yes Aria still refuses to open her eyes when she's outside and the sun is in her eyes.

My Toddlers

A small update on the girls...not a lot of 'new' things they're doing lately.  But there have been a few that are in need of documenting.

SIENA HAS TEETH!!!  2 days before she turned 16 months, I finally felt a tooth about to pop through.  Miracle.  So happy I don't have to take her to a dentist to get x-rays.  She has been so much happier since that tooth and quickly after 2 others have come in.  Yay for teeth.  So Aria has 4, Siena has 3.  Now we can start working on the bigger teeth I guess.

Aria has randomly started crossing her fingers.  I've been trying to get a picture but haven't been able to yet.  It's so funny to see.  In the bathtub, in her high chair, walking around...you just look down and her left hand has her 2 fingers crossed like she's wishing good luck for something.

We've been trying to get the girls to learn some body parts.  Aria can point to her nose and just learned to stick out her tongue when you ask her where her tongue is.  If you ask Siena 'where is your ....fill in the blank.' she will point to her head/hair.  Doesn't matter what it is...so she doesn't quite get that concept yet.

Overall the girls are just plain getting older.  Every so often I just look at them and realize they really are just little toddlers now.  It's crazy how much older they seem to me all of the sudden.  They understand almost everything we tell them.  Many times, I say something not really thinking they understand and they turn around and do what I've just said and I just stand there kind of shocked that they just understood that.

They are into EVERYTHING.  They love their puzzles, which they're pretty good at, strolling their doll strollers around, chasing the ball all over the house, still love books, rocking on their rocking horse, playing on the couch, and making each other laugh to see who can have the highest pitched scream (Fyi...Aria does hands down!)

They LOVE playing and standing on the couch.  We try and try to tell them they can only sit on the couch but it never works.  We've even tried time out for a few days and it helped but they love to play and wrestle with each other.  It makes me nervous that they're going to get really hurt and even when I'm sitting right there, 2 of them going in opposite directions sometimes 1 falls before I can get to her.  So far no major bruises, just some scared little girls.  Not that it stops them for very long. I can't even get a focused picture of them cuz they're so fast.

Siena has this thing with one particular blanket, she'll drag it across the room to me and want me to put it over her so she can hide under it, play peekaboo and/or see how long it takes her to get it off.  Her smaller blankets do not provide as much entertainment so she always finds this blanket to use and it usually takes her about 5 minutes to drag the big thing over to me.

 We also moved them to one nap a day.  Their naps became harder and harder to get 2 into one day.  They were short and sporadic and it seemed one was always up earlier then the other and back and forth we went.  So we switched them to one nap.  It took Siena a couple days to catch on that she needed to sleep longer but now they're both sleeping 2 1/2 - 3 hours and it's heaven having them just sleep one time a day for a longer period.  Loving the one nap schedule so far.