Lookey What I Made!

No, I am not super cool and did not create an amazing tutorial with pictures.  I did, however, make some similar fabric flowers using this tutorial from Make it and Love it!  It was actually pretty quick and painless and took around 10 minutes start to finish!  I love speedy crafts-they make me feel so accomplished!  AND she has all sorts of other free tutorials on her website, like this awesome Maternity Band that I want to make next!

Brookie's "Bachelorette" Party

Kari, Brooke, Dani, me and Callie at Suwadee's

I was going to post about our Oregon trip today, but Ronnie put the pictures on the laptop and of course has it with him (I don't think he ever leaves without it), so you get to hear about my girl's weekend in SLC instead!  One of my besties Brooke is getting married in September, so we decided to trek up to her neck of the woods (is that how you spell neck in that phrase??) and throw her a "bachelorette" party (I dubbed it "bachelorette" because it wasn't really a cutsie shower and I put the quotation marks because it wasn't really anything scandalous...so there ya go...I just felt the need to explain).  It brought back so many memories getting together with all of these girls and just hanging out!  We've all been best friends since high school and a few of them I've know since kindergarten or before (I think I went to joy school with a few of them).  We actually kind of remind me of  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (minus the magical pants...), because we all have different, distinct personalities, yet we all get along and love each other.  The other great part is that they are all the type of friend that I can go ages without seeing or talking to, but the minute we get together, we're on the same page again!  LOVE, love, love all of my girls!
We started out by making a world record in pee stops and the length of time it takes to get from St. George to SLC (and it wasn't just yours truly preggers woman requesting the stops), then finally made it to the Gateway for some shopping!  Shockingly, after about two stores, we were all totally pooped (granted, the first one we went to was two stories worth of Forever 21, where Brookie tried on various rompers), so we headed to dinner.  We went to this seemingly hole in the wall Thai place that turned out to be completely delicious (it was my first Thai experience) and extremely busy.  It was one of those places you just kind of have to know about or else you'd drive right by it (to it's credit, it was really nice inside, but a large part of it is outside, so you can't really tell).  It's called Suwadee's...maybe you've heard of it?
After that we headed to Brooke's new place for gifts and girl talk.  I didn't take pictures of many of her presents since they were mostly "married people stuff", but I did snap one of socks that I gave her.  They were in a tiny bag and as I handed it to her I told her "this is all you're really going to need" (I know, clever).  If you can't tell, they are knee socks that say "I'm a hot mess" on them and Ronnie and I thought they were hilarious and partially accurate.  I know many people who think that lingerie is a complete waste of time, so I figured if she just had a pair of socks then she'd be set!  We then stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, chatting, laughing and giving our sage married advice to Brooke.  When we finally did go to bed, the two mommies (Kari and myself) ended up bunking together and at one point she woke up patting me down trying to find her baby to nurse and I'm sure I almost knocked her off the bed with all of my "support pillows" under every square inch of me.
When we finally got home, I passed out for about three hours and only emerged for Domino's pizza...it's amazing how only 5 years have gone by since high school and yet my body feels so old and decrepit and can't handle one little girl's night.  It was worth it though!

Little Sister.

15 weeks

20 weeks

Ever since we found out we were preggers, we've been asking Chloe whether she would have a brother or a sister and her reply was ALWAYS "sister!", but Ronnie and I still felt like it was a boy, so it was a bit of a shock when the ultrasound tech wrote the words "I'm a girl!"  I guess we should have believed Chloe-she was up there last after all!

Our ultrasound was kind of funny this time around because our tech was a little worn out and frazzled from doing them all day...she measured everything on the baby (head, four chambers of the heart etc...) and then when she had finished she said that she'd forgotten what she had measured, so she'd better do it again!  AH!  All before she told us the gender!  So she redid everything and took a gazillion pictures (which was okay by me) and then wrote the gender on the screen without saying anything.  I had laid back down at this point because my neck was sore, so I couldn't tell what she had written and Ronnie was fidgeting with his camera, so we both kind of missed the "moment" and had to ask "what does that say?"  The real kicker was afterwards when she was looking at the pictures with us and said "there's the little boy part!" and then quickly said "oh wait...you're having a girl!  It's %100 girl, I promise!" when she saw how confused we were.  She was really nice and we could tell it had been a long day, so we just laughed it off and decided that if it comes out a boy, that'll be great too!

We are super excited to be having another sweet little girl (especially me)!  I love that they will be so close in age and that I can dress them matching on special occasions!  Hopefully they will be little buddies and not arch enemies (though I'm certain that there will be times)!  I loved growing up with my sisters-playing barbies and school and beating each other up and now that we're older going shopping and talking and just being there for each other :)

We don't have a name for her yet, so we just refer to her as Little Sister, which is probably what we'll call her most of the time anyway once she's here.  I like the names Evie, Eva, Ava, Olivia (apparently I'm into V's), and Ronnie likes Sophie.  We're having a hard time agreeing on anything besides her middle name, which will be Claire, after her Grandma LeBaron.

This pregnancy has been great so far, just like Chloe's was!  Actually, I feel a whole lot better since I'm not in hair school full time!  With Chloe I was exhausted all the time and got really bloated from being on my feet all day (and many nights).  Most days I forget I'm even pregnant, but by the evening my stomach usually gets tight and I have to take it a little easier.  I'm trying to exercise a couple of days a week and keep really hydrated, which is obviously helping a lot.  I felt Little Sister move for the first time around 18 weeks and Ronnie felt her for the first time while we were in Oregon when I was around 21.5 weeks.  It may be too early to tell, but I don't feel like she moves around as much as Chloe did and that she has an overall more relaxed personality than her.  I feel so blessed to have had such healthy pregnancies!

I'm pretty sure that Chloe understands what's going on and that she already loves her Little Sister :)  We talk about her all the time and practice with baby dolls.  She went with me to my last appointment and I explained to her that we were going to hear Little Sister's heart beat, that it went "boom, boom" and showed her where her own heart was.  She sat still next to me and held my hand, completely captivated by the sound.  Now she'll randomly put her hand on her heart and say "Mommy, sister-boom boom!"  She is such a little sweetie and so grown up!  I can't wait to have my girls together!!!

Hi!

I came home after a late night grocery trip to find these two passed out on the bed and had to take a picture.  They seemed pretty zonked, so I figured it wouldn't bother them, but as soon as the flash went off, Chloe's eyes bolted open and she said ever so cheerfully "Hi!" and then was wide awake for the rest of the night!  Chloe is such a little mimicker and has such a large vocabulary that I can't keep track!  She's our little parrot and repeats almost anything we say :)  One that never ceases to make us laugh is "Daddy, I wanna piss!"  Which really means "Daddy, I wanna kiss!"  We try to correct her (atleast I do...Ronnie thinks it's hilarious), but all that comes out is "piss!"  The other night we asked her what we should name little sister and she immediately responded "Binki Airnane!"  As we pulled into the garage after church today she started shouting "New airnane!" referring to the airplane that Ronnie got yesterday.  She is so quick and it always astounds me the way she can form sentences around ideas now!  Chloe LOVES airplanes and sits on Ronnie's lap almost every day to play the airplane simulator with him.

Seriously Funny

Chloe makes us laugh ALL the time, especially now that she is speaking in 3 to 4 word sentences.  It seems like she progressed SO much the week we were in Oregon (pictures to come).  Her latest things have been:

• The minute we walked into the house after flying home from Oregon she said "I wanna ride airnane!"
• Ronnie crashed his airplane at my family reunion and Chloe came up to me and said "Mommy airnane broken"...."fix it!"
• I think she gets a little bored in the car because whenever we're driving somewhere she'll say "Mommy look!"  I usually look back and find her twisting her pinky and ring fingers together and proudly holding up both hands or the last couple of times she's stuck her hands through the gap in her seat belt and wiggled her fingers at me and giggled.
• Her favorite song is "Bitsy Spider" and she wants to sing it over and OVER again...especially in the car.  She'll say "Mom!  Bitsy Spider?" and if I don't do the actions she'll usually say "All done.  Mom!  Bitsy Spider?" until I do the actions.  She also loves getting out her "binoculars" and singing "Popcorn Popping".
• One phrase I sometimes regret teaching her is "stop it", which had to evolve to "please stop it" because it was getting a little mean.  Whenever we tickle or tease her she says in all seriousness "Please stop it!"
• Since we got back from Oregon Chloe has been wanting to sleep in our bed and calls it "this bed".  When I put her down at night she'll say "Mom, this bed?" and I have to remind her that she has to sleep in her bed.
• This might be TMI, but oh well!  The other day I was using the restroom and Chloe came walking in (any mom knows that there is no such thing as privacy) and I asked her if she was stinky.  She replied "I stinky too!" to which I asked "You think Mommy is stinky?"  She gave a big nod and said "Uh hu!  I stinky too!"

Those are all I can think of at the moment, but I'll update as they keep coming!  We love you Chloe!