Thursday, September 25, 2008
FAVORITE SHOW!
Brent and I have recently discovered Criminal Minds on CBS and LOVE it!! This show is incredible!! It's about a federal law enforcement team that is all about criminal profiling serial killers and such... it's so good! It's very clean as well, although there is some mind violence and blood and such and the content isn't really for kids, but there aren't sex scenes and lots of language and all. It's written SO WELL. We watched the premiere last night and were just blown away!! Check out this show, it's AWESOME!! It's on Wednesday nights, 8:00 in Texas, not sure about Utah. okay so this picture is lame, but believe it or not it's the best one I could find on the CBS web site.
Fun Stuff
Here is me at 27 weeks... I was going to post a picture of me pregnant with Mariska at 27 weeks, but that's still on our computer and I'm blogging from Brent's work, so I do not have that. Sorry.
Mariska in the sand...
This last week she made some binoculars and we went on a walk with them. She was fun stopping every few feet to look at things through them. We also went on a "Nature Hunt" and made a poster of all the things we find in nature.
Mariska playing with and chasing Daddy with the sprinkler...
Mariska in the sand...Mariska loves playing in the rain. The raincoat does nothing.
This last week she made some binoculars and we went on a walk with them. She was fun stopping every few feet to look at things through them. We also went on a "Nature Hunt" and made a poster of all the things we find in nature. Mariska playing with and chasing Daddy with the sprinkler...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Ike and other Tidbits
So we got pretty much nothing with this Ike business. Not that I'm complaining at all. I love my electricity and running water. We were just expecting a really scary storm that may have cut the power and such for a few days and instead we got light to moderate rain all day and about 30 mph winds. So, all the preparing with our flashlights and 72 hour kits was a good thing, but not needed, although it did feel good to actually be prepared with those things!
Mariska is doing well, although potty training is at a complete stand still. I have her in cloth training undies and plastic pants when we're home but she still just goes in them like diapers and doesn't care much. I did try it without the plastic pants to let her get real messy, but she didn't care about that either and it was more clean-up for me. And it's way too hard to predict when she needs to go to put her on the potty, sometimes she holds it for 6 hours or more and I can't sit there all day. And her being on the potty turned into kicking, screaming, huge tantrums... so we're just backing off and reminding her that our "pee pee and poo poo" go in the potty and lets try to go there next time, but she just says "no" and runs off. We just figure she'll decide it's time when she's good and ready, but we aren't going back to diapers 24/7 either. Sometimes she'll tell me she's yucky and ask to be put in clean pants, but more often then not she just sits in it. Nasty huh?
She's said some funny things regarding the pregnancy lately... She wanted me to carry her from our room (and the rocking chair) into her room but my back was really hurting so Brent was doing it. She was upset and so I explained that I couldn't carry her because my belly was too big and she just looks at me and says, "make it smaller!" Like I have any choice in the matter. It was pretty funny.
We were also talking about how the baby will come out at Christmas time and she asks, "baby has a door?"... I just said "yes".
Along those lines the pregnancy is still fine. I'm not unbearably huge yet, though it's getting harder and harder to get up from sitting and turn over in bed, I have to wake up to do that now. Other then from my belly button/lower back, all the way down to my toes aching all day, there isn't anything else going on. Other then me just ready for her to be born and over with! I have my next appointment on October 2nd.
That's about it for now, I'll have some pictures up next week I suppose!
Mariska is doing well, although potty training is at a complete stand still. I have her in cloth training undies and plastic pants when we're home but she still just goes in them like diapers and doesn't care much. I did try it without the plastic pants to let her get real messy, but she didn't care about that either and it was more clean-up for me. And it's way too hard to predict when she needs to go to put her on the potty, sometimes she holds it for 6 hours or more and I can't sit there all day. And her being on the potty turned into kicking, screaming, huge tantrums... so we're just backing off and reminding her that our "pee pee and poo poo" go in the potty and lets try to go there next time, but she just says "no" and runs off. We just figure she'll decide it's time when she's good and ready, but we aren't going back to diapers 24/7 either. Sometimes she'll tell me she's yucky and ask to be put in clean pants, but more often then not she just sits in it. Nasty huh?
She's said some funny things regarding the pregnancy lately... She wanted me to carry her from our room (and the rocking chair) into her room but my back was really hurting so Brent was doing it. She was upset and so I explained that I couldn't carry her because my belly was too big and she just looks at me and says, "make it smaller!" Like I have any choice in the matter. It was pretty funny.
We were also talking about how the baby will come out at Christmas time and she asks, "baby has a door?"... I just said "yes".
Along those lines the pregnancy is still fine. I'm not unbearably huge yet, though it's getting harder and harder to get up from sitting and turn over in bed, I have to wake up to do that now. Other then from my belly button/lower back, all the way down to my toes aching all day, there isn't anything else going on. Other then me just ready for her to be born and over with! I have my next appointment on October 2nd.
That's about it for now, I'll have some pictures up next week I suppose!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Playgroup - PICTURES!!
Well I couldn't get pictures of Mariska actually playing with the other kids. Most of the time she's "playing" with others, she's still pretty on her own. But I did take the camera so that I could post the pictures on the blog at Brent's school when I picked him up. Mariska had fun playing at the park and then we went to lunch at McDonalds. Afterward we went and read books and played with the train set at Barnes and Noble. That's about it, here are pictures.
In other news the pregnancy is going fine. I had an appointment today and all is good. Although I have to start being more careful, I've already gained 20 pounds! I have 15 weeks left to go! I'm so excited for Christmas!
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