Pregnancy

No swollen ankles yet
Heartburn for the fist time yesterday- went away with tums
Lots of weight gain- darnit!
No swollen hands
Lots of pelvic pain-
Tired by 11
No cravings
Very low iron- working on this
Uncomfortable to kneel
Maternity clothing ONLY at this point (not the case with my first)
Lots of kicking in my ribs
Must sleep with lots of pillows
Wake about 3x each night (not to go to the bathroom, just to worry about something)
Impossible to keep my house clean, bending over is getting a little hard
I feel great!

On thanksgiving after a nice long walk to work off dinner, I felt something... it was a little concerning.. we went to the ER to make sure things were ok. They thought that my placenta had started to detach from my uterus, fortunately it had not and after a shot to make my contractions stop we were able to come home. I was so scared that the baby was coming! And I had a messy house and dirty dishes in the sink. ha!

Thankful

That he married me..

And that we made this..

And that soon we will be an eternal family of 4.

Bed time for Grace

Its getting colder

Funny Girl

-Today Grace woke up from her nap and started crying. So I went into her room where she was laying in bed saying " Uncle Dig Dig have it! Uncle Dig Dig have it!" I asked her what he had and she said her binky . hahah

I took her binky away last week while Josh was out of town and she has done really well. She hardly cried the first night, and the next few were easy too.

She knows her Uncle Dig (Craig) is a softie! haha

- Yesterday Hill (my sister in law) stopped by to drop something off and when she came in Grace yelled from the top of the stairs "Wheres Bean?!" and put her and up like she was 16. Ha! Hill and I thought it was the sweetest thing.

- Josh has been a little under the weather and tonight he ate his soup on the couch. Grace came in later and found his empty bowl on the ottoman and said in a VERY high pitched sweetest Grace tone "Oh ok, you all done?" and picked up his bowl and carried it to the kitchen.

We love our thoughtful talker. She keeps us so busy.

Nesting

Well, Im nesting..

I bought a new crib for the baby.. I love how simple it is

I bought these for organizing our laundry.. ( i know there will be LOTS more)

I folded all of the boy clothes and put them in the dresser..

I am feeling like I have an extra layer of padding spread over my entire body, and I do

I started a quilt for our son, that will be added to by each of his aunts and Grandma on the Collette side. Cant wait to see how it turns out!

I am thinking I might need a new crib bumper.... hmm

I wear 1 of my 2 pairs of non banded maternity pants everyday. I cannot stand anything touching my tummy, im wierd.

I hope I will not deliver in Ca, I want to have him here in Utah, and bring him home to our house. But heres to 10 days of Christmas celebrating in sunny 60 degree weather!!!

I tried to buy him some binkies yesterday while I was shopping with Grace. This was a terrible idea! Grace threw one of her biggest fits of the year right there, I forgot that its only been a week since her last. What was I thinking?!

Grace prays for her baby brother and it makes my eyes water.

We are getting so excited for him to come, I just wish I could call "him" something other than "him"! any ideas?

Halloween

(thanks for the group picture Miss)

Mae is turning 1!

HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!!

Old and New photobooth

I was looking through my old photo booth pictures and came across these that are my favorite


And here are some updated ones..

Saturday with Dad and Beth

My Dad is a die hard BYU fan, and because of the game against Colorado it gave him a perfect excuse to come see us. We ate at Tucanos with my cousins Tucker, Micah and Desiree after the game and when we got home my Dad said "That was the BEST day". It made me smile, he was right.
P.s this top right picture of Josh is one of my most favorite, he is so delicious! :)

Breakfast

This was Grace this morning while eating breakfast. We love her budding personality.

Mixa Reunion 09

In Carmel..

At Grandpas...

At Mom and Dads..

With Happa and baby DeLorne..

At Tricks...

Peterson Reunion 09

We are home!

Talker

Tonight Grace leaned around the corner of her bedroom door and said "Where did Gracie go?"

The other day Josh was cutting his hair with trimmers and Grace said to me "Daddy's mess!"

When I ask Grace where my baby is she lifts my shirt (just a little) and says "Der it is!" she loves giving the baby kisses on my tummy

Lately when ever we get on or off the elevator to go and come home Grace will say to people "HI" and immediately follow with "BYE"- this always gets at least a smile from all these work-a-holics out here

She is also really good at saying please, thank you, welcome, sorry, no, gun too (gum too), shoes off, elbow, nose, ears, pretties, owie, no hitting, crab, bugers, church, bugs, tree, pie, ball, ouside, where is it?, touch it, Jesus, candy, treats (thanks aunt Cari),funny, baby, fuzzy, Quincy (her doll), and Ellie BEAN.

Grace is currently really into:

MONEY!
Alec
Elephants
Babies
Her stroller
Water
Stickers
Books
Horses
and her purse- it comes everywhere

Will be doing this by the end of the week!