Pictures from this Week

I took these pictures on Friday. I had to get a shot of Camden’s haircut before I fixed it.

Here is Eli when he fell asleep on the bathroom floor after being sick that morning.

And Kolby was so excited when Grandma found these little boxes and cut doors in them to created garages for his toy cars. He kept asking Grandma and me for the rest of the day if we could think of any other boxes we might have somewhere that could be used to make more garages.

And these adorable shots are of Isaac playing Peek-a-Boo with me underneath the kitchen table, and showing off his cute little two front teeth.

I took these last two of Camden this morning, to show how his hair turned out after I trimmed it the second time (He sure looks different with the different haircuts, huh?)

Playgroup at Wheeler Farm

A couple weeks ago we went to the playgroup organized by Melissa Maxwell, the wife of another intern at Michael’s hospital. I was so glad that we were able to go – I had been hoping to get together with the other interns’ wives since we got here. No one else was able to come to the playgroup that week, but we had lots of fun. Kolby had preschool that day, but since Eli only has preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays he got to go with Camden and Isaac. We went to Wheeler Historic Farm. We had been there once before, when we first moved here, and I have to say that I enjoyed it much more on a nice Fall day with their pumpkin patch and the leaves starting to change colors than I did on the hot, sticky day that we went last time in the summer. Eli and Camden had fun with Melissa’s daughter, Chloe, and the boys liked the tree house and the farm animals. And by the end of the playgroup Isaac must have been all tired out because he fell asleep in his stroller on the way out to the car.

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This is how we found Camden one night . . .

One night Mom and I went out and Matthew stayed with the boys after I had put them down to bed for the night. When we got home, we checked on the boys, and we found Camden like this in his playpen.

A few pregnancy thoughts

Well, I think there are several somewhat humorous things about pregnancy. For instance, I have never really preferred to sleep on my side before, but for most of my previous pregnancies I have done so for a good amount of the time – even if I would go to sleep on my back, I would almost always wake up on my side. But this pregnancy is different. I have always preferred to sleep either on my back or my front, and that has stayed the same so far throughout this pregnancy. If I try to sleep on my side, I can’t fall asleep and my arm gets sore. Actually, I can’t really sleep on my back much anymore either – if I fall asleep on my back, I almost always wake up on my stomach. And now that I am approaching the half-way point of this pregnancy and am starting to really get a pregnant-looking belly (I’m no longer really in that ‘is-she-pregnant-or-just-gaining-a-little-weight-lately?' stage), I am wondering how I am going to sleep in another month or two when I start to get really big and I can only sleep on my stomach??? I guess I’ll just have to wait and see – but I really hope I doesn’t mean that I won’t be able to sleep at all anymore.

On another note, I started to feel the baby moving last week, so that is always reassuring. Actually, (as with my last 2 pregnancies) most often it is more that I can just feel the baby than that I can feel the baby moving – like he just rolls over or moves in a certain direction, and I can feel some little baby body part just poking out. But I have felt him moving around in there too.

Another thing is the cravings. My latest thing is that I want a sandwich (I am never very big on sandwiches) with big, juicy slices of tomatoes, lots of feta cheese, and Italian dressing on top, all heated up. I’ve never made anything like that before. But it’s kind of nice that I’m past the morning sickness, because for a while there a lot of foods that I usually liked just tasted awful to me – including pasta, feta cheese, fresh spinach, etc. The only thing that is still bothering me is eggs. We often had eggs for a special Saturday morning breakfast when Michael was home, and we haven’t had them as often lately with Michael’s busy work schedule, but the few times he has made eggs over the last couple months I have felt sick after eating them (even though they tasted great when we ate). So I have resorted to steering clear of eggs for breakfast since then.

Well, I am planning on posting fun pictures from Camden’s birthday party on Thursday and our fun family trip to the Utah State Fair on Michael’s day off on Friday. I’ll get those posted before we head out to San Diego next week.

Sleeping on the Job

My mom took these pictures of Camden while we were down in San Diego. We thought it was expecially fun that he not only fell asleep sitting at the table during lunch, but that he still had his sandwich in his hand. Pretty cute!

Sweet Baby

Isaac was sleeping in his baby swing, and he just looked so adorable, I had to take pictures of him. Isn't he cute?