Austin-isms

As we all know, kids can say some funny things. Here are a few from the past two hours.

As he runs around with one of his hot wheels:
Austin: "Watch this dad! Watch this style!"
Dad: "Where can I get that style?"
Austin "From your brain!"


During dinner:
"Dad, you hear that quietness? (Pause) That's my foot twinkling" (wiggling his toes)
*Brandon and I couldn't stop laughing at this one*


After dinner:
"I'm an Indian blower." - no idea where this came from

Austin: "Dad, tickle my feet."
Dad: "Tickle your own feet."
Austin: "I can't! Oh wait, I can!"

"My air bag!!" - talking about the bag for his camp chair

"Chicken and meat do not go together."


Earlier while making dinner:
Austin: "I am going to help you put baby brother in bed. It will be tonight, right?"
Mom: "Nope, about 2 weeks."
Austin: "Why not tonight?"


Talking about his Legos before dinner:
Austin: "I have an ax and a sword. I made the sword!"
Mom: "Who made the ax?"
Austin a little shocked I asked: "I did..."


Seriously, these were just in the past two hours. Sometimes I think we should just record what he says all day so we can remember it. We love listening to him!

October FUN!

Well, October was a pretty great month! We had a blast doing so many things together.

First Austin is mastering his selfie.

He found all the letters of his name, and put them "in order." Aye, I hope we correct this backward word formation soon!

 Hee Haw Farms

We went to Hee Haw Farms for Halloween fun. Last year we went to Cornbelly's, which was fun, but overpriced. We decided to give this little farm in PG a try. It was just as fun for Austin as Cornbelly's would have been, and about have the price.

Tetherball was fun, but a little too high up for him.

They had a cute little petting zoo. These goats were crazy though. We were given a little cup of food for the animals, and they were pushing and fighting each other and pushing on us to get the food.

Of course there were tractors to sit on and pretend to drive. Austin loved that!

Then, there was this slide. They had burlap bags to sit down on when sliding down. At first Austin was not wanting to go up there. After about 30 minutes of being there he decided he was ready. He proceeded to go down about 10 times.

He loved playing in the corn kernel box. He could have spent hours there.

Thanksgiving Point

We went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity one day while daddy was at work. I am so happy that we have a membership. It is so nice to just go there and play. Austin decided to be a monkey!

Spending time with Daddy

He loves hanging out with daddy after work. Seriously, he doesn't want much to do with me after dad is home, which is just fine with me. He needs that daddy time.

Jazz Game

We have some friends that had 6 tickets to a Jazz game and invited us to go along with them. Austin thought it was cool, up to a point. Then, he was done. However, I was able to get him back into it by cheering so loud with him the last 10 minutes. He thought all the little shows they did were cool. Brandon was a good sport since he doesn't really like sporting events. Going to the game made me miss my BYU days, attending the volleyball games and football games.

 The Red Barn

At the end of the month, Austin and I spent the day playing with the Taylor's. How we love hanging out with them. They took us to the Red Barn in Santaquin, got us donuts and ice cream, and just played for a few hours with us.

It was so nice when we went. They weren't starting the wagon ride for about an hour, but they decided to do it earlier for us. It was the three of them, the two of us, and a baby they were watching that day once we got to the play area. It was so nice to have the place to ourselves.

They had an apple launcher which Austin wanted to do over and over again.

Preschool Halloween

He was so excited to dress up and go to school the day before Halloween. They did some fun games, like pumpkin bowling and making tissue ghosts. They also did a costume parade to the park across the street and then a few little Halloween chants/songs. It was very cute!

Austin has two friends in his preschool class that are also in his church class. We were trying to get a picture of the three of them with their fabulous teacher but as you can tell from the rest of the photos that didn't happen.

On Halloween we went around the neighborhood for about an hour. He was having fun but after a bit you could tell he was melting. He was getting so tired that instead of running from house to house and saying trick or treat loudly, he was walking slowly and needed to be reminded what to say. We had such a good Halloween.

Domo Tailgating Party

Well, Brandon works for a pretty awesome company. Every year they throw a big tailgating party for the BYU vs. Utah game. However, since they aren't playing each other for a few years, they did the party for BYU vs. Utah State. This party was crazy!! Seriously, they rented out the electric park at Thanksgiving Point, had food trucks there, the BYU dunk team, Cosmo, bouncy houses, prizes, music, drinks, face painting, and balloon artists! All of it was provided by the company. I loved trying new food trucks since we didn't have to pay.

It was so nice to just go and have a blast. Austin absolutely loved it! He spent about 90% of the time doing "pumpy arms," which is just pumping his arms up and down to the beat of the music. He loved the bouncy houses. They had so many bouncy houses blown up that they weren't that crowded. I think they had about 10 different bouncy things.

The BYU dunk team was there and put on a little show. Cosmo even got in on the action. Austin loved Cosmo from a distance, but when he would get close it wasn't so awesome anymore.

This bouncy thing was hard for Austin to understand. He wanted to just use the rope to climb up, but that didn't work. He also isn't one to try something out of his comfort zone, so climbing this was a no go. However, he thoroughly enjoyed holding on to the rope.

To be honest, Brandon and I were a little surprised that Austin did this one. As I said, he doesn't like to go out of his comfort zone, and when we are places with tons of other people he normally likes to stay close by to us. This one had things you would crawl under, over, around, and then a thing to climb up to the slide. The first time we had to be seen by him almost every step of the way. Once he came down he turned and did it again. This happened about 6 more times! I was so proud of him. He didn't even have to see us to do it. He is getting more and more confidence.

He was unsure about the face painting, again comfort zone issues, and would only let them do it on his hand. He loved the football that she did!

It was such a fun day! Can't wait for more DOMO activities.

All good

Sorry for not posting the results of my test. I have known for about a week and just forgot. Granted, it has been a crazy busy week.

I PASSED!!! Yay!!

Only one of the draws came back slightly high. If it had been two then I wouldn't have passed. I am very grateful that everything is alright.

This pregnancy hasn't been all easy going. In fact, I am normally in some sort of pain. He likes to hang out by my tailbone, and I think he is farther back than Austin ever was. Therefore, my tailbone hurts constantly! He moves away from it sometimes and those times are amazing! I have also had the wonderful feeling like my muscles are tearing, like I am bursting open from the inside. That was by far the craziest feeling. I hate complaining though, so I just deal with it.

I have eight more weeks, but we are hoping for him to come early. Now, if we can just agree on a name!!! I have this fear that we will be coming home from the hospital without a name. We shall see....

Glucose Test

Well, last week I did my glucose test. I made it the hour, just barely. About the last five minutes I had to talk to myself saying I wasn't going to throw up. I didn't hear from my doctors office so I figured everything was ok.

On Monday, after going to The Red Barn with the Taylor's I got a call telling me my numbers were slightly high. Meaning, I now had to do the three hour test! BLAH!!!!

At first I wasn't too worried, but the more I thought about it, the more nervous I got that I would fail this one. Also, I was so nervous that I would throw up and not make it the whole three hours. After I finished my last one, I felt ill most of the day. I can't imagine how I would feel after having the high concentration stuff.

Part of me doesn't understand how I can be at risk for gestational diabetes. When I was pregnant with Austin, he was always measuring big. I didn't gain a ton of weight, but more than I wanted to. Yet, I passed that test. Now, with this one, he is measuring right on track, average size. I can still wear one of my pairs of normal jeans, like pre-pregnancy. My bump is measuring right on track. Yet, I still have to take this test. This test that can lead to an outcome that doesn't make sense to me. That if I fail, can lead to a large baby and excessive weight gain.

As I am writing this, I am working on hour two of my test. Brandon's sister Chloe was so nice to take Austin for the morning. I have felt light-headed for about an hour, I no longer feel like throwing up, but that is coming and going.

I am hoping for a negative outcome but I don't want to get my hopes up. Does that make sense?

Brandon has a new car

Well, Brandon decided that he wanted a new car. He was tired of driving a car that wasn't what he wanted. He bought his last car with the idea was that he was going to fix it up. He has done some work but we don't have the time or the money to put into it. He was also tired of driving something that didn't have working A/C, actually the heat is stuck on.

We looked around and he found a few that he was interested in. We test drove all of them, but he came to settle on this one:

It is an Infiniti M45. A 2004 with 90,000 miles. We were able to get it for a super good deal. In fact, similar cars go for over $1500 more than we got it for.

It has heated/cooled seats, built in navigation, a sunroof, plenty of room, adaptive cruise control, keys with memory seat/mirrors, mirrors that tilt down when in reverse, and more.

In true Brandon fashion, he got straight to work on replacing bulbs and removing cables that have no use. The nice thing is that once that was all done he doesn't have anything else to work on.

Exciting news!!

Many of you know by now but we are expecting a sweet little boy in January. I am due on January 10th, which is the day after Austin's fourth birthday. Crazy! I don't want them to share a birthday but that might actually happen.

This baby already is a stinker. When they were trying to view his heart he kept turning all around. He would flip as soon as she almost had a clear picture. I had to roll on to my sides, sit up, back down, on to my side again, and finally after about 10 minutes they were able to get it.

Austin is so excited! He had told us that before the appointment that he wanted a little brother. When the ultrasound tech revealed the gender and we told Austin, he got so excited!!

We hadn't told anyone with the past history. Information on it here. Austin had kept the secret for a long time and was so happy when he could finally talk about it. He keeps saying that he is going to be a big brother, have a brother but the baby has to keep growing first.

Now we just need to get everything back out again and set up. We only have a few things that we need to buy. It is much easier to have the same gender, that is for sure. Also, we have to decide on a name.