Back to the Park

I have to say that I was getting some cabin fever with the winter months but it has been great to be able to be outside again. The kids love it and so do I honestly. Two days ago it was so warm that we had t-shirts on and bare feet. I can't wait for spring and summer!!!

This is Paul and his friend Addy. We enjoyed an afternoon at the part with them this last week. (Kelly you can copy it off the blog if you want it...if it doesn't work then I will email it to you)
My kids LOVE the swings. Not just that, but the underdogs. I get quite the work out running underneath Paul and then doing the same thing for Katie and then right back to Paul. I have to admit it was easier when I wasn't pregnant.
This makes me scared to start Katie on a normal swing because she always leans so far forward. Hopefully she will get the hang of it sooner or later.

It's a...

Feet
Hands
Little face
Scott says this picture looks like the baby is smashing it's face up to a window. You can see the nose and mouth.

So Katie has this new thing that she says when I try to change her diaper. She says I can't touch her private spot. Apparently the little one inside me feels the same way because the whole time the baby was sitting indian style blocking the sonographers view. Well the sonographer said that she is 90% sure it is a GIRL!!! We are super excited and loved going and seeing the baby.

I don't know?

Here is the video I've promised...all because of Scott!!! :)

The Special Olympics

So I haven't forgotten about the movie of Paul. We have it and it is coming. I can never get it to work for me so I need to have Scott work his wonders. Meanwhile I figure I should probably post something. The 2009 Special Olympics Winter Games are here in Boise. Scott has been covering a whole lot of it so we decided to go and see some of the games on his day off. It was a lot of fun. If you are interested at all go to KTVB.com and see some of the stories that Scott has done this last week. They have been pretty incredible.This floor hockey team from the Dominican Republic is one of the teams he did a story on. About a week or so before the games they found out they didn't have enough money for all of the plane tickets...half to be exact. Well people called in and donated and miracle after miracle happened and low and behold they were able to make it. Scott tells it better than I do... http://www.ktvb.com/video/?z=y&nvid=330221
Katie and Paul wanted to run around everywhere while we were at the games so we put them in the make shift "playpen"
It was the supports that were holding up the floor hockey courts.


This was the Trinidad and Tobago vs Canada game. There was a guy that was cheering on Trinidad so loud because there were about 6-7 people cheering on Canada. It was pretty funny. Scott ended up doing a story on this one too. http://www.ktvb.com/video/index.html?nvid=331200


It turned out to be a really fun day and we all went home and took about a 2 1/2 hour nap when we were all done.


SIDE NOTE....We have hit the half way point in the pregnancy!!! We find out if we are having a boy or girl next friday. We will keep you posted.

Just because I thought it was so dang cute

One of Katie's favorite songs is "I'm so Glad When Daddy Comes Home." It's funny because all day all the kids want is Scott and then when he gets home for some reason all they want is mom.

Next up...Paul has his newest thing that he does and we are trying to get it on video so you can see it. I will ask him a question such as...Paul where's Katie or Paul where did your bottle go? He will look around and if he can't see it he turns back to me and says "I don't know" It makes me laugh every time. We are trying to get it up for the grandparents so be patient. It will come.

Just a couple pictures before church

This was the outfit that all the little girls wore for Craig and Mandie's wedding. They all looked so cute, but since we lost all of those pictures I had to make sure I got a couple of Katie in the dress.



Paul loves the camera. It doesn't matter if he was crying two seconds before, when he sees the camera he puts on his grin.

And here is the baby bump at almost 17 weeks. We find out if it is a boy or a girl on the 20th of February. This is the first time that Scott and I have no idea what it is going to be. So any guesses are welcome.

My little artist

So I was all happy this morning because Katie and Paul were playing so well together in their room. They were up there for about 20 minutes without any crying. I actually got to spend some alone time with Scott. So they ended up coming downstairs and when they leave their room Katie closes the door behind them. So we went on for a little while and I noticed that Katie's hands were blue. I asked her where the marker was and she said "it's upstairs mom." Like duh of course you should know that. I walked into the room to find our wall decorated. So Scott took the kids for a minute so I could clean up the remains, but not before I got a couple pictures with the culprit. So now I have blue tinted walls, any advice on getting the last bit off would be VERY helpful.