FIRE!!

Yesterday Kole thought it might be fun to try and set the house on fire. Mommy was standing at the counter making some food and the paper towel she was using was sitting on the stove. Kole was throwing a fit and begging for food and he turned on the stove, which lit the paper towel on fire and melted the bag of bread sitting next to it. With super mommy reflexes mommy grabbed the spatula sitting there and smacked out the fire. Way to go mommy!

Then mommy got to clean up all that pretty ash that was all over.

On the way home from the hospital on Sunday. Kole had a long day.

New belly pics!

28 Weeks (Just started the 7th month). 123 Lbs. 15 Lbs gained so far.

(I'm supposed to gain 25-35 lbs while pregnant).

Yuck! I hate gaining weight! This baby better weigh 15 lbs!

12 more weeks to go!

I've been shot!

To celebrate starting my 7th month of pregnancy today we spent the day at St. Luke's hospital. Wednesday night I was up for several hours, unable to fall asleep because of some sharp lower abdominal pains. I thought we would have to go in that night, but stuck it out and after 4 hours the pains lessened and I fell asleep. Friday I was having contractions all day and finally started timing them at about 4 pm. and they were all 5-15 minutes apart. I drank tons of water and got them to slow to 10-20 minutes apart, and there they stayed until we went in today and they gave me a shot to stop them. We are all good now.

Happy Birthday Abby!

We can't believe our little girl is already 4 years old! Time sure does fly!! Here is a quick look back and some pictures from her birthday yesterday!

Right after being born!

Home from the hospital!

First birthday!! Also the day she started walking!

We celebrated her 2nd birthday down at grandma Miller's house, and I can't find any pictures from it, so I think Grandma must have them all! But here is a picture of her 2 weeks after her 2nd birthday, on the day Kole came home from the hospital!

Third birthday! Unfortunately none of these pictures are that great of shots.

Here is her 4th birthday!

Playing on their combined (Abby and Kole's) birthday gift!

I caught this picture while Kole was in the air about to plop onto Abby!

While Kole was napping Abby decided she loves Roxy SO much she doesn't ever want her to get lost!

So she covered her in address labels.

Also, during Kole's nap Abby and mommy made play dough then we spent hours playing with it!

Gift time!

Kole was upset that it wasn't his birthday! He wanted gifts too!

We just bought a cake this year, considering mommy's on bed rest.

Cake time!!

Yum!!

Happy Birthday Abby!!

Roger Appreciation Day! And more!

We decided to make a new holiday! We call it Roger Appreciation Day! Today we let Roger sleep in late.

We made signs!

Then we wrote nice things about him on post-it-notes and

stuck them all through out the hallway and on the stairs!

Then we went and woke him up with the signs!

Happy Roger Appreciation Day!

Here is some more recent pictures!

The kids' favorite game is to pretend to be dogs!

I know Ammon isn't due for another 3 months, but I already have his "nursery" (which is actually a corner of Abby's bedroom, they will be sharing a room) all set up with his clothes all washed and in his dresser all ready to go!

Everyone should have a dog to use as a chair, don't ya think?

 

And she sure comes in handy as a foot rest for those swollen, achy, pregnancy feet!

(Jealous much Jessica?)

 

The kids and I have caught a cold. The first illness any of us have had since last winter! Poor Kole seems to have the worst of it, we are assuming it is from the RSV he had as a baby, since the doctor told us that he would have colds and flus worse because of the damage the RSV did. Looks like we will be house bound for a while so we won't give it to anyone else.

I have some cute craft posts coming soon!
Hope all is well with all of you!

Big boy!

Here is Kole saying how old he is.

In case you can't tell what he's saying,

"I am almost, Umm no! (then he gabbers a bit and with a little tickling from Roger he finishes)Almost two!"

Yep, he sure is almost two! Little stinker!

Big girl!

Here is a video of Abby saying how old she is.



Woof Woof!

Some of you have never met Roxy, so let me introduce you... See that thing the kids are using as a bench?

That would be Roxy... She is our 2 year old Anatolian Shepherd... AKA "Mommy" to Abby (Abby pretends Roxy is her dog mommy)... In this picture the kids are pretending to talk on phones to their grandparents and aunt Jessica.

Apparently, Roxy likes the movie The Wizard of Oz. Random fact: Dorthy's last name is Gale! Ironically enough, a gale is a strong wind. I'm showing this movie to Abby for the first time right now, and (for those of you who have experienced Mountain Home, Idaho's wind) when Abby saw the part with the tornado she said, "Look mommy! It's like our wind!"

As you can see, Roxy is just a great big, ferocious beast! ;)