Poor Kids

Siesa fell while running on the driveway the other day. Between Jensen’s cast and Siesa’s face no one is going to want to come and play with us anytime soon. Jensen did get a shorter cast this week. Yeah. 3 more weeks and then we can be freed.

Little helper. . . kinda

Siesa’s new favorite thing these days is doing the dishes. She loves to get up to the sink and play in the water. She asks me all day if she can “do dish-ish now mommy?” I don’t really mind other than she and everything else gets very wet but I guess I shouldn’t discourage her from being clean and wanting to help.

Firefighter Jensen

Jensen loves anything and everything about firefighters. There is always a fire some where and he must save the day. This video is of him talking about being a firefighter.

This is only part of how long he talked. He sat and told me about being a firefighter for 30 minutes or so. He also had to tell me about the truck, his tools, fire safety, etc, etc. Jensen really likes to talk, to people he knows and likes. Some people at Church still wonder if he can talk and I just laugh because sometimes I can’t get him to be quiet.

It's a . . .

Baby. As we have with our other children we did not find out the Gender of the baby. Here are the reasons why

-The big phone call after the birth is much more exciting since you actually have something to announce.

- It doesn't really matter since we can't change the gender and we have everything we could possibley need.

-Derek wouldn't really believe it untill he saw it in person not a picture. I know most of the time the gender is properly stated but we just happen to know a few people whose doctor's were wrong.

- last but not least to be honest it makes me a little happy to annoy everyone.

About 4 months to go and we can't wait!

Couch Cautions

I had my first official emergency room visit for our children. Jensen broke his arm last Wednesday morning. After breakfast while I was doing the dishes Siesa and Jensen were jumping off the couch onto the cushion. They were jumping literally 8 inches off the couch onto the cushion and carpeted floor. Jensen started screaming that his arm hurt. I didn’t think it was that big of a deal since Jensen always screams loud anytime he has the slightest thing happen. About five minutes later he was sitting on my lap, I was rocking him and he said I was hurting his arm, I lifted up is sleeve and told him I was pretty sure his arm was broken and that we needed to go to the hospital right now. His arm was noticeably bent in the wrong direction. All the way to the emergency room he kept saying “mommy do something” I assured him that the doctor would be able to help him more than I could. We had a very pleasant emergency room visit surprisingly. As soon as we came in they gave him some very strong pain medication so Jensen was very cooperative. He fractured both bones in his right arm. He is right handed but has adjusted well using his left hand. As he said he is a “one hand man” we go tomorrow to get another more permanent cast which he will have to wear for 4 to 6 weeks. So much for swimming this month.

Thankful for a whim

Siesa is potty trained! Two weeks ago Siesa was up stairs in the bath room with a poopy diaper on and yelled “come wipe my bum, bum daddy”. We started laughing and I thought maybe we should potty train her. So Monday morning I put her in underwear and told her that she was a big girl and if she had to go to the bathroom to tell me. The part that sealed the deal was if she went on the potty she could have a jelly bean. She had 2 accidents that morning but she learned quickly and we have had almost no accidents the last two weeks and the only ones we have had have been here. The first few times going out I was a little nervous having her in underwear but from the first day she has told me when she needs to go. She even told her nursery leaders on Sunday Yea! She now will go all by her self and the biggest problem is that now she has an excuse to run around half dressed. She has also become quite possessive of the toilet and if anyone else needs to go she will run up stairs yelling “me first” even if she just went which can be a little frustrating for Jensen. He said today that he was not going to tell anyone when he had to go to the bathroom so that Siesa couldn’t beat him. I have been shocked about how well she did and kept asking myself “is it really going to be this easy”. I hope all my children potty train as easy as her.
The best part is that after 4 years and 2 months of changing diapers I get a 4 month break!

Birthday shirt

That’s right we are expecting #3. I am 4 months along (I can’t remember how many weeks, honestly I had a hard time remembering the first time around so now I don’t even try) I am due October 5th. A few weeks ago when the kids and Derek went shopping for a birthday gift He asked the kids what they should get me. Siesa said
‘Pretty shirt” She was walking all around the store saying "Mommy pretty shirt” so one of my gifts was this shirt, good thing they got a maternity one. I have been feeling much better the last few weeks and life is starting to get back to being some what normal. For the first few months I was sick and so really didn’t do anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary so basically I laid on the couch unless my kids needed me. That is the real reason that I have not been blogging much these days. I am doing much better and we are very excited to have another baby.