Our Little Girl

So the other night as I was trying to fall asleep but being kept awake from the baby using my insides as his personal gymnasium, I realized that Chloe and I will be outnumbered once he comes in August. I don't mind at all, but I was starting to think of how much Chloe is such a little girl. I know that's a weird statement, because well, obviously she is. But Jed had made a comment earlier that even with all the boy toys and things the kids like to do she really is a girly girl down deep.

She's our little daredevil and loves to play hard and rough. She plays with all the boys and fits in perfectly and has a blast with them. But she still has her quieter "girl" moments. She loves to wear dresses and skirts (which she'll insist I put on her and then twirls around saying she's a princess), she loves accessories and make up (she's always trying to get me to put my make up on her) and her "pretty toes", she loves her baby dolls and of course loves to sing and dance, and her favorite thing right now are her hot pink sandals and Hello Kitty. The sad thing is that most of her dolls and her start with Hello Kitty came from other people along with most of her dresses right now and one of the reasons I even started with accessories and dresses is because I was tired of people asking me if she was a girl or a boy without them. I still don't know where she got the princess thing from, since we don't promote princess stuff.

I think the reason I find this interesting, is because I really wasn't super "girly" until I had Chloe since I grew up the oldest with all boys. I didn't even play with dolls or Barbies and never saw why anyone would want to. If I played house, it was "Ninja Turtle house" so I could be the girl Leonardo or Donatello and we pretty much went to fight Shredder. I guess I'm hoping with our newest addition Chloe won't lose her sweet girly aspects.

Elijah Starts T-Ball

Elijah started t-ball on Monday. He has been looking forward to this for months now. We've been trying to get him ready by teaching him how to throw the ball and catch it in his mitt. He's actually not that bad. He had a blast getting out there and playing. For the first day the coach went over techniques (and I think that's about all they're going to learn at this age group), but Elijah didn't mind.

I might not want to admit this, but every time I see this picture I bust up laughing because the other kids are so upset because Elijah got the ball. 

Easter Egg Hunting

I think I have officially made Easter my least favorite holiday to clean up after. It's been three days since Easter and it seems like it doesn't matter how much I clean, I'm still finding eggs and candy around the house, even after I've put them away and out of reach from the kids. Oh well, it's worth it with how much fun the kids had finding the eggs. Elijah still asks to search for eggs. They both did a great job finding eggs. Elijah kept saying he won because he got a lot of eggs. Chloe, I think, had more fun after the egg hunt just breaking all of the eggs open.

The kids had three different egg hunts, but Jed was only able to take pictures of the one at the Grandparents' house with the cousins. Jed's brothers hid the eggs and they let the kids out in stages, starting with youngest to oldest.

Here's Chloe and her cousin, Avery:

Then it was time for Elijah and Cole to go:

Last, but not least, it was Lexie and Gavin's turns:

It was a fun Easter day getting to enjoy it with family :)

Fun When Grandma Visits

My mom came to visit during her Spring Break from school. Elijah was literally counting down the days until she came. He was so excited to get to see her again. He always wanted to be with her. It was really nice and a fun break to have her visit for the week.

I tried to look up fun things for us to do, especially since everything around us is still new to us it was fun getting to see what there's to do around town. Here's some of our highlights:

We went to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden and also drove up the canyon a bit after I missed the park entrance. Both kids loved the park.  Chloe loved to roar at the dinosaurs and Elijah loved getting to ride on some of them. His favorite part was the actual park though. It was hard to pry Elijah away at the end of the day.

We took a daily walk behind our house since it was starting to warm up outside.

One benefit of living on an Air Force base is the kids get to see lots of planes

We also went to SLC to have breakfast at Little America and spent the morning in the city. We stopped by the mall (which I didn't realize just opened that week) and Elijah got to play in the fountain. It was all fun until Chloe jumped in and screamed that she was "freezing cold and so chili". After buying him a change of clothes and some more summer clothes, we took the kids to another park to play until lunch. 

On my mom's last day I took her shopping and while we were there she liked the sales girl's haircut, so she decided to cut her hair too. How cute is my mom?!

Before

After

That last night we also went out to dinner with Jed's family.

The kids already miss their grandma. 

Gender Reveal Dinner

Friday Jed and I found out the sex of our baby. We almost missed our appointment but luckily my phone reminded me of the correct time, and we made it with 10 minutes to spare :).

Saturday we had a dinner to reveal the sex of the baby to Jed's family. It was a fun way to get everyone involved. I also sent a small package to my family and Jed's sister so they could participate too. At the dinner the groups were pretty evenly split.
So here are the group guesses:

Boys:

Girls:

For dinner we had a buffet of a few of the foods I have been craving this pregnancy.

how cute is my baby's profile!

I also made centerpieces for the tables.

After dinner we also read off a few "old wives' tales" to see what they would predict we would have.

(in case you can't read it, it said girl)

The kids, I think, were the most anxious to find out what we were having. I had Elijah help me reveal it to everyone.

(Nelson was holding the phone so Annie could hear the announcement)

Jed really wanted to pass out candy cigars to a throw back to the 50's, so he got to give everyone chocolate cigars.

Jed's brother, Nelson, was showing me his "pregnant belly" after eating all of the food.

before

after

So Elijah has been right all along and I'm happy to say that even though this one was a little harder for me to get a good feel about it, so was I :)