It's baby day

Baby will be here today. Im feeling all kinds of emotional about it. Mostly worried for Thomas and how he will handle all the changes headed our way. He's almost two but I still consider him very much a baby, he is so small and I feel like he just got here yesterday. Two years has flown by. I hope we can handle this transition as smoothly as possible. And I also hope he develops a love for his new sister. I'm so happy they will grow up close together in age and be buddies, but finding a balance and system that works has me all kinds of worried. Despite all the worry, I cannot wait to meet our little girl. I know she is meant to be apart of our growing family and I am so thankful the Lord has trusted us to be parents of another sweet baby. Getting pregnant this time happened SO fast, and I know she's ready to be here and be ours. 

We went on one last family date tonight as a family of three. We ate at pizza factory and then went to kangaroo zoo for the first time. Thomas was not interested at all when we got there--JT basically threw him on screaming. But this was right before we left. He left so sad because he didn't want to go. He absolutely loved it and went down all the biggest slides. 

It totally wore him out. He just laid here like a dead fish at one point because he was playing so hard. JT got quite the workout too. 

The hospital will call me this morning at some point and let me know when to come in. They have two c sections scheduled but I'm first on the induction list so it should be early hopefully. Why is labor so scary?! Even though I've done it once I am petrified all over again. 

Thomas is going to my moms for the day. Allison is still in town with her boys so he should be in heaven playing with them. JT will come home at night to sleep with him so I'll be there tonight and most likely tomorrow by myself if I stay two nights. With Thomas I ran a fever all throughout labor which is why he was in the NICU. I'm just praying and praying that doesn't happen again. I haven't slept much tonight which I expected. It's 330 and I'm hoping I hear from them in a few hours! Wish us luck. We're about to be a family of four. The real question is-will she be another ginger baby?? We shall see. 

UTAH

We have been in Utah a little over a week now! Minus no sleep and a very clingy Thomas, and daddy not being here, we've had so much fun. We did the Tulip festival with Sara, Amanda, and Brittany and all the kiddos. Tulips are still my favorite. 

We've done just about everything at thanksgiving point, I think I was there every day last week. Thomas has been having so much fun with his cousins-and they are so sweet with him. He especially loves Tyler. 

He's warming up to grandparents and aunts and uncles, one minute he loves them the next he's scared of them. But I love this picture of him and my mom. 

Kyle was an instant favorite though. 

My mom was watering flowers one day and Thomas decided he wanted to soak himself. Head all the way under and all!

And tulips round two::golf carts are the way to go. 

I no longer have to worry about flying alone with Thomas because we are moving back. Next weekend believe it or not. We are excited to be back with our families close by. JT told me to stay here because I am prego and pretty useless for moving, and Thomas would be no help either. So he is handling the packing and driving along with my brother in law guy who is heading out to help Friday. We are very thankful he was so quick to offer help. So hooray! Utah will always be our home I hope. 

Side note: I am 27 weeks today!! 13 more!! Or 91 days. 91. That number is both scary and exciting to me. 

Camera Pictures:: Easter Morning

A few years ago for Christmas we got a nice Canon camera-sadly we are not very good at remembering to use it! I think we have used it twice since moving to Washington-so this post is just an upload of pictures from there.  Most are from the Tulip farm we went too a few weekends ago. This first one JT took randomly one day of Thomas...it might be one of my favorite pictures of him.  I just love him and his red hair and big blue eyes.

These next ones are from Easter morning.  We had a lazy Easter morning, with it being conference weekend (which was fabulous).  General Conference weekends are my favorite-I always feel so spiritually refreshed and renewed and like I can do anything!  We had a big yummy breakfast with cinnamon rolls and fruit and sausage bake and juice and relaxed most of the day.  Thomas was so curious about his trail of eggs leading to his basket, and he probably just stared at his little basket for a good minute or two before going to touch it...almost like he wasn't sure if he was allowed to or not.

Clearly we need to be much better about getting our camera out.  Something to work on!

And some phone randoms from the weekend too:

4 a.m.

4 in the morning is my most dreaded hour lately. I swear every night I wake up at 4:00 and am awake for at least an hour if not longer. With Thomas I had the worst insomnia too so I didn't really expect that to be different this time, but I was hopeful! I've tried everything but nothing seems to work. Oh well, 17 weeks left! Other then insomnia, I have just been getting terrible heartburn but that's about it. I truly cannot complain about my pregnancies. I have it pretty easy and I am so thankful for that. Baby girl has been getting more and more active lately-especially when I eat any kind of sugar, which is too often probably.  JT has been able to feel her for a few weeks now. It's getting more real that we will soon be parents of two. 

Yesterday we needed out of the house bad. We took Thomas to a fish hatchery not far from our house. It was free to walk around and there were so many fish. While I was getting ready to go, I made the mistake of telling Thomas we were going outside. Literally as soon as he hears outside, he runs to the door and expects it to happen right away no matter what. If it doesn't-it's not good. So JT handled that drama and I got ready in record time. Off topic-but we are working on learning how to best handle tantrums and disciplining a toddler. Let me just say that it is so hard to know the best way to handle different situations. They are so good at pushing buttons and testing their limits, so JT and I have had a lot of talks lately about what we want to do in terms of handling it. Suggestions are welcome!!!

This was after JT used his stern voice with him. JT can say one thing and Thomas will instantly stop and get so sad. I on the other hand am apparently not intimidating enough because I usually get laughed at. Whatever. 

Anyways. We left to go, thomas was happy, and it was great to be out of the house. 

Here's a few pictures from our last week:

See his head?? He fell so hard in the shower while JT was gone last weekend. Poor babe. 

Church by ourselves and we were even early. 

We went out for pizza one night this week. His new thing is to need his hands wiped after every bite. He would eat a piece of pizza and hold his hands out to us until we wiped his hands clean. He's a princess. We are working on mastering a fork but he's not quite there yet.

All hot wheels cars are phones. Especially this little truck. He jabbers and laughs and has his own conversations while pacing around. It's my favorite. 

Doesn't he look so old?