Another Malea Update

Here's another update on Malea! She is just becoming such a big girl!

{Malea being a sassy-pants}

-She calls ants or pretty much any bugs "spider webs" (actually sounds more like "fiber webs") and if an ant gets on her she FREAKS out! She does not like when they are crawling on her!

-She is talking so much, I am just amazed at how much she has progressed! She speaks in full on sentences.

-We have to pick flowers everyday. She absolutely loves flowers. We are trying to teach her the difference between the kind of flowers you can pick (i.e., wildflowers/weed flowers) and the ones you just look at (i.e., flowers in someone's yard). It is hard for her to differentiate sometimes. We tell her that at night time we don't pick flowers because the flowers go to sleep, so she is always saying how "the flowers are asleep" at night time.

-She calls all soda pop "fright" (meaning "Sprite"), it doesn't matter what kind of soda it is

{Malea & Daddy getting ready to go on the airplane (the two of them went to Oregon for a family reunion and mommy stayed home...they had so much fun! I will do a separate post of their trip)}

-The other day she accidentally let go of her balloon and it went flying up in to the sky. Well a couple of days later we were talking about how she gets to go in an airplane soon (for a family reunion), and she says, "I get my balloon back?"

-Any time she is next to a fence or something, she will go up to it and say "I'm stuck in a cage!" We have no idea where she came up with it, she just started doing it one day (and no, we don't lock her in a cage when no one else is around lol)

-"Shrink" means "drink", which sounds really funny when she says "I need a 'shrink'!" lol
-If she gets hurt or upset, she will talk about it later and say "I cried very, very sad"

-She is getting more comfortable with the idea of potty training. We are not quite there yet, but getting there. She has peed in the potty once and pooped twice, but it is inconsistent. Honestly, I am not really ready to potty train her, being 8 months pregnant and so exhausted. But she is so independent that I can't force her anyway.

-There is a picture of me in my wedding dress on our entertainment center and I've explained to her that I wore that when I got married to daddy. Well the other day she asked to put on her Cinderella dress and asked "I get married to a boy, mommy?" It was adorable!

-We were driving in the car and Malea was picking her nose....we said "Malea, don't pick your nose" and she says "NO! I need to get somethin'!"

-We were driving and a guy cut me off, and Malea said, "Mommy, he a jerk" and I said "Oh sweetie, we don't say that word" and she said "Well daddy say it"....lol! He was so busted on that one!

-When we pulled out the infant car seat in preparation for the baby, she said to me "Mommy, last time when I was a baby I sit in the car seat." So cute!

We love you Malea!!!

Busy Busy Busy!

Well, things have been pretty crazy for us, but in a good way. We moved this past weekend to a different place than originally planned, but it is for the better. It is actually bigger, less expensive than the original place, and in a better location (we get to stay in our ward...yay!). So that was kind of a crazy change of plans. We are so excited for the extra square footage, not to mention a dishwasher! Oh how I have missed having a dishwasher.

My house as I was packing....uggh, I was getting claustrophobic!

Here's some pics of the new place:

(My favorite part....the walk-in closet)

We love the new place!

(32 weeks pic)

Baby #2 is doing well. He is right on track at every appointment in his heartbeat and measurements. I am 32 weeks along....where has the time gone? Holy cow, I just can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone! I am getting a little panicky because I still have so much to do before I will feel ready for him to come. I don't know if I will ever be ready honestly! lol I think once we are settled in to our new place I will feel better.

Malea is just such a joy. She is talking so much! She speaks in full sentences. She is excited for the baby to come, but I wonder if she REALLY understands what it is going to be like when he gets here. I'm guessing there will be some jealousy that will require some adjustment, but it will be good for her. She is so helpful that I think she will just want to be mommy's little assistant with everything. We have had such a fun summer playing outside, going to the pool, going to outdoor movies, family get-togethers, camping, to the zoo, etc. I've tried to do lots of fun activities because I know once the baby comes things will have to slow down a little bit.

Well that's about it for us! Now I need to get off my behind and do some un-packing....

4th of July Goodness

We had a great holiday weekend! I absolutely love the 4th of July and all it entails. We had a family BBQ and then went to a neighbor/friends' annual "Driveway of Fire"....Malea loved it! This is the first year we have really let her stay up to watch the fireworks and she did great! And of course its not the 4th of July without going to the Provo Freedom Festival Grand Parade! We got a sweet spot this year thanks to Keith!

Malea showing my 4th of July cake

BBQ at Grandma's house

Look at that sweet face!

Waiting for the fireworks to start!

(Malea sporting her fake smile...I tell her to smile for the camera and this is what she does lol)

Heading to the parade!

I wish you could see her face better in this picture...this was when a big dalmation dog balloon was going by, she was so excited!

Malea and Daddy :)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

Tumbling Tots Graduate

Today was Malea's last day of Tumbling Tots. They had a little "awards" ceremony where all the kids got a medal and a certificate, and got to stand up on a little pedestal. It was so cute! She had a great time in the class and learned a lot.

(I love her face in this picture, it just cracks me up!)

Lazy Saturday

How stinkin' cute is she?!!!

It was such a nice day, so I decided to set up Malea's little pool (key word: "little"). I love how this turtle tube is practically the same size as the pool....maybe we should invest in a little bit of a bigger one?

Picnic lunch of PB&J, string cheese, banana, and Cheetos (mostly Cheetos though)

My "Little Miss" loves to be outside!

(I had a picture of myself on here at first and then I deleted it....my face looks so dang fat, I feel like a whale! And I'm guessing that if my face looks fat, probably the rest of me does too :P Oh well, its worth it.)

Malea

Here is another update of all the cute and funny things Malea is saying and doing (this may be long and boring for anyone who isn't her mother and its mostly for me to remember, but there are some pretty cute things you might enjoy reading)

-Lately she has been calling the baby Mommy's "tummy baby." She brings up the "tummy baby" at least once a day

-Loves swimming, she asks to go swimming all the time

-Got a free tricycle and wants so badly to ride it, but she hasn't quite figured out how to steer and peddle

-She likes to tell stories about things that have happened. Like a month ago she had a cough and was coughing so hard she threw up in her bed. She is still talking about how she "threw up on sheets."

-Needs a "daid" (bandaid) on EVERY owee, even if its a tiny scratch. She talks about everyone's owee's, like daddy's eye owee (pink eye) and how he needs "medicine" to "make it all better", or how my mom had to get stitches on her hand a month or so ago, and grandma's "owee on her hand." Maybe she will grow up to be a nurse :)

-Squats and waddles around whenever she toots, saying "I tooted," and laughing (we are trying to get this one on video but so far to no avail....this will be great blackmail one day)

-Will say how she wants to "go for a ride" in the car, usually means she just wants to get out of the house and do something, specifies her "pink seat" for daddy's car and her "black seat" for mommy's car

-Likes to be a helper, and has from a young age....you can't do a load of laundry without her wanting to pull up a chair to the washer and get up to put the clothes in, you can't do dishes without her pulling up a chair to the sink and "helping" with the dishes (she even has her own scrubber), you can't vacuum without her wanting to roll up the cord after (she is kind of scared of the vacuum so she will sit on the couch while I do it but will get down as soon as I'm done to roll up the cord and help me put it in the closet)

-She loves the new kitchen she got for her birthday. My mom made her the cutest little apron with hot pads, and she will pretend to cook for us.

-She loves to play outside on the toys. If we drive by a playground she wants so badly to get out and play.

-She is doing so good with the toddler bed, but frequently falls out while she is asleep (she is a wild woman when she sleeps). We have gone in and found her on the floor at the foot of her bed fast asleep. We have also found her half on the bed, half off fast asleep.

-She is so cute in the morning. Lately when she wakes up she will stay in her bed for another 15 minutes to half hour just talking to herself or reading books (there is a basket of books right next to her bed). I LOVE this, because we get a little bit of extra sleep. The other day I walked in to get her in the morning and all I saw was her standing up on her bed looking out the window (you could only see half of her body because the top half was behind the curtain). It was so cute.

-She has had days lately where she only wants daddy. If she needs her nose wiped, she says "daddy do it"....if she needs a new diaper, she says "daddy do it" (I LOVE this lol), if she needs to be pushed in the swing, "daddy do it". I think she is aware that mommy is extra tired with the "tummy baby", plus Keith is out of school and home more now.

-2 has been a fun age. We still get the tantrums but since she has started talking so well she doesn't get as frustrated (nor do I). She is saying and doing the cutest things, and is learning new things every day.

-She knows all her colors, and lots of animal noises. We are working on the ABC's and counting. She knows a lot of the numbers in order but will leave some of them out lol

-She loves going to nursery. If she sees a church when we are driving she will say "Look! Church!" I think she associates church with nursery, so going to church is fun for her. (When we move our new ward is at 9am, which I am excited about because it won't interfere with her nap! Yay!)

-Every time we are on the computer Malea wants to watch "kitties"....that means cat videos on youtube. We just type in "cats funny" or something like that and she will watch videos about cats

-We took Malea bowling the other day, and she absolutely loved it. The place we went only charged like $2-something for just her to bowl and they had this little dinosaur stand that kids can use to put the ball on. She would bounce up and down every time she did it, it was so cute

There are a million other things she does that I just love but this post is already getting pretty long!

I love my "little miss" Malea!!!

Tumbling Tots

Malea has been going to a tumbling tots class twice a week through Provo city. She has so much fun and its a great way to get her wiggles out. She is the youngest in the class, so she tends to have a harder time following directions and staying on task than the other kids. She likes to do her own thing most of the time :) She loves going and always talks about when she gets to go to her "class" again.

She has learned how to swing on the bar, do somersaults and barrel-rolls on the pads, walk on the balance beam, and some other fun things. The teacher is so great (and patient) and makes it really fun for the kids. I think Malea will be sad when it ends in a couple of weeks.