This is what I look like?

This is Shelly's interpretation of 'mommy' today. That random line under my arms is when I got hurt and Shelly got me a band-aid. [I have no idea when that happened - it's just the story she told me]. Those extra lines toward the bottom are my legs that her nice monster fixed for me. The scribble across the top is my hair (should I be offended?), and the Princess Lea look is apparently my cheeks... At least I have a body!! That's improvement! No more arms and legs coming out of the head. And she even left out my belly! At least someone thinks I'm skinny! :)

Playing Around

Some random adventures from the last month or so.

Jason's B-day presents! He got some fun clothes and this add-on GeoTrax train set. He and Shelly love playing with it!
Shelly and Jason climbing a rock wall at the park. Notice that Shelly is barefoot and Jason has shoes on. Want to guess who takes after which parent?
The singles ward that my dad is the bishop of played soccer one night for FHE. Jason kept running on the field. Mark decided to let him play. Can you tell Mark is holding Jason while he's going for the ball? No? Me neither.
That's better, but less impressive since there's no ball...
Mark had gotten the big flour bucket out of the garage so we could re-fill the one in the house. Jason has this love of eating plain flour. I don't get it, personally. Mark didn't get the bucket all the way back out to the garage, and Jason decided it would be fun to have a snack. He figured out how to unscrew the lid and then proceeded to dig in at will. Thankfully we caught him fairly early on in the 'digging in' cycle.
I'm not sure why one chair isn't good enough for them. Oreo looks a bit confused too.

Shelly has this fun game she plays where she wants to be a 'jack-in-the-box' and 'go pop'. We (mostly Mark so far) hums Pop Goes the Weasel and at some random part Shelly will jump up and say 'Pop!!' If for whatever reason you don't do the arm motion of turning the handle, the game much stop until arm motion commences. She's done it a couple of times inside this box, and I was hoping this was a time we had caught it one tape, but it wasn't (and apparently we haven't caught it on tape yet) but they still love to play in the box! Shelly heard me watching this earlier today and within 5 minutes had pulled out the train box [that's what we keep in it] emptied the train tracks and was hiding in the box and wanting me to shut the lid her her. Jason decided something fun was happening and promptly started playing with the train set that Shelly had dumped out.

Jason is quite the mimic. He watches Doug mowing the lawn and wants to be like him. Doug will mow the lawn wearing Mom's shoes (crocs) and we got some crocs for the kids to wear. We call them Grammy Shoes. Jason will only wear them when he's playing with his lawn mower on the grass, and he'll only play with the lawn mower if he has his shoes on. I was trying to get video of him imitating Doug, but it didn't quite work out that way. The first thing he sees is some dog poop. I have no idea what he's looking at after that (or why he chose such a strange way to 'sneak up' on it...)

Ultrasound Pics

So, there's only 2 weeks left (It will be closer to 3 or 4 knowing my luck) but I finally got around to scanning in the 2 dozen ultrasound pictures I've been collecting with all the exams I've been to. They finally stopped giving me some at my NSTs!! Those ones were super hard to make out. I do have another official ultrasound on Friday to see how big the baby is and if they want to induce me. Can you believe that at 38 weeks pregnant (out of 40 weeks, or 8 1/2 out of 9 months for those who count in months) they want me to have a full bladder for the ultrasound?!! I've had about 5 different ultrasounds with my previous pregnancies (changing doctors, moving, etc...) and this is the only one who's wanted me to have a full bladder later than 16 weeks along! I'm pretty sure the baby isn't going to be hiding too far down in my pelvis to be unseeable for an ultrasound... If it is then we have more serious problems than a slightly annoyed radiologist. :)

Profile of the head/face. This and the next few were back in Feb...
Freaky alien baby!!
I can't help but think of Bugs Bunny dressed up as a girl and trying to get the attention of some male with this one... I laugh!! [it's a leg, btw]
Whole body shot. Those are hard to get now! Da bebe is too big.
Footsie!
This one is a bit more recent - April (the date is on the top right in case you're curious).
Hand and fist [wait, those are kinda the same thing huh - I meant arm and fist]
Profile of face (again) see how much it's grown!? [just kidding - I can barely tell it's human let alone anything else]
Ok, I have no idea what this is.... If I look at it sideways it almost looks like there an eye and a mouth in there. This is from the ones the NST gave me - and this was the most identifyable one there... Good luck! If anyone knows more than I do, please feel free to correct me.

Google Party!

Katie is a better picture taker than I am. Here's some of her photos from the Google Party at the Dunes in the Back Bay.

Shelly enjoying the bouncy house
and the slide attached to the bouncy house!
Mark and Doug took Shelly and Jason out on one of the paddle boats they had for us to play with
Dad, Mom, Katie and I got a 4 man one and joined them
We caught up with them and let the kids come over for a bit.
Jason is just pretending to have fun. Shelly seems like she's having a blast!
Shelly ended up staying.
I didn't have what it took to make sure Jason didn't drown, so Mark and Doug took him back for me.
Shelly sat in-between Katie and I in the front
Then she had fun getting her face painted!
Pretty flower! And I hear she even sat still for it! [you got that right, I didn't go with her - someone else did that for me!]
Toward the end, Jason finally noticed that there was music playing and wanted to dance. Why this raising the leg in the air slowly and then slamming it down is called 'dancing' I'm sure I'll never know, but it sure was hilarious to watch!
Shelly wanted to join in the fun
I think she took the 'slamming' part a bit too literally.
Jason was terrified of the noise the air compressor made and wouldn't get in the bouncy house - until he realized it was the only way to get to the top of the slide! Then we couldn't get him out!
Of course, by 'we' I mean everyone else. Mark and I abandoned the kids to get some 'exercise'
Jason decided he was thirsty and cause he's a smart cookie, learned by watching others where the drinks were and how to get them.
Grammy is also a smart cookie and realized that Jason would make a mess!
Sabrina also qualifies in the 'smart cookie' dept. I think she also qualifies in the 'poor Jason, I should help him!' dept too! I think she's a keeper! Good job Matt!

Doug Graduated!

It's official! Doug is done with High School!!
So, we went and sat through the excitement that is a graduation [if you don't hear the droll sarcasm in my voice just imagine it. Cause it's there. Believe me]. The kids did mostly ok. There were a few moments when we would have liked to contemplate murder, but over-all they did about as well as the rest of us. I'm sure the group in front of us would have appreciated having their backs jabbed a few less times, but they never said anything. The best part where the pictures afterwards.

The kids congratulating Uncle Doug! They sure were excited for him (or to no longer be stuck in the bleachers - one of the two)
Jason found a hat with a tassel on the ground. It even pretended to fit him!
How cute!!
Shelly didn't want to be left out without a 'hat'
Here we all are. I love that we ended up without either of the kids! Family is great!!
Doug picked In-N-Out for dinner. Jason picked Matt and Sabrina's sunglasses for eye wear. It all worked out.
There are several things here to notice - notice that Katie is only pretending to be excited! Jason has been attached to her since she got here! Notice I look drunk [don't really, it's not that exciting]. Notice that Mark is holding Shelly and her head doesn't quite look right... She fell asleep about 20 feet before we parked the car and stayed asleep in Mark's arms the whole time we were there.

Katie Visits

Katie came down to D-land for her birthday and decided that maybe we didn't have the plague and she'd be willing to stay with us for a while after her b-day adventures. Too bad for her we really did have the plague (or at least a cold/cough that never dies!) and she ended up getting sick!! [insert evil, creepy chuckle]

Jason quickly decided that Katie was more fun than I was. I don't blame him. All I do lately is sit on the couch and occasionally remember that they need to eat. So, at some point during her fun trip here (fun for me at least, I don't know if Katie would think so) Jason wanted to play with the train set and he asked Katie for 'el' [without signs - 'help' with signs]. Katie was busy doing something so I got down on the floor with him and opened the bucket for him and was about to start helping him get started [he can set it up himself, but it's easier if all the pieces are out of the bucket] when he screamed at me and yelled 'NNOO' [one of the few words he has that a stranger could understand!] and put the lid back on, locked it shut, screamed at me again and took the bucket over to Katie. I tried hard not to laugh! Fortunately Katie was in a better state than I and disciplined him appropriatly for screaming in the house [Katie is an awesome discipliner, btw].

Another time, at a Google Party with Dad's work [we went to the back bay and had overall fun] Mark and I were sitting at a picnic table and Jason was about 5-10 feet away from us, somehow got hurt, looked at us for a few seconds, then went running across the patio area to where Katie was dishing food so she could comfort him. I felt bad for Katie, I really did - but not bad enough to stop him. It was either her or me, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't feeling that bad!

More from the Sleeping Files

This is the adventure we get to enjoy more often that we'd really like (but we know we'll miss it when it's gone). *Disclaimer: This room was clean earlier that morning. That doesn't always happen, but it was true that morning - of course, this is probably the reason why it doesn't happen often. It only lasted a few hours!

To the untrained eye, this is a pig sty!! Blankets and stuffed animals everywhere! The trained eye will see past all that and notice that Shelly is wearing about 5 different dresses topped off by a shirt that was in Jason's too small pile. (it's long sleeved on Jason, and barely to the elbow on Shelly)
*Note: She was not wearing any of those when we put her to bed.
Here's the room in all it's glory! It's often that we have to play Where's Waldo when we check on them before we go to bed. Can you spot the two kids?
It was too funny to not take a picture of after she 'woke up.' You can tell she's not quite there yet - and you gotta love that hair... Anyone else suddenly picture Medusa for some strange reason?
This was adorable (and several weeks - and clean-up-the-room games - after the last few shots). Shelly pulled out her stuffed animals and tucked them into bed, blanket and all. This happened to be a night that Jason was sick and couldn't sleep because of his stuffed nose and cough, so Mark had to un-tuck the animals to snuggle with Jason in the chair (I had tried in the toddler bed sitting up so Jason could breathe, but my back started giving out on me, and Mark graciously took over without me even asking!)
Shelly's new favorite item is her backpack. She's slept with it at least 7 or 8 nights out of the last 10, and she's even gotten away with leaving it on while in her car seat (only twice - mostly we don't let her). She has her Book of Mormon that she got from Primary in there as well as what ever else tickles her fancy for the moment. It's both cute and a bit annoying! Can't she go anywhere without it!?
I'm not quite sure how he can stand up and sleep at the same time... I wouldn't be able to do it! It's the second time that I've seen him do it, and I missed the picture the 1st time by just a few seconds. The first was more impressive, but this is still quite funny!