Sooo, I have slacked on the blogging lately due to one very significant reason... I am now expecting our THIRD child! I am due Feb 26th and am on week 13 right now. I never thought I would say that at my age and seeing as I have only been married 3 years... lol. I did the math and according to my calculations, and if all goes as planned, when this baby is born I will have been pregnant for 27 of the 50 months we will have been married at that point. That is more than half of our marriage. And the other half has been spent desperately trying to get my high school body back. Which since I lost ten pounds of pre pregnancy weight after Alice and then got ten pounds off my wedding weight after Norah, I am pretty sure I will finally reach my goal after baby number 3 since I only had ten pounds to go when I found out I was pregnant. I just want to make it clear that I had never intended nor planned to have kids so soon after getting married or to have so many so close, but as long as we are praying and following the Lord's council on how our family will progress I guess nothing will according to my plan now will it? That has been a hard lesson to learn.
I started training for a 5k back in May right after my last post. I was running pretty consistently and successfully ran my first 5k on June 26th, unbeknownst to me the reason I felt like puking the whole time was because I was pregnant and hadn't eaten anything... lol. 9 days later I was scheduled to run the Freedom 10k, which I did, but with the knowledge I was pregnant, so I made sure to eat before hand and drink lots of water.. what a difference! Anyway, so with that under my belt I wanted to continue training for a half marathon in August, but I just couldn't surpass the training I had done to that point. So my goal is the American Fork Canyon half marathon next summer.
Spencer has been blessed with tons of experience at work, and has been going camping all summer since he is the Scoutmaster in our ward. He seems to have a great time and really enjoys camping. I am hoping we can go as a family, but losing out on one Saturday a month is already hard enough since our house still needs some tending to, but we should make at least one exception I suppose.
Alice is talking soooo much! She is very protective of Norah, and doesn't let anyone hurt her. Early on in the summer Spencer would tell her to focus when she would get distracted while eating or when we were trying to discipline her and she couldn't look at us or acknowledge that we were in her face trying to tell her why she was in time out or how to behave. Anyway, I made the comment that she wouldn't understand that phrase, "Focus, Alice." Not even a week later was I cooking and Alice was having fun eating the dried noodles while she waited for dinner. Well, I was unable to replenish her supply in a timely manner and she start patting me saying "Focus, Mommy, focus! More noodle!" I laughed so hard. She says it all the time now. That impatient little bug! She is saying funny things all the time, but my favorite is that she is getting helpful and not only destructive. She can count to 11 by herself and sing the ABC's, every week she comes home singing a new song from Nursery. From nursery she knows the Wise man and the Foolish man, I love to see the Temple, I am a child of God, Popcorn Popping, Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam, and there may be one or two more. I am teaching her nursery rhymes and more of the kid songs at home. I do sing the nursery ones with her too, but I want her to know all the songs that I grew up with!
Norah is walking! She tries to say some words, but Mama is the only one she ever actually says. She can say Alice, but it sounds more like Ice. She says Dada too, but not to often. But she started saying more and all done, but I didn't know that is what they were for a while. Sounds more like mo' and a'duh. lol. She learned how to get up from the floor instead of crawling to a wall or piece of furniture to get back up if she falls. Oh and in other news, she is a breath holder. By that I mean she can get so mad that she doesn't take a breath and then passes out. Although, I have usually been close to her any time she starts having a fit or gets hurt and I can blow in her face to get her to breathe, but yesterday she fell and I was clearing the table so I let her whine. To this point I didn't know she was capable of holding her breath for longer than normal. I am used to the whole turn purple because you get hurt and hold your breath but then take a deep breath and scream... You know, like when a child bumps their head in church and you root for the parent to win the race between them and the scream to the door... Anyway, so she turned purple took a slight breath but then continued to be purple until she went pasty white with blue toes, fingers, and lips and she fell forward still not breathing and then once her face hit the floor she started breathing... the second she started falling and turning white I started running. This was what I was waiting for. We suspected from the beginning that she would be the one to inherit Spencer's breath holding gene... And we were right. The last several days she has finally started showing significant amounts of emotion so I think this is why it didn't happen til now.
Anyway, when she passes out there is nothing we can do but let her body start breathing again. I hope she is the only child that has this problem. They say they will grow out of it, but it isn't easy to watch your child turn all white and blue and then pass out. I am just glad it didn't last for more than a second, but it seemed to take forever for her color to come back to her little body.
Well, that is all I have time for today! More updates to come! And pictures!
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