Off we go....

Have you noticed the baby ticker? It's almost time to have a baby! The ticker is actually counting down to my original due date, so it is off by a day or two, but you get the idea. We have decided to leave for salt lake city a little early, just in case of an early delivery, so tomorrow afternoon (hopefully) we will be on our way. I should really be packing right now, and cleaning, and everything else on my 4 page list of things to do, but there is so much to do that I don't know where to start. I've never had to pack for such a long trip before, and its getting a little overwhelming. I've procrastinated this long, whats a few more minutes!

Also, I came across these pictures that Van took of Dexter and Corbin in August (scott just barely put the pics on my computer even though Van gave them to him when we were in Salt Lake in September). I thought I would post a few of them, just because they are so stinkin' cute! I hadn't even seen the pictures yet, and they are adorable, I really need a better Camera, Van's super nice camera makes my pics look like crap! Thanks for the awesome pics van, I love them.
Corbin and Dex playing together
More proof of Dexter's belly button obsession
More Corbin and Dex having fun
Corbin checking out the view in twin falls
I think he could be a baby model sometimes, look at that adorable face!
Scott playing with the boys, so cute.

Spider in the kitchen!

Okay, so most people who know me know that I have a HUGE fear of spiders. It's completely irrational, and sometimes gets to the point where I think I might need counceling to snap out of it. Anyway, I dread spotting spiders in the house when Scott is at work, because I am not fully capable of killing them myself. I tend to cry and flip out and lock myself and the kids in another room, or just leave the house all together for the entire day til Scott gets home. Anyway, now that you have the back story, here is what happened.

Yesterday, while I was reading blogs oddly enough, I spotted a spider on the kitchen ceiling. This was no little spider, it was probably the size of a nickle, and he was fast, running from place to place. The worst part was he was twitchy, like a jumping spider. I immediately panicked and told the kids to stay out of the kitchen, and tried to figure out what to do. I texted Scott to come home and kill it for me (crazy right!) and he politely declined and told me to just spray it with some raid (he's so patient with my craziness). I told him I couldn't cause it was on the ceiling and would fall or jump on me. I considered packing the kids in the car and taking off, but I had my visiting teachers coming in like an hour and I couldn't just ditch them. So instead I sat on the couch and watched him crawl all over for about 45 minutes. I couldn't take my eyes off of him for fear of him coming to get me. Anyway he finally moved from the ceiling to the wall and I built up all my courage and took advantage of the situation. I grabbed the raid, stood on a chair (as far away from him as possible) and sprayed the crap out of him. (p.s. I know raid is not the best thing for a prego to be using, but I didn't breath it in!) Happily, the spider did breath it in and died! I killed it all by myself without crying!

The story doesn't end there. I was trying to explain to Scott what the spider looked like, so we looked for a picture of it online (pictured above). By-the-way it was a jumping spider, the worst kind! But while we were looking for the picture we came across......

This creepy little guy, it is the grossest spider ever. It actually gave me a nightmare and I had a hard time sleeping. The ones in my nightmare were about the size of a baseball, and I don't think the real ones are anywhere near that big, but those eyes just freaked me out! You probably thought I was exaggerating about the fear being huge, you have no idea!

Crazy sunday!

Have you ever had one of those days that just doesn't go the way it is supposed to? Today was one of those days.
It actually started Friday with our ward halloween party. We dressed the boys up for the party so they could participate in the costume contest, and trunk or treating. Anyway, to make a long story short, they got some gum from somebody during trunk or treating. Corbin ate the gum in the car at some point on saturday, and it ended up in his hair. It was pretty well spread throughout his hair, and we knew we would have to cut it out. So since he had already had his bath on saturday we decided to cut it out today before church, which isn't until 12:30, so we had plenty of time.
So this morning after breakfast, we took him up to cut the gum out and buzz the rest of his hair (so it wouldn't be so obvious). We bribed him with hot chocolate to get it done without tears, and he agreed. Well anyway, Corbin proceeded to completely flip out! He cried and screamed and wiggled, he kept yelling, "you're hurting me!". It was so frustrating and took so much longer than it should have. Finally, we were able to somehow finish (although it looks a little silly) and throw him in the bath. By the time we got the boys bathed and dressed, and us bathed and dressed etc. we had about ten minutes before we had to leave for church.
On a side note, finding clothes for Corbin is always frustrating because he only has one pair of church pants that fit right now(sort of), but luckily they were clean, just a little short. I also had to keep a special eye on him while he drank his bribery hot chocolate (which he didn't really deserve) to make sure he didn't spill on his clean clothes. He tried to go outside at one point as well and play in the dirt, but I was able to thwart those plans before he got dirty.
Anyway, after all that and everyone was ready to go, I was about to go get the diaper bag ready when Scott and I realized that Corbin was in the bathroom with the door locked (never a good sign). We yelled in for him to let us in and he said he was going poop. We knew what that meant, he had pooped in his pants and was trying to hide the evidence. After about 5 minutes scott convinced him to open the door, and made the disgusting discovery that he not only pooped in his pants, but peed in them too! His only church pants! Now what?! Scott cleaned him up and we searched for something else for him to wear, that wasn't completely rediculous, but came up empty handed. By this time we were extremely late, and I gave up, no church for us today.
Just last week in relief society we talked about how President Joseph Smith was tarred and feathered, and still went to church the next morning. I feel like the worst mormon ever!

"new" couches!

Russell and Collette got some new couches, so they gave us their old ones. We are so excited to have some furniture in our front room, which has remained empty for four months. Thanks Russell and Collette, you guys rock!
Here is Dex sitting on the smaller of the two couches, he is poking his belly button with his sippy cup. That's right I don't exaggerate these things, he puts everything in there.

Snow!!

Earlier this week it was warm, the boys and I played outside wearing shorts, t-shirts and sandals. The sprinkler system was still on, the windows still open etc. We weren't expecting winter and were totally unprepared for any snow to fall. About 2 days ago it actually started to get quite chilly at night, so Scott made me close the windows, and he turned off the sprinkler system yesterday morning before he went to work. Well last night at about 5:00 it started snowing! I couldn't believe it, early october and already snowing! Everyone told us when we were thinking of moving here that it hardly ever snows in boise, and when it does it melts by the end of the day. They must have been stretching the truth to get us to move here! Anyway, here are the pictures for those of you who like snow (Britteny), I am not a fan.
the beginning...
a little worse....
and worse....
Oh man.....
Gettin' crazy......
And finishing up......

Stupid snow! At least it melted by this afternoon. What happened to fall, I hate winter!

Update on the two cutest boys in the world

I just thought I'd do a little update on my sweet little boys, I feel like I haven't written about them in a while, so here you go.

Dexter

Dexter is just about the funniest kid on the planet, he will do anything to make us laugh. He loves to dance, and sing, and just be silly in general. He doesn't say much, but he is running and playing and jumping like any other boy. He scares me since he isn't afraid of anything and is constantly testing the limits. It's wierd how different he is from Corbin. Corbin is really quiet, shy and calm, whereas Dex is crazy and warms up to people a lot faster than corbin. Dex loves to play outside, get dirty and is just starting to take his clothes off all the time.

Dexter was born with a herniated(sp?) bellybutton and he is obsessed with it. He is constantly poking it in and not just with his finger. Anything he can find that will poke he uses to poke in his bellybutton. The list includes, shoes, toys, popsicle sticks, pens, my finger and just last night while I was lying with my feet up on the couch, he poked it with my big toe. It totally grosses me out, but it is so cute. I tried to find a good pic of his bellybutton, this is the best I could do.

Dexter is a huge teaser. He picks on his big brother constantly. I love watching them play together (until Dex goes too far and makes Corbin cry), Corbin thinks he is so funny. Dex will push corbin to the floor sit and jump on him, and Corbin just laughs. He does the same things to me and daddy, but its funniest when he does it to his "Big Brother". He always wins when they wrestle, and he is always the one to initiate rough housing. It's so fun to have two boys who are so completely different from one another. Corbin is our quiet genious, and Dex is our tough little comedian.

Corbin

Corbin is such a sweet boy. He is so helpful with everything, sometimes a little too helpful. He always wants to do everything for me. Everytime I ask him to get me something or help me out with Dex, he is more than willing to do it. I love it, since it is so hard for me to get out of our couch sometimes, I feel like it swallows me when I sit on it.

Corbin recently started preschool. I actually teach him at home because we can't afford to pay someone else to do it, and the joyschools in our ward and neighborhood wouldn't let him in because he is too young(by 2 months!). Anyway, it is going pretty well, we rotate between 2 and 3 times a week for about 2 hours each time. He really looks forward to the days we are having it, he spends the whole day telling me that Dexter is tired and needs to nap so we can have preschool. We have been working on practicing writing his letters in a straight line and in proportion to each other, and since he already knows all his letters and sounds we are working on learning to read. He amazes me with how fast he is picking it up. We use the "BOB books" that Grandma Marde gave us, and he is really enjoying it. We are also learning to count to 20, he has 1 - 13 down, but gets confused after that, he is learning to write the numbers also. We've done some fun art projects that he hangs on the fridge, and play outside to get the wiggles out too. I don't really know what I am doing, or if what I am teaching him is what he would learn at a real preschool, so if anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Corbin says the funniest things sometimes. I don't know where he hears some of the words he says, or how he knows what they mean. He picks up on the little phrases Scott and I say also, and it is so cute to hear him say them to himself while he is playing. He will pretend to talk on the phone to the doctor or grandma or Dallin and Bowen, and say, "Dexy is playing outside, are you kidding me!" it is so funny to listen to him when he doesn't know we are listening. We love Corbin he is so amazing and funny and smart.

Looking at the positives (world's longest post)

Despite the bad day we experienced Tuesday in SLC, Scott, the kids, and I actually had a lot of fun before then.
First off, on Saturday we attended a triple couple baby shower with our friends. I love having people to be prego with, and so far haven't had to go it alone for any of my pregnancies. Lisa and Brad were kind enough to throw the shower at their house (which is awesome by the way)and it was so fun to see everyone. We adore our friends and are sad to not get to see them as much as we used to.
Dawn, Katie, Rochelle
Comparing our progress




Husbands comparing their progress
Ty, Van, and Scott


Sunday, we spent much of the day with my family, unfortunately I forgot the camera. I hadn't seen my parents since last December, or anyone else in about 6 months. It was so fun to get to spend time with everyone (except Ted and Pat, we missed you guys). Mom, you look fantastic by-the-way. It's strange not to get to see everybody very much since we have always been so close. Everybody's kids looked huge, especially Braxton, Shayne, and Andrew! Who gave them permission to grow up?!

Monday we got the kids up nice and early and headed to the zoo. We saw all the animals we could stand, and the boys really loved it. Corbin's favorite part was the zebra's. I don't why, but for some reason he had been looking forward to the zebras for days.Dex plugging his ears in the giraffe exhibit, there were some other kids screaming in there.

Also on Monday we spent time with Scott's parents and were able to see our old house in Kearns. It was so fun to see the house, we have such fond memories of that place. Corbin actually remembered it (after a while) and wanted to move back in. Since we moved Ross (Scott's dad) had put in a sprinkler system in the backyard and really cleaned it up, he had just installed fresh new sod a few weeks earlier and it looked amazing. It made me kinda sad that it didn't look like that when we lived there.
Later that day Marde (scott's mom) made us yummy lasagna for dinner, Yummy! And of course we spent time just talking and watching babies delivered on discovery health. She offered to babysit the kiddo's so we could see our friends one more time, so we took advantage and went to the Belgium Waffle (even though I banned it last time we went there). We finally got to see Phil and meet his fiance' Nichole, Van also came, as well as Brad and Lisa. We talked and laughed and had such a good time. I think there were at least 3 different times that someone was laughing so hard they cried. As much as I despise "the belg" I have to admit it probably wouldn't have been so much fun if the food, service and pretty much everything else about it didn't suck so bad!

Anyway, so I just wanted to thank everybody that gave us a reason to smile over the weekend and make it possible for us to look back with fond memories instead of just the negative ones. We already miss everyone and look forward to seeing you again in about a month or so.

P.s. Our induction date has been moved from the end of October to November 7-I guess the doctors thought october was too early even though I already had to suffer through the steriod shots in my butt to help the baby's lungs fully develop! It's okay, November is a good month and this way I don't have to cancel our Halloween traditions.

I don't know what to say

Yesterday Scott and I had our appointments with the doctors in Salt Lake City, and it did not go as well as we had hoped. The baby likely has a condition called heterotaxy which not only effects the heart but several organs such as liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs and intestines. We don't know the severity of the damage, and cannot know until after delivery. I can't really talk about it right now, because I am having a hard time not being overcome with sadness in front of my boys. Our induction is scheduled for either Oct 30 or 31. I may or may not update in a few days after things have sunk in.

I don't know what to say....

Yesterday Scott and I had our appointments with the doctors in Salt Lake City, and it did not go as well as we had hoped. The baby likely has a condition called heterotaxy which not only effects the heart but several organs such as liver, spleen, kidneys, lungs and intestines. We don't know the severity of the damage, and cannot know until after delivery. I can't really talk about it right now, because I am having a hard time not being overcome with sadness in front of my boys. Our induction is scheduled for either Oct 30 or 31. I may or may not update in a few days after things have sunk in.