Tonight, Lainey said "Mommy, do you know why I love you?" I knew the answer, because she is always telling me... =P I said "'Cause I have a baby in my belly?" She said "Yep!" I said "So if I didn't have a baby in my belly, you wouldn't love me?" She said "Well, I still would. But I just love you MORE because you DO have a baby in your belly!" lol =)
The other day at the women's retreat, Donna told me that in Sunday School, she overheard this conversation between Lainey and Silas...
Lainey: I'm not going to marry you someday. I'm going to marry Titus.
Silas: But I'm braver and stronger! (he doesn't even know Titus, lol)
Lainey: Well, I'm still going to marry Titus.
Silas: But I AM stronger.
Lainey: You're a LITTLE stronger.
Hahaha!!
7.25.2011
7.19.2011
Wow, I Can Blog! =)
Hi! It has been forever since I've been able to blog, because my phone internet wouldn't load Blogger. But Harper bought me the full version of EasyTether this morning and now I can. =)
I have LISTS of cute Bekah things to blog, but I'll try to give sort of an update on the last couple of months.
First, I'm pregnant again. We found out on Father's Day. =) We had an ultrasound this last Friday and saw a little 8-week baby with a strong heartbeat. We are very excited! =) I'm due February 24th.
That second house we ended up not getting, either. Two walls were going to have to be braced in the basement, which entailed removing a very large patio and then replacing it afterward. And we didn't really want to wait for that, or be the ones finding out if it worked, or finding out what was going to happen with the front wall and front porch that was sinking, too. The patio in the back had sunk about 8" and crushed in the foundation. Bad stuff. Wish they had disclosed all of that so we wouldn't have had to pay for the inspection, but oh well.
We have a new contract on a house close to our old one. Closing was supposed to be tomorrow, but it is bank owned and the bank has been slow to communicate. We found out two weeks ago that the roof wasn't insurable and it took them 6 days to say they wanted proof of that from the insurance company before they would fix it. They got that the next day and it took them another 3 or 4 days to say they wanted something from the bank guaranteeing the loan. So the bank took a while because they wanted a bunch of paperwork that we have in storage (because they told us we didn't need it) and they had to go through a process to get that overridden. So yesterday they guaranteed it, and supposedly a new roof will be put on the house. The insurance company also said they need to replace light bulbs, fix the garage door, repair a small hole in some drywall, clean the chimney and furnace, and I don't even remember what else to make it insurable. Some of that was a little ridiculous. I think they are going to do it all, though, but we will be paying for it, and we will be paying "professionals" to do all of it. And we could have done it ourselves. That's annoying. And it needs a new water heater. I don't know how long all of that will take, but when it is done, we are ready to close. I hope it all happens quickly.
We went to a wedding on the 9th. Josh Wisner got married, and it was outdoors at a summer camp. Didn't know you could get anywhere that pretty only an hour and a half from Wichita. =) It was tons of fun. We played in the lake. Em says it wasn't "tons of fun" because Bekah almost passed out. That part was not fun. I had to take her out of the wedding because she was crying (which was unusual, but I didn't really realize something was actually wrong). By the time I got up the road, I saw that her eyes were rolling around and she was having a hard time keeping them open. She said "I can't see the sun" and also said that she saw red fireflies everywhere and they were scary. Poor girl was just dehydrated. I had left the water down at the wedding and couldn't take her back there screaming... It wasn't fun. But once she got some water, she felt better and we had a fun time. I did miss the whole wedding, but I was up the road at the car and saw the bride and groom leaving on a little tractor thing, kissin' the whole way. =) lol
Speaking of weddings, we're going to Texas in just under 4 weeks for Lauren Bourcier's wedding. We are so excited!!! I don't think there is any way this house stuff could take that long, but Harper tells me to not get so excited that I will be upset if we have to be here for closing or something. I don't see how that could happen and I am excited. =P I would say just wait to close, then! lol
Bekah is so big and so cute. Yesterday I chomped her arm fat to be funny and she gave me a look and said "That was not cool." lol She cracks me up. She LOVES going to the library and if we don't have something checked out, she will ask to go every day until we go back. She does NOT like to have to return things, especially Baby Einstein movies that we have been checking out.
Bekah calls anything scary an alligator. Harper turned on some video game music one day and she cried and said "there are alligators in that music!"
I love how Bekah says "ack-shwee" for "actually."
One day we went to High Park and the next day Bekah asked if we could go to "Tall Park" again. =) I guess the mental image of a high park is all that stuck. =) So cute!
Bekah says "reggie" for "regular" and talks about her "reggie friends" or her "reggie toys." I'm not sure exactly what she thinks it means, but I know it's supposed to be "regular." =P
We were at the zoo looking at the elephants and Bekah said "There are stripes on his boom boom thing!" LOL I had NO clue what she was talking about. I asked if she meant the wrinkles on his trunk and she said yes. Then a few seconds later she said "He goes boom boom thomp!" Haha! It's from one of those wiggly books - Waddle or Gallop, but I don't remember which. I wonder if the elephant moves his trunk in that picture - I will have to look when we get it out of storage.
When we went to (Josh's wife) Melissa's bridal shower, Em and Laine were at VBS, and Bek came with me. We rode with our neighbor so Harp could take the others to VBS. When we were getting ready to come home, Bekah said "What car should we take home?" as if we had our pick. =P Too cute!
Em bought Gobstoppers 2 months ago and Bek called them "gumsnappers." Toooo cute! =)
There was a storm one day and Bek came and said "There was a big thunderstorm and it was gonna about to say BOOM! It said BOOM!" That has morphed into "about to gonna" and she says it often. "I'm about to gonna slide!!" =P
I don't know why lobsters are sometimes "halobsters," but they are and we think it is so cute. I wonder if someone got a "whole lobster" when we went to Red Lobster in Colorado for Quin's birthday? She talks about Red Lobster all the time and wants to go there. She picked Red Lobster gift cards for Grandma's birthday. lol
When the girls were at VBS, Bekah told us "My Emmy and Lainey are at a PBS." =) I love how she calls them "her" Emmy and Lainey. =)
When it was our anniversary, I explained to the girls that it is celebrating a certain number of years from your wedding, like a birthday is celebrating a certain number of years from when you were born. Bekah said "Can I come with you? To your anni-birthday?" =)
At the bridal shower, toward the end, Bekah said "Where is the birthday?" I had told her we were going to a party, but I guess I didn't explain. =) She was sad that nobody was having a birthday. I think it was probably that there wasn't birthday cake. =P lol She also told random people "My mommy has a baby in her belly!" Before we had planned on telling anyone. Haha!
When I get Bekah out of the tub, I wrap her in a towel and pick her up and then we go look in the mirrors in the bathroom. There are two mirrors opposite each other, and she says "Where are all the Bekahs?" and "Where are all the Mommas?" And then she says "Let's switch!!" And we look in different mirrors and then switch which mirror we're looking at... over and over... =P It cracks her up!
Harper got a bean bag and Bekah called it his "jelly bag bean" and then his "jelly bean bag" and sometimes his "jelly bean bean." =P I think she just calls it the bean bag now, but it was still cute. =)
The girls have gotten used to Harper going to work, but they don't like it. Bekah says "You go to work a lot of days and a lot of days!" And one day Lainey said "It's like you live at work." He's not working crazy hours or anything - they are just used to having him home. =)
Well I am having morning sickness. =\ For a few days I thought it was pretty much done with and then I threw up 5 times last night. I mostly feel okay today, but I am afraid of throwing up again tonight. =\ It is worth it, though! But I'm starting to feel nasty, so I better go eat something before it gets serious. Later!
I have LISTS of cute Bekah things to blog, but I'll try to give sort of an update on the last couple of months.
First, I'm pregnant again. We found out on Father's Day. =) We had an ultrasound this last Friday and saw a little 8-week baby with a strong heartbeat. We are very excited! =) I'm due February 24th.
That second house we ended up not getting, either. Two walls were going to have to be braced in the basement, which entailed removing a very large patio and then replacing it afterward. And we didn't really want to wait for that, or be the ones finding out if it worked, or finding out what was going to happen with the front wall and front porch that was sinking, too. The patio in the back had sunk about 8" and crushed in the foundation. Bad stuff. Wish they had disclosed all of that so we wouldn't have had to pay for the inspection, but oh well.
We have a new contract on a house close to our old one. Closing was supposed to be tomorrow, but it is bank owned and the bank has been slow to communicate. We found out two weeks ago that the roof wasn't insurable and it took them 6 days to say they wanted proof of that from the insurance company before they would fix it. They got that the next day and it took them another 3 or 4 days to say they wanted something from the bank guaranteeing the loan. So the bank took a while because they wanted a bunch of paperwork that we have in storage (because they told us we didn't need it) and they had to go through a process to get that overridden. So yesterday they guaranteed it, and supposedly a new roof will be put on the house. The insurance company also said they need to replace light bulbs, fix the garage door, repair a small hole in some drywall, clean the chimney and furnace, and I don't even remember what else to make it insurable. Some of that was a little ridiculous. I think they are going to do it all, though, but we will be paying for it, and we will be paying "professionals" to do all of it. And we could have done it ourselves. That's annoying. And it needs a new water heater. I don't know how long all of that will take, but when it is done, we are ready to close. I hope it all happens quickly.
We went to a wedding on the 9th. Josh Wisner got married, and it was outdoors at a summer camp. Didn't know you could get anywhere that pretty only an hour and a half from Wichita. =) It was tons of fun. We played in the lake. Em says it wasn't "tons of fun" because Bekah almost passed out. That part was not fun. I had to take her out of the wedding because she was crying (which was unusual, but I didn't really realize something was actually wrong). By the time I got up the road, I saw that her eyes were rolling around and she was having a hard time keeping them open. She said "I can't see the sun" and also said that she saw red fireflies everywhere and they were scary. Poor girl was just dehydrated. I had left the water down at the wedding and couldn't take her back there screaming... It wasn't fun. But once she got some water, she felt better and we had a fun time. I did miss the whole wedding, but I was up the road at the car and saw the bride and groom leaving on a little tractor thing, kissin' the whole way. =) lol
Speaking of weddings, we're going to Texas in just under 4 weeks for Lauren Bourcier's wedding. We are so excited!!! I don't think there is any way this house stuff could take that long, but Harper tells me to not get so excited that I will be upset if we have to be here for closing or something. I don't see how that could happen and I am excited. =P I would say just wait to close, then! lol
Bekah is so big and so cute. Yesterday I chomped her arm fat to be funny and she gave me a look and said "That was not cool." lol She cracks me up. She LOVES going to the library and if we don't have something checked out, she will ask to go every day until we go back. She does NOT like to have to return things, especially Baby Einstein movies that we have been checking out.
Bekah calls anything scary an alligator. Harper turned on some video game music one day and she cried and said "there are alligators in that music!"
I love how Bekah says "ack-shwee" for "actually."
One day we went to High Park and the next day Bekah asked if we could go to "Tall Park" again. =) I guess the mental image of a high park is all that stuck. =) So cute!
Bekah says "reggie" for "regular" and talks about her "reggie friends" or her "reggie toys." I'm not sure exactly what she thinks it means, but I know it's supposed to be "regular." =P
We were at the zoo looking at the elephants and Bekah said "There are stripes on his boom boom thing!" LOL I had NO clue what she was talking about. I asked if she meant the wrinkles on his trunk and she said yes. Then a few seconds later she said "He goes boom boom thomp!" Haha! It's from one of those wiggly books - Waddle or Gallop, but I don't remember which. I wonder if the elephant moves his trunk in that picture - I will have to look when we get it out of storage.
When we went to (Josh's wife) Melissa's bridal shower, Em and Laine were at VBS, and Bek came with me. We rode with our neighbor so Harp could take the others to VBS. When we were getting ready to come home, Bekah said "What car should we take home?" as if we had our pick. =P Too cute!
Em bought Gobstoppers 2 months ago and Bek called them "gumsnappers." Toooo cute! =)
There was a storm one day and Bek came and said "There was a big thunderstorm and it was gonna about to say BOOM! It said BOOM!" That has morphed into "about to gonna" and she says it often. "I'm about to gonna slide!!" =P
I don't know why lobsters are sometimes "halobsters," but they are and we think it is so cute. I wonder if someone got a "whole lobster" when we went to Red Lobster in Colorado for Quin's birthday? She talks about Red Lobster all the time and wants to go there. She picked Red Lobster gift cards for Grandma's birthday. lol
When the girls were at VBS, Bekah told us "My Emmy and Lainey are at a PBS." =) I love how she calls them "her" Emmy and Lainey. =)
When it was our anniversary, I explained to the girls that it is celebrating a certain number of years from your wedding, like a birthday is celebrating a certain number of years from when you were born. Bekah said "Can I come with you? To your anni-birthday?" =)
At the bridal shower, toward the end, Bekah said "Where is the birthday?" I had told her we were going to a party, but I guess I didn't explain. =) She was sad that nobody was having a birthday. I think it was probably that there wasn't birthday cake. =P lol She also told random people "My mommy has a baby in her belly!" Before we had planned on telling anyone. Haha!
When I get Bekah out of the tub, I wrap her in a towel and pick her up and then we go look in the mirrors in the bathroom. There are two mirrors opposite each other, and she says "Where are all the Bekahs?" and "Where are all the Mommas?" And then she says "Let's switch!!" And we look in different mirrors and then switch which mirror we're looking at... over and over... =P It cracks her up!
Harper got a bean bag and Bekah called it his "jelly bag bean" and then his "jelly bean bag" and sometimes his "jelly bean bean." =P I think she just calls it the bean bag now, but it was still cute. =)
The girls have gotten used to Harper going to work, but they don't like it. Bekah says "You go to work a lot of days and a lot of days!" And one day Lainey said "It's like you live at work." He's not working crazy hours or anything - they are just used to having him home. =)
Well I am having morning sickness. =\ For a few days I thought it was pretty much done with and then I threw up 5 times last night. I mostly feel okay today, but I am afraid of throwing up again tonight. =\ It is worth it, though! But I'm starting to feel nasty, so I better go eat something before it gets serious. Later!
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