Draper Temple Openhouse

On Saturday we got to go to the Draper Temple Open house. It really is a pretty temple. My favorite part of it was the sealing room that has a whole wall of stained glass. Ada liked the "cows" at the baptistry and the chandelier in the Celestial room. It is amazing to me that when you enter a temple you can feel it's calming influence even from the front desk. You can feel that it's a place apart. This one hasn't been dedicated yet, and I didn't feel that feeling... I was appreciating architecture and design, not the spirit. It was a reinforcement to me at the importance of temples and the reason for them. We don't want a beautiful building to walk through and admire, we want a sacred place to make and remember covenants with our Heavenly Father.

Ward Roadshow

So we were in the ward roadshow on Saturday. It was fun to be a part of, but we haven't done roadshows in our area for so long that I think a lot of people forget what they are about. All four skits were just too serious. Ours was fun because everyone dressed up like a tool from your garage. My friend was a broom, Jer was a level, etc... I played the piano for their song and helped with the opening act. What the weirdest thing was though... we all felt just fine during the show, but when we woke up the next morning, all three of us had bad colds. I hope we didn't just get everyone else sick.

It's a baby!

We just had our newest ultrasound... the baby actually cooperated, isn't that neat? Well... it's a boy! Now we just need Becca's to be a boy, then we're all set!

Productive Day

So... I actually feel productive today (note: I said productive, not happy... I am content though). I babysat a friends' baby, finished my outstanding mightyauthors work, almost completed our taxes, got our finances up to date, started the laundry, played with Ada, got all the mail out to the mailbox on time, did the dishes, taught a piano lesson, answered emails, and I actually made dinner before Jer got home. I admit... that's just a regular day for most people. Maybe it's because I got two hours less sleep than I usually do, so everything just seems like that much more effort. Ironic.

So I'm lazy

So I'm lazy and haven't done a post for a while... I wanted to write down a couple of things before I forgot them though...

First is, over Christmas Jeremy's brother John and their family came out. They have two daughters that Ada's about the right age to play with. It was really funny though how she kind of avoided the one and followed the other. One day she was following Rachel and offered her a pretzel. Rachel just looked at her for a second, shook her head and then kept playing her game. Ada shrugged her shoulders, walked over to me, showed me the pretzel, pointed at Rachel and then shook her head. I couldn't help laughing! She was actually trying to tell me what had happened!

Second is all the fun about this next baby! Our first ultrasound was done before we could tell whether it was a girl or a boy, but the doctor said... "It's so wiggly! I think it might be a boy." Then my mom did an ultrasound on their dinosaur age machine. She said, "It's really hard to tell using this machine, but I think it's a girl." She called me again a couple days later and wanted to try out their new machine. This time the picture was clear and sharp. You could see all the little individual bones on that cute baby... but the baby wanted us only to see its head. No matter where she looked from, the baby had turned so it's head was in the way. At least we know it might be a girl or it might be a boy. What more could we ask?

Third is that I am so proud of my hard working hubby. He's so dedicated to his projects at work and at church, and now he's started training for the marathon that he'll be running in May. But yet he still finds time to spend time with me and to put Ada to bed with a kiss. It's not easy being busy... and he's doing a marvelous job at it even if he feels like he's not.

SeungMo

Well, our Korean visitor left for home today... he's in for a very long flight. He was so pleasant to have stay with us. He became part of our family very quickly. Ada loved him.

I have a story about that actually... Jer was in the office working while I was off running errands. Ada was sitting in the office doorway watching Seung Mo go from his bedroom to the bathroom and back several times. After watching him for a while, when he closed a door she would walk up to it and start knocking till he opened the door. Then he'd go to the other room and close the door and she'd start knocking on that one till he opened the door.

For her birthday he gave her pink legos... and if he came home while I was making dinner and Ada was throwing a tantrum, he'd get down on the floor and play with her until I was done.

He's a good guy and I wish him the best!

Yay!

So I have a million things that I want to catch up on with my blog posts, but I only have a minute before my piano students start showing up for the afternoon... so, the most exciting thing that I want to write about is my ultrasound. No we don't know what the baby is yet, but seeing the baby and watching how it's ultrasound is so different from Adas' just brings everything just a little closer to home for me. I'm having another baby. It's going to be totally different than Ada, but watching it's arms move around and watching the baby grab its toes made me love it all that much more. I guess we have a lot of challenges ahead with a new baby but, I'm excited!

I love talking babies...

Ada is at that stage where the whole talking thing is really cute! Extremely cute actually... And she says new words all the time that I had no idea that she even understood. My favorite is that she has started walking up to the pantry, pointing and WHISPERING!!!! "Cracker please". I think my favorite words are the ones that she whispers... I think she does it because those are the words that I try to get her to say instead of throwing a tantrum... so I try to say them nicely and maybe even quietly! It's hillarious!

Another thing that recently happened, we were watching Kung Fu Panda and in the trailers is one for the Madagascar 2 movie... Ada will watch a little bit of movies but usually gets distracted before to long... but not with this trailer! She was so excited about it that she even started giggling... I've never even seen the first one, but maybe I should if it's something that Ada would enjoy.

Hurry! Grab the Camera!

So I don't know if anybody read about when Ada and her friend Lizzy hijacked the graham cracker box... but we had those same friends over tonight to play games... so Ada and Lizzy were playing again. When we finished our game... we all looked over and saw that they had completely emptied four boxes of Capri Suns onto the floor and had detached all of the straws from the pouches... luckily they hadn't tried stepping on any of them or anything... but we just had to get a picture... it was too funny.

Cutest Cousins

We're watching our neice Grace for a couple of hours, and she is so cute! I love the way that she and Ada smile at each other and laugh. I had Grace in the high chair, and she had some finger foods that she was munching... When she saw Ada, she held one out for her... Ada sure was trying to getting from her and was giggling the whole time. They finally both gave up and Grace literally gave a little shrug and kept eating.

Girly girl

I think Ada's turning girly on me... I went to get her dressed the other day and when I opened her closet she saw the dresses and said "Pretty!" So I picked one out and got her dressed in it... later when she saw herself in the mirror she giggled and said, "Pretty!"