24 Weeks

This month was another great month. I have felt good and have enjoyed being out and about with Olivia each day. I am trying to get in as much as I can before I get too big and uncomfortable. I know it is way too early for it to happen, but I don't enjoy sleeping on my side.

I have a couple pairs of pants and shorts that I can still wear, but I also have been wearing some maternity shorts. I am not a lover of the band around my belly so I prefer to wear my normal clothes. Most of my shirts are maternity, because I don't want to wear an under shirt under my normal clothes. It is too hot for layers!

Food is pretty much my enemy or best friend. I have also decided to not eat treats for the next couple of months. I wasn't feeling good from having a lot of sugar and carbs back in my diet. I will have a treat on special occasions, but usually I find I feel gross the next day so I am trying to stay away.

With Olivia I already had 2 quilts made by this point, and with this baby I have considered going to the store to get material. But that is as far as it has gotten. I am sure it has something to do with having another child to take to the store with me. Maybe I need a few more weeks to jump into some sort of nesting.

Big Girl Potty

{This post is total potty talk and has potty pictures. Read on if you would like.}

On Tuesday I stopped at the store to grab a booster seat for my Mom's house. While I was there I browsed the potties and picked one up. My main goal was to have it out and get Olivia prepared to use it in a few months. That day it sat in the living room and Olivia couldn't stop playing with it.

I put it in the bathroom that night and the next morning when I was getting her ready for her bath I sat her on it. When she got out of the bath, we were leaving the bathroom and she kept saying potty. I unwrapped her from her towel and sat her down. I only let her sit there for a minute because she started shivering from being wet. I wrapped her back in her towel and took her to get dressed. Later when I went to clean up the bath toys, I found there was pee in the toilet. I was so surprised and excited. I gave her a treat and we celebrated, even though it was probably 15 minutes after the fact.

Totally blurry, but a pretty cute potty picture. 

The next morning (Thursday) she woke up dry and I put her on the potty, she instantly peed. But during the day I'd ask her if she needed to go at all and put her on the potty periodically but she wasn't interested at all, and I'd just be chasing a naked baby around the house.

Friday morning she woke up wet, but I still put her on the potty, and she peed a little. But that was the end of that. Since then, she hasn't wanted to go - and I am not going to force her. We are going to San Diego to stay with Bob's sister in a couple weeks and then have Lake Powell at the beginning of August. I want to enjoy these summer vacations without worrying {selfish, I know} and I don't think that she is totally ready.

Back to my original plan of potty training in September - when I can stay home and focus just on that. Plus she will be a little older. My Mom had all of us potty trained by the time we were 2, so I am hoping my daughter will follow in my footsteps!

4th of July

We all slept in on the 4th, it was so nice to wake up later than normal. After breakfast we cleaned our house. Then we went to Zubs and picked up some sandwiches to take to the park. We went to the park by the White Church and there was one other family there. It was so crazy to be at the park on a holiday and for it to be empty. It was really hot, so we didn't play on the playground. I didn't want to disappoint Olivia, and she didn't mind running around the grass. We all came home and took a long nap. {Bob finds out what we really do while he is working on his days off.}

We also went downstairs to visit Grandma, Grandpa, and BoBo. While we were visiting, we saw the goat and llama wondering around in the backyard. Somehow the gate got left open and they got out of the pasture. Unfortunately they went straight to the garden and were grazing away at my Grandpa's hard work. We got them out of the garden and back into the pasture. It was quite the excitement.

That evening we went to my parents house for dinner. My Mom tried out a new recipe and we had BBQ chicken that had a curry marinade. We also had grilled pineapple, coconut rice, and broccoli. It was all so good. Olivia loved the rice and pineapple. Dan had just got home from Costa Rica the night before so it was fun to have him and his date Tessa there for dinner. We had berries and Mom's hot fudge served over pound cake for dessert. We had to run right after dessert to take Olivia to the babysitters we could make it to the Stadium of Fire in time.

We picked Kelsey up from her sister's here in Mapleton and drove over to BYU. Bob parked by Brick Oven and we started walking across campus. We walked and walked and walked. I am pretty sure we walked for almost 45 minutes before we made it to the stadium. I'll just put it out there, but I complained a lot of the way. We passed a bajillion open parking spots as we walked. It was super hot, my sandals weren't the best walking shoes and my feet hurt, and my pregnancy hormones got the best of me. (I can blame it on that right?)

When we got to the stadium Kelsey went to meet up with her family and we went to get a drink and go to the bathroom. The lines for the bathroom was out of control. I told myself I couldn't have a drink if I couldn't go to the bathroom, so I grumpily went up to our seats. I seriously sat down and started crying. I had a pity party for myself at the stadium. Once I got my emotions under control I went back down and the lines had cleared out. I got some water, and a BYU brownie to make up for the fact that I had had a bad start to the night. ha ha. Seriously so embarrassing and dumb, but sometimes a girls gotta cry.

The concert was great and the fireworks were beautiful. I enjoy going to the Stadium of Fire, but it is definitely something we do once every 5 years or so.

On the way home we walked a different route and it only took us a half hour that time. The blisters on my feet were glad it was a bit shorter than the way there.

Sprinklers

When we went downstairs to visit Grandma and Grandpa, we found them outside in the backyard. Grandpa was working on the garden and Grandma was sitting on the deck. Grandpa had the sprinkler going and I told Olivia to go touch the water. She went back and forth a few times. She always got wet on the exact same side and was soaked. She loved it!

Rio2

On Bob's day off we decided to take Olivia to her first movie. We went to the local dollar theater and watched Rio2. She loves animals so we thought this movie would be a great choice. She picked out some PB M&M's and a small popcorn. We got her a little booster seat and into the theater we went. She wasn't too sure about it at first since the theater was dark until the previews came on. She loved the treats and popcorn and sat in her own seat for about 10 minutes. The next half hour she moved from my lap to Bob's. She loved the birds and excitedly told us the names of the animals she saw. After about 45 minutes she was done with sitting and being quiet, so we left. She instantly fell asleep on the car ride home and took a 3 hour nap.

Bean Museum

Today we went to the Bean Museum with some of our friends. There were a lot of people there since it just reopened from their remodel. The building is really nice and we had a good time. Parking was hard to come by, so we ended up walking from Marriott Center to the museum. Olivia loved the animals that she recognized. But for some reason was timid (maybe too many people) and I ended up carrying her again and pushing the stroller part of the time. Her favorite animals were the bears and the elephant.

After we went to the park to eat our lunch. Olivia may have had a better time at the park, she loved running around and eating her friends lunch.

Cherry Picking

While living in the apartments in Orem, I don't think we ever picked the cherries off the trees. We definitely picked up a lot of the fruit off the ground, but never off the tree to eat. Funny that now we live in Mapleton, and my parents stopped by with bags of cherries that they had gone and picked for us. {We aren't that lazy, the tree's didn't produce a ton while we were there, some years there were bugs, and I was always worried about if they had been sprayed or not.} This year the 2 cherry trees produced a ton of great cherries. My parents brought us a bunch of the dark red variety and invited us to come help pick some of the light reddish/orange cherries the next night. 

Bob had to work, so Olivia and I went over with my parents, Andrea and Jensen. Olivia and Jensen played well at first. Andrea and I picked well at first. Then we saw too many friends from the ward in the culdasac and we got distracted talking to them. And the babies found the containers of picked cherries and they started eating them. Mom and Dad definitely did the best picking and we brought home tons of yummy cherries!