Our latest news

It's been a while since I have last blogged so I have a lot to catch up on. The first order of business would be to announce our latest news. We have told our family already and some friends but now the whole blogging world will know. Drum roll, please...

We're expecting another baby, and I'm due on November 28 right around Thanksgiving.

Every thing is going well so far. We have our ultrasound scheduled for my next appointment in four weeks when I will be 21 weeks along. I can't wait to find out. I don't really have a feeling if it's a boy or girl so I want our readers to guess what they think the baby will be - girl or boy.

At our last appointment we listened to the baby's heartbeat, and Leah has been imitating the sound of the heartbeat ever since. When we ask her what sound mama's belly makes, she makes the sound and then giggles immediately after. She knows what she is doing makes everyone laugh. I hope she will slowly understand in the next five months that she will be having a little baby in the house.

Monkeys all around me

A couple of days ago I found some cute clothes for Leah at Kid-to-Kid, a store that sells used children's clothing and toys. One of items I bought was a Curious George shirt that was just her size (I actually looked for sizes 3T and 4T because her 2T and 24 month clothes are getting a little small). She loved it from the minute I showed it to her. She always points to it and makes her little monkey sound. I think she's worn it two days in a row now so I'll have to hide it in the dirty clothes hamper.

(I also found this skirt from the same store, and she loves it almost as much as the shirt).

Plus when she woke up from her nap today, she made the monkey noise too. She remembered that the Curious George cartoon comes on TV when she wakes up from her nap, and I will usually let her watch it since it's only 3o minutes long. Leah also found a monkey book at the library the other day that she loves to have me read to her at bedtime.

And if that's not enough monkey references for you, I'll just add another one. Earlier this month, I went to the Utah Valley Women's Expo and enter lots of drawings to win free stuff. Last year I didn't really win anything except for some discounts on laser hair removal, which I never really planned on using. This year I won a free baby sling from Hugamonkey.com so I ordered one right away. All I had to pay was the tax on it, and it even came with free shipping. I only used a Baby Bjorn with Leah and really didn't use it as much as I should have. So I'm excited to use it with our next baby.

Her new favorite thing

This week Leah and I have been playing our our bed with the pillows. And her new favorite thing to do is fall down onto the pillows, and we always say "Plop!" when she does it. So here are two videos of her doing that. The second one features her running from the living room to where I am in my bedroom to fall on the pillows. Hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

"Take my picture, mom"

I might have mentioned in one of my previous posts that Leah likes having her picture taken now. She'll actually sit still long enough for me to take one. She thinks it's so fun for me to take her picture or record a video and then watch it on the digital camera screen. She likes to try on my socks or shoes and then puts her hands up to her eyes. I quickly figured out that this means she wants to have her picture taken.

Here are some photos I've taken of her this week. She has also figured out that she needs to smile when I take her picture, and she's usually smiling anyway because she is so excited to see her picture on the camera afterwards.

Our first bread batch

For my birthday this year, my mom surprised me with my very own Bosch mixing appliance with a new blender to make home-made bread, cookies, smoothies and other food items. She bought one earlier this year and has loved using it in her kitchen. We were quite surprised and thrilled to use it as well. My mom gave us her bread recipe, and we tried it out this morning.

The recipe was great because it went step by step and explained every little detail so even I could understand it. The Bosch makes it so easy to prepare the bread, and it's fun to watch the dough spin around in the bowl.

We are proud to report that our first batch turned out amazing - soft, thick, and so yummy.

It was so exciting to see the finished product come out of the oven and then taste it. Maybe this will be the end of store-bought bread. All we need to do now is buy a few more bread pans so we can make four loaves at a time and store them in our freezer.