Names

We have thought about a few names. Even thought about not finding out the gender, and then calling the baby the same thing so that we could call the baby that while in the tummy.

For a Boy:
Jesse Allen

For a Girl:
Amy Lucille
Katey Ann
Jessica Mae

I would love to incorporate some kind of family name in to one of them. I really like the names that we are considering. Girls names will be a hard one if thats what we end up having.
The girls are cute, Alona wants a little brother so that Kacen can have some one to play with and Abbi wants a little sister so that she can have some one to play with. Alona keeps telling Abbi that she all ready has a sister to play with.

Yeah, if its the same name, we would call the baby Jesse while in there and then if it turned out to be a girl, the official name would be Jessica... so hence Jesse working for both while pregnant if we choose not to find out.

What do you all think of the names?

second tooth

Alona lost her second tooth on Tuesday, right before school! She woke up, her tooth was not attached and she just put her hand up to her mouth and her tooth fell right in to it. Her second one on the bottom that she has lost.
She has decided that she likes long hair and can not wait until it grows back again.
The girls helped me make pies today and were so proud of themselves! Abbi told daddy, I helped Mommy make pies today, and told dad that she liked making them!

first pictures

9 week 2 day (so tenth week)belly pictures. Who knows if you see it, I do! My regular shirts are now about an inch to short, maternity shirts look a little funny because they are so big. But, hey I am proud to be pregnant!

A Godsend

I was thinking while I was going grocery shopping, (by myself!) that maybe I should mention to the relief society president that it makes me sick when I fix food, when I smell food, etc. And just hey, if someone ever just has extra from their dinner maybe my kids would like it! I made Kacen take a nap today, I was tired. He wasn't happy about that or about me waking him up. Alona leaned on the front door after I had gotten Kacen out of bed, he was screaming, there was a knock as she leaned on the door. Alona opened the door and my visiting teacher was there with a Papa Murphy's pizza, talk about answered prayers. And, I didn't quite even pray about this one, just thought about it. My kids will LOVE this pizza, and I won't get sick making food. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Doesn't this make you smile!

I took it by my sisters driving home from my great grandmother's birthday dinner. $1.79!

I spoke too soon last week, I've had nausea the past 3 days, bleh. Two nights ago I didn't feel like eating dinner but after the kids went to bed chocolate ice cream sounded good. I have wanted clam chowder the past three days. Really wanted to go to sizzler just for that, but didn't want to drag three kids. Tomorrow I get to go to Golden Corral, I am being hopeful of clam chowder there, its my great grandmother's 85th birthday.
I made an appointment with my doctor from my last two children. I really was having trouble finding one in the Orem/Provo area. I called many dr.'s... the first one said before any one picked up that they don't accept medicaid. Second one they only take appointments on Mondays, that does not work for me. Third place they don't let you pick your doctor, you see a different doctor in there group every visit, I like having the same doctor my whole pregnancy!
I am so excited for the gas prices. I saw $1.83 today and I was able to fill up the 16 gallon van gas tank with $35.00!!
Alona's at a birthday party today! Her first boy birthday party! Her second tooth is about ready to come out! It is hanging by a few roots, I can see underneath it. She let a kid at school wiggle it!

A Child's Prayer

I'm in here on the computer, the kids are coloring...
Abbi, followed by Kacen in unison: "Heavenly Father, Thank you for this day. Thank you for this food, please bless it. Thank you that mommy could have a baby. Thank you that we could make pancakes. Thank you that we could color. Name of Jesus Christ Amen."

spacing off

I carpool another kindergartener and bring him home, I kid you not I have passed his house now three times. He now lets me know, I'm watching for my house I'll let you know when we're there! So I guess while being pregnant this time I'm a little space cadet.
I'm in my ninth week and I can tell by the size of my abdomen that I'm pregnant! I haven't been posting as much, cause at night when I have the moment to do it, I am just too tired! The morning sickness for the past week has been wearing off. Only nauseous once this week! Food is sounding much better :) I am anxiously waiting being able to see/ hear the baby! My visiting teachers came! I was so excited, I haven't had regular visiting teachers in over two years.
At our house we have an every day episode of searching for keys. Today it was Paul's, I borrowed his keys cause I thought that the van was locked and needed to get Alona's jacket out for her to go to school. So I brought his keys back in and put them on the end table. He was up and calls me and asks if I have his keys. They weren't where I had left them. So I went home and looked for them took more than a half hour to find them, under the girls dresser. I felt bad for not putting them back where I found them. Especially cause the other night when I borrowed his keys, he tells me, don't lose them! I told him I never do, I always lose my own! And then his gets lost today, I didn't exactly lose them, but it was because of me that they were lost. I felt bad and like I lied.
Yesterday, I put some letters in a box and let Abbi pick out a letter. She picked out K. So we put glue on the paper in the shape of the letter K and let her and Kacen cover the glue with cheerios. Kacen's had cheerios on it, but the extra cheerios that were near him were gone. So, he started eating the glue cheerios. Kids do the darndest things! Needless to say, I gave him more cheerios! Abbi had fun, she is learning and growing so much!

neighborly generosity

Our wonderful neighbor went through her baby things and we were able to take home a crib! So Kacen doesn't have to part with the convertible toddler bed that he has and knows that the crib in Mommy's room is the baby's bed. I needed to do something to feel like I was getting ready for the baby (yes already!) so Paul put together the crib for me.
I had an appointment today. Not what I was hoping for or expecting. I was hoping to hear the heart beat or to see the baby and well the office did not have an ultrasound machine. It was my first time at this office, and they read off to me at the very end of my appointment their policies during labor and delivery. They require that the patient have something in so that an i.v. can be inserted at any time. And they most likely will do an i.v., and they administer pitocin after birth saying that it helps with bleeding afterwards and delivery of afterbirth.
I do not want any i.v., and see no need for pitocin, have never had it. I loved my doctor for my past two children. Told him I didn't want an i.v., didn't want an episiotomy, didn't want any pain meds, so on and so forth and he listened!! I do not know how to go about finding a doctor like that here. I don't know any doctors here and unaware of any ladies around here that are like me and know of doctors that will do that for them. If only My doctor was closer, 50 miles is a bit to drive especially while needing a babysitter for three children.
If any of you know of a Dr. that is good with patients and will follow what the patient wants in her labor like I enjoy that lives within Utah County, please let me know!

100 things I am grateful for

I borrowed this from a friend's blog. And knew it was a good time to do it.
Here are the 100 things that I am grateful for that I could think of (ordered alphabetically):

a listening ear, Abbigail, alarm clocks, Alona, America, appetites, aunts, babies, baby lotion, being a mother, blogs, books, birthdays, canning, car breaks, car seats, Christ, Christmas, Christopher, children's toys, compassion, crafts, Crystal, debit card, dryer, ebay, extra time, faith, filtered water, free samples at the store, fuzzy pajamas, genealogy, gas prices, Gibby, gospel, Grandma and Grandpa Price, Grandma and Grandpa Bagley, hair dryer, having Paul home, heaters, help with dishes, help with cooking, hot bubble baths, husband that can fix anything, in-laws, JC Penney low prices on kids clothes, June, Kacen, learning something new, leaves, love, lower bills than expected, mail, meals my kids will eat, my checkered blanket, naps, new recipes, nursery, ovens, parks, Paul, pay day, people who share their talents, pictures of children, pie, pot gardening, prayer, presents, pumpkin, puzzles, relief society, rain, scrapbooks, scriptures, seat belts, serving others, shed, shopping without children, sleeping in, snowmen, Spring, singing in the rain, stroller, sun, temples, Thanksgiving, toast, uncles, visiting relates, wagon, walks with family,washable markers, washable paint

Like Nicole said in hers, This is in no way a complete list for me.

Voting Day

I wish I would have taken Alona when I voted, so that she could have experienced that. I was trying to just be able to vote, without it interfering with lunch, naps or anything else. Abbi and Kacen were real good while I was there. Voting was short and not too much to cast my ballot on, three local elections, the judges, school board and the Presidential election.
It was great to vote for the first time. Maybe my one vote doesn't change much. But I put it out there for it to make some difference and was excited to do so. I got a sticker, made sure that I got one! Free donut at Krispy Kreme.
We got outside and had our exercise today by raking the leaves, playing in them and jumping in the pile when we were finished. The kids were really excited to rake. Kacen really wanted to rake and was so cute following Mommy around. Even when his sisters were tired and eventually got distracted with playing over at the pine tree with the red pine cones, he kept raking. We had a Huge pile and we still had more leaves that didn't make it in there, I was tired! It is supposed to snow tomorrow, I sure hope that the storm keeps our pile intact so that we can bag all of those later.
Kacen had his winter coat on, it has two zippers. He managed to get both of them undone and take off his coat. He did this the other day too, it was raining cats and dogs and I couldn't keep his coat on him. Hopefully I will have more luck as it continues to get colder.

I am a Mother!

Being a Mother is a great thing and something that I would not trade for anything in the world. Watching children grow, learn and being a part of this daily is amazing. I love having a two and three year old. They have a desire to be near me and to help mommy. "I help!" as Kacen always says. He wanted to help with dinner the other night and so I pulled a chair up next to me and he stirred the spaghetti sauce in with the meat for the recipe that I was doing. "stir, stir, stir." He enjoyed playing in the soapy dish water, "bubbles" and trying to wash the dishes. He helps by giving me the dirty laundry as I am sorting it.
Abbi, my sweet three year old. Folds clothes with me and loves to do the dishes "by herself". She of course is starting to become more independently minded and not wanting to help as much, and I will miss this some. All part of growing. Abbi has recently developed a new skill, working the mouse on the computer, to watch her put that arrow where it goes and understand so much, I am in awe!
Alona loves making up her own songs. I am so happy that she has a teacher that helps her develop that. A teacher that makes up songs about Everything like she does.

I love being there as they develop, catch on to new concepts, physically intellectually and in other aspects. Alona learning to ride her bike was just like it clicked one day, most joyous thing!

I have been given a wonderful gift, being a Mother! Many people aren't given this gift, or the gift of bearing them naturally. I am so thankful for both gifts and experiences. I, for the most part love being pregnant. Of course as you have more it does become more difficult taking care of all of the children and feeling ill carrying the one that it is yet to come in to the world. But to carry the child inside of you, I love this, a son or daughter that is within you, I get to feel them be aware of the growth and getting to know them something that no one other person is able to do with your child. I love bearing children too, my last two were wonderful and wish all were that great! Feeling them kick for the first time, hearing them cry, seeing their countenance as they come in to the world.
I anticipate when I get to start feeling this child letting me know that he/or she is there. I joyously wait the day when Abbi catches on to the letters and their sounds. I will be so thrilled when Kacen starts talking to me in a full conversation. Alona demonstrates so many talents each day. I have learned so much from being their mother.