I'm Back!!

Apart from me just not keeping up with this blogging I have had a crazy few months and have just not had time to sit down and even think about it. So, he is a short recap of what has gone on since my last post. In mid may we moved to a new house. YEA!! 4 days later Keith left for Las Vegas to finish school. The kids and I were home for a week and a half by ourselves and then we flew out to Vegas for Keith's graduation. We were there for about a week and we drove home with Keith. We arrived home late Sunday night and then Monday afternoon we put Keith on a plane to Dallas for a review for the National boards he still has to take. He got home Friday night and the following Thursday we began the Larson Family Reunion in El Paso. Which I think turned out to be a great sucess!!! Also, in the midst of all this I had a doctors appointment and ultrasound with confirmed my suspisions that we are having a boy and we also found out that I have placenta previa which now puts me on restricted activity. So I have been home for a little over a week now trying to get things done, but still take it easy, and I figured I'd better start my blogging again before I get to far behind. I have several pictures to add, but I will do that in their own posts.

Thanks!

Thanks for all the warm wishes!! Everyone was surprised that I have a blog. Well, that was kind of on purpose. I have a hard time putting myself out there for everyone to see. If I suck at blogging, everyone will know. So anyway, we were with Alice talking to Jenni on the phone and Emma blabbed that I had one, so that was the end of my secret blogging. And now that the word is out I will have to do a better job. I'm going to have to get the rest of you to give me lessons in blogging, because I have no idea how to add half the stuff you have on yours!!!

It's Official!

We are expecting a new member of Team Larson in early November!! I know the word has been slowly getting out, but I didn't want to jinx anything until I actually saw that little heart beating in an ultrasound. Plus, it's still early. I am only 7 weeks pregnant, so I still have at least 5 weeks to go until I feel relatively safe that this pregnancy is going to last. Anyway, we are cautiously excited and are happy to share our news with everyone! The picture doesn't do the ultrasound justice, but the little white blob above the word "Here" is the baby. Have fun trying to see anything!!!

Bedtime prayers

When you have little kids it's really hard to get a good bedtime prayer in. For example, last night, we were saying prayers and Trey really felt like it was his turn. However, he refused any help from me. So his prayer went something like this:

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the house, thank you for our family, thank you for Daddy, thank you for our house, thank you for nomen (snowmen)"...at which point Emma started laughing uncontrollably. Then Trey started laughing and I'm trying not to laugh so we can get through this and I tried to help Trey finish. Of course he was still refusing my help so I told him to go ahead. When he would start again, instead of just finishing the prayer he would start "Thank you for the house" which would send Emma into bigger hysterics and this encouraged Trey to laugh and do it again. After about 3 minutes of this we finally got the prayer finished and everyone in bed. Whew!

We made it through another day!

Dinner prayer

Let me preface this a little. You all know how Keith is and when he finds some word or phrase he likes he says it over and over until he more than wears it out. Well, when Trey was taking his first steps we videoed it and to start the video Keith said "Go ahead Emma" which led into her saying "This is Trey's first video, he's going to be walking today". Lately, Keith has been saying that phrase to Emma and then she has to follow with her line from the video.

So, Keith asked Emma to say the prayer for dinner on Sunday. After we go Trey to fold his arms, Keith said," Go ahead Emma". She Closed her eyes to begin the prayer and said "This is Trey's..." and then she opened her eyes as Keith and I started laughing. She laughed and was flustered, but managed to finish the prayer with a little help.

We really can get through a prayer without incident. (I think!)

Trey's Dream

Sunday Morning I was getting ready for church and Trey was asleep on my bed with Keith. I heard him start to cry and saw him hit the pillows. I was holding him and giving him a little comfort and he looked at me and said. " Emma colored on my bwanket! Supposed to color on papers." Apparently, Trey was dreaming that Emma had colored on his blanket and he was really upset about it. He was a little put out with Emma all day telling her every once in a while that she's supposed to color on papers not his blanket. Funny kid!

Funny kids!

Last night I made a casserole consisting of chicken, stuffing, and broccoli. It's one of Emma's favorites. And both kids usually eat it really well. But for some reason last night when I served some to Trey. He took one look at it and refused it. I asked him why he didn't want it. He looked me in the eye and said, " It will make me sick mama." The stinker! Also, a few weeks ago I took the kids with me to the grocery store. I stopped to get some fresh green beans because they were on sale 10 for 10 and Emma is such a good helper she started picking them out one bean at a time counting one, two, three, etc. She thought they were 10 beans for 10 dollars, not 10 lbs. for $10. Funny girl! We laughed the rest of the time we were shopping.