Three!

Sunday, Steven turned three.  I want to say I can't believe he's three, but really he's matured a lot in the last 6 months or so.  He's been ready for this day.  Since it was Sunday, it was pretty low key, but I think he still had a great day.  We went to Grandma and Grandpa Morrise's house to open presents and eat some cake.

Unfortunately my camera battery died, so this is pretty much the only picture of the opening of presents I got.  But he was very excited about his Mickey Mouse Pez Dispenser.  

(How can you go wrong with a toy that gives you candy?  His dream come true!)

His chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate on top.  It was good!

He has been waiting all year to blow out these candles.  He liked it so much Grandpa relight them and he did it twice more.

Steven is really a joy to have in our lives and home.  He is full of energy and laughs.  He loves to catch you off guard and make you smile!  Currently he loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and putting anything he can find down random drains he finds.  This kid still loves to touch people's hair, especially his mother and brother.  I'm fairly certain he will love to have two new babies' hair he can touch and not have them protest as loudly as Christopher.  Steven is as obedient as a little boy can be, and we are shocked daily by his observations and memory.  We love you Steven and can't wait to see what the future holds for you!

Final Countdown

Well folks, I've officially made it to 37 weeks.  A singleton is considered full term at 37 weeks, so I'm gambling that these babies would be just fine to come anytime.  Now my brain knows this, but just try and tell my body.  It's not budging.  I'm not even feeling many contractions, my guess is my body is wanting to hold them in until 40 weeks.  Luckily my doctor is not going to have any of that.  

We are being induced on the 22nd of August.  

Wednesday.  

In 2 days.  

At first when I heard Wednesday I thought there was no way I could make it until then, I've been feeling very pregnant and uncomfortable for the last two weeks or so.  But now as it's getting closer, it almost seems like there isn't enough time.  ALMOST is the key word here.  Anyway we are excited and the next post will be about our little babies!  

Oh and if you wanted to know what they will be snuggling up to, here's a picture of the quilts I made and quilted with my mom.  It was my first time making a real pattern, and I think they turned out pretty cute, especially since you can't see the imperfections in the picture.

Private

We've been considering having our blog go private for some time and now seems like a good time to start.  So if you would still like to read our blog, please leave your e-mail address in a comment or message me.  I fought it for a while, mostly because I personally like to stalk people's blogs, but can't when they are private.   But with all the details of the twins birth, we don't want any weirdos getting a hold of it.  So this might be just a test run, but we're going to give it a go.

Nursery

Guess who went to nursery for the first time on Sunday?

Steven has been so excited for Christopher to come to nursery with him for weeks now.  I was a little worried because during Sacrament meeting Christopher was was whining and rubbing his eyes, but he did pretty well.  Jacob dropped him off and then took me home, all the while Christopher was doing pretty well.  5 minutes before Sunday School was over they brought a crying Christopher to Jacob.  Jacob took him back, snack time had just started, Christopher was in heaven!  He ate his bowl full of snacks in probably two fists full, then begged for more.  Jacob said all the other kids had their bowls full and our boys were working on their fourths...sounds like my boys.  Jacob sneaked out and 15 minutes before church got out a nursery leader came and got him because Steven had wet his underwear (while on the toilet).   Jacob cleaned him off, but heard Christopher on a lap a leader whimpering, "mama, mama".  So he took him back with him.  All in all not a bad day for his first day of nursery.  I think as he gets to know the leaders, he should be just fine.

July Festivities

This July was quite a different one for us, mostly due to my not being able to leave home and venture out as much.  This was the first Indepence Day that I have been away from my hometown in my life, so I was hesitant as to how it would turn out.  But we had fun here in Provo.

It started off with Steven and Christopher went to the hot air balloon launching with Grandma and Grandpa Morrise.  Which the boys loved!  Steven's favorite was apparently a pig.  We then met up with more family for a delicious breakfast at Jacob's brother's home.  They know how to make one fantastic french toast!  We came home and played with some squirt bottles and had Popsicles to help us with the heat.

 After naptime we went to Jacob's parent's house to have a BBQ and watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington outside with the projector.  Steven got his own movie, since we figured our movie would not entertain him quite so much.  Then there was fire works to be seen from the neighbors and off to bed.  So not my typical July 4th, but a good one non-the-less.

For the 24th of July, we were a bit more lame, but we still tried our best to make the most of Jacob's day off and the holiday.  We went to the splash pad in Spanish Fork, where Steven was quite at home.  Yes he did find rocks to put down the slots where the water goes.

 Christopher on the other hand didn't like it at all.  This was as close as he would come unless daddy held him, even then though he was not enjoying it.  Which is weird because he loves taking baths and having water be thrown in his face.  I'm guessing with time he'll come around to it.

We also had a family BBQ, and cleaned out our storage unit and got rid of a lot of unneeded items, so that we no longer need a storage unit!

And finally the Olympics have started.  We decided to have an Olympics with the boys and after completing the tasks they'd get Swedish Fish; they loved it.  Christopher wanted to opt out of the tasks and go straight to the reward, so I didn't get a picture of anything he did, or he didn't do much.  But Steven was great!  He jumped from the third stair down, jumped from the table to the couch, and balanced on the coffee table while Dad tipped it.  

 This kid has amazing balance!