Our Boy!!

Ammon is just growing up so fast! He is almost 22 months. He's so funny lately. He is always making us laugh at the little things he does. His little personality is just so cute and I just love him at this age right now!! I wanted to write down a few things he is doing at this age before I forget.

His new favorite word is "Awesome." He says it ALL the time. Ashlyn was showing him the things she did at preschool and he was like, "oh...awesome," at everything she showed him. Anything he sees is just "Awesome." He speaks so well...and we can pretty much understand everthing he says. When he says "love you" it sounds like "lub-oo." It's so cute and sweet when he says it. He is such a Mama's boy, we'll have to see how he reacts to the new baby. He loves to kiss my belly and he always points and says baby.

(what is that face? =)

He loves hats...he wants to always wear a hat like daddy. We really need to get him a new hat because the one "boy" hat he has is so small, so he'll find one of the girls pink hats and wear it around...it's too funny!

He is so into cartoons and movies these days. He never really cared, but a couple months ago he really started getting into them. He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. He calls it "Meeska," because they say "Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse" at the beginning. So, when ever he sees Mickey Mouse he calls him "Meeska." He's ALWAYS wanting to watch "Meeska." He also likes Handy Manny and Tigger and Pooh. But his favorite is "Meeska." I let him watch it on the computer one time and now he always wants to watch it on the computer. He will sit there for hours and just watch it if I let him. He also loves to watch this baseball movie, "Everyones Hero." Everyday he has to watch it..he calls is "baseball." He loves when we go watch daddy's softball games. When he sees Artie's softball stuff he gets so excited and says "Sof-ball?" He'll keep saying until we tell him for sure we are going. If we aren't going, he'll throw a fit.

He loves his sisters, they all play so well together.

He also is such a good mannered little guy...at home he always says please, thankyou & excuse me. We are kind of curious to see if Ammon will be the only little boy in the house. It will be fun for him if he has a little brother....I guess we'll have to wait and see!

8 1/2 Months Prego!!

So, here I am...8 1/2 months Pregnant. 46 days left to be exact...LOL...yes, I'm counting down the days!! It would be nice if it was a few days earlier...but actually there is so much going on in October that too early would really probably not be good! haha...I'm the primary chorister and our program is Oct. 18th...so, that wouldn't be good! I'm teaching my music class up until Oct. 22nd...let's hope I make it until then! Usually I would really wish for it to come early...but as long as I make it to the 22nd...that would be Great! Pregnancy has been going pretty good lately. Braxton Hicks started strong at about 7 months. I also found out that I'm anemic, so I gotta take extra Iron...2 pills a day. The Doctor said the numbers on my Red Blood Cells are really low. If I don't get those up by taking the pills, since a lot of blood is lost during delivery it could be a chance I would need a blood transfusion. Interesting....Every pregnancy has been different and I've learned something new each time. I'm sure everything will be just fine! The baby has been very active and doing somersaults & punching me a lot! The kids love to feel it move and love to give my belly kisses everynight before bed!

We can't wait to find out if it's a Boy or Girl and finally meet this new little addition!

What do you think?

Thanks everybody for thinking for me! I seriously wrote down all of the ones I liked and looked through 197 pages of "A" Boy names on babycenter.com and wrote down all of the ones that were sorta decent....LOL, there really are crazy ones. A few of them started looking good to me after going through a bunch of weird ones. =) Anyway, I wrote down about 25 that I thought were okay. And this is what Artie chose from the list: Adler or Abram

I never would have thought about naming a child this before...but after looking at all the options and actually trying to agree....these are kinda growing on me!

I wanna know...does anybody like these at all? Which one do you like best?

I like looking up the meaning of names too,

*Adler means Eagle

*Abram (Abe-rum) means High Father

Now I'm very curious to see what other people think! Tell me Honestly!

GET YOUR THINKING CAPS ON!!

We need some major name help!! If this Baby is a Boy the poor thing is not going to have a name! As you know we are stuck with "A" names. Do you think the kid would be sad if he was the only one in the family without an "A" name????

If this baby is a girl I think we got it! But, if it's a Boy we are really struggling. There are not that many good options when it comes to "A" boy names!! I think the name Auston or Aiden is good, but Artie does not like them! Of course- we cannot agree when it comes to names!! So, we need as many suggestions as possible.

Can you please help us!!

Whatever Boy "A" names you can think of we would love to hear them! Please!!

~Butterfly Garden~

Alley got this Butterfly Garden Kit for her Birthday. We sent off for the caterpillars and food and the kids couldn't wait to get them! They were so excited when the UPS guy finally delivered them. The Caterpillars were super tiny when they first came. We just had to leave them in their little jar with food. They ate up lots of food and by the end of the first week they were full size caterpillars. It only took them a couple of days and they crawled to the top of the jar and made their Cacoons. It was sorta gross =) and pretty interesting to watch this whole thing. The kids were pretty amazed at the whole process!It was then time to transfer the cacoons from the jar to the mesh butterfly garden net. Artie made me do it...haha. About a week after they formed their cacoons, they started coming out of them and were Beautiful Butterflies. So Cool!! There was 5 of them.

We fed them sugar water and after a couple days it was time to let them go before they decided to mate. They already tried that! =) And then we probably would have done the whole process again!

This was really fun for the kidsBye, Bye Butterflies!!

*PReSChOoL*

Ashlyn is very excited that preschool started up again! This will be her last year of Preschool. She is going to Miss Kim. I know she will have a great time!!She picked out her Strawberry Shortcake backpack...it's the perfect size for our little Ashlyn Munchkin. I had her turn around so we could take a picture of it and Ammon turned too. =)All Ready to Go!!

*Our New Ride*

We are so excited to finally have a new car!!

Now we have room for all of us plus the new baby!! YAY! We got this 2008 Ford Explorer about 2 weeks or so ago. There are 7 seats. Artie says that doesn't mean we can have 5 kids! LOL. Anyway, the kids are loving it, they love the extra space they have and they love that they each have their own air and that they can see so good out the windows. =) The first time we rode in it they were complaining that they were cold....that is sooo much better than complaining how hot and sweaty they are because the A/C in the car would only stay on low in this 115 degree weather! We are Loving it!! I actually don't mind loading the kids in and going where we need to go...it's so much easier!