the baby came a little early but we're glad to have her

yesterday we went out to Tempe Town Lake to watch boat races....but since we were hungry we desided to go to the nearby Tempe Marketplace to grab something to eat. but when we got out of the car Lucilles grabed us! with their tempting bbq smells that were so good. so after eating so much we desided to walk around a little bit. And discovered a "splash pad" Mosiah had never played with a fountian thingy like that before and wow did he love it! After playing in the water for a while we went to the bookstore and before we knew it we had to head home or we'd be later for a baptisum! ....We never made it to the races. But we did have a good day! :)

i know this is really lame of me but it's so hard to post twice sometimes that I guess I'm just doing this as a short cut

http://kaution.livejournal.com/

so there ya go

wow i can't believe i've posted so much! lol

wow it feels sooooo good to finally have ALL the loads of laundry done! the other night i sat up in bed (just before falling asleep and said to sebi "a laundermat! we should just take all the clothes to the laundrymat and wash them all at once!" We had at LEAST 8-12 loads of laundry to do. I know i know how in the world did I get so behind?? (and i still have at least 2 to do b/c i didn't take the garments or whites but 2 is better than 12!!!) I have no idea how the clothes managed to pile up like that....well that's not intirely true they piled up like that b/c our dryer takes ALLLLL DAY to dry anything. It's very discouraging and so i've sorta been not intrested in doing laundry. I was just washing a few things and then drying them but never really able to wash the blankets (that we will be storing now that it's getting warmer) and towels and everything. it's really kinda rediculous i know. but I was able to do all 12 loads in 1 hour 40 mins instead of an entire week!! it's amazing to see all the clothes now that we've got them home and such a huge weight has been lifted off of me. *giant smile!* and! the washers did a GREAT job on the clothes (better than my washer here at home!)here are some pics of our day at the laundrymat

doing 12 loads of laundry can really wipe you out!!!

sebi taking picture with his ifone...not so bad i guess mosiah eating argentine cookie, he totally loves it

this is mosiah in nursery. he's favorite toy is the fone inside the house

it's about 4:03 am

so the baby has woken me up at 2:30ish and now again at about 3:30ish so i'm going to stay awake a little longer so that i can maybe force my self back to sleep b/c i'm so tired....riiiiight.
reasons why i'm awake:
the baby is moving around a whole lot
i'm sooooo thirsty
i had a dream about my aunt, which seems to happen more these days, i hope she's ok and i wish i could talk to her *sigh shes so buzy whenever i've called she can never talk for more than a few mins. yesterday i was craving raindrops yes the ones that fall from the sky......sadly there was no raini have my easter dress! and i keep thinking that i should start wearing it already b/c i like it so much. must restrain myself from doing so! it's a dress from old navy. they have some pretty cute dresses for "spring" i think i'm going to go back and get one more that is all blue, its like a superman blue, which i guess is really called royal blue or whatever. I remember that i saw a prego lady in boone last year with a sorta simular dress and she looked sooooo pretty. doubt I will be able to pull it off very well but at least i'll pretend i am in my head.....thinking of how things sometimes don't really go whith what you think I bought some pants at Lane Bryant. they were only 6 bucks and i needed more pants that i could wear now that i'm prego BUT these pants i just don't know what i can wear them with!! they are black and have bright blue stripes thin stripes down them.....a plain sturst ...er shirt gooes ok but i just don't have some many of those.

I think i'm getting tired enough better go to bed now

I FINALLY GOT A BATTERY FOR MY CAMERA!!!

pictures of prego belly and growing mosiah to follow......

it's crazy to look at the trash and see it filled with tissues. How does the body come up with so much to have run out your nose??? sorry. that's a little discusting. It started out with mosiah being a little sick, fever, etc and now Sebi and I are holding in there. I think I might be doing worse than sebi...but maybe that's just me thinking that. Today I think would be a sacrament only kind of day if it wasn't for the fact that sebi has gospel principels to teach. I hope that he's lesson goes well i know that he understands it but i think it's difficult for him to teach it to a class kind of setting. Today I grab Mosiah and we went to look out the window and there was two ducks outside!! We've seen these ducks before at the pool swimming and given them a few crackers and things but today they were right outside our patio. I quickly grabbed some bread and went out side to feed them. Mosiah really loves it. I'm so proud of my little boy. He really is a good little boy. He tried to go and feed them himself and they ran away so we sat down and threw out some more bread and they came back. I love duck pairs. Did you know the same pair of ducks will spend thier entire lifes together? It's true! I think it's very sweet. Anyway...i better go and blow my nose...i'm having trouble breathing again. bleh

I have 9 great ideas for a quiet book but I'm running into just a few creative blocks. So I start looking online, and while there are some good quiet books out there there isn't the ONE for me.....which is why i started the project in the first place.
Now I'm starting to re-think it all and second guess myself. It really isn't that hard to do and cutting the felt and sewing these "small" pieces together is a lot of fun. It's just that I'm re-thinking the whole thing and wondering if I can really do it and finding myself fusterated because of some tiny little road blocks.
That's really the biggest problem is that you need all these small parts for like one page of the book and it's REALLY really difficult to buy in tiny-isty-bitty quantaties. *sigh and while i'm trying to use scraps i have and get a little creative about it I just feel a little stuck. I know that when I'm done with it i'll be so proud because I've done it myself and it'll be just how i want it......hopefully.
Here are the list of the 9 pages and the idea for them
Make a face page ---- blank face with felt pieces for the eyes nose mouth ears, possibly even differant types of eyes noses and mouths (smiling sad big small etc)
Weave a Web ----- small black felt spider with string attached to page white pieces of felt for child to weave web over and under "creating a web"
Lace a Shoe ---- outline of a shoe, to strips of fabric with 4 eyelets to lace shoelace through
Catch a Fish ----- blue felt cut into shape of waves sewn on as a pocket, felt fish with magent inside to connect with "fishing pole" (stick, string and metal clasp)
Buckle the Collar ---- shape of dog cut out space for buckle to be sewn on
Match the Shapes ---- felt shapes velcro or snaps on back to match up with the page
Heres' where i'm running into problems (besides the other little problems with the pages I do have figured out)Zip up the Coat ---- jacket shape zipper........ Train? something with like button on the train Farm? fun foam animals inside "barn pocket"?
http://www.familysafemedia.com/quiet_book_-_quiet_activity_bo.html
http://www.makeandtakes.com/a-little-peace-and-quiet
http://fowlerfam.blogspot.com/2008/02/quiet-book.html

This was our christmas. Here at our house we didn't have a lot of presents and I had to force Mosiah to open his gifts so we could take some pictures after this one we just opened it for him pretty much and then he saw the actual toy and wanted to play with the stuff

This is the sand kit we got him. I think he's really going to enjoy digging around when we go to the park with this

Sebi got a nice sweater from my brother's family

We got this pool toy for Mosiah but we didn't think that he'd love it this much! as soon as he saw it he huged the little duck head and gave it a kiss! lol

finally we got that present opened. I look more suprized than he does

Mosiah in the duck again. it's like a little nest for him. He also got that keyboard because he LOVES to press buttons so we thought we'd put it to good use and let him learn the piano ahahha



We went to my brother's house in UT. I don't have to tell you guys that it was cooolllldd outside. we planned to go sledding. although we bundled Mosiah up he fell asleep in the 2 min car ride to the hill we were going to sled on. You can see what he thinks of this "winter" get up.

Us Christmas day opening gifts with my brothers family

My little sister Zafir with her biggest fan Mosiah

This is Mosiah Christmas morning. Sleeping.

Well that was our holiday season. New Years we stayed home too and kept it really low key and went to bed after NY hit midnight. *yawn* I'm tired right now...maybe i should take a lesson from my son and go sleep a bit.

nite nite

Yesterday we went to my mom's class. They were having a read-a-thon and she is always talking about Mosiah so she asked me to bring him. He had a good time running around the classroom. The kids were excited he was there too. I showed them that he knew how to give a high five and they loved that. I think he got a little confused when they raised thier hand for something b/c he tried to give them a high five then too.

Someone recently reminded me of how much Mosiah has grown. Here's a funny little video from yesterday.

also i'm suppose to start packing up the house and i just don't have the will power to force myself to do it. *sigh. I know that it'll be better in the long run b/c then we will have an eazier move....it's just so annoying, since I just packed everything up 6 months ago. But hey, if it means saving 100 bucks in rent then yeah it's worth it.

didn't get the house, loan grinches nuff said
desided to renew contract at apt complex
bought a VitaMix for aniversary, much smoothie making insues

find out Pica is pregnant
Pica feels sick most of the time, lots of soda drinking to curb nasusa
Sebi's sisters family comes to visit good time
Pica has sharp sharp pains in abdomin, ER visit....9 1/2 weeks along
Sebi gets laid off day before Thanksgiving (thankful we don't have a morgage to worry about)Thanksgiving, made the bestest mash potatos in VitaMix. Mom steals all the left overs of the potatos

apt complex going to charge much more to keep our 1 brm, SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to move to a 2 brm
Mosiah gets a screaming complex, drives Pica mad.
Sebi and Pica are challanged by little sister to "go on a date" (we went and we had a WONDERFUL time playing pool)
Picaorganizes laundry area, and washes lots of clothes

Sebi goes to some interviews
Thursday play group from 10-12 much much better than Wednesday playgroup that is a hit and miss
Prep on Saturday for Sunday, clothes picked out, diper bag packed, showers done at night.
Went to battle of the ward choirs, 90% of the aduiance is in one of the 7 choirs (kinda funny at the end when they all go up to sing the Hallaluh chorus, very few people left sitting in the pews)
Pica realizes that everything must some how get packed, so they can move a few blgs over
Sebi starts his new job
Which acutally brings us to today. I guess there are some other things that I've missed but I guess that's what happens when you don't post for a long time.

hahahah! i remembered my username and password! horray!!!

BLEH! GRR! UGH! bllllleeehhh!
THERE WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A MOTHERS GROUP TODAY AND I MADE SEBI TAKE THE BUS AND I KEPT THE CAR AND I GOT ALL READY. AND MADE THE BABY TAKE AN EARLY NAP AND EVERYTHING IN MY DAY HAS BEEN LEADING UP TO THIS SO THAT I COULD GO TO THIS MOTHERS GROUP AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DRIVE ALL THE WAY TO THE CHURCH?

NO ONE IS THERE!!!!!!!
UGH!
I was really looking forward to this since it's almost like there aren't any kids around here for Mosiah to play with and it's always too hot out side to really go outside. soooo lame so lame

i hate arizona

What a great idea!
http://www.persil.com/ThirtyThreeThings.aspx

i'm seriously thinking about printing some of them off so that i can have them in the future when i know that the kids will come to me saying that they are bored. I think the other great thing about this list is that it makes kids creative and use thier imagination which sadly is something i see less and less kids using (at least a few of the kids i know). I think it's fustrating to see children ages 5-11 only ever intrested in playing video games. What about books? What about going outside? What about exploring? Creating? I know a family with a dog and 4 kids....but they got another dog to play with the original dog because their kids just don't really go outside. They have all kinds of backyard space and backyard "toys" like a jungle gym swingset, giant trampoline but they don't ever go out there it seems. I don't know....I think families should do more camping than resorting.....or at least this family i'm thinking of should.

either way. this is a great list!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOSIAH!!! WE LOVE YOU!!

These are the pictures that Sebi drew for me so that Mosiah could have a Peter Rabbit themed party. Didn't he do an awesome job?!?!?!I love them. And thanks to him my little idea for a theme is actually going to work out....I think. I'm going to try and make a Peter Rabbit for the cake too. Oh! and the cutest part about all of this is that as soon as Mosiah saw the rabbit picture he tried to hug it and he was all excited about it. :) awwww.Sebi really is the bestest. Thank you Amor *besito*

this is just a pic of Mosiah today....awwww he just woke up. little does he know that his birthday is right around the corner!

UGH! i'm running out of ideas to do for Mosiah's 1st birthday. i want to do something thats totally him and that would be cute. I thought of a Peter Rabbit themed kind of thing (we could play hop scotch, and pin the tail on the bunny etc...) but since i dont think i can pull off a real looking Peter Rabbit cake. I don't want to do jungle b/c that is a little over done. I thought maybe I'll just have a regular ol' bir'day...with out a theme at all except that he is turning 1. I don't know.I feel like all the things i've been thinking of aren't original enough or something. :P *phooie.