New Pictures of the kids.

Jacob painting his pumpkin, and my pumpkin, and Cloie's, and Scott's, and.....

He didn't want to put the paints away, so he ran off with the plate that we used to put the paints on.

Jacob "helping" with my pumpkin.

Jacob, Gage and Chase (his cousins) at the pumpkin patch.

My little man feeding the horses behind Grandma and Grandpa Nay's home.

My two little skunks eating their lunch. Both of them a mess, as usual.
The slide a the new elementary school. Jacob had decided that he LOVES slides. We have a hard time getting him away from it.

Cloie trying to steal Doggie from Jacob. She is just as obsessed with that worn out thing as he is.
Cloie at Fish Lake. We went up and visited my parents when they were camping.

Here it is, October... Guess it's been a while. Things have kind of been crazy. Scott is still looking for a job, and the kids are loving it. Jacob loves having "mama" and "baba" (grandma and grandpa) around to play with everynight. They spoil him and Cloie rotten. He's going hate it when we move...there won't be half as many cookies or candies or treats for him to invade. He'll also have to go without his morning "prout" (Sprout. It's a TV channel of all kids shows.) You can tell what shows are on in the morning because he can sing the theme songs perfectly. Heaven forbid he remember his shapes or colors that I work on with him... sigh.

Jacob even got on TV the other day. Sprout has mini games online and one of them is what they call "Pic me." All that they do is transpose a kids face onto a cartoon "cutout" and has the kid be the star of the show. Jacob got to do a dance on national TV that way. He did it perfectly. I'm so proud of him.

Cloie is such a little cutie...other than she squeels....no, screams....no, that's not it....screeches at random times. It sounds like we're abusing her. It's also loud enough to make someone go deaf. She now tries to crawl. She hasn't figured it all out yet. She more or less gets up on all fours and lunges forward. I think it looks painful and she's knocked the wind out of herself a few times (which makes her screech) but she keeps doing it. All well. She'll figure it out sooner or later.

As for me, well.... I'm hating myself at the moment. I decided to make a quilt for Jacob's Christmas....before I knew it, I was making four for Christmas, one for my mother-in-law's birthday this spring and another one on the backburner for Cloie's second birthday. Yeah, I know she hasn't even had her first, but the pattern is for a twin bed. I've almost got all the four for Christmas done though.

Well, I think that's enough of an update for now.

Well, Cloie is now a full month old. We went and got pictures of her and Jacob the other day. The one picture I wanted did not happen. I wanted one of the two kids together. My sweetheart of a son though decided that he did NOT want a thing to do with Cloie though. He was fine when the pictures were of just her or just him, but as soon as we put the two of them together....not good. He started to scream and tried to shove her away and everything. The poor photographer....she ended up taking seperate pictures of the two of them and photoshopping them together. I don't get it. Jacob is always so protective of Cloie and always helping her out (giving her the bottle and pacifier...wanting to feed her...even hitting the doctor for making her cry). But he won't sit next to her for one picture.... frusterating.

Our first "family photo." Scott was the one with the Camera

One of those rare moments where she was actually sound asleep!

Cloie is already a week old and yet in that time, I have so many regrets... most of them involve a camera. I wish I would have taken a picture of my belly before she was born. No one would believe that I have lost thirty pounds already due to her birth. I wish I would have also gotten a picture of how swollen my feet/legs got. If I had I could pull the whole "you did this to me" later in her life. (ok, maybe I wouldn't but at least I would have the option.)
I also wish I would remember to take more pictures of her. She is such a cutie, but rarely awake enough to get a picture of her with her eyes open...at least durring the day.
Cloie unfortuately is a night owl. She will sleep all day and then be wide awake for hours at a time at night.
I am starting to miss Jacob, who has been spending the week at my parents home....ok, not starting to miss him, but deeply miss the little guy. I know I would be dying if he was home and I was stuck trying to get used to her and handle him at the same time so soon, but I still miss him. I'm just glad that (according to Grandma) he has been a good boy. All well, he will be home on Friday, then I'll be praying for a break from him once again.
Scott is slowly getting back into the swing of things with having a newborn. You can tell that he still isn't the best with them, but he's doing a TON better than what he did with Jacob. So far, he has avoided changing every diaper except one, but at least that one didn't end up backwards like it did on Jacob. He's a really good daddy. I just wish he had a day job so that he could spend more time with his kids.
Now that the baby has been born, Scott's back on the job search again. He's looking for any form of full-time day job around the Gunnison area. The sad part is there is NOTHING! Well, there are a few...if he was in the medical proffession, but since he isn't, he's been struggling to even find something to apply for. He has his parents helping him look even. There's just nothing, so we may be stuck in Cedar City. I don't like that because since we're planning on moving if he gets a job, we don't want to find a bigger place here and get stuck under contract. We really could use a three bedroom place though. Especially since Cloie and Jacob are going to be on different scheduels for a long time. It's going to be hard to have them in the same room. For now (at least till she is sleeping for more than 3 hours at a time) Cloie is sleeping in the living room in her bassinet...where she gets woken up by Scott when he comes home from work. I wish I knew some tricks to get her to sleep.

And life continues to turn.

Well, I finally made it to my third trimester. I have deffinately decided being pregnant with Jacob was a walk in the park compaired to this one. At my last appointment they found out 1) I have preeclampsia (guessing on the spelling) which has put me on "walking bedrest." I'm allowed to get up and move around.... as long as I am laying down for ninetynine percent of the day. The doctor also discovered that 2) my pelvis is falling apart. I have too much of the hormone relaxin (which loosens joints and things so the baby can get out). I've got so much that I'm straining all my ligaments and tendons between my hips and my lower back. That limits movement even more! I can't even really roll over in bed without pain now. Not fun.

I am also to the point where I SHOULD have things ready to go...just in case. Needless to say because of all this fun, I don't. So between laying down, watching my every move and chasing Jabob around, I am slowly getting things "baby ready." We have the crib and things, but now I need to pack for Jacob (who will be spending a week at grandma's) Cloie and for myself. I can't get myself to do ANY of it. I just want this kid to come out, THEN I'll worry about that stuff. (if only I could do it in that order).

One thing that I'm slowly getting together (Yay) is a list of phone numbers of babysitters for Jacob. I hate the idea of making one person sit around until I call, so I'm hoping to get as many people as possible. So far.... three for sure (and two of those it depends on the timeing). I have really started to realize that I have next to no friends in the area. I do have two/three more people that I'm going to ask, but other than that, I can't think of a soul that even lives here. I really wish I would have made friends... too bad that I'm too stinking shy for my own good.