Mother's Day is coming up...

Can I just say how IN LOVE I am with his charm jewelry???? It's too late to order in time for Mother's Day, but who needs a holiday to BUY THESE.... :)



You have to check out the site: http://www.thevintagepearl.com/

Honey, I can totally let you know which ones are my favorites, but we kinda have to find out what I'm having next AND pick out a name before the order. It'll be a while I guess...

The Sweet Sounds of Claire

This is hilarious.

Claire talks up a storm (of course, only around select people) and loves to get smiles out of mommy and daddy.

She gives us animal sounds a lot: baa, neigh, meow, arf arf, moo (sometimes she just says "cow" instead of moo), ummm whatever a monkey does, can't spell that, roar (a bear)...

And some every day words: hi, bye, mama, dada, of course, cheese, dude, ball, ap (apple), nana (banana), "num" that means food of any kind, googhurt (yogurt, haha), up, bampa (grandpa), down, NO (this one's annoying!! haha), cow, pretty, bunny, dog, hat (she says hatta), hot, juice, Jesus, bite (we've taught her to say "bite" when she wants some of our food), CREAM, etc. etc.

Just watch the video. (oh, she's mainly in PJ's in this video montage. Somehow she is more "talkative" in the morning or something... one day she wanted to wear my tankini bottoms over her shirt. Yep, that's in there...)



Oh yeah, and we had a bunny for a week. Jordan rescued it. We kept it 7 days too long. Then, I am proud to say, we didn't call Animal Control, who would've just killed it after 10 days of being unclaimed...we took it to the Humane Society where we had to pay 15 bucks to donate it to them (for vaccines and stuff I guess). Anyway, so in the future when Claire complains she has never had a pet, don't worry, we have it RECORDED IN HISTORY that she had a bunny for a while when she was 1 :)

I'M ALIVE!!

I thought I was dead too. I think this has been the longest break from blogging I've EVER taken! But who wants to blog, take pictures, reminisce, when they're puking their guts out every day? BUT, now I'm just about over that phase, and feeling MUCH better. Yay!!

So here's an update:

I feel badly I haven't blogged about Claire because she's growing and changing by the SECOND!! AH! Here are some funny and cute things she has been doing and saying...

Beware of bringing a big gulp into the house when you expect to keep it to yourself. Claire thinks they're ALL her's. She will take it.

Like many children, Claire thoroughly enjoys MSG...I mean, Ramen Noodles :)
We're awesome parents, I know...



Claire's new favorite food is "CREAM." Jordan's Dad started this mess by spraying whipped cream into her mouth. She is JUST like her mommy because she LOVED it. Now "cream" is one of her favorite new words..."

K, blurry picture, but it's just funny. Claire TOTALLY loves playing with my bras. So Jordan tied one of my bras onto her. She loved it and walked around proud. Haha..I know, these are boy PJ's...



A few months ago, mommy was dumb enough to think that a nice potted plant would be a good idea in the living room. After picking soil and rock out of this one's mouth for the 200th time, she decided that maybe it WASN'T such a good idea. PLUS, the plant was dying, go figure :) Took it back, but we still have this cute planter from IKEA. It is one of Claire's favorite toys. She gets stuck in it daily though...



While I was in the depths of sickliness, Jordan spent a lot of time playing with Claire. One day, he decided to build her a "little house" (it took up a large chunk of the living room actually). She LOVED it. Jordan said it only took 45 minutes to put together. A couple of weeks later, when she was already bored with it, as kids get, we took it down and threw it out. Sorry, environmentalists everywhere....we don't have recycling here. But, I have to say, the best part about this, is, that if we would've bought one of those plastic houses, once Claire was done playing with it, lost interest, etc.... you can't throw it out :)



Nope, it's not what you think. Unfortunately, my baby girl's ears are STILL not pierced and now probably won't be until she's like...well who knows. Jordan has always been against the baby piercing, so... but one day, she put little magnets on her ears, one in the front and one on the back of the lobe. They were like little earrings! So cute! But then one of them fell out when Claire got too close to another magnet. We have a lot of magnets around this house.

OK, more to come shortly.

Not done complaining....

This is my life.

Wake up.
Hopefully Jordan will let me sleep in when he comes home from work (which is usually what happens)
Hope that when I get "vertical" I don't want to hurl.
Request some kind of breakfast, in bed. (isn't my husband so nice?)
Eat that.
Hope I can get out of bed, with the food in me, and not want to hurl.
Spend the rest of the day moping around, wanting to hurl.
Try my best to sleep as MUCH of the day away as I possibly can
Think about what the heck sounds good to me? And no, Saltines never do.....
Pizza does sometimes.
But if I throw that up, or anything up, that's the end of that craving...
Claire much prefers the company of Daddy right now. Who wouldn't??
I have desperately asked around the neighborhood for a potato. (baked potatoes always seem to sound good to me) Finally got one (thank you HEIDI!)
Some days are better than others. Some days I can't seem to keep anything down. And I'm supposed to exercise??
Zofran and Phenergen do NOT work. Well, they do work to give me a bad aftertaste whenever I eat anything, constipation, restless leg syndrome, and false hope...
This baby better LOVE me.

Just keeping things real. I do NOT know how any of you guys got pregnant more than...twice. :) (but then with Claire, I wondered how any of you guys got through pregnancy more than once? We are all crazies. Crazies.)

Claire is going to have a........

SIBLING!!!!

I am a little over 8 weeks pregnant. The sibs will be a year and ten months apart. Wow. We wanted them to be close, so this is great! Definitely faster-happening than expected though!

Um, sadly I don't have any picture because, even though I do have two ultrasound pictures of the little shrimp, I don't know where our scanner is, and it definitely isn't hooked up. But I've been too aloof from the blog to care at this point. I NEEDED to get SOMETHING UP!!!!

I am SO SICK. That's why. This one has been worse. More throwing up, more feeling tired and ornery all the time. I feel bad for Claire really. She has a deadbeat mommy at the moment, and it probably really sucks for her. Every day, I feel I just want to sleep the next 2 months through so I can be in the second trimester and not sick anymore. It sucks. OK I'm done complaining now. Very grateful to have another little cutie around the house.

And that's another thing. My house. A disaster. Kinda grosses me out just being inside of it right now. But Jordan has been awesome. He has done more cleaning than...ever! And better yet, he has been so great to take care of Claire while Mommy is on her deathbed....

Anyway! I think it's probably another girl. Which is just fine by me :)

Claire-a-Roni....The Latest

Our little monkey is getting so old!!!!

Beats her forehead on the floor when she’s frustrated or upset, which is apparently "normal?" (fortunately, she’s only done this on CARPET!) *Update: She has. On the tile. ONCE. I caught her. Too bad I didn't get it on VIDEO!!

LOVES peas. She won’t eat all of the Lucky Charms we put on her tray (I mean…Lucky Charms?? We would NEVER feed her those!) but she’ll eat ALL of the peas on her tray—frozen still or cooked. What a nut!

Likes wearing headphones and listening to music! (Celine Dion…we’re indoctrinating her with her mommy’s favorite) I should probably add that she actually may prefer putting the plug in and pulling it out of the headphone jack of the iPod. That's probably the REAL entertainment.

Has a new "signature smile" she likes to use when she first sees me pull out the camera.

Loves soap/lotion pumps and I find her many times SUCKING on the tip of the pump! GROSS! I'm surprised she hasn't been poisoned yet!

Says “eye,” and blows kisses! (OK, well the last couple of weeks, she's STOPPED talking (in our language at least) pretty much. Pediatrician had said that once she starts equating the words with the meanings, she may stop talking until she can understand the connection) She can also say "fishies" and "teddy bear" but definitely doesn't perform when asked...

LOVES milk. Chugs it before naptime and bedtime.

Jabbers on in her own language constantly

LOVES climbing onto chairs. The other day, I was sitting on the glider in her room, and she climbed onto it, and started pushing ME off!!! The little turkey!

LOVES teddy bears. Any kind. Here she is at Walmart thoroughly enjoying herself :)

We have this white planter that doesn't have a plant in it anymore (It died. But Costco told me it wasn't my fault when I returned it because MANY other people had returned it too...) and Claire LOVES climbing into it, and will cry if she gets stuck. It's pretty funny.

Finally, I have a good clip of her saying "what the doggie" says :)

Have I mentioned she likes the tub? :)

Jordan, and our friend, Jonathan, were very pleased with themselves after strapping Claire in the turtle-pillow pet... sometimes I wonder about them...

Another Vegas Visit!

So Michelle had her baby, little Dahlin, and Jordan, Claire, and I HAD to go and see him. (Becca, I love you and Jared too, and will be coming soon!)

So, for the trip down, we left at like 2am, because Jordan was still on his graveyard schedule, and that way, Claire would sleep the whole time! (but as you can see, she woke up...but not until St. George at least!)

"Driving the car" at the gas station in St. George. LOVE this picture!

The reason for the trip...my little Sydney!!! (OK, one of them :)

The first night we got there, we we adults went to PF Chang's to celebrate our friend, Marci's birthday! She's awesome :) Here I am with Michellie!

And here are the men.

Um. Tried "The Great Wall of Chocolate" for the first time. YUM-O!!! Costco's American Chocolate Cake is better, but this one has the rasberry sauce stuff that makes it almost as good :) Did I mention PF Chang's is my favorite restaurant?

And what did we DO in Vegas? Well, we didn't visit the strip ONCE. Not once. Which isn't too surprising since we've lived there, and really the only thing cool to visit on the strip that's not over 100 bucks a ticket is the Bellagio Conservatory. But we didn't go this time. We just had fun hanging out!

Here's Michelle with her new little Bundle of Joy, Dahlin!! What a cutie! Claire loved him too, even though at one point she pulled a curling iron out of a drawer in the bathroom and almost decked him with it in the HEAD! Don't worry. I'm an EXCELLENT mother (3% of the time at least!) and caught her before Dahlin was harmed!

And, of course, we did MANY crafts :)

Crafty Michelle! (check out the CUTE felt shoes she made for Dahlin!! With the wooden buttons on them!

My other sister, Heather's and my present to Michelle were these letters!

Didn't they turn out SO CUTE???

Michelle and I made a pincushion for her too :)

AND we made necktie onesies!! SO CUTE! These I actually made for my sister Heather's new baby boy that will be coming in March. We also made a hooter hider for Michelle (I don't have a pic though!)

And what did Jordan do while we "crafted?" What he does best:


NERD Stuff. JK :) He and Andrew worked, the whole week, on a new media center thingie for Andrew and Michelle, that will replace their cable and DVR, but still be able to record shows, etc. Anyway, that's what he did!


Gavin, looking especially "sweet"...like Dr. Jekyll....Mr. Hyde comes out inevitably though, haha!

Sydney and her friend Jade and Jade's little sister, Violet. What cuties!!

And Michelle opened my eyes to new possibilities with Claire's hair!



Pigtails!! I still have a problem with lopsidedness...I guess I'll keep trying (and have Jordan hold her down while I do her hair!! She's a mover!)

And then, it was inevitably time to come home :( Bittersweet. The bitter part is not hanging out the with Keslers every day! And sweet is...well, Claire did not seem to want to SLEEP while in Vegas!! She would wake up at like 3:30 or 4:30 in the morning every day and NOT want to go back to sleep!! So weird. But she has reverted back to her previous schedule since we've been home, fortunately!

And here she is on the way home. Jordan installed a temporary solution for a TV and a harddrive hooked to it, loaded up with Baby Einstein. BEST thing EVER. See how excited she is to watch it? We borrowed my sister-in-law's carseat for the trip and Claire HATED HATED HATED it. Finally, when she wanted to go to sleep on the drive home, we had to put her in her old one (just the smaller carseat she's growing out of) and she went to sleep right away! But mostly was great because of Baby Einstein. What a great invention.

Keslers, we already miss you guys!!! LOVE YOU!!!