butterflies.soccer.walks.ben

For Cody's birthday we got caterpillar's in a cup shipped to us from his grandma Bonnie. They were caterpillars for around 2 weeks and then when they formed their coccoons we transferred them to a little mesh cage. Once they emerged we fed them sugar water and oranges. (insectlore.com) They were looking a little hagard, so we released them just as soon as it was "warm" enough. Tragically, it hailed the very next day. I'm sorry butterflies, it was a poor decision. Sorry Cody buddy too, if when you can read this you are devastated, but we did have so much fun watching them.

Cody has started soccer. He absolutely loves running

and carefully explains that you don't use your hands, just kick the ball with your feet.The other day was beautiful weather. In Pullman in the spring, to me, that means there isn't a cold wind. I think I hear the phrase "It would be so nice if it wasn't windy" about every other day.

So, we went on a long walk. It was so much fun and such a nice change from winter! Come again soon warm weather!

My stomach was so tight and tired after that...I feel like an old woman and I'm only halfway through with prego-ness.

And on that note, I still love going walking and being active, but as far as running and serious exercise...a little unmotivated. In the back of my head a little voice is saying "Six weeks or so out from the birth of your baby you're going to be starting from scratch whether you kill yourself now or take it easy." Is that wrong?

Last, but not least, Ben is enjoying his preceptorship. I do not love it, but that's a long story involving him not being allowed to come visit us. He also has to get up at all hours night for treatments. They are getting a great deal, this being unpaid and all...where are the paid people at those hours? Needless to say, Ben has not complained at all (that is just me and my hormones) and is doing what he loves.

20 Weeks

Me at 20 (I think) weeks. ha! just kidding. I just looked at that picture last night and gasped because I don't know how I moved around with a planet that size in front of me. That is me the day before I delivered Macey. And that is what I have to look forward to!

Ben starts his month long preceptorship in Montana today. He just finished up an anesthesia rotation and presented his senior paper last Thursday...THAT was a relief for him to get over with! The end is so close I can almost taste it...it's a mixture of excitement, relief, nervousness, sadness, and ready-to-be-done-and-move-on-ness. But, it's not over yet, so I'll enjoy the time we have here!

Mousie Needs a Home

One of the favorite games around here.

We play it at every preschool day at our house and we played it last night for family home evening. If you have kids ages 2 to 4, this is a PERFECT game!

Rules:
Everyone, except one person in the middle, chooses a "home" (a couch, a chair, under the table, a nook or cranny, etc.)
The person in the middle goes to someone and says "Mousie Needs a Home."
The person in the home says yes or no. If they say yes, then they trade places and if they say no, then the middle person finds someone else to ask.

That's it!

3.14=Pie Day

I was craving pie today, so I made an apple pie.


I was thinking while I made it, it wasn't apple pie season.

But I shared some with some friends (they had a crazy day)-who are super smart people-and they told me it's pie day...but Pi Day!
Perfect. Maybe I'll have two pieces to celebrate:)

PS. I had to admit today that I can no longer button up my pants. So after going to the grocery store (for the 3RD time, arg) I unbuttoned them and breathed a sigh of relief. But I forgot to button them back up, so when I dropped the pie off I paraded around with my pants unbuttoned and unzipped. Sorry guys! I'm awesome.

0 to 60

We went to sunny St. George this last week. Before we left, it was 10 degrees in Pullman. When we got to St. George it was 60 and felt like 80 to me. I could have sat in the sun all day. We did a lot of playing at the park, riding bikes, eating out, and a little shopping. I got a mini sunburn, which was actually kind of nice:) My favorite part of course is staying up late((r)-it gets earlier as I get older), children sleeping, laughing with family. It was quite funny watching Bonnie be the celebrity grandma, I'm not sure they are used to sharing attention from her!
I also got to see Ashley, a college roommate who lives in St George, one of my best friends through college.
Here's the kiddos: Blake, Lucy, Macey and Cody. He's really hoping I'm having a boy since Carly and Amy are both having girls...Cody would really be the odd man out if I had a girl too:)


After our trip we came home and spent a little time with my family. Cody played non stop with Clayton, his favorite person.
Our plane ride back was exciting. I checked our itinerary and read that our flight left at 12:00. We got to the airport to check in and it said we were too late, which I just knew was wrong so I went to the ticket counter.
The woman looked at me and said "Your plane leaves at 11, not 12. You have six minutes before your flight leaves. RUN."
Run we did. I was actually sweating when we finally sat down at our plane-which was on the opposite side (terminal E for anyone who knows...last one) of the fair sized salt lake airport.

A couple of things saved us:
I had packed all carry on sized suitcases.
Some neighbors of my parents were next to us in security and told us they would run our luggage down for me.
Cody is amazingly good at running a half mile when he has to. I apparently need to run more.
They opened the small steps of the plane to let us on right before they pulled away, and my parent's neighbors somehow ran our luggage down in time (it was being thoroughly searched and seized by the security people...argh).

Luckily we made it on and got home to see Ben just as he finished all his overnight rotations!