Little Miss Chloie Kae

Chloie is getting so BIG! She is such a little person now it's crazy.
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE being home with her, she is one hilarious, curious, crazy, fun little girl!
Here's just a little bit of what we've been up to lately.
She loves to "help" me when I'm working on and she acts so interested in everything I do, I hear a lot of "whats that?" and "why?" and "o I see".
 She loves to help me cook, she has to have her own spoon, or spatula and she likes to help me measure and add ingredients (I love to cook so its fun to have her be so interested in it as well).
Every morning we have to same routine (for the most part) she wanders into my room, helps me make beds and then she gets in the tub (She gets so excited about baths, they are her FAVORITE!") Then we get her dressed and make breakfast together. When we don't do this it makes for one ornery Chloie.
She's been so good with washing her hair and putting away all her toys when she is ready to get out I've started folding and sorting laundry while she is in the tub (which I do in the hallway just outside her bathroom So I can keep an eye on her, I swear I'm not that neglectful) and the other day I was folding and stopped watching her for a split second and I hear "OH NO, MOM! OH NO!" then giggling, so I look up and this is what she was doing....

Scared me to death, at first. Then I had to grab the camera and get a pic of this little monkey. She thought she was pretty funny and kept trying to climb back up. So after telling her NO a few times and saying "that scares mom, don't do that." she says "no no, ma!" and touches the handle and screams like she is terrified of it. I haven't had any problems with her climbing on it since. :)
She is back to sleeping through the night in her own bed, HOORAY! She got 4 new teeth in all at once (we are a little behind getting teeth, she didn't get her first til she was a year so we are still dealing with the teething stuff) so she was a little grumpy the past week... But now she's back to being Chloie. :) Which makes me VERY happy! She's always been such a easy baby that it kinda throws me for a loop when she is more... difficult... then I'm used to.
She is very friendly with our oven lately... her reflection is her best friend it seems. We go from dancing and singing and reading books to the oven to screaming, yelling angrily, and (fake) crying to the oven. It's pretty entertaining.
She is FINALLY starting to be more verbal about things (the sign language has helped out a lot with chloie) She is starting to say the words as she signs them instead of signing and whining, and has started saying short sentences with out signing. (which is a big deal) She's always been rather quiet so for her to try to communicate is so nice!
She is also developing a bit of separation anxiety... but only with Ben, if I leave it's no big deal but when he leaves she has a melt down. The other day she stood at the garage door while he was trying to leave and screamed "NO DADDY! NO!!!!" and cried and hung from the door nob. So he tried to give her hugs and kisses and calm her down but that resulted in her hanging on to his neck for dear life! When we finally pried her off she SOBBED into my hair and said "Bye, dad, see you!" between dramatic sobs for about 20 minutes. She really LOVES her daddy. :)


Even though I have the occasional frustrating day with Chloie. She really is the easiest kid and I am lucky to be able to be with her 24/7! I wouldn't want to miss a minute of her craziness! :)

Sleepless nights and Baby #2 update

I don't know what my kids (Chloie, baby, and Allie) have against a sleeping mom.
Chloie hasn't been sleeping through the night for the past week and I FINALLY get her to go to bed on time and to stay asleep in her bed and what does Allie do?? Wakes me up every hour by barking, liking me, whining, getting in to garbage... ya know, the usual. Then when Allie finally lays down (4 o'clock AM) The baby starts kicking... Then Ben gets up makes a shake (blenders at 5am are extremely loud) then plays video games (also loud). So by this point I've given up on sleep and decided to start cleaning... Then Chloie wakes up and pees... on MY bed. Great!
After all of this I realize... This is just the beginning. I will be up all night for the next few months, whether it be with Chloie, Allie, or the Baby (or all three). I think everyone is just helping me get used to it early. So In reality I should be thankful for my cute little girl keeping me up late and waking me up early, and my dog reminding me of how a baby will wake up every hour on the hour and need my attention.
But I would be even more thankful for one, just one, full nights sleep in the next 5 weeks before the baby comes. DREAM BIG!
:)

I did, however, get the BIGGEST hug and kiss follow by "lub you, mommy" this morning. and Ben told be I look pretty (before make-up and hair were even thought of this morning) and said my belly looks smaller today then it did yesterday. So even with no sleep my family still loves me.
What more could I ask for...



On to baby #2 update.
I am in my 35th week! (5 weeks and 6 days to go!) So close to being done! :) If she comes early like Chloie did I only have about 4 weeks. But seeing as I haven't gained nearly as much weight and she seems slightly smaller then Chloie I doubt that will happen. So a Christmas baby it will be, most likely. :) I haven't gained any weight at my last 2 Dr. appointments (even with all the Halloween candy I ate. odd, right?) but I am still measuring about 2 weeks big. Which is good (means the baby is gaining and growing). She is also a very active baby, even more then Chloie was, She likes her space too. She kicked the Dr while he was trying to measure my belly. And I mean kicked (repeatedly) I think she surprised him the first time cause he jumped back a bit. It was funny. She kicks anything and everything that touches my belly, She doesn't like to be touched it seems... Everything about this baby so far is opposite of Chloie. I can't wait to meet her!

 I keep hearing from people that I don't look more then 4 months pregnant, TRUST ME  I FEEL IT! Heartburn, shortness of breath, braxton hicks, sore ribs and hips and all. But compared to the pregnancy with Chloie this one has been a BREEZE! Which I am incredibly thankful for, makes chasing Chloie around so much easier then I thought it was going to be. :) And I'm not dying for it to be over, don't get me wrong I am so excited to have the baby here and to have some energy. But being pregnant right now is really not that bad and I think I can make it to my due date with out wanting to punch my husband in the face (for those of you who haven't watched "what to expect when your expecting" you need to! its HILARIOUS).

Happy Halloween!

This year I decided to make Chloie's costume and it turned out pretty cute!

Her cute cousins, Paisley, Rylee, and Hadlee were tinkerbell for halloween so I thought it would be fun to have Chloie be a fairy too.


It was so much fun this year, Chloie was actually interested in what was happening. (last year not so much)

We went to my parents ward first for trunk or treating and she was hilarious. She would not talk to anyone! Normally the child doesn't stop. I think she may have been overwhelmed by all the people running around dressed up all crazy. But she would take candy from people and run to either Baylie or I (whoever was holding her candy bag) and put the candy in it, EXCEPT for the dum-dums. She had to hold all of those. :)
After that we went to visit my Grandma and Grandpa Fowlks and were greeted by "grandma" (My grandpa wearing a wig pretending to be grandma). Chloie LOVES her Grandpa-Great but would not go near him til he took off the wig. She spent some time playing with Grandma-Great and some spider rings (she had about 8 rings on her tiny hands at one point, She loved them).

Then we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Andrus' ward for their trick-or-treat. It was a lot of fun following Chloie and her Grandma around the Church getting more candy and seeing everyone's costumes. (Royalyn kept making sure to introduce us to everyone, Chloie as Ben's first little girl and my belly as Ben's second little girl. (She is such a cute grandma! :) ) Apparently people were shocked by the fact that we already know what we're having and that I am due in just over 6 weeks. I don't feel like I'm that small, in fact I feel rather large.)
 By the time Ben got to the Church we had gone around the whole place and collected TONS of candy. (Ben was working at the fire station and didn't get off til after 7) Chloie was having a blast running around the gym gabbering at everyone and watching Charlie Brown. I guess the fun really wore her out. She passed out within minutes of getting home and in her pj's. :)

It's so fun to spend time with family on holidays and the bigger Chloie gets the more fun it is!

Hope you all had a happy Halloween!