Welch Family Adventures: July 2012

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

From NE to ID

Two nights before the kids and I left Nebraska our family had so much fun on our trampoline. I absolutely love trampolines. However. . .

The night before we left NE, a pretty fierce wind blew our trampoline through our fence, down the hill, onto our neighbor's car (a car that had previously received damage from another flying trampoline in Colorado) off the car, over another neighbors fence (breaking it), and landed bent and broken in their yard.

Nathan and I were at a work dinner while this all happened. The best babysitter in the world was babysitting our kids in our house where all our belongings had been loaded into the moving truck earlier that day. If this wasn't bad enough, the storm caused the power to go out. We came home to find shingles off our roof, the whole trampoline incident, and being 8 months pregnant, I had to sleep on the floor because we couldn't blow up the air mattress we had left out due to the power outage. Nathan drove us west and we had a great trip, then he flew back to Omaha to work and clean up the mess from the storm. Luckily some great friends helped us get it all done and he was able to leave the next weekend, and do the whole drive straight through to meet up with us in the house we are renting in Twin Falls, ID. We have enjoyed it so far and have been jet skiing, hiking, swimming, playing with cousins and enjoying the summer while we wait for the baby to come and for Nathan to start work.

Pregnancy Shot in Nebraska before we moved. I miss our back yard!

Pregnancy shot taken in Idaho.

Still pregnant

And still pregnant!

Pierce was born 18 days early so I assumed this baby would come early too. I'm now 6-11 days away from my due date and a bit surprised every morning when I'm not in labor. We're not sure if my due date is the 24th or 29th. Either way, we are excited for baby #4 to come whenever he does. We love him already.

I got this photo idea from my sister Jessica-thanks Jess.

This picture pretty much sums up why we're having another kid. I love my happy children!

Austin is beating his strong chest like a gorilla.

Funny Kid Quotes

Pierce is going through a phase where he likes bum bum jokes. One day he said, "Mom shake your boobies" and so I said, "did you just say, 'shake your bum bum?'" he replied, "No, shake your nursing thingies."

I didn't want to put Pierce's socks on because I had just put on wart medicine. He really wanted his socks on though so he told me that I should just put them on because they were wart approved. -age 3

Carter: When Carter was 2-3 years old, he would always stand up on his chair to eat, turn around and shake his bottom while chanting, "shake my doody, shake my doody, shake my doody."

Pierce: "Oh! There's a traffic jam!" He was pointing to about nine cars lined up waiting to turn left. I love how he has no idea what a real traffic jam looks like because we live in Idaho.

Carter: Carter says he is going to have twelve kids when he grows up: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, Hans Solo, etc...

Carter just said his bedtime prayer and it went a little something like this: "Thank you for Mommy and thank yo for Cinderella and thank you for all the princesses."

Carter: "When I grow up I'm going to marry Cinderella."

Mommy: "Really?"

Carter: "Yes, I'm going to marry Cinderella if she wears a blue or a pink dress, not a white dress."

Mommy: "Will you kiss her if you marry her?"

Carter: "Yippee!"

Carter: "Mom, can I take a bath next year?"

Mommy: "Yes Carter, yes you can."

Mommy: Pierce, we don't say "ha, ha."

Pierce: But ha, ha is my favorite word!

Mommy: Why is your face covered in chocolate?

Pierce: I didn't eat anything. . .

Pierce always says "Oh" whenever you tell him things. For example,

"I love you Pierce." "Oh"

"You're so fast!" "Oh"

Pierce's alter-ego is a dog named Fetch. Sometimes when he is pretending to be Fetch, if he is called upon to pray, he will just bark the whole prayer.

Mommy was on the beanbag with the two older kids, Pierce was playing by Carter. All of the sudden Carter started crying and Pierce yells out, "Somebody else did it!" October 2013

As the older kids were getting ready for school, Pierce walked up and said, "I checked my calendar and it says you need to stay home and play with me." Nov 2013

I was trying to get Pierce to try a mini quiche at Costco. After offering a piece of candy for one bite eaten, Pierce replied, "I'm trying not to eat too much candy. I had a lot of candy on Halloween and now on the other days I try not to eat too much candy." Nov 2013

If the kids keep getting out of their bed at night, I'll put them in their car-seat for about 30 seconds. One night Pierce was struggling so I said, "Pierce if you get out of bed, I'm going to put you in your car-seat." He replied, "That's not an option mom."