Bugs and Sibling Love

Our entrance-way attracts a lot of bugs, so anytime someone knocks on the door and I answer it, 10 bugs will fly in the house (most are box elder bugs). We have a really pesky fly that got in, and I wasted 20 minutes trying to get him with our bug zapper the other morning. I finally gave up and went to finish getting ready. When I came back out of the bathroom, P1 had found the ping pong paddles and was walking around with them saying "bug, bug!".  We still haven't been able to get that fly, but whenever P1 sees it, he yells "bug, bug!" and goes for his paddles.

Today, P1 fell asleep coming home from the grocery store. I left him in the truck while I took P2 and the groceries inside. I was out by the truck when he woke up, and he was really startled and confused. He started crying, and I got him out and was carrying him inside, when he cried out his sister's name and pointed back at the truck. I had to go back and show him that she wasn't in the truck and tell him that she was already inside. He was still worried, but when we came up the stairs and he saw her, he finally smiled and ran over to her. I think P2 has a pretty awesome big brother already looking out for her!

Prophets

We had the great opportunity to listen to living prophets this weekend during General Conference. During the week before, I spent time teaching P1 about the prophets. When we watched it he actually recognized President Monson, and he did a pretty good job of sitting through the morning sessions (nap time during afternoon sessions!). He also liked to call anyone in a suit a prophet, including the choir. And whenever he saw the Conference Center he would point and yell "Temple!." This morning, he grabbed the remote and said "Watch prophets!", and I had to explain that they weren't on the TV today. Maybe we'll have to watch some more online. :)

I really enjoyed Elder Richard G. Scott's talk. He spoke about using the 4 simple tools of prayer, scripture study, family home evening, and going to the temple. He said that scripture study is more important than sleep. I decided that I need to try to wake up before my kids do so that I can have some uninterrupted study time. And I want to go to the temple more often. I went last Tuesday, and truly felt peace, love, and power. I felt more enabled to be the mother my children need me to be. So even though it is hard to go with young children, it is definitely worth going.

I am grateful for the inspired counsel from living prophets!

P1 at Church

P1 is a pretty good boy at church. Coloring keeps him occupied for most of sacrament meeting. Yesterday he tried to sing the hymns with us, and it was adorable! And whenever a child would go up to bear their testimony, P1 would perk up and want to see who was speaking. We had our Primary program a couple weeks ago, and he loved that! If adults are speaking, he doesn't care at all, but as soon as he hears a child, he starts paying attention!

And P1 just loves nursery! He gets antsy by the end of sacrament, because he knows he gets to go to nursery next! And he runs down the hall to nursery, saying "Nursery, nursery!". And the nursery leaders love him, and always tell me they wish they had 5 more of him. On a side note, I rescued a boy in nursery from being eaten by a shark! A girl was chasing him around with a toy shark, and he kept saying "Sharks don't eat people! Sharks don't eat people!" and he kept getting more and more upset. He was near tears, and the nursery leaders weren't there yet, so I stepped in and asked the girl to stop chasing him.

PE and I got called to be primary teachers. We are going to team teach with another couple, so that should be fun! I'm excited to be in primary again! And when I went to Relief Society, I had several women tell me that they would be more than happy to hold my baby while we taught primary.

3 Months

Our little girl is 3 months old! I can't believe how fast she has grown, but at the same time, I feel like we have had her in our family a lot longer than 3 months. She is a little sweetheart. She is full of smiles and is a happy baby unless she has a dirty diaper. She has recently decided that she likes her binky. She is taking a bottle better too, so that makes it easier to leave her with someone else for a while. She can go pretty long between feedings, and if I try to feed her before she's ready, she gets upset at me.

She enjoys bath time, except for the time P1 decided to give her a shower. I had the water still running and was starting to wash her hair when suddenly the water started coming out of the shower head and landing right on poor P2. She was not pleased about that.

She loves to chew on her hands, and pull blankets and burp clothes up to her face. She is "usually" a pretty good sleeper. I still get up at least once during the night with her. I've stopped changing her diaper in the night, and that helps her go back to sleep faster. She is getting better at getting her hands out of her swaddle; I have to re-swaddle her often in the night.

P2 has discovered her voice. She loves to jabber up a storm when not sucking on her binky.

 P1 really loves his sister, and is so sweet with her:

Sleeping like a baby:

All ready for church:

Full of smiles (and spit-up)

Playing peek-a-boo with the burp cloth:

Smiles and jabbering:

We love our little angel, and at 3 months I feel like I've finally gotten into the rhythm of being a mother to two.

Chilean Independence Day

We celebrated Chilean Independence Day on Saturday. We had a great turn out, and it was so much fun to catch up with everyone! One of the families we haven't seen since we've been married, and most everyone else we only see about once a year. Including us, we had 14 adults, 6 kids, and 4 infants.

It was fun to have all the kids over, P1 really enjoyed running around with the older kids.

P2 was great! As long as she had her pacifier, she was content watching everyone from the corner.

We simplified this year and just made empanadas (2 batches beef and 1 batch of cheese), completos, mote, and torta de mil hojas. We only did one recipe of the tortas and got 6 mini tortas, but we still had leftovers so I guess it was enough! And as always, we had way too much empanada meat and hotdog buns leftover. But they make good leftovers! We did 3
 lbs hamburger, so could do 1.5 lbs and be fine. And we only went through 2 bags of hotdog buns.

The kids had a lot of fun playing in the backyard. Who doesn't love digging in the dirt?

Thanks to everyone who came!!

Smiles and Music

P2 is full of smiles these days! It so much fun when they start smiling at you! And I love these cute jeans we got for her!

PE taught P1 about earphones the other day. He was fascinated!!! He had just been playing with them, and then PE showed him that they played music! He was very concentrated on holding them up to his ears. And when he was listening to "Bare Necessities" from Jungle Book, he kept saying "Cookie Monster!" I guess he thinks Baloo sounds like Cookie Monster??? 

State Fair

We went to the State Fair this month. PE actually won us free tickets from the radio, so we invited my family along. We didn't take a stroller with us, which I regretted. We had a carrier for P2, and P1 was fine for the most part. But a stroller would have been really nice.

P1 enjoyed seeing the animals, but he liked to keep a little distance from them.

We made sure this year to go on the day they had the rabbit judging. So we had fun looking at all the different rabbits.

The baby animals were the best part:

And P1 got to see his first reindeer!