Family Pictures and a Dog Bite

So my brother-in-law is leaving tomorrow for the MTC. We are so EXCITED for him!! And so naturally, we took family pictures on Sunday before we won't all be together for at least two years. We took many pictures and got a few good ones. It's more difficult when we put the camera on a timer, all hurry in position, and expect two one year olds to look (and smile) up at the camera with no one behind it. I don't know who was the genius, but someone thought to put a singing toy at the camera and that got the babies' attention. :)

This picture was the winner and will be hanging up at my in-laws for a while. Derrick kept mentioning how "out of place" I look in this family with my skin shades whiter than everyone else, as well as my super blonde hair. Even Aaron fits with his darker skin. Oh well, I guess. I actually thought I was more tan than usual this summer! Apparently not!

This was the best one of our little family of 3½. Never could quite get Aaron to smile, and he's playing with my hair, but at least he's looking, right? lol

The grandparents wanted to do a shot with their grandkids. I think Aaron's face is HILARIOUS in this shot. Obviously, it didn't go too well. Did get some ok ones with Ella holding keys and Aaron holding grandpa's cell phone though.

Then we decided to do some of just the babies. These ones are my favorite. :)

I don't know if Aaron understood or just liked me talking to him, but I asked if he wanted a treat. And this was his response! :) Made us all laugh.

So then I had to give the babies a treat.

And they were pretty excited about it! :)

We were just walking back to the car, and Derrick's mom took this one.

And this one, where Matt wanted to be a part of it as well. Matt sure knows how to always make everyone laugh!

So overall, pictures were quite a success considering everything that was not in our favor (namely two babies).

Well today, Aaron and I met Nicole and Ella at the park. It's so funny to see the difference between these two kids. Ella has no fear (probably more just not knowing any better) and just goes wherever she wants whenever she wants. Aaron, on the opposite hand, is very cautious and will not even go onto grass from cement. And if he does, he crawls over in case it's too steep of a step (which rarely it is steep enough to need to crawl). There was a bridge up to the playground, and this had little affect on Ella. She just walks right up and down. For Aaron, it took me holding his hand the entire time for the first time. And every time after that, he would hold the banister and take these baby steps while holding on the entire time. He looked like an old man who was afraid he'd lose his step at any moment and holding on for dear life. I should have got a video, it was so funny.

But while at this park, the babies decided to go and meet a puppy. This puppy was very cute and obedient, but jumped up on Aaron pretty quickly. She licked Aaron's face, and nipped his cheek before I could separate the two. So now he has two teeth marks on his little cheek and wouldn't go near that dog again.

As you can see, it wasn't bad at all. There's a tooth mark up by his eye, another lower (can't really see) and his cheek is pink. I'm just glad it wasn't worse as this puppy really could have gotten his eye.

I hope he's not super scared of dogs now as he really has always loved them. And I am also debating on whether I need to do more about this dog bite... As technically, there was saliva/blood contact even though it was small. I guess I'll just call the doctor and see what he says... it's not like I don't already call him every week I swear lol

It's a boy!

Yes, we are going to have another little Aaron running around our house in 4½ months! :) And there is no way it's a girl. My little man had no shame all throughout the ultrasound. I saw what he was before the nurse even told us, and we weren't even looking for the gender at the time. We were looking at kidneys and bladder and all that fun stuff. The nurse could tell that I saw (as I think I gasped a little bit or squeaked out some kind of noise in surprise/excitement) , so she hesitantly asked, "Did you want to know the gender?" I said "Yeah." And then she said, "Ok good. It's definitely a boy. I've seen it a few times but didn't want to tell you in case you didn't want to know."

I am SO excited! Derrick and I both thought that this would be a little girl, but I guess that little girl just has to wait her turn to get down here (which I can feel she is not the happiest about... she wants to come down NOW!). I was a little more wanting a boy as then I don't need to buy all new baby stuff right when we are planning on moving out of state. It will help out during that busy time for sure. I also wanted boys close together so they could be good buddies. :)

Derrick more wanted a girl as he thinks boys close in age tend to fight more, but last night he was really starting to get excited for another boy. It was fun to see him get all smiley and excited for another son. :)

The only thing I was bummed about not having a girl was my girl's nursery would be music themed. I have since been told by numerous people to still go with it for a boy (as music really shouldn't be just a girl thing, although it still kinda feels like it), so tweak a few things (like no pink) and I still get to do my music even with having a boy. :)

So Derrick and I have the hardest times choosing names... and we had a boy name picked and pretty much finalized, so when the nurse said "boy" I thought "Oh the name is easy then. Yeah!" Umm... just kidding! Derrick looked up our name to see how popular the name we liked was, and now found new names we like... Is this process hard for anyone else?! My goodness! My goal is to just have a name before we are in the hospital... finding out my husband didn't like Aaron's middle name during labor wasn't fun, as well as the pressure of turning a birth certificate in before we left. I'm determined to have a final name before that. So stressful on top of everything else to choose a name in the hospital.

Sorry this post is long with no pictures to break it up. The ultrasound pics are hard to see when I scanned them in, so thought they'd more be a waste of time to put up.

The State Fair

We went to the State Fair on Wednesday since I didn't have Young Women's that night. We went with Derrick's siblings Nicole, Nicole's daughter Ella, Jared, Jessica, and Jessica's husband Trevor. We had LOTS of fun and saw many things. It tuckered out Aaron, who fell asleep on the stroller ride to the car... to become wide awake again the whole car ride home! Made no sense, but he sure talked our ears off the whole drive home.

Aaron didn't like the animals much. He was more concerned than entertained by them. If an animal came too close, he swatted at them and tried to get away. Pretty funny.

Babies checking out the kangaroos!

The Kangaroos were the only animals he really got close up to by himself. (Well, he did poke a sheep) He did enjoy watching them. But this little guy ran up to him faster than he liked...

And he quickly ran away to not go near the cage again lol

Waiting for the hypnotist show to start!

My bro-in-law was chosen (thanks to me pointing at him while his eyes were closed!) and was by far the star of the show. This is him being Justin Bieber all throughout "his audience" at "his concert!" So funny! I was crying I was laughing so hard!

Jared was a very dramatic sleeper. He is currently on the guy next to him falling off of his seat.

Jared was told there was a smiley face on his index finger. Jared was really happy about this.

Was told the person next to you was a giant teddy bear... he is in the plaid shirt buried underneath the people next to him. He really got into the cuddling.

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Sleeping again...

Here's one of my bro-in-law Trevor sleeping. He didn't stay hypnotized for long, for which I am sure he is grateful so that he could watch Jared

I promise there were animals in the background, but I guess they didn't show up. Did think it was a cute one of Aaron though :)

Aaron was very grateful for his blanket at the end of the day :)