A little bit of Easter

We had a fun day before Easter today. Kaulana was out of town today but Kala and I made our rounds! First we stopped at our ward Easter Egg hunt, which Kala quickly caught on that you needed to run, just wasn't sure where to. Then when he realized the eggs had candy in them he wanted to stop and open each one individually and just east the candy, forget finding more eggs! Then we made our way over to brunch and easter with the Wood family. Grandma Wood always makes a fun easter egg hunt for all the grandkids and boy did they have fun today, my nephew Connor was the lucky one who got thrown in the pool to get the easter egg at the bottom. (As well as a killer easter brunch, a special thanks to my mom who keeps going out of her way to make sure I still feel special even when I can't eat some of the yummy treats by going and getting me some gluten free ones! she is so wonderful!) We are so blessed to have so much loving family. 

Kala thinks his cousin Connor is so cool, and Connor is such a good big cousin watching over Kala all the time

getting ready to release the monsters

"mom THERE'S MORE CANDY!"

some of our fun Wood cousins

Kala

Kala is just... Kala. Oh my goodness he thinks he is sooo big, and he is... he's almost 2! He found some paint in one of my craft drawers one day and decided to... I have no idea paint himself. I don't think he even knew what he was doing. This kid is non-stop but he is so happy the entire time, I just can't help but smile. While Kaulana was at priesthood session the other day, Kala and I were eating dinner and watching a movie on my lap top. All of a sudden in the middle of our meal he decided we needed to pray... again. and again. and again. Needless to say we prayed at least 10 times ( I am not exaggerating in the least). He kept telling me to pause the movie then he would bow his head mumble in his Kala language then all of a sudden say MEN. Which is his, amen. It was hilarious. Kaulana came home and i told him the story, turns out at that exact same time, he received lots of inspiration. Little man was just praying for his daddy to be able to understand and hear the things he needed to hear at priesthood. Well Kala likes to pray quite randomly now and we just have to stop whatever we are doing and let him pray before we can move on. I sure love my sweet Kalamaku and the beautiful spirit that he brings to our home. He teaches me more each and every day, I just pray that I can be to mother he needs me to be and more.

OOOOklahoma

So as I said in my previous post My sister and I got to go spend time with family in Oklahoma. I haven't been out there since my brother got home from his mission in August of 2009 so it was so wonderful to be there. Kala had so much fun playing with all the kids, getting barely any sleep (not fun for mom haha) and ...well I guess he didn't have fun on our ever so long drive. We had Kala, my sister's 6 month old and her 3 and a half year old with us. Talk about a three ring circus, it was quite the drive, but well worth it to see so much family and great friends. Between juggling all the kids, we both failed to take many pictures so this is all I got! Kala just love thinking he was one of the big kids, but didn't show any of my family the happy, loving boy he was since he was always so tired, he was 100% mama's boy! I sure love Oklahoma, particularly in the spring. The song "Wide Open Spaces" comes to mind every time I go. It has my kind of space, too bad there are no mountain because that really freaks Kaulana out haha. To say the least we had so much fun and were soooo grateful for the opportunity to even be able to go thanks to all the support we recieved from family.

playing with his cousins Taryn and Eloise... he thought he was so cool.

First time on a John Deer lawnmower, a must for an okie

On my return I got the most beautiful flowers and card from my amazing husband... I am so lucky! I sure missed him!

A temporary loss

My sweet Grandma Shumway passed away a few weeks ago. My sister Melissa and I along with two of her kids and my sweet Kala drove out to be with our Okie family. She was one of the most beautiful caring, service oriented, shopaholic, kind hearted women I have ever known. She truly taught me some of the most valuable characteristics of the kind of person that I aim to be. I know most of you don't know her but, I felt I needed to say something for a while, but I just couldn't put into words how I was feeling. I tend to distance myself from everyone else, and kind of "lock myself in a corner" if that makes sense when I am feeling this way. And I think I finally figured out why I was feeling so distraught over her passing, because I KNOW I will see her again, but as I watched them put her veil over her face and close her casket, I felt part of my just completely shut down. Her services were just so beautiful, she was SO beautiful. I just couldn't seem to get her face out of my head every time I closed my eyes all I saw was her. As I have tried to figure out what the heck I'm feeling and how to move forward, I think I just came to realize how much I was like my grandma and how much I have aimed to transform my life into the person she was. My whole life I have been told just how much I am like my mom. Which if you have ever seen us, we are just twins it seems like. But having not really lived by the Shumway side, I never came to realize, how much more there was to me, a whole other side of me, that I truly am. Between the Shumway celiacs that I've discovered I have and the characteristics that I find in myself that I so cherished in my grandma... I am a Shumway too. I will miss my sweet grandma but I am so grateful for the knowledge I have of eternal families and being able to be together again. 

it's a boy

So I know this is way behind but I decided I still wanted to document our fun announcement of our second little boy! I made some lemon meringue pie and colored it blue since gluten free cake... well i haven't found a super delicious friend worthy recipe! The blue leaked out from behind the meringue so we went to the back up plan and put blue confetti in black balloons for our sweet Shirley family. We had so much fun making our little announcement and were thrilled to be able to enjoy their excitement for us!

coops face is the best!!

Our little boy, seems not so little anymore...

My little man just seems, not so little anymore. As we are preparing for our new little man to make his arrival, I just can't get enough of ... all of this

airplanes

a new love of sand

an all time love of watermelon

morning breakfast cereal with dad 

an evergrowing love for his best friend Evelyn

He has become sooo independent and strong willed. But he still has his oh so sweet love and smile that I just can't get enough of. He wakes up each morning so thrilled each morning as he knows he'll get an hour or two with his daddy, waking up saying BALL BALL as if begging to play with dad. He also has a new love for Trucks. He can't quite make the ck sound so he calls trucks, cars, motorcycles... trUH. For example we were at Fry's the other day, he insisted on getting one of the carts that has the car for the kids to ride in, in the front. He happened to get out of the cart and I asked him to get back in the car... he yelled at me and all he said was TRUH, TRUH!!! haha, point taken, "it's a truck mom". I love this sweet boy and all his new and evolving quirks.

an allergic reaction

Well Kaulana says it's an allergic reaction, Kala thinks it's a drum, I know it's a BABY! We are excited to finally announce that we are having a new little addition to our family come August 11!

(I am 19 weeks 2 days in this picture)

Announcement 2, IT'S A BOY! We are soo thrilled to be having another boy. Kala keeps trying to wrestle his little girl friend Evelyn. She just looks at him like he's crazy. He needs another boy to get some of his testosterone out.

We had our ultrasound this past week and our little guy is quite the show off! When he first revealed his gender he put his hand out like he was giving us a high five, then we were talking about how we were excited for him and Kala to be able to play sports and he clasped his hands together which looked like he was saying "ya i'm going to be rookie of the year!", then a few minutes later we saw his hands again and he had his hands together like he was praying, we went down to his knees and they were kneeling, so we were joking he was praying and all of a sudden he shoots his legs straight then crosses them at the ankles. It was hilarious. He was playing to our every word. He was sure a show off. My goodness this kid is going to be a hand full. With the sweet... extremely active boy kala is I would expect nothing less! So I guess i'll start my own little weekly journal of updates!

how far along?: 19 weeks 2 days

total weight gain: No idea i have a dr's appt on tuesday!

maternity clothes: yes, kind of, mainly for comfort, but more the inbetween awkward stage where the maternity clothes makes you look totally fat but by other clothes are a big too snug. So skirts and summer dresses it is! I swear my stomach is growing exponentially faster than it did with kala

best moment of the week: finding out we are having a BOY and seeing the fun playful guy he is!

movement: every so often. he was very active the day before and the day of the ultra sound

food cravings: today, chocolate which is so weird because I have not been too fond of sweets

labor signs: none, but lots of round ligament pain

belly button in or out: half of it is out and the bottom half is in, it's hilarious just trying to start peaking itself out there

what I am looking forward to: two boys wrestling in my living room and watching them play sports side by side

milestones: for one, i'm just about half way if I were to deliver at 39 weeks just like i did kala! as well as finding out the gender, so awesome!

realization of the week: when I have not one but TWO boys, it's not just one boy always running back and forth back and forth, non-stop, it will be TWO. Talk about a crazy house! haha