Who wants an update?!?

I hear a bunch of "I do" so I guess I can share what we have been doing. First off I finally had my ultrasound and yes we are having a baby! Wahoo!! The baby is healthy, but measuring pretty small (20 weeks when I was 24) so the technician said that according to her computer our due date would be the middle of July. Since I am measuring how many weeks I should be pregnant I at this point am going with my original due date of the beginning of June (-3 weeks because I am always 3 weeks early) so I guess this baby can come safely anytime between the middle of May and the middle of July (oh bother!). I think it is one of those things that we will just have to wait and see about (and yes I am shaking my head a little).

So here is what Madalynn has been doing: teething, pulling herself up into a standing position and this week she even took a few steps along things (once again I am shaking my head!) Lets be honest as Mothers when your first child shows signs of walking at 9 months you get excited and think, YES my child is AMAZING! With every other child you look at them and think, really?!? Can I push you down without hurting your chances of ever walking? I mean I want Madalynn to walk before Baby #3 comes, but I don't want her walking now! The other thing she is doing that I am shaking my head at is deciding she is big enough for finger foods, which wouldn't be a problem if she had more than one tooth. The other tooth finally came through this last weekend, but it still makes for messy food because she doesn't want to eat off of a spoon and she only has two teeth, sometimes I don't even know what to feed her! She is also talking, she can say da da (which is really mommy) and daddy along with duck. Yes I wrote duck. My mom gave her a plastic Donald Duck toy and she loves it, so we started calling it duck and one day she just decided to say it with us. For some odd reason I don't think we will be needing to teach this one sign language so she can tell us what she wants.

Sarah has been doing really well lately, getting bigger and more courageous. She climbs everything and therefore there isn't a safe place in the house to hide things. If I put it under a bed Madalynn gets it, up high and Sarah gets it, so no hiding places for us. Sarah is also becoming really sweet with Madalynn, she loves to play with her and laugh with her and try to teach her new words (though I think Madalynn is a ways off from saying Sarah and blanket and cheerios). Sarah loves to go to the park and play and lately the weather has been nice enough that we have gone at least once a week. She is also really big on going to the store and helping us with things and she loves to hold the coupons! Sarah and I do school at least once a week and she is really good at patterns and numbers and can write the letters A, O and I (we are finding them all over things, like the walls and our car!) She also loves learning about colors and which colors mixed make other colors (probably because I get out paint and she is allowed to paint something). We are slowly moving towards a Celiac diet with her and have taken her off all milk, expect raw milk, that doesn't seem to bother her. Her rash is going away and only comes back when she does eat wheat/milk products, so we are pretty sure that she is Celiac and just got a false negative on her test. Personally I love that she isn't always itching and cooking meals without wheat isn't as hard as I thought it would be, we are going on our second week now and everyone is still alive!

Creed is still enjoying his job and now carpools most days with his friend Nells, who isn't a member of the Church. This leads to some awesome discussions that Creed than shares with me, which I love. Also we have finally closed on our house in Springville, and we are so excited about that! I still coupon and am loving saving money, this last week at Albertson's I saved around $200, it was fun! We are studying Isaiah together and that has been a ton of fun. We use Gileadi's help (isaiahexplained.com) and I warn you that it took us 4 hours to get through the first chapter (we were taking notes and chatting about it). Man is Isaiah interesting when you understand it! Anyway, that is pretty much us, oh wait, Creed also has gone to the local skate park for some rollerblading fun, Sarah came home and told me that "Daddy tried to kill himself two times!" meaning he fell twice. I haven't yet decided how I feel about it, I know he enjoys it, I just wish he enjoyed something that wasn't so dangerous!