Deja Vu

So it's the 13th of March and it's feeling a lot like it felt this time last year.  Bill had what he thought would be a totally sweet internship at a company he really wanted to work for coming together only to hear on Friday that for some unexplained reason they don't even want to interview him.  What?!?!  It feels a lot like last year around this time when a bunch of potential internships didn't come through.  So here we sit, a month from the end of school and no internship or job in sight.  Oh joy.  Last summer a job never was forthcoming.  We did odd jobs for family and friends and somehow made it through.  We are hoping and praying that that part of the deja vu doesn't repeat itself.  It wasn't that great.  I will say we were really blessed and have made it through this last year despite that.  So if you happen to know of anyone hiring or have any job connections, we're all ears.

Aside from the very present need to find summer employment, this turn of events has really made us rethink where we're headed.  Bill only has one semester of school left and we've been looking at grad school options.  With this super sweet internship we thought we had, it was looking really good to stay put here, do grad school at BYU, potentially have a job waiting afterward and we'd go along our merry way.  Tons of our family lives here.  How could that not be a good solution?  The funny thing though is that I've been feeling lately that we really aren't meant to stay in Utah.  I didn't have any basis for the feeling since everything seemed to be falling into place, but with this turn of events, suddenly it doesn't feel so strange.  So we shall see how the future goes.  I don't think we're destined to stay here, which is just fine, though definitely uncertain.  There's so much to do.  A job to find, the GRE to take, schools to apply to, and lots of decisions to make.  Who knows, maybe this time next year we'll be in another state.  South Carolina is looking pretty good.  Or maybe Pennsylvania or even Oregon.  We shall see.

Christmas Stockings

I know it's March, but this is a project that was slow to happen after Christmas.  My mom made a super cute stocking for Spencer last year and I decided to make stockings for the rest of us to match.  I came up with four patterns, so there's one for me, one for Bill, one for the new baby, and one for a future child or a friend that comes to visit or something like that. :)  They're not completely sewn together, but they're as far along as they are going to get until I get names embroidered on the top.  I really like how they turned out! I crocheted the snowflakes to go on them and freehanded all the rest from ideas I got online.  It was a fun project.

Abu!

Spencer loves to play peekaboo.  For weeks or months he's been initiating it himself.  So cute.  Anyway, he's just starting to mimic what we say if we ask him to.  And tonight he finally got across to us that he knows how to say boo himself.  Except he says it "abu!" It totally makes sense when you think about how you always take a deep breath before you say shout boo! at someone.  To a one-year old, that's naturally part of the word.  I love it. :)

Goodbye First Trimester!

Here's to being 1/3 of the way through my pregnancy!  If it was my last one, I would be rejoicing because the morning sickness would be leaving, but since I haven't been sick this pregnancy, I'm just happy to be a little bit further along.  Here's to easy pregnancies!  I finally had Bill take a picture of me this morning after I came home from running. And then I cropped my head out of it because it was rather scary.  Ha ha! 

 And for comparison's sake.  Apparently my head was scary last time too :) :

I'd say I'm bigger, but maybe not as much as I thought.  I'm still running and doing workout videos, so we'll see how it all goes down in the end.

Switching Rooms

We've had so much fun having Bill's dad living with us for the last four or five months.  Unfortunately for us they closed on their new house last Friday so he moved up north and we don't get to have him around every night.  As a result though, we were able to switch around Spencer's bedroom and our office so that we could put two beds in his bedroom.  The office was the bigger room before, so now we've switched.  A couple months back we reorganized the living room too and as a part of this we moved the bookshelves out of there and into our office so that room looked a little less cluttered.  I like how it all turned out.  Here's the results.

The Office 

The Front Room

Spencer's Side of the room 

Spencer's other side of the room :) Soon to be the new baby's

Spencer's Toddler Bed

I guess we could have gone straight to a twin-sized bed, but I have to say, this toddler bed I made is absolutely adorable.  And it fits in the bedroom we have with the crib, so that's another plus.

Needing Spencer's crib in about six months for the new baby was a great excuse to get out my tools and build something again.  The finish turned out pretty nice.  It's always my least favorite part of building because I've had several pieces turn out not so great at that step.  I'll figure it out sometime.  This one was mostly a winner.  If you get close, you can see some of the mistakes, but who looks for those? :)  And you know what the best part of this bed is?  It cost me about $60 to build.  That's after a $10 mistake of cutting a bunch of boards too short.  I love being able to build things I could never afford to buy.

Beds, Playing Outside, and our own little Quasimoto

I've slowly been building Spencer a toddler bed that he can start using sometime between now and when the next baby is born.  Mostly it's spent the last month sitting outside built but needing a final sanding, staining, and to be assembled.  Bill's mom was in town this weekend, so I got it sanded and we decided to put it together and see how Spencer likes it while everyone was there.  It's not stained yet, but otherwise it's done.

We put it together in the living room and dragged Spencer's crib mattress out to put in it.  The second it was in, Spencer came running over and jumped on it and then started rolling around playing all over it. He loves it!  It was so cute to watch.  He's certainly not ready to sleep in it, as he won't actually lay on it for more than about half a second at a time, but he sure loves playing on it. The plan is to switch our office and his bedroom and then set both it and the crib up in the new room, which is much bigger than his current one.

Spencer loves, loves, loves being outside.  He'll just sit at the window or the door and stare outside.  The other day I took him outside to wander around.  This is what he did the whole time.

 Played with his truck.

 Walked all over our back and front yard.

And pushed this little scooter around that is our downstairs neighbor's toy.  He even got on it once, but promptly fell off and decided that wasn't the best idea.

So last thing.  Yesterday morning Spencer woke up with his eye almost swollen shut.  We had no idea what caused it, since it wasn't like that when he went to bed.  It got better throughout the day but when he woke up this morning it was all swollen again.  Today though, we figured out what caused it.  Spencer woke up this morning but then quieted down for a few minutes before we went in and got him.  When Bill opened the door, he was leaned against the corner of his crib, totally asleep, pressed against his eye.  Crazy kid!  Here's how it looks.

Flopping

Bill's siblings used to wake each other up by running in and jumping on top of each other.  That might be the worst way I can imagine to wake up, but really funny if you're the one doing the flopping, as they called it. Spencer has decided he also likes to flop people.  He started running up and falling on us a few weeks ago and I finally got a video of sorts.  He's not flopping anyone, but he's also started swan diving on the bed whenever we put him up there.  So funny.  When he flops us he does the same thing, just on us. :)  It's so funny.  This kid has such a great sense of humor.  I love it!