Go, go "Pauk"

I know that I've put a lot of video's on here lately, but I think it's fun for grandma and grandpa and extended family who don't see her in person that often to actually see her in action. When she got up from her nap yesterday Miss Peanut said go, go pauk - translation lets go to the park. I took her in the evening yesterday to feed the geese and then we repeated this video at least a dozen times before I finally had to take her home for the night. She loves so much to be with all the big kids and do most everything herself.

(For some reason the video seems really pixely and there is a high pitch squeal, but it's fine when I view it on my computer - maybe because it's small? I don't know, so sorry. And love the videography of the pregnant women climbing the jungle gym :)

I had to keep her in her stroller while we fed the geese because the 2 mommy geese were quite protective, hence I didn't take a video of them because I was thinking I was going to have to wring myself a goose. I would give Miss Peanut a piece of bread to throw and she would hold it out and laugh as I'd throw more to them, then she would eat the piece and repeat until we ran out of bread.


After bathtime last night she finally got to see daddy who has been working a lot since we've been back and I just never can get enough of these two together especially when she laughs like this.

Take me away....

I must say that coming back from a relaxing vacation makes reality... daunting. Miss Peanut stayed with grandma for a week, which was wonderful. However, she had a little more freedom getting to hang out with her Aunts Emorey and Mackenzie and she does not want to be any kind of little anymore. I've lost track of how many meltdowns she's had this week readjusting - but I'm telling you its ridiculous. So between the meltdowns on my part and Miss Peanut's and the pile of laundry I've unburied myself from, we've been exhausted. So to catch up here are a few of our favorites from our trip to the Bahamas.

Lucayan National Forest Freeport, Bahamas. This a small area that didn't burn down just two weeks before we arrived. The rest of the forest was still smoldering. We went there to see one of the worlds largest underground cave systems - but we were kind of restricted where we could tour, but we did spent a few hours at Gold Rock beach and an area/resturant known as Banana Bay.

That was where we both got to nap in a hammock for a while - just doesn't get much better than that.

Nassau, Bahamas Port and street shops.

The view leaving Nassau.

We spent one day on this private island.

We both had had enough UV exposure at this point so we hid under umbrellas when we weren't in the water snorkeling. The umbrellas don't really give you any real shade so we covered them with our beach towels which did a great job of keeping us cool.

This was our view from our chairs. We snorkeled out and around that large "rock" in the middle of the picture and saw some great stuff.

With underwater cameras it's kind of hit and miss, but this picture of an eel turned out pretty great considering that Officer dove 25-30 feet down to take it.

Coral and Fish

Officer diving; I didn't feel the need to post diving pictures of my pregnant self trying to defy buoyancy; I had a ton of fun, but seriously not worth preserving on film - thanks anyway Officer.

School of Fish

Surface of the water from underneath

Coral, fish and Sea Urchin.

Blow fish.

Last sunset of the trip.

This is how you look after 6 kid free days, where you get to sleep through the night and you don't have to cook or clean. Bliss. I did miss Miss Peanut terribly though - there were lots of little kids around and you can't help but miss your kids.

A little something growing around here.

We've kind of kept it quiet at least on the facebook/blogger world of things, but many of you, mostly our family, know that we are expecting baby #2. For those of you who didn't know - we're finally filling you in. Here's a picture from a couple months ago of our little "Squirt," as Officer has already nicknamed this one. We'll be halfway here in just a couple weeks, and so far things are going pretty smoothly. We're debating somewhat, but we'll most likely find out what we're having at our next appointment in just a couple weeks. We're due October 13-ish , and with any with luck this little one will wait long enough for officer to go on his annual hunting trip and come home (Hunting season opens October 10). Odds are in his favor seeing that I was overdue 1 1/2 weeks with Miss Peanut, only time will tell.

so busy, busy...

Miss Peanut is getting to be a handful - could I expect less - not really, but she always has us laughing. We bought her a toddler bed a few weeks ago and although we haven't really tried having her sleep in it much, she is learning that she can climb it and reach new heights in her dresser - the second drawer. Of course that is where I have all of her wipes and diapers stashed...this is her caught in the act (Cheez) of emptying the entire wipe container onto the floor one wipe at a time - wipes are way more fun than kleenex. I, of course, had a hard time keeping a straight face, but she was so good to help me put them all back in the box afterward - what a big helper!

Her next fascination has been with Q-tips - for whatever reason. This cracks me up because the camera didn't even faze her, this was when she realized that daddy had caught her.

Aparently her artistic ability is most inspired when she is not clothed.

Miss Peanut's new favorite spot to play; the basket in her closet.

Her favorite "chair" when we read our scriptures, it's actually our empty bookshelf(empty because she has also discovered that shredding paper is really fun). I tried to get it all on video because she will put her snack on the shelf and her drink and then get her cute little bootey up there and sit - its hilarious. I probably shouldn't let her do things like that, but oh well. Sorry the video is a little dark.

She has so many aunts, uncles, and cousins that we've been trying to teach her to say their names when we point to pictures on the wall. She does really well with the ones she sees all the time, but the ones that are far away are harder. Here's just a couple, but then she got distracted by daddy and the lawn mower.

Her cousins taught her how to jump this past weekend, I was impressed at how well she did for being just 17 months.