25 Random Things and Pictures (of course)!

I have been tagged to do this several times on Face Book so I thought I might as well post it here also! Here is my list:
1.I am the only girl in my family and I like it that way. In fact I would love for Mya to be my only girl. Everyone always tells me I missed out on having sisters, but you can’t miss what you never had and because I had no sisters my mom and I are very close and I like that!
2.My new favorite thing to do is to see how much I can save at the grocery store each week. I love it when the amount saved is more than what I paid for the groceries.
3.I also like to see how long I can go without going to the store. Right now I am aiming for next Saturday, we’ll see if I make it.
4.I LOVE Peeps – yes the little marshmellow chicks covered in yellow sugar! I can eat a whole box in one day by myself!
5.I HATE Halloween. I loath it even more now that I have to come up with costumes for my children.
6.I wanted to be just like my dad when I was little. I even started biting my nails because he did and now it is a nasty habit that I wish I could break!
7.I am not a night or a morning person – I would love to go to bed by 10pm every night and sleep until 10am every morning!
8.I love getting things in the mail. I love it when I have ordered something off the internet because I can track it online and see where it is and when it is getting here.
9.I am online way too much. I told Tim this is what happens when I stay home all day!
10.I can’t stand to just stay home! As a result we probably go to one of our parents house to hang out 4 or 5 nights a week. Before Mya came I took Ky to the dairy probably 3 or 4 days a week.
11.I would love to live where it is warm all year round because I hate being cold and I love summer clothes! Winter clothes are too bulky and hot!
12.I very rarely wear a coat no matter how cold it is outside because I hate carrying it around once I get inside, it’s just easier to be cold for a few minutes.
13.My favorite calling in church that I’ve had is being a relief society teacher. I thought it would be scary, but I loved it!
14.I avoid Walmart during all major holidays so that I don’t have to run into people from high school. It’s not so much that I don’t want to see them, it’s that I have a hard time remembering names and I feel bad when someone knows me and I don’t have a clue who they are!
15.I am really bad at keeping in touch with people (as most of my friends from high school know).
16.I recently went through labor the “natural” way which was not planned and I plan on never doing that again. Our hospital has a policy that you have to be dialated to a 5 to have the epidural, and I went from a 5 to a 10 in 30 minutes and the epidural lady showed up just in time for me to start pushing. My doctor has promised me I don’t have to wait until I’m a 5 next time!
17.For most of my life I said I was going to adopt kids because I didn’t want to go through labor.
18.I thought I would like to go back to teaching someday, but the longer I sub the more I think that I will just sub the rest of my life – I like the freedom of choosing when I work.
19.I (and Tim) would love to be able to travel someday. We are both history buffs and we would love to go to Europe and see all the historical stuff and the fun stuff of course too!
20.Two of my favorite movies are “Chicago” and “Moulan Rouge”. My husband thinks these are horrible movies (as do a lot of people), but I really enjoy the music in them! I love musicals!
21.I call my daughter Leah (her cousin’s name) a majority of the time – ya, I can’t even remember my own kids name.
22.I should have known I was having a girl before we found out because ever since Kylan has been born in all my dreams I have a little boy and a little girl. Sometimes I would even wake up looking for her.
23.I talk and walk in my sleep especially when I am overly tired. When I was in high school I would wake up in the shower.
24.Even though I have never slept with one of my kids in bed with me, I had nightmares right after Kylan was born and now Mya that Tim or I had rolled over on them in the night.
25.I love watching all the wedding shows on the WE station even though I am already married. I just can’t believe how much money some people spend on one day. Seriously people it is one day, go buy a car or put a down payment on a house rather than spend that much money on ONE day!!!

Two weeks and Two days

At the last basketball game. This is one of my favorite outfits on her, but not the best picture. I will be sure to take a better one next time she wears it. She is just passed around between grandma, Aunt Lynne, Reed and the uncles during the game. Also, I have to put a little plug in for the Varsity team this year - they are doing AWESOME! They have only lost to Monogue in league and we should have home court advantage next week in the first round of Zone since we are pretty solidly in 2nd place right now! Great last season coaching for my dad!

Kylan and My-My. We have always called Kort Kortie My-My (his middle name is Myron), and so Kylan always calls him My-My or Kortie My-My. If you ask him where Kort is he is confused! Kylan LOVES the basketball games, and will just sit on someone's lap, eat Skittles and watch the whole game. He even cheers!

Kylan loves to hold Mya, but only for short periods of time. He was telling her Hello because he and dad had just gotten back from getting milk at the barn.

And the cute little girl herself in her valentines jammies. She has the big Adams eyes that most of my family has and her eyes are way more blue than Kylans were, so hopefully they will stay blue. We do have blue eyes on both sides of the family. Her hair hasn't started falling out (yet) and everyone loves it! It is really soft like Tim's and her hair is usually pretty greasy by the end of the day due to everyone rubbing it! She also seems to have Tim's skin because she is pretty red all the time, as were Tima nd Cam, the two darkest ones in Tim's family! Good for her!

The Big Brother Chronicles

I want to start recording all the funny and kind of scary things that Kylan does or attempts to do to Mya. So, here is the first installation of the Big Brother Chronicles.

• When Ky wakes up the first thing he wants to know is where baby sister is and then he wants to see her, even if she's in bed.
• When I change her diaper and she is screaming (she hates clothing to be removed), he will try to push me away from the changing table and gives me a really nasty look like I am hurting her on purpose
• Kylan tried to feed her popcorn last night
• He also tried to hit her over the head with my high heel shoe he had been wearing around - both Tim and I stopped him after seeing in his eyes what he was thinking of attempting.
• He loves to put her pacifier in her mouth when she starts crying and likes to make her toys "dance" (turn on the music) to help her stop crying also
• He wants her to watch movies with him in my room - but I am too nervious to leave her on the bed with him where I can't see her (shoe incident)
• He calls her "pretty girl" and "cute girl" and loves her fingers and toys
• Not too often, but once a day probably, he wants me to put her "over there" (in her bouncy seat) so that he can sit on my lap or play with me. It breaks my heart, but is usually when she is cranky or eating and I can't.
• He has started catching on to the fact that when I am nursing her or doing other things with her, he can do things he isn't supposed to do (my mom warned me about this). As a result I have become pretty good at nursing while standing and walking around.

Just a few of the things that have happened at our house with two kids. I have to say the adjustment hasn't been too bad, in fact she seems so much easier than Kylan was and I don't know if she actually is or if it's that we know what we are doing now. Of course I always hear it's the third one that throws you off, but right now I'm thinking I will be able to handle more someday (which makes my husband very happy)!

First Doctors Appointment

Mya had her first doctors appointment today, and I am finding it funny how she seems so much easier than Kylan. I think it's that I know what to expect. One thing Tim and I laugh about is that her crying doesn't put us into panic mode like it did with Kylan. At the doctors office, I was totally relaxed and not bothered at all by her crying while the nurse checked her out. I'm also not as stressed about the sleep thing. I guess I know that it will end, she will eventually sleep the night and I will catch up on my sleep.
Mya checked out well. She now weighs 7lbs 3 3/4oz and is 20 inches long (I don't think she actually grew an inch, she is just less scrunched). Her belly button cord thing fell off on Sunday (thank goodness, both my kids cords have fallen off in a week) and any jaundice she may have had is gone now. It's just very weird to think that I could have been going to an OB appointment today instead of taking my sweet girl to her 2 week check. She is already a part of the family that I can't imagine not having!!!

More Pics

The first two pictures were taken before chuch on Sunday. We made it before the opening prayer our first Sunday with two kids and both of them slept through sacrament meeting. It was a miracle - Kylan hasn't fallen asleep at church in over a year!!! Tim told his mom Saturday that dressing up my baby girl to take her to church is something I have been dreaming about since we got married, and I couldn't disagree!! It was so much fun to put her in her first little dress and tights (which didn't touch her legs because they are so skinny) and put a bow in her hair. This is going to be dangerous! When I went to take a close up picture that was the only "smile" that Kylan would do. It wasn't really grouchy, he just wouldn't smile right, but I thought it was funny!
The bottom picture is how she likes to hang out. She LOVES her pacifier and will sit in her bouncy chair or swing or lay on the ground holding it in her mouth wide awake - she was falling asleep in this one, but same idea! I think she is going to end up being a thumb sucker once she is coordinated enough to find it, but for now she likes the pacifier!