Naming the baby

So we appreciate all of the votes that have come in on the selected names for this boy. That being said, we cannot seem to decide on one that fits. If you have any other suggestions please feel free to post them for review in the comments. We need all the help we can get!!!

a day at the zoo

While Jacob is has his last week of freedom in between jobs, we decided to do some fun family things. We went to the zoo on the 14th and had a blast. It is so fun to see her react because everything was new! The only thing was it seemed as though the fake animals or things you could see anywhere were the most entertaining. This is Taylie sitting on a statue of a rhino.

again, with the fake animals. This was a HUGE wooden elephant that had a motion sensor so when you would walk by or sit on him he would "sneeze" and spray water out of his trunk all over whoever was standing in front of it.

this is a little better shot of the elephant. She would have been so happy if we spent all day sitting right here letting her get sprayed by the water.

This is some sort of small monkey. I believe that she was trying to wake it up so it would play

More monkeys....I think that she was showing me where her eye was.

Taylie and daddy with the rhino.
Aren't they so cute!?


black bears

zebras


This baby giraffe is actually as close as it looks!


We decided to have her take a ride on the merry-go-round because she has never done it before. It was so much fun!! She really didn't want to get off. She was so sad when it was over, but you can tell that besides the wooden , water spraying elephant, this was probably the highlight of her day.
she loved riding the elephant with dad!
When we told Taylie that we were going to the zoo last sunday, all she could talk about all week was going to see the "elles" . She was so excited to see an elephant she talked about them all day. As you can tell, her favorite "elles" were the water spraying one and the one that she could ride on the merry-go-round. The real ones were not as interesting I guess.

If you have been to Hogle Zoo, you probabl6y recognize this. It is how big you measure up to a gorilla. She stretched and reached to be as big as she could be. She is not very big as you can tell.

This is after our 3 1/2 hour trip to the zoo. She was a little worn out, but at least we know she had fun!

hair and makeup already?!

When I get ready for church, Taylie loves to watch me and tell me how "peety" (you know, pretty?) I look. It is so nice, because I am "peety" when I have curlers in my hair, I am brushing my teeth or any other time I am not looking my best. She wanted to put a curler in her hair to be like mom.



She then grabbed my mascara and started poking her cheek with it thinking that she was putting on makeup. It is just too cute for her to have one curler in her hair, my mascara in one hand and my eyelash curler in the other. She actually know what they are all for, I am glad that she doesn't know how to use them yet!


mommy can be "peety" too

fun little hiding places

One day, it was much too quiet around our little place and so I went looking for Taylie. I found her hiding my corner cabinet, just sitting. She wasn't doing anything but sitting and just taking some time for herself. It is pretty funny, when she goes and sits in the corner there we just kind of give her some time to chill out and she seems to come out pretty happy! Don't you love the socks and the sandals?

I asked out loud: " where's my Taylie?" and she popped out and giggled because apparently she had found her binky, which she shouldn't have except at nap and bed time, and was enjoying herself!I think that sometimes she just likes to see where she can fit. This is in a diaper box squished on a shelf under our TV. I am not sure how she got in there, but she was happy that she could do it.

New due date

We had our 21 week ultrasound on Friday and the doctors agreed that they would go ahead and induce me on Friday November 21, which is the weekend before Thanksgiving, if we have not had the baby already!!!! Nobody wants to be in the hospital on Thanksgiving whether you are a patient or doctor. So, this baby will FOR SURE be born by 11/21/2008! woohoo!

Baby name vote

Sorry to those of you who already voted in the baby name selection. I had a little glitch and it had to be started over. Sorry, please vote again!

Fun at Grandpa's

This is still memorial day, but this is from lunch and I just thought that it was really cute. All I could really get her to eat was watermelon and it got everywhere.

After the lunch and the swimming we had to giver her a warm bath so she wouldn't freeze, and after she was clean and warm and dry, she decided that it would be a good idea to climb up on top of dad while he was playing video games with uncle Jared. It made for good entertainment for the rest of us...not so much for Jacob.


Taylie and Jeremy switching sunglasses. She was wearing his "Top Gun" style and he wore her little tiny blue glasses. Cute huh?

Memorial Day

I know that I am a little bit behind the times just posting pictures of memorial day, but oh well. This is the day that Taylie took her famous 70 degree swim in Grandpa's pool. She went over to show off her swimsuit and ended up splashing her feet, then she went up to her knees, and then Grandma started dipping her in up to her back and after that she had to jump in. Grandpa was such a good sport and said that he would get in with her so she could play. As cold as Grandpa was, he was such a good sport. I think it was hard when she would kick and splash cold water all over him.

This is her favorite game to play. She stands on the edge of the pool and if you count: 1..2..3, she will say: ready, go! and jump in so grandpa can catch her. It was at about this point she started shivering and when I got her out, she kept saying in a shivering voice, "more..." I doesn't matter how cold she gets, she just wants to swim!!

It's a boy!!!

I know that these are not the clearest pictures but we had to let everybody know that it is officially a boy !!! The top picture is of his....boyhood...a picture that I am sure he will not appreciate me brodcasting to everybody. It is a view of his bum looking at the back of his legs and, obviously, what is between them. The second picture of his face with his hand right up next to it, at one point he was waving his hands around. I am not sure if he was saying hi or if he was protesting the fact that we were spying on him. Anyway, I think he is quite a stud...just like his dad!

second swim of the season

Our little Taylie might as well be a fish. She loves the water!! This is a picture of her swimming for the second time this year. The water is about 80 degrees and she had such a fun time!! The first time she swam was actually on memorial day. We were not expecting her to swim because the water was only 70 degrees!!!!! She went from splashing her hands to kicking her feet to just wanting to jump in. She had so much fun and thought that it was great. Grandpa was such a good sport and got into the pool with her so she could jump to him. When she started shivering and we got her out all she would say was "more" in a shaky little voice. She can't get enough of the water.