(R)Emily's Baptism

Today, Ross's (Scott's brother) fiance, Emily, was baptized! We refer to her as Remily (Ross's Emily) sometimes because one of Scott's other brothers, Doug, is married to an Emily. It was amazing. Emily asked Scott to perform the baptism, which, obviously he did. The spirit was very strong and we could tell that Emily felt it too. She was confirmed right after. Did I say yet that it was awesome? It was awesome. Congratulations, Emily! We love you!

When it rains, it pours!

So, to add to it all for Park, he and Annicka were jumping on the castle down stairs last night and bonked heads. Park definitely got the short end of the stick. He got a nice shiner out of the deal. I'm not sure how well you can see it in the pictures. I couldn't seem to get a good picture of the damage. It looks worse in real life.

This picture was taken before the black eye. He was having fun playing with Annie's potty booster. A little gross, I know, but she never uses it and Park thought he was soooo funny.

Poor, poor, Park

Yeah, yeah, it's been another month. Can you tell that I'm scrounging for something to post? The last few days have been rough on Park. Sunday night on the way out of the house to grandma Chamberlain's, Park fell down the garage steps and blackened his eye a little, not too badly, you can hardly tell anymore. Monday he tripped in the living room and landed face first on a toy and bruised his cheek really good. You can see it on his right cheek in this picture. Then tonight he was playing in the windows behind one of the couches and got himself stung by a wasp. Poor, poor, Park.He was really good about keeping his hand on the ice bag.
It stung him on his left index finger. Can you tell how swollen it is?
I chose this picture because Annicka looks a little drunk in it.
And to end on a good note, these are the potatoes I dug up from our garden last week. We got about 20 lbs. out of just one row of plants. I was pretty proud of myself!

Preschool

Annicka started preschool last week. We're doing it joy school style where each of the mom's in the group take turns every week teaching the class. Annie has been really excited about it, especially since she gets to do it with her cousins Matthew and Carter. Today they even made banana bread! Yummy! She had it for lunch today.Here she is at Aunt Lori's house on her first day!

20 week ultrasound

Well, today we had our 20 week ultrasound. Everything went well, and the doctor said that the baby is looking very healthy. No visible defects. This is a profile view. Very cute, don't you think?And now, the moment you've all been waiting for...drum roll please...it's a BOY! I know this makes Rachel happy...you better get cracking, girl!
He definitely made himself known, even the doctor said three or four times about how easy he was to find. I think he really needed to make sure that we knew he was a boy, mostly because Annicka has been saying that this one will be a girl baby and the next one will be a boy baby. And, also because over the last few weeks I've thought maybe it was a girl. I've even been having dreams that it was a girl. Maybe this just means that Heavenly Father wants me to know that there's another girl waiting for us. Anyway, we are very excited! His name will be Indie Glenn Chamberlain. Indie, because we just like it, and Glenn after my Grandpa Minson, who was, let's face it, really awesome.

I know, I know...FINALLY!

So, I've taken a few weeks off from blogging. It seems about every year at this time that I have a few weeks where I don't have anything to post about, or I just need a break. Part of it is that I've gotten really busy since we came home from Stinky Falls. I started babysitting a little girl in our ward who is Park's age, Monday-Wednesday. I also started my advanced writing course online. Many of you have already heard my complaints about this English class and my professor. It also doesn't help that the one class I've always struggled with is English. I don't do horribly, but I have to work harder in English than in any other subject I've ever taken. I guess I'm just a mediocre writer, what can I say? And then to make it an advanced writing course, that is required, where I have to write a million critical essays...well lets put it this way, a lot of my time, free or not, goes into this one class. I swear it should be a six credit class as opposed to a three credit class. I guess I'm just all written out by the time it comes to blogging. So, enough of my complaints...here are some pictures of the the kiddos from the last few weeks.We went up the canyon to make s'mores with some of Scott's family one night while Scott was out of town.
Annicka with uncle Ned.
When Scott is gone, Park tends to attach himself to any male that is available. This is his cousin, William. Most of the time it's uncle Ned, or uncle Ross, if he's in town.
Our next door neighbors were kind enough to share icecream cones with us one night, and as you can tell, Park LOVED it! Our own little Santa Claus in August.

Time for the toddler bed.

Well, a few nights ago Park broke his crib. If you've read Scott's sister Lori's blog, you'll see what I mean. We have the same crib. Park was shaking his crib like CRAZY one night (I wouldn't doubt it if Annicka was helping a little) and Annicka came into our room and said, "Park broke his crib." We went in and sure enough the spokes on one end had come completly apart. So the next day I went to our neighbor's house and took one of her extra toddler beds.
Ever since then Park has decided that he is also too big for his high chair. He insists on sitting at the table like the rest of us, he won't even sit on a little booster chair we have. He even throws a tantrum every time we try to put him on either the booster or in the high chair. What a funny kid!
And, of course, we had to throw in a picture of Annie.