Who needs an ultrasound?

So I was on justmommies.com determining how far I am (15 weeks exactly today) and it said I was far enough along I could take a gender prediction quiz. What? I have never heard of this. Why isn't this universally known?

It asked me about 10 or 15 questions, things like 'Are you carrying high or low'(low) and 'Are you craving fruits and veggies or meat and cheese' (fruit and cheese so I just clicked the former). Very technical. Here is what it concluded:


I mean 50% that's a pretty high percentage. I'm so glad we don't have to wait a whole month to find out from the ultrasound. We're going out to buy boys clothes tonight!

Best Buddies

Now that Eric is gone a lot more than he used to be Lily kind of just clings to him when he is around. It is so cute how she just follows him around like a little puppy and continually says "no, Daddy do it" whenever it comes to a diaper change, bath time, making a meal... and nice for me because I get a little break—even if it is only for a couple hours.

Regression Already?

So I heard that sometimes when you have a new baby in the house your older children regress a little in order to get back some of the attention they feel they've lost. The other day I was getting some stuff out of Lily's closet and she spotted her old baby table. She had me get it out, put her in it and then she just played in it for like fifteen minutes! I was able to get in the shower worry free. It was pretty nice. But hello, she was spilling out of it. I thought she looked so funny I had to take some pictures.







This isn't good. The real new baby regression isn't due for six more months. Oh, did I mention I am pregnant?

um...an Afghan Princess?

So my dad did a tour in Afghanistan a year and a half ago. He worked with plenty of natives while being there and of course made friends with them. So as one prepared to move to the U.S. of course my dad helped him out. As a thank you this man's mom hand made this gorgeous traditional Afghan outfit for my dad's only grand-daughter: Lily. When my dad returned Lily was about five months old and I thought it would be years and years before she could ever fit into it. By her second Halloween, we figured she was close enough. Where could she ever wear this ornate outfit? Luckily we had three different events she could get a little mileage out of it. Unfortunately taking pictures seemed to be an after thought for us so we didn't get anything really good. The best one I got was on my phone, but my phone is not savvy enough to figure out how to get it to my blog. Anyway, here are a few pictures we got at our ward party.





Do kids ever look so cute it makes you laugh? I couldn't stop laughing every time I caught a glimpse of her. The only trouble with this costume is whenever someone asked what she was going to be for Halloween there was no short answer. The worst was when we went to a kids Halloween party and they went around in a circle and sang a short song about each kid ("Johnny is wearing his super suit...") So when it came around to Lily I had to think of a two-word answer really quickly so I just blurted out "Afghan Princess". Needless to say that was a wordy limerick for the rest of the two-year olds to sing.