Updates

Alright so I'm obviously super awesome at keeping this up. Since I haven't posted since March (whoops), here is where we are in life now:

•  We moved to Utah in April
•  Nick is working for a company called Autoliv designing airbags for Nissans
• Koen started nursery in May and I LOVE THAT HE GOES THERE!
• I am a stay at home mom
• I am 13 weeks pregnant with baby number 2

So pretty much that's all that's new with the whole family. Surprisingly, nothing much. But Koen has come a long long way. He's almost 21 months now. What the heck happened to my little baby boy and when did he get to be so big?? So I guess here is an update on Koen:

• He has quite the little temper now if you don't do what he wants (say, put on his shoes or go outside with him)
• Very big vocab now. Pretty much mimics almost everything Nick or I say to him
• He's in nursery now but he puts up a fight every week so we just leave him and then he's fine
• He will sit and watch movies now. Every morning I go get him and after his daily asking for daddy (because I get him out of bed because daddy leaves for work at 7:45), he will ask for a "foofie" (movie). Movies that he loves right now: Cars 2, Gnomeo and Juliet, Despicable Me, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon...
• He tells you what kind of food he wants to eat: affo (waffle), oggy (eggs), fishy (fishsticks), and some more that I can't remember right now
• He gets really excited to brush his teeth. We tell him it's bed time and he says "bus tee? bus tee?"
• He lets us know when he is stinky. He'll fart and then giggle and say "fot! fot!" 
• He is still in the 0 percentile for weight. At least he was in May. He's been eating better lately so hopefully he's moved up a little bit
• He likes to throw his blanket over his head and then walk around
• He sees cars and not only points them out, but says "CAR! CAR! CAR!" over and over and over again. And then he goes "car! voo voo"
• He likes to throw his arms behind him and squat down and walk like a weirdo
• Whenever Nick sits or lays on the ground he demands that Nick lets him get on his back so they can play together
• He LOVES when Nick comes home from work. He runs from wherever he is and looks at the door and says "daddy?" It's super cute to me
• He gets into the dishwasher and pulls stuff out to play with it. I have lost quite a few of my kitchen utensils to him
• He tries to clean himself up after he eats. He grabs the paper towel and says "mess" and wipes his face. Or sometimes when I clean him up he just tries to lick the paper towel.
• He doesn't like when doctors come near me. I had to get my blood pressure taken today and when they put the cuff around my arm he started whining and saying "mommy, mommy". It was kind of cute that he was worried for me haha
• He watches golf with Nick and sometimes says "fo!" His grandpa Paul taught him to say four and swing a golf club to a ball. Yay. Another golfer in the family...
• He loves to find balls and say "ball! kick kick!" And then kicks them

So I think that's mostly everything...sorry it's kind of long but it's been a while and I want to remember these things. The other day I was talking to Caitlyn and Koen did something funny and I told Caitlyn and we both said that I needed to write it down, and later that day I couldn't remember what it was for the life of me. Now that I think about it, it might have been the fart thing...Hopefully.

So now I will complain about where I live. Haha! Just kidding, sort of. So we live in Utah now, and you would think it wouldn't be so bad, right? Well it is. The people here have all of their family around them so they don't bother even trying to make friends in the ward. We've been here since April and we have made ZERO friends. The relief society president hasn't said one single word to me since my first Sunday. Our neighbors are somewhat lame (Mike and Camille please move back here so we can be neighbors again). Once Nick was playing with Koen and the lady below us freaked out and pounded on our floor. Since this wasn't the first time to happen, I went down to ask her why on earth she was pounding on our floor at 4:30 in the afternoon (hello? Not even late) and she replied to me that it sounded like we had a herd of effing elephants in our apartment. I told her I had a year and a half old kid and he was playing with his dad. She told me to control my kid. HA! She doesn't have kids. But I went to the managers and filled a complaint form out. The next day there was an apology letter stuck to our door. She said she was sorry and embarrassed and wouldn't bother us about it again because she doesn't want to get in the way of our kid having a childhood. Funny thing about all of this? She's in our ward. Yup. Happy friendly people out here. It really hasn't been all bad though. I live sort of closish to Caitlyn, not that I see her ever haha. But when Nick goes out of town for business (man he's so grown up) I can go and stay with them. And there are some friendly people in our ward. I just am too lazy/shy (yes, I said that) to talk to people I don't know so I wait for them to come to me. It's a wonder I ever made friends haha. Sorry. I'm really not complaining. I know I would enjoy Utah more if I got out there and made friends. Nick and I are looking into some townhouses that are just down the street from us. That's where all the friendly people in our ward live. But we'll see.

I guess just to prolong this post I can write about my pregnancy. Yay! So we found out back in May, had the first ultrasound June 28, heard the heart beat today (July 26). Also, this pregnancy has been slightly more difficult than when I was pregnant with Koen. I know, I know. Not all pregnancies can be perfect like with Koen. This time I have had just a little bit of nausea, but no puking thank goodness. I have been really unmotivated lately. I feel bad for Koen because we don't go outside very often because I'm always tired and not up to chasing him around. I already have heart burn. I already feel like I'm showing. Also, the last 2 weeks I have been having a hard time eating. I'll get really hungry and then eat, but then I start eating and after 2 or 3 bites I can't eat any more. As a result of this, I dropped 4 pounds (oops). So the doctor told me if I drop any lower I need to go back in. She told me to have lots of Jamba Juice. Yeah! I love Jamba! Good bye money. Hello delicious smoothies!! One bright spot in this so far. We find out what we're having 6 weeks from tomorrow. Nick really wants a girl. When I told him I was pregnant he was like, "Well, it better be a girl this time." He's very excited for either. I don't really care what we have as long as it's healthy. A girl would be nice though. I see little girls clothes and hair things and it makes me want one super bad. But if we have another little boy I will be excited because Koen will have a little brother, and I won't have to buy new clothes.

Okay, so that's my life. Now I'm going to go and try and figure out Koen's halloween costume. Also, sorry there's no pictures. Look on facebook.