It's a Boy!

Baby boy, due at the end of August.

The anatomic ultrasound confirmed it today. Dani is going to have a little brother. The last few days I feel like my belly has grown a LOT. Everything measured within normal limits, but he is a little bigger and heavier than average (~9 oz). Dani measured at a lower percentile than he is measuring right now, and she was 9lb. . . I guess I just have big babies.

Doctor Dani

When Dani received scrubs for Christmas she was not very excited about them and refused to try them on. Today, however, Trent was on home call and was called in for a surgery. She ran to grab his scrubs for him so that he could get ready. I offered to put her scrubs on her and she was quite excited about this idea.

While Trent was showering, she dressed up in her scrubs and we packed her pockets with all her equipment and played doctor on her stuffed animals.

She was quite excited to show her Daddy her scrubs and "doctor tools" when he got out of the shower.

As Trent was grabbing his pager, wallet and phones, Dani ran to the door and held the door knob ready to "go to the hospital". She was quite sad when she learned Daddy had to leave without her. It took Trent a few extra minutes to get passed her because she was so determined to go with him because she was all ready like he was.

Happy St. Patricks Day

These glasses were given to us by a friend. Dani LOVES them!

Sunday Best

To celebrate the coming of Spring and warmer weather, I dressed Dani in one of her lighter dresses. I took some pictures since she has not been able to wear the Jacket with this dress before today.

Tall & Skinny

Tonight we went to Activity Day for the girls in our Primary. They were preparing babysitting kits with fun activities to do with little kids and they needed a few kids with whom to practice their new skills. I brought Dani since I know she loves games, stories, songs, bean bags, and stringing necklaces out of fruit loops.


She particularly liked "playing" the game Duck, Duck, Goose with the girls. She didn't really understand the concept of the game because every time someone said "goose" she ran, even if it wasn't her turn. She held her pants up each time she ran. I have avoided using belts while potty training because it is so difficult to pull them off and unfortunately, this skinny little girl still has trouble keeping her pants up.

Dani made lots of new friends at this activity and LOVES attention from the older girls.

Birthday Fun

We had a fairly quiet day for Dani's birthday. The two weekends previous to this we had parties at other kids' houses and so I decided to take it easy for her birthday and didn't invite anyone over. Luckily my Dad was in town so someone did come to celebrate with us.

We started the day by making her cake. One of Dani's favorite activities is cooking with Mom. She loves to add the ingredients after I put them in the measuring cups or spoons and loves to attempt to stir it together. She picked out the recipe (orange) for the cake and the mold (a cottage or "castle").

After making her cake, she really wanted to eat it, but we had to wait until Grandpa came. We went to the zoo while we were waiting. It was too cold for most animals to be out, so we enjoyed the warmth of the indoor aviary. Upon leaving we were excited to see Mr. Rhino come to visit us. He is quite old and normally is not one to move.

Afterwards Dani picked out a stuffed flamingo to buy from the gift store. Every time she says the word Flamingo it changes, (flayng - o - meen is most often used). Grandpa arrived shortly after we got home from the zoo and we opened presents, got pizza at Papa Murphy's and ate cake.

Dani was particularly excited about her new dress up clothes (her beads, "parkle shoes" and fairly wings - from Jess and Grandma & Grandpa) and her new doll house furniture (living room set, child's bedroom, accessories for baby, & dining room).

After opening presents she played doll house with Grandpa and the babies and parents all ate at their new dining room table.

Trent and I bought her quite a few puzzles (12, 24 & 42 piece wooden puzzles) thinking some of them were too advanced for her, but within a month she surprised us and quickly mastered all but the 42 piece one without help.

Lately she has also been really fond of her stuffed Bolt dog. She likes to give him kisses and call him her "sweet puppy" and telling him how "cute" he looks wherever he happens to be sitting. We've also been enjoying dancing to Laurie Berkner band CD and DVD. If I get around to posting it, you will see how obsessed Dani is with dancing in her skirts ("dirts") lately.

Mary

A few weeks ago, Dani put a napkin on my head and called me Mary. So it was not a surprise to see her put her blanket on her head and pretend to be Mary today.

It was also fun to see her hair afterwards.