Honolulu Zoo with Naveen Andrews

On Friday we took Kali and Krew to the Honolulu Zoo. We thought we would call our friend Naveen and his girl friend Barbara Hershey and his son Joshua to join us!! JK So what really happened is we were sitting on a bench having lunch when Naveen (Sayid from the show Lost) comes and sits down right by Kali, I first just saw his profile and I was thinking that is crazy that guy looks so much like Sayid from Lost, then he turned at looked at me and I was like, Oh that is Sayid from Lost. I thought in my head, I should ask him to get a picture with Kali, but then quickly decided to just leave him alone and let him enjoy a day with his family. So they went on their way and we went on our way. After we were almost done we ran into them again and my mom was like, "should I take his picture from right here?" I decided no lets just go ask him, so we did, he was really cool and at the time we didn't realize who is girlfriend was, but we looked him up when we got home and realized she was a movie star herself, Barbara Hershey, she is in the movie, "Beaches." I had a pretty relaxing day, but my mom got a workout pushing me around in a wheelchair. Thanks mom! I love taking Kali to the zoo she loves to see all of the animals and she is so entertaining.

Krew's Stats

KREW ROSS JONES
Born: Thursday, March 20th 2008
Weight: 7lbs. 13 oz.
Height: 21 inches
Time: 4:59 pm

HAPPY EASTER

Thank you to Grandma Wood for making our Easter so special!! I was planning on being home for Easter but things didn't turn out the way we planned, so Grandma took care of us all. She set up all the easter baskets (I love Kali's morning look so I had to post that picture!!!)
and even brought mine and Krew's to the hospital so that we could enjoy them on Easter. She set up an easter egg hunt for Kali in the hospital room and Kali loved looking for all the eggs and would say, "again, again" after she had found them all. She colored eggs with Kali. She got her ready for church in her easter dress which was from Grandma. SO PRECIOUS! She also cooked a wonderful Easter meal which she brought for us to enjoy. So even though Krew and I were still in the hospital for Easter Sunday, Grandma made it a wonderful memorable day! Thank you so much and we love you!!!!

Krew Ross Jones

I have finally had a few minutes to sit down and add some pictures of our handsome new addition!! My hospital stay was much longer than anticipated and the whole experience was not what I had planned. Lets just say we are very blessed that Heavenly Father has allowed us to raise this little man. To make A LONG story short, I was induced on Thursday at 6:30 am, Dr. Schutte broke my water at 1:00 pm by 4:00 pm I was in the operating room getting a C-section and at 4:59 pm Krew was born!! I know you are all thinking hold on, WHAT?? I was dilated to a 8 when his heart started dropping every time I had contractions, after about 15 min of this they quickly stopped the pitosin gave me a shot to stop my contractions and was on my hands and knee's until Dr. Schutte arrived and yes I was praying like crazy, PLEASE let this little one make it. With the O.R. team on stand by and one more try of starting my contractions with the same result I was quickly wheeled off to the operating room where we found out he has not one but TWO knots in his umbilical cord! Thank goodness I was induced a day early and thank goodness it all turned out all right, like I said, Heavenly Father has blessed us!! He is such an awesome little baby, he is so mellow and he smiles all the time in his sleep, he is so CUTE!!! Having one scar from each of my children is a small price to pay for the joy that have brought to the Jones Family.

BABY KREW!!!

OK,OK, I know this was a sick joke for those of you who have not already seen this picture, a lot of you are looking at this picture and realize this is not Krew, this is baby Brenden, Charlene Hills child. I hope I can get a picture this precious with Kali and Krew!!!!

An UPDATE on Krew! I am going to be induced on Thursday March 20th so hopefully by Saturday I should have some fun pictures for everyone to see!!! There is no reason I am getting induced other than the only other available time would have been next Wednesday and I don't think I can wait that long and with Aaron's busy schedule I would rather have it planned so he can be there and it not be a stressful situation for him or myself:) We really wanted to be induced on March 24th which is Grandpa David's birthday, (Aaron's Dad) but the hospital was booked already for inductions on that day, so Thursday it is!!!!! Another reason is I had to get an ultra sound at 28 weeks to make sure my placenta had moved up, they were concerned about placenta previa. Luckily it was fine but they said he was kind of big in the 85th % and they needed to watch that, they said if he got over the 90% they would have to induce me a couple weeks early. My doctor doesn't seem to be concerned that that will be an issue, but just because they mentioned it the sooner the better for me, Kali was only 8 lbs. and I don't want to try to deliver a 10 lb. baby!!!

Happy Birthday Hillary!

We through a surprise party for Hillary last night! It was a fun girls night with yummy food and lots of laughs, as always!! The party started at 9:00pm, but as you can see Kali didn't want to miss out on all the fun. I tried to put her to bed but she would not have it and her favorite Auntie Erin kept saying, "oh you better go get her, she can come and play, so I did and Kali loved it, she partied until midnight, when she finally passed out in Auntie Mary's arms. In the pictures are baby Jacob and Mary, Hillary's cousins, Marilyn and Mary Ann, then the birthday girl, Hillary, Erin and Kali, Erin and Kara, Leah and Cassie, Brooke and Angie, and me and Noel. YEAH for birthdays! and YEAH for girls nights!

UPGRADE

I am a little sad, I never got a picture of Kali on her tricycle, but she only had it for a month. For her second birthday we got her a cute pink and purple radio flyer tricycle, I was afraid she would grow out of it too fast but every time we put her on a bike she would try to pedal backwards and just was a little to short to reach the pedals all the way around. Apparently she grew just enough in this last month because when we were at gymnastics on Tues. one of the girls had brought her bicycle and Kali jumped right on it and started pedaling around. I could not believe it, so we went and upgraded her tricycle to the new and improved princess bicycle!! She loves it. It comes fully equipped with a princess pouch and water bottle in front and it has streamers to put on the handle bars, but they were bugging her today while she was riding so she made me take them off.:)

GIRLFRIENDS

We live in an ideal situation for kids. We have two buildings that face each other with about 8 apartments in each building. Between the two buildings is a walk way and grassy area all around. So every day any where from 3-7 pm all of the kids gather and play together, we bring out all of their bikes, balls, toy strollers whatever else they feel like playing with that day. This is nice for us mothers as well, because we can just get together and talk while the kids run around and play. Today was funny toward the end of them playing Adilyn says, "come on girlfriends!" And they all ran over to her house to watch a movie, they were all so excited and kept calling each other girlfriends. It was cute! We laughed pretty hard. Girlfriends from left to right Ella, Kali, Drew, Lili, Brylie and Adilyn.

Order PIZZA!

Kali loves to order pizza on her cell phones. She use to do this almost everyday, but hasn't in awhile so I kind of forgot about it until today when she did it again, so I had to post it. It is funny to me that she does this so much because we have only ordered pizza like twice this year. She catches on to things so fast.

Baby Shower Pictures

Here are the pictures of my awesome baby shower that Erin and Hillary put on for me!!
Thanks again, Erin and Hillary! And Erin thanks for the speedy delivery on the pictures! You girls are amazing. The party was full of yummy food, wonderful friends, and awesome gifts for little Krew. We laughed, we cried, we ate, we played games. It was an eventful afternoon! It was a blast, thanks girls for all the gifts and fun and thanks for celebrating baby Krew, I am so excited for his very soon arrival!!!!

Sick Day

This is my sick little girl, she woke up this morning at 7 a.m., yes 7 a.m.! AAAAAUUUGGGGG! I know most of you mothers are saying quit whining that is what time we get up every morning or earlier, well I am getting all the sleep I can before this child comes and Kali doesn't normally get up until 9 a.m. so a couple hours makes a big difference. Continuing on, she woke up at 7 a.m. this morning with an uncontrollable cough which was followed by throwing up a couple of times all over herself and me, since I was holding her. I tried giving her cough medicine and a throat losinger but nothing seemed to help. My wonderful neighbor Mary heard her and asked if I needed any medicine or anything. I was open to any suggestions or medicine. I was thinking if she doesn't stop doing this do I take her to the hospital? Since it is Sunday? Luckily after I had her take some medicine and had her drink plenty of water and made her waffles for breakfast the throwing up stopped. She still has a crazy cough but we took a good four hour nap this afternoon and that always helps, getting sleep! So the sippy cup she is holding in the picture is from Krew's baby shower, it is a CARS sippy cup and she thought it was so cool and she wanted to use it, even though she hasn't used a sippy cup since she was, I don't know, a year and a half old and she never gets liquid in her bed but she wanted it in the picture.

Anyway, I hope everyone else's sabbath day was a little more spiritual and relaxed then mine.

Little Thug

I have been inspired by my friend Angie to do better at journaling my blog. I love reading her blog and it keeps her family updated and your kids do so many fun and new things each day this is a awesome way to keep a journal of their life! Thanks Angie! So lets start today, NESTING is setting in big time for me with 13 days left till Krew is due, I woke up and just started cleaning the house, every room had to be in order and I started organizing drawers until Kali woke up, if she had slept longer I am sure this house would be totally spotless every cupboard and drawer in order. Kali's new thing as soon as she wakes up is she wants to go to the playground or go outside and MY new thing is I want both her and I to have breakfast, shower, get dressed, brush our teeth, do our hair and make-up and be in order and have the house in order, beds made, etc. before we leave the house. So as you can imagine we but heads in the morning. Luckily she is really into helping right now so if I am clever enough and let her help and be a part of EVERYTHING, making breakfast, cleaning dishes, putting on make-up, help me pick out my clothes, etc. I get more things done that I would like too.

After we got ready Kali got to go to the playground where we say Auntie Erin (Kali is obsessed with Erin right now so she was excited to see her) who was watching Eli, Seth and Jacob (our neighbors). After awhile of playing it was getting hot and time for me to get home and get ready for my BABY SHOWER!!!! Which Erin and Hillary put on for me. Thanks girls! I will have those pictures posted shortly as soon as I get them from Erin:) hint, hint:) Aaron and Kali went to the beach together while I was at the shower. It was cute because Aaron asked Kali what she wanted to do today, go with mommy or daddy to the beach and she wanted daddy. I was afraid she wouldn't choose that because she has not been a huge fan of the beach lately, but she wanted to spend time with her dad!!!!! She loves her daddy!

At the baby shower we played three fun games, one where Hillary grabbed a diaper bag full of stuff that I put together that I would need for Krew in the hospital and we started going through it franticly, dumping everything out acting like we were looking for something and everyone was like what do you need we might have it, it was really funny everyone was so concerned and then we quickly put everything back in the bag and asked them to right everything they remember seeing. Some of the girls said they didn't even pay attention to what we had pulled out because they were so concerned about what it was I needed. LOL, it was funny! Congratulations Ashlyn she won that one and remembered almost everything!! Then they wrote down as many sports and they could think of in two minutes, since of course the shower was sports theme, Aaron will only allow our son to wear sports apparel or clothes without any design on them. He does not want him in animals or things like that. Congrats Taylor won that one. Last but not least every one had to cut a piece of yarn as big as they thought my belly was. Now this game is interesting, it made me realize when you are pregnant people think you look really big!!:) JK everyone did pretty good but the winner was Stefani a fellow prego, we are pretty much the same size.

Now to explain the Thug pictures, from the baby shower Krew got this cute basketball jersey and Kali was helping me put all of his clothes and things away and as soon as she saw this outfit she was like Auntie Cori! My sister plays basketball for BYU-Provo and Kali loves to watch her and she noticed this was the same thing Auntie Cori wears so she had to put it on and wanted to call her and show her on skype. It was so cute, she was dancing and running around, she thought it was so cool!! Also, the beenie she said she had to put on because it was too windy. ?? We were in the house. ??

Gymnastics Tuesdays

Kali always goes to gymnastics on Tuesdays, so she calls it gymnastics Tuesdays. She has been doing such a good job and this last week they worked on the bars, she learned to bring her feet up all the way to the bars by herself and then they had her try to hold her self up on the bar which took her a couple tries to get the idea and then we had her hang from the high bar and lift her legs up to straddle position which she did! She is amazing!! It is so fun to watch her. Go Kali!! And, THANKS to Grandma Tami for the fun new leotards!:)

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MONTH of MARCH!!!!

So this is the month for everyone's 1st birthdays and Kali is LOVING all of the parties!!! On Sat. the 1st we went to Brody's party, which was a blast, they had a slippery slide and a pinata, banana splits and it was right next to the beach so we got to play in the water as well, it was so much fun!!!! After his party we ran over to David's party which was more water fun and soccer balls, cupcakes, cookie decorating and Kali got her cheek and arm painted with hearts. She thought is was so cool! Then today we went to Brielle, Nate and Elijah's joint 1 year old bash with more water fun and it was next to the play ground so the kids were well entertained and they had lots of good food! Kali and Bella had a fun time together in the kiddie pool. Kali is so cute when she hugs other kids she always squats down to do it, which is better than trying to hug them around the neck which she used to do!! Good job Kali! March is a huge birthday month for the Jones family, upcoming birthday's, Aaron's Aunt Jen, his mom Tami, is Aunt Sandy, his Mommier, his Dad David, and now Krew is due this month!!!! Another important birthday we must not forget this month is my good friend HILLARY WILLIAMS!!!!

Aaron's ART

If you did not already guess, Aaron got a hold of the blog last night and changed our heading. He has told me it is time for him now to take over the blog!!! :)

A day at the beach with Daddy

"Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.
In love to our wives there is desire;
to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."
Joseph Addison