a new addition...

... to the family will be here in December. My due date is December 18th.

We are very excited to have another little Jones.

Aaron of course wants another little boy.

Kayla is excited and thinks it is cool we are having another baby.

Kali is really excited and wants a baby sister.

Krew, I don't think really understands.

When I try to tell him I have a baby in my stomach,

he just points to his stomach

and says, "baby."

I am excited, I have just been extremely tired this first trimester

which makes it really difficult to play with two kids, while I am dragging.

From the last two pregnancies I seem to get my energy back in

the second trimester, so I am ready for that!

while I am gone...

...on the weekends,

working at the Country Mercantile,

it is good to know that the kids are at home playing with their dad.

(according to Kali)

They usually run around outside and Aaron gives them a rigorous workout,

consisting of sprints, sits-ups, push-ups and pushing a tire up the hill.

They mow the lawn and pull weeds.

They water grandma's flowers,

and find new pets.

like Kali the rabbit and Krew and Michael the frogs. (Kali named them.)

Aaron told her if she starts feeding them they will become her pets,

so she fed the Kali the rabbit, lettuce and carrots and she ate it all gone.

Kali was pretty excited.

They found the two frogs in the pool and Kali was concerned that they would drown.

Aaron assured her they would be OK, that they lived in water and on land.

While I am gone they make LEGO houses that BLOW MINE out of the water.

Lets just say he is the creative, crafty one in the family.

I AM SO AMAZED!!!

As soon as I get home from work,

Kali always gives me a run down of what they did that day,

and than likes to show me.

This is Kali and Aaron weeding the flower pots

and Aaron cleaning the pool.

After the sun goes down, the kids love to jump into the jacuzzi with Dad.

I just get to sit and watch, since prego women are not supposed to enjoy the steaming, hot, soothing, water :)

At least they have a blast!

Aaron really is such an amazing father and I am so thankful

that the kids get to spend some quality time with him.

THANK YOU SWEETHEART!

one on one

Krew and I had 2 full hours together before Kali woke up this morning.
I have decided since Krew normally gets up before Kali,
that will work perfectly for our one on one time together.

This morning Krew wanted to build a house out of Lego's.
And decided that was the perfect house for his cars.
He realized they could not just drive through the door so he thought for a minute
and realized if he turned them sideways than they fit right threw.
SO SMART :)

This face here is a mischievous one. This is where he decided it would be a good idea to build a tower and than destroy it by throwing the Lego's. My first reaction was to say, "Krew, we don't throw those." But than realized this was his play time and he was so excited about doing it, I just let him do it and took pictures. IT WAS SO FUNNY, how excited he was.

After we cleaned up the Lego mess it was time to play with the zoo animals.

It was sad, as soon as Kali woke up Krew knew our one and one play time was over,
he now had to share his attention with his sister and as we walked upstairs to get Kali some breakfast Krew was yelling, "Mom, play cars with ME!"




This pictures I had to take because yesterday Kali and I found these
destroyed chapsticks all over the house.
I was not sure if Krew was eating them or what,
than this morning I found this play knife with chapstick on it.
I am still not sure whether or not he ate it, but I know how he dug it out.

Something else that made my heart melt, was while
I was putting Krew down for a nap today he said, "mom, please lay by me."
I finally have been successful at putting him to
bed at night and naps by himself with out having to lay by him.
I knew he was about to pass out, so I thought I would lay there for a min.
(I know see why I am not successful, I need to be consistent.)
Anyway after about 30 sec. I was sure he was OUT.
As I started getting up his little hand pushed me back down saying,"lay down, lay down, lay down." I laughed and could not resist I wanted to just lay down and take a nap with him.

BUT, I could not Krew's nap time is now my one on one time with Kali.

how to train your dragon

Krew's first movie in a theater was how to train your dragon in 3D. Sadly he wouldn't keep his glasses on, yet he still watched it a little blury. He will really be excited when he gets to watch it on DVD and it is clear :)

mall trip

A few weeks ago the kids and I were stuck in the house with that norovirus that is going around and so after we all finally felt better,
it was time to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
So we spent the day at the mall. Playing on the playground,
riding the rides
taking pictures, eating and exploring.
The kids decided they needed these balls from a claw machine which
as we all know I am pretty confident at.
So I thought sure, $1.00 a ball sounds good to me.
$2.00 later we had a ball for each of them.
Let me tell you, if you have never won a toy from the claw machine this is the most elementary machine out there,
I am pretty sure ANYONE could win this.
The ball is so big and sticky that it is very easy for the claw to grab.

15 min.

Sadly, I had forgotten...
...until this morning, I woke up with Krew
and played with him for about 30 min.
It was his rules, his play.
JUST Krew and I.
In Relief Society last month we talked about disciplining children
and more importantly how to raise them with love and confidence.
One bit of advice was to spend at least 15 min. a day with each of your children.
ONE ON ONE TIME, and they get to make the rules, and choose the type of play.
Krew and I played together before Kali woke up this morning and
I think he liked it:)

Of course he chose to play with his cars.
So I took a car and got on the ground and drove around with him and made car noises ;)

Next on his agenda was to go outside and play cars in the dirt.
He would say, "mom, cars dirty" as he ran them around.
So he had to wash them off once we got into the house.
Then he decided to pick some weeds.
Last on his agenda was to jump on the trampoline.

I had so much fun spending time with Krew and just going and doing WHATEVER he wanted.
I am glad I remembered today the importance of one on one play time with your children,
where they pick what to do and how do to it,
and now I need to make sure I do this EVERYDAY!

Kali's Blog

Kali has decided to start her own blog,
and write all about the things that are important in her little world.