A few short happenings.

After Christmas we went to Utah and stayed at my Mom's for about a week.  I didn't take any pictures but we had lots and lots of fun playing Rook with Andrea one night when her family came out to Mom's house. And then playing Rook and Dominion with Megan and Amy at Megan's house on Saturday. Leo took the kids sledding both days, and another day as well.  At Megan's he pulled the kids around on the sled with her 4-wheeler.  The kids of course loved that, and so did Leo.  We had our traditional family Christmas party with lots of yummy soups and sang at the nursing home we've been going to for a couple of years.  Ana got to go skiing with her cousins.  I made a photo album for my mom and we went through 3,700+ photos on her computer and organized them.  Only 3,400+ left to go the next time I visit.  :)  And I did some other computer stuff for her too.  Then on Tuesday, Andrea was kind enough to let us leave our kids at her house, despite our kids getting her kids sick, and we went to Salt Lake City to the U of U hospital where I had a version.  It was the easiest version I've ever experienced.  Not at all like my other two. (The third unsuccessful one I had with Isabel was different simply because I had an epidural that time.)  But with Elena and Sebas, the doctors both tried for an half an hour to turn those rascals, and it was extremely painful.  This time, little baby boy, (definitely a boy, the ultrasound gave a very clear shot of that before the version) turned on the second try, and while I wouldn't say it was pleasant, I wasn't crying like the other times, and it was fast.  All in all, not bad at all.  Yay!   This is mine and Leo's selfie afterwards--Leo only took the photo under protest.  Too bad for him. Then we came home to WY the next day.










I think I've been nesting a bit.  I fixed the legs on our kids' train table one Saturday--I was out sawing in the garage when it was in the -degrees. That wasn't planned, I just saw it and immediately had the urge to fix it.  Then I made Leo take apart our piano a different Saturday so I could reattach the white parts of the keys (we bought it with a few off and have had it that way for over a year).  He's amazing and figured it all out.  I just glued and clamped them.  And then another Saturday I pulled out all the baby boy stuff and washed everything and set up our room with the bassinet and changing table, and mailed all the cute baby boy summer clothes to my sister Lindsay--she's due in the middle of summer in Miami.  So I'm all set now.  Yay!  Also good, my OB that I've seen this whole pregnancy suddenly left at the end of December with no warning whatsoever.  So I was nervous the new OB that the hospital hired wouldn't do VBAC's and there's only one OB in town, and so then I would be left going to Laramie or SLC to deliver (hazardous in winter).  Anyway, I met him and like him TONS more than my old OB.  She was okay, but probably one of my least liked doctors I've had--actually the only one below her was Isabel's doctor who I actively disliked but had no other options since I was on Medicaid at the time. Anyway, I talked to a friend who's a nurse anesthetist and he said there's a lot of happy people at the hospital with the new doctor, and not many people were sad to see the other OB go.



Our cats (later both had managed to squeeze themselves in)  found another use for the, at the time, empty heated watering bowl.





And I tried to take a nap one day and woke up to cries of "Help, Mom, help!!!"  Jubal had somehow managed to get in the pot, but was unable to get out.  The four other kids watching tv in the next room, of course, ignored him.

Isabel participated in the school spelling bee.  Beforehand, I told her, "Hey, remember this is just for fun, so don't be nervous."
Her response, "Actually, I think it's just to test your spelling."
Umm, yeah.

Lando prays for baby boy by name--Efraim.  Yeah, if you didn't know, that's the name planned.  Anyway, it's adorable to hear him pray for him.  Also, the other day he was seriously discussing with me the fact that Efraim would not like the pink butterfly baby swing, because he's a boy.  But he would like the blue bear.  Got it.

Frodo is a good watch dog.  I actually really like that.  But it was funny the other night, a dog was barking on the show Leo and I were watching and Frodo started going crazy.  Then someone knocked on the door in the show and Frodo ran to our front door barking again like crazy.  Hee. Hee.  Leo's and my new favorite show is Longmire, by the way.  I highly recommend it.