What a day! No, what a week!!

It all started last Monday when I had the grand idea to enjoy the new snow with a fun day of sledding. Actually the sledding was great. Charlie's favorite friends/cousins came along and it was really fun. Charlie is such a daredevil he enjoyed going down the hill by himself the most.

Well, it was all fun and games until Adam accidentally crashed

into Charlie at the bottom of the hill. Charlie was airborne for a minute as he spun through the air. I panicked and ran down the snowy hill. Not the smartest thing to do when you're 8 months pregnant. I slipped and fell right at the bottom. Luckily I landed on my side (not my belly) and was able to comfort Charlie who was scared but completely fine. I thought I was fine too so we just carried on with our day.

That night we went to Temple Square with Adam's family.

While we were there it occurred to me that I hadn't felt the baby move in quite some time (she's normally very active). So I was pretty stressed out and about it. We called our midwife who told us to go to the hospital to get monitored. We took Charlie home and then went

to the hospital.

Luckily our baby wasn't affected by the fall. Phew. Unfortunately the noticed an irregular heartbeat. So two days later we went back for a more detailed ultrasound. Luckily her heart was okay, but my amniotic fluid was pretty low.

So today, when we went in for our regular appointment our midwife noticed the irregular heartbeat again so she sent us to get monitored again. Some paranoid specialist completely freaked us out and basically told us we were going to have to have a c-section today to get the baby out. No, I didn't even have time to run home and get a bag we just had to run up to the UofU hospital so we'd be closer to Primary Children's in case our baby needs a pacemaker.

So I'm totally stressed out and crying. I'm not ready to have this baby at 36 weeks. I need more time! I want Christmas with Charlie. I want my glasses and my own pillow. Ugh. So we head up for monitoring. No one there is overly concerned but a few hours later we get an echocardiogram for our baby. Her heart is completely normal. There is a bit of irregularity but it will be corrected by birth and her heart is FINE. What a relief.

We go back to the U and after being monitored a a couple more hours they let us go home. Now I'll probably need to be monitored a couple times a week to make sure my fluids don't get too low, but I should be able to carry this baby to term. I should know more tomorrow after I speak with my midwife again, but man, what a day (and week)! I'm so glad it's over and that I'm home with my family not recovering from a c-section with a premature little baby.

Here are the more enjoyable ways we've spent the last week:

It was our 7th anniversary so we enjoyed the Peter Brienholt Christmas concert and dinner at our favorite restaurant, The Star of India.

Christmas dinner with Adam's extended family. You can see that we're pretty evenly divided fan-wise. :)

We made our first gingerbread house. Charlie decorated the gingerbread men all by himself and loved sneaking pieces of candy he was supposed to be decorating with.

We visited my sweet grandma who is always willing to get down on the floor and play with Charlie even though she's well into her 80s.

And I got to meet my friend Trisha for lunch. Good times with a good friend.

Picture time

Here are Adam and Charlie in their matching hats that I knitted for them.

This sweater no longer fit Adam so I made Charlie some warm sweater pants.

Here's Charlie's quilt.

Here is my first pair of socks!

We've decided to do cloth diapers. Charlie had been leaking out of his diapers nearly every night but now he never does. It's great! And it's really not that much more work... Plus Charlie has fun choosing the color of his diaper and we'll save lots of money. And, just so you know, Charlie is not as angry as he looks. I promise. :)

I found two of the wise men in muffin cups in Mimi's tower. I wonder how they got there....

Charlie and Mimi have been taking turns hanging out in the infant car seat. I don't see the draw...

Isn't Adam fun? He's playing Chutes and Ladders with the kiddos.

And here's Charlie with Santa Claus. He told Santa that he wanted McQueen for Christmas, but now whenever I ask him what he wants he says, "A puppy!" Where did that come from? Isn't he a little young to be starting that? I told him to talk to Daddy about that one...

Fun in the snow!

Max Hall hates us and thinks we have no class

*DISCLAIMER* This post is a little out of character for this blog. Although Natalie is a Utes fan through and through, she had nothing to do with this post. All hateful comments should be directed to me (Adam) and me alone. That being said . . .

I just want to give a giant THANK YOU to Max Hall, quarterback of the BYU football team for running his mouth like an idiot after Saturday's BYU-UTAH game. Now instead of having to come to grips with the fact that BYU outplayed Utah in a really exciting rivalry game (hey, come on it was a rebuilding year for the Utes) I can focus my energy on what a class act BYU's quarterback is.

Thank you, Max Hall, for taking all of the attention off of your teammates and the excellent game that they played. I for one have already forgotten the game and all I can remember is your hateful, vitriolic rant directed at everyone remotely associated with the University of Utah.

Thank you for providing the Utes with a bulletin board full of quotes for the locker room. I'm sure Coach Whittingham is appreciative of the extra motivation, hopefully your comments will live on forever. I'm sure BYU's 2010 team will want to thank you as well.

You weren't the first BYU player to make a fool of himself by running his mouth but you have certainly taken things to the next level. I'm sure that it will only be a matter of time before you apologize and claim that you were just caught up in the moment, but the damage has been done and we Utes have a long memory.

Thank you again, and most importantly, thank you for showing us "classless" Utes what it means to have real class.

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Charlie has started drinking his cereal milk from the bowl. He doesn't even spill!

While in DC Charlie and I went to the National Zoo with our lovely hosts while Adam took an ethics class. I have no doubt who had the most fun. :)

Charlie could see (and hear) the metro from the apartment and loved to watch it drive by. I think he had a blast since he got to fly in an airplane and ride the train all in the same week. Now he

keeps asking to ride the bus. Not looking forward to that one I must admit.

It was so great to see our DC friends and it just made us want to hang out with them all the more. Thanks guys for making our trip so fun!

The main reason for our trip for Adam to get sworn-in to the DC Bar. Yay Adam!

When we came home we raked leaves. Charlie had a blast.

And most importantly, we celebrated Charlie's 2nd birthday. What a sweet, special boy. We're so glad he's our son! And thanks to all our family for coming to his party and sharing this special day with us. We love you all!

Please Vote!

So I entered a picture of Charlie in a contest and I'm one of the finalists! If I get enough votes I will win a sweet double stroller - which will really come in handy with our second baby on the way. So, PLEASE go to this website and vote for us!

Visitors can vote at: http://www.babygizmo.com/vote/index.php (To keep it fair - the system only allows one vote per IP address PER DAY. So yes, you can vote for us every single day - please do. :)

Feel free to spread the word and get your friends to vote for us too. Voting ends at 10:00pm (CST) Friday, November 6, 2009. The winner will be announced on Monday, November 9, 2009!

Thank you thank you thank you!

p.s. this is the picture we entered:

Happy Halloween!

Well, after we survived the dreaded pink eye, we were ready for Halloween!

First we went to a pumpkin patch/corn maze.

Then we carved pumpkins at a family Halloween party.

Then we attempted to take pictures with the cousins but only one would cooperate.

Charlie cooperated slightly better by himself.

Then we all dressed up and went trick-or-treating. Good times!

Crafty

Charlie has been loving his Spider-Man coloring book lately and colors almost every day. He's also recently become very interested in colors and now describes everything that way. "Want white car" or "I see blue crayon" etc. It's fun to watch him learn new things.

I've started making cards. These ones weren't my ideas - I took a card class but it was fun!

And here is my first quilt. I made it for my baby girl, so she better be a girl!

And my first knitting project - also for my baby girl. Poor Charlie - he never got anything homemade. I'm working on it though!

And while I've been sewing, Charlie has been playing in the lid of my sewing machine case.

Adam and I went to a 80s themed murder mystery dinner this weekend (thanks Alicia and Paul). We had fun getting dressed up even though I could barely get the suit jacket buttoned over my belly.

Adam fell asleep on the floor. Charlie stole his cookie and then sat on Adam's back to eat it.