I'm Back - Maybe.

Holy N0-Posts-For-Over-A-Month, Batman! That's gotta' be a record for me! *checking back* Yep. It is.

Aside from a month-long hiatus last year at this exact same time (*cue Twilight Zone music*) I've never gone silent on my blog for this long. I'm not sure why. I'd blame it on my 1st trimester morning sickness and exhaustion, but that's been done with for at least a couple of weeks. We HAVE had a lot of visitors compared to normal, but that usually inspires me to want to write about their visits and all the goings-on. I also haven't been the picture taker that I usually am. I think I've just hit a slump for no reason other than it just is. /shrug

So, where to begin... I know! FB statuses(ii?)! I never slump there! Probably because it's less than a minute of commitment to tell the world my inner-most secrets. I'll just let facebook write today's blog! Let's see:

*for those of you who get my FB feed, you may experience a slight case of deja vu*

9/5 - "The world needs to know how awesome my husband's been during my 1st trimester of nausea and fatigue - Dave Nutter has done almost EVERY single load of dishes in this house for over a month! Jealous, ladies?!"

9/5 - "While David took Malia on Star Tours for her 1st time, CC and I went to go get the car. It was such a fun walk because, without Malia there to compete with, CC was talking up a storm! When we picked Dave & Lili up, I told him, 'It was so awesome. CC was talking non-stop!' To which my 2-year-old added, 'Just like Mom!' I don't think she understood exactly what she'd said, but it was HI-larious just the same."

9/7 - "Tomorrow, the 8 AM schedule I've loved and relied upon for 5 years that has brought this home order and good sleep will be disrupted forever by the obnoxiously early hours of my oldest child's enslavement to public school. Boo."

9/11 - "'I believe in Jesus Christ and fairies.' - Malia"

9/12 - "Malia just finished her first homework assignment. If that assignment is a sign of things to come, I'm going to have to put her in the 4th grade...."

9/14 - "After last night's dream I had a thought: Will we have to repent about our bad choices re: significant others, or can we call it even when we marry awesome, like I did with my hubs?"

9/15 - "Stupid itty-bitty earthquake last night was JUST big enough to disturb my sleep. Then me and my over-active imagination takes an HOUR to fall back to sleep as I go through all the scenarios of what to do with my children if a bigger one comes. And then I had to go potty and my whole night was shot. I'm tired."

9/22 - "I LOVE my OB! For the first time in over 6 years, I actually have a doctor who validates me and cares about what I want with MY pregnancy. I'm not used to this. LOL."

9/22 - "Don't get me wrong - I'm really grateful for this pregnancy and all... but this whole 'starving but nauseous simultaneously' thing is getting old."

9/22 - "Just sent the hubby to the store for Creamsicles. WHAT?!!!! It could be worse. It could be something more difficult to find at a more ungodly hour. So, I'm defensive. So what...."

9/27 - "I read an article this morning about when young kids identify as transgendered. All I could think about is how terrible I would be at parenting in that situation. I know I would say and do nothing but the wrong things... Then my 2-year-old daughter came running in wearing a crown, a tutu, and high heels, and I figured I was safe...."

9/29 - "Nothing like waiting in line for Dumbo with my 2 & 1/2-year-old, and realizing that I see Seal & Heidi Klum zipping around on the flying elephants right in front of me."

10/1 - "This proud Mommy/Ward Primary Chorister is proud listening to my 5-year-old sing 'Praise to the Man' along with Conference without looking at the words. :)"

10/4 - "Dear Google: How did I ever accomplish anything before you existed without telling me what to do? For reals."

10/6 - "We had such a fun girls' day out going and getting our flu shots together! :/"

10/7 - "Just came downstairs after my shower to see that CC had stripped off her jacket, her pjs, her socks, and her diaper, and was running around dancing buck nekkid to the VeggiTales theme song playing on the TV."

10/8 - "I just got emotional over my daughter telling me she has her first loose tooth. Hold it together, Woman!"

10/10 - "The Great Debate: Spend money on over-priced maternity clothes NOW, or just wear my normal clothes and stretch them out, and then spend the money on a new post-partum wardrobe in 5 months."

10/10 - "Dear fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - I don't understand why many of you are so up-in-arms about Pastor Jeffress' 'Mormonism is a cult' comments. I heard worse about my faith, daily, from my own 'friends' growing up... not to mention he seems to actually be HELPING the Church's mission to gain public interest. YOU know you're Christians. GOD knows you're Christians. Forget the label and just live the life."

10/11 - "The worst part about opening the door, full-force, on my big toe wasn't the fact that it sent searing pain through my entire leg or that it ripped off my toenail or that there was far too much blood or that I could feel my heartbeat throbbing in it... it was the fact that it happened right in front of my 2 small children, so I couldn't say all the 'pain-relieving,' glorious swear words I so desperately wanted to say!!!"

10/12 - "That's right! This pregnant lady with a deformed toe just put together a whole bunk bed ALL BY HERSELF in an hour and a 1/2! (Ok - it was almost 2 hours, but I'm subtracting the time I had to take away when I discovered my 2-year-old and my WHITE desk covered in red permanent Sharpie....)."

10/16 - "It's a little annoying having to pick my Sunday clothes based on the shoes I have to wear for my stupid injured toe..."

10/17 - "Nothing like when the 2-year-old farts on my lap, and then turns to me with a big grin and yells, ' 'Scuse you!!!'"

10/19 - "Dear MSNBC: Do you really think that posting birth-defect-related articles on the FB news feed of a pregnant woman is wise? Thanks for the anxiety."

TODAY - "Big day for us yesterday: My BIG girl finally lost her first tooth and we found out that we'll be having another BABY girl. :D"

Yes. You read that right. We are having ANOTHER GIRL! And I am not at all disappointed. Sure - it'd be nice to try the whole raising-a-boy thing out, but I love my girls, and I'm ecstatic to give them another sister. To be completely honest, after 2 healthy children, you start to get anxious about statistics and just PRAY that whatever the gender, that you get a HEALTHY baby, without a concern for whether or not a little sumpin' extra is dangling between the legs. Other people seemed to want a boy for us more than we cared. We make beautiful girls - I'm ecstatic about the one baking in my belly!

However... now we need to come up with a name. So we need help. There are some requirements: 1) It needs to be 3 syllables - this is how I name my girls after their Mommy and also I prefer how 3 syllables sound with our last name. 2) It needs to be a UNIQUE name but not a MADE-UP name - just like Malia and Cecily. 3) It needs to start with any letter other than "M," "C," "D," or "T" - I just like everyone having a monogram unique to them.

And..... GO!