we took chet to see 'the lorax' the other week.
it was a cute movie. chet loved it.
and - get this - there was even a character named chet.
{he was a small, rude character.. but i still thought it was neat. what are the odds?}
my only real complaint about the show is that taylor swift didn't play a big enough roll!


chet is getting super good with his manners.
please =  peas.
thank you = you you.
the other day chet was really heartbroken about something. i sat him up on the couch
and gave him his blanket and, through the sobbing, he said, 'you you'.
aww. what a sweet boy, huh?
another funny manners story:
since we always tell chet 'excuse you' when he lets out a burp/toot, that is what he says.
instead of excuse ME he says excuse YOU!
excuse you = chu you.
the other night i was squeezing some ketchup out of our almost-empty ketchup bottle and it made one of those ketchup fart sounds.
chet looked at me and said 'chu you mom'.
i love how his little brain works :)


matt got this cute video of our goofy kid saying a bunch of animal sounds.
click here to see it.
{this was made right after something sad happened. usually chet isn't this snotty and teary!}

life just got a wee bit more complicated.

and our dreams of having another canadian baby have, most likely, been ruined.

but it's all for a really great reason.

matt just got offered an internship for the summer!

it is with a company called flatiron.

they are a huge heavy civil construction company that matt is really excited to work for.

the internship will be in utah. half of it in lehi and half of it in richfield.

{never heard of richfield? haha neither had we until yesterday! it's small. even smaller then rexburg!}

so it looks like this summer will be quite the adventure for our little family.

we took a quick trip down to utah last week so matt could have the interview with flatiron.

he could've gone alone, but we decided to make a little trip out of it. and i'm glad we did.

chet totally thinks utah is a magical place - there are so many trains and trucks along the I-15!

plus, he got to go swimming, ride a pony, and get a picture with a dinosaur while we were there.

honestly, what more could this boy ask for?

we were actually so surprised that chet liked the pony ride.

we were certain that he would want off as soon as it started moving.

but nope! he loved it. he even asked to go for a second ride.

and now when chet sees a horse he says 'yee-haw'. it's too cute.

we went on a carriage ride.

there were tons of animals at the farm. chet was afraid of most of them.. including the chickens.

but, for some reason, he thought the sheep were really neat.

he has been telling us lots of stories about sheep since then.

 matt and i liked this goat - just because he has a ridiculously long beard.

 we stopped by a dinosaur museum too.
we were too cheap to pay to actually go in, but chet was just as happy in the lobby!

so back on the intership topic..

we have less then a month until we will be living in utah. it's insane.

we have sooo much to do. and matt is crazy busy with school these days.

plus, we already have flights booked to go to arizona for the semester break, so that will make things tricky too.
but i am pretty willing to make any sacrifices i need to if it means i get to lie in the sun for a 10 days!

wish us luck with getting everything organized. we need it.
and if you know anyone in rexburg who needs an apartment, tell them to take ours. seriously!

three cheers for matt for getting such an awesome internship! i am so proud of him.

we officially have a 2 year old!

chet totally didn't understand the whole birthday concept this year... again.

but he did really like getting sung to. every time someone would sing to him he would say 'again!'.
he also liked eating cake, blowing out candles, and getting cool new toys.

so, even though he didn't know that we were celebrating his day of birth, i think he still felt pretty special.

the cichy's came over to celebrate with us. they are always so sweet to chet.

this years party was much more quaint then last year.

the theme was trains because chet loves trains these days.

but it was a very homemade party because it was impossible to find train decorations.

we ended up just putting one of chet's train toys on his cake to decorate it!
train parties must not be in this year! but don't tell chet..

chet got lots of nice gifts. he was spoiled for sure.

and this was actually the first time matt and i have bought chet a gift. we have never really seen the point in the past.
you probably think that makes us mean parents. but i like to consider ourselves smart instead!

i think we could have made it another year without him noticing we that didn't give him anything, but it sure was fun spoil him.

we got him a bike. and it is seriously the cutest thing.

watching his friends leave..

happy birthday dude!

it's chet's birthday!

he has absolutely no idea, but we are so excited for him.

and, in honor of turning the big 2, here is his second birthday movie.

{and if you would like to watch his first birthday movie again, you can click here.}

happy birthday buddy!

we love you more than we ever thought possible.

so... i'm pregnant.

it's crazy!

today was the first day that it actually seemed a even little bit real.

we have managed to keep it a secret since we took a pregnancy test back on december 1.

we just told our families the exciting news today.

we didn't plan on keeping it a secret so long, but we just went for our first check up today.

and we didn't want to make any announcements before we knew everything was going smoothly.

which everything is. the baby is healthy as can be :)

so here are the details:

i am 18 weeks along.

the due date is august 10. (our 5 year anniversary.. how romantic!)

our baby is measuring in the 62nd percentile for it's gestation.

it's head is big. (no surprise there. chet's is still big.)

and... drum roll please...

it's a boy!

even though it was just our first check up today, we were far enough along to find out what we are having.

we aren't the kind of couple that can wait, so we were all over that.

AS SOON AS the nurse started the ultrasound she laughed and said 'well, it's a boy!'

haha both of our boys have been very willing to show off their manhood!
{here is the proof! this shows his two legs with his boy part in the middle.. if you couldn't tell.}

we were both expecting - and maybe a little bit hoping for - a girl just because we are dying to see what our daughter would be like.

but we are honestly so thrilled that it is a boy.

chet will love having a little brother to hang with.

and, since we have a ridiculous amount of boy stuff, this will be more kind to our poor student budget!

i think the biggest stress about it being a boy is that we have to come up with another boy name. shoot!
boy names are so tricky.

it took us almost 2 days after chet was born to decide on his handsome little name.
hopefully we are more prepared the second time around. but.. no promises.

in case you are wondering if this pregnancy was planned. it was.

we would ideally like to have the baby in canada so we planned to be due during matt's semester break this summer (july 21-sept 10).
and we are due august 10.

impressed by our accuracy?! haha. we are!

unfortunately, we forgot to take into account that i started into labor 10 weeks early with chet.

soo... our plan may not pan out as perfectly as we had hoped. oops.

we have been trying to understand health care and insurance here in america.

it is really hard to wrap your head around when you are used to the canadian way.

we didn't have to pay one cent of chet's $100,000.00 NICU bill.

so i feel like it is a total scam that we might have to pay to have this baby.

labor is one experience i am definitely not thrilled about paying to go through!

it's so painful.. and icky..

oh well, there isn't a whole lot we can do now.

anyways... back to the pregnancy.

it's been pretty easy.

i haven't been sick. i have no cravings. no heart burn.. yet.

i do get super dizzy a lot.

i got really light-headed when i was pregnant with chet too.
but i passed out a lot during that pregnancy, and i haven't done that yet with this one.
thank goodness. passing out is super embarrassing.
other then dizziness, my worst symptom would be the messy state of my emotions.
poor matt! good thing he is one of the most patient people i know.

i haven't felt the baby yet, i haven't gained any weight, and i don't look pregnant.
so, before the ultrasound today, matt and i both had a hard time believing any of this was real.

when i saw the baby doing somersaults in my belly today i was kind of sad that i haven't felt him yet. i felt like a bad mom!

 i thought i would be a pro this time around. guess not.

we have been trying to explain to chet that there is baby in my tummy for months. but he doesn't get it at all!
i'm not sure he will understand until the baby is here.
we really think chet is going to be a great big brother.
he loves babies. and he is so gentle with them.
he is also very good at sharing, he is super helpful, and it really concerns him when he sees other kids crying.
he has such a sweet little heart.
half of me is excited to see him as a big brother, but the other half of me is sad.
i wish that he could be my sweet baby forever.
i love that he has matt's and my undivided attention for now. and we love giving it to him.
we will just have to treasure the next few months of pure chet-time before baby number 2 makes his appearance.
and before we fall madly in love with him too!


let the countdown begin..
less then 22 weeks until our family gets even better!

we introduced chet to lucky charms last week.
it seems like the perfect cereal for a boy who was born on st. patrick's day, don't you think?
 i love watching him eat that stuff. it cracks me up.
he is so concentrated as he maneuvers his little spoon to only scoop out the marshmallows.
it's a painfully slow process, but we are used to that. chet is a slow-poke eater these days.

anyways, once he has managed to eat all the marshmallows (and nothing else), he points to his bowl and says 'mo'. {mo = more}
i would love to pick out some more marshmallows for him, but matt gets very upset when he
gets half way through a box of lucky charms and there are no more marshmallows in it. 
trust me, i know...


i took chet to the library today for 'story time'.
i honestly can't remember the last time i went to a public library, so i was actually a little nervous to go.
but i'm so glad i did because chet loved it!
story time was the cutest thing. the kids all sat on a carpet and listened to this silly lady tell stories.
i was super impressed with her story telling. i am so boring compared to her!
chet didn't want to sit with the other kids. but i think, with practice, he will learn to love it.
there were activities after story time. and then, once everyone else was gone, chet and i stuck around and explored the library.


there was this one book about trains that chet could not get enough of.

chet looooves trains.

one time, when we were walking tank, i could hear a train coming down the tracks so we raced to the train tracks to see it up close.

if chet could speak well, i think he would say that seeing that train was one of the best moments of his life!

the conductor even blew the whistle for us :)

since then, chet has been telling us an awful lot of stories about 'choo choo's'.

he also likes to tell us stories about 'quacks'.

we can't really understand his stories but, based on his level of excitement, we are certain they are amazing!