More Morning Insomnia

Been up since 5:45 this morning. Woke up with a baby's head hitting my ribs. My little boys head is starting to poke out just like Eden's which unfortunately means that his head is still up. It just makes me nervous because if this baby is breach that means another c-section, and I really don't want one again. Recovery seemed to be a cinch for me, but I really don't like the fact that it puts a limit on how many kids we can have. Three. I really don't like being pregnant, but the reward when you hold that baby in your arms is insurmountable over any , or endless nights of puking that you had while pregnant. Earlier it felt like he was trying really hard to move around, and I could feel his little head poking out my side, and a lot of pain in my back, but so far he has been unsuccessful in his turning.

Anyway, tonight is our last night here in the condo at East Canyon with my parents. It's been so much fun spending time with them. I'm lucky that I get to spend this Christmas with them. They were both planning on being somewhere else for the Holidays, since they sold their house. But, as luck would have it for me they have not found a new house to buy. So, currently they are homeless living at my brother-in-laws. They have spent a lot of time while we were here looking up houses online, and showing us all the options they are currently excited about, but getting frustrated seeing as they have been homeless for 2 1/2 months living out of their suitcases. But, I don't know how often I will see them once they are moved. But, we have had fun playing in the snow, sledding, drinking Roma (mom's favorite fake coffee), watching movie after movie, and today we played Yahtzee and Apples to Apples a family favorite. And Jonathon, my dad, and me all scored Yahtzees! Crazy huh? It was pretty exciting. Somehow I won the game. I felt like I was doing pretty bad throughout it, but lucked out somehow in the end.

Eden followed a decent schedule today (nap 4-6, bed 10:30), which was nice because last night she went to bed at 7, but woke up at 8:15, 9:30, and 11:30. I was able to get her to fall asleep each time, except at 11:30 when Jonathon went up to get her because I was working out. She ran around while I did my workout video, and got to sleep with us the first part of the night once I was done. Once she was asleep I put her back in her bed. There is barely enough room for Jonathon and I to sleep with my ever-growing belly, which keeps me tossing and turning.

It's now 6:49 and we will be getting up soon to start packing the house. I have new photos from yesterdays sledding, which was a lot of fun, but haven't uploaded them. Here are a few photos from our first day here. I better get them on here so I can get off the computer soon.


Dadda and Eden enjoying some popcorn


Mom and Dad house hunting


Mom and Dad passing out on the couch our first night here.
Jonathon and I tried to sleep on super uncomfortable bunk beds the first night. At first it was fun and romantic trying to share 1 twin size bed, but then half-way through the night I woke up and Jonathon was in his own bunk. And I kept waking up cause Eden kept making noises in her sleep. The next few nights we slept in the Murphy bed downstairs by the fire. Much much more comfy.

These photos are from the 2nd day we were here. We stayed just 1 night, and had to head back down for a Christmas dinner at my sisters with all her kids. Which I guess I'll add those photos too while I am at it. It was fun to see all my nieces and nephews. My sister has 5 kids, 1 grand-daughter (which means I am a great-aunt...not to be confused with wonderful-aunt) and 2 step-kids. But Trek as many of my friends know passed away unexpectedly several months ago. He would have been 18 the day after Thanksgiving. His spirit was felt, and a photo of him was present at the dinner table, but he was definitely missed. I wasn't able to get a photo of everyone before my camera died. My niece Kiah wandered around the party with my camera taking pictures for me. (Which reminds me, Amy, can you send me your photos when you get a chance? You have some cute ones!)

Savannah (The oldest, a sweetheart who is very easy to get along with, and loves everyone)


Addy (Is 13, but is still 8 in my mind, and an excellent writer. Do you have a blog Addy? I'd love to read it.)


Tyvan (My brother-in-laws oldest. Excellent musician. He played for us a few Christmas's ago. You should play for us again Tyvan!)


Kiah (My grand-niece, who is a hoot, and incredibly spunky! Funny side story. I had been playing with her for most of the night. When it was time for me to leave she ran over to give me a hug yelling "Wait!!!" She gave me a big hug and when she did her head hit my belly. She looked up at me shocked as could be and said, "You are pregnant!!" I replied, "You didn't notice?", she answered, "No. So you are having another baby? Why are you having another baby?" I said, "Because Eden wanted a little brother." She said in utter amazement, "So, you are going to have 2 babies?" "Yup!" Then she looked into the other room for her mom, and shouted, "WOW Mom!!! Guess what! As she ran towards her to inform her that I was pregnant, but that the craziest thing was that I was going to have 2 BABIES!!!"


Jonathon playing with Caide (My Sister's and Centry's-her husband youngest. A sweetheart with amazing blue eyes that melt your heart)


Ok, back-track to our trip back to SLC from East Canyon. On our way out of Henefer there was a heard of cows on the road.


At first we thought there were 20 to pass, but I think we passed cows for at least a mile. There were definitely more than 100.

Ok, 7:24 now. I am the only one awake and we are supposedly supposed to be hitting the road in 5 minutes so my mom can finish the Christmas shopping she has barely started. I better get these people moving. Lucky for them, I can't sleep.

The weather we have enjoyed lately

Beautiful sun Thanksgiving day



Torrential down-pours the following week




12 inches of snow in 1 afternoon


We are having a ton of fun here in the snow!! It started with a "freak storm" in Vegas which closed the Vegas airport, leaving our flight delayed 1.5hours making our arrival time 1:40 AM Vegas time. We arrived at our friend Brandon's house at 3 in the morning. I couldn't believe how much snow he had at his house. Neither could he or his wife. I wanted to get photos, but left my camera in the car which we had to park a block away from his house because it couldn't make it up the hill in the snow. Vegas doesn't get much snow, so they aren't very good about making rounds with the snow-plows.

The flight to Vegas from Hawaii wasn't too bad. Eden fell asleep for the 1st hour as soon as we took off.
We thought she would sleep the entire way, but she surprised us...and wouldn't fall asleep till we were off the plane and in the car. She loved looking at all the planes during our wait to get on our flight. We were just glad it was only delayed an hour and a half. Could have been much worse.

Anyway, the next day we were headed to Utah. We headed for Cafe Rio on the way home from the airport with my parents...delicious!!! Then we were dropped off at the Parker's to spend the evening with Jonathon's family.

Right now we are up in East Canyon with my parents spending a few days thanks to Jonathon's parents generosity sharing their winter time-share condo with us. Eden went to bed at 7pm for the first time in a long time. Her schedule is still pretty messed up. But, we are having a ton of fun, watching movies, eating too much, enjoying family, and playing in the "no" as Eden refers to it. Still haven't made a "no-man" but that is on the agenda for tomorrow.

Mele Kalikimaka!!

5:15 Insomnia

I woke up around 4 and continued to lie in bed trying to fall back to sleep but was wide awake. Since I was awake for so long I got hungry. Came out to eat cereal...decided to do some Internet surfing...it's now 5:15 still not tired so decided to do some blogging. My sister-in-law had this on her blog. Looked like fun to do, so I decided to add. You should do it too. Just copy and paste the list below, and BOLD everything you have ever done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Well it's 5:26 now. Didn't take as long as I thought it might. Thanks for taking the time to read if you did. ;-) Better head to bed whether I am tired or not since I will be spending the day going to school with Dad again which means Eden won't nap much and she gets to come to a Dr. appointment with me alone....which means I will need a little extra patience.

It's SNOWING!!!!

At least it is down at Windward Mall every hour on the hour from 1-8pm in center court! We went to the mall with daddy today and enjoyed 2 Jamba Juices! Thanks to Melissa's tip on the buy one get one coupon. Thanks Melissa! So actually between the 3 of us we enjoyed 4 juices for the price of 2!

Anyway, back to the snow. This was a lot of fun. After Jamba (and waiting for 5 minutes for the rain to stop pouring) we walked as quickly as we could over to the mall. Dad hurt his foot pretty bad last night practicing kick boxing with some friends. Apparently when you kick some guys knee it hurts you a lot worse than it hurts them. So he could only limp as quick as possible. We got a little rained on, but it was totally worth it because there was SNOW!!





It's actually bubble-foam that they blow out of the middle of the big Christmas tree in center court. But, it's just about as close as you can get here in Hawaii. It looked pretty much like the real thing. It even melted in your hand when you caught it. It was soooo cute to watch Eden run around with her arms out, and try to pick the snow off the other kids heads and shoulders around her.

After the snow we watched a children's performing choir in center court and ate pretzel bites. Yummy! Eden loved watching the kid sing and dance. After each song she would clap and start saying More! More! with her little fingers in sign language. It was hard for me to not cry listening to Christmas music watching her dance around on her daddy's lap. It was the best day ever. Thanks for taking the day off homework Dad to hang out with your girls. We had the best day ever!

Another Thursday with Dad

I call it a Thursday with Dad, but the only time we spend with him really is the drive to school, and the drive home, or onto his next meeting. Even though we don't get to do the "fun stuff" with him, we still have a good time together. We went and dropped Dad off. Then we headed to the Hawaii State building for a State ID. I wasn't really thinking about getting a photo when I got ready that morning. Otherwise I might have gotten up to do my hair, instead of just re-doing my pony-tail. Luckily, the photo turned out all right. Once we were done, our meeter still had 30 minutes left, so I let Eden run around the grass out front for a while and chase the birds. She LOVES to chase birds. Oh, then a Japanese tour group came by. Tour groups love Eden probably as much as she loves birds. They all gather around her to touch her blond hair and ask if they can get pictures with her. She gets the celebrity treatment. She had a good 10+girls all fawning over her for about 15 minutes. Then we were on to Costco to get gas that is 50 cents cheaper than anywhere on the island. You just have to be willing to wait 25 minutes to get it. After gas, we went to kill an hour at Savers. Eden does decently well at Savers. She loves to try on shoes, so I usually end standing in front of the mirror next to the shoe isle trying clothes on over my clothes while Eden tries on every pair of shoes she can. It works with little kid or adult shoes. She just loves shoes. I got a pair of maternity jeans (brand new) $1, a training potty for Eden ($3), some socks for Eden for Utah ($.50), and a Christmas cartoon ($.69). Then to pick up Dad again. He had a meeting in Ewa at the hospital so we drove while Eden napped. Eden woke up when we were getting out of the car, so she and I hung around the hospital trying to have fun and not get into too much trouble while waiting for Dad. She loved pushing the button for the elevator. (I tricked her into thinking you press the key hole so we weren't wearing out the elevator, requesting unnecessary elevators). So, she would push "the button", wait a moment and eventually someone would be getting off. She would be so please with herself thinking that her pushing "the button" was what made people come off the elevator. Whenever someone would come to get on the elevator, she would always say "by-bye" and wave to them before the doors closed. I was worried she would eventually try to get on an elevator herself, but luckily she didn't. This clip below I took when she was starting to get over the elevator game. She is singing her new favorite song "Wind the Bobbin Up", and becomes infatuated with the water fountain. This was a perfect place for us to hang out cause I could sit on the bench, Eden could run around, and it was the most air conditioned area of the hospital.


Later, we found an open mail locker that Eden enjoyed opening, closing, and climbing in. After about 50 minutes, Dad was done! We had some soup in the cafeteria, a short trip to wal-mart, and headed for home!

Life Lately

I thought I would catch you up with Parker life lately with a few photos that we have taken. Some of them are cell phone photos so the quality isn't the greatest. But the memories are! ;-) So today I will say that I am thankful for all the moments I have been able to share with Eden in the past 19 months and 16 days, and I am thankful that her Dad works so hard so I can be the one who gets to spend her days with her. Here are a few of our more recent memories.

Kisses for brother. Eden LOVES to kiss my belly, and try to poke my belly button back into the inny it once was before I became pregnant with her. Yup, my belly button will never be an inny again. But I don't care. I like it's new turkey timer appearance. She calls it baby, and sometimes brother. I think she is really excited for the new life that will be coming into our family. And I am sure he is excited to meet all of us.




The other night we walked with Daddy to 7-Eleven to get some hot cocoa. When we got home we sat on the porch and enjoyed the night breeze while daddy blew some bubbles and Eden popped them.



Eden and I tried a more formal approach to potty training a little over a week ago. She and her baby both started the day out in their new training pants. Eden did really great in the morning, but as the day wore on she had more and more accidents. By the end of the day I think we both ended up frustrated and confused. We tried again the next day, but gave up after a few hours, and went back to diapers. Eden still uses the potty at least once about every day, and we are slowly making progress. We'll make it there eventually.

Lately we have started traveling with Dad to school on Thursdays. We get in the car at 7:45 (which is early considering Eden sleeps in till 9), and drop Dad off at school at 9:15. From there the car and the day is ours till we pick him back up at 1. The first week we decided to go to the zoo. It was the best last minute decision ever. And for $4 Kama Aina you can't go wrong! Eden loved watching all of the animals, and you could tell on her face that she loves all the wonderful things and creatures Heavenly Father has created for this world. I couldn't take my eyes off her, and she couldn't take hers off the animals.



She was soooo excited to see the elephants. People would walk by her and she would start giggling and pointing at the elephants to try and get their attention, and try climbing up the chain-link fence to get a better look.




She loved playing on the playground, and met a really sweet Japanese little girl who shared her shrimp fries with her. A peacock came running through the middle of the play area and Eden began to chase it with a few other kids. We saw soooo many peacocks that day, Eden could say the word "peacock" almost perfectly by the end of the day.

Eden had a good time playing in the petting Keiki Zoo, and we even saw a dead Lamma. I thought this sign about the mother chickens talking to her eggs was quite cute.
She loved petting the goats and a pig. Unfortunately they were cleaning the Koi pond because Eden LOVES fish.





Oh, and one more photo I forgot. Eden loved putting sunscreen on my face, while I put it on hers. I'd say she did a pretty good job. It was a really really fun morning.





Then we picked Dad back up, and Eden took a nap in the back while we drove on to Makaha. Eden and I had sooo much fun playing at the beach at the end of the road. She realized for the first time that her feet make foot prints in the sand as she walked away, and she thought that was pretty cool. 2 seconds later she discovered her shaddow, but she mostly just found it curious. She didn't take long to look at it, and began walking again towards the tide pools. (Which the life-guards thankfully came to kick us out of because of the unpredictable tide). It was sooo beautiful there, and we had the beach nearly to ourselves.




We left to get Dad who was going to be done with his meeting soon, and got a tuna sushi roll from 7-eleven to snack on while we waited. It was really delicious!

Well, this post is quite long, and I still have more to tell you. But, I better do it later. And if you actually read this far...thanks!!! I hope you enjoyed it.