stubborn kid

Stubborn kids are what Shaun and I have. We had an amniocentesis on Monday and were hoping that his lungs where going to mature enough that we could have him this week or next week. That way we both him and I would have some time before we move down to Florida to recover. But this little boy is going to be stubborn and take his time, when the test results came back they said his lungs were really immature and the eeriest that they would induce me was the 3rd of June. Well, Shaun is going to be gone that whole week for graduation from med school and so that wasn't sounding very fun for me to do things by myself. So after talking it over and looking at schedules and stuff we decided that we should just wait until the 10th and then Shaun will be here. So sorry to get everyone excited that we were going to have a baby soon, but we will all just have to be patient and wait until this little boy decides that he is ready to come out. So the plan is for Shaun to be here for the delivery and then drive down to Florida with his dad, and then soon after me and the kids and my mom and sister will drive down and meet him. Janalee decided that she was going to be born on time either and was a week and a half late before I got induced. So now this little boy is taking his own sweet time and wants to be born on the 10th-which is Shaun's birthday so that is fun. So, everyone pray that there aren't any complications with the birth and we will all be ok to drive down to Florida when we need to. Fun times ahead for the Simmons family.

Silly Songs]

Sorry that you have to listen to my singing voice in this video, but I thought it was cute. She likes to do the actions to songs. I have taught her this one, and patty cake and the itsy-bitsy spinder. I have been trying to think of more songs that have actions like this so if you have any suggetions I would love them!

Great deal

So I have been looking on craigslist.com for some good deals on baby stuff that we need and I found an awesome one. So I am going to brag about it to you all, haha. Well my cousin let me use her baby carrier with Janalee and I fell in love with it, she still is using it right now for her baby and so I wasn't going to get to borrow it this time. While I was looking on craigslist I found one for my very own!! The brand is Baby Bjorn and they are the best baby carriers! Normally they are like 80 bucks and I found this one for 15, only used a few times by the owner. Sweet deal!! Here is a picture of Shaun and Janalee trying it out for me, aren't they cute!!

Easter

Our ward had a little Easter egg hunt for the kids at the church, because it is too cold to do it outside. At first she didn't know what was going on because there were so many kids running everywhere, but she caught on quickly. She was really excited to find out that there were things inside the eggs too. For the rest of the morning she wouldn't let go of her bucket of eggs.

Arizona trip

Shaun had a test that he had to go back to school in Arizona and take, so Janalee and I decided that we needed to tag along. It was a long flight there, but so worth it. It was so nice to see everyone down there. I miss you all!!!
Here are all of us that went to the zoo, we are riding the train around the park. Aren't we a good lookn' family!

The Pheonix zoo has all these kid areas now, it is so nice. It never had this stuff when we went there as kids. Here is Janalee and Trey and Ethan-cousins- play in the kids area.


This is the fun little petting zoo area. Here is a shot of my big belly. Notice Janalee's pants in the first picture, ya she totally fell right into a puddle of mud and who knows what else. She went the rest of the time without pants on.


And finally this is a shot of her nice shiner that she got when she fell off the piano bench and hit her head of the piano. Poor thing. It is a lot darker, but the flash lightened it. Thankfully it is healing nicely.

Shoe Addiction

So, my daughter has a shoe addiction. She loves shoes no matter who's they are. When she gets into our room, she goes straight for the closet and will pick out a pair she likes and try to escape with them. In our coat closet we have shoes one the floor in there, mostly our hospital shoes who's germs I am trying to keep out of the house and away from Janalee, but she has discovered how to open that door too. Now she will open it as fast as she can, grab a pair of shoes and run off with them. When we are at the mall in the play place, we have to watch her around the little shoe cubby otherwise she will run off with someone else's shoes. She loves to wear shoes around the house all day long if she can. Sometimes when I haven't been able to get her shoes off before nap time she will throw a tantrum if I try to take them off. I have wanted to get a picture of her sleeping with her shoes on and today I finally got one. I guess there are worse things in life then a 1 year old with a shoe addiction. haha

The next three years of our lives

So we finally know where Shaun is going for his residency. He got put into the scramble like 21% of the other podiatry students. It was a long few days waiting to hear from these residencies, but we are glad the wait is over. We will be moving to Florida! We will be in Jacksonville by the University of Florida. NO SNOW!!!!!!!!
That is my favorite part. We were hoping for somewhere closer to family in the west, but what can you do. So everyone can come and visit us and we will hang out at the beach and go to Disneyworld, and Seaworld, and all the other cool parks down there. It will be a party! I am just glad to know where we going and where we will be for the next three years. So that is the update here. Everyone plan a trip out there within the next three years to come and play with us. The director seems really nice, he talked with Shaun for about half and hour tonight on the phone. So I think it will be a really good program for Shaun. We are excited the wait is over and we will be out of the snow.