Preschool and Exciting News!

 Mia's first day of preschool: Miss Kelli is her teacher and 

Mia was very excited to go this year. She is going 3 days instead of 2 and

so far, she is coming home and giving herself hours of "pretend" homework 

working on letters and numbers. It's pretty cute!

 I can't get a picture in without a certain cat's tail!

 She's a seahorse this year

 Mia's class: I can't believe will be in Kindergarten

next year and come to school with me. Crazy! She's been saying the most

interesting things lately. Right before we were headed to church on Sunday, she told

Rick that heavenly father would be really sad if he knew that he was drinking coffee on a Sunday

(she saw his coffee cup in the bathroom) Rick was like oh this is from yesterday, I was just cleaning it out. It was so sad. Little did she know that dad just got home a few hours earlier and we were lucky he got up and went to church with such few hours of sleep :)

And we finally got pregnant. I will be 18 weeks this Friday and I took

this on Tuesday. We have been trying for almost 3 years. We kept it secret from Mia for the most part all the pain we were going through and trying the fertility avenue, but last March and April, she just started praying every single night for a baby brother/sister out of the blue and saying she's the only kid on the planet without one. It was really hard to hear that from your child. Well after two months of praying, we got pregnant. Of course we didn't tell her right away, we waited for 12 weeks, but the second I found out, she stopped with the prayers on her own and it just seemed like she knew already. It was crazy. We also got tons of prayers and our names in the temple for years, so thank you for that. Mia has been a little mom since she found out, telling me to drink water or I will be dehydrated. Asking why I'm burping so much... She's too cute and soo excited. The day we found out what we were having, we brought Mia. Apparently she wanted a sister, because when the tech told us it was a boy, she started bawling. It was sad. Then she came home and had this conversation with the cat: "Well Spock it's a boy, yup oh great, that's what I thought, so be prepared that when the baby gets here, he's going to pull your tail and throw you into the air." Sooo funny, she's just so used to preschool boys, she thinks they are all naughty! I'm worried too, I like my quiet, peaceful house of girls but according to my mom, Miss Mia would never let a boy be wild in our house, she runs the show and would keep him in line. Anyway, we are due Feb.1st and I will keep you updated! I did have a name that I'm just not ready to give up so we will see what we decide, but name suggestions are welcomed :)