Happenings at the Bundy house

Here's what's been happening at the Bundy house lately

Liam lost another tooth! Which made me super excited because now he can sing "all I want for Christmath are my two front teeth." Hopefully they don't grow back in too fast ;)

Tony had "dress like a cowboy" day at work. He didn't tell me and I may or may not have insensitively burst out laughing when he came in dressed like this. He sure is cute ;). When he came home from work he also had a cheapy badge that said "sheriff Tony" on it, which made the outfit that much cooler.

We made delicious mozzarella, tomato, and pesto grilled sandwiches. I had to brag. They were delish.

A couple days ago, the kids came running in and told me there was a bunny stuck down in our window well. I made Liam climb down there to catch it (because I'm a wuss) and we tried to let it go. Then it ran right back into another one of our window wells. So we put it in a bucket and called Grandma Bundy to learn what we should do (Tony was at work). We fed it some lettuce, gave it some water, then waited until dad got home.

The next morning we decided that it would probably be happier/survive better out in the wild than stuck in a bucket in our garage. So we woke up early so everyone could play with the bunny (because Tony was home and was brave enough to pick up the bunny, unlike me.)

Then we went to our favorite "spooky woods" (that's what Grandma Wendy calls them) and let the little guy go. Hopefully he survives :/

And last but not least here's a picture of me...
At my 24 weeks appointment I was measuring 28 (2 weeks more)
At my 28 week appointment I was measuring 31 (3 weeks more)
And yesterday at my 30 week appointment I was measuring 34 (4 weeks more)...

This baby is going to, once again, be huge (silent sobbing ;)). He's growing ridiculously fast.
My mom asked for a picture so I took this lame selfie. Then I figured maybe one day I would want to know what I looked like at 30 weeks too, so now it's on here (ugh.)

Notice Emma's little pudgy fingers in the corner :). She's growing up super fast, but I love that she still has pudgy baby fingers. She's not too old yet :). (Or, now that I think about it, maybe she just has her Mom's forever pudgy fingers...poor kid.)

Rantings of a Pregnant Woman

Rantings means-Speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.

Did you know? I sure didn't. But when I looked it up to make sure that it was for sure a word, or at least the type of word I was looking for, I learned. So here I go speaking at length in a wild impassioned way...

Is it bad that I keep seeing things like diapers, wipes, and nursing pads, and think, 'oh, yeah. Shoot. I've got to buy those at sometime.'

I felt a lot more on top of that type of thing with my other kids. I'm afraid with this kid I'll be sending Tony from the hospital to pick them up.

I read a thing today that said, "Want to know what having a fourth kid is like? Imagine you are drowning and then someone hands you a baby." I don't think any statement has been more true.

I began making my Christmas list a few days ago. Yeah, I'm that lady. Okay, really, not usually. But Tony usually asks me around the beginning of December what I want for Christmas/my birthday and for months before that I have all these brilliant ideas of things I would like--that would make my life so much better or easier--and then in the heat of the asking moment I can't think of a darn one. So I say lame things like clothes, or the latest dumb movie. So I'm changing it.

One thing on my list is a new bra. I got real excited when I thought of this one because my current favorite bra is fantastic, but like 5 years old, and is slowly losing its "lifting-power." It cost a lot of money, and I thought, 'Sweet, this year I can spend a lot of money again and get a new springy bra!' And then I remembered I would be nursing. Crap. I hate nursing bras.

For Liam and possibly Emma I had some cheapy Walmart nursing bra that did little other than hang there. Poor Tony. Poor all the people that had to see me. When Fox was born I wised up and bought a nice one from Motherhood, but still I hate nursing bras. I want an attractive bra. But I guess this year I'll get a nursing bra and next year a new springy bra.

I read a couple of things yesterday about postpartum. The whole time I did it I thought, 'dang. I remember that.' 'Oh, yeah, you did feel crappy for the first several weeks, shoot.' I probably shouldn't have read it. It's lucky these kids are born so darn cute.

This baby boy is like the thing (alien?) from Alien. I swear he is trying to pop right out the front of my stomach. He is constantly moving...and pushing...and clawing. Today Tony had his hand on my stomach and I said "Do you feel him!?" Tony shook his head. I looked down and replied, "Tony, his foot is pushing out like two inches!" Tony just laughed. Stinkin' tease of a boy. I'll say one thing- This kid is going to come out strong.

I love him though. Already. It's been nice having older kids. I've had more time being able to bond with this baby. I don't have to run around changing diapers or trying to potty train. At times I can just sit down and watch my little alien baby try to escape, then painfully push his appendage back in, or out of my ribs, or away from my poor bloated, pokey-out belly button.

The River

You know, a dream is like a river

...except this one. This one is called Skunk River. 

But really it is beautiful. We discovered this part of the river when we went to explore one of the parks here in Ames. We've now discovered two different ways to get there, one with about a 1/4 "hike" and one with a 1+ mile walk/bike ride. Both are fantastic and its fun to end up somewhere we can wade and play in the water while catching all sorts of wild life. 

And really, even though its called Skunk River, it doesn't stink any more than any other river.

 After searching in the water for a while we began to find fresh water clams! They were super cool and we collected quite a few before we decided to put them back because it was time to head home.

We also found tadpoles! I don't know that I've seen some this big before. They were super cool.

We also caught crawdads and baby fish with our hands!

*Disclaimer, the dragonfly on Tony's finger was mostly dead when he found it. That's how he got it to hang out on his finger, but he thought it would be a cool picture ;)


On a side note: This past couple of days we've had our good friends the Bryner's come and stay with us as they are passing through on their way to move to North Carolina! Jay got into PA school there and we are super excited for the whole family! Except we wish they would have gotten in somewhere right by us...:)

For my Mom :)

One of the other things that we did when Sierra was here is went to my ultrasound! It was super fun that Sierra got to go with me (and thanks Tony for hanging out with the kids so she could :)).  We got to see lots of the baby! They said that usually they do an ultrasound for about an hour (really? An hour? Theres only so much black and white baby blob I can handle), but mine only went a little over 1/2 hour. So once again here's some pictures of the cutest little baby blob you've ever seen!! 

Look at that yawnin' baby :)

And yes, we found out what we are having. I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't shocked...I was. I was so certain it was a girl, but I'm always wrong. I should have known. :)

I have the ultra sound picture to prove it, but really, what 6 month old fetus wants their parts posted all over the internet? That's just indecent ;). You'll just have to take my word for it.

So watch out world, another boy Bundy is coming in October, and we couldn't be happier! We do make ridiculously cute boys ;)

Sierra in Iowa

When we left Utah it wasn't as sad as usual because we kidnapped Sierra and brought her home with us! I'm kind of bummed I didn't get more pictures of her and the stuff we did. She was here for a week and I'm only going to have one post to show for it :/. Oh, well. 

Some of the stuff we did with Sierra-

Ledges National Park- We caught a baby turtle, crawdads, and baby fish.

Big Creek lake-We swam with real nasty seaweed and such :)

Gelato- (Pictured below) 

Catching fireflies-Sierras first time even seeing them!! (and other things like snakes, pic below)

Iowa science museum-(Pictured below)

A hike through Munn Woods- the scary kind, where people get killed in the movies ;)

And lots of late nights with movies! 

Iowa science museum

 pulling up tires

A giant pin thingy...You know what I'm talking about (left top corner-Sierra, Right top-Tony, left middle-Liam, Right middle-Emma, Left bottomish-something Fox did)

Fox's didn't work out so we had him do it at the bottom afterwords

 Blowing giant bubbles. Or at least trying to. 

 Being weather men/women

 Making rockets

Trying to protect the eggs. See the conveyor belt thing in the background? That's where it'd fall from. 

 Sierra's has a parachute. Her egg didn't make it. :) 

We built this

 and then knocked it down

Thanks for visiting Sierra. We miss you already. Really, we do. Come back soon :)

Liam's baptism

July 6th we were lucky enough to be in Utah for Liam's baptism. It was an awesome day! Tony baptized and confirmed Liam and lots of family got to be there. It was also pretty cool because my parents bishop (Bishop Cabe Atkinson) was also one of my leaders while I was in young women's, so I felt right at home. 

I cried alot. I knew I was going to. I tear up at other kids'

baptisms, while the parents sit there smiling and dried eyed. I just think it's so cool. And Bishop Atkinson surprised the mom's by asking them to bare their testimonies. So then I cried more.

But I'm super excited Liam decided to make the decision to be baptized. He's such a good kid, and a good example for his siblings and those around him. 

The Monday (July 8th) after we headed home to Iowa. We were sad to leave, but excited to get back to real life (kind of). Fox keeps asking if we can go to Grandma's house to show her: his cut on his ear, his stuffed animal, his picture he colored. 

We miss it there, but will be back next year. :)

Thanks for letting us visit, Utah!