Disney World continued

Typhoon Lagoon

SPLISH SPLASH .... we had a major blast!

The day after we visited all of the animals we headed for some major fun in the hot sun. We went to one of the best water slide parks in Florida. It was such a hot day and we were all ready for the water. Here is the fun Leavitt clan after swimming all day.

This place was seriously amazing to the eye. It had everything. Amber and I spent most of our time in the baby area because we're both pregnant and have to take it easier than and not go on all the water slides. We took care of the babies and loved just hanging in the white sand and the simpler slides. James was in heaven, he loved the lazy river, which went all the way around the park. It was about a 40 minute ride all around. He also really enjoyed the child area, there was a huge boat, small slides and little rivers to walk down. He never stopped the whole day.

I have never seen such a huge wave pool. The waves were almost 10 feet tall. James was fearless and loved taking the more shallow waves. They scared me more than him. We totally have a swim baby, he just loves the whole idea of being wet and having fun. I adore my sisters. They are seriously so much fun to hang out with and be around. One moment Amber and I will always remember is taking our 2 younger nieces, James and his cousin who is younger then him up a tube slide. We waited in line for about 45 minutes, here we are each holding the babies in one hand, both have prego bellies and they tell us that we have one person to much to fit on the huge tubes. So they said we'd have to split up and take our own tubes. We were like..... "are you serious?" The tubes were bigger then us. So we both tried. We didn't get further than the first step of stairs and realized there was no way we could do it. And worst thing, no one offered to help, so we had to turn around and not go. Well, all we can say is we tried. Magic Kingdom

Where all our dreams came true.........

Mickey Mouse.... James' new bud. James wasn't sure what to think about all the large full life Disney Characters walking around. The first one he saw close up was Pinocchio and he was seriously about to cry. He kept on pulling back, I could tell it was just a bit to much. Yet when he saw Pluto or any animal kind he was alright. I guess he preferred looking at them from a distance, instead of close up.

James dressed up a few times,doesn't he make a beautiful Minnie? (Josh would kill me if he knew I put this on here. His son is so manly, he doesn't dress up in girly things.... so he thinks.)

The Goofy hat suited my dad perfectly, and Josh and Brad looked amazing in their Minnie attire. One of our favorite rides was Pirates of the Caribbean. James was a little scared, yet at the end all he wanted to do was play with the swords and stuff.

Uncle Brad made James ' day by buying him a light saver sword. He was having the greatest time once it got dark out and glowed in the dark, he totally has an imagination already. Still to this day, he plays with it everyday. Thanks Brad for the awesome gift. go GOOFY!!

Donald Duck giving five to our baby girl, while James took a short nap.

We saw so many Disney characters. For James, it was his first time seeing a lot of them, because he really doesn't watch much T.V. For Disney he has only really seen Cars, Toy Story and I educated him a bit on Mickey Mouse and the clan a few days before we left.

Our nieces waited to see the princesses for like 2-3 hours, while James rode the train, visited Mickey's house and watched the fireworks. It was so great! The parade was awesome. James just kept on pointing and grinned the whole time. He couldn't believe everything around him. He is sure talking a ton now. His favorite words this trip have been car, choo choo, fish, momma, Dada (since he missed him so much) and sign language thank you and please. I love that he communicates with me so much and I can actually tell what he needs and wants. Going to these fun parks are so much more fun when you have a little one to watch. It is like all the magic comes alive again. What a fun trip for a little guy, I just hope he can remember something from it when he gets bigger.

James' favorite ride. He just loves horses and wouldn't stop saying "Howse".We saw so many Disney characters. For James, it was his first time seeing a lot of them, because he really doesn't watch much T.V. For Disney he has only really seen Cars, Toy Story and I educated him a bit on Mickey Mouse and the clan a few days before we left.

The Amazing Disney World Experience

Airplane Trip from Salt Lake to Denver to Florida........ Since James is still younger than 2 years old, he got to sit on my lap with his sister (baby bump). Thankfully the first flight was not very full so we got all 3 seats to ourselves and he was able to buckle up and fall asleep, but of course only for the last 15 minutes of the flight. Since it was his first flight he was totally curious as to what was going on in his surroundings. He was excited and I kept him occupied the majority of the time with books, toys, coloring, eating snacks and looking out of the window. He did such a great job, but by the end of 2nd flight he was tired and did not want to sleep, because of being overly exhausted. When we arrived at the Florida airport, we were the first of the family to arrive. We then met up with mom, dad and Lindsey, than had to wait for Amber and Brad. We were all pretty sick of flying. As you can tell Linz and I were pretty tired. Here I am exaggerating the experience as I am pushing out as much as I can to look as big as I can. We rented a van and a car and were finally off to our beautiful Arabian Nights resort, which was about 10 minutes from all of Disney Worlds main attractions. We met up with Stacy, Josh and their kids. They drove from Virginia. We had two pretty good sized pads that were connected and mom and dad had their own resort that they stayed at during the nights. We all chilled out together and pretty much just enjoyed the warm evenings and beautiful luscious greenery around us. Sunday came and we slept in, well at least everyone but me slept in. I don't know what it was, but James never slept in, he awoke at like 6:30 most evenings and if I was lucky maybe 8:00. Later we all went to church of course, and isn't it great how our church is all pretty much the same, know matter where you are in the world. That evening we went for a walk around our huge resort, and fed the ducks and fish. Amber even saw an alligator out there. I guess it's a norm to see alligators running free in the swamp areas. James loved seeing all the fish jump up and he got a little to daring with the ducks. He almost got attacked a few times, these ducks didn't seem to be to friendly or even cute. Almost every night James and his cousins had tubbies together. Lilli and Izzy are so great to James, he loves being with them. On Monday we just hung out at the pool and played a ton in the water. James even had floaties on and he could float a little by himself. He is such a little dare devil in the water that I can't take my eyes off of him even for a second.

ANIMAL KINGDOM

The next morning we were out and about to see what Disney World had to offer. Wow, it was a lot bigger than I ever imagined (so many different parks). We went to Animal Kingdom. James was in complete heaven. One of his favorite things in the world are animals. He was so mesmerized by all the real live animals he had seen in books that he actually stayed still for more than a few minutes. The Safari was his favorite. We were all loaded into a jeep and animals were roaming all around us, no gates or anything around them. We saw giraffes, lions, hippos, elephants, rhinos, ostriches, monkeys and so many more animals we don't see everyday. We even saw a tree woman, James was kind of scared of her, she was on huge stilts and when she stood up straight she blended in with all of the other trees.All of us girls went on a dinosaur water ride that we got drenched in, James and his cousin, Talmage were having their own fun in the fountains. We had them down to their diapers, yet it was so hot they dried off pretty fast. We had the pleasure of seeing these gorillas really close. They are so similar to humans, it is scary. Just watching this mother play with her baby was amusing. They are so dang cute. There was also Dino Land that James loved. He really enjoyed going on the rides. He was scared at first and didn't smile once, but then got used to it. All day he would point to animals he was excited about. While James and Talmage slept or to make it possible for all of us to go on rides, we would take turns in groups. We went to a 3D movie, Bugs Life, and it was quite entertaining and almost seemed real. My little nieces were in pure heaven and just stunned by all the adventure. By the end of the day James was zonked and thank goodness to Uncle Brad and Grandpa for holding him, because being 7 months pregnant and holding a 26 lbs child doesn't always feel good at the end of walking all day. This is one of James' new faces. He is such a comedian and he really cracks us all up. I'll catch all of you up about the 2 other weeks we were out vacationing. But as for now, I need to pack because our little family is going to California for the Nielson family trip. I'm living the life, trip after trip.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

We were excited to celebrate daddy's birthday before we left for Disney World. Sadly, daddy did not join us on our Leavitt family trip because of work. On his actual birthday it was just the 3 of us and we celebrated his special day by going to dinner for**** and then we rented his movie pick, which was Avitar. The rest of the night was just spent with me and him and it was a great relaxing evening. Than my parents came into town the next day and they took us out to P.F Changs, which was delicious. We had the Great Wall of China for dessert, which is a specialty between Josh and I, as we used to go get this dessert many times during our dating stage. James already knows he is the luckiest guy in the world to have such an super daddy. They are total buddies and James just gets so excited whenever daddy is around. I can defiantly say that he is a daddy's boy. One of my favorite things to do is to watch the two of them together. They love to rustle and play around. I am lucky to have a man in my life who loves his son just as much as I do. The love we have for him is indescribable and perfect. We just feel so blessed to have the fun little family we do. I continually have to thank Josh for being such an amazing man. He is so dedicated to the gospel and our church, that it makes him such a great priesthood holder in our home. He is such an example to me and teaches me new things all the time. He reminds me to let the small things go and he loves me and thinks I am still sexy when I am pregnant (which is a plus). I love making a family with him and we can't wait to invite a new little woman to our growing family. I LOVE YOU JOSH and I hope I can spend the rest of my life showing you. You are the man I have dreamed of all my life. We have grown together and I am so grateful that you come home to James and I everyday. You are an amazing man!! Thanks for all you do for our family and for loving us back!!

Sneak Peek of Disney World

Here is a sneak peek for my husband. We have called daddy many times, yet he wants pictures cause he misses us so much. So here are a few off of my sisters camera, since I can't put them on her computer yet. So here is a few pics from Disney World. But there are some great ones to come. We had a blast in Orlando, now I am in Virginia visiting my sister. We do miss daddy though. Arr... sad, you can barely even see James. Josh you missed out, I know you would have loved wearing one of these sweet hats. He loves horses. They are probebly his favorite. James had no idea what to think about with all the Disney characters. Prego's with our girl and boy mickey and minnies. Our big guy loved the dino's. In Virginia with his cousins. Running throught the sprinklers in the sun and taking a break with some yummy suckers. We continue to have fun with the cousins.

I'll update later when I get back.

Pop goes the Bump

23 weeks I finally started to pop.

25 weeks Each day I wake up I honestly feel like my belly has grown a bit. I guess for me once I start to pop, I really start to pop a little each day. I kinda like it though, because now I actually am looking pregnant.

26 Weeks I love being pregnant. I am more than halfway to seeing my baby girl. This pregnancy has gone by so fast. Everyday she is in our prayers and we are still seeking to find the perfect name. Finding a girls name is so difficult, as Josh and I just can't come to an agreement on the perfect name. We want a name that is feminine and pretty.

Our little girl is a little mover. She is constantly kicking and letting us know she's in there. James loves to blow on my tummy and I always tell him that his baby sister is in my belly. I like to pretend that he is communicating with her.

My smart little jokester

About 2 days ago, James took my phone and started saying dadda. So, I called Josh up and told him that his son wanted to talk to him. James always pretends he's on the phone and talks his baby talk, with the phone up to his ear. Well, when he heard daddy's voice he got so excited and had the biggest grin. I kept on telling him it was daddy. Well, as Josh always talks on the other line and gets James excited, James suddenly said "HI DAD!" Then I thought that it might have just sounded like it, then he said it again.... "HI DAD!" Josh and I were so stocked. He had said his first sentence all by himself. Josh was one proud daddy too, since it involved him. James has taken off just in the last month with his animal noises too. Anytime he sees a cow on the milk carton he starts to moo his little moo. Then when we are reading books (his favorite are animal books lately) he will always make the ruff ruff for the dog and he knows how to hiss for the snakes.......He even likes snakes better since he got to touch one last week. His most used words are momma and dadda. Every night when we read scriptures and there is a picture of Jesus, he points and says "US", it's so dang cute. He knows how respond if he doesn't want something by shaking his head no, he folds his arms the majority of the time during prayer, he knows what the words "away" means when it is clean up time (it's great, he can clean up some of his toys and even take his own dirty diaper to the garbage- he actually really likes to put things in the trash for me. He drinks completely from a sippy cup or glass now and he gives the best hugs and kisses ever. His best hugs are when he wraps his arms around you and pats your back. He can point to his nose, eyes, ears, teeth, hair, feet and hands. He thinks belly buttons are the coolest. Ever since he was young we would blow on his belly and make him laugh, and now whenever he sees bare skin or pulls my shirt up to see my tummy, he places his cute little lips on the belly button and blows. Just today, he made that funny loud noise, I thought it was a fluff, but it was him blowing on his cousin's tummy. He thinks it is so funny and he is the cutest thing to watch.A few weeks ago, I actually let James have his first real marker time. I just let him figure them out and he prefers them over crayons any day. Yet, he thinks it is fun putting them in his mouth and biting off the end or drawing on himself. So we have started a little art scrap book for him. He seems to get a little better each time, with my supervision of course. His favorite thing to do every single day without fail is to go out to our backyard and see the horses. He loves to pull out the grass and feed it to the horses. He can now say "Hose" for horse, and he always points in the right direction. It is a pretty fun backyard. All the neighbors share everything and there is just tons or area to roam. He likes jumping on the tramp with me or with his small cousins, but once his bigger cousins come on, he wants off. Then there is a sweet sand box about 10 by 8 feet and it is full of fun trucks and toys. Lastly there is a little playground area in the back of another neighbors yard and we have been told to use it. So going outside, into the backyard is always loads of fun. He could spend hours out there, sometimes I have to pry him away from all the fun and he just gets so sad to go inside. Our little man is quite the jokester. He is always making us laugh and it just comes so natural to him too. He even laughs at himself. Well, whenever I wear my sun glasses he gives me a certain look, almost a look of "you think you're so cool". He's tried them on a number of times and just goes off laughing. It is pretty comical. He sure keeps us smiling everyday. Here we are all decked out in our shades, ready for summer or even spring to come and stay......but when? WE LOVE OUR BABY JAMES, he is growing up way to fast. I try to treasure these small moments and just spend as much time as I can with him. He just melts my little heart! He is almost 18 months and is weighing 26 lbs, fitting into 18month-2T clothing, wearing size 3 diapers, still loving his blanky and constantly playing with trucks, cars or balls. The other day he was putting on princess shoes with his other boy cousins, and Josh had a hard time with that. I don't see any girly vibes coming out, he is just loving the whole shoe thing. Anytime he wants to go outside he will go and get his shoes all by himself and the majority of the time they are always matching. I have a pretty smart boy on my hand, what can I say.