The Final Fetal Count Is...

Doesn't the old saying go, "Two Heads are Better than One"? Well, I am not quite sure if I fully agree with that yet, especially when they are both kicking and punching four separate quadrants of my torso at once, but the nurse said it was still a rare and special site to behold.

I know I have been a little delinquent in posting the final fetal count, so without further delay, we are happy to announce baby brother Joshua is sharing his cozy home with baby sister Camille Cossette; Cammie for short.

As I previously shared how Joshua David received his name (Joshua from my friend Joshua Alder and David from Cory's twin David), I will now fill you in a little bit on baby Cammie's name. Camille is a name I have always liked and it has been Cory's first pick of names since before our wee Phoebs was even born. I thought I would let Cory choose the name this time since I did last time; aren't I a nice wifey??? Cossette is my mothers maiden name and since it is a real name to begin with I thought it fit perfectly. Camille Cossette Ferguson is bit of a mature name for a wee one, but I am sure she will grow into it wonderfully one day.

10 Years Already!

As of yesterday, June 6th, it has officially been 10 years since I joined the LDS church. Back then I was only 19 and a freshman in college who still had an undeclared major. It was that year that I met some of my closet friends. Below is a picture of me and one of my best friends Joshua Alder (remember this name), aka "Joshie", who baptized me. My baptismal day, in many ways, was a total flop. To name a few of the mishaps we arrived at the church to find all but one locked clothes closets, which is why we are wearing awful too tight or too large 70's polyester whites, then later I was nearly drowned in the font and re emerged only to learn we had to redo it. At the end of the day, I guess, all that mattered was I was baptized and was very excited to be the newest member of the Eugene 8th Ward. Looking back I can't believe all the different opportunities that have opened up to me because of my membership in the church. I served a mission in Switzerland, been an institute instructor at the UofO, held numerous callings and even met my husband while being a stage manager for the tri-stake Single Ward's musical of The Garden.

It is with this, that we are VERY excited to announce that we will be having a little boy named Joshua David Ferguson, but I will most likely always call him Joshie.

As of yet, both of the twins are doing great, but only one was willing to cooperate for the last ultrasound. The other, as you can see in the picture below, did not want to roll off their side. This Thursday we have another ultrasound where we will hopefully know if we have 2 brothers or a brother and a sister for lil' Phoebs.

Memorial Day BBQ

As it has been almost 3 weeks since my last posting, I have some catching up to due, so make sure to scroll down through all 4 updates.

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For our Memorial Day celebration we traveled to Grandma & pa Fergy's backyard for some good food and pool party fun. For lunch we enjoyed grilled hamburgers with ALL of fixings which we call "Training Table" style burgers because like the restaurant these burgers have almost any thing you could imagine to go on top of them and when you are done fixin' it up it is almost always too fat to fit in your mouth without a good squishing down. YUM YUM!!

Opposed to what the weather forecast predicted it was gorgeous and perfect for a pool party. Phoebs was in her heaven playin' in the pool and for almost 4 straight hours she did not want to be out of the pool for most than 10 mins at a time. Finally at 5pm when it was cooling down and she was shivering we made her change out of her swimming suite which sent her into complete hysterics and it took many of use together to calm her back down again.

Zack's Party

Last Saturday we celebrated cousin Zack's 1st Birthday. Zack is the youngest of the wee ones, he is 7 mos younger than Phoebe, but he is by far the largest of the wee ones with his linebacker style body build!! Below are a couple of picture of the big birthday boy and his party food and because it is funny we have contrasted them with Phoebe partaking her share of party refreshments.

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Zack going at his cupcake with fierceness:

Phoebe the dainty bird picks at her cupcake with one finger as to stay clean:

Zack going at his ice cream before one molecule has time to melt:

Phoebe never even made it to the ice cream, she only wanted to lick all the frosting off all the delicious cupcakes.

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When all was done enough is never enough so the plate must be licked clean as well:

These two babies together are humorous to compare due Phoebs being the oldest of the 3 wee ones by 7 mos and yet Zack has almost 10 lbs up on her and Phoebs is one of the most picky and daintest eaters I have have ever witness while Zack's eats style as if it was about to go out of style.

Zoo Days

Last Wednesday we had the opportunity to go to the Zoo with our cousins, Grandma & Aunt Meggie. This came at a perfect time because for the last 2 weeks we have been really trying hard to learn some basic animal sounds and signs.

This turtle, for some unknown reason, held Phoebe's attention for what seemed like eternity and I am not sure if we wouldn't still be standing there if it wasn't for the 9 thousand kids swarming us from various school field trips. As a consultation for leaving Phoebs' beloved turtle, Cory suggested we get Phoebe a box turtle, to which I informed him they live 50 years, so unless he would like to live the rest of his lifetime cleaning the tank, we will not be getting a box turtle for Phoebe.

This African skunk (below) amused our wee one with his continuous running back and forth. After only a few laps of his antics our wee one decided it looked fun and began pacing with him back and forth as well.

These bronze tigers are the closest Phoebe got to seeing the real thing, due to animal lunch times and her own impatience for the wildlife's noncompliance of up close observation.

We were hoping to see lions at the zoo because that is Phoebe's favorite animal sound to make. Whenever you ask her what a lion says she is usually eager to reply with a roar.

After about 3 hours at the zoo we were all tuckered out, especially the two wee ones, Phoebe & Lily. Lily was scared to leave her stroller and I believe became board because she couldn't see all the animals from her reclined position and Phoebe refused to sit in her stroller, so we either held her or she walked along with us. Eventually, Phoebs found this foot guard and made it into a bench, it is only about 6" off the ground, but it was perfect for her short legs. When all the animals had thoroughly been peered at, we loaded up and headed home. This picture was taken after only being in the car for a couple of blocks of the car ride home.

Summer Fun, Havin' Me a Blast

Summer is finally here and we couldn't be more thrilled about it. We take every opportunity to go outside and really become unhinged when we are made to go in again. Mother's Day weekend is always an exciting time around the ole Fergy Family residence because it means it is time to plant our garden and flower beds.

This year in hopes of keeping our dirt lovin' girl out of the garden and flowers we got her a sand box. Since we don't have money or space for a real sand box Phoebe plays in an over sized Rubbermaid Storage container, a bit ghetto I know...oh well, she loves it all the same.

In our ward, we have a playgroup that meets every Wednesday and now that it's summer we usually meet at a park and play. Phoebe absolutely loves park days and splits her playtime between the swings or the bottom of the slide, as demonstrated below. She is just starting to climb on the big toys which make me very nervous because many of them have higher open platforms which she has no fear of.

Finally,but definitely not least, we got a small pool for Phoebe in our backyard, which is where she would live if we gave her the opportunity. Our little fish girl loves to splash around, blow bubbles and listen to normal world sounds from under the water. It is my goal to get this wee one swimming lessons soon because she has no problem with putting her face flat down in the water to explore and play around.

A Noteworthy Moment

It's true after a long dry spell (18 mos) I have proof that she can and does occasionally eat.

I admit it I come from a family that would only be described as spaghetti snobs. I believe without a doubt my mom's marinara is some of the best ever! I don't remember tasting canned spaghetti sauce before collage and I still have a bit of a hard time recognizing it as edible. It has not been unheard of that my mom has complained to a waiter or two that she could make better spaghetti sauce with a bottle of ketchup (very embarrassing). I learned to cook from the best, my mom, and I am glad to see that my wee one can even recognize a good thing when she tastes it.

Garden Gnomes

My mom once told me that every garden needs gnomes because they are good luck; I wonder if she had this kind of gnome in mind?? So far, we have seen lots of success in the garden and maybe it is due to this gnome in the garden or maybe it is due to her strict regiment of daily soil testing/ tasting.

Below are the bulbs we plated in October that came up and are beautifying our back yard. While we are enjoying the tulips now, we are most excited to witness that all of the other plants we planted last year are beginning to spring back to life (no pun intended). We were afraid that our ZERO knowledge of gardening and hack job skills might have killed our beloved plants, but they survived! I guess mom was right garden gnomes, even 30" tall ones, bring good luck.

Way too big...

Well now that is almost May, I will finally get around to posting our egg-citing Easter extravaganza. This year we traveled to Afton, WY to be with the whole Fergy family at Cory's grandma's home. For the majority of you who have never heard of this dot on the map here is a small description of the town. Afton's population is a little over 1,800 and is the home of America's largest antler arch. Overall, I love our trips there because they are pretty relaxing as there is NOTHING else to do there. This trip, however, we were able to enjoy the town Easter egg hunt complete with the tallest Eater Bunny I have ever met (he had to be 6"5' +).

After the hunt all the kids took a nap while Mr. Bunny came and hid all of the eggs in the snow.

Phoebe for the most part had little to no interest in finding all the eggs. Each of the kids got 23 eggs and after picking up about 3-4 Phoebs made us hunt for the rest.

After all the eggs were found, the hunters gathered together with all their booty for a picture.

Here is Phoebs with all of her candy loot. Most of this candy still exists as she only gets a piece of candy after she is a good eater, this is a rare occurrence.

Even though we could not interest Phoebe in the egg hunt not all was lost on her, she found many ways to entertain herself over our 4 day visit. Here she is dumping all the flower all over the kitchen carpet, note when we then tried to clean it up, the vacuum was broken and just blew it everywhere.

Here she is pulling out every single paper out of the cupboard and then arranging it in her own special way.

On Easter Morning we all waited upstairs for all the cousins to finally wake up and join us to see what was in their Easter Bunny bags. As we were waiting for the last few wee ones to get up my 4 yr old niece Kayla and I had one of the most uplifting chats. She asked me if I had a baby in my tummy which I replied, "Yes, I have two of them in my tummy." She then comment, "Oh, so that's why your tummy is way too big." I might not had been so offended if I was showing at all at that point. Yup, that is Kayla for you, in case you felt at all okay about yourself she will help you with that.

When all the wee ones finally awoke we all run to our bunny bags to see our loot. Here is Phoebe with hers, which she took no interest in. I guess the Bunny left her lame gifts and everyone else's were much better. We couldn't get her to take interest in her gifts, but she went around stealing everyone else's.

Here is cousin Emma and Phoebs in their Easter tutus. Emma couldn't seem to understand the correct way to wear her new sunglasses.

Phoebe seeing this felt the need to steal the glasses to show her how to put them on properly. She really did put on the glasses all by herself.

After the bunny bags were all opened we had a few hours to play and clean up and then we had to start making the 3 hours trip home again. Overall, this was a great Easter with everyone around to celebrate with and I look forward to joining the even bigger crowd next year with the 4 (Fergy, Fergy & Medico) wee ones being born later this year.