Ferguson Family: Three Girls Under Three

My sister Pollyanna and her husband Rick went on a cruise for a week so we offered to watch their daughter Aria while they were away. Aria will be turning three at the end of this month. It's been fun having a little person around who can speak in full sentences. She's also potty trained which Addie found fascinating. I'm not looking forward to when Addie and I hit the potty training stage. Aria slept in Addie's room every night and did amazing. I was worried that Addie wouldn't go to sleep easily. Some nights they would talk to each other for a few minutes but it wouldn't take long for both of them to pass out. Danny is out of school for six weeks, until his classes start up again during the summer second block, so we had an exciting week of different activities. We picked her up from my sister Beckie and headed to the zoo. It was fun to be there with her and it was especially fun that Addie was older and very interested in the animals this year. I think her favorite animal is a tie between monkeys and elephants. She's always been a fan of monkeys but lately she gets excited whenever she sees elephants in a TV show, book or game. She was completely mesmerized when we took her to the elephant exhibit. Danny enjoyed the bird show with Aria while I waited by the carousel with Addie. Our daughter is not one to sit still so we knew she wouldn't do well for the bird show they have. I let Danny enjoy that time with Aria because I feel like the bird show is his favorite part about the zoo. Addie literally ran around the carousel ride for twenty of the twenty five minutes that we waited for the show to end. We think she's going to be a runner in the future. Within minutes of driving home from the zoo Aria and Addie were both passed out in their car seats. They were so tired.

The girls had so much fun at the zoo that we decided to take them to the BYU Bean Museum. It's a museum with hundreds of stuffed animals displayed for people to see up close. They went from seeing live animals one day to seeing animals that used to be alive the next day haha. There was one section where a bear was taking down a moose and Aria asked us what it was doing. Instead of telling her that the bear was getting its meal we told her that he was trying to give the moose a hug. We started second guessing our decision once we got to to that area. I had never been there before and found it pretty interesting. Addie was doing just fine in her stroller until she saw the giant elephant. She got pretty excited so we took her out to take a picture which was a mistake because after that she did not want to get back in the stroller and instead tried to run around for the rest of the time.

The third day of Aria staying with us we had our other niece Georgia here. I watch her regularly up to three times a week. It was fun spending the day with all three little girls. Aria is about 16 months older than Addie and Addie is 11 months older than Georgia. All three of them are in different stages between baby and toddler and they all enjoyed together. At one point we got all three of them to nap at the same time which was heaven. I completely forgot to take a picture of all three of them together. I had plenty of opportunities but I never got it done. That night we all went to the family farm so that Aria could see the farm animals they have there (which I also did not take any pictures of). She's probably going to associate Danny and I with animals since everything we did was animal related.

As I watched Danny interact with all three girls this week I couldn't help but picture our future family. If we ended up with three girls I would be happy with that and I got the feeling that Danny would be just as pleased. :)

Other pictures from that week.