Halloween

I'm still a slacker. I'm not really going to type anything at all just show you some pics. Enjoy.

No more

I've decided I can't have any more children. Alexavier has already gotten so jipped on things we did with J (like pictures and keep track of when he does stuff) that if I have a 3rd or 4th then they wont get shit. Oh well.

I know I should blog more because it helps keep memories but when I have the time the last thing I want to do is type and up load pictures. Here's a few though....

Frustration

I know I haven't blogged in a long time and I should be but things just get away from me. I plan on uploading some pictures latter this week so hopefully I can use those as a catch up blog.

This post isn't about the fam - it's about me and my frustrations. I am currently breastfeeding Alexavier. Most of you know that I tried my hardest to nurse Jeramyah but it just didn't work. There were too many negatives against us and I just wasn't as educated as I thought I was about nursing.

I don't know if it's because I do more with A or if it’s because I'm nursing but I LOVE my slings. They are so nice because I can toss A in it and nurse without anyone really knowing. There have been just a few times that someone has noticed I was nursing.

The other day was one of those days, and also the cause of this blog. We were at the zoo and this lady noticed I was nursing she told me how happy she was that I was doing that, not enough women do it now days, etc, etc. This is usually the theme of comments I get when a woman sees me nursing. I am all for the camaraderie of supporting a nursing mom but why do people have to be hateful toward the other demographic?
One day at the hospital a lady told me she was glad I loved my child enough to nurse. WHAT???? Does that mean I love Alexavier more than I love Jeramayh?? Am I a better mom to A because I am nursing him and didn’t J?
It burns my hide to think that anyone in the world really thinks a woman doesn’t love her child because she won’t, can’t or doesn’t nurse. Yes I personally believe that every woman should try – and that you should give it an honest go and do so for an extended period of time (it was 6-8 weeks before I felt like I knew what the hell I was doing). However I’d much rather see a woman stick a bottle of formula in her child’s mouth then nurse and grow to resent nursing, herself, or worst of all her child. Another thing I wonder about is all the women who can’t nurse but pump breast milk then bottle feed their baby, do these women just automatically assume they don’t love their kids???
To be honest, I am not a fan of nursing. It is painful, it keeps me ridiculously tied down, and it takes away from anyone else having that extra 15 minutes of bonding. I am going to keep doing it for as long as possible but if I don’t make it to my initial one year goal it will not be the end of the world. Formula is not poison, it will not make my child fat, stupid, or lazy. It also doesn’t mean I don’t love him.

Now, on the other hand, I am starting back to work this week and my boss is making a huge deal about me nursing. Although I understand some of her reasons for concern (will parents think I can’t take care of their children if I’m nursing mine) it also infuriates me that this is a problem. I personally think it’d be worse if I was bottle feeding – I would have only one free hand where with nursing I’d have 2. It makes me mad because the women who do choose to breast feed aren’t encouraged to do so. Work makes it difficult, a lot of people act like breastfeeding is a dirty thing, you have to not only cover yourself but you have to cover your child as well.
Why can’t people just mind their own business? If you are supportive of nursing then say “good for you!” and leave it at that. If you aren’t a fan of nursing then look the other way but leave the poor woman alone! Maybe I feel so strongly about this because I’ve walked both sides of the line, maybe I just like to bitch, I have no clue.

I’d be interested in hearing other’s thoughts though. If you nursed did you feel like you had to be covered up to your neck? Did you get comments about nursing (good or bad)? Were they over the top? What about if you bottle fed (breast milk or formula) did you get comments? Did you feel like you were cheating your child?

J's first day of preschool - through his eyes

J goes to preschool 2 days a week. On Tuesdays they learn science and on Thursdays they learn music. This is how J told me his day went.

"I painted a son. It's yellow. That's my son right there. My teacher put my name on it. It says JERaMYAH" "I made a telescope too. I coloured it blue. I looked at the clamits." I sort of ignored the clamits part until he said it another time in the van on the way home. I asked him "You saw clams in your telescope?" "NO clamits"

We get home and I pull his stuff from his backpack and he shows me his telescope. Looking through it he says "See the clamits. They are above the clouds when it's dark." I'm still not sure what the heck he's talking about until I pull at a picture he coloured of earth. "There's my clamit! It's a small one, they get big. My teacher lives there." Ah, yes son clamits.


I am so so glad I put him in preschool. He had so much fun, the teachers said he did fantastic. No tears, not one, even when the other kids cried. He didn't take a nap but he did have quiet time. He loved his teachers and had fun. Plus he already learned a lot about planets. What more could I ask for?!? I already can't wait for him to go on Thursday just to hear what he learned about.


The only bad thing was I bought him a sandwich box for his lunchbox and he didn't come home with it =( I have his name on it so if someone got it by mistake maybe they'll bring it back. J said his teacher threw it away though. Oh well.
They also said that he was a bit shy, he wouldn't reach to the middle of the table to dip his paintbrush to paint the sun but she said that as soon as she helped him the first couple of times he was good.

A little on the shy side I will take over tears any day!

Jeramyah's first day of preschool

Today I wake J up and tell him it's time for us to get dressed for school. He turns over and says "My schools ready?!?!?!" I tell him yes as he's jumping out of bed running into the living room shouting "My school's ready!" I tell him to come back and give me some lovins. He can barely hug or kiss me because he's talking about taking his lunch box, backpack, and napmat to school. I tell him to come help me make his lunch and he's talking about playing on the playground with his friends, building blocks, getting in the boat. Everything he's seen the two times we've been there.

He is impatently waiting at my feet for us to finish getting ready and go. I will add to this once we get back home.

So we pull into the parking lot and J is of course full of excitement. I open the doors to the van (automatically) and while I'm getting A out on my side J is looking out his side at a little boy in a van throwing a FIT saying he doesn't want to go. I start to get worried that J will pick up on this and do the same so we start talking about how fun it's going to be. We get in and find his basket to put all his stuff inside then go to his classroom. There are puzzles everywhere and the teacher tells him to go play with one he just walks away from me. I tell him to come hug and kiss me and then he goes back to his puzzle. I tell him bye and love you and kind of hang out thinking that's when he's going to get upset. He just said "LOVE YOU" and went right on playing.

I'm glad he had such an easy time but a tiny part of me is sad because I realise he doesn't need me like he once did. Bitter sweet. I still have butterflies in my belly. I already can't wait to go pick him up! I will post pictures later.

We're alive

So I've been trying to write out Alexavier's birth story but every time I come over here to do it I get upset, angry, or my mind goes in a million different places. I just can't seem to get it all out the way I want to.

Here's a quick version.
Sunday July 19, 2009 one day before my schedualed Csection my water started leaking around 2pm. I went to the hospital and had an emergency Csection with Alexavier being born at 5:33pm. My doctor was out of town and not present for the birth. That was big bummer #1 for me. Then the epi took 4 tries to get it in. I was so doped up I don't remember a lot of things.

On the plus side Alexavier and I are fine. My birthing photographer made it there about 20 minutes after I got wheeled into recovery so I have some pictures to help jog my memory.

Another up is if I decide to have more children my Dr. is more than willing to do a VBAC. My luck he wont be here when I'm ready for another child!

Alexavier is doing good we are getting the hang of nursing. He hasn't gotten back up to his birth weight yet so I'm not looking forward to his appointment on Aug 4th. His pedi seems pretty understanding/tolorent of breastfeeding so hopefully he'll encourage me to keep going. I also think A has reflux so maybe they will diagnose that and it'll help get his birth weight back up as well.


Jeramyah is loving brother. Any time I don't have him in my arms he asks "Where's my brother?!" He's really gentle with him as well.
Nursing is going well - it was a big concern of mine. I'm not pumping like I should which I know I'll end up regretting but I just can't seem to make myself do it more.

The last week or so...

Well I went for my version on July 13. It did not work. Baby did not turn. I went to the chiropractor on Wednesday...still didn't turn. I did ice pack at the top of my belly and heating pad at the bottom...felt him turn a bit. Thursday when I wake up I can tell he had moved over (his head was on my left upper side and then it was in the middle) but it was hard to tell if I was feeling butt or head.

Today I went to the doctor and the nurse said just by feeling she thought he was head up still. So we are keeping my Csection for the 20th.

I'm such a mix of emotions...part of me is so excited to know my baby boy will be here soon, it's kind of neat knowing that he will be here early Monday afternoon. When I was in labor the last thing on my mind was "MY BABY IS ABOUT TO BE HERE!" I'm still really bummed that I have to have the Csection. It is something I really didn't want. However my Dr. said since I'm not having any complications other than the breech he thinks I'm a great candidate for a VBAC. That makes me feel a lot better.

So I'm spending this week trying to relax and get last minute stuff done at the same time. I don't seem to be doing either one too well unfortunately!! This week has been busy but it's not with anything I should be doing...Plus with the heat I don't want to do anything either...

Anyway back to the version. I had a lot of questions/concerns regarding the epidural they suggest you get with it. I didn't get one and I have to say I wish I would have. Not for the pain reasons (it did hurt though! I had 2 big bruises for a little over a week!) but for relaxation...I felt myself tense up a lot more than once and I'm sure it didn't help the cause any. Dr doesn't think it would have helped me much - he was pretty stubborn - however I think I could have gone longer if I wasn't in such pain. So if anyone ever needs an EVC done and that is one of their questions I suggest they get it!

I made a ring sling last night. A friend of mine let me borrow hers to use as well. When I was making mine J asked what I was doing and told him making a sling. He said "For brother?" in an exasperated sounding voice. So I got the sling my friend lent me and put his baby doll in it and tied it around him. It was so cute he walked around supporting the baby's head and singing and swinging with him. I really think J is going to be a great big brother! I think he's ready for baby brother to get here as well!!!

We have picked out a name for baby but I am afraid to let anyone know until the baby gets here. My dr is out of town for the week and I'm afraid if I say the name out loud then he'll decide it's time for him to come. =)

Well I plan on taking my laptop to the hospital with me and will update ASAP...

Whats your weight in love?

Most of you probably know I posted an online "pool" where you can guess the due date, weight, length, and sex of the baby. Today we asked Jeramyah when baby was going to be here he said "Sunday"
I said "Sunday as in today or next Sunday?"
"Next Sunday."
Then I asked him how much the baby was going to weight. First he said 12 and I said "okay 12oz how many pounds?". He said 1 first then he said 4. I asked "4lbs are you sure?" He said "4 little pounds of love!"

Thought that was super cute!!! =)Just for background - we tell J all the time that he's 41 lbs of pure love and that's probably where he got it from.


We went and fed the ducks today. James was eating some of the bread and it was making Jeramyah mad. He told James "You no eat it its for the ducks!!!" James kept eating and Jeramyah said "NO eat it daddy. Here let me show you!" He then takes the bread out of James' hand, turns around towards the water and says "You throw it like this. SEE!"

Ah...I love that child! =)

What a scare!

This morning I had the biggest scare of my life (up to date).

Every morning before Jeramyah crawls into bed with me I wake up to the sound of his little feet running across the house to our room. Well this morning when I heard it I looked at the clock and then noticed the bathroom light was still on (from James getting ready for work) so after a minute of not feeling J come to bed I thought maybe James was running late and he was just stomping through the house. I close my eyes for a minute and something makes me get up.

I walk into the living room and notice the front door is open about a foot. I walk to it and say Jeramyah's name. I notice a lady walking across the street so I turn around to go get some pants (I'm just in a tshirt) I take the extra few steps across the hall to see if J's in his bed and if maybe James left the door open while starting his car. I don't see J so I panic I turn around to get pants and go check outside when I see J standing at the door.

The poor kid is crying and shaking so hard! When he sees me he runs to me and I pick him up, I have NEVER felt that child hold on to me so closely. I set down with him and ask him why he was outside and he can't even talk he's crying so hard. I have never seen him this way. I finally get a broken sentence out of him between hiccups and cries "daddy can't go to work".

I tell him "Yes, daddy went to work. Why were you outside?"
"The bugs were getting me." (again between hiccups and crying)
"Baby you can't go outside unless momma or daddy is with you"
More heavy crying.

I finally get him calmed down so I call James and leave him a message telling him what happened and that we need to keep an eye on him more and make sure we always lock the door. I then get J something to drink and change his diaper. I pull him close and we snuggle in bed with the light on for a bit. James calls about that time and I tell him again what all happened (in a bit more detail).

I had been scared but I didn't loose my cool up until this point. I guess saying it out loud to James I realized exactly what all could have happened. I start crying so hard. We talk for a bit then I let J talk to him for a minute. When I get off the phone Jeramyah asks "You scared?"
"Yes baby"
"About what?" I take just a second to think on how to word this and he says "The bugs scary?" About this time tears start to well up in his eyes again.
"No the bugs aren't scary. I was scared because you were outside and I didn't know where you were"
"Oh"
"You can't go outside when it's dark and you can't go to the front yard unless you are holding momma or daddy's hand."
"It's scary?"
"Outside isn't scary but it's scary for me when I don't know your out there."
"ok"

It was so hard to try and make him understand how serious the situation was with out A) making him think he was in trouble and B) making him think outside was scary.

I told James I'm going to go buy one of those childproof handles for the door today.
I wish I could bottle this feeling up so anytime I find myself getting exasperated with him I can open up the bottle and remember how scared I was and how happy I was that he was okay.

Whew! What a crappy way to start your day at 5:30am!

External Cephalic Version (ECV)

I went in for my 36 week check up today. I had a sono first to check on the size of the baby (6lbs 7oz) and to see if the baby is still breech. He is.

The Dr. and I talked for awhile about my choices. Pretty much I could do the ECV or have a Csection. I really don't want a Csection so I decided to go for the ECV. They are schedualing me for one on Monday at noon.

I'm not that nervous about the process itself I'm worried about everything else. Since I'm already dilated and effaced he'll probably come pretty soon after the ECV. Thing can go wrong and I might still have to have a Csection. A big worry for me right now is they suggest an epidural while having this done. A big pro to having one is that if something happens and I have to go for an emergency Csection then it's already in there. If I don't have one then they might have to knock me out completely and I REALLY don't want that. A con to having the epi is that if I do go into labor after this then I still the meds in me. I really want to be as med free as possible for labor. I'm really torn on what to do. . . luckily I have 5 days to think about it.

On another note we are having Jeramyah's party on the 2nd after I get off work. Just a few friends and family at the park, hot dogs and cupcakes. Simple since I'm so far along. I could wait until after the baby but I'd really like this to be the last thing Jeramyah has that is completely on his own. I'm sure he wont remember it but still.

A Little Update

So I haven't blogged about anything in awhile...I'm super lazy and these people that blog daily/weekly make me sick. =)

I went for my 35 week check up and I'm dilated to a 2 and 70% effaced...what does that mean you ask? I could seriously have this baby any second now. No steady contracts though. I go in in 2 days to get a sono to see if he's still breech, and to see if I've dilated any more. If he's still breech more than likely I will be schedualed to have a Csection the next Monday. I'm hoping that we wont have to do that.

Jeramyah is as cute as ever....I have baby brother in my belly and he has baby sister in his. Fine with me he can keep her in there for as long as he wants! =)

Jeramyah's Dictionary

We all know kids say some funny things but J says things just a little differently and they crack us up. I know one day he will say everything correctly and that we'll forget how he said it so this will be an on going list of the words he says and what he is REALLY saying....

Bing Bing Ball = Ping Pong
Train Condoctor = Train Conductor
Stoop Office = Post Office
MOMS Glove = MOMS Club
Ha Clean = Lightening McQueen
Hatar = Guitar
To infenaby and to be the ond = To Infinity and Beyond! (Buzz Light Year)
Concholow = Controler
Whybot = Robot
Bam Baid = Band Aid
Backaruum = Vacuum
My Yard = Back Yard
Dangerous Yard = Front Yard
Megasize = Excercise
Gogina = Vagina
It's the Day = You can't sleep because the sun is up. There is NO sleeping during the day!
Brushteeth = Toothbrush
Globin = Goblin


When J wants to play baseball he'll hand you the bat and say "Strike zone, no walking, no swing." Our little coach.


Jeramyah's other new thing is saying everything he doesn't want to do is too dangerous. We tell him he can't go out front with out someone because it's too dangerous. The other day he couldn't go to bed because it was too dangerous. Wouldn't talk to grandma because it was too dangerous. It was cute the first 5 times or so now it just bugs lol.

I know there is a lot more that he used to say and doesn't say much any more. I'll hopefully think of some of them and add to the list....

Summer Mornings

Here is our day so far:

J wakes up at 8:30am.
We read 6 books.
We eat breakfast.
J plays with toys for a few minutes.
J goes out side to play.
J starts sticking his hands in the pool
5 minutes later he is completely in the pool.

After about 15 minutes of pool time he comes in and tells me he's wet. I take off his shirt and diaper and he runs back out there only to play in the pool again. Naked. In the shade. At 10 am.

Brings back memories of me going over to my grandpas at 9am and him making us wait to play in the pool until it got warmer. =)

Thoughts about Belly Bean

I should probably write this in my pregnancy/baby journal but I've been doing so bad about that lately. I had such good intentions on doing things like that with Jeramyah and it all just went down the wayside. So with this one I was even MORE determined to keep track of things. Yeah, that didn't happen. I've written maybe 3 times in the pregnancy journal.

So pregnancy is lasting way too long. I thought that before just because I'm starting to get miserable. My back hurts, my ankles are swelling, I'm getting cranky, things need to be done and aren't getting there(I need a maid!), I want to go bust some butt at the gym and can't, blah blah blah. Plus it's hot as hell. I mean really, 40 weeks??? Who the hell thought that up?? I bet it was a man!! =)

Now I'm starting to think pregnancy lasts too long because I'm getting curious about this little guy.
What's he going to look like? Will he be like Jeramyah and take after me and my family?

Will he look more like James? - I'm hoping not. James isn't a bad looking man but the big head is enough. Add the big nose and ears to that and I just don't know =)

Will he have red hair when he's born like J did?

How big will he be?

What kind of personality will he have? Will he be OCD like Jeramyah and me? Will he be crying and cranky all the time?

Will he par take in mine and Jeramyah's eating of hot sauce and chips for breakfast when he's old enough?


But at the same time I hope Belly Bean stays in there longer BECAUSE WE NEED A STINKING NAME!!!!!
I have no idea why this is so hard for me. With J it was pretty easy, the name came to me, I mentioned it to James he rearranged the order, and that was that. With this one I just don't know.
The couple of names I really liked got nixed fairly quickly. The names James likes are good names and all but aren't really my style. Nothing is coming to me. I have been through every single boy and gender neutral name on babynames.com. EVERY SINGLE LETTER. Maybe I should go through it again? Maybe something else will speak to me...

Easter and some other pictures...

So tonight after J's shower I asked him to let me clean his ears. Afterwards he thought he'd stick one in each ear...

Then he tried sticking one in his belly button but it wouldn't stick.

Belly Bean

Went today for a sono to check and see how baby is growing. I'm 28w4d and he's already 3lbs (57%). J went with me and he was looking at the pictures on the way home. He started getting a little cranky and I was describing the different pictures to him. I told him there was one of his penis and told Jeramyah to cover it up. J said "He's taken a shower!!!"

I'm still feeling good. It's getting hot and that's making me cranky but other than that all is well. I think Jeramyah is finally starting to get it about the baby. We'll see what he thinks when baby brother gets here.

Will add pictures when I'm not such a slacker.

A bunch of pictures

Here are our latest sono pics. There are also pictures from when we went to Liberal, KS last weekend as well as pictures of J playing in the snow.

Vote!!!...for a name.

Here is the link to a poll of some of the names we've picked out. Would love to hear what you all think. Feel free to vote there and add comments here.

POLL

We're having a....

.......BOY! Will post sono pictures when I get the chance. Everything looks great and my due date is still the same!

Half way there...hopefully!

Well today marks my half way point in pregnancy. 20 weeks down, 20 more to go. Although it seems like this is taking forever I'll be happy to go another 20 weeks. I can not believe that J was born 11 weeks from this point!

I had James take a couple belly pics to mark my half way point. I wanted to take more through out my pregnancy but it didn't work out that way...oh well.

No, I'm not having twins, I'm just HUGE.

Cute pics and a couple of movies

My mom goes in to have her gallbladder removed tomorrow so I had J take some pics to send to her to have after she gets out of surgery. I told him to stand there and say cheese. Man was he cheesy!

And a couple of him being silly

The other day J was in the shower playing with his Buzz Light Year. He kept saying "To Infinity and Beyond!" I told James to go take a movie clip of it. He tried to go in there with out J seeing him so he'd keep saying it but J wasn't fooled lol

Today I was asking him if he wanted a brother or a sister. Here are his thoughts about that and where the baby is.

Jan sono pics

Well you remember that appointment I blogged about in Jan? Here are the pictures from that sono. I go back on March 23rd to find out the sex. I am getting so excited. I'm still taking my shots and so far everything seems to be going well. I go for a reg appointment on the 10th of this month so we'll see how things look then.

Random Pics

So we haven't been up to a lot lately. I've been crazy tired and we've only been with one car for about a month now while James' gets fixed. Here are a few things we've been doing though...

J sleeping like a cutie (don't let this fool you!)

Getting messy eating ice cream


Enjoying the wonderful weather

Skating Pics

So I have finally decided to not be a slacker and uploaded all the pics off my camera. Here are a few we took while skating back in Jan.

Funny Kid Part 2.

So James and I are probably the only ones that think Jeramyah is this funny but oh well.... I have to share.

Last night we are driving home from dinner and we put J's kids CD on to play. The song 10 little monkeys (there are 10 little monkeys in bed and the little one said "Roll over" so they all roll over and one falls out and the little one says) is playing. Well this version has monkey commentary. After 5 or 6 monkeys fall out one of them say "This is getting ridiculous". J sighs very seriously and says "This is diculous!" We got a good laugh out of it!



Just now Jeramyah wanted to watch a movie. I know for a fact we let him watch too many shows so I've started limiting it. I had to work today so daddy let him watch double the amount of movies we usually do. I told J **"If you watch too many movies you'll be a DerDer DerDer like Daddy."
James asks J if he thinks he's a DerDer DerDer. J ignores him and says "Momma movie" I say no. J looks at James and says "DerDer DerDer movie please." LOLOL James was laughing until he was in tears. J thought it was pretty funny too! =) I can't wait until we have 2 of these smart asses running around....life will be GREAT! =)

** That is not as mean as it sounds. My husband and I are always giving each other a hard time. This is how we show our love; really. Okay, so it might be mean but we are mean to each other but mean with love lol.

Funny kid....

Nothing new to report with the pregnancy. I can already feel the baby moving around in there. I really don't like the early movements; they feel like flutters but they bother me. I can't wait until I can feel a nice swift kick lol.

I was sitting at the table the other day making a list. J was sitting across the table from me looking at the sonogram pictures. He said "Who dat momma?"
"The baby."
He points to the first one and says "Baby"
"Yep. Where is the baby?"
"In you belly."
"Very good son"
"Blow bubbles on the baby?" (His favorite thing; which means onmy belly)
"Not right now; maybe later."
So he starts staring very hard at the pictures
Pointing to the first picture "Baby" Pointing to the next 3 "Baby brother; baby brother; baby brother"

We haven't been pushing him to say brother or sister. We've asked a couple of times which one he wants (although I don't think he gets the difference) but he's never said. I told James when he got home and now James usually says he instead of she (refering to the baby). HEHE I'm so happy I have someone else rooting for team blue!!! =)


Hubby and I pretty much have the same sense of humor, a dry sarcastic one. Sometimes a bit raunchy....well it looks like the sarcastic gene is going to run in the family....

I was getting ready for work Saturday morning. Jeramyah went from his bed to our bed. When he got there and I wasn't in it James said he asked twice "where's momma???" Then he just started crying "MOMMMMMMMAAAAAAA" I come running into the room and lay beside him calming him down. I then get up to continue getting ready for work.

Since I'm up Jeramyah thinks its time for him to get up. James tells him "No it's still dark outside when it's dark it's time for mimis (sleep)."

With out missing a beat and as serious as a heart attack my 2 1/2 year old tells his daddy "Turn on a light"

ahhh I'm so proud =)

You noticed...

So you all noticed. I wonder how many would have and how long it would have taken had I not said anything?

For those of you not in the know - I'm pregnant!!!!! We had been trying for 15 months before it FINALLY but it HAPPENED!

Tomorrow (1/19/09) I will be 13 weeks. I will officially be through my first trimester!!! Thank goodness! I have my 2nd appointment with the Dr on Thursday.

On my first appointment last week my nurse couldn't find the heartbeat with the Doppler so I ended up having a sono that day instead of on Thursday. Everything was fine, I saw and heard the heartbeat! =) The baby is measuring 2 days farther than I am, so that just adds to my confidence that this pregnancy will last.

I'm taking my Met for another week or so and then in about a month we'll talk about taking progesterone to help keep me from having another preemie.


We've been trying to explain what's going on as much as possible to Jeramyah. When I showed him the sonogram pictures he said "ITS ME!!!!" We thought that was pretty cute! =)

We'll that's it for now. I'll update more later on. Thanks for all your well wishes!

A short blog

We bought J some skates for Christmas and went skating last weekend. It was lots of fun and wore J out!! =) I'll post some pictures probably this weekend.

So J can now count 1-20 minus only a couple of numbers.

We're working on his colours and shapes. He's known triangle for a while now and has learned square and circle. He knows red, blue, and orange fairly well but still gets mixed up sometimes.

I'm LOVING him loving books. It's so nice for him to bring me a book and ask to read it. He'll sit for hours just looking at pictures. He has one book - Where does Maisy Live?" that he can "read" on his own. It's a very simple book. One page says does Maisy live in the pigpen? Then the page beside it has a pigpin where you open the door and there are pigs and it says "Oink Oink the pigs live here" It has about 5 different animals and then a house that says Maisy lives here!!! He knows which page has which animal and knows all the words - super cut.


Well I've changed something on the blog....I will blog about it once someone figures out what it is. Until then.....

Christmas

So I'm a giant slacker and am now just posting about Christmas. Nice, huh? Anyway Christmas was nice. J loved it and here are some pictures to show it.

This was J opening his one gift on Christmas Eve

And it was ELMO!

The Boys diggin' into their stockings

After a few presents - I think this was his Dora Movie

WHOA That's a BIG present!

And it was a TRAIN! Thanks GoMaw!

Let me just make some changes.

With his finished project.

Drivin' it around.

Video of him driving his train. Daddy took this so I don't know how good it is! =)

Well that's it for now.