20 months

We're in the twenties! In my mind, I know we're so much closer to 2 than we were before. There's something about saying, "He's twenty months", that did it.

Luke is pretty much doing the same as last month, but there are a couple of updates.

• He's starting to put words together more and more. He'll speak in very small sentences. He'll say things like 'mama car' or 'dada byebye car'.
• He also understands soooo much. It's amazing to me how I'll ask him to do something like go pick up the wooden spoons from the couch and put them back in teh dishwasher, and he'll do it! It was a long directive, and he totally got it. Crazy! Communication with him is just getting better and better.
• He likes to do more chores and help me around the house. He carries laundry to the washing machine, helps unload the dishwasher, uses the lint roller to remove cat hair from the couch, picks things up, close doors, etc. He's going to come in handy with a baby!
• He continues to pick up words left and right. He attempts to say more and gets it right more and more of the time.
• He can take stairs and steps so much better! It used to take him a bit to get down because he'd hold on and be very careful, but the other day he took a step down without holding onto anything. And at the playground, for example, he'd always go backwards down steps, but lately he's been taking them like a regular person- he'll just still hold onto a rail.

I think that's about it for the new things. Otherwise, he just continues to do what he's done, and he's still the happy, easy going kid he's always been. He's a special one!

PS Again, sorry for no pics. Lauren gave me a good idea about how to remedy this, but I have yet to actually do what I need to do to fix that. I'll try and get it done by the next month's update.

25 weeks

As my pregnancy app told me yesterday, this baby is 2/3rds of the way done!

I can't believe it!

This pregnancy is going by so fast. In about 3 months, we'll meet our newest little man.

Here how things are:

• He's measuring right where he needs to be right now which is great.
• He moves A LOT. I don't know if I just don't remember it with Luke, but I definitely feel this baby is on the move a lot more. I've felt that way since the very beginning of feeling him. As he's gotten bigger, it's definitely settling down more, but he was crazy there for a bit.
• He's been sitting a lot right under my right rib which isn't all that comfortable.
• I've been feeling really good. I finally don't feel tired all of the time which is nice. It took me until about week 22 or so to start feeling that way. 
• My hunger is also much better. I don't have to carry snacks around with me all of the time any longer.
• It seems that my body gains weight right away with babies and then barely gains anything later. I gained a good 10-12 pounds just in the first trimester, but since then I've only gained about five more which makes my weight pretty much no problem!
• My back just started hurting a little bit, but I think that's more due to picking up Luke and carrying him around, as well.
• Otherwise, I'm just starting to make lists of things that need to be done/ bought before the baby arrives. I'm not really stressed about it, but I'm starting to prepare which is nuts!

Well, between the time I wrote this and posted it, I did have one meltdown about getting Luke into an extra day of mother's day out each week. I figured it out, but I feel my mental/ emotional state is definitely more stressed than my physical state!

Also, blogger won't let me post pics anymore without paying, so I've got to figure out how to make this work. For now, no pics :( But I hope to figure it out soon :)