Almost there!

Trey and I took advantage of parents night out at the church this past Friday. We paid a small fee to drop Luke off at 6 and then get him at 9. Much cheaper than a babysitter! We had a nice dinner at Sissys which is not new, but it opened just after Luke was born, so we had been missing out. It was good, and it was nice to be out with trey.


Very soon, the baby boy will be here! We're a day away from full term, so it's literally whenever he decides to make his arrival. I'm hoping he'll hold off until after March 7th because I have things on te calendar up until then!
I've been feeling well. Definitely more achey and crampy. Overall, it's ok.

In addition, there's a lot of nesting going on. The room is almost done and I'll get pics up once it's complete.

I'm excited to meet him and can't wait to see what he looks like :) I think Luke will be a great big brother, and it'll be fun to see the brothers together!

Haircut

Luke got a new haircut! He looks like Floyd Christmas, but a much cuter version.

22 months

• Not much new this month to report honestly. 
• Mostly he's a parrot and will repeat pretty much anything that comes out of your mouth.
• He loves to play in the library stacks and run around the kids' area but when it comes to the activity time, he freezes and just watches. I think he secretly thinks everyone around him is crazy and he's above it.
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• He used to call animals by the sound they made like 'moo', 'nay', and 'oo ahah' but now he calls them their real names. The other way was cuter :)
•He loves all sticks. He even makes sure me and dad have a stick. Such a giver.
•Loves to run around the playground. Not so much play, just run.
•He's still our politician. We went to a super bowl party and he worked the crowd like a pro. Would much rather be in a room full of adults showing off than playing with the other kids.
•Still loves school and he's all signed up for MDO on tues/ fri next year.

21 Months + 30 weeks

And, Luke is even closer to 2 and this baby #2 is even closer to being done.

Yikes!

• Luke is hilarious unless he's being whiny, and then he's not so funny. But the milestones now are pretty much funny things he does or says.
• He got a kitchen for Christmas and proudly tells us "I cook". He also says "Eat Dada". He loves to make a hamburger patty and stir a tomato in a pot.He is very proud of himself when we tell him that we love the meal he's cooked.
• Luke is also talking so much! He will at least attempt to repeat any words we throw at him, and I still would say he's using a new word almost every day. 
• His first complete sentence this month was "I eat cookie". Most of his other sentences are groups of words like 'dada work car' or 'no eat dog'. But I still think that's pretty good!
• We've also been able to get him to count to 3 on his own and repeat the entire ABC's. He even repeated 1-10 in Spanish one day! it was pretty funny.
• His favorite game at the moment is 'Ready, Set, Go'. He asks to play 'set, go' all the time as it means his dad while chase him around the house repeatedly trying to catch him. Luke LOVES this game.
• He's starting calling KC, khaki. I think it's a mixture of kitty cat, kiten, kace, kc because we call her one of those things many times each day. I'm wondering if he was confused about what to call her, so he just invented his own word. I guess it works.
• We've pushed the bedtime back to around 7:30/7:45. It's been pretty good so far. It's also been instrumental in him sleeping until around 7 in the morning.
• This week Luke starts MDO two days a week! He's going Tuesday to the methodist church and Friday to the lutheran church. WE couldn't get him in both days at once place, but I figure it'll be nice to see him at two different places and how they handle things, then we can choose which we prefer for next year.
• The whole reason he's going two days is so that I get more of a break and am not completely insane when #2 comes! Updates for 2 aren't as interesting, as there's not a whole lot going on, but here's something for you.
• I'm officialy 31 weeks now (I think I started this post at 30). He'll be here very quick.
• He's still very active. He's a jabber and a poker. My internal organs are going to be bruised before this kid comes out.
• He's measuring right now track. His heartbeat has been a strong 130 pretty much every time we go to the office.
• The pregnancy has been pretty uneventful except that my hips are really hurting this time around. I think it has a lot to do with carrying and maneuvering Luke around constantly. When I get a break from that, my hips feel miraculously better. Otherwise, there's not much to complain about!

Our 2013 is going to be busy! We've already started to make room for the new nursery and get that bedroom cleaned out. We're ordering a new crib and getting things in order. I've made many to-do lists for what needs to happen in the coming months. Hopefully, everything will continue to go smoothly.

*Sorry this is late and with no pics. It seems I don't have time and/or energy to do either. 

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 :)

19 months

I feel like as time goes on, I am getting later and later in the month for these posts. It seems that it's hard to find the time to get this done! But this has become my 'baby book' in a way, so if anything I keep doing it to remember these little times. It doesn't have to be exact, I guess :)

Little Man is doing great these days! 

• We had our first bad illness last week. RSV. No fun. It's a really bad cold that involved lots of mucous :( We had to do breathing treatments and lots of saline with suctioning. But we are all better now! Too bad he also got his first double ear infection at the end of this, so we have yet another doctor follow up tomorrow.
• This kid is demanding. He knows what he wants, and he wants it now! There's a lot of small tempertantrums just because he wants something he can't have or wants it faster than I can do it.  He's also pretty stubborn (who does he get that from?!?), so that can make these little melt downs even more fun.
• He still LOVES cars, trucks, bikes, buses, etc. basically anything transportation. He can now say 'big truck'- getting descriptive!
• He loves to throw things- even things that shouldn't be thrown. We're constantly having to make sure he's not hurting anyone or being too destructive with that arm of his.
• The biggest word he can say is 'umbrella'. Pretty impressive! 
• He still loves to be around other people. He is definitely a little politician. He's got everyone around him convinced he's perfect at all times :) I don't try and steer them wrong, but it's kind of funny.
• Daylight savings time messed us up a bit (why oh why do we do that?!?), but Luke is a great night time sleeper. Down by 7:30 and will sleep until 6:30/7 in the morning. He naps after lunch which can be anytime from 11:15-1, just depends on what we're doing, and he usually sleeps for about 1.5 hours.
•  He is a very good helper. He likes to help do laundry, put up dishes, or just fetch things from around the house. He enjoys sweeping, but I wish he was better at it.
• He always wants 'up'. On the bed, on the couch, on the counter- wherever he can get a better view.
• He loves a walk in his stroller. We have a nice 45 minute route we do.
• He still loves school! He sleeps well and is always happy to go and when I pick him up. His teachers are very sweet, as well. That's been a very good experience.
• Everyday there's a new word- I can't even think of what they are to list here. But his vocabulary continues to grow, and it's slowly getting easier to communicate with him.
• We have had an issue with him throwing his food at dinner (only meal he does this-odd), so he did spend his first minute in time out. I don't think he got it, so I'm trying other things right now, and last night there were only 3 carrots on the floor!
 

This kid is really just overall very happy and laid back. He's just fun to be around :)