My almost 2 year old...

Wow, I cannot believe that my baby is almost 2! In less than 2 months we will be celebrating his 2nd birthday! He's grown so much and he is such a sweet boy. Here is one of many many pictures of him with his posed smile. Whenever a camera is near, he'll stop what he's doing and make an exaggerated smiley face. As much as I love it, I realize that's it's almost impossible right now to get a normal smile from him if he sees the camera. This should make for some interesting christmas shots.  Along with turning two comes the dreaded two year molars which this week he is painfully working through. His poor gums are so swollen and half of a molar has already popped out. He cries and cries when it's hurting and he is losing weight because he doesn't want to eat anything. I've been loading up on the tylenol which seems to help at night but I try to hold off during the day which makes for long miserable days. Last night he woke up and was up from 11:30 till about 3. I was not impressed but I know it's because of his teeth so I can handle it for now. I'm really looking forward to christmas this year because he now knows what presents are and loves hanging out with his extended families and seems to love the busyness of get-togethers. I can't wait to bring him to a christmas service so he can hear all the carols and probably sing along. (another favorite thing to do lately) Another thing he's really gotten into lately is building towers with large lego blocks. He'll play for hours by himself building a tower and then knocking it over and starting over again. He is so proud of his buildings and creations and loves to proudly show them off. Well that's about all I have for now. When I have a second, I'll add a new post with a 17 week picture and update on the pregnancy.

15 weeks

I think this picture makes me look bigger than I actually am and don't forget a lot of it is existing fat :) As much as I hate doing these pictures, I do enjoy looking back at them and seeing what I looked like pregnant.  I got to hear the heart beat finally for the first time yesterday. I was so worried because at first she couldn't find it for quite a while and then she made me go pee and when she tried again she found it right away. It was good and strong at 150 beats per minute and I was a bit teary eyed thinking about the new little life growing inside me. I'm getting more excited about this pregnancy now that I'm starting to feel a bit better and getting my energy back. I'm looking forward to finding out the sex this time around but hopefully I can keep it a secret from everyone. Gavin has no idea what's going on yet and most of the time if I ask him where's the baby he points to my boob. We can hopefully get him a new bed soon to start the transition before baby arrives so that he isn't feeling like the baby is taking all his stuff. Well Gavin is napping now so I think I'm going to take this opportunity to nap myself.

My little monkey

Reminiscing

So tonight while Frank worked on the hardwoods, I sat at the computer reading some of my old blog posts. It is so interesting to look back and see what I was doing a few years ago and fun to read about what kept me busy before Gavin got here. I'm glad that I posted so much during my last pregnancy and I want to keep up with it again. I do realize that before I had Gavin I had a lot more to write about. Every day was a bit different and I had so much more free time! If I write everyday about my life now every post will be the same. I'm going to try my hardest though because I really had fun looking back and remembering those days in 2007 when life seemed simple and exciting. I'm sure I didn't think those days were much fun at the time but I still wrote so even though now my days are bit monotonous, I will still write.

I am officially into my second trimester now which is so exciting! I haven't yet heard the heartbeat of this baby but I have my first OB appointment next week thursday and I hope I can hear it then. I did have an ultrasound already due to a bit of spotting early on but everything looked ok and we were able to see the little flicker of a heartbeat. I still don't feel like eating anything right now but I'm always starving and if I don't eat all day long I get sick very quickly and then throw up. It's hard for me to eat constantly because I'm so busy with Gavin but I'm sure it will get better soon. I am a lot bigger already in this pregnancy. Probably because I started out bigger this time around and because my body was already stretched once. I'll post a picture when I'm closer to 4 months and then I can compare myself with the pictures I took with Gavin's pregnancy. Anyway, thats all for today. I think I'm going to see if I can help my very frustrated husband with the installation of our floors.

Random stuff

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted something. I really haven't felt like writing anything because I feel like it's all whining and complaining stuff. I'm now into my second trimester and feeling somewhat better. I still puke often but I don't have the constant nausea feeling anymore and I'm getting a bit more energy back. Frank has been installing our hard woods and we've been living in a construction zone for way too long. Gavin doesn't understand that he can't touch most of the stuff that's out so he just gets frustrated. We got a new washer so that's great and now I can keep up with the laundry again. We are hosting a big halloween party this week so I'll be pretty busy with that. I'll hopefully post something a little more interesting later and put up some pics. Until then, I have one sleepy boy that's ready for his nap.

New stuff

I really haven't been able to post much these days. Gavin keeps me pretty busy and so does this house. I didn't realize how much extra work a bigger house would be. I find the kitchen and the family room are the places we live in most so I'm constantly cleaning them. It takes up most of my day to just keep up with those rooms and I don't have much extra time to do the deep cleaning as much as I should.

We finally got the most of the hard woods done. They look great! Frank worked so hard on them but it's totally worth it. I'll post pictures in a bit.

We've all been super sick for about 2 weeks now with a nasty cold. It's finally clearing thank goodness.

Gavin has been doing this weird thing every so often and we think it's mini seizures. He's going for an EEG next week to check it out. If it turns out that it is seizures, his doctor wants to put him on medication for a while. Not sure I like that idea but I'll have to look more into. I really hope he grows out of this.

I've been super nauseous all day every day. I'm thinking it's because I'm pregnant :) I'm still not ready to post it all over facebook yet because it's pretty early but I"m excited. So far my due date is May 3rd but that might change if I decide to have another c-section or if I have my dates wrong. I feel like I'm big already and can't fit in any of my normal jeans. I don't think I could hide this pregnancy because I feel like it's so obvious already. It's definitely different this time around though. With Gavin I felt fine until the 2nd trimester. This one I started feeling sick right away. Hmmmm.... maybe a girl???

We are planning to go to Florida in December. Amanda's parents have a time share there so we decided that we'll go because once we have to pay for Gavin's flights we'll never go anywhere! It should be fun... I can't wait!

Thats about all I can think of for now. Hopefully I"ll have more time to post but for now I have a son to feed, a kitchen to clean and then I have some groceries to buy.

Prayer request.

I'm not sure how many people read my blog but I'd just like to put in a prayer request to all of you for Ramona. She has been battling cancer for the past 3 years and is needing lots of prayer for a miracle right now.

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