Thanksgiving #1

We love our COLTS!

We spent last weekend in Anderson with my Mom, step-dad, and grandparents celebrating Thanksgiving. It was a nice weekend to hang-out and my grandma made my favorite meal of chicken and noodles which I devoured!

Jack enjoyed hanging out with Grammy and G-Gma and we hit up a new park in Anderson which even had a firetruck...he got adventurous also going down the big slide with dad!

Off to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving with Scott's family this weekend - wish us luck on our 8 hour drive (Thank God for a car with a DVD player!)

Happy Thanksgiving - Gobble, Gobble! I for one, cannot WAIT to EAT!!!! :-)

“It” is Real (and very, very active!)

Last week marked week 20 of my pregnancy – I cannot believe that we are halfway!  So exciting!

Check out those model legs – obviously from Daddy!

We had our 20 week ultrasound last week and everyone is healthy and happy!  The baby weighs around 1lb right now, everything looks good, and is still on target with a due date of April 4th (Easter Sunday, so we are considering the names “Bunny” or “Jesus”).  I am feeling great, definitely a little stretched out, but lots of energy and am loving this little one’s pokes and prods, such a great feeling again – it is a very active child so far, so I am assuming that it will take after his/her older brother!

Jack is doing great with it, he obviously does not understand any difference and I am really trying hard not to make any changes.  He is talking up a storm – now saying full sentences and “What Doing?” every 2 seconds and is just SUPER FUN.

Enjoy some photos of the babe…We are off to Pittsburgh this weekend for Thanksgiving and I CANNOT WAIT to stuff myself!!!!  I am starving!  .

I have inherited my Dad’s longer second toe!

Mr. Chatterbox

I discovered last night that I can almost have a full conversation with my 21 month-old son.  Jack talks non-stop and is HILARIOUS, so I wanted to record some of his favorite words and phrases:

1. “Daddddyyyyyyyy – WHAT DOING?”  (repeated OVER and OVER – apparently I was known for saying this a lot growing up)

2.  “Okaaaayyyyyy”

3.  “Mommy, I ate it all up.” (Said after dinner one night)

4.  “Huh?”  (Said after almost everything, especially when he wants to know what something is – after he says it 3 times and I say “you know what I said,” he stops and smiles)

5.  “A-Mommy, A-Pappaw, A-Kitten” (he puts a soft-A in front of everyone’s name like we are an object)

6.  “Oh, Man…”  (always used in the correct context)

7.  “I hep” (help), “I sweep, I throw, I kick” (very into helping right now)

8.  “Pat-Pat” and “Bankin” (Paci and Blanket- which he likes to stick the corner of his blankie in his ear to calm himself down – and we MUST have both, never one or the other)

9. “I tickle” or “I tackle you”

10.  “BOO!” (he likes to surprise you randomly)

11.  “Ove U” (Love You)  or sometimes still “Ra Ra,” which means “I love you”  Obviously the favorite…

He is adorable.  It is fun to talk with him because not only does he repeat what we say, but he repeats the accent that you say it in and the way you say it.  We are really working on 3-4 word combinations and he is doing a great job!

Have a great weekend!!!

18 weeks and counting…

Well, I have officially popped.  There is no hiding it anymore – full maternity gear has come out from storage.  I had about 10 people at work (remember, I have only been with this firm for 2 months) ask me if I was pregnant.  Oops.  Bad timing, I know, but what can you do? 

Our little nugget is the length of a bell pepper this week – hard to believe that I am almost half-way through this pregnancy!  I felt my first real substantial kick the other night, which was great to experience again.  I feel great, have my energy back and am just enjoying a little extra eating and sleeping!  :-) 

We are still talking openly about it with Jack trying to slowly ease him into this new world that he will be experiencing in 5 months.  He is very attached to Daddy right now (I am slightly jealous), which is probably good as I will soon be less likely to rough-house with him and be as physical, which is what he is REALLY into right now.  We now have nightly “tackle sessions” in our house which is adorable.  I love to see my two guys laughing together; just warms my heart!

Gator-Bait

We found this little crocodile on the side of our street – he must have washed up from Lake Michigan– Isn’t he CUTE? 

Jack ended up letting us put the costume on for a few pictures and we had a ball with all of our other friend’s newborn babies!  We got together on Saturday night and Jack was the King for the evening with 4 gorgeous gals to entertain! 

Jack holding Caroline Tomlinson – getting ready for April!!

The three of us had a relaxing weekend at home, which was MUCH NEEDED and I actually got a lot done around the house.