Holy crap

Do you see that ticker to your left? 25 days??? According to my main Kaiser doctor I'm due on the 25th, according to the ultrasound techs (3), I'm due on the 20th. HOLY CRAP!!!

Rock Band 2

For Christmas this year Eddie wanted Rock Band 2. It was released the friday before Christmas and my mom had pre-ordered it for him from Best Buy beforehand. Unfortunately it didn't ship until the Monday before Christmas so it wasn't here in time. It was delivered yesterday and I set it up for Eddie to play when he got home from work last night.

A little background...

Every time we go to Best Buy we spend a good 20 min with Nick playing this game. He loves the guitar and the drums. Eddie figured it would be a good family gift. What do you think...



p.s. this was at 7 o'clock this morning...

4 weeks to go...

Please don't ask how I'm feeling...

Christmas has come and gone

Christmas was absolutely amazing this year. Nick was so excited, which made us excited as well. We actually had to lock all the presents up in Kaitlyn's room because the sneaky little devil started unwrapping them. A couple days before Christmas I let him bring out all the presents because he promised he wouldn't open them. Instead...he lined them all up.



That was short lived...the unwrapping was starting to happen again, so out the presents went.

Nick was VERY spoiled this year as he had 3 Christmas'. We celebrated Christmas with my mom's side on the 20th, my dad's side of the family on Christmas Eve and our immediate family we did the day after Christmas (Eddie worked on Christmas). The week before Christmas, Nick would ask every morning when he woke up if Santa had come yet. It was really very sweet...

Thursday night we got home from dinner at my mom's house and we put cookies and milk out for Santa. Nick of course had to take a sip of the milk and a bite of the cookie (I'm sure it was for quality control). After he fell asleep, I started putting his kitchen together from Santa. Partway through, Eddie got home from work and helped as well. Two and a half hours later it was finally done. We brought the presents out and got his stocking ready.



When Nick woke up Friday morning we told him to go check and see if Santa had come. He ran into the living room and stood in front of the kitchen with his mouth wide open and his hands in front. He was so excited.

He also figured out this year that you get stuff in your stocking!



He was a little disheartened though when he realized that Santa ate his cookie (he left out 2)

Then the fun began...

My favorite gift we got Nick was a camera. He always tries to steal mine so we got him his own.

Nick showing Sheba his camera...

Cooking us hot dogs for breakfast...

After we had our tiny Christmas my mom, dad, brother and his girlfriend came over to celebrate as well.

Now that Christmas is over and the tree is down, Nick is continuing to ask when Santa is going to come again.

Nick was in his first holiday pageant last Saturday. His class danced to "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer". He has been singing and dancing the song for weeks. He's a Christmas nut just like his mom and grandma. He walks around the house singing Jingle Bells, Jingle bell rock, Rudolf, Frosty, and many more...

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Mission no more binky

Last night I started mission no more binky. I was going to wait until after the baby was born, but I'm just done. I can't take the constant whining because he wants it. I told him that the binky fairy called mommy and told her she ran out of binkys and needed more, so mommy sent them to her for all the babies. At bedtime he cried for about 5 min telling me he needed something in his mouth and I told him I would lay with him til he fell asleep, he asked if we couldd rock, so I rocked him til he fell asleep. He woke up when I put him in bed and asked me to lay with him. I told him I would stay til he fell asleep sitting next to him. He was asleep by 8:15. Fast forward to 10:30 when I woke up to loud noises in his room. He had moved his chair and climbed up to find a binky on top of his dresser. When he couldn't find one he came to our bed. He screamed for about an hour asking for his binky over and over again. I finally calmed him down and got him back in his own bed. I read him some books and he fell asleep again. He didn't wake up til 6:15 this morning. When he came to wake us up we told him the binky fairy had visited and brought him a present (thank you April & Erica for the idea). He ran into the living room to see what he got.

The binky fairy had brought him a big rig truck ...he LOVED it.

6 more weeks to go

I'm miserable, uncomfortable and just plain done being pregnant. With all tha said, here are some pics for your viewing pleasure.

Christmastime is here

Nick is EXCITED about Christmas. He absolutely LOVES the lights, the trees, and everything that goes with it. We don't buy our tree til after Eddie's birthday (tomorrow) or decorate til then either, but today he did pull the boxes down so we could start the inside. Nick is very excited to play with the singing snowmen from Hallmark (we have got one from the beginning) and he LOVES opening the boxes to see what's coming out next. Decorating the tree tomorrow should be quite interesting. He really wants to hang the outside lights up (he did it last weekend with Grandpa and Grandma) and keeps telling me "I go do by myself". He found the Santa cookie plates today and wanted to make cookies for Santa. After his nap we made 4 dozen snickerdoodles. Nick put a couple on the plate and started looking around the house for Santa. Christmas through a child's eyes is amazing!

Where has the time gone

I'm officially due NEXT month! Holy cow, how did that happen? It seems like yesterday I found out that I was pregnant again and it just seems to have flown by. Of course it's not all butterflies and roses. I am MISERABLE! I have offically become the owner of a pregnancy support belt and I start physical therapy next week for my "pressure" and my difficulty with walking. Nick just doesn't understand why mommy can't play and why my belly hurts so much. I tell him that mommy needs to lay down because her belly hurts and he responds with "my belly hurt too". He also wants to know when baby Kaitlyn is going to come out and play with him. We were buying pacifier's the other day at Target and he wouldn't let us get the same kind he has because those are his. I am absolutely terrified about managing two, but I cannot wait to hold this little girl in my arms!

Pasta

I would say it's lady and the tramp, but that just doesn't seem too appropriate considering it's my husband and my son. Any suggestions?

Painting our feet

We were making turkey's before Thanksgiving and Nick decided that he wanted to paint our feet. "Ms. Nancy paints my feet." (Ms. Nancy is his teacher). So we painted our feet and made footprints.

Such an imagination

Here he is "cooking" me lunch.

Who wouldn't LOVE this face?

He's going to be such a good daddy

I have an ergo carrier that I used for Nick while we were out and about and he was tired. He called it his backpack. This particular day Nick was playing with his baby and wanted a "backpack" for his baby. His blankie did the trick...

Decorating cookies in November...

My growing belly

Yesterday at 29 weeks.

Rainy day activities?

Today I let Nick decorate his pumpkin. He started with a sharpie...

Then decided he was going to try to use his play-doh supplies on his pumpkin.

We then traced our feet to make ghosts and hung them on the window. (I didn't come up with the idea....he learned it at school)

Trick-or-Treat

Our little "James"



Nick with his "light" to go through the tunnel

I'm excited

My baby shower is on Sunday...

Kaitlyn Paige's room

The "almost" finished project! I just have a few more things I need to do....



The frames I made...

The wall letters I made...

Silly boy

While I was getting ready this morning Nick was watching TV in the living room. I came out to find this...

After I got him out, he put his baby in, covered her up with his blanket and then grabbed his milk and gave his baby some milk.

A whole lotta belly

26 weeks prego

More pumpkin patchin

Saturday we went with grandma to the pumpkin patch in Clayton. I'm getting tired of going to the same pumpkin patch here in Brentwood every year so we're looking around for fun new ones. To begin with, Nick has become obsessed with taking pictures. He loves to carry the camera around and knows how to take the picture and will continuously press the button. I now have about 50 pictures of the ground from the pumpkin patch.

We wandered around and looked at the animals, played in the hay maze, searched for pumpkins, and drove a bus before we headed to the train.

At Bishop's Farm, Nick sat on my lap the whole time on the train telling me he was scared. This time...not so much. He LOVED it. He handed the driver his ticket and even sat next to grandma. He waved to all the people and went back for seconds.

We went down below where they had the huge hay maze to run through along with pools filled with beans. I'm not sure who liked the beans more...Nick or grandma.