A Must Read

I came across this blog months ago. I don't think I ever shared it, but you have to read this story. If you never read anything else on her blog, the story of her second daughter's birth is absolutely incredible. Be aware. If you are pregnant, YOU WILL cry your eyes out. If you are not pregnant, you will most likely still cry your eyes out! I read it months ago, and cried for forever. I want to read it again, but I can't make myself do it right now. :) It's definitely worth your time! And to top it off, if you check out her blog, she's an awesome photographer!

A Typical Sunday Afternoon

Sunday mornings always start off in a rush to get to church. :) When we get there and can breathe, it is so worth it. I've never gotten to church and thought, "Man, I wish I wasn't here!" I have, on the other hand, had to miss for one reason or another, and I missed it terribly. It throws my entire week off not to be able to be in worship on Sunday mornings.

After church, we almost always go to Grandmollie's for lunch. She's so good to us. She cooks for everyone on Sundays. And we really enjoy eating it! Then, we spend most of the afternoon playing. They moved several years ago out to the "country" where they now have lots of land for us to explore, or if you're Wayne, hunt. Jacob loves it there! As soon as we turn on the last street that heads to their house, he screams, "PAPA!!!!!!"

One thing we almost always do is take Jacob for a ride on the "donkey" (the nickname the EZgo got a long time ago) through the trails. Today, I took Grandmollie's camera to snap a few shots. (I didn't have mine with me.) Here we are! LoLo (Logan is our nephew) snapped this pic of the three of us...

Once we got up the trails a little ways, we decided to do a little exploring.

Me holding my two baby boys...one on my hip and one in my belly! :) Which, by the way, I must have gained a ton this week because I had so many people asking me this morning at church how much longer I had, and many got wide eyed when I said I was due in January!

Here's another one of two of my favorite people. They both need haircuts badly! Our hairdresser had a tragic accident in her family, and now she is behind two weeks. We love her so much, we will gladly wait two weeks for her....no matter how shaggy they look! ;) Plus, Wayne won't let anyone else touch his hair. We've tried before, and had to go to Mia to fix it. I've also tried to let someone else cut Jacob's, and I CRIED as soon as I got in the car. Lesson learned. Mia is so worth the wait!

While we were out and about, we had to go check out some of the green fields Jacob helped his daddy and papa plant.

And then LoLo wanted another try with the camera....

And then it was time to head back home! Check out Lolo in the very back! And sweet Jacob, you'd think he was on a roller coaster!

And come next Sunday, we will repeat all of this fun all over again! Sunday is quite possibly my favorite day of the week!

Catch All

This post is going to be a catch all post. I just don't have the time to do them all individually, and you would probably be bored to death if I did a separate post for all of this! ;)

First of all, Jacob is ALL BOY! I was talking to the nurse at the doctor's office today about how amazing it is that boys just enjoy boy stuff. He's loved a ball of any kind since he was tiny, and he loves any kind of trucks/boats/motorcycles! And even more evidence that he is all boy, I hear this phrase more times than I would care to admit in one day, "Mama, I poot." I have NO CLUE as to where he learned that, but he thinks it's funny every single time! Never in a million years did I think I would be dealing with that at the age of two! I have to admit, it's pretty funny. Another thing he's saying a lot lately is, "Hey, that mean!" Yet again, I have no clue where he learned that from. He says this a lot too. Especially when he's in trouble or not getting his way. A sweet thing he says is "bless you" after he hears anyone cough or sneeze, and he will be the first to ask if "u ok?" if he thinks something is wrong with you!

I must admit, although two can be terrible, it's my favorite stage yet! (I say that each time he moves to a different stage!) He's communicating so much with us, and he has such a caring and tender heart....when he's not into mischief! Speaking of mischief, we have tried a million things over the last several months for discipline. We always felt like nothing we tried worked. He is a very strong willed child! Now that he's a little older, we started trying time out again, and you would not believe how well this works! He cries if you threaten to put him in time out! FINALLY! Something that actually gets to him! :) Two has also brought a better eater out in my little man. I hesitate to say that because now he probably won't eat a thing tomorrow, but the last several weeks he hasn't been near as picky! PTL! And he still loves milk. I'm lucky if I get him to drink something once a day that's not milk! I would prefer that though instead of him not liking milk!

We had a doctor's appointment today. (I passed the sugar test!) While we were listening to the heart beat, it went from like 140 to 10. Literally. Before Wayne and I could panic too bad, Dr. Gleason assured us that babies do that all the time. Shew! I'm measuring about a week ahead of schedule, which is nothing. I was two weeks ahead the entire time with Jacob! And I've gained more weight than I care to admit. Oh well, these little angels are worth every pound! Wayne and I still remind each other constantly that we are having another baby in January! It seems so unreal, even with a to do list a mile long. It's going by so fast! We are about to be two extremely tired parents! Not to mention paranoid! I'm so worried about Jacob being too rough with him! I'm sure all will be fine though. He loves babies! And as for how many we will have??? We've been asked that a lot lately! We don't know. As of right now, a family of four seems perfect. Who knows what we will feel 4 years from now! And no, I do not feel the need to "try for a girl." I've said since day one that I would be happy with all boys!

Both boys' rooms are coming along. We are so close to finishing the toy box (we are redoing one my dad made me as a child) for Jacob's room, and then we can officially move on to Grant's. I have been buying up some things though. We decided to use the same nursery bedding (after Grandmollie bought new bedding -that I picked out- for the little fella), but the room will be quite different. :) I just didn't like one way more than the other to justify keeping it. So, I'm just changing everything else up!

One last little side note. My sister's wedding is in less than a month. I absolutely cannot believe it! I'm so excited for them. Don't worry, we will be easily distinguished in the pictures. I will be the 7 1/2 month pregnant girl, Jacob will be the adorable little guy in the tux, and Wayne will be the one in the front praying our child doesn't act up! :)

Now, for one last video. I love Dancing With the Stars, and lil man really likes it too. Every time it comes on he says, "I wanna dance!" So, here you go. I tried to get him to quack like a duck at the end. I forgot it in the last video, and he does a really cute thing with his hands. I'm afraid you probably can't tell much though. And yes, I'm aware that our living room looks like a toy store. We were playing! :)

Videos

This first video was a few weeks ago. Jacob stayed with Grandmollie and Papa on Friday night so Daddy and I could get the majority of the work done in his room. He moved to our spare bedroom, which is bigger and he will have more room to play. We had to change fans out, paint, move furniture (don't worry, I didn't!) and more. It's still not finished so I haven't posted pics yet, but this is what he thought of it. He LOVES the balls on his bedding! We went to Pottery Barn for a totally different bedding, but he went nuts over this one! Our video camera needs a new battery (all of our electronics have been breaking lately!), so the color is a little off.

The next video is from this morning. Even being sick, he was in the best mood so I thought I might ask him a few questions. We are home from church today. We all have colds, and Wayne has a migraine. :( I think for the most part we are on the mend though. I was suppose to have nursery at church this morning, but I knew the mommas would rather me keep our germs at home! We sure did hate to miss any of this sermon series though!

My Two Baby Boys :)

Well, the baby, baby boy sure is growing, and mommy's belly is proof! I'm trying to do better at taking pictures of my belly so as we were scurrying to get ready for church Sunday I practically threw the camera at Wayne, stopped for 2 seconds in the hallway, and wa-la:

We're 25 weeks today! It's funny. I couldn't wait to countdown the weeks with Jacob, and this time every passing week is a reminder of what is left to do and little time to do it with! The heartburn has kicked in full force. :( Besides that and the occasional back ache, we're good to go! Jacob loves "seeing" his baby brother still. Although in the last week, he has declared that "Gant" is in his belly and his daddy's belly. Our two year old is slightly confused!

Speaking of our two year old. He is not feeling well. Again. We're on day number two with congestion. And as I've mentioned before, congestion with us means bring out the nebulizer. Poor thing. He was sick, had a two week break, and then got sick again! I'm afraid this might be what our falls will look like. He was sick almost all last fall. It is typically the only time of the year he gets sick though. I guess that's something to be thankful for! I had asthma as a child, and I was always sick in the fall. I'm just hoping he grows out of this soon, and we never have to go through actual asthma attacks with him!

And the handsome little man has done really well in his big boy bed! He still loves it, and we have seen none of this...

at night at least. He still has a fascination with our room for whatever reason, but he sleeps in his own bed! Woohoo! Wayne and I were both a little sad the first night...until we realized we could stretch out!!! :) I think we are all sleeping better now!

P.S. excuse the pictures. I'm still waiting on 2 out of 3 lenses to get fixed! :)