33 weeks!

I am officially 33 weeks today (possibly 34 by baby's size)! Gabe is doing great. He's been answering the phone lately before we can get to it. People are probably confused when they hear, "He-woh?" and then "Deebee yaya?" He has his own language that I think Josh understands better than I do most of the time. He loves books about dogs and cars. And he recently discovered Bob the Builder from a rummage sale DVD my mom found. "Bah bah bah bah?" is "Can we watch Bob the Builder?"

The weather is so nice today, about 70 degrees and sunny. I'm so ready for summer! I'll post some pictures of Gabe playing outside at Lakeside Park with Josh. We were on our way to our house the other day to do some more work and Gabe reached over and opened the car door! (only a little and we were going slow) But I quick reached back and held it until we were able to stop and when we did stop it just happened to be in front of this daycare center. Then Gabe, seeing the play equipment right in front of him and Josh then getting out of the car(to come around and child-lock his door), Gabe yells, "Yay! Yay!" Cause he thought we were getting out to play there. Then when Josh got back in and we started to drive away he's like, "Oh no! Oh no!" and tears up. We felt so bad that we then went to the park and let him play for a while. It actually worked out because then he fell asleep in the car when we left the park and stayed asleep (on the crib mattress in the living room) while we worked on the house. I'll post some pics! Hope you're all doing well! Keep your blogs updated! And congrats to Annie and Jordan on the baby!

 
 
 
 

Happy Mother's Day!

Hi everyone!

In honor of Mother's Day I was going though some old photos to post and I had to laugh because I found some taken in 1985 at this park in my hometown of my mom and me and I have some of Gabe and me at the same exact places! So I will post some of those for you all to get a laugh from - notice in the train picture I still have the same head-tilt left pose going on 20 years later! I wish I had some more pictures of Josh and Diane to post! She is kind of notorious for wanting to be the one taking the picture instead of be in it! But I did find one hidden in Josh's picture files! :)

What else happened this week? Well, I went to the doctor yesterday. She is always thrilled to still see me. She said she checks the lists every morning to make sure I didn't call or come in during the night. I told her my mom has been saying from the start it will be on Mother's day and she's like, "No!!! At least another week and a half!" (34 weeks) It is really getting hard for me to stay down especially with the weather so nice.

Gabe is doing well. He has been with just me a few days this week because Josh started working again. Now that I'm kind of out of the danger zone we decided he should start. I think he's wishing now more than ever he was independently wealthy and could stay home with Gabe every day! (Doesn't everyone wish that of course?) Why can't we just all get paid for laying an the grass and watching our kids play? Can someone invent a way for us to make money at that please?

We've also been over at our house doing some improvements. It's been painted in the living room, nursery, and master br. Josh just laid a tile floor over the old wood in the sunroom. It's really looking nice. And this is gonna sound crazy, but we're thinking of flipping it. I know right? The market sucks so who knows if it'd even sell but we're thinking of listing it just to see. If it didn't sell then we'd move in and I'd be really happy but Josh would definitely work (roofing or at the farm) a lot and he'd get through his teaching classes a lot more slowly. If it did sell what would we do? Drumroll please....... possibly move back to Idaho! If I could have a dollar for every time Josh complained about missing Idaho neither of us would ever have to work and I could buy a beach house in Malibu! No joke. So anyways, we'd probably just rent and have Josh take a full course load so he could start teaching within a year. Then I might even do the online classes to teach too. After this baby we've decided we're definitely on a baby break. So no one ask me when the next one's coming for at LEAST three to four years. (Charm now I know how you felt!) So anyways, those are our recent family thoughts and issues. Tell me what you think we should do. Are we just restless? I promise we'll settle down when Gabe starts school. I kind of feel like we're one of those spinners right now and it's like, we'll be spinning for the next two years and where will we land? Cause where we are in two to three years is probably where we'll stay for a while.

Anyways, this is one long post! Josh is at the farm till noon and Gabe is out rummage-saling with my mom. He always comes home with like ten new toys and Josh goes crazy that he already has too many. Ahh... the joy of living with grandma, right?

Happy Mother's Day to all!

Another ultrasound

Hi again! Well Josh is even more excited now that I've added The Jonas Brothers and Jason Castro to the playlist. He thought it couldn't get any more embarrassing! Boy was he wrong! :) Whatever, I love it.

So I had my ultrasound today and baby Caleb is cooking nicely. They estimate he is 4 lbs, 2 oz so he's got Gabe beat. My doctor is still going off the July 2 due date (which would make me 31 wks on Wednesday) but all my measurements indicate I'm over 32 weeks. My next appt. is in two weeks and then I go weekly. At 34 weeks she said I can start walking around. Yay! My mom says maybe I'll have him on Mother's Day. That'd be fine but I'm shooting for about May 19th (or later!)

Gabe is doing great. He's a little booger sometimes of course, but he's pretty good. The nursery leader told us he pushed kids down a couple times on Sunday when they wanted his toys and she recommended we teach him to say sorry with sign language. So we've been working on that. Otherwise his most commonly used words are "cookie, chocolate, chicken, car, truck, mama, and dada." Oh and of course "no" and "mine." Good thing he's having a little brother since he'll probably beat on him.

Well, that's all for now!

30 Weeks!

Today I am 30 weeks pregnant. For anyone who is keeping track that's one week past what Gabe was! Yay! My next goal is to make it into May. I have an ultrasound on Monday so hopefully this baby's big!

Gabe is doing great. He's so funny lately. He has some terrible two moments every now and then but usually he's pretty sweet. Sometimes if he's ignoring me and I'm laying on the couch (on bedrest) feeling lonely, I'll say, "Gabe will come give me a hug and a kiss?" and he'll of course ignore me because he's a boy and he's busy playing with his cars. But then if I do a little fake cry and say, "Please *sniffle* can I have a kiss?" he'll get a really concerned look and come right over. Yes, I am bad. And someday, he will probably be putty in some fake-crying woman's hands... oh boy those days are too far away to think about!

He is definitely a daddy's boy though. They are like, best buddies. If Gabe ever wakes up and Josh is gone to work he'll go through every room looking for him and saying, "Dada?" They've been playing outside a lot because the weather's so nice. I think we hit 72 today. I was actually hot laying on our deck in the sun! I can't wait for summmer.

Well, I'll post some pictures of Gabe and Josh outside a few weeks ago and Josh's birthday party (Gabe is blowing out the candles though). I may even get brave and post my fat pictures. I now weigh more than I've ever weighed in my whole life... but I guess it's good if it means a full-term baby right?

Check back often! I have a feeling this next month's gonna be pretty interesting!

Yes, we're still alive

Hi everyone!

So, I look at people's blogs sometimes and everyone's is so cute and high-tech! I keep thinking, "I should probably update mine," and I really have no excuse not to because I sit here on bedrest with nothing else to do. But it's so hard! Am I really that technologically unsavvy? It took me about three hours just to post a playlist! So I finally did it and Josh looked and just laughed at my fine music choices.

Let me explain... Gabe LOVES Hannah Montana (and basically any blond girl that sings) and these are his favorites. And since this is his website.... Okay and I like them too. I'm still a ten-year-old girl at heart. But enough of that. I hope all you Idaho people are doing well! Are you sick of cold weather yet? Here in Wisconsin it's been slowly warming up for the past few weeks. It's actually raining as I write this. At least the snow is gone. We all complain about the amount of snow we got this winter and Josh just laughs and shows me pictures his family sends of Ashton.

Gabe loves being outside. Him and Josh have been walking around the neighborhood every afternoon and he screams when we make him come inside. He's a pretty moody kid. He must get that from Josh. :) One second he'll be laughing hysterically and the next he'll freak out. He always lines up his toy cars (he has all these from the movie "Cars") and if anyone moves a car...watch out. Josh does it just to make him freak out, then I'll yell at Josh and he'll laugh and say, "I'm building his patience." (Do I have 2 kids?)

#2 will be here soon enough. Every day I wake up still pregnant I'm happy. I'm hoping to at least make it to 29 weeks which is what Gabe was. I'm 28 tommorow. Wish me luck! I can't wait to have this baby and move into our poor, lonely house. It's been ours since Feb. 28 but we're staying with my mom so she can help with Gabe while I lay in bed like a lazy bum. It's been nice staying here but I know Josh is especially excited to have a place of our own. I'll try to post some more pictures, hopefully it will take me less than a day to figure out!!!

Well, that's all for now!

Hi everyone!

Gabe is doing well. He is pretty fun these days. Josh and I each have callings now at church (I'm the primary chorister and Josh is the Valiant teacher) so Gabe has had to adjust to nursery fast. I always go in there at the start and do some songs with the kids then when I leave he usually cries for 2 minutes and stops. Last Sunday when Josh went to pick him up he was playing with this toy bus and he said, "Gabe, are you ready to go?" and Gabe shook his head no and kept playing. Pretty soon he's going to cry when we take him away! Here's some more pictures.