Update

It has been quite some time and a lot has been going on.

I'm sure anyone reading this already knows that Lucy is getting a little brother in January. As far as the date goes that is so far unknown. For some reason they are having a hard time telling me from the ultrasounds. I can tell you it's sometime between Jan. 3rd-24th. Yes I realize that's a difference of 3 weeks. Whenever anyone asks my due date I just say January because I don't even know if it's the beginning, middle or end. Kind of obnoxious. I do have another ultrasound scheduled a week from Tuesday on the 4th and they are hoping to finally give me a date. This pregnancy has been a little different from Lucy. I've had a lot more back pain and just general stiffness all over. Depending on my due date I feel like I have a lot more movement than I did with Lucy at this point. Well that's only if I'm due at the end of the month. If I'm due at the beginning then I would say the movement is about the same. This whole pregnancy just kind of seems unreal because I don't even know how far along I am. Hopefully the mystery will be solved next week. We also got a 2nd crib for this little man and double stroller. I'm excited to use them both. He's going to be in our room because I don't want him to disrupt Lucy at night. Hopefully when we move in April he'll sleep decent and they can be in the same room then.

Lucy is just chugging along and putting up with me all day every day. We usually keep pretty busy. My pregnancy has been keeping me pretty stiff like I said before so we have been going on about hour long walks every morning to keep me moving and this little boy happy. Lucy enjoys it pretty well too because we have scouted out where all the neighborhood animals are so we will go find them. The weather has been so great lately too. Finally not too hot so we have been spending several hours outside everyday just hanging out on the playground outside and making friends with the other kids. She's usually the youngest out there that can walk but she keeps up pretty well. She just last week figured out how to go down the slide on her bum all by herself so that has been pretty fun for her. She is growing so fast and learning so much all the time. She's not really talking yet so we started doing signs with her and it is amazing how fast she picks them up. I think she's just so excited to be able to communicate better. So far the words she knows are please, thank you, eat, more, milk, all done and if you say "we're going to say a pray" she will fold her arms. Sometimes you don't even have to say it she just knows when we are going to pray and will fold her arms. Like when you put her in her high chair or when Kyle and I take her into her room at bed time as soon as we sit down she folds her arms for the family prayer. Goodness I love that girl. She has a hard time with saying please though. She great at saying it without even being prompted like when she wants a bite of something or when she hands me a book and will automatically sign please. The trouble comes because she doesn't quite get that saying please won't get you anything you want. Like when I'm on the phone and she wants to talk so she says please over and over but still doesn't get the phone. At least she says it I guess.  Her favorite thing right now is giving kisses. She's finally done with the "baby kisses" and actually smacks her lips instead of the wonderful open mouth usually with tongue kisses. Sometimes I'll be sitting on the couch or doing something and she just walks over to me with her lips puckered to get me a kiss without me asking for one. Or at night time I will lay her in bed and sing her a song then when I go to leave I'll say I love you and she will lift her head up and blow me a kiss then drift off to bed. Those two moments are probably the best moments a Mom has. She also loves giving her baby doll kisses and the pictures of animals in her books. Speaking of animals she's also working on her animal sounds. Right now she can do a dog, elephant and monkey. The elephant is my favorite because she basically just blows a high pitched raspberry and lifts her arm in the air. Such a clever little bug. She has her 15 month appt coming up on the 10th so I'm excited like always to see her stats. I know that she weighs 19 lbs but I want to see what percentile she's in. Hopefully she's finally broken the 5th percentile barrier! Well I doubt she has but I'm still curious.

Kyle is plugging along as well. He's been back in school for a month now and it seems to be going pretty well. Working hard like always. He's assigned to the Men's Volleyball team this semester and enjoys it ok. It's pretty laid back because the sport isn't in season so he doesn't have to worry about too many injuries because they aren't really practicing to hard or have any games that he has to get ready for and go to. He's still working in the Library as a janitor every night from 8pm to midnight. He is usually home by about 6 and then has to leave for work a couple hours later. At least we get to have dinner with him everyday. Poor guy is never home but he is making it possible for me to be home with Lucy and I sure do love him for it. At least there's an end in sight. He graduates in April and we will be moving to Portland and it couldn't come soon enough.

We don't have any plans made as of yet for going home and seeing family before the baby is born but hopefully that will happen. The goal is Thanksgiving since Christmas is not an option being so close to my due date. After he comes it is pretty unlikely that we will make it before we move back. I just have to meet my sweet little niece Kaeley before she is 7 months old!

The end.