Just an Update

It's nap time here so I thought I would jump on and do a short update!  Nothing too exciting going on, but I have been bad about blogging lately so all you get is the mundane details, but at least it is a post! ;-)

We had Z Man's 2nd ECI appointment today.   Things are going well and Miss Brenda says she definitely sees improvements since his initial evaluation.  I don't know if it something we are doing or just coming with the age, but hey, whatever it is, I will take it!  Zach has become very proficient in the "no" head shaking.  While often helpful, it can also be quite a source of amusement as he shakes no to just about every question.  Another big one is the other night we were reading A Night Night Prayer and at the end of each page, it says Night Night to Dog, Kittens, Mommy, etc etc.  Z likes to wave night night to every page but then he started mimicking me by saying it too!  BIG STEP!  He has never been a repeater so it was exciting!  It quickly ended though as I started laughing excitedly and he leaned back into my teeth!  Ouch!  Other than that, he is just a crazy little monkey as usual.  Climbing all over every little thing and just being a BOY!

In #2 news, we have made some progress in his nursery.  WAHOO!  My mom came over on Saturday and we cleaned out the storage guest closet. Most of it was BOXES of photographs and albums along with other odds and ends. Good thing about the pre-digital age was you actually printed

pictures out...the bad thing, you actually printed pictures out and therefore have TONS of loose

pics laying around! I did not feel like sorting through things so they just got moved to another

closet but hey, its progress! The rest of the loot was baby stuff so it was just reorganized and

put into closet. I found a bunch of bottles too...like the itty bitty baby ones. Ok, what is the real

rule on these? Can they be reused or everything needs to be new? I feel so wasteful throwing

them out but I don't want to use them if I am not supposed to either. Anyway, next step is move

the big bed out so that we can get the room painted!

So, that's about all the main things going on around here lately. I will try to be more exciting

and update more often but that's about all I got for now! :)

Wordless Wednesday...almost...

King of the Wagon...protecting his princess! ;-)

Ready for driving!

Love this face!

Little boy...no longer a baby!

What happens when it is too quiet....MARKER FACE! (pardon the snot nose!)

Happy 18 months!

Hard to believe our little stinker is a year and a half today!! What a ride its been so far! I love you Zachary and am looking forward to what's next to come! :)

Children's Museum and busy weekend

Today we took a family trip to the Children's Museum!  I wasn't sure what to expect as we got a late start (got there around 11:30ish and Z usually naps around 12:30) so I was thinking it could be a short trip....but I guess Zach had so much fun he didn't care that he was totally missing his nap! ;-)  They have a very cool room just for toddlers and a TON MORE STUFF for Z to do when he is older!!  At first glance at the Tot Room, I was kind of thinking, what was all the hype, but clearly they know what they were doing cause we were in there forever and Z was having a BLAST!  :)  Unfortunately my camera battery died half way through, but I will post some pics later from what I did get!!  Good times!  We wandered around the whole museum to see what else was there and it is definitely cool, even with the hefty $7/pp price tag!!

Heading back to work tomorrow...I feel like I have been off forever with having Friday off too.  It was a good extended weekend.  Friday I went to the Ruckus Room with Amy and Caroline which was a blast!  Z was so much more adventerous from when we were there last and so all boy, tumble bumble every where!  He even climbed up the super tall slide somehow and squealed with glee all the way down!  Great fun for only $4!  Saturday was JP's 2nd birthday and of course anything with cake and ice cream is always fun.  Good times just hanging with friends and watching the kids be silly.  And sunday was church, Chuy's and evening with Grandma and Popsie over so thats always fun too!  Z spent some naked time in the baby pool, best $10 ever spent, he LOVES the pool!

We also watched a bunch of crappy movies though, I need some suggestions of what to rent!  I picked Mama Mia which was not crappy but I had seen the musical so nothing new if that makes sense. Matt picked Stepbrothers and Tropic of Thunder, both of which were horrible.  They just were not funny!  Matt is also getting into full job swing mode.  His resume is just about complete so hopefully can get it out to some people this week and see if we can find some good leads.  Any prayers and job leads are appreciated.

No new news in regards to #2 except that it is getting closer and closer to his arrival!  Have my check up tomorrow.  Can't believe we are just 2 months away!  Things are so different with the 2nd, that is for sure.  We have got to get into high gear with getting the boys' rooms ready.  Main priority is getting furniture for Zach so we can move the baby furniture into the other room (which needs to be cleaned out and painted!)  And decide on a name!!!  I just can't seem to decide on the first name.  The middle name is definitely set on Wendell in honor of my daddy, but I am having a hard time with the 1st!!  

I guess that's about it for now!  Hoping the week is short and easy!! :)

75 Days....

REALLY?  75 DAYS?!?!  Holy smokes!  Need to get furniture for Zach bought and set up so we can move the baby furniture into the other room.  My mom came over on Sunday and we went through and organized all of Zachary's clothes into nice big clear tubs by ages.  So I do feel like we have made a little progress.  Next step, clean out the closet and break down the bed so we can paint the room.  I am leaning towards a blue-ish color.  I never got to paint Zachary's room since we had our house on the market so it will be fun to do some color this time! :)

In other news...since Matt facebooked about it I guess it is okay to share here, he was laid off on Thursday.  Trying to keep things in perspective in light of other recent events for friends, but it is definitely still a stressful situation.  If any of you know of any jobs in the supply chain/procurement/pipeline/oil&gas business...I know of one great guy who is looking!  :)

Zachary also had his first ECI appointment.  His "teacher" for lack of another word, said she could see improvement just since her last visit from the evaluation.  In the last 2 weeks, he has said "poo", "look", and "more" and is getting really good at the head shaking for "no"!  And we have been working on straw drinking like they suggested and he pretty much mastered that too, guess all we needed to do was try!  So perhaps the 18 month "word explosion" is just around the corner.  I can't believe my baby will be 1.5 in a week!  I will SO be the old lady in the "I Love You Forever" book rocking her adult giant boy!!

Prayer for My Friend

Can't sleep tonight.  My friend, Amy, lost her daddy Saturday evening.  After an all too quick battle with cancer, he went to be with our Lord this weekend.  Please keep Amy, her mom, brother and other family and friends in your prayers as they deal with the loss of this very special man.  I know they miss him already.

Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.           Matthew 5:4

Home Again, home again!!

We had a great weekend away in Scottsdale with the ladies.  The resort was fabulous, the spa was amazing and of course the company was pretty good too! ;-)  We basically just relaxed, enjoyed the pool/spa and of course ate!  Scottsdale is really pretty and all of the resorts looked wonderful, I would definitely go back.  Allison and I took a couple of hours away from the pool to go see one of Frank Lloyd Wright's homes which was pretty interesting since we are reading a book about him in book club right now.  All and all, a great time was had!

Had my monthly doctor's appointment this morning and all is looking well.  Little boy is moving around a TON these days which is pretty awesome.  I also passed my glucose test which of course I am stoked about! :)  Woohoo, no 3 hour test!  My iron, however, is low so I will have to start taking iron supplements.  No biggie.  They will retest at next appointment to see how we are doing.  And we are onto the every 2 weeks appointments!  Things are going really quickly now!

That's about it now.  I am still pooped from the trip so am enjoying just being chill at home today.  It feels good to be back with my boys and in my own home!  If only I wasn't headed back to work tomorrow ;-)

Apparently I am huge!

The last two weeks....any time someone asks me when I am due and I say October, I get this SHOCKED look!  One lady asked me if there was more than one in there and another proceeded to tell me about how she was also really big when she was pregnant but it was all fluid and she lost 35lbs when she delivered.  Sheesh people!!

Girls Weekend!

I am leaving tomorrow for a short weekend trip to Phoenix with some of my girl friends!  Looking forward to sleeping in, spa time, pool time and of course time with the ladies...we always have a great time together.  I am sad/nervous about leaving my little monkey.  He is such a momma's boy!  I hope he doesn't miss me TOO much.  Luckily he will have Matt and Grammy-gram in from Abilene to keep him entertained all weekend.  Maybe it will be a good thing for him to have to be separated for a couple of days!

As usual, I have WAY over packed but don't know what to unpack so I will leave it all in.  Hopefully it is under the 50lbs mark at least.  And I am sure I will have nothing to wear once I get there too.  

Anyway, hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend and I will check in later!!

We have a new word......

POO!!!!  Ha!  I noticed it this last week, that I thought when he had dirty pants, he would point at his diaper and say "poo".  I kinda thought maybe it was just me hearing it?  But then yesterday at Becky's, Matt and I were together changing his diaper and he says "poo!"  Matt was like, "did he really just say poo?"  :)  And then today when I picked up Z at school, the VERY first thing his teacher says to me is, "Zachary said POO today and pointed at his diaper!!"  :)  Clearly we are all very proud. HA.  His other teacher is working on "more" too and thinks he is getting close to that as well! Go Z!  He is also getting better at the shaking of the head since we have been working on that too.  I think us not answering/enabling him for everything and being more conscious about it is helping too.

Not too much else new going on....oooh, except we leave for Phoenix on Thursday!  Looking forward to some girl time pooling and spa-ing at a fabulous resort!  

And, I am less than a week away from being in the 3rd trimester.  HOLY SMOKES!  We need to get busy on getting the new nursery set up!!  ahhhh!!  And I took my glucose test this morning.  Hopefully I passed, will find out next week at my regular appointment.  

Guess that's it for now!