New Kicks

After several weeks of listening to my mom tell me that Zach needed some shoes with real soles and not just the soft ones in his pedipeds...we headed to the shoe store today to get some new kicks!!  Zach was a trooper, standing there to get his little feet measured. Well, I shouldn't say little, he is a 5.5 to 6!  We decided to go for the 6s so he would have some room to go.  

We ended up getting 3 pairs.  A pair of play/everyday sneakers, sandals, and a pair of dressier sneakers that he could wear to school or to church!

The play ones are great because they are machine washable, woohoo!

The crazy thing about these shoes though is they cost about what a pair of my shoes would cost!  Holy smokes!  I guess that's why he looks so cute and I don't!  HA!  

I'll take some pics of Z in his new kicks to show them off!  

Enjoying a day off

Matt is out of town and Ginny is coming into town, so I decided to take the day off to see her and be with the Z Man!  So far so good...Z slept till almost 7:40 which is always a good thing!  He's been playing with his maracas from JackAsh and keeps bringing me one of them to shake too.  So sweet!  Zachary has a check up with the ENT this morning to check on his hearing again.  Hopefully this time all is well and we don't have to go back for 6 months!  Timing is good though because I can go over swimming with the doc again since Zach starts swim lessons next week.

Fingers crossed for some good weather so we can play outside today too!

Thanks for the well wishes on the little one.  I do believe its a miracle and feel very blessed to be on this journey again!  I am nervous about being able to be a good mom to two who are kinda close together but I trust that its all just part of the plan!  Have had to be on progesterone since I found out as my numbers were low so of course I have that in the back of my mind too, but feeling more confident that all will be okay as we get closer to 12 weeks.  I will feel much better when I can find the heartbeat on my own on the doppler!  Right now its more a source of frustration that I can't!  

But anyway,  I have a jumbled mess of thoughts in my head, started a post last night but think I will save it for another day.  

Ha, Zach just found the ziploc bag of Easter cookies I was noshing on last night in the game room....guess I have to give him one  now! It is a Friday after all, what's wrong with a little cookie for breakfast! :)

Hope everyone is enjoying their Friday and have a great weekend!

Big Day in the Office

Yep....that's going to be me in about 6 months! I found this little figurine at a drug store and thought it was just perfect!

Today my bosses informed me that my request to go to a 4 day work week has been approved so I will be off every Monday now starting in April! Obviously there will be a cut in pay and some benefits but I am very excited to have another day to spend with Zachary and Little Peanut!

Matt and I are still a little bit in a surprise over this all but as excited as could be! At my last appointment on Monday, "little peanut" was measuring right on track and a speedy heartbeat of 167! This pregnancy has been so different already than with Zachary. I never had morning sickness with him and have often not been feeling so hot! Of course I wasn't running around after a wild 1 year old either!

So....the news is out! Can't wait to meet the newest addition to the Wittliff clan sometime around mid-October!!

swim trunks and diapers!

Time to go shopping....Zach is going to take swim lessons! There is a swim center right by the house that offers year round classes starting with Parent & Me classes so we are going to try that out! Zach LOVES the bath so I am hoping the pool will go as well too. I am really excited about it. Need to get him some trunks as I am sure his ones from last year will no longer fit ;-) This is a pic of him on his first ever dip in the pool last year!

A little about Z

So Zach is up to some funny antics these days. He is still obsessed with balls and they are all over the house. He is getting pretty decent at throwing them for a 13 month old so Matt and I are impressed at least! ;-) He likes to attempt to throw them for Esther too or will just run up to her and stick the tennis ball in her mouth. And of course is loves saying ball too. After lunch on Sunday we went in to this toy store next to where we ate. I was holding Zach and looking in the opposite direction and hear him saying ball and thinking to myself, ''silly boy, there are no balls in sight!'' and sure enough i turned around to see him pointing him up at the ceiling and they had like 10 balls hanging down on strings!! Way to go Z!

He is also developing some of his own sign language. When he is ready for dinner he either goes up to the fridge or to his high chair and grunts! Hey, so its not American Sign Language, but it works! And on a more sign-ish note...he has developed his own sign for ''I want...'' It kinda looks like if you were pumping your fist before they take blood or a wave with your thumb facing upwards. make sense? clear as mud? well anyway, that's what he does. so he will walk up to say....a toy that is out of reach. Will look up at it and do his little hand sign and babble. As soon as he gets whatever it is, all better. Or if we are eating, he will walk up to me and do it, then he gets a goldfish or whatever and all better! So interesting watching him learn!

The boy is also getting too tall for his own good. He can reach things off the kitchen counter, nightstands, dresser tops, etc!! Yesterday I was in the kitchen making dinner and had left a pair of scissors too close to the edge but by no means hanging off...and was standing right next to them as he got up on his toes and pulled them down! Thankfully I was standing right there so could snatch them back before danger happened!

And lastly, Operation Sippy Cup is going okay. School actually asked on Thursday for me to start bringing them so I was kinda forced into following the doctor's orders. And supposedly he did really well! Over the weekend, we just did bottles for morning and bedtime except for one Sunday afternoon after a minor meltdown. So we are getting there. We are using the Playtex 9oz Sipster and seem to be having the best luck with these. They are hard tops and spill proof and all in all he seems to be transitioning to them pretty well.

One question to put out there for you milk drinkers...he had spit up a few times recently since the switch the milk. Once was almost like throwing up, but the others just a little spit up. But it REEKS! Smells like rotten milk! Any thoughts on this or he just drank too much? This happened one other time when he tried yogurt at school too and I think he drank too much!

OK, I think that's all on Zach for now. Love him to pieces my little wild child! Hope you all have a great Monday....I was missing Spring Break traffic today. Bring on the summer! ;-)

**WOW, if you read all that, I am impressed! Posted it looks much longer than when I typed it! ;-) **

Friday Night Lights

It is SUCH a good show but this last episode was difficult to watch!  Wow....teenagers.  Totally freaks me out to know or think what Zach will be up to in 15 years or so!  Guess all I can do is pray and teach him the best I know how!  If you have never watched the show, you should check it up.  Its definitely NOT just about football is a really good family dynamics show.  Definitely would get some conversations going if you had older kids.  

*Oh, and I am now tied for #1 with Kari in the bracket and one other girl.  Go ladies! :)

Thank goodness for men!

They are good for a lot of things....but especially when it comes to creepy slimy icky crawlers!!  We got back from church and lunch today and I was in the kitchen getting Zach some milk....and look over and what do I see but a like 10 inch SNAKE!!!!!  I don't know why, but snakes freak me out!  So as Zach was racing towards to killer snake I reached over to scoop him up and scream!  Poor Matt was in the middle of changing and came running out half dressed with mighty shoe in hand and crushed the dude.  Sorry for all you reptile loving people, but the thing was rearing up and freaking me out so I was not sad to see its untimely demise.  That's what it gets for coming inside.  I proceeded to take Zach upstairs for a nap after I was sure the snake was no more.  Matt chuckled when I came back down and said, "you know if I wasn't here you would have to take care of it yourself, right?"  To which I replied, "thankfully you are always here!!" ;-)  So to Matt...my hero who saved me and Zach and Esther from the evil snake...we are forever grateful!! :-)

*And bracket update, Matt is still #1 and I am tied for 2nd....go us! 

Bracket Busted?

So the first round of the madness is over.....is your bracket still standing?!?!  I am 25 of 32 and most of those teams I didn't have advancing past the next round anyway.  West Virginia and Wake Forest were my biggest losses, I had them going to the Sweet 16 but losing there.  All and All, not THAT bad!  That last round of games were some good ones, even if they all did not end in my favor.  It was still good watching!

According to the group standings in this bracket, Matt is #1 and Kari and I are both tied for #2!  Woohoo!  Matt will prob drop fast though   because he has WF and WV going pretty far!

Ahhhh, the madness of march, you never know what you are going to get!  Excited to see the Ags play today and see how they  fare against might U Con!!

Deliver Me

Do any of you watch this show on Discovery Health?  I started watching it when I was pregnant with Z and then it was off for awhile but new episodes are on now!  Its a good show, reality type show about an OB/GYN practice.  The episode I watched tonight, one story was about a momma who wanted a natural delivery with no drugs.  Oh my, just watching her made me want to cry with pain!  She finally opted for an epi after 17 hours, but it was still another 23 before she delivered!  If you feel like smiling and crying and love baby stories, check out this show ;-)  I cry almost every time another little one comes into this world!

Makes me think back to my labor which all and all, I look back on pretty happily!  There were of course some tough and scary moments but overall I think I had a great labor and delivery!  So weird to think that was just a little over a year ago?!?  

Head is JUST right

If you remember from my 12 month check up post, the Pediatrician was slightly concerned that Zach's head had grown too much since his last visit and could have brain swelling or something going on! But then after he saw some of his older stats from original pedi wasn't as concerned but sent us home with a head measurer anyway. Well of course every time I tried to measure, it looked like his head had grown to me! Anyway, I got off a little early yesterday and decided to pop into the office and see if they could do another official measuring. Doc had told me to come back in a month or so to check for my own peace of mind. WHEW, still 48cm so all is well in the noggin department. One less thing to keep me up at night with now! ;-)