Milestones

Christian and I both reached a milestone today.  He turned 18 months and I reached my 17th week in pregnancy.  Christian celebrated by terrorizing the dog and I celebrated by stopping him and saying over and over, "Gentle.  Be gentle to the dog."  Over the last week Christian has been fascinated by Angelo.  He wants to touch him, lay on him, push him off his bed, spank him and tell him NO, and then afterwards pet him and say, "entle." We are working on it :)

Christian is getting so big.  Everyday he does or says something new.  Here are a few:

• Now that C is sleeping in his big boy bed we leave his and our door open at night.  When he wakes up (hopefully at 7 and not 3am) he comes out of his room, shuts his door, comes into ours and then shuts our door and then says, "Na" or "Ma" until I lift him up into bed.   (Na being his Nicole/Mama hybrid) If he's really hungry he will tap my shoulder and then start pointing at the door so I can get his milk.  Its pretty funny.  There's no crying, just door slamming. 
• We took Christian out on the boat Sunday and he had the best time.  The boat moving made him fall asleep and when he woke up we were on the beach.  He played in the sand but avoided the water until Chris took him out (somewhat against his will).  After that he was in love.  He came up to me afterwards, grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the ocean.  It was so fun to see him running and jumping, throwing the ball and fearlessly running into the water.  
• He has figured out that my garden is accessible to him, regardless of the fence.  I've seen him standing over there a few times when we are outside playing, but recently he's been grabbing red tomatoes right off the vine and eating them.  Then he runs over to me and says, "All gone!"
• The kid is obsessed with trash.  I find this especially funny since Chris told me he wanted to be a trash man when he was little.  Not the one driving the one hanging off the back...the fun one.  Well his son much have picked up on that because he searches the house for something, anything to put in the trash.  Thankfully he has figured out the difference somewhat.  He will bring me a tiny piece of paper, say, "trash" and run to the trash can to put it in.  He does this over and over. He claps for himself most times.
• I will post a picture because you have to see Christians surprised face.  His eyes are open wide, his mouth in a "o" shape and he looks so surprised.  He does this to many things.  If he gets something especially good to eat.  Or something he eats every day.  When he looks inside a bag or my purse or the grocery bag.  When the door bell rings, or when throws the ball really far.  You always hear that seeing the world through their eyes is amazing, but until I got to I really didn't understand.                                                                                                                                                          
• Oh and he can throw a ball better than I can.

Baby # 2 Who?

It seems that with all the traveling and cleaning and packing and unpacking I've been doing the last few weeks I really haven't had much time to think or prepare for baby #2.  Seriously, besides the window-computer shopping I got to do on Saturday (because we turned off our phones, closed our blinds and laid on the couch all day long...it was amazing) that's really all I've done.  Poor second child.  Hopefully I will get it together by the time he/she arrives. 

I'm really hoping that I can get two ideas together for the room, one girly, one all boy, so that as soon as we find out the sex (6 weeks!) we can get right into GO mode and get it done.  Did I mention I'm freaking out about getting it all done?  You know me, I have a serious list going already.  We had Christians room finished pretty early and I felt so much better once it was ready for him, so I'm going to try and do that again. 

So far the plan is to move all of Christians furniture into the babies room, and then Christian will get new dressers and a bookcase.  He already has his new bed!

How cute is this bed? It starts out small, about the size of a crib mattress and then grows to a twin when your kiddo gets bigger.  The mattress grows too.  Christian loves it.  Thank you so much Mimi & Papa!

I want to get a big bookcase for Christians room so that I can move some of his toys up there...its getting a bit out of control downstairs, plus with a C section I'm probably going to be stuck upstairs for a bit.  Here's the one I'm thinking:

I'm going to lay it length ways and put toys on the bottom row, books on the top row and put all his stuffed animals sitting on top. Then next to it, I'll put a bean bag and a few floor pillows and make it a cozy reading corner.  A few dressers and his room will be done! Since I have all the baby furniture already, all I need to do is decide on bedding, curtains and decorations for the new baby.  The fun part!  My only constraint is the dark furniture (which I love) and the brown chair...which I think I can work around if its a girl, and will work fine for a boy. 

I'm working on a few ideas so when I get some idea boards done I'll post them right away.

Love, Nicole

12 Weeks Today

Oh Baby has now turned into Oh Babies.

Well-- it will sometime on or around January 3, 2012.  Today I am twelve weeks and hopefully all this morning all day sickness will end soon.  As in today :)  Christian and I are in Oklahoma right now visiting Mimi & Papa.  We are having a good time just hanging out and relaxing.  My parents are flying back with us this Saturday, and all of us can't wait to see Chris.  We miss him so much.

We are looking forward to July for many reasons.  We hope to celebrate the 4th with our family and friends, the 10th is my mom's birthday, and the 12th is our third wedding anniversary!  It's hard to believe that three years have gone by so quickly, and we are about to be a family of four.  Crazy?!

I should be updated here more often now that the "baby" is out of the bag.  I seriously couldn't think of anything to write except "I AM SO SICK." And really who wants to hear that? ;)

love, Nicole