We are three weeks in and have another week and a half until we close on our house! Whoo hooo! I am really excited about moving into our house. This is a big deal!! This is the first house that Kevin and I have purchased together, picked out together, and all that good stuff. :) Can't wait, really!
This also means that here pretty soon we will get our other two dogs back, too! I sure have loved the break though. But, of course, I sure have missed them. But it has been great to be shy two dogs with all the work we've had on our plates. Way less to manage.
I've been working hard on finding all new providers for lots of things. I think I'm finally making some good headway. I mentioned last week that I've been putting this off! For people like us, there's lots of new people to find. Hairdressers, various docs, photographers, chiropractors, acupuncturists, placenta encapusulators...yes, I'm doing that...:) ... and the list goes on.
We've also been making great headway on the baby room and getting some things we know we will need for the house taken care of so those are a few less things we will need to do after closing. I know once we close and get into the house, all we will want and need to do is unpack! The countdown has began for when the baby arrives. Lots to do. ....and also throw the holidays in there, too.
Preston is a sick right now. For now, it just looks like a cold, but it's further interfering with his sleep. Poor guy. I can't wait for him to get into his own room and get settled. :) Sweet boy.
The baby is still good. I can def tell I'm pregnant. I'm getting pretty big. :) And I regularly have pregnancy 'ailments'. Not anything serious, just uncomfortable. Although I did have sciatica last week which was very painful. So I went to the chiro and was adjusted, and feeling soo much better. So I take a lot of hot baths and indulge in an occasional glass of red wine. On a bad note, I have nooo idea what's up with my body or this pregnancy, but I have been SERIOUSLY craving cokes!! I don't know if it's the caffeine or the 'bite', but I literally crave them. And I indulge some. Soo bad, I know, I know.
Kevin is still doing great at his job. We went out to dinner with his boss and his wife and kids last weekend. They, too, are a young family, and what a really great family! So happy about that! And although they aren't going to be living right next door to us, they are not too far, and the wife is also a stay at home mom! Really really liked them. I think me and Summer, his bosses wife, may meet up this week with the kiddos. They have three. 6, 4, and 5 months. Very cool for us to have another family going through the same thing we are.
Preston is still as cute as ever. He is now completely off breast milk. I think I mentioned that last time. He is loving his new milk and no tummy issues have come from the switch. whoo hoo! He is one smart dude, I tell ya. Well, of course I think so, but he just seems more and more amazing every day. (I wonder if I'll think the same thing about baby #2??) The bar has been set pretty high by Mr. P!
He is in love with things that go, " Roar!"
He points to the moon in the sky and tries to grab it
We hear a lot of trains so every time he hears one he says, " oohhhh choo choooo!"
Every time he hears a car or truck he says, " Vroooom".
He gives lots of kisses and hugs, even when we don't ask for them. He also lays on the dogs and gives them hugs and kisses. So sweet.
He is now sleeping in a crib, the baby's new crib
He has become soooooo social. He is a HAAAAAM! We can't go out without him demanding the attention of those around us. And he plays games with them and laughs and smiles the entire time.
And he loooooooves other kids, of all ages. He is sooo happy around other kids!
He has become quite the dancer too. All he has to hear is a simple faint beat of in the distance and he breaks out his moves. So funny!
I got him some cheap swords at the dollar store, and he loves them. He waves them in the air and slays whatever he is slaying in his imagination. It's the cutest thing.
Every dog he sees he says, " woof, woof!" over and over. Loves dogs.
And every baby he sees, he yells, " BAAAAABY!" But he also knows I have a baby in my belly and will pat and kiss my belly and say, " Mamma Baby".
He is becoming a little better with eating and is throwing food less. He has finally learned to hand us food he doesn't want instead of throwing it.
He is now taking partially chewed up food from inside his mouth if he wants a drink. For some reason he doesn't think he can take a drink if he has food in his mouth all of the sudden.
He is eating more things, especially while we're eating out
He alerted me and told me he had " Poo poo" and pointed to his diaper
We are teaching him at every diaper change the difference between a 'wet' and 'dry' diaper to get him used to knowing what they feel like on him and naming them to help him when potty training time comes
He seems to def prefer to do things with his left hand
He has also stopped wanting me to read books to him, sing, or rock him at nap time. He just wants me to put him right in the crib. soooo sad. He still lets Kevin read to him and rock him before bed though. I have no idea why he naturally stops letting me do things. He has weaned himself from so many things all on his own. We've never had to actually wean him from anything. I think maybe my belly is getting in the way of him being comfortable while we read and rock. But not sure.
He is soooooo big and grown in so many ways. Man, they just change and change so much all the time. I know he is still very much a baby, but looking back over the last year and a half, it makes me so sad how much he has grown up. I'd be content to have him as my breastfeeding, needs to be rocked baby forever! :)
Things are great, and God is good! We're pluggin along and making progress on this new life event.
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