Kaylee and Baby boy update

Kaylee:

Every bit 2 Years Old!!!
She is great, funny, and the life of the party when we are with friends.
Can quote Finding Nemo at any moment and while watching the movie will tell you exactly what is going to happen. She is the girl you never want to take to a movie because she will ruin the ending:)
Learned to peddle her three wheeler today and can hit a baseball off of a tee.
Wears 3T clothes because she is in the 97% for height
Has stopped taking naps - I am not thrilled with this one. She will lay down on her bed but will never sleep. I think in the past week, she has taken one nap and that was in the car on the way home from Springfield. She is not too bad in the evenings, but still would love to see her take a nap.
Loves the outdoors and loves her family and I can't believe how grown up she is getting.



Baby Boy:

Growing right on schedule and as healthy as can be.
Every bit active in my belly right now, I think he is swimming laps in there as his daddy was a swimmer.
On saturday, I will be 28 weeks. Which means I am in my third trimester!! Which also means, complications can start at anytime. I started around 32-33 weeks with Kaylee so maybe will hold out a little while longer. I am actually ok with developing the cholestasis, only for the fact that I will deliver around Dec. 6th instead of waiting until Christmas. According to my doctor, I will not make it to Christmas and will develop the complication. As long as baby boy stays ok, I am good delivering early. I am not a good pregnant person:)
Almost has a name. Please, someone, convince Brian to make a decision:)
We know his middle name will be named after my dad. I remember as a kid, I used to get up early on saturdays and in the summers. I would meet my dad in the garage (it always seemed to need a good cleaning) and we would hang out. He would even wait for me to get up
(which was by 7a.m, I know geek) before he would run errands. I remember spending most of the morning with him. It means a lot that our son will be named after him.
Can't wait to meet this little man and see his daddy with him.

Just wanted to give a quick update on how the little ones are doing!!

Reconsider

You may want to reconsider me watching your son after you see this photo:

(Notice the bow on the top of his head, necklaces, and bracelets).

He actually had on a lot more but by the time I could find the camera this is what I found.
It is raining, they are cooped up inside, and I threw all of these clothes at them to see what they would come up with. They told me they were dancing, and kissing. I told them to stick to dancing:) They had parades, dances, and much more. It was pure joy for about an hour.

Potty Training - take 2

I know that I previously posted on potty training and said that things were going great and I was so proud of her. It was and I was definitely proud of her. Then she decided she didn't want to tell us she had to go anymore. She decided she didn't want to use the potty anymore. She could care less if she went in her underwear anymore.

So now where are we? Square one:( We have to start all over again I guess. Find a new strategy and devote as much time as needed on it. Maybe I quit too early with the rewards last time and so she lost interest too early. I am heading to my sisters house for part of the week and so decided we will take #2 starting next week. Need to prepare and find some other incentives besides just stickers. I think I may try skittles since she does like those and I will not get into them as much as I figure I would if we used M & Ms:) They are a weakness for me and would not last for an incentive too long!!

She knows when she is going and so I think we are good to try again. We will see if this time it works, and if mom can stick with it for as long as needed.

Our Weekend

My sister texted me after my last post and told me that I was too vague:) Well, sorry, but that is all you get. I can tell you that it has nothing to do with the pregnancy - all is well there.

Here is a recap of our crazy weekend.

Friday night: Picked Brian up from work at 5p.m and grabbed some food. Then we parked at Forest Park for the Balloon glow. We decided to try it without the stroller. Kaylee did great and it was sooo much fun. She rode on Brian's shoulders most of the way to the balloons and walked the rest. We hit some of the boothes for freebies and then saw the balloons light up. We did not take pictures because we were having so much fun as a family we forgot, plus it is dark and hard to get any good ones. We did put glow sticks on Kaylee so it was easier to keep track of her. We left around 8:30p.m thinking she would clunk out in the car, wrong. She was so excited from all the activities that she was wide awake the whole way home and even had a hard time falling asleep when we got her home. She did sleep in alittle on satuday though.

Saturday:

We decided to head to the botanical garden for about an hour. Here is an awesome picture Brian got of Kaylee.

After the Botanical Garden, we headed back to Forest Park for the balloon race. We thought this was a good idea, it turned out to not be the best idea. We thought there were activities all day, but we were wrong. If we do it again next year, we will show up at 3p.m for the skydivers, freebies, and then the launch of the balloons. That is all you need. Brian did manage to take aver 300 pictures so I am not going through all of them. Here is a snapshot of one with some of the balloons taking off.

We ended up being down there until 5:30 and then had to get out with all the traffic. We thought we parked near an exit but it was still 45 minutes before getting out of the park. We were all exhausted. I made a peanut butter sandwhich for Kaylee and sent her to bed since she had no nap. It was still after 7p.m. before she got to bed. She did sleep in until after 7a.m. though.

Sunday:

We headed to Church and then home for pizza and naps. Thinking Kaylee had been exhausted from the business of the past two days and she would clunk out fast, wrong. She again did not take a nap but laid in her room for 1 hour and a half and was as giddy as possible when we let her get up.

We then had to clean up the house and get supper prepared for 6 other people. We were partaking in "dinner for 9" through our Church. We had a blast and even Kaylee had another little girl to play with. Again though, she did not get to bed until 9p.m. and was up at 6:30 this morning, now she is napping though:)

All in all, it was a great weekend and here is a snapshot to show you just how much fun we had:)

We are exhausted now and I am going to take a rest also.

Apple Picking

I am a little behind on my blogging lately and hope to catch up in the next day or too. Sorry, we have been busy around here with things that I hope to be able to share with you on the sooner side but can't right now.

Last sunday, we took Kaylee apple picking with some friends. We packed a picnic lunch, but Kaylee was so excited to go get apples, she could barely eat her lunch:)

Isn't this girl just yummy!!!

I promise to catch you up on a few other things we have been up to. It was a very busy weekend here this weekend and my brain is fried right now. I will post tomorrow if I get a chance.

Labor Day Weekend

Brian and I were trying to figure out what we wanted to do over Labor Day weekend. It seems that every 3 day weekend we get, we travel. We decided to stay in town this weekend and that turned out to be a great decision.

On saturday, we decided to load up the kayaks and go for a boat ride in Fenton. We have never been to this lake before so exploring was a must. While we were exploring, we almost got attacked by a beaver (I kid you not!!) The only thing I saw was a huge, black animal jump out of the water and back in right next to Kaylee and I. I could not breathe for a few minutes.

Kaylee loves the water and she loved seeing some bigger boats on the water too. It was beautiful weather and we could not have had a better time.

Saturday night, we had 11 people over to our house for some firepit action. It was awesome!!! We cooked pizza in the pie irons, had smores, and what some people have called Brian's dessert "roadkill." Even though they have named it that, they all loved it. It was an awesome night catching up with friends and just sitting around the fire.

Sunday was Church. Kaylee's last sunday in the little nursery:( She is moving up to be an elephant!!! I am excited to see what she learns in this new classroom.

Sunday afternoon we decided to head over to Creve Couer lake and go for a hike. We went on a different trail and ust kept walking. Before we knew it, we were walking for 2 hours and walked 3 miles. Now, I know that is not a great pace, but Kaylee walked about half of it so not bad considering.

Monday, Labor Day, we decided to tackle the crowds and hit the zoo. Again, weather was perfect and the crowds were not bad at all.

Daddy showing Kaylee where we are on the map. She loved carrying it around and seeing where we had gone and telling us where to go:)

This is the first picture I have ever taken with Kaylee by the snake. She is such a toddler now and so tall!!!

All in all, it was a great weekend. The only thing I would have changed is Kaylee would have taken a nap each day. She has decided that she does not need to take a nap so she just lays in bed and either reads or colors for an hour. She is not too bad in the evening but I am hoping this is just a phase and not the end to afternoon naps because I still need one!!

Happy Labor Day everyone!!!