Friday: B verse

Amanda: Be
Isaac: Be
A: Kind
I: Kind
A: To
I: To
A: One
I: Three
Ben: hahaha
A: Another
I: Another

It's been a little surprising...he's been able to remember better than I expected and sometimes will say the words with me instead of just after me.

Wednesday: blarg

Today I was feeling stretched. Very stretched. As in, "it hurts to walk." I had this one morning a few weeks ago, but it left after an hour. Today it stayed around. I actually called the doctor. (Side note: I feel like a first time mom I've called the doctor so much this pregnancy.). She said it was normal, but might take a few days to go away. I could take tylenol and walk around with my hand supporting my belly. (Walking like that makes me feel obviously pregnant.)

But it just tops off a week were I haven't been feeling very good anyway. I thought I was supposed to be better by now.

Tuesday: sister

Isaac is convinced that he is going to have a sister. (Although Ben and I aren't convinced that he really knows what that word means.)

Yesterday he drew (and erased) a picture of his sister on his easel. This morning he told me that he wanted to pull his sister's hair. As we were looking through a book of baby animals he thought they were sisters.

The work sister has been coming out unprompted more and more. Good thing we're going to find out the gender soon so that if it's a brother we can help him get used to the idea.

Monday: afternoon

This afternoon was rather rough of Isaac, and I'm not really sure why. The tears came so quickly over the smallest things. But it gives me more chances to hug him. :D

The funniest was when he through a red 2x2 Duplo toward me. Duplo throwing is prohibited, so I took it away. He got so upset.the only thing I could think of was that he had about 20 more unused red 2x2 duplos still sitting in the box and he should go get one of those. Of course, I didn't say anything because that would ruin the teaching moment he was so kind to give me.

Speaking of teaching, I've found that some things are really, really hard to teach children...or at least Isaac. What items are ok to throw? When you're putting a puzzle together, what clues do you look for? When is it ok to hit people (like in football)? There are so many things to teach that I don't have good explanations for.

Sunday: 17 weeks

Not a great picture, but the bump seems to be growing rather quickly. My normal shirts are starting to have a hard time covering it, which is super annoying.

Saturday: scary and not scary

Isaac has been discovering the emotion "scared" and it's rather interesting to watch. If he sees something scary on TV he puts his hand over his mouth. (And what he finds scary often surprises me...I try to anticipate it but yesterday gave up while watching Lilo and Stitch because too much was scary.). Then this morning I told him not to push the carbon monoxide alarm because it would be scary and he immediately sat in my lap and wouldn't leave until we went up stairs.

This evening Ben and I went to see the Lego movie. It was great. I don't think I've laughed that much at a movie...ever. There were a lot of kids in the audience and it was interesting to see what they laughed at versus what we laughed at (many things were the same).

Friday: laundry

Today Isaac and I put away some laundry. He really enjoys putting away laundry. We finished two baskets and I asked him to put an empty basket back in the laundry room. I went over a minute later and discovered he was trying to get the third basket of laundry out. I was done with laundry, so I told him to leave it there and figured we'd go do something fun.

It led to tears. Lots of tears. So I changed my mind...if he really wanted to do laundry, maybe we should. Of course, I had nothing that he could put away so I gave him the job of sock matching. It took him a while to figure out what was going on, but by the end he was getting the hang of it.

I guess he has yet another chore he can help out with now!

Thursday: pants

I'm sure you've all been anxiously awaiting the conclusion to the story i started this morning...who would go through more pants today?

I went through more pants, with a total of two. The second pair had to be changed because of slush and they were just way too wet to wear. Isaac only went through one pair of pants due to puddles...we worked on the end of the driveway a bit and the puddles were just too much fun to stay out of. And once you go in one you might as well go in a lot.

So somewhat surprisingly Isaac didn't have any accidents today. That's not a foregone conclusion these days, even though he's been getting better on the toilet. It probably happens only 33% of the time with 33% of accidents happening near bedtime when he's tired and the other third at random times. He's told me about twice before he needs to go to the bathroom...he could still work on that but it at least shows that he's getting the idea!

In other news, because I'm sure you don't really care that much about Isaac and the bathroom, he went to bed early tonight. About ten minutes before bath time I told him it was almost time and he was ready to go! Then he took a really short bath, even when I told him he'd have to go to bed if he got out. And after reading our two books I asked him if he wanted to get in the crib. Usually he says no and we cuddle for a few more minutes, but today he said yes. I didn't think we did anything to wear him out so much today, but I guess he was tired!

Thursday: bathroom

Isaac seems to finally gotten over his bathroom relapse and is doing much better lately. (I will note, he started to get better around the time I started to feel better, so I'm wondering if I'm better at putting him on the toilet regularly and that was the main problem. But I digress.)

So far today Isaac has had zero accidents. I have had one...the sneeze just came out of no where! I feel as though I should get an m&m for the rest of the day when I do get to the toilet.

We'll see how the rest of the day works out. :D

Wednesday: legs

My weirdest pregnancy symptom is feeling as though my legs are too short. The same thing happened with Isaac.

Ben said his legs feel too heavy tonight. Now I know where my lost leg length is going.

Wednesday: emotions

Oh, sad emotions got the better of me today. I got home from work, got frustrated with the USPS, Isaac had a bathroom accident, I had a headache, and the plow had come through. (Seriously, what was the plow thinking.)

I can probably blame these emotions on being pregnant, although I expect I would have felt the same way no matter what. But what good is being pregnant if you can't use it as a regular excuse for your behavior?

Tuesday: annoying

Today was rather annoying, but I feel as though I just need to get over it.

Monday - A

Driving back and forth to where ever we're going Isaac does a lot of imitating what we say...the alphabet, do-be-do-be-do, numbers, etc.  I realized that this could also be a good time to start learning Bible verses.  Sure, he can't even do the alphabet yet, but it is a good time to start the habit.

So may we present A.

Friday: puzzles

Today we were trying to clean up the house as guests are coming tonight. The problem was that for every two things I put away, Isaac took one out. At one point he wanted to take out a puzzle (that I had just put away) and I said it was ok as long as he put them away. He agreed.

Fast forward several hours and three puzzles later. He still hasn't put his puzzles away, and we're getting down to the line. So instead of putting the pieces away, he starts to put himself in timeout. Which works at first, but quickly becomes a game.

I threatened to put him to bed early. I would have down it, but he finally made progress. Phew.

Wednesday: OB appt

The baby is still alive! The heart rate was 154. It's a little sad that I don't have anything else to report, but that is part of the problem with growing something inside of you.

Well, I could report that we have an ultrasound on March 19. But even that isn't really news.

Tuesday: outfit

Isaac picked out his outfit today.



Light Pajama pants with moose, a small onesie with monkeys, and pirate socks. Not what I would have picked out since it was cold out and he doesn't wear onesies anymore, but since he brought all the right pieces to me he got to wear it.

Sunday: mountain climber

Isaac's main chore of the day was to bring all the water bottles up from the basement. He's recently been given freedom to do stairs by himself...I haven't been worried about him near stairs for a while, but lately have let him do them without any supervision.

Isaac could bring up about one bottle at a time. We had about 20 bottles downstairs...yeah, they kind of collect down there. But he did an awesome job and was always so excited to go get one more. :) and I think we tired him out pretty well.

P.S. we still have the gate up more as crowd control than anything else. He chased Flurry downstairs on Friday and she really needs a safe place.

Saturday: a first

I snow blowed the driveway for the first time today! I started the snowblower (which hasn't gone well in the past) and removed all of about 3/4" from the driveway. Yeah, that wasn't really worth using the snowblower, but it was nice to get some practice in while Ben was around in case something went wrong.

Friday: cute Isaac

I found Isaac to be incredibly cute today. He tried stacking balls. He put his ball and giraffe in time out after they played with the lint catcher. He chased a ball around a fabric shop. He was concerned about the escaped cricket at the zoo.

And he took an excellent nap.

In other news, I finally broke out the maternity clothes. I probably should have done so last week, since only one pair of pants (tightly) fit this past week. It's happy and sad all at the same time.

Wednesday: sick

Our household is sick.

Ben has a bad cold.

I still have a little pregnancy sickness.

Isaac has a cold/fever.

In fact, daycare called me today and told me that Isaac had a fever.  It was fifteen minutes before I was supposed to teach, so not really the best timing.  Luckily, Dad wasn't too busy and could take off to pick Isaac up and deliver him to Ben.  (Hooray for grandparents!  Although I had a few backup plans in mind in case Dad was busy.)  Really, I feel as though we're pretty lucky that this is the first time day care has had to call.  Isaac has had a cold or two but really has stayed quite healthy.

Monday: zoo and a benefit to throwing up

Today I realized, as I was going to pick Isaac up, that I had left my phone in the classroom at Hope.  I decided that it wasn't too much out of my way.  I was also receiving more texts than normal today, so I actually wanted it.  We got out of the car and what's the first thing Isaac says?  "Zoo!"  Oh bother.  Yeah, this is the building with the zoo in it.  I was rather surprised he remembered the building.  I got my phone and decided we could take a quick trip to the zoo if it was open.  It was.  (I was rather hungry at this point.)  We didn't stay long, but the turtle was moving a lot.  Also, for the rest of the day Isaac said, "Shh!  Bird.  Zoo."  because there is a sign saying the bird doesn't like loud noises.  Not that Isaac even looked at the bird today...

Then right as I put Isaac down for the night he had a little throw up.  This is the first real throw up that he's had, and it was rather surprising.  Ben got him a cup and thanks to watching me throw up in a cup he knew what the cup was for.  He didn't really need it anymore, but at least we would have been clean(ish).

Sunday: super bowl

We hosted a super bowl party tonight.  I was a little nervous when I said that we would host, but figured that worst case the house wouldn't be super clean and Ben could do most {or all} of the cleaning.  However, I was feeling pretty good, and so was able to help without any problems.  And now we have a clean house!!  Even after the party it is much cleaner than it's been in weeks.

The party was fun, even though the game was boring.  I didn't pay much attention to it.

Another baby?

At lunch Isaac started pulling up his shirt. This isn't something he normally does, so Ben and I were rather puzzled. Then he pointed to his (rotund) belly and said, "baby!"

We asked him if he had a baby in his belly. After answering in the affirmative, he wanted to open his belly to get the baby out.

He makes me giggle.

Open

Isaac: what's that?
Amanda: a baby. It's inside Mom.
Isaac: Open!
Amanda: I hope not.