Thursday: baby name and warm days

Isaac wrote out some names with his letters today.  From top to bottom, they spell "Baby's name, mom's name, dad's name."

Today was also hot out!  (I think it hit 83 degrees and sunny.)  I know, not too bad, but it was too hot for me.  What happened to 73 degrees and sunny?  That would have been perfect.

Wednesday: worms

This morning Isaac and I had a lovely visit with Pat.  Isaac did a great job playing while we talked.  This afternoon we went outside and found some worms.  It started to lightly rain, so it was time to go inside.  Of course, Isaac didn't want to leave his worms.  (They weren't even very squirmy.)

So they came in with us.

I find it a bit weird that I'm ok with worms coming in the house but not rocks.  I decided that it is because I'm not worried about stepping on the worms in the middle of the night and hurting myself.

Tuesday: pregnancy brain

I wish I could say that I didn't have pregnancy brain, but it seems like I do.  Isaac isn't 30 months old as I stated two posts ago, he's only 28 months.  I incorrectly scheduled several things over the last week.  I feel as though I've been quite certain of several facts lately only to have them be blatantly wrong...but of course I can't remember them now.

However, I have reminded Isaac to go to the bathroom on a regular basis, so I guess that's something. : D  (He was close enough to an accident free day today that he got a sticker.  There was one accident, but it was while he was in the bathroom.  And there were several times where it would have been very annoying for him to have an accident and he didn't.  Hooray!)

Monday: gym

I went to the gym today! It's been a while...a long while. But 1) I felt terrible the last several months and 2) I just bought a bathing suit that I want to get my money's worth out of.

Sunday: 28 I months

Well, I finally took the standard pictures of Isaac near 28 months.



He's decided that he's been hot lately and so likes T-shirts and no pants.  (We did compromise on shorts yesterday and those were acceptable though.)  He has also figured out how to take his socks on and off, so we'll often see him walking around the house with inside out, upside down socks.

This morning after we finished praying he folded his hands again and said "Jesus!"  So we prayed again, thanking God for Jesus.  I wish that I was the one that had taught him that, but I don't think he got it from me.  I'm happy that he picked it up from somewhere though!

Then Ben asked, "Isaac, can I have a hug?"  Isaac responded, very clearly, "Yes...Mom hug Dad."  It cracked us up.  He's a rather funny kid.

He hasn't been sleeping quite as much lately, but he's usually very happy in his crib.  Nap times are often a bit shorter (and periodically don't happen), and it takes him a while to get to sleep.  But he just talks to himself and his animals and moves his blankets and pillows around.

Potty training still has a bit to go, but I have seen a lot of progress in the last two weeks.  Sometimes he has a dry nap and knows when he needs to go to the bathroom!  I think he is gaming the system since he gets a treat when he goes, but I'm ok with that for now.  I'd rather give him a few extra treats and get it solidly in his head that going to the toilet is a good thing.



He also is becoming more independent, which is often pretty nice.  Except for doors...if there is a double door he wants to go through one and have me go through the other, but he can't open his door by himself yet.  He also doesn't always want to hold my hand while we're walking.  He likes to watch me work in the kitchen (and really likes to help, but that isn't always practical).



He wanted to take some pictures too, so I had him take one of the baby.  He doesn't quite understand the "back up to take pictures" sometimes.

Saturday: "Come on, let's go!"

"Come on,"  Isaac says as he waves his hand towards me.

I don't move.

"Come on," Isaac repeats.

I still don't move.

"Come on, let's go!" Isaac nicely says, as he grabs my hand to bring me over to play.

I hear my own voice parroted back to me and (usually) move.  He's just so cute that it's hard to resist.

Thursday: cautiously optimistic

Potty training.

It's been a hard month.  That bout of diarrhea a few weeks ago really set Isaac back...so much so that I started wondering if we had started to try way to early and should just go back to diapers for a while.  But he would still go on the toilet if the timing was right.  Basically, I was (and may again) second guessing myself left and right.  The last week was better, but still only ok.

And then we had today.  It started with an accident during breakfast and I started second guessing myself again.  But the day got better...he actually told us that he needed to go several times before getting wet underwear.  He told us!  That hasn't happened before.  He's also getting better about being willing to go when we ask him to...it might be the stool and that he gets to turn the lights on, but I'll take any reason.  He can do everything himself until he's "all done".   Then I come into the bathroom and help him finish up.  He's often quite sure that I should stay out of the bathroom until he's at least seated on the toilet.

(He is also happy to give himself a treat.  Usually he asks for a treat at the appropriate time, but sometimes he "forgets" and treats himself for no reason.  I can't really blame him, but I can put the treats far enough away that only I can reach them.)

We'll see how tomorrow goes.  It's nice to have little victories once in a while at the very least.

Monday: black or brown?

Scene: it's time to go to the store

Amanda: Isaac, can you bring your shoes over here?
Isaac brings one of Amanda's black shoes over.  This isn't uncommon and actually quite nice.
Amanda: Thanks.  Can you bring the other shoe over?
Isaac dawdles.  He finds an almost empty water bottle near the shoes and puts it in Amanda's shoe.  He takes the cap off the water bottle.
Amanda: Don't get water in my shoe!
Isaac gets a few drips of water in Amanda's shoe.
Isaac goes in time out and is not happy about it.  At all.

Amanda puts her brown shoes on while explaining why she isn't going to wear the black shoes.  Isaac continues to be inconsolable because she is wearing the brown shoes.  Isaac goes and puts Amanda's black shoe on the humidifier, his go-to drier.  (He puts it sole down, so it doesn't really help anything.)  He brings it back, expecting her to wear the black shoes.  When she doesn't, the crying gets more insistent.  Isaac tries to take off Amanda's brown shoes so the black shoes can go on.  This all takes place over about ten minutes.

Amanda finally gets her coat on and then Isaac's coat and carries him out to the car, shoeless and heartbroken.  She goes back in to get Isaac's shoes and gets one on him.  He says he doesn't want the other one on and as she starts to back out he immediately changes his mind.

Amanda gets in the car, feeling rather satisfied that 1) she won the battle and 2) they're finally on their way.  She even finds the whole thing a bit funny, although it would have been nice to understand why Isaac wanted her to wear the black shoes.

Saturday: cutting

Today's main activity was cutting.  Something clicked with Isaac and Mr. Scissors and he was able to make some good cuts...and move the scissors along so that he actually made pieces, not just fringes along the outside.

This morning he made a mess in my area.

This afternoon he made a mess in Ben's area.

But considering that it kept him well occupied, we were happy to let him do it.

(Yes, it is a metal scissors but has a very blunt point and is not sharp.  It works a lot better than the "kid scissors" that we got him but I still don't think he'll hurt himself.)

Friday: an update

Hmm...I'm not really sure how the week got away from me without posting since Monday.

Tuesday I had some extra work to do at night.

Wednesday...I think I just skipped it.  The funniest thing that happened was I was putting Isaac in his car seat and he wanted to push the circles on the roof.  Needless to say, those two things don't work very well together.  So I told him to push his nose.  He said no.  But then he said, "Big push?"  "Sure" I responded.  So he extends his arm as far as it will go and then slaps his nose.  He didn't cry, so I think he managed to hold back a little bit.  And I was laughing hysterically, and that always helps the pain.

Thursday I gave a certification exam in the evening.  I don't have to do anything except be there, but it takes a while.  And I had a lot of grading to do.

And that brings us to today!  We joined Betsy and Ethan at the mall play place.  The two boys are starting to interact more now and it's pretty fun.  I rarely get to see him interact with other kids...either I'm not around or I am around so he wants to hang out with me more.

I'm 26 weeks pregnant today.  Less than 100 days to go!  Last week of the 2nd trimester!  ...everything I tell myself makes it still seem like a long time until the baby comes.

The boys had a great time in this boat.  They "rocked" it back and forth together.  Later Isaac made a circuit - go in the back, over the seat, sit in the bow, climb over the edge, get a hug from me.  Repeat.

P.S. I changed the background look of the blog because I discovered that if you have the page active for several minutes an audible ad would start.  I was not a fan.  At all.  The only thing I could think of was that the people that made the design put it in, so I changed the design.  I think it has stopped it, but we'll see.

P.S. update: it didn't work.  Does anyone else have this problem?  Have any ideas for fixing it?  It might be a virus but it seems weird that it only shows up in the blogger tab...never any other tabs.

Monday: bother

Today was going rather well...until I realized that I had listed an exam done for today in one place and Wednesday in another place. Of course, instead no one emailed me for clarification in time for me to do anything about it, but at least I had some warning.

After banging my head against the wall for my stupidity, I got down to solving this. Although I was expecting to give it today, if anyone wasn't ready I also wanted to give them the extra two days; it was my fault after all. The worst case scenario was if half the class was ready and half the class wasn't. I found room for that many people to take the exam if needed, but really hoped that wasn't the case.

Well, it turned out that only two people wanted to take the exam, so that was very doable. They went in the good room for test taking and I gave Wednesday's lecture to the rest of the class.

I feel rather silly about it, but my guess is the students barely cared. After all, they all get to take the exam when they're ready.

Sunday: Happy!

Happy Easter!

Today, around dinner time, Isaac came up to me and said, "Are you happy?"  I said, "Yes, I'm happy.  Are you happy?"  He said, "I'm haPPY!"  (Yeah, this is a word that really should have had a sound track to go with it.).  Then he said, "Is Dad happy?"  I told Isaac to go ask him.

"Dad, are you happy?"  "Yes, are you?"  "Yes, I'm haPPY!!"

It seems appropriate that he should figure out this word and be so excited about it on Easter, a very happy day!

Saturday: Isaac

Isaac had a rather cute morning, and we even got some pictures this time!

To start with, he found the keys that lock my desk drawers.  That kept him occupied for about two hours.

Isaac then decided to (literally) try and climb a wall.  In his words, "hard."  (This was rather hilarious.  Although he did have the good sense to try and climb a wall that was jutting out, so he was able to clamp his arms around it.)

Then we had a small Easter egg hunt.

He's figured out to say cheese for the camera, but closes his eyes when doing it.

Ben did his back exercises, and when Isaac noticed the roller was put away he was rather upset.  So Ben got it back out for him.  He has the right motions, he's just not big or coordinated enough to quite pull it off.

Friday: Good Friday

Good Friday.

It always seems like a weird day to me.  Either you do your normal things or you have the day off and you do relaxing things.  There are no family get togethers, no expectations of assorted activities.  Sometimes we go to church (we did today), but not always.

But yet it is one of the most important days of my faith.  Jesus died for me.  For me!  It was, as always, a day of remembrance, no matter what I end up doing.

Thursday: no watch me

Isaac has been saying "No touch me!" quite a bit lately.  This usually means that he doesn't want our help as he's trying to do something, like get off the bed.  Sometimes he'll say it while sitting on a lap, which usually makes us laugh.

Yesterday he came up with a new one.  "No watch me!"  He wanted Ben to watch me get him more food, as that is one of his favorite things lately.  When Ben refused, Isaac gave him a hilariously annoyed look.

Thursday: oh baby

This baby is a mover!  I feel like he's moving all the time...and while it might be very normal, I didn't feel Isaac this much.  (Isaac had an anterior placenta, which just means that I didn't feel him move as much.  I was kind of hoping for the same time.)  Last night the baby kept kicking Ben too.  I felt a little bad for him, but...not too much. :)

It is fun to watch my shirt ripple though.

Tuesday: keys

Last night Isaac was playing with one of my old purses. He's played with it a lot; I thought it was empty (except for the two cat toys in it). Anyway, he's shaking it trying to get something out and a key falls out!

Now, normally this would be really cool. However, last night it was super cool as he has been very into keys and locking and unlocking stuff the last few days. So finding a key was super cool! He spent a good part of today "locking" and "unlocking" doors; several times I had to wait to enter a room so that Isaac could unlock it for me first. He also learned how easy it can be to lose your keys as he spent quite a bit of time looking for a lost key. (I'm not sure where it is right now either...nor do I have an approximate idea of where it might be. We might be in trouble.)

I also keep meaning to post a monthly update for Isaac but just don't feel well enough or am too busy around the end of the month. Briefly, he also really likes zip up sweatshirts, watching me work in the kitchen, doing exercises with Dad, his stuffed animals: Frog, E-E, and Mama's E-E. (Yes, it's name seems to be Mama's E-E. When I'm around, I get to hug that monkey.) He likes to share with Ben and me. Potty training is a little rough lately, possibly due to the diarrhea last week. He's been waking up earlier lately, which is mostly just annoying...it's not so early that I can tell him to go back to sleep, but earlier than I want to get up. He often wants to know right away where Ben is. He likes going out, but is immediately curious when we're going to be going back home. He finally has 1,2,3 down pat (along with 7,8,9,10), but 4,5, and 6 are still a bit troublesome. It doesn't bother him though since you only need 1,2,3 to start a race. And he's still a very happy kid (unless I'm making him put on his own pants. He doesn't like that at all!)

Monday: baby

I had a baby appointment today.  The heartbeat was 145 and I'm measuring at 25.5 weeks.  A little large but not a big deal.  (I'll admit, I just hope it means that the baby will come early.  It probably means that I've carried a child before.)

Saturday night: dream

I had a dream that Isaac sued Ben and me for emotional ..uh, I forgot the word...problems due to taking away his pacifier.  A field agent swept in at day care and the workers couldn't protest because she was too high up.  She asked the kids if they wanted to sue and helped them write their name down.

Needless to say, I was rather upset.  And annoyed, as I would then have to go through the process of getting Isaac's name removed from the thing.  What kind of justice system would let a two year old sue his parents??

Friday: today

Although I missed a lot of sleep last night (Isaac woke up early with diarrhea again) I felt as though I was doing ok and being productive.  Then Isaac wanted to watch TV ("Watch Why?"...thanks Dusty...) and I usually try and interact with him while watching it.  But I feel asleep half way through it and through all of George.

After nap we took a walk and played outside a bit because the weather was lovely!  It also kept Isaac from messing up his room...while I feel that I was productive today the only way that you can currently tell is by looking at Isaac's clean room.

And now I'm exhausted again and seriously considering going to sleep.  But since it will take so much effort to get ready for bed I'll probably put it off.

Thursday: dear Isaac

Dear Isaac,

You were a wonderful kid today, entertaining yourself with random things or things I wanted to do too.  You also figured out how to get on the toilet by yourself today, so that's a huge step.  (Next time don't brag about how many treats you've given yourself for doing so though.  Tomorrow they will be rationed.)

However, I'd like to remind you that you need to chew and swallow your food so that you don't throw up as it sets off a chain reaction in this household right now.  Dad managed to stop the chain, but just barely.

Love,
Your still slightly sick Mom

Tuesday: our day

Ahhh...today.  Good moments and not so good moments.

Isaac slept in, so that was rather nice since it took me a long while to get back to sleep last night.  He proceeded to empty the contents of his intestines into the toilet.  (He actually did a really good job today getting yucky stuff into to toilet...although by midmorning I'm not sure there was much left.)  I called the nurse and she gave us some advice, but it would mean a trip to the store.

At 9:30 we were about ready to go to the store and even had three of our four shoes on.  Then Isaac decided that his forth shoes should be put away.  I thought about life, and decided it would be much better if I lay down and rested...even if Isaac did only have one shoe on.  So it took us several additional minutes to get out the door, but we finally did.  We got all the recommended food and more diapers.

We got home and I was still exhausted.  Isaac watched some TV while I dozed.  Then lunch time!  Isaac still wasn't all that hungry and was happy to be done and take a nap.  He fell asleep almost right away and slept for 3.5 hours when I finally woke him up.

We played for a bit, the pile of "Dad's stuff" growing larger and larger by the door to the garage.  Dad got a giraffe, a piece of plain donut, several books, a sheep, and two blocks.  Isaac is big into sharing and taking turns with us lately, although I doubt that he feels the same way about kids his age.  At one point I said, "I need to get some medicine" and Isaac looked up at me and then ran off to get it for me without being asked.  What a nice kid.  He was also into locking and unlocking things, especially the flaps in one of his books.  The imaginary keys were in a different room though, so every time we wanted to open another flap it would take a few minutes.  I was ok with this plan though and enjoyed the rest.

Isaac did finally eat pretty well for dinner...the Crispex and yogurt hit the spot.  The end of the day involved a quick shower.  Isaac's intestines still don't seem to be working quite right so I didn't want to risk a bath, but he stank.  Throughout the day he was his normal happy self, so that was wonderful at least.

Monday: another first

We just had our first mid-night sheet changing experience. Isaac is having intestinal issues. But now I'm wide awake and can't get back to sleep.

Sunday: dinner

Usually we don't have a lot of trouble getting Isaac to eat, even if he does eat slowly.  Not so tonight. (We were watching Top Gear, but we usually eat with dinner.)

I told him what was on his plate and said, "Does that sound good?"  "No" was the respond.  "Too bad," I said.

I looked over at him a few minutes later to see that he had pulled out a chunk of hair and was licking it.  Yuck.  "Why don't you eat some food?"  Isaac eats one curd of cottage cheese.

A few minutes later..."Can you eat some food?"  Isaac eats one curd of cottage cheese.

A bit later...I see him lick a piece of pizza.

Ben says, "Can you take a big bite?"  Isaac eats about four curds of cottage cheese.

Isaac picks a microscopic something off his pizza and shows it to me.  "What's this?"
"Nothing."
"What's this?"
"Nothing."
"What's this?"
"Sausage.  Can you eat it?"

Isaac starts to bang his elbows on the tray.  "Ouch!  Belbow!  Kiss!"  After three kisses I tell him no more kisses.  Of course, he keeps banging.  I hide behind a pillow and blanket and pretend to sleep, letting Ben deal with it.

Ben gets him to eat his half banana by stopping the show every minute until he puts a banana piece in his mouth.

Sigh.  I don't mind if Isaac doesn't eat all his food, but it's nice when he eats some..especially when he didn't have a big lunch either.  He did however have plenty of energy after dinner, as he ran laps around the house for several minutes.  (Every time he passed his robot he would pause, pick him up, show him to Ben, put him down, and keep running.)

Friday: laughing

Tonight after Isaac's bath Isaac declared "Silly dada"  right out of the blue.  Since Ben was still upstairs, I brought Isaac over to see if we could figure out why Ben was silly.

Ben: Is Mom silly?
Isaac: No
B: Is Isaac silly?
I: No
B: Is Dad silly?
I: Yeah! (Laughter)
Amanda: Who's the silliest?
I: Mama's hair

Ben and I crack up at this, which causes Isaac to do a sort of fake laugh.  So Ben and I laugh harder which causes Isaac to do more fake laughing.  We haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Thursday: moving

This pregnancy is marked by a resistance to movement. Over and over again I don't feel well but get up for some reason ( tonight it was to turn off the lights) only to find myself throwing up 30 seconds later.

I had figured this out a while ago, but have been feeling well enough that I thought I could chance it...and I would have felt really dumb texting Ben to come upstairs and turn off the lights in the bedroom.

But...I should have asked him to turn off the lights.

Wednesday: tantrum

For the most part, Isaac is a pretty laid back kid and easily distracted when he thinks something went wrong.  Today we probably had our longest tantrum to date and he would not be distracted.  It all started when we went to get the mail...

Isaac got distracted by the walk to the front door, so I went to get the mail myself.  He came down thirty seconds later and wanted to get the mail.  So we put it back in the mailbox and took it out again.  (It was a rather uncomfortable position to hold him in.)  But then he wanted to put it back in.  I said no, and so for the next fifteen minutes all I heard was "IN PLEASE".  At one point I thought he was going to give into the classic tantrum on the ground, but then he remembered what he was crying about and stuck the mail in the door, trying to get it as close to the mailbox as possible.

He finally stopped when he randomly decided to brush his teeth.

Monday: hearts

Isaac has been partially potty trained for several months.  In that he'll go if we put him on a toilet and he knows if he has had an accident, but we couldn't get over the hurdle of having him tell us he needed to use the bathroom prior to having an accident.

I'm hoping that finally changed this weekend.  (I know, I might be jinxing myself by typing this up.  After all, it's only been three days of no accidents.)  I started giving him the Valentine's Candy hearts as a treat for sitting on the toilet.  He loves them!  He's even managed to tell us a few times that he needs to go to the bathroom by using his new key word: heart.

Image source - Necco hearts from Wikipedia

So if you're near him and he suddenly starts yelling "Heart!" it doesn't mean that he loves you.

P.S.  I was especially excited today when Isaac's daycare gave us more hearts!  I only had a small box that was going to run out today, but now I have enough for a week...I just need to order them off amazon, since I doubt any place still has them.

Sunday: rhyming

Shower, flower, and star...Isaac manages to rhyme all of those words together.

Saturday: drying and waves

Isaac has found a new game.  He pretends something is wet and then runs it to the humidifier in his room (which as a fan) to dry it off.  This game is especially fun if Ben or I are in the shower...then his thing (often a duplo) can get sprinkled with water and he has to run across the whole house to get it dried off too.  I'm going to admit...this is one of my favorite games too. :D

I also saw the baby moving via some stomach ripples today.  Isaac had an anterior placenta so I didn't feel or see him move as much.  This baby has a posterior placenta, so I feel him a lot more.  Seeing the baby move today was rather weird, but also cool.  I poked him back to say hi.

Wednesday: lines

I drew some free-handed straight lines very well on a computer.  It was actually quite amazing and my class cheered for me.

Tuesday: your name

Ben and I were playing a game with Isaac...

Card: say your name
Isaac: dada, mama, my name

Sunday: nap

After being so tired after church, Isaac decided he didn't really need a nap.  He feel asleep during dinner, an hour and a half before his normal bed time.  We put him to bed, hoping that he won't wake back up.

Little vampire

Isaac has not been enjoying the bright sun that we've been having lately, and car rides tended to look like this:



(Since he has better motor skills now, he is in charge of putting the blanket up and down.)

So I got him some sunglasses, and now he looks like this:



We tried them out on one ride and they worked quite well. And they stayed on the whole time!

Friday: dinner

Tonight was the first time in a long time that we've gone out for dinner as a family (just the three of us).  It was nice...and delicious.

(Although don't get me wrong, we've had a lot of carry-out lately.  Hopefully we can reduce that a bit soon though!)

Thursday: groceries

I've noticed that when I'm pregnant I tend to buy things that I would otherwise pass over.  They are things that I still would eat (and enjoy) as a non-pregnant person, but I just don't buy them.  Here are a few of them:

Juice
Raisin Bran
Yogurt covered raisins
Carrot cake
Egg salad
More juice
Sour candy

Wednesday: continued

Today was an extremely nice day.  Following the ultrasound I had the day to myself, with the exception of a short appointment in the afternoon.  It was raining and I didn't have any significant plans.  Ahhh.

I waited for Ben to get home to tell Isaac that he was going to have a brother so that we could both laugh at how underwhelmed Isaac would be.  And that's just how it was.  Isaac has trying to get Ben to chase a paper fish that [Isaac] was holding and didn't care about the baby at all.  (Yeah, we did a lot of chase this afternoon...I was chased by the paper fish, I chased the giraffe, Isaac chased the giraffe, frog chased the giraffe, giraffe chased frog, giraffe chased sticker.)  We told him again a bit later but it just seemed to go over his head.

Wednesday:ultrasound

This morning was our 20 week ultrasound.  The baby was moving the whole time!  Measuring in at 21 weeks it's a little earlier than my official due date but spot on for what I think my due date should be.

The profile (head and chest)

Straight on (face and upraised arms)

Feet

And we found out it's a boy!  I'm rather excited about that, but Isaac will be (somewhat) distraught.

Tuesday: calculording

It's a math app. Ben tells Isaac what numbers he thinks they should add/subtract/multiply and Isaac agrees (every time). I have a cute video too, but have forgotten my YouTube password and am in bed so you just get a picture.

Monday: spring break

Today I didn't have classes because of break.  I still brought Isaac to daycare; I felt a little weird doing it but not too much.  I spent some of the day doing chores that don't work very well when Isaac is around and just enjoyed being alone.

Saturday: cutting

Isaac helped me get ready for Bible Study on Sunday by cutting the strawberries into small pieces.  It's part of my initiative to have him learn how to use a knife so I have one less thing to worry about.

Ben managed to capture the 13 seconds where it looks like Isaac really knows what he's doing.  Most of the time I was reminding him about how to actually cut.

Sunday: an unexpected parenting task

This evening I itched my child's butt for him.  He was able to articulate the problem, but did not have the dexterity needed to actually do it.
I laughed the whole time, even though it was serious business.
Update: apparently I failed and had to try several more times. I finally put some diaper rash cream on it and put him to bed with an itchy butt.

Friday: halfway

Today not only marks the half circle day (Pi day), but it also marks the halfway point of this pregnancy.

It seems a little like cheating since the first four weeks I didn't know.

But I hope that the baby is laughing and saying that I missed the halfway point by several days.

Thursday: moves

Isaac felt the baby move today. He probably expected it to be like every other time I've tried to have him feel the baby moving, but this time the baby cooperated. His eyes got very big.

Wednesday: not TMI

I told one of my classes that I was pregnant, and so today when I walked in a few students were like "Oh, I can see the baby!"

I was proud of myself - instead of saying, "yeah, but being pregnant is rather miserable.  I threw up twice yesterday and can't get comfortable sleeping" I searched something good to say.  "Yeah, it's fun to see.  And my husband can feel the baby moving now."

No need to traumatize them, even though I'm not really a fan of being pregnant.

Tuesday: soup

This afternoon Isaac and I were playing soup.  (I.e., we both had cups and we both had spoons and we were eating soup.  Fun for the first fifteen minutes.)

At one point I took a bite of his soup without asking.  His eyes got very wide, he backed up a few steps and said, "No.  My soup.  Mama's soup (pointing to my cup)."  So today was the first day that I was chastised by a toddler for eating the wrong imaginary soup.

He did share later.

Sunday: movie night

Saturday: the rest of the day

I'm sad to report that the rest of the day didn't get much better, but we all survived. We put Isaac down for his nap and he proceeded to have huge laughs for the next 45 minutes...all he had was a book, a frog, and a monkey, so we're not really sure what was so funny. Ben eventually took the book away from him and that brought a lot of "my book!" and tears...but he did eventually get to sleep.

Jamie and Jim watched him for about an hour before dinner and that was so nice too...the day was just not working for Ben and me.

Saturday morning: birds

This morning I wish I was a bird. They get their offspring out of their body relatively quickly and then anyone can help keep the eggs warm.

Instead of having nasty throw up sessions while hoping your two year doesn't freak out on the toilet.

I'll admit, I thought this morning was going to be fine be it has quickly gone downhill. Baby says hi though.

Friday: curry

Isaac and I finally made another batch of curry today. I got smart and decided to make it in the morning so I could just reheat it for dinner as dinner time comes around and I haven't been feeling great.

Isaac was a good helper. I gave him a (butter) knife (for the first time) and he attempted to cut onion. He wasn't very good, but it kept him occupied. Most of his tasks were of that nature. :D




He also put the cut veggies in small containers so he could dump them in the pot and removed the bullion wrappers.

It's a lot more fun cooking with help!