Night night, Sleep tight

3.26.10- 2.5 years old

This is how we found Andrew when we went upstairs to go to bed at 11:30 last night. Sound asleep at the top of the stairs with the light on. He had a rough time going to sleep last night and kept crying and coming out of his room. We tucked him back into bed several times, but I guess he decided that the upstairs hallway was just more comfortable than his bed!

Too Cute!

I just had to write about the funny things Andrew said today....he is just too cute! Tonight after dinner Andrew wanted to call Pama & Papa, so we let him call and he was excited to talk to them on the phone. My mom invited us over for brownies and asked Andrew if he wanted to come over for brownies and he said "no thank you." She then asked him again and he said, "no, I'm good." Too funny! (We stayed at home and played and I made cookies instead) Later tonight when we were putting him to bed, he wasn't quite ready to get in bed so I told him that I would rock him for a minute. Nate wanted to take the trash out of his room, so he prayed with him (something we do as a family before Andrew goes to bed every night) and he left the room. Andrew and I sat in his rocking chair and sang a few songs. On a side note, this is something I will miss as the rocking chair will soon be moved to Ava's room. Anyways, I told him it was time for bed. I tucked him in and he said "no mommy, play." I told him that we couldn't play right now but we would in the morning. He kept insisting that we "play" and I kept saying it was bed time until I finally realized what he was saying, "pray." He wanted me to pray for him even though Daddy had already prayed for him....so sweet! I also have to add that he LOVED dinner tonight which isn't always the case and he even ate his asparagus. He kept asking for more of it! Hopefully this continues. Such a fun day with my little guy. I ♥ him.

32 weeks and counting.....

I am 32 weeks and starting to feel it. Up until now I've been doing pretty good, but this last week has been rough. I feel huge, my back constantly hurts, I'm exhausted, and I have no desire to cook or clean. Just the simple day to day tasks seem hard. Only 8 weeks to go if not less. The doctor said that there is a possibility of inducing early, which I would love. My official due date according to my doctor is May 20th, my ultrasound said May 19th, and I'm hoping for May 14th or 16th (yes, I like even numbers). So he is going to start checking me at 37 weeks and I just pray that all looks good and my cervix is favorable so we can have her a bit early.

3.25.10-32 weeks pregnant with Ava

Story Time

Today we went to the Library for story time. We don't do this often, but Andrew seems to enjoy it so we are trying to go more frequently now. They read 2 stories and sing lots of songs and dance around. He loves the interaction with all of the other kids. Today they read a story about a little boy named David who did naughty things all day. At the end of the book, David is standing with a sad expression on his face in time out. The teacher said that David was naughty and Andrew says to everyone "I naughty too!" Everyone kind of gave a little laugh. It was so funny!!!

Overnighter

On Saturday night Andrew had a sleepover at Grandpa & Grandma Bailey's and Nate and I had a fun date day/night! It was such a fun weekend. We spent Saturday morning as a family playing outside and then when Andrew went down for a nap, Grandma came over and Nate and I headed off to a wedding. We left right after the wedding was over, ran to the mall to do some shopping for Andrew & Ava, then headed over to Bridgeport to walk around in the sun and do some more shopping :) We had a nice long dinner and then went and saw The Bounty Hunter. It was so nice to spend several hours just the 2 of us! After Andrew woke up from his nap Grandma took him back to her house and she had a little surprise for him.....they bought him a tractor! He LOVED it and rode it all around the neighborhood. I was told that he did a very good job steering the tractor :) He had a fun night with Grandpa & Grandma and the next morning we all met up at Mother's Bistro for brunch.....so good! Such a fun weekend!

Breakfast at Mother's Bistro. Andrew was so cute when he first saw me....he gave me a huge hug and told me that he missed me. All day he kept saying "mommy, I missed you so much!" Such a sweetie!

Relaxing with Grandpa

3.21.10 He LOVES his tractor!

Singing

3.18.10-2.5 years old

Andrew told me today that he wanted to play his instruments so we went and got them out. He wanted to sing the Bumble Bee song. Of course he sang it several times but once I tried to get it on camera he decided that he didn't want to sing....he thought the camera was way more interesting and wanted to play with that instead. So here's a little clip of him singing. I love his little voice :)

Growing up too fast!

3.15.10-2.5 years old

This year is already flying by and I can't believe that my little guy is getting so big. He will soon be a big brother and no longer my baby. We are already looking at preschool for the fall because he asks me multiple times a week if he can go to school. We checked out Horizon preschool today and I can't believe how well he fit in with all the 3 and 4 year olds. He did a great job listening to the teacher and playing with the kids. He definitely is ready for school, I'm just not sure I'm ready for my baby to grow up :)

Here are some other ways that he shows me he is now a big boy:

~He no longer calls his monkey "nokey" and now says monkey. This makes me sad because I thought nokey was just the cutest thing!

~He no longer calls milk "nok," he now calls it "mok" which is pretty funny!

~He's resisting bedtime and naptime. He tries to find any excuse not to go to bed (I have to go potty, one more book, I want to rock, I need more cars, etc) This is making bedtime a challenge but we are working through it.

~He understands where we are going in the car. All I have to do is drive on the road that has a Starbucks and he immediately asks for a donut! Oh no, what have I started! I obviously go to Starbucks way to much!

~He is starting to have an attachment to things. He wants to bring his monkeys (mommy & baby) with him wherever we go as well as his blankie. I make him leave them in the car, but still....it's a lot to lug around.

~He now calls Sophie "Sopey" instead of what he used to call her "Soey."

I'm sure there are many other things that I could list, but my pregnancy brain isn't working too well! On a side note: the other day he said the funniest thing. As soon as he woke up and had breakfast he wanted to go play outside. It was 9am and still really cold outside. I told him that he could go outside in 2 hours. He said 2 minutes and I again told him that we had to wait 2 hours because it was cold. We went about our day and later that night when Daddy got home, Nate said "do you want to play outside." He then said, "in 2 hours." Too cute!