Schoo-Schoos

Well, those are one of Tegan's favorite things right now... you probably know them as Trains or Choo-Choo Trains :) We seriously thought that T was going to have a heart attack yesterday when we found that Thomas the Tank Engine show was on PBS while we were watching TV yesterday. Tegan seriously didn't know what to do with himself he was just SO excited. It was TOO funny to see.

Tonight we decided to make it a "night-out" for the family so we took T out for his first trip to...... Chucky Cheese's! Whoa! Arcade game central... but for little kids. It was nice to see very few violent games :) Tegan's favorites were the ones that he could drive, one even took your picture for you while you were riding it, so I'll have to scan in that pic... it was cute. We also had pizza, so that was fun. I was a proud Mama being that T was the only kid I saw there who ate the veggies on his pizza!

After Chucky Cheese's we went shoe shopping for Daddy, though he was unsuccessful in his search for new running shoes (that he liked). Next we were off to Barnes & Noble to play at the train table in the kids area. THAT was a huge hit, too!

Yesterday brought a funny experience. Tegan has a bit of an obsession with shoes, trying them on, moving them from one place to another, etc. Well, after a few minutes of not hearing much from T I went looking and this is what I found. :)

I'm trying to think of any other cute stories... OH, we went to some friends' house on Saturday for dinner and they happened to have just adopted a new kitten (they named him George). Well, Tegan took a liking to George and surprisingly George liked Tegan too. It was too cute to watch George sitting in Tegan's lap and letting T squeeze/hug him and kiss him and hold him, etc. We will get some pics soon, it's just that they were taken using our friends' camera.

Then there's a bit of a not so fun story from Saturday night. Tegan decided he needed to go up the basement stairs (at our friends' house) but he didn't want help and he wanted to go up like a big boy (not crawling) and not holding onto the railing... well, he didn't make it too far before I heard a huge crash. OH, and the stairs weren't carpeted. Well, Tegan got his first goose-egg. OH did I ever feel like a horrible mother and felt SO bad for my baby! There's some good pics of that in the pics from our friends' camera too. Needless to say, I rushed to the nearest Walgreen's to pick-up some Tylenol as I didn't think to bring any, but true to his character, T bounced back in minutes and was fine by the time I got home. He's still got a bit of a bump, but nothing bad and the bruising isn't too bad, either, much to my surprise. :)

OK, that's all I can think of for this week. All with Baby is going well. I can't remember if I posted the stats as of my appointment last week, but the heartbeat was a steady and STRONG at 152bpm and we've got a VERY active little one in there as it took a while for my midwife to get the heartbeat over the Doppler long enough to calculate the bpm. GREAT! HA!

Love to all!

~j

Some Recent Pics

OK, here are some recent pics as I'm sure you only "read" this blog for the pictures :) I'll just let you figure out what's going on on your own. Happy Fall (already?!)!!!

Thanks to Dana Schoppe for these last pics... they are from the last Buck Hill series race. :)Today I've got my 16 week pre-natal check-up, so I get to hear Baby's heartbeat again. YAY! I'm SO excited. Even though I've already felt a few little kicks the confirmation that something is still in there is always great :)

Love to all!

~j & Baby Moore 2

Pictures to Come

OK, so I've been bombarded with requests for an update, and I know it's over-due so it's my fault. I've just been so busy and never have my camera handy so I hated to update w/o pictures. I did manage to get some last night of T playing in his bucket on the driveway for one of the last times this year, but now I'm at school so I can't upload the pics til later. Regardless, here's what's been happening in the lives of T and Baby Moore '09 over the past week and a half.

Tegan is still forming "sentences" with 2 and sometimes 3 words, so that's fun to experience. He's becoming very possessive of things meaning that he knows who they belong to, especially when they are his or he WANTS them to be his. For example, a big word right now (other than "NO!:) is "Mine!". He also loves pointing out things that belong to Daddy... just so sweet.

As I mentioned before, Tegan loves books, especially ones that he can interact with. Jess, the book Tails (which I first experienced with you and Eli) is truly one of T's favorites. We read it every night at bedtime. Even though Brendan and I are SO sick of a few books (including Tails) it's SO neat to see Tegan interacting with them and knowing what's going to come next.

T's FAVORITE thing in the world right now is/are trains... he calls them "schoo-schoos." I wish I could have gone with them, but on Tuesday Brendan took T down to the railway by our old townhouse to look at the BIG trains and he said that even though T was very intimidated by the size and sound of them, he loved it. They even got to talk to one of the remote conductors/operaters and he blew the whistle for them and everything. Little Einsteins is Tegan's favorite TV show, as it's on at 7am... typical wake-up time. Apparently Tuesday's episode had trains (and ice cream) in it and Tegan was literally beside himself with excitement. He even needed to have his train book with him while watching! I wish I could have seen it... but I was showering and getting ready while B sat/played with/watched T. On Wednesday, T was SO disappointed that there were no "schoo-schoos" on "i-sties". Poor guy. HA!

As far as T goes... that's really about it... as far as I can remember at least.

Then we come to the future Baby M... things are going well in that area, as far as I'm aware. I haven't' been feeling well and have had to take my anti-nausea medication about once a day for the past week, which is a lot more than I had been for a good while there. I don't know if it's because I've just been so tired between working and not sleeping well (I've been having some CRAZY dreams and nightmares) but whatever it is, it's no fun! :( There's been a lot of something going on in there, I've definitely been feeling a lot of adjusting of the organs, tendons, etc... even the occasional kick :) I have my 16 week check-up on Monday, so I'll have more to report then, but I've had SEVERAL dreams that there are more than one kiddo in there so I've decided that I'm going to make my midwife search around and make sure there's only 1 little kid in there. As far as gender goes, I'm convinced this baby is a girl just because of all the differences in the 2 pregnancies. For example: With T I was sick (like this time) but at 16 weeks I was still not feeling good daily whereas this time I really started to feel better around 12 weeks, even though I'm feeling ucky again. Then there are the dreams... C-R-A-Z-Y! Last, for now, there are the cravings. When I was preggers with T all I wanted was sweet stuff, cookies, pancakes, cereal, bagels, ice cream and DQ Blizzards, etc. This time sweet stuff nearly gags me, it's really weird. We'll have to wait and see.

OK, that's really all for now. I'll get a belly pic soon and post pics of T when I get them uploaded. :) Love to all!
~j

Ok... It's Finally Here (the update, that is)!

So sorry for the delay in updating. I've just been busy, busy, busy with going back to work and then tired, tired, tired by the time I've got time to put my feet up and blog, so instead I relaxed. A lot has happend with T over the past 2 weeks, a lot of exciting stuff! Tegan is now putting words together to make 2 and 3 word phrases. Yay for T! Tegan also discovered how to make the "L" sound in words... mostly in "hello" but a few others that I can't think of just 'cause he's been saying "hello" non-stop for the past 3 days, I think because he likes the way it feels to make the "L" sound. HA!

OK, I'll back-up to nearly 2 weeks ago when we went to the fair. Here's the rundown of Tegan's menu at the state fair this year (a little more extensive than the breastmilk and ice cream of last year): cheese curds (though only small ones because I was scared he'd choke), soft pretzel (SO GOOD!), dippin' dots --> he hated the texture at first, then they started to melt and he realized it was ice cream, haha! What else? I think he tried one of Brendan's sweet potato fries, but like me he didn't really like them. Oh, and a few bites of Brendan's blizzard type treat from the dairy barn... SUPER healthy, as you can see. :) T also got to "drive" some of the John Deer tractors, which he L-O-V-E-D. OH, and he got to pet a mommy cow and her calf, which he got SO excited about, it was precious the innocence and excitement on his face!

Fast forward a few days and it was off to Maplelag for a weekend of bike racing (for Brendan) and fun for the whole family... Grandma and Grandpa Eastwood even joined us to see what we've been raving about for a few years. Brendan did pretty good, see his blog for a recap if you like, and all of us had a great time! I especially liked how T got to take his nap at a regular time on Sunday instead of having to stay awake and be somewhat crabby during Brendan's race. (races are at 1pm on Sundays and that's right around T's afternoon nap time, which if he doesn't get is bad news!)

Last week was my first week back at school, even though I was back at work for workshops the whole week before. I am SO ready to be a semi-stay-at-home mom. I don't know if I'm ready to do it full time, but I think working 1/2 time and staying home 1/2 time would be my ideal scenario right now... maybe next year after #2 arrives... we'll see. Transitioning back to daycare has gone well and I think T really enjoys his time with friends.

This weekend we went down to Rochester to visit Grandma and Grandpa Moore (B's parents) and, as always, had a fabulous time. It was also a great way for Brendan and I to catch up on some much needed sleep as we both took some pretty good naps both days we were there :) Much to our surprise, Tegan did NOT want to sit on or "drive" Grandpa's tractors. We think it's because Papa turned them on and they were so loud, but who knows. So no pics of T on the tractor again at Papa's house.

Well, I think that about catches you all up on everything. Pregnancy is going well and I think I'm finally breaking through the super exhausting phase of the first trimester. Clothes are very tight (pants at least) and I've gotten out the stuff I wore during my 2nd trimester with Tegan... maybe I'll even remember to take a belly pic sometime soon. :)

Love to all!

~j

Update Coming Soon!

Just wanted to quickly post that I'm sorry for the delay in posting an update. We/I have been busy with getting back to work and we were out of town for 4 days last week. I will do my best to get an update posted tonight :) Love to all!!!
~j