Tick-O-Teat!!!

Yup, that's how Tegan says it now. It was TOO cute listening to him practice (when prompted, of course). Tonight Brendan/Daddy took Tegan out trick-or-treating with our 2 neighbors Zach (4) and Alex (2 1/2) and their dad Scott. Us moms stayed home to hand out the candy... because we don't trust the kids to take their fair share (2 or 3 pieces)... at least that was my reasoning. Tegan decided (with our help) to dress-up as a bicyclist. He wore his yellow jersey (bought for him by Grandma Eastwood even before his arrival) and Brendan's Discovery team cycling hat. He also had his helmet on for a while, but not too long. Needless to say the "costume" was a hit and Brendan got several "I knew he'd be a biker" comments (or something along those lines) :) Hahaha!

The past week and a half or so have brought some exciting changes for us. As I posted last week, we found out the Baby Moore 2009 is actually Baby BOY Moore. Brendan is very excited and, even though I was rootin' for a girl to dress-up and all that, I'm SUPER excited for Tegan to have a little brother who is so close in age to him. Our neighbors (mentioned above) are just about the same age difference as T will be with his brother and they are such good buddies!!! Now we just have to think of a name as all the names we had were for a girl.

Additionally, Tegan has been sleeping marvelously and only been waking up 1 time a night... if at all! This has been a HUGE answer to prayers as I'm the one who gets up with him in the night if/when he wakes up because Brendan "doesn't hear Tegan crying/calling out." We laugh, because T has recognized that Mommy is the one who will come to his "rescue" so whenever he wakes up enough to call out all we hear is "Mo-om. Mo-o-om-my..." Sometimes I'll lay there and hope Brendan will take a turn, but usually it still ends up being me and my (of course) very full bladder and big belly rocking T for a few minutes to re-relax him. I really still hope that it's just the missing paci that wakes him up and not bad dreams... I know how much they have bothered me all my life (bad dreams that is.)

I'm trying to think of what else is "new" but there really isn't. Tomorrow will bring a playdate with some of my coworkers' kiddos around T's age and then we'll head down to G'ma and G'pa Moore's for the remainder of the weekend as we haven't been there in a month or longer.

One more "news" item that I thought of. I got the results of my 20 week glucose test and they came back in the "normal" range, so that's great. I still have a gut feeling that I'll develop GD but I'm fine with having that gut feeling be wrong too. :)

Here are a few pics from the past week or so... T's OBSESSED with the Little Einstein's. They are on at 7am, so perfect time for shortly before or after he wakes ups. He'll either sit on the couch or... well... right in front of the TV and just get all excited about whatever their "mission" is for the day. It's especially exciting when there are choo-choo's on Einstein's; that means his TWO favorite things! There's even an episode on occasionally with choo-choos AND ice cream. You should see the energy come out of the kid when that episode is on :) HA!!!

Hope this finds all happy and healthy!!!Love to all!

~j

Week 20 Update

Well, this week marked 20 weeks for my pregnancy... YAY! I'm 1/2 way there. Yesterday I had my 20 week check-up and the follow-up to my ultrasound and here's what I learned:
- My weight gain is good (I've gained about 10-11 pounds so far)
- I'm measuring totally normal for this point in pregnancy
- Baby's heart rate is 140bpm, so much lower than T was at this point. Brendan is super excited as he says that Baby will be ready for biking immediately. HA! :)

I also had my first non-fasting glucose test yesterday. Because I had gestational diabetes with Tegan they started testing me for GD this time at 20 weeks. I'll be tested every 4 weeks until 28 weeks. If at 28 weeks I'm still testing OK I'll be considered free and clear of Gestational Diabetes this time.

Last is news on the ultrasound. Just about everything looked good. Baby is very much a boy, we saw all his "parts" though we didn't get a print-out of them, which I'm fine with. It's not like you take a pic of it when they are born to prove it then. HA! The heart and brain and most other organs look great. The only thing that showed up was that the left (I think) kidney was slightly enlarged, so I'll go back for a follow-up ultrasound at 27 weeks to see if it's back to a normal size. They said this is super common among boys so they weren't surprised at all when I told them that the US revealed it's a boy...
OK, all for now. We're off to go play choo-choo's at Barnes and Noble. Happy Friday!
Love to all
~j

Ultrasound Images :)

I've got my 20 week appointment today, so I'll update this evening with stats on Baby Boy Moore and also with Tegan's latest news and events :) Love to all!

~j

4 1/2 Months 'Til Another Wild BOY Arrives

Mamas, Papas, Bikes & Choo Choos

Ok, ok... sorry to all my disgruntled blog readers who have been anxiously (and not so patiently) awaiting a post for nearly 2 weeks... we've been busy and when we haven't been busy we've been resting. I don't know if it's just this pregnancy and or if it's from being pregnancy and being tired from being a mom (i.e. waking up to find the paci at 3 am) or what, but I've been SOOOO tired this pregnancy. UGH! BTW... before you whine about no belly pics, here are 2:

7 Weeks

19 Weeks

So what have we been up to these past 2 weeks? Well, for me it's basically been school/work and trying to catch-up on sleep while being a mommy. I've also gotten 2 girls' trips in on the weekends. A week ago I went to Milwaukee, WI with my mother-in-law and 2 sisters-in-law to see the Cirque du Soleil show Saltimbanco. I have to be honest... after seeing Cirque at the Wynn hotel in Vegas this one didn't really compare, but being that it was a traveling show it was still really neat. However, I spent the whole weekend wondering what T was doing at each moment and missing him even though I had been so excited to get away. That Saturday I tried to sleep in, but instead couldn't sleep past 6:30am. On Sunday I woke up feeling VERY ill, though I did sleep until 8ish, but then got sick before heading back home. :( Oh well... it WAS nice spending time with the extended family, so that was good.

This past weekend I made the trip down/across 94 East again, but this time it was to go to Madison with some of my former roommates for another girls weekend. I'll have to be honest and say that had I not been pregnant I probably would have had a bit more fun, but I still enjoyed myself AND got some good rest in (Saturday night... was up at 6:30 again Saturday morning). I also got to see my great friends Mackenzie and Jessica, whom I haven't seen since February or March!!!

In the time that I was gone Tegan had QUITE an exciting few weekends. On the Friday that I went to Milwaukee Tegan and Papa Eastwood went to the Model Train Museum in St. Paul. From what I heard it was a HUGE hit and Papa nearly had to drag Tegan away. BUT, not without getting a souvenir T-shirt first. :) I only wish they had taken a camera. The following day was Saturday (Oct 5) and T spent it with Aunt Amanda and several of her friends at a local apple orchard. I have to laugh because in most of the pics I've seen T has the most unenthusiastic expression on his face, but Auntie A assures me that T had a blast. :)

Sunday was a rainy day (I think) so T spent it at home with G'Ma and G'Pa Eastwood... they did try to do church, but true to form, T didn't want to be in the nursery (like he's been doing at our church the past several Sundays) so he spent it in the entryway/area with Mama Eastwood until service was done.

Tegan spent this past weekend with Daddy in Rochester (at Grandma and Grandpa Moore's house). Daddy tells me that they spent tons of time playing with toys that once were his and reading books (that once were his) and... you get the picture. Some great bonding time for T and Daddy. Then on Sunday, after an episode of Little Einsteins (complete with a plot including ice cream and trains) AND an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine, the boys (Daddy and Tegan) came home and went for a nice long bike-ride to a park several miles away and up a hill... however, upon arriving at the park Daddy found Tegan only had 1 shoe on and the other was no where to be found. Apparently the little man decided he should squeeze it out of the "door" of the Burley somewhere along the ride and despite retracing their steps/pedal strokes the shoe was gone for good. I guess that's what we get for buying him camouflage "crocs". ;)

I guess that pretty much sums-up the recent weeks. Included in those weeks but not mentioned yet was a trip up for dinner from "Grama" and Papa Moore... we all ate dinner together and then the boys assembled the remainder of the bunk beds for Tegan's future big-boy room. Tegan, of course, lent a hand :) That night also welcomed the handmade maple train table from Grandpa Moore. THANK YOU!! That table has been the biggest hit at our house and gets used DAILY! :)

Tegan and his G.I. Joe action figure "Quick Kick" :) (can you guess who got that for him???)

All for now... I'm gonna go spend some time with my honey (Brendan). Love to all!

~j (and a SUPER active baby)

Update Tonight :) I promise