A Long Few Weeks

Well, it's been a bit of a long few weeks at our house... especially between the hours of 10pm and 7am as T has had a rough time sleeping since he got his Flu shot about 2 weeks ago. I doubt it was the flu shot that did it, but that's the same day that the bad sleep started. Let's just say T went from waking up 1 or 2 times a night to COUNTLESS times and most nights, for about a week there, he ended up in our bed by 2 or 3am... basically I would just decide I was sick of waking up to him crying and being upset. We think that there were a lot of things that compounded around that time including the flu shot, movement of his 2 year molars and a bit of a cold/cough, oh, and then we've traveled for the past 2 weekends, so that could have added to things, too (not sleeping in our own beds). Regardless of whether or not these things were causes or coincidences, it has been rough. Thankfully, days haven't been so bad as T has been taking naps well.

OK... on to happier things :) The weekend before Thanksgiving found us traveling down to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa to visit Brendan's paternal grandparents. Other than the long car ride (which Tegan handled FABULOUSLY) the weekend went well. T even got to go swimming in the hotel pool in his diaper and sweatpants (we forgot to bring his swimsuit). Unfortunately, as soon as I got the camera out T decided swimming was done. However, word on the street (aka according to Ga'ma, Papa & Daddy) is that T was jumping from the side into Daddy's arms and kicking his legs to "swim". What a big boy! (So upset I didn't get any pics of that!)

Time at Great Ga'ma's and Great Papa's house was nice too. Tegan was definitely the life of the party! It was so great to see the smiles and joy that my little man brought to the lives of his great-grandparents. Pics will come soon, but they are on my other camera.

Thanksgiving Day found us up in Shoreview visiting Ga'ma and Papa Eastwood. Aunt Amanda joined us, but T seemed to have her on his black list as it took hours for him to warm up to her. It finally took Auntie Amanda's offering of sharing "her" ice cream with Tegan to get him to even let her touch him. I guess it's just a sign that we need to spend more time together :)

On Thursday evening we drove down to Rochester to spend the rest of our Thanksgiving break with the Moore side of the family, as we don't get to see them as much as the Eastwood side. For Thursday night and most of Friday Tegan had Ga'ma and Papa Moore, Aunt Becca and Uncles Bradley and Ben all to himself. Needless to say he thoroughly enjoyed all the attention. We were a bit worried about what might conspire once Aunt Bri, Uncle Joe and Cousin Aubrey arrived (in terms of sharing attention) but we were relatively pleasantly surprised by Tegan's excitement in sharing all of "his" toys with Aubrey. He was NOT excited about sharing the attention from Ga'ma and Papa, but like I said, we expected as much... and he became more tolerant of sharing that attention as time wore on.

Sunday was Aubrey's 2nd birthday, so we got a good laugh out of her opening her presents and Tegan taking SUCH an interest in them. Let's just say that Aubrey is VERY MUCH a girl and loves all things girly and Tegan seemed to be very in touch with his feminine side. HA!

Well... I think that brings us back to the present day. I'm sure I've missed plenty, but if anything comes to me I'll post it next time. Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and remembered the reason for the holiday. God bless and love to all!
~j

First 100+ Words

So, I've seen several of my friends post the first 100 or so words/phrases their child said and I thought it was so neat... then I started thinking, "man, I should have been a smart mom (like these other moms) and kept a list of the order of T's words." Oh well, that didn't happen so what I did last night was sit down at the computer and type up the words that I could think of that T uses on a frequent basis. Here they are (not including numbers... he can count to 14 or 15):

1. ah-pane (airplane)
2. Alice (Alex)
3. all kean (all clean)
4. all done
5. apple
6. applesauce
7. Aubey (Aubrey)
8. back (black)
9. baff (bath)
10. bai/paci (pacifier)
11. all
12. bananana (banana)
13. banket (blanket)
14. baseball
15. big
16. bike
17. bocks (blocks)
18. books
19. boose (caboose)
20. bown (brown)
21. bread
22. bue (blue)
23. bus
24. bye-bye
25. car
26. cereal
27. Cheerios
28. cheese
29. chichen (chicken)
30. choo-choo
31. church
32. close
33. cold
34. cookie
35. cow/moo
36. cup
37. dadda/daddy
38. dirty
39. Einstiens
40. engine
41. fish
42. gam-ma
43. geen (green)
44. goggie (doggie)
45. Goofy
46. Gordon
47. guck (duck)
48. guck (truck)
49. hai-yo/hello
50. Harold
51. hat
52. heros
53. hi
54. hight (light)
55. hocket (rocket)
56. hockey
57. hocokey (helicopter)
58. hocte (tractor)
59. hogurt (yogurt)
60. hot
61. hot-gog (hot dog)
62. ice ceam (ice cream)
63. Jack
64. James
65. jet
66. juice
67. kitty
68. ma-ee (Maddie/Madison)
69. mail
70. Manny (Handy Manny)
71. milk
72. mine
73. Momma/Mom/Mommy
74. moo-ee (movie)
75. mouse
76. nigh-night
77. no
78. ococopus/opocopus (octopus)
79. Oh Toodles (from The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon)
80. oli (Roli)
81. open
82. ouch/owie
83. ou-side (outside)
84. out
85. ow-sairs (downstairs)
86. Papa
87. park
88. part (fart)
89. pease/pe-pease (please)
90. peep (as in go the the bathroom)
91. pee-pee/pepis (yes, you know what he's referring to)
92. Percy
93. phone
94. pizza
95. poon (spoon)
96. poop
97. pootball (football)
98. potty
99. raining
100. red
101. running
102. sa-wich (sandwich)
103. schips (chips)
104. shark
105. sheep
106. shoes
107. slide
108. snowing
109. swing
110. Thomas
111. toast
112. TV
113. up/uppie
114. wa-er (water)
115. yeah
116. yellow
117. yours
118. yucky
119. yummy
120. Zach/Zack

There you go, the first 120 words in ABC order (as we kindergarten teachers call it). I figured that'd be the best way to "present" them since I don't remember their order other than first was Daddy and then Mama and bai (pronounced bah-ee... who knows where he came up with that one). OH... and I forgot to include our daycare provider's name and the kids at daycare that he'll sometimes "talk" about... that'll add another 5 or so onto the list.

Hope you enjoy these silly pics and that they give you a good belly laugh :) Love to all!!!

~jenn

I Don't Think We're Ready...

Bedding For Our New Baby Boy

So... I have been trying to decide what I want to do for the new baby. Initially, when I was convinced I was having a girl, I decided I was going to get crafty and sew slip-covers for the bumper pads for the crib (as the ones Tegan has are removable, the covers that is)... then we found out we were having another boy and that shot that idea out the window. However, I got it in my mind that I still wanted something new for the new baby as everyone deserves a something new every now and then.

I was the oldest and I still got mostly hand-me-down stuff from older neighborhood girls and garage sales. Don't get me wrong, I love it because it was all "cool" and "trendy" stuff (though I didn't understand that those terms applied to the clothes the season prior, not the current season. HA!) Regardless of the thought that "hand-me-downs can be cool", I went looking online for some new bedding (just to see what's out there) as it's one thing I can get new that will completely change the room without spending a fortune (and subsequently getting me into the doghouse with Brendan). Surprise, surprise, the first crib bedding set I found that I LOVED(which I still find adorable) was $200! I can't say that's too expensive as I've see sets out there for $300 and $400 (or more) but it's really hard to justify that when it's just a bumper pad, a quilt/comforter (that honestly hardly gets used) and a bed skirt AND for a 2nd child of the same sex as the one you already have. SOOOO, then I thought, "Hey, I'll go searching at JoAnn Fabrics or something and find some similar fabric to make my own slip-covers and bed skirt." And that's just what I did. After school on Friday I stopped in at JoAnn to see what they had, not expecting much as the fabric I was looking for is VERY modern & trendy (something Brendan himself said that we'd look back on in 10 years and say we were crazy for buying something that ugly). I found 1 or 2 fabrics that I liked, but not loved, and they were already$35+/yd. Well, to get the amount of fabric I'd need I guessed I'd need several yards and that would put the project up over $100 in no time. Ok... so maybe I'd just stick with what I had...

Well, yesterday I was bored and looking at crib bedding again online and came across a super cute set, with the bright bold colors I was looking for and, get this, it was/is on clearance for $20, and that includes the quilt/comforter, bumper pads, crib sheet & crib/bed skirt!!! Seriously! You can't buy fabric for that cheap! So, after talking to a few friends I decided to "bite the bullet", as they say, and buy it. Well, the deal got even better, shipping was only 97cents and it should arrive within the week. All the customer reviews on it were great and I'm SO excited to see what it looks like in person. Here are the pics off the web:

Whole Set

Comforter

Crib Sheet

Bed Skirt

Bumper Pad

So that's MY exciting news for the weekend... that and we had an AWESOME pot-luck dinner at our house last night with 15 of our great friends!!! Hope your weekend was as great and "successful" as mine :) Take care and love to all!!!

~jenn

Belly Update: 22 Weeks

Well, I am now 22 weeks along and starting to feel a bit uncomfortable, especially after eating. I've been experiencing a lot of braxton hicks contractions, especially at night (I'll wake up and my stomach will be hard as a rock!) but nothing painful there, so that's good. Tegan continues to say "Hi Belly" or "Hi Baby" when I lift my shirt up over my tummy. Then he'll lean in and give it a kiss... and then promptly instruct me to "close" my shirt (i.e. pull it back down). He's too sweet. Feeling lots and lots of kicks, espeically at bed time, same as the case was with T-go when I was pregnant with him. Other than my cravings (still mostly for salty stuff) I'm realizing that these two pregnancies are very similar... except now I'm not so sure I'll develop Gestational Diabetes. For the longest time I was convinced it was only a matter of time before I started feeling the effects of high blood sugar levels after eating too many carbs, but it's not happening and this is right around when I think it started with Tegan. 2 more weeks and I'll be tested again, so we'll see. Hope you enjoyed the pics... Brendan took them :)

Love to all!

~j & Baby M #2

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

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