Cutting Veggies

I love...

 ...when I catch him...

...playing on his own...

...when he doesn't even know...

...I am watching...

...and taking pictures.

Did you know...

...cutting a tomato...

...can be very hard to do.

33 Weeks

I am 33 weeks today!  I told DJ last night, that I finally feel ready.  I got out of the house with my Mom for a few hours on Saturday, and picked up the last of the items we needed on my list.  The cradle is set up, her room is {almost} ready, her teeny-tiny {pink} clothes are all packed and ready for her to wear them at the hospital, her diapers are prepped.  The only thing left to pick up on my list is white long sleeved Carter's onesies, and curtains & blinds for her room.  My Mom is sewing her name to put above her crib.  I have the fabric picked out, I just have to go to Hobby Lobby and pick it up.   I also have a few signs to make for her wall, that I am hoping to finish this week.  A sneak peak...

I will post more later this week.

Some pregnancy highlights:
*I had a doctor's appointment last week.  Everything is going well.  Sister is measuring small.  I had Karson with me at my appointment, like I always do, and my dr. asked how big he was when he was born.  He was 7 lbs 6 oz...at 3 weeks early.  In other words, he would have been huge if he came full term. :)  My doctor did tell me to slow down a little.  No more trips out of town, and no more chasing a {almost} 2 year old around a water park when I'm sick.  :)

*I have no idea how much weight I have gained...I choose not to pay attention. :) 

*I have said from the beginning of this pregnancy, that sister rarely moves.  She moves so much less than Karson ever did.   She still only moves a few times a day, but when she does....OUCH!  Sister kicks HARD!  She usually moves when I sit down during Karson's nap time, and when I lay down to go to bed.

*The last week, my reflux/heartburn has been making me miserable.  Especially after dinner.  I have been trying to be careful what I eat, but it doesn't seem to matter.  I made homemade ginger ale last night, and felt so much better.  I had about a half a glass with my dinner.  I thought I was going to have to gag it down, but it is really good.  I just really like plain ice water, and am not a huge fan of carbonated drinks.  Not sure if I felt better because of the ginger ale or what I ate, but I will definitely be keeping it in the house!!

*I have started nesting.  Karson and I cleaned out the pantry today, and we cleaned our bedroom and rearranged some things over the weekend. 

*I am starting to stock up on ingredients to freeze as many dinners as I can.  I plan on freezing meatloaf, spaghetti bake, manicotti, burritos, Grandma's chicken (family recipe-so good!), bbq pork, chicken and biscuits...and anything else I can think of.  Any more ideas?

*I still get charley horse.  They hurt.  If I can eat enough calcium/potassium in me it seems to help.  They are annoying!

*I can not wait to have both of my babies in my arms!!

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We spent the beginning of our week at Great Wolf

I am a safety nut Mama, and although we didn't ever use his life jacket, I wanted it along in case my crazy little boy decided to get too brave in the water park.

Luckily, he wanted to hold Mommy or Daddy's hand the whole time.

He sure is cute in his life jacket though!!

Nana and  Bumpa got Karson a pack of 'Choo-Choo' books for Valentines Day.

He read them the entire way up to Great Wolf.

Until he fell asleep...still holding on to the choo choo book.

Every night at Great Wolf, they have a Clock Tower Show and story time.  

Karson loved it.  

But oh my word, he was so, so tired!!

Sign of a successful vacation?

When your {almost} 2 year old looks like this the entire 3 hour drive home.

Exhausted the morning we got home from Great Wolf.

He wanted a banana.

He wouldn't let me help him open the banana, he insisted he could do it himself.

So he bit it open.

Goof ball!

 He woke up while I was making his birthday decorations.

...which is in LESS THAN two weeks.

He had so much fun helping with the punches!!

We have a chocolate lab.

That is a white fluffy dog.
Obviously not our Molly, or as Karson has renamed her "Wowee."

I have no idea whose it is, but it was in my back yard yesterday.

 I am pretty sure we have a sign only visible to dogs that says "play area for all neighborhood dogs."

We had pancakes for breakfast at Aunt Katie's on Wednesday.

They were yummy, so I tried to make them yesterday.

Not only did they turn into 1 massive pancake but I burnt them.

I must have messed up the recipe, because the ones I could salvage weren't even eatable.

Or Karson dumped baking powder in them while I wasn't looking.

they all found their way to the trash.

Bummer!

Karson's Cookies

I came down with a cold last week.  

A nasty, crummy, keep me from sleeping, make me feel awful, cold.

Combine that with being 31 weeks pregnant with an {almost} 2 year old...

I was one exhausted Mama.  

Who did nothing more than lay on the couch...all day Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Karson was so good!

He slept in, took a 3-4 hour nap, and let me lay half asleep on the couch all day.  

...as long as I played 'choo-choos' with him & kept his sippy cup full, he was a happy kid!

By Friday I was starting to feel bad about not doing anything fun with him.

Especially since he had been so good!!

So after I laid him down for a nap, I took a few sticks of butter out of the fridge to get soft, and decided I would muster up the energy to make cookies with him when he woke up.

Karson loves to help me bake & cook!

After his 3 1/2 hour nap I asked him if he wanted to make cookies with him. 

He was so excited!

We went to the kitchen and started pulling out the ingredients from the cupboards.

...and then I realized I didn't have a white flour.

I only ever use wheat flour, but if I'm making sweets, like chocolate chip cookies, I like white flour. 

Or any chocolate chips.

I pulled out the wheat flour, found a bag of m&ms from the back of the cupboard, set Karson on the counter and decided these cookies were going to be about the process of making them...and not how they actually tasted.

After all it was supposed to be a fun activity for Karson.

Who was thrilled to have a bag of open m&ms with in his reach.

Every time I looked, he was sticking another m&m in his mouth!

And when I wasn't looking, an egg mysteriously landed on the kitchen floor....

 ...someone snuck a few more m&ms...

...and dumped an extra 1/4 cup of sugar into the bowl...

...and a few extra...tablespoons or so of vanilla.

Then he proudly stirred up his cookies.

He helped me put them on the pan, and signed 'cookie' over and over again until they were done.

And when they were done, we enjoyed our very sugar-y...very vanila-y Whole Wheat M&M cookies.

Sunday morning, we packed up, and headed for Great Wolf Lodge.  It has become one of our favorite places to vacation for a few days!  Last year, Karson had just turned 1 when we were there.  I was so excited to take him again this year!

 We had a blast again this year!  We got to GW on Sunday afternoon, checked in and headed to the pool.  Karson was unsure at first, but as soon as he was a little more comfortable he had a blast.  He spent a long time repeatedly going down the slide, yelling 'YAAY' and clapping for himself, running up the stairs, and going down the slide again.  One Mom was waiting to catch her little one at the bottom of the slide, and told Karson his lips were blue.  He responded very appropriately with clapping and a very loud 'YAAY!'  DJ and I agreed that the money we spent on this trip, and the work we put in to going was 100% worth it for that 1 hour of him running up the stairs and going down the slide.  He was having so much fun!

A few videos of him going down the slides....

Every night they have a pajama story time & clock tower show in the lobby.  Karson absolutely cracked us up. The guy reading the story would ask "Raise your hand if you went down the green slide?" (aka-one of the really BIG slides that even Mommy won't go down) and Karson would raise his hand and yell 'yaay!'  

Daddy & Karson at Story Time

Our first morning, was a very early morning.  At least for Mommy.  I have been sick, and haven't been sleeping.  After playing in the water park all day on Sunday, I woke up at 5:30 on Monday and could not fall back asleep...which meant Daddy didn't sleep well after 5:30 either.  Karson finally started stirring at around 7, we grabbed him out of his pack and play and headed to breakfast.  Mommy and Daddy were hungry!!  It was so good, and I was thrilled that someone offered to take our picture.  We rarely get a picture of the 3 of us on vacation!

More water park fun....

Playing in the fountains...

Playing in the fort with Daddy...

One very tired little boy...

Once again, one of Karson's favorite things was the Hot Tub.  

The hot tub is meant for the kids, and isn't all that hot.

Just enough to warm him up, and get rid of his little blue lips.

He loved getting to swim in the hot tub with Daddy!

Mommy played it safe, and sat on the side.

It, however, felt wonderful to soak my feet in the hot tub after chasing around a Munchkin all day!!

What we have been up to the last few days...

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We have done a whole lot of nothing this week.

Being {almost} 32 weeks pregnant, and sick, with an {almost} 2 year old isn't so much fun.

Thankfully, Karson is has been an angel, and has been letting Mommy lay on the couch all day.

And has been taking 3-4 hour naps all week!! 

Before coming down with this nasty cold, I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast.

And let him eat them on the counter.

Because sometimes it is fun to eat breakfast on the counter.

He thought it was the best thing ever!!

He has been getting a lot of baths this week.

Because baths mean he is occupied, and contained, and I can sit and relax.

When he is done with his bath, he always asks to be wrapped up in his 'b.'

I wrapped him up, gave him his paci, set him in the chair with a Thomas Movie, and went to put lunch in the oven.

 I came back and he was  out cold!

With no clothes on.

I quick stuck some underwear and sweats on him, and put him in bed.

Where he took a fabulous nap, and let Mommy take a nap as well.

Today's breakfast:

Yogurt in the living room, in his pjs, while I laid half asleep on the couch.

At 9:30.

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