childrens museum

today is my moms birthday so we decided to celebrate yesterday. she had a great time with jordan while we were getting ready to go to the childrens museum.

crazy hats

cake :)

the place was packed and jordan was a little overwhelmed so it was a lot of work for us but we had a GREAT time anyway.

“driving” an original ford mustang

he threw a fit when we had to get out to let others have a turn. headed off to the matter factory…he wasnt too interested

after this we headed out to the flow works….he had some fun playing in the water!

 

  

next up was the eco station where we saw baby chicks and eggs that havent hatched yet

thought the chicks were cool

the eggs…not so much

next we walked through kidtropolis….

driving the police car

 

 

inside the ambulance

after another large tantrum it was off to lunch. mom had chicken strips, jordan had a hotdog and i had a mini pizza. it was pretty darn good!! :)

he was pretty tired at this point so we planned to take him to the tot spot and then go home

he zeroed in on this truck

there was no getting him out of this nicely

after the largest tantrum of the day, including me getting beaten up, we decided to just go home. he refused to do anything at this point to i had to carry him til we got outside…he calmed down some then. all in all we were only there around 2 hours and i feel like we didnt get to see much but it was a good hour to get there and ended up being around an hour and a half to get home. it was a VERY long day. i cant wait to go again…this time with a stroller!!

also turned 25 weeks pregnant on sunday…heres the pic

jordans terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (week? month? year?)

the terrible twos have come to our house. regardless of all the chaos and noise around here i think he is cuter than ever. starting to have to move things around since he has started climbing.  we are also having to change our parenting style but thats ok, we expected to. i must say that two is VERY adorable. he cracks us up every day. this last week he has been sick so we havent been having very much fun but i notice an improvement in behavior and mood now that he is feeling better.  im anxious to see how things will be between jordan and his brother. caleb is getting big and showing his strength. its amazing to me to be able to feel elbows and knees. the way my stomach just moves with him….im sad that i will never get to experience this again; i have plenty of good memories tho. i find that i really like my body this time around. feeling healthier is a big part of that. josh and i are good…happier than ever. we finally found our niche :)

 

 

catching up (again)!

things have been good, have started working through my issues and my anxiety and panic is almost totally under control. of course i still have some bad days but its so nice to be able to make spur of the moment decisions again. i can just grab my purse and go out the door. i took that for granted before i got sick. never again! i feel so blessed every time im able to do something “normal” again. im past the halfway mark in my pregnancy, 23 weeks tomorrow. jordan is so excited that he is going to have a little…..BROTHER!! caleb is doing well in there and growing bigger all the time. hes a very busy boy just like jordan so i think they will get along famously!! jordans birthday was a hit, he had such a good time. it was so nice to see everyone :)

caleb’s ultrasound photo

 

jordan after the ultrasound

jordan with his birthday cupcake

belly pic from yesterday 22 weeks 5 days

im baaaack

sorry for being gone so long. its been pretty busy and stressful around here. im now 15 1/2 weeks prego and we have our gender scan the 19th. really looking forward to it. went to the ER on the 15 because my cervix had softened and i was bleeding a bit…Jackie says everything is ok tho. she really thinks im going to be ok. the baby is doing good and i got to hear the heartbeat a couple weeks ago (finally)! Jordan was DJ Lance Rock for halloween and Josh sported his “drill instructor” costume…basically his Marine Corp uniform with a fake helmet. Mike and Heather and the kids came over and watched Paranormal Activity. Tessa was a flower and Hunter was a pilot. Josh and Jordan recently have mohawks and ive lost a LOT of weight. will update with Christmas photos when i can. :) the last 4 months as quick as possible in pictures LOL

Mommys baby

Everyone at Thanksgiving

3 of us at Thanksgiving

Jordan and Josh

  Jordan in front of the tree

Last but not least….my 15 week belly

CHAOS!!!

so, the last few weeks have been pure chaos. we moved into a house and we are PREGNANT! yay, thank you god. things are well. changing medications from amitriptyline to celexa (its safer) not much else going on :) will post some pictures :D

 

 

 

lately

 

 

insert 2 videos here. sigh

 

 

 

8-6-09

so i had an interesting day yesterday. after i got the downstairs guy to turn down his music (he barely turned it down and its loud AGAIN today) i dealt with jordans almost constant temper tantrum and then nearly avoided a fire! sometimes when i get jordan up i let him run to the kitchen since he never gets to go in there. i guess at some point he turned on the heated dry on the dishwasher and i didn't know it. i kept smelling what i thought was hot dot. sometimes if smelled like fire but i could not figure out where it was coming from and i didn't hear any fire alarms from other apartments. i finally open the dishwasher and tons of smoke and steam came out of it. turns out a wooden spoon fell down and jammed against the heating element and was charred on one side. i reran an rinse cycle to get rid of any smoke or toxins on the dishes and went on but it was definitely a wakeup call. ill pay more attention to the settings on the dishwasher from now on. josh brought home kfc and jordan liked it!!! i really didn't think he would like just plain old grilled chicken but he decided to surprise me and actually eat some lol. josh seems to really be feeling better. he's having less issues with it. I'm really hoping him being on the naproxen will help him to feel better again. i cant understand why they stopped giving him it! next thing I'm going to work on is his stomach. i think he should go back to his doc and get back on reflux medicine. he should try to get them to prescribe nexium or protonix. I'm sure he will feel so much better. he needs to feel good again, i know his health is really starting to bog him down and when he's down I'm down. i don't like to worry about him. my birthday is tomorrow, it doesn't feel like it. we are supposed to go up to moms this weekend but josh doesn't know if he's going to have off. i hope so since they are throwing the party and everything but if i don't have a way up there then I'm kind of stuck. id really like to go!