Tender Moment

So P1 has been rather fussy the last few days, I blame teething. Yesterday afternoon/evening were especially bad, I was really tired of the constant whining over everything. This morning wasn't much better, but I had regained some of my patience over night. Finally P1 was content doing something, so I pulled out my Kindle to do my daily scripture study. As I was finishing up, P1 came over wanting to play with the Kindle, so I showed it to him and said "I'm reading my scriptures, I'm reading about Jesus." P1 looks at me, and then goes over to the bookcase and pulls out the Nursery manual, and the Gospel Art Book. He brings them over to the couch and proceeds to look at pictures of Jesus while I finish reading. After I finished, we spent some more time looking at the pictures and singing some Primary songs. Such a sweet little boy. He continually surprises me with his level of understanding.

Growing Up

P1 is growing up so quickly. He really is the sweetest little boy.

Enjoying his first whole chocolate chip cookie, what a mess!

P1 loves the bunnies, and is always laughing at them:

P1 is still the resident chef. He is ALWAYS cooking something:

He loves to pull food out of the cabinet, and I was very impressed with his tower building the other day. He also loves milk, I'm pretty sure he drinks a gallon or two all by himself each week. 

P1 thinks he's a big kid now. He always wants to climb up and down the stairs like an adult, not like a baby. He learned how to pull himself up on chairs, and likes to sit at the table like a big kid. While I was out of sight for a minute, he climbed on the computer chair, printed something off, and pulled all the paper out of the printer! And yesterday he pulled out PE's dress shoes and wanted to wear them. He was quite upset that he couldn't walk in them though. 

P1 loves water, and sometimes will drink and spit water out just to get wet. Silly boy!

  We taught P1 how to give kisses, and it is pretty adorable. Some of them can be pretty wet kisses though. Oh, and it's super funny to watch P1 dance.

Oh no, he spotted the camera!

Project #2

Well, in case you really missed it, we are expecting baby #2 this summer. My due date is June 30, and I am predicting a 4th of July baby. P1 and P2 will be 20 months apart. We are excited for P1 to have a sibling even though I don't think he will be too thrilled about it at first. P1 usually gets upset when I hold other babies, but he is getting a little better about it.

We found out November 9 that I was pregnant. Morning sickness started at week 6 (2 weeks earlier than with P1). The first day I started feeling sick, all the memories of going through it the first time came back and I thought "Oh no, what have I gotten myself into!" I really hate morning sickness. For me it is the hardest part about pregnancy.

At week 8, I had a doctor's appointment, and was able to get a free sample of some medicine for morning sickness. The medicine was a life saver, and it was a tender mercy that I was able to get such a large sample for free. I later had to get a prescription for it, and learned that my free sample would have cost about $500 without insurance. I would say the medicine helped with about 90% of my morning sickness.

Week 8:

We were going to wait and tell family for Christmas, but PE wanted to announce it in our Christmas card. We told our families about a week before Christmas, and then sent out our Christmas cards to let everybody else know.

Week 12:

Morning sickness started abating around week 18 (2 weeks later than with P1). I was off my medicine by week 20. Making for about 14 weeks of morning sickness misery! So glad it's over!!!

We had our 20 week ultrasound this week, and DID NOT find out gender! With P1, the technician totally gave it away even though we didn't want to know. But this time we made it through without any slip-ups! We didn't really get a good profile of the baby, but it was still fun to see the baby. And everything looks good!

Week 20: