Countdown to Christmas

Ok, only 29 days til Christmas. I still have to buy like 7 more presents as well as finish up buying presents for Timothy. Our tree is up and the his stocking is hanging up and all the decorations are out though. I love Christmas. I can't wait. Timothy is really getting into it too this year, he can spot Santa from a mile away. We took him and Tyler to a drive through Christmas lights show thing at a city park the other night and he was so funny to watch. He just sat there with his eyes wide for the whole trip through there and every now and then he would yell out "Santa!" or "Snowman!". It was pretty fun.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We all went to my parents house and had a great meal and a great day. It was a lot of fun. The cooking part actually went well too, we didn't forget anything, burn anything (or anyone) and the smoke alarm didn't go off so all in all, it was a success. I brought my camera with me, but I didn't really get any pictures. Here's one of Grammy and Grumpy and Tyler though.

Timothy has become quite the little mischief maker lately. I've really had to watch him around the Christmas tree, he's gotten a lot of spankings lately for unplugging it or hitting it with his baseball bat. We had another parent teacher conference at day care last week since he had been in his new classroom for a month now and his new teacher told us that he's a little aggressive. So, we're working on not hitting or kicking or tackling, but it's hard. He loves to play tackle with Brandon but it's hard to teach him the difference between tackling daddy and tackling another little kid. He's also become a huge spider man fan lately. He even tries to sing the song. I put him down for his nap yesterday and he wasn't very sleepy so he played for a little bit and at one point I heard him in there singing, "Biderman, biderman, biderman, biderman". It was pretty funny.

Anyway, that's all we've been up to lately. This coming weekend is Tyler's 9th birthday so I think we're going ice skating and then out for a family dinner. It should be a fun night, I can't believe he's 9 already...time flies...anyway, hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

A Little Fun

Since the last couple of posts were pretty much depressing and morbid and our lives are all much better now, I thought I would add some holiday cheer with new pictures!

Check out the cool kid in the pull-ups!

And smiling pretty on the potty

Trying out the booster seat (have you noticed a theme with the cheesy smile face?)

Trying to put own his own clothes

Yes, we put up our Christmas tree already...I couldn't wait any longer!

This toy blows out air and he figured out how to point it at his face...he thought it was pretty cool

Brandon thinks Timothy looks like the statue of the guy holding the world on his shoulders...

Watching TV with daddy

And then doing a little daddy surfing

That's all for now, Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Update

Well it looks as though our new little one is on its way to heaven. I got my test results back from Saturday and my hormone levels had dropped pretty low and I'm still bleeding and cramping so I'm thinking this one is over. So, I've decided that it was a boy and his name is Henry (since Brandon refuses to let me name any of our sons Henry - this is as good as it gets) and our little Henry is in heaven now and I'll see him someday so it's ok. I still have to go do another blood test on Friday, but I don't really see the point. I'm a little mad at my doctor, but I'll probably just find another one and move on.

It's been harder than I thought. We were only about 6 or 7 weeks along, but I didn't realize how attached I had become to the little guy! For the most part I've been ok, but I've had a couple of moments of breaking down and crying for a little while. I've still been going to work, but I think I'm going to have a little talk with my boss about reducing my work load during month end. Did you know that job-related stress increases your risk of miscarriage by three times? I guess since things were so easy with Timothy when I got pregnant I just thought they would be easy this time too, but oh well. So we'll wait until all this stupid bleeding is done and I feel better and then start trying again.

So in other news...Timothy is still really interested in the potty. I did buy him some pull-ups and he seems to like them (except for the fact that he can take them off himself, I don't like that very much!). He doesn't go in the potty 100% of the time, probably only 30%, but hey, it's a start!

He has become quite the challenge when it comes to discipline though. I took him out a few weeks ago in church to spank him and decided to just spank on the diaper and it totally didn't even phase him and when we walked out of the bathroom he announced, "all done!" so we've moved to spanking on the side on his leg...it's been much more efficient. He also still occasionally throws his food at the table and I was popping him on the hand for it and last night he threw something and Brandon and I both looked at him and he started hitting his own hand, I had to get up and walk away, I was trying so hard not to laugh! It's been nice to have some humour and sweet hugs and kisses this week.

No pictures tonight, I did take some of him today in his pull-ups and on his potty, but the cameras downstairs and I'm too tired to get it tonight. I'll try to get them up later. We're putting up our Christmas tree on Saturday though so I'll get pictures of that too. Happy early Thanksgiving!

Day by Day

Well it's been a busy week here as usual. It was month end closing for me and it was horrible. I've been covering for a girl that's covering for another girl's maternity leave and we had a lot of changes this month and it was just bad. I ended up with only five hours of overtime, but that was only because I came in Friday at 11 instead of 6:30am.

We have had an interesting week here, other than closing stress. It started off fine, still a little nauseous and tired, but other than that normal and then Thursday morning I noticed that I had started bleeding, which is never good when you're pregnant although I have been finding that's it happens more often than I thought. After I noticed the bleeding I noticed that I was cramping and immediately thought miscarriage. I couldn't even think about work after that. I called the doctor and at first she told me to take it easy and go home from work if I could (yeah right, I can just imagine what they would have said if that had happened!) but then she called me back and said she wanted me to come in for a blood test.

So I went in and did the test and called back Friday morning and they said they wanted me to do another blood test on Saturday. Needless to say, I was just a little worried! So I went in today and did another blood test so I guess I'll find out Monday if everything's ok. Christi suggested I go buy another pregnancy test so I did and it was still positive so that made me feel better. I'm thinking now that it's just bleeding. I'm still worried, but I have been praying so much about this and I just have a good feeling that everything's ok. I guess we'll see what God has planned for this little one. Thank you all for your prayers though, I have felt really calm about it yesterday and today and I wasn't very crampy today.

So that put a little damper on the weekend, but we still were busy as much as I could handle. We stayed home last night and relaxed and today we spent most of the day at the mall. I had an appointment to get my hair cut and then we went and got our family Christmas pictures made. They turned out really cute, I was really happy with them. Timothy was a total cheese in front of the camera. His "cheese" comes out as "chee-ya". It's really cute. The worst part about this whole bleeding thing though is that I'm not supposed to lift anything and she said that included Timothy so Brandon has had to handle all of that lately. It's been really hard not being able to put him to bed or anything, but hopefully it won't scar him for life.

Brandon's parents and aunt were here to visit last weekend. We had a lot of fun, we went into Seattle on Saturday and it was a nice sunny day so we did Pike Place and the Space Needle. Ever since they left Timothy has been asking, "Where'd that Papa go"? Tonight he answered himself and said, "Papa home airplane". He's so smart it's scary sometimes.

Our biggest news of the week just happened a few minutes ago. I was getting him ready for his bath and he started saying, "potty" so I thought, ok, we'll take off the diaper and see what happens so I put him on the toilet and he actually went in the potty!! I had started to notice that he was saying, "potty" a lot more lately, and today he started telling us when he would poop (sorry, that's gross) but I never dreamed he would actually know that he was supposed to do that kind of thing in a toilet! So I think we're going to wait and see if it catches on and he keeps doing it or if it's just something he's interested in and then forgets in a few days. I know in his new class at daycare it goes up to three years old so they have a lot of kids in there that are potty training so maybe he'll catch on faster seeing all the other kids doing it, but I just thought it was pretty cool that he actually went potty for us.

Anyway, I'm sure that was thrilling news. Hopefully this next week we can relax and gear up for Thanksgiving. Happy early birthday to Aunt Larena! We'll see you next month!