Updates

Gosh I have been bad at updating this lately! There have been so many times that the kids have done or said something cute where I thought, I should sit down and put that in my blog. Did I? No! I have to get better at this when Ashley is here considering she most likely won't have a scrapbook so I need to journal somewhere.

I am currently just under two weeks away from my due date and I am SO ready to have this baby! The nursery is all done, the car seat is in the car (yes it fit, thank GOODNESS!) and my bag is packed. At my 37 week appointment last week I had not dialated at all which was a big disappointment. We were hoping to talk Dr. Henderson into a induction for next week but we will have to wait till our appointment on Friday to see if I have made any progress. Hopefully something will have changed and I will be able to get things moving.

Alec started school on September 11th (also Aunt Amy's birthday!) and he is LOVING it! I walked him to the classroom on the first day expecting him to be a little clingy to me. I signed him in outside his door and then turned to look for him but he was gone. He was already inside his classroom playing with his friends and getting on with his day. I had to pull him out just to get a picture of him outside the door. He announced on the way home that day, "Mommy, I like room 3 better than room 1." (Room 1 was where he was last year.) I asked him why, and he replied, "Because they have a better kitchen." That's my boy!! Once again, I really need to reconsider the amount of food network I watch around the boys! haha!

Alec was moved up one classroom due to a shuffle in age ranges this year so he is not in a classroom with all of his other friends from last year. I was wondering if this was going to be an issue for him but he seems to have adjusted. You might recall earlier posts about his girlfriend from last year, Carly. Well, that seems to have fizzled since she is in the next classroom up and has a different playground time than Alec. Being the savy 4 year old that he is, Alec of course had to move onto another girl. I found this out in the following conversation that was had on the way home from school last week...

Me - "So sweetie, who did you play with at recess today?"
Alec - "No one, I like to play alone."
Me - "Ok, did you play on the bikes?"
Alec - "Yep."
Silence for about 30 seconds
Alec - "But I did kiss Jacklyn in the sandbox today."
Me - "WHAT?? Why did you do that?"
Alec - "Because she is beautiful!"
Me - "WHERE did you kiss her?"
Alec - "On the shoulder."
Me - "What did she do?"
Alec - "She gave me a big smile."

Oh my gosh. I just about died when he said this! Needless to say, Alec is doing VERY well at school and hopefully the entire year will be just as enjoyable as the first two weeks have been.

Aaron has been quite the character himself lately. He is starting to talk and communicate much more clearly lately. He still has his own interesting way of pronouncing things, but I am a very good Mommy at translating. I keep trying to have him pronounce things the correct way when he says them wrong, but he has no time for that. Example...every time he sees a truck he has to point to it and yell out, "UCK!" No matter how many times I have him make a "T" sound (which he does) and then try to have him put it together with the "uck" sound, he will not say the word properly. I know I should not compare, but when Alec was his age he was so eager to learn how to say things the correct way. He is such a smart cookie, but he decides what exactly he is going to be smart about!

It is always interesting to see what kind of traits you are going to pass along to your children, good or bad. It has become quite clear lately just how much of me has been passed along to Aaron. Apparently when I was a little girl I was not only a picky eater (yes, even pickier than I am now) but I used to go into the backyard and suck on dirt clods all day long. Well, it is all coming back to me full circle with Aaron. He is such a little peanut, 50th percentile for height while only 5th percentile for weight at his 2 year appointment, but the kid won't eat food! There are certain foods that he will eat but anything outside of those certain food items will not be touched. He would rather starve and wait for the next meal to see if it is something that he likes better. I can't tell you how many times I have put him down to bed with him having only had milk and applesauce for dinner just for him to wake up the next morning and plow through 2 waffles for breakfast. I have actually taken to giving him pediasure drinks everyday just to make sure he is getting enough vitamins and calories in his diet. SO frustrating.

As I said before, I was a picky child so I certainly should understand. What goes beyond this is Aaron's oral fascination the rest of the day. EVERY time I turn around Aaron has something that he picked up off the ground in his mouth. It could be a dried up piece of food that I did not clean up from lunch (9 mos preggo here, I am not bending over after every meal to wash the floor) or it could be a rock from outside, or Aaron's personal favorite, Obi food. He won't eat the food on his plate, but heck, leave it on the floor for a day to dry out and he will give it a go! DISGUSTING!!!

The final straw came on Sunday when the entire family was going down for a nap. Alec was down in the office, I was on the couch, Adam in his chair, and Aaron in his bedroom. I asked Adam before I drifted off to sleep if he would go up and check on Aaron (he has had a hard time falling asleep for his naps lately.) Next thing I know I am woken up to Aaron screaming his head off while being brought down stairs and put in the penalty box by a very upset Daddy. I asked what happened and Adam just replied, "Go look at the window above Aaron's bed." Oh no. I ran upstairs and found that Aaron, instead of napping, had stood up on the headboard of his bed and eaten away huge chunks of drywall on the corner of the windowsill. Sigh. Needless to say there was a LONG penalty box served!

I seem to be focusing on the bad Aaron traits this post. I should also throw in some things about how freaking adorable he is also. One smile from that guy or having him come over and stroke my hair while saying, "I ya you mama" (I love you, Mama) and my heart just melts. He is such a sweetie bear and I honestly love that he is such a peanut because it makes it so much fun to snuggle with him (when he lets me.) Aaron is totally obsessed with airplanes and helicopters right now. You never realized just how many airplanes there are in the sky or on tv until you are spending time with Aaron. He is the first to point them out, but if you don't acknowledge what he is saying then he will just keep saying it until you say to him, "Yes baby, I see the airplane!"

I have so much fun staying home with my boys and thank God and my hard working husband every day that this opportunity has been given to me. I love watching them grow and discover new things and I look forward to watching them grow into young gentlemen. I am so looking forward to seeing what kind of an impact Ashley has on our family and how the boys react to her. I know that Alec will be ok (he is SO excited) but I do worry about Aaron a little. I just need to make sure that he knows he is still mommy's little boy and that nothing could ever replace him.

I guess I have spouted off long enough for one post. Hopefully the next time I post it will either be with a induction date or with a little baby in my arms and a very pleasant birth story!