17 weeks

How far along? 17 weeks

Total weight gain:  Between 4 and 5 lbs
Maternity clothes? Everyday! I'm loving the stretchy dresses I got from Target, I could wear them everyday!
Stretch marks? Not that I can tell....I am using Earth Mama stretch oil this pregnancy and hoping I am as lucky as I was with Micah.
Sleep: Could be better, my back has been hurting which makes it hard to get comfortable...oh and peeing every 15 minutes doesn't help either! ;)
Best moment this week: Fun times with some girlfriends this week. On Saturday I got the day off while daddy and Micah hung out. I got a mani-pedi, attended Danica's baby shower, and then went to dress up Bunco with the stroller strides mamas. Fun and busy day!
Missing anything? I sure was at all of those parties! 

Movement: Not really, I thought I was a bit before but now I am wishing I could feel something. It's always nice to know baby is doing great in there. 
Food cravings: I ate everything in site this weekend but lately I am really into watermelon and other fruit and I've still got a thing for those vegan grilled cheese sandwiches...but I am trying to limit!Anything making you queasy or sick: My back was making me feel nauseous this week, not sure what's going on. It's gotten much worse since I've started seeing the chiropractor. 

Showing? No doubt about it!

Gender: This countdown is feeling like it's taking forever but we find out in 8 DAYS!!!!!!!
Labor signs:  No
Symptoms: Some round ligament pain and extreme appetite!
Belly button in or out? Lost cause. 

Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or moody most of the time: Pretty happy
Looking forward to:  Gender reveal!!!! 

Baby’s fruit size: A pomegranate!

Last week I didn't get around to the update but here is the photo....

Baby #2! 15 Week Update

How far along? 15 weeks 

Total weight gain: 1.8 lbs (strangely enough,  the exact same weight I had gained with Micah at 15 weeks! However, I am soon much bigger! My belly has popped and I started out 7 lbs heavier at the beginning of the pregnancy....boo!)

Maternity clothes? Yes, I've needed my maternity pants for quite awhile now! This pregnancy is so different...I feel so much "more pregnant!"

Stretch marks? Slathering, hoping, and praying that they stay away!
Sleep: Peeing 500 times a night but other than that...good!
Best moment this week: After only a week of "retirement" after my job cut per diem hours I may have some opportunities coming up! On Thursday I had a meeting with the CEO and Chief Nursing Officer of Hoag and I may be asked to help them create a weight loss program! Also, two hours after I got home from that meeting I got a phone call from the Orange County ADA at Kaiser and I may be able to pick up some shifts doing what I was doing before much closer to home! Woo hoo, not a bad day at all! :)
Miss anything? I have been allowing myself a bit of coffee now and then but I definitely miss my big coffees and having a glass of red wine while I cook dinner....

Movement: There have been a couple times when I have thought I felt something but I'm not positive. 
Food cravings: Similar cravings to when I was pregnant with Micah but I feel like I am eating way more this time around! The other night I had pickles and pineapple...hah! Also, Micah and I got on an ice cream cone (or ice cone as he calls it) kick this week. I made his with processed frozen bananas and an organic cone...mine had mint chocolate chip! 
Anything making you queasy or sick: I'm just going to leave what I wrote this week for my last pregnancy because it's exactly the same!! My nausea has gotten much better this week, thank goodness! I get waves of it sometimes at night or first thing in the morning but it is pretty brief/mild now. Still feeling very sensitive to smells (I'm looking at you hubby!)

Showing? Oh my goodness....I look about the size I did when I was 26 weeks pregnant with Micah ...it's crazy!

Gender: Don't know yet! But I did schedule our anatomy scan for the first week of May! woo hoo! I can't wait to find out the gender so we can plan!
Labor signs:  No
Symptoms: Up to this week the nausea has been so awful all day but it has begun to subside thankfully. I am having  a ton of round ligament pain and some sharp pains that can be sort of scary. My emotions seem to be stabilizing a bit but I still feel very quickly sent to tears!
Belly button in or out? Sadly it never fully went back in.....but seriously as soon as I started to pop around 8 weeks my belly button was poking out! 

Wedding rings on or off? On
Happy or moody most of the time: I guess both, pretty happy but some moody moments.
Looking forward to: The anatomy scan so we can find out the gender , be told baby is doing great, and set up the nursery!!! 

Baby’s fruit size: A navel orange 

This is the first update I've been able to squeeze in but here are some past bump photos!

"Two Old"

My baby turned two years old today! If you ask him how old he is he will tell you "TWO OLD!" Too old...ain't that the truth! I can't believe how quickly these past two years have rushed by. The days sometimes felt very long, but it feels like just yesterday that he was a brand new baby in our arms smiling for the first time. Now he is talking up a storm, has the funniest little personality, and very much wants his autonomy. He says so many things now I can't keep track but some of my favorite are  "hold you" or "help you" when he wants to be held or if he needs help with something. All day long I hear "Mama weeeeaaaad" when he wants me to read his book, or "meow" for his favorite little kitty who is never far from his side, "mooooooooonkey" his giant monkey stuffed animal that is bigger than him, "eat toast," whenever he wants to eat. He had a Dr. Seuss themed birthday party at Atlantis Park yesterday so for the past couple weeks we've talked A LOT about "Doc Seuss" and "Upcakes." He could live at the park-he loves to run and climb and see other babies (anyone under 15 pretty much). All day we hear, "Park! Babies!" He loves to go to the daycare at mama's small gym and play with the other kiddos and run around. He loves to run, be chased and tickled, hide (face planting in a few chosen locations whenever he is avoiding a diaper change, clothes change, bedtime etc.), demands to listen to "Hot Potato" by the Wiggles at least 20 times a day, and even requests it as a lullaby at bedtime. Mama recently weaned Micah off all nursing sessions, which was surprisingly less traumatic than anticipated! Micah really loves his milkis but he's handled the new change like a champ! He lifts mama's shirt and kisses the baby in her belly, loves to give hugs (even to strangers at parks..but he saves the best tight bear-hugs for mama and daddy), and says "hi" and "bye" to everyone he sees, getting as close to them as possible and excitedly waving and saying it over and over. He is the light of our days, he is so funny and sweet and even though this age can be very challenging we can't have but marvel at what a gift he is every single day. Thank you for making me  a mama two years ago today baby boy-I had no idea what I was in for and I look forward to every single day with you, getting to know you more and more and watching your personality and light shine and unfold. You are such a kind, loving, goofy, adventurous, thoughtful, focused, rambunctious, and wise little buggy. I love you to pieces baby boy! Happy, Happy Birthday. 

20 Months

Oh boy, it's been awhile since our last update! So many things have happened so I won't even attempt to play catch up on everything but here's a few of our favorite things!

Micah is talking non-stop! We are loving every minute of his new ability to communicate with us verbally. Some of his most used words include: no, more (mo mo), poof (poop!), stuck, off (used very frequently-any time he wants down or wants something off), cook (used about every 5 minutes), woof, meow, moo, quack, blue, bowl, cup, spoon, box, clock, hot, brrrr, ow!, and many more!

He loves to dance and has some pretty killer moves! His personality shines through more everyday and we are discovering that he is quite the jokester! He loves to be silly and make people laugh and we find his humor to be very smart!

Micah's favorite thing ever right now is cooking. He LOVES helping mama in he kitchen, measuring and adding ingredients. Every morning the first thing he does is say "et's COOK!!!!!!!" with this hilarious little stance and power fist. We have no idea where the hand motion came from or why it's associated with cooking but we love it. He also loves to clean-especially the vacuum or broom. He demands that we vacuum several times a day and get's super excited whenever he sees it.

He could play in the sand at the beach, park, or in his sand table all day long. He absolutely loves it. He also loves the ocean and just wants to run straight in-no fear! Yesterday he had his first pony ride and was totally brave and happy to go off on his own without us right by his side.

Illnesses are running rampant this time of year and we are finding it hard to stay healthy! Micah had a stomach bug that had him vomiting for six days straight! It was so sad and terrifying-we ended up taking him to the hospital twice and he had to get an IV. It was such an awful experience but we felt very grateful it wasn't anything serious and that he got better on his own. Ever since we've been battling every cold possible-seems like the little just keep passing it back and forth between one another. It's so unbelievably hard to see your baby sick and in pain.

22-months

Where does the time go?? I can't believe our little guy is about to turn 2! He is talking up a storm,  constantly dancing (he LOVES to listen to the Wiggles-especially Hot Potato!), playing the drums, cooking in his play kitchen, reading, jumping off the couch into a pile of pillows, and running around naked after diaper changes (while giggling hysterically!) He can count to ten and recognize various letters of the alphabet, he'll come up to me and point at my shirt and say "A" or "O". We try not to let him watch TV although we have when he is sick and he is obsessed with Daniel Tiger. He loves to jump and run! His favorite things in the world are going to the park and the beach. He has no fear of the water and would run straight into the ocean if we let him. His favorite animal seems to be a cat right now and he  loves to read his Dr. Seuss books over an over! His favorite food is toast and he asks for it throughout the day "eat toast!" He loves family hugs before daddy leaves for work, applesauce and chia pudding, to help mama bake and eat cookies, stickers and coloring, wrestling with daddy, nursing with mama, and he still loves to help us clean! He is so much fun and has such a great sense of humor! He has talked about his Nana and Cass almost every single day since we left Colorado! "Nana house cold-brrr!" And he points to the computer and asks to Skype with them at least once a week-so sweet! He has really started to love playing with other kids and whenever he sees a child under about 15 he yells "baby!" He loves to chase the big kids around the park and mimic what they are doing-especially if they have scooters or skateboards! He recently saw two older girls doing handstands at the park and he started laughing with glee and ran up right next to them and put his head on the ground! He is still such a people person and blows kisses to the cashier at every store we go into when we leave. He loves to watch the "trash truck" come and loves to read his Little Blue Truck books. It's so fun watching his personality develop and being able to communicate with him a little better every day.

17 Months

8/23/15 Micah has gone pee pee in the potty a few times, and he has sat on the potty saying he needed to go about 30 times....he then gets up and claps for himself (so cute). Afterward, we have to convince him to put his diaper back on for about..oh 20 minutes or so. He has a Llama Llama book that talks about the potty, so every time we get to that page he shrieks and runs over to his potty while pointing at his diaper (his signal to us that he needs it off....NOW!). He still is Mr. Social and loves to give everyone he encounters his very charming wave and smile. He says "clock," "bird," "ball," "mama," "dada," "car," "dog," and then of course makes his animal sounds "rawr (tiger/lion/dinosaur)" "mew mew mew' (cat), "ppfff (dog...obviously), "bzzzz"(bee), "ssssss" (snake), "Vrooo" (car). He especially loves to repeat "mamadadamamadadamamadada." <3  He LOVES to climb, go to the park, play at the beach, play with the My Gym instructors, play drums and guitar, and play with his sand and water table. His favorite thing (after milky, of course) is reading books. He could literally do it all day (and sometimes it feels like we do!). He is still sleeping (mostly) through the night and taking short naps during the day. Any time there is not music on he demands we turn it on by raising the roof (or Beyonce-ing) by the speaker. Recently, he has really loved to play hide and seek with us. Sometimes he is a great hider (under the couch cushions where we can't see him, and others times is a very cute hider (hiding just his face-I can't see you, you can't see me). 

8/30/15 Micah is in the midst of a growth spurt and is suddenly ravenous, eating everything on his tray and even asking for seconds. Makes this mama so happy to see him enjoying his yummy plant foods! The other day he had two green smoothie "fudgesicles' after he finished his lunch! His language development has also skyrocketed in the last few days and he's talking a lot more and excitedly saying the words he knows from his books ("ball," "clock," "bird" etc) over and over.  He loves to do the motions to The Wheels On The Bus and can sing it with us all day long. He is getting so good at communicating what he wants and he gives us the cutest cheesy grin when we understand what he is asking for. He recently convinced mama to get him a giant monkey stuffed animal from Costco and has been walking around cuddling and dancing with it. He also fed it diner tonight in his high chair....so cute. He LOVES the beach and can play in the sand and water for hours.

16 Months

Lots has happened with Micah over the last few weeks...where to begin?! He is running and climbing EVERYWHERE and does not want to be told where to go. He has his own ideas and opinions and is definitely not interested in giving up any of his new found autonomy to appease mama and daddy. He loves to go down the slide, make animal sounds, read, play chasing games, has the best sense of humor and seems to get complicated humor in a very adult-like way, is incredibly tough and rarely cries even when he falls pretty hard, laughs at his "boo boos" and bruises, sticks his finger in his nose (this started as a "where is your nose" response and then just took off on it's own...lol.

He still loves, loves, loves music and dancing. Anytime there is any sort of music on he immediately starts dancing (in a move that looks strikingly similar to Beyonces' 'single ladies dance). He says yes (a-yah) and no (shakes his head back and forth). He still loves anything to do with a guitar or drumming, is starting to love all of his stuffed animals, and likes to roll the volleyball back and forth.

He loves to take his diaper off and run around the house giggling (and is devastated when we make him put it back on). He has gone for his first bike ride in a trailer (hated it), in his first bounce house (not sure), and his first splash pad  adventures (love/hate/love). He met his Grandpa Greg for the first time and hit it off with him right away.

Micah's first carousel ride!

Came back to have a ride with Daddy!

Feeding himself...

The aftermath.

Annabelle's 2nd Birthday Party!

8/2
Micah went poo poo on his big boy potty today! He was doing his usual poo poo stance and face and mama asked him if he had to go potty, he walked right over to his potty and pointed at it. Mama took of his diaper and he finished in the potty! Afterward he got up and clapped for himself and was so proud! He has been asking us to take his diaper off and then sitting on his potty for a few days now (although he is just a tad too small still and he has to put one foot in the potty first and then take it our and adjust once he's up in order to get on all by himself.

8/11 Micah has told us he needed to go potty several times by going to the bathroom door and pointing, once we open the door he points to his potty, then his diaper. Once we take off his diaper and help him sit on the potty he tinkles! So smart! He loves to wave at everybody he sees, has the cutest little coy smile he flashes at strangers, and when he wants to get the attention of stranger he starts giggling until they turn around and acknowledge him.

More pictures from month 16...

Micah's New Monster Hoody!

 

Micah's pre-haircut mullet. It was time.

Auntie Meme gives Micah his first haircut.

He sat there so patiently!! <3

First time at Frogg's Bounce House..not sure how he feels about it.

"usies"

Baby modeling.

Sandtray Play!