7:15-kids awake. Diapers, breakfast. A upset. E gives her pats. So SWEET! Find wasp in E's room. Kill it w/wasp spray. Read the can when finished and see it says not to use indoors under any circumstance. Freak out about fumes and open the windows as much as possible.

8:15-school w/E. LOTW-Rr, color-red, shape-rectangle, song-Row Your Boat, words-rain, rainbow, rabbit and robot. He LOVES it. "Easton so 'cited!"

8:45-E and A play eggs in the LR floor. E asks sis "Do you see orange? Good!" :)

9:10-watch Curious George 2 with E while A takes a nap. Watch a little, play a little cars, play a little tickle fight, watch a little more.

10:35-diaper and daytime clothes for E, shower and clothes for me.

11:20-E asks for "more preschool". Set him up with a snack and pom pom rectangle page. He really likes it and says "Easton put it!"when he puts one on.

11:30-Sis up from nap. Change and get her dressed for the day. Play in floor w/E and A for a bit. Find ants in kitchen. Same place as last year. Spend the rest of the day feeling like I've got bugs crawling on me. UGH!

12:15-lunch for everyone. Change both kids and put A down for 2nd nap. Upload pics to computer while E plays cars. He says he's "just busy mama." A doesn't sleep. She feels hot and is probably teething. I give her Tylenol and a bottle.

1:00-get diaper bag ready and kids out the door on time. Pick up J from work so he can watch the kids during my consultation w/oral surgeon about my wisdom teeth.

2:00-appt goes well. Dr Amos says he DOES NOT recommend taking them out at this time. The pain I've been having is most likely due to a very small cavity that is not yet able to be picked up on xray or from an old filling that is failing. This great news saves J 2 or 3 vacation days, me a lot of pain and our bank account $2315. Nice! We go to Sonic for Happy Hour Cokes to celebrate.

4:00-arrive home. Unload kids and stuff from car. Change diapers and hang out in the living room for a while. A is still fussy and feverish. E asks for a "teever" and keeps putting his hand in his mouth. 2 teething, cranky kids who missed their afternoon nap due to my appt.

5:00-J is working later tonight to make up for missing time earlier in the day. I give the kids fruit and veg for dinner. Both are whiney and cry throughout dinner. Time for Motrin.

5:45-sit down on the couch to feed A her bottle. E gets into my purse and into the lotion. By the time I catch him, he's smeared lotion over his face, the cabinets and a lot of the contents of my purse. Clean him up and get both kids changed and into jammies for the night. Both are already rubbing their eyes and still fussing.

6:00-J comes home. Hooray! We read stories, brush the kid's teeth and put them to bed by 6:45. Whew! Collapse in a heap on the couch and look around at my messy house but am too tired to do anything about it.

Not included in the above list: the 20 or so songs we sang today, the 50 or so messes my kids made (only slightly exaggerated), and the 2 or 3 times I had to put E in timeout for pulling the cat's tail or smacking his sister or the approximately 239 Cheerios I have stepped on today. I vacuumed them up but they'll be back tomorrow, trust me.

7:20-heat up dinner for me and J. Thank goodness I don't have to cook or do homework tonight! Will attempt to upload some pictures and blog tomorrow.

We finally got new cell phones this week. And ditched at&t too. We had OK service with them but really crappy customer service. Plus Sprint had much better monthly prices...if you can call $130 a month (COUGH!) for two phones a good price. Now I've got a shiny new purple Blackberry and I tell you this thing is so different from my last phone that I think I need to take a class on how to use this thing. I already love the fact that I can surf the web on my phone or play music or get on Facebook easily but some things annoy me. I can't figure out how to quit getting alerts each time I get an email. I like that I can check my email if I want but don't want an icon to pop up each time I get an email. I know probably all I have to do is uncheck some box or something but haven't had the time to figure it out yet. I also haven't figured out how to move my contacts over from my old phone because whatever application you need is corrupt in my old phone. So if I havent' called you in a while that probably means I don't have your number plugged in my new phone yet. I'll get there though. Eventually. One other thing I can't figure out on my Blackberry is how to get only status updates only in my facebook feed. On my desktop I changed the settings so I don't see all of the "so and so is playing this game" notifications but can't figure out how to do this on my phone. So far it seems that the Blackberry doesn't have a very long battery life either. This might be because each time I get an email and the little icon pops up I feel like I have to check it immediately just to make that little icon go away. Gotta figure out how to get rid of that so I'm not checking my email so often and I'm sure that will help with the battery life. But YAY! A new phone! I can actually HEAR the person I'm calling! It always takes a while to get familiar with a new phone but once I do I usually end up loving it. Ooh, so shiny! Pretty purple case with not a scratch on it. Yet. Easton dropped it for the first time today and I thought I was going to have a heart attack. New silicon cover + lcd screen protector ordered shortly after that. :)

Boy, it is really feeling more like WINTER than Fall here lately! I'm glad I get to wear my red wool coat but not at all glad that it's cold. That makes no sense but I do love that red coat. :) I'm freezing. We're supposed to get our first freeze tonight. Down to around 31!!! Holy cow, that's cold! My hands are like icicles as I'm trying to type this. I think I need some hot tea and a warm bath to warm up.

In other news, it's apple butter time around here. I've already made (and blogged about????) one batch of apple butter. I'm proud I (mostly) got over my fear of canning. All that hot water and glass and boiling apple butter...yikes!!! But I did it and it turned out great so I'm going to get together with two of my friends and make about a bushel's worth of apples into apple buttter. Should be an all day deal but I'm really looking forward to it.

I got an A in my Nutrition for Education class. I got the maximum amount of points on my final Power Poing presentation and got a 99% in the class! Do I wish I'd gotten that one extra point so I could have had 100? Heck, no! I was just thrilled to get what I did! Only 10 more classes to go til graduation!!! Hmmm...maybe I could get a new car for graduation! Our Malibu will be paid off around then and we DO need a bigger car now that we've got 2 little ones. What do you say, honey? :)

Today Easton decided to take the straw out of a cup of water he was drinking out of and play with it. He ended up scratching his eye with the straw. Now it's really red and irritated and he keeps blinking his eyes and rubbing at it. I'm easily grossed out about eye things because of all the gross eye stuff I've been through so I could barely look at it without feeling like I was gonna throw up. Poor baby! Audrey's got a check up tomorrow and I might call ahead and ask if the doctor can take a look at E's eye just to be safe.

Audrey's getting shots tomorrow. I HATE taking my kids to get shots!!! I made Jason go with me and hold Easton down one time just to see how awful it is. Not very nice of me I know but should I get to have all the fun? He was coming with me to the appointment already anyways so I just thought I'd share. You're welcome, honey. Now he knows why I am all teary-eyed when I come home from the doctor's appointments. Ugh! I hate that!

Today we did about 5 loads of laundry. Who knew it could take so stinkin long to fold a load of kid's clothes?!?!

That's about it for us. Nothing too exciting. Gotta get off of here and make some tea. I'm FREEZING!!!

(Santa, if you read my blog I could sure use some soft, fuzzy socks and a new pair of warm houseshoes, OK? All my fuzzy socks are really getting worn out and I had to trash my slippers because I'd worn a hole right through the bottom of both of them. Thanks! P.S. Sorry I didn't keep my house as clean as I wanted to but I'm sure with all those elves you understand, right?)

Busy all day today! I did laundry, got the kids dressed, gave Easton a bath after lunch (he had spaghetti-o's...the boy REALLY needed a bath!), did more laundry, made apple butter, did dishes, canned the apple butter, played with Audrey, put E down for a nap, did more dishes, played with Audrey some more. All of that and I am still in my pajamas. How is it that I can get all that done but can't find time to take a shower? :)

Oh how I wish I had the time to blog lately. I miss it. Really. I do. But right now it's 12:07 am and I need to be getting my hiney to bed. (Hiney is the word of the day around here. E thinks it is hilarious and says it a lot.)

Things I really need to blog about:
My mom, Bonnie and Ryan and Tyson's visit here. FUN!!!

Daily cute stuff my kids do to attract attention. Especially funny stories about Easton at Target.

My new WiiFit. Thanks, mom!

Audrey's 2 month check-up.

Jason's out of town trip.

Next month's trip to Mebane. With NO KIDS!

But this tired mama will have to write again tomorrow or sometime soon. I'm worn out! Sorry to be a tease but my hiney will be dragging tomorrow if I don't get in bed pdq.

We now have a full freezer. Both our inside freezer and the deep freeze are F-U-L-L! Jason and I spent all day yesterday cooking. We made breakfast burritos, bean and beef burritos, 7 mini loaf pans of lasagna, and 2 kinds of calzones. I tried to think of things that would be easy and quick. The burritos and calzones will be great for Jason to pack in his lunch for work and the lasagna is my tricky, sneak-in-the-veggies lasagna that everyone around here loves. It feels good knowing we won't have to worry about cooking for a while.

Today we planted two kinds of tomatoes, green peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, basil, cilantro and lavender in pots to keep on our deck. I did most of the work sitting down in a lawn chair to hopefully keep Miss Audrey from coming early. I've really kind of overdone it the past three days, even though I promised myself I'd take it easy. It's hard to just sit around when I see all this stuff that needs to be done.

Tomorrow Easton and I are going to a cookout that our neighbors invited us to. Jason has to work so it will just be Easton and me but I'm really looking forward to getting to know our neighbors a little better.

Jason's Camaro is on a trailer and on it's way to our house. I'm really excited about FINALLY having it here in WV with us. I can't wait to see Easton and his Daddy working on the car together when E gets a little bit bigger. :)

And that's about it for us. Tomorrow I'm taking it easy and not doing a darn thing. Really. I promise! I'm totally grossed out by my hugely swollen feet right now so I think I'm going to put them up and watch a movie. Posting here may be sporadic at best in the upcoming weeks but I'll try to update here if anything exciting happens. Look for Jason to do a post here (maybe even with pictures) when we finally get to meet Audrey.

Still waiting to meet Miss Audrey. In the meantime though, I've been busy. Busy resting and playing with Easton. Sometimes I do get a little crazy and run a bunch of errands or whatever but mostly I'm just hanging out at home. This weekend I'm planning to cook a bunch of meals that can be frozen and reheated so that I won't have to worry about what's for dinner when I'm taking care of 2 little ones and recovering from surgery. I think I'll recruit Jason to help me in the kitchen this weekend. Boy, won't he be thrilled?! Well, actually he might not mind too much since if I don't cook later, he'll be the one left doing it.

I'm really excited about having company soon. I pick my mom up next Tuesday. Then I've got my pre-op appointment on Wednesday and have the baby on Thursday. If all goes well, I should be home Sunday or Monday and should just be able to relax and get adjusted to having a new little one around the house. I'm glad all of our big projects are done so that we can all just focus on taking care of Miss Audrey and Mr. Easton. Then after my mom leaves, Jason's mom is coming for a while. Yippee! Boy, Easton won't know what to do with getting to see his Nana AND his Nanny and Papa Kyle so close together! We can't wait!

We've been having fun around here lately and here are the pictures to prove it:

In his "mimming poo" (swimming pool) - I tried to get him to wear a hat or sunglasses to keep the sun out of his eyes but he wanted no part of either one of those.


Easton in his wagon - Again a squinty-eyed picture because he won't wear a hat.


With his new mower - Easton likes to mow with his mower just like Daddy's.


Battle scars - I cannot keep this boy from getting all scraped up! I know he's a toddler and that's gonna happen but ouch! This one came from a run-in with the concrete while we were on a walk. Guess I'll just have to get his 18 month pictures made while he's all scraped up. I keep trying to wait until his wounds have all healed but then he gets another one before the last bruise or scrape is gone!

J's work is having open enrollment for their insurance right now. I have no idea when kids should have their first eye or dental checkups. Any advice?

My poor kids are gonna most likely have inherited their mama and daddy's need for glasses and serious need for braces way down the line. Let's hope they got their daddy's smart genes and their mama's love of reading too! I think E's definitely shown signs of having both of those last two traits and boy did his bottom teeth come in awful crooked! And those are just his baby teeth!

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry says this:

Q. When should my child first see a dentist?

"First visit by first birthday" sums it up. Your child should visit a pediatric dentist when the first tooth comes in, usually between 6 and 12 months of age. This visit will establish a dental home for your child. Early examination and preventive care will protect your child’s smile now and in the future.

Pediatric Dentistry

And Bausch and Lomb says this about eye exams:

Children should have a comprehensive eye exam by a licensed eye doctor at six months, 3 years of age, before first grade and every two years thereafter or as recommended. The doctor will determine if your child needs vision correction and check for common eye disorders.

Eye exams

What do you parents think? Are these suggested times too early for these exams? When Jason first asked me about it, I guessed eye exam right before school started and dental exam around three or so but from the looks of it I was WAY off. What do you think?

I read somewhere recently that the average 18 month old can say 10 words. That got me thinking about how many words Easton can say and I decided to make a list. So far we're up to 135. It is unbelievable how quickly he picks up on new words! I talk to him all day long and he loves to read books so I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I had no idea it was THAT many!

We had a great weekend. Jason's birthday was Friday. (Happy 31st birthday, honey!) He didn't want anything too fancy so we just cooked out. We made hamburgers, brats, hot dogs, baked beans and asparagus. I also made a chocolate cake and we had 2 kinds of ice cream to choose from. With all this food, you'd think we were feeding an army but nope...just us and one friend. We really do it up at our house for birthdays! :)

Saturday we just hung out around the house. Jason worked outside for a bit. He's refinishing my great-grandma Lizzy's wardrobe and has really had to put quite a bit of work into it - rebuilding drawers, gluing and bracing pieces, replacing the entire back of the piece. While he was doing that, my friend Katy and I went to Target to buy Easton a wagon. Jason put that together for us Saturday evening so we could use it the next day.

Sunday we got up, made a big breakfast and then took Easton for his first ride in his little red wagon. (I did end up paying full price for it by the way. I couldn't wait to get to use it!) Easton LOVED the wagon. He calls it his "car". After the wagon ride, we came back to the house and got ready for the first swim of the year. The water was still cold but Easton loved playing in it anyway. He wouldn't sit down in it because it was freezing but he didn't want to get out either. He settled for standing in it and bending over to splash his hands in it and play with his toys. He got pretty mad the few times he lost his balance and fell face first into the water but even then he did not want to get out. :) Stubborn boy! (Hmm...wonder where he gets that from?)

Right now, we're about to get ready for another swim. He loved it so much yesterday that I think we'll try to do it every day when the weather is nice enough. It's a fun time for him and I get to relax with my feet in the pool, a drink by my side and a book in my hand. Can't get much better than that! :)

I'm so happy the weather is finally warming up! It's supposed to be 86 on Saturday and I can't wait! Easton and I might get out and go for a walk around our neighborhood. I sure wish we had a wagon I could take with us for when he gets tired of walking! Jason and I have talked about buying one (and we still might) but I hate to pay full price for one. I tried asking at the consignment shop I use to see if they ever got any in but they said they don't stock them on a regular basis because they take up too much room in their store. It's a really tiny place that's crammed to the max with rows and rows of clothes, toys, games and other kid gear. I'm hoping one day I'll get lucky and run across one at a garage sale or something but I sure wish we had one right now! I'm usually pretty good about being able to wait for a sale before I buy something but I'm running out of time to go for walks for a while! I know once the baby's here I'll be out of commission for a while for some recovery time so I want to make the most of the days I have until then. Who knows...maybe we'll just break down and pay full price. YUCK!

It's a rainy, gloomy day here. Just the perfect kind of day for making a pot of stew and some homemade bread. Think I'll do just that. Plus, I've got some homework and laundry that needs to be done. YUCK! But at least I can get that stuff done and reward myself with watching a movie later today when Easton goes down for a nap. Hooray!

It is 4:19 pm and I am still in my pajamas. I guess now that the day is 3/4 of the way done there's no real reason for me to put on real clothes is there? Some days are just like that. I got busy today and just didn't get around to getting ready for the day. I've been cleaning out the closet in Baby 2's room. Boy, did I have a lot of craft stuff to get organized! I guess since I used to be the "Crafty Lil Devil" that would make sense, right? I kind of miss those days sometimes but my days lately are filled with much better "projects"...like reading books to my sweetie boy, playing ball and cars and watching the "deet-deets" from my dining room window. (That's Easton-speak for "bird". I'm pretty sure he's trying to say tweet-tweet but it sure is cute! )

Right now all my crafty ablilities are going to trying to get some projects done around the house before baby 2 makes her debut. I'm hoping to get a chalkboard painted to hang by my new desk/work area, sand and stain two memory boxes for the kiddos special things, and finish decorating the nursery. I guess the "Crafty Lil Devil" still is crafting just not necessarily taking time to blog about it. So if anyone is reading this and wondering where in the world the name came from...that's it. Someone saw one of my craft projects I'd finished and said "Well, aren't you a crafty little devil?"

Has anyone done a craft project lately they want to tell me about?

Spring cleaning time continues at our house. I took in a huge tote of Easton's old baby clothes to the consignment shop, 2 huge boxes of books to donate to the library and 2 huge trash bags of clothes to donate to the Salvation Army. And the best part? All I had to do was call at the library and the Salvation Army and someone came out to my car to pick them up. Boy was I grateful for that! These days just lifting Easton makes my back ache and by the end of the day I'm usually hunting for the Tylenol and the heating pad. It feels good to be able to get rid of some of the extra "stuff" at my house and put it to good use somewhere else. All this cleaning just in time to have Baby 2 and get even MORE stuff! :) Guess that's the way it works though, right?

Happy first day of spring! Too bad it's 45 w/a wind chill of 38! Too cold! Bring on the 50s and 60s at least!

Jason might actually get to stop working Saturdays for a while. Woohoo! It's about time! Now we (ok Jason really) can have time to finish up a few little projects around the house AND still have another whole day to relax. Wow! 2 days off at the end of the week? What's that feel like? Hmmm...you say most of the rest of the world has this every single weekend? No way! We're getting gypped! :) Just kidding...Jason's job actually goes through this sometimes. Long stretches of time working lots of long hours. And then right as the weather's looking beautiful the work slows down and he sometimes works 4 day work weeks. Pretty sweet deal, really but those busy stretches are the pits!

This week has been somewhat uneventful around here. Just homework for me, a little housework (as always), story time with Easton yesterday at the library and that's about it. Nothing too exciting to blog about. Baby 2 is doing well it seems. Very active. Sometimes it feel like just one little baby couldn't possibly be moving around that much...he or she moves around enough for two but thankfully several doctors have said there's only one in there.

Monday is (hopefully) the big day. We can't wait to find out if Easton is having a brother or a sister. I've already washed the yellow and green and gender neutral clothes that E has outgrown. We'll see if I need to wash the rest of them or box them all up to go to the consignment shop here in town. Hmmm...I'd love either one but I'm feeling the need to buy a little pink these days. We'll see. Look for a post some time on Monday. My appt is at 9:30 and then I've got some errands to run after that so it might be late afternoon or evening before I get to post but I promise I will if we get to find out. If Monday comes and goes with no post here, you'll know that Baby 2 is in for a spanking from Aunt Leslie when he or she makes their debut because they were shy and didn't want to show off. :)

I forgot about a really annoying pregnancy symptom I had last time. Insomnia! Yesterday I was up at 5:00. Today it was 4:00 am. For no apparent reason! It is driving me crazy! I am a "needs her sleep" kinda gal so this really really stinks. Usually it starts out with (of course) having to get up and pee (which I do about every 1 1/2 to 2 hours...annoying!). But then my nose is stuffy and I can't sleep (another annoying side effect) or Jason is snoring or I start thinking about all the things I have to do when I get up and why I should be SLEEPING! Or sometimes just for no apparent reason, I just flat out can't go to sleep. I hate it!

But in other news, my mom is here for a visit and man, have we got a lot accomplished already! She's only been here one full day and we've already got the office almost all the way emptied out and half of the stuff on our to-do list done! Later today we're taking E to story time at the library, going to lunch with Jason, then going to Walmart for groceries and then Lowe's for shelving. One of the thing still left to do on our list is put up shelves in several places throughout the house. I love all this organization! Now if only it could stay that way!

And tragically, I have killed yet another bread machine. I think this is bread machine number 4? The others have all been well-used before their demise, so I guess I get my money's worth out of them. But if I don't spend too much on groceries and shelves and baby stuff, maybe I can get a new one today. When I have a working one, I use it at least once a week, sometimes more. We love hot, fresh bread here at our house and I also make a mean pizza dough. I wish it was garage sale time, I could probably score one for cheap if I got lucky. But I'm too impatient to wait till then so let's hope I can find it in our budget to replace this bread machine soon.

Thanks to my friend Mandy for reminding me about this. I never followed up with a post about using my Restaurant.com gift certificates. So far we've used them at three different places and never had a problem with any of them. The server just takes $25 off of the bill and I just smile to myself at all the money it saves us. You should try it!
As a matter of fact, I think they're running a special again for 80% off.

Here's part of the email I get from a site called couponmom.com:

Save 80% on Restaurant.com Certificates with code DINE

Pay only $2 for a $25 gift certificate. Be smart,
at this price get a $100 certificate for
only $8. Certificates do not expire
for a full year, stock up now! It's not too
early to think about Mother's Day
and Father's Day gifts at this price.

Trying to figure out how to use this new spice I bought, I did some research. Wanna know more about turmeric? I can hear you saying an excited "Yeah!" right now. :)

The following info was taken from http://hubpages.com/hub/Turmeric-milk-pickle-Recipes

Turmeric also known as the Indian Saffron is a member of the ginger family and widely used because of its anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antiseptic
properties. Turmeric is a perennial shrub that is grown in India and other tropical areas of Asia. This spice is also used as food color and to add flavor in Indian cuisine. Turmeric is a significant ingredient of most curry powders, beauty creams and antiseptics. In India turmeric is considered to be auspicious and also have a religious significance. Turmeric is used in hindu religious rituals. In some parts of India turmeric and milk mixture is offered while doing Snake worship. There is also a tradition of haldi ceremony where turmeric paste is applied to bride and groom before marriage in some places of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The active chemical component of Turmeric is curcumin which is believed to reduce inflammation by reducing histamine levels and also stimulate the adrenal glands and is effective in treating joint pains and artheritis. Research has proved suggest that turmeric protects the liver from the bad effects of certain toxins, including alcohol. It
is also said to protect against heart attacks and strokes. Turmeric is also an
excellent digestive aid.Research on Curcumin as also showed some anti-cancer
properties. It is also said to be good for Alzheimers's Disease. Turmeric mixed in warm Milk is said to strengthen bones. Turmeric milk can also be used for treating colds, Asthma and for reducing pain associated with arthritis if consumed 2-3 times a day.

Ooh yeah. Let me just go mix up some turmeric milk right now. YUCK!!!! Guess I'll only be using it for this one dish. Just as I feared. Good thing it wasn't expensive!

Has anybody ever noticed I tend to forget to put enough spaces between my sentences? Yep. I usually only put one space when I'm supposed to put two. I know. Now that I've noticed this about myself it drives me crazy. Does it bother anybody else? Probably not. I'm just weird like that I guess. But if it DOES bother anybody, just know it is a VERY hard habit to break. I'm working on it. :)

Whew! I'm tired! I had such a good day today though. Sometimes I have tons of energy and can go all day long almost like I used to before I was pregnant and other times it's all I can do not to sleep the whole day away. This morning, I got up before my alarm went off, ate breakfast, got dressed (with hair and makeup no less! holy cow!), got Easton up and got out the door all by 8:30 am. That is no small feat for me, let me tell you!

I had an appointment today but it wasn't until 10:15 so I went to Target to shop for baby stuff and stuff to organize my office and scrapbook supplies. I found some great stuff at Target but didn't really buy much because I wanted to take Jason and get his input before I bought any of it. We left Target and then went to pick up Jason at work.

I had my appointment (just a checkup-nothing too exciting.) and everything looks good. I get to call on Monday and schedule my c-section. I'm looking forward to having a date to meet this baby! And that way we can start making plans for visitiors too! Anybody want to come visit? We're trying to schedule it so we have people here for quite some time after the baby is born. I am kinda freaking out about not being able to pick up Easton for 6 weeks after the c-section. Poor little guy! I don't think he'll be able to understand why mama can't pick him up and I'm feeling a little guilty about that. I'm sure we'll manage though and hopefully he'll come out of it needing little to no therapy. :)

After my appointment, we all went to lunch at Texas Steakhouse. Oh my goodness, it was so good!!!! Probably TOO good. Now I'll be wanting to go back again really soon. Delicious! After lunch, Easton and I dropped Jason back off at work and I went to pick out some new glasses. My current ones are all scratched up and I am several months overdue for a new pair. I ordered some new ones (very similar to the ones I'm wearing now) and then we went to Walmart.

Easton was such a sweetie in Walmart today. He did about drive me BANANAS by saying 'nana over and over and OVER again! I bet he must have said 'nana 75-100 times during the course of our LONG Walmart trip. I finally stopped the cart and said "YES Easton! We have bananas! See?!" I wasn't mad at Easton, I just wished with all my heart that he would pick another word already! Then I laughed at myself for getting so worked up about it because I am THRILLED that he is talking at all! :) Yep Dad, you were right. You DO spend months trying to get them to talk and the rest of their lives trying to get them to shut up! haha

After Walmart, I drove home, put Easton down for a nap, put the groceries away, made dinner, and helped Jason give Easton a bath and put him to bed. Then I shopped for a bit online (baby2's registry at Target -FUN!) and then finally settled down to do my homework. Now it's midnight and I'm totally exhausted. Thankfully we have nowhere to go tomorrow and nothing to do except hang out at home.

By the way...what do you all think about registering for a 2nd baby? I'm not sure how I feel about it. I wasn't going to at all because we have most everything baby-related that we need. We sure are lucky to have such generous friends and family. I was overwhelmed by all the gifts we received before Easton was born! Thank you everybody!!! I certainly don't want anybody to feel obligated at all to buy us stuff just because I did that but several people have asked about it and I figured that would be the quickest way to answer their questions...just be able to say "yes, I'm registered at Target".

If Baby 2 is a boy, we certainly have the clothes part covered! The only thing is that this baby will be born at the end of May and Easton was born at the end of October. I'm not sure if the seasons will match up to the sizes of clothes we have but I'm sure some will work OK. Of course, we have to get a crib. Easton's grows with him all the way to a full-sized bed so we needed a 2nd one. (Thanks, Dad and Tina!) And I'm determined to deck out Baby 2's room just as much as Easton's is so there's no hurt feelings over Easton's room being more "done" than this little one's just because Easton was born first. (See, kids? Mom tries REALLY hard already to make sure things are fair and Baby 2 isn't even born yet!) Anyway, opinions or thoughts about this would be appreciated. Is it greedy? I hope not! Is it the smart thing to do? I hope so! Let me know.
Good night and happy weekend!

P.S. I bought lots of tomatillos at Walmart today. Guess what that means? Expect a review of that much anticipated enchilada recipe some time next week. I think I'll be making it on Sunday. It better be good! I'll let you know.

One class down, 14 to go. I just turned in my research project and finished up my Computer Literacy class. Today I start an Ethics clss that should prove to be interesting. Most days I'm feeling great. I've been going to see my amazing chiropractor Dr. H. I've been having a lot of low back pain if I stand too long. He says nothing is out of place and that it's just muscle spasms from carrying Easton around and probably from the growing belly from baby number two. Wondering why you haven't seen a picture of that baby belly? I try to stay as far away from cameras these days as I can. Sorry to those of you who are anxiously awaiting that picture. Some day I'm sure I'll let Jason take one or two and if they're decent they may end up here but seriously? I'm NOT a fan of showing off my belly, pregnant or otherwise. :)

Easton's keeping me busy these days. He's walking a few steps at a time but mostly prefers to crawl because it gets him where he's going faster than that scary old walking stuff does. He's talking up a storm. Mostly he just jabbers away but he's learning more recognizable words every day. His favorite thing to do is look out the dining room window. It's just the perfect height for him to see out of without standing on anything. He'll stand there for a long time just looking out at the world and jabbering away. It's pretty cute.

Baby 2 is very active. Kicking and moving a LOT more than Easton ever did. I'm tired a lot of the time. I mean REALLY tired!!! Sometimes I take 2 little naps or one very long nap while Easton sleeps. I'm taking that extra sleep wherever I can get it these days because when the new little one comes along, there will be much less time for that!

The weather is warming up a little. I'm sure winter weather will be back and just as ugly as before but I am truly enjoying the warmer days when they come along. I can't WAIT for spring! I am SO not a cold weather person at all! On Sunday it was nice outside so I got out and trimmed up our rose bushes and cut away all the dead plants in the front yard. It was nice to be out in the fresh air and get the front yard looking good but that's all I got done because I just can't do too much without getting worn out. And the bad thing about that? I was sitting down to do all that hard work! :) Just shows how out of shape I am and how easily I get tired now that I'm 6 months along. Wow! 6 months already? This baby will be here before we know it. Boy, we've got a lot of work to do to get ready before then! I'm tired just thinking about it. :)