Brody opening up a gift from Audrey - animals and farmers!
A funny looking horse. We're working on teaching him that it's really a zebra.
A pug dog. I'm sure Brody doesn't remember, but there was a time when he was little when we had our own pug dog named Kiah. Every good farm has a dog.
"Sticker off"- He just could not wait to get the stickers off of the animals. "Horsey!!"
A sitting "farmer" that fits in his big Case IH tractor and his little Farmall 300 tractor. Perfect!
I've been horrible about updating the blog and taking pictures the last couple of weeks. First Brody was sick, then we both were, then mostly just me. Thank goodness for Boogie Wipes or Brody's poor nose would have turned raw long ago. I have to give props to my little Brody-man. He's the biggest sick-boy trooper! Aside from a couple of nights, he slept without us needing to go help throughout much of his feeling crummy and it was a good 10 days of feeling crummy. At his two year checkup on February 6 we found out he had an ear infection in each ear (which I had suspected he would get). He's on antibiotics for that and we go back in a week to have them rechecked. At 2 years he is 29# (75%), 34 1/4" tall (50-75%), with a head 19 3/4" (75-90%). His language is exploding and it's fun to hear! If you pretend to hold him like a baby he'll say "No, me a big boy. Mommy baby tummy." Hopefully by the time the baby arrives he will be ready to be a good big boy brother. He's talking more and more about going potty and tells us when he's going pee too sometimes. So I think we're progressing in the right direction. My hope is that he'll be on board and ready to potty train by the end of my maternity leave. He was pretty excited about his big boy Elmo underwear.
As for baby #2, I'm 25 weeks tomorrow. On Friday I had my glucose test and passed (must be that ridiculous tolerance to sugar I've developed). My blood pressure is also great, a beautiful side effect of both pregnancies thus far. After the first trimester with both, it has been a miraculous migraine cure. The veteran OB at my clinic (whom I really love) said he's never heard of that before. At my checkup he gave me a second antibiotic for me to try for what he and another doc thought was a sinus infection that I'm battling. I don't get sick very often (aside from migraines if you call that sick), but this cold thing has kicked me down pretty hard and for a lot longer than I've ever experienced. I guess it's a combo of being a little immune suppressed for baby #2 and because in pregnancy your body just retains fluid oh so well (oh yeah, and because there are so many wonderful medications out there that everyone tells you not to take while pregnant), a perfect combo for a jacked up sinus situation. I haven't slept well since Feb 1 and I really look forward to my sleep returning because I have watched every Harry Potter movie on a running loop every night since and we don't have cable, a situation that I have regretted recently. The good news is that baby #2 couldn't care less about my sickness and since being good to him is my number 1 priority besides Brody, I think I'm still being a pretty good mom. Thanks to my mom who has taken Brody for me well I'm sick and brought him home for me a couple of times. And sorry to Barry who has come home 2 weekends in a row to a pathetic excuse for a wife. Brody hasn't gone hungry, I haven't one hungry, and I've turned in every school assignment on time so far, I call that a success. Here's to hoping that tonight is the night it all turns around and tomorrow I can go to work without people saying that I look terrible and suggest that I go home. I sure would like to save the little sick time I have left for my actual maternity leave! Here's hoping that tomorrow starts out right!
On a side note, at Goodwill today I bought 2 pairs of sandals, the cutest newborn ones and a similar version in jumbo Brody size. Oh how cute it'll be to have 2 boys this summer. Let the torturous coordinating photo ops begin.
