Daddy and Ethan at 2 days old and Daddy and Ethan at 2 years old.

LOVE.

Drew pointed out that Ethan's blankie is in both pictures too. How sweet. That little boy sure loves his blankie.

26 weeks

I should probably do a post with a baby #2 update . Well, as you can tell by the blog post title I'm 26 weeks so far .This pregnancy is a bit different from Ethan's in the sense that I still don't feel 100% yet. With Ethan the icky feeling only lasted until about 18 weeks. 2 weeks ago I went in to do the ever so lovely glucose test and failed by 3 little points, just like with Ethan and now Friday I have to do the 3 hour test . THAT TEST IS HORRIBLE!!! Last time I passed out on the last stick because my sugar level was 52! With technology these days there should be a better was of doing this dumb test. I would really like to tell the doctors where they can stick this test..hehe, but I have to do it for the well being of my baby. I do pray that the results are the same with this one as they were with E. Negative! Drew is coming with me so I can keep sane and have some company, I love him :)More great news..I'm anemic! Yay:( No wonder why I can barley breathe and I' so sleepy, I have no RBC's left. Normal levels are 13 and mine were about 10. I have to take iron supplements now and I try and eat iron rich foods which seem to help a bit. No wonder why I'm always so tired. Working all day and then being a mommy and wife after work wares me out. I've started doing some photography on the side again too, but I limit myself to what I can handle with that .
This little guy is pretty active which makes me happy. The only exciting part of pregnancy for me is feeling life inside my body move. I'm still on my treadmill and drinking TONS of water to keep my weight at a minimum as well. I haven't had any swelling yet ( knock on wood) but my calf's feel like tree trunks sometimes. We schedule our C-section in a couple weeks which makes me excited because that means that the time is almost here for the baby to be in his room and not in my belly! We have decided to paint the nursery this weekend and get the room in order. We bought the crib from Babies R Us last week and I'm just anxious to get the room done. The colors are black, cream, gray and yellow. I bought all the bedding from Etsy. I love Etsy they have all handmade things and I designed most of it. All organic and oh so soft. I can't wait to see how big brother Ethan reacts to the whole thing. That's what I'm most excited about I think also seeing what he looks like and telling everyone his name.

PS..I'll post a picture of his room as soon as its done.

Birthday Dinner with Mimi, Cameron and Grace

Love you Mimi !

More Birthday Pictures!

Ethan LOVES trains so what better way to honor his birthday with something he loves:)






We splurged and bought Ethan a fun Thomas The Train cake. Grandma's Bakery always makes the best cakes. Although, this time all of our lips and fingers were blue!

I put the rock candy in his pipe to make it look like smoke..my little touch to the cake :)

He loved being sang to . Drew and I enjoyed seeing his sweet little face light up too.












Auntie Amy sent me this link for this shirt from Gymboree. It says "This little Monkey is two!"How perfect! Thanks Amy:)

Checkin' out his loot!

Daddy and I bought Ethan a bunch of Choo Choo books for his birthday. He also got some from Bill and Amy which is his favorite as well as a train whistle which he LOVES!

Cousin Lukey wore his Monkey shirt in honor of the birthday boy. Isaiah did too, but I didn't get a picture of him..bummer :(



(Drews Parents)

Grandma and Grandpa with all the grandkids. Look at Lukey with his arm around his little brother Isaiah..so stinkin' cute!

Man, I'm not the cutest pregnant chick , but I sure do make a cute baby/babies :)

BTW, Drew is growing his beard out until baby boy Nelson is here. He hasn't touched it since October when we found out we were expecting. I like it ;)

Look whos 2!!!

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!!!!

I just wanted to put a picture up here of Ethan at dinner tonight. Mimi gave this train conductor hat to Ethan tonight and I just LOVE it:)..so does E.

Snow Time Fun

A couple of days ago it was nice enough to go outside and play in the snow. I want to say that it was a stunning 35 degrees outside. For us Minnesotans that's close to bikini weather:) I'm not a fan of cold weather (go figure I live in one of the coldest states)but I thought that we should bring Ethan outside to decide if he is . He didn't mind the snow but he didn't like getting his hands wet or cold. He did however LOVE jumping in the puddles. He had fun until it was time to go in..you can tell in the last picture he wasn't too happy to be leaving his puddles .


Watching him walk in his big boy boots made me laugh uncontrollably. I said he looked like Frankenstein. Drew said he looked like Darth Vader when he gets his legs ...haha

Look at that squishy little bottom.



I love his long eyelashes. How come the boys always get the lashes? Makes me jealous!







LOVE.

Air time!!

He has found a purpose for his jumping.





More air time!

Taking after daddy .

As you can tell he was NOT happy to be going in.

Look at his sad face. This picture is way out of focus ,but I had to put it on her to show Ethan what he looked like when he was throwing a 2 year old tantrum.

Ehhh, we still love him.







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