Ahhhh,,,,

It is August and I spent today, the entire day, at home! For a SAHM that may not sound like a big accomplishment, but the last few weeks have been crazy busy and it was so wonderful to not leave the house. And it was a perfect day to have planned to be home, as it has been raining all day long and I've actually really enjoyed hearing the rain. However, by the end of the day I'm not sure Jonathan really wanted to be inside all day long, but it was the best for us for today, so I held strong and didn't leave!

Jeremy's Dad and niece were here last week visiting and it was really great to have them here! Jonathan of course loved all the extra attention and went into full entertainer mode! It was also great having them here because Jeremy got some things crossed off his "honey-do" list :). So, both bathrooms got painted and the back entry hallway. I love the color of the bathrooms, and how they turned out, maybe once I get them cleaned again I will take a picture ;). Just one more painting project, and that will be to paint the bedroom that Jonathan is to move into.

I am now 29 wks pregnant! And have decided to start the "before baby is born" checklist. I'm sure Jeremy is really excited about that one too :). When I was at my last OB appt and she handed me the pre-registration form for the hospital, it sort of started to hit that this baby is going to come! And with only around 11 weeks to go, I am close to starting the count down. So instead of counting up to how many weeks in row I've been sick in the morning, maybe I can start counting down to how few I have left! Yes, lovely thought, I know. We even decided it was time to start talking baby names! Whoa - now we're really getting going on this new baby thing. Before I was pregnant with #2 I always had hoped that I would treat the pregnancy with the same excitement and joy and anticipation as I had with the first, but reality is, that just hasn't quite happened. It's not that I'm not excited, but right now I feel like my life is much more occupied in the day to day and harder to daydream of the future and plan and such as before. The reality is that when there is already one child around, my focus isn't always on the baby growing inside. Maybe that's why I've been given the sickness every day, so that I can't forget that I'm pregnant, because there have been some days where I think I could have. Although at this point I'm getting into the uncomfortable stage, where there isn't a moment that passes that I can't forget. This little one has been quite active, much more so than I recall with Jonathan, this one has woken me up many a night with limbs kicking and punching all over the place!! And at my 28 wk appt I had finally put on some weight! At my 26 wk appt I was still below my original weight! This comes as somewhat a feeling of a small victory, since with Jonathan I ballooned and was huge and uncomfortable. So, hopefully there will be less to lose afterwards!!

All right, enough about my prego state .... I know I had some pics to post, can't remember what all they were, but enjoy!






We had a gorgeous blue sky day last Thursday, so I finally bought Jonathan a baby pool thinking he would love it, because he loves the water and to swim -- haha I was wrong! We even brought warm water from inside and the sun heated it up quite nicely, but he still wasn't too sure. Oh well, my mom and I enjoyed putting our feet in it while we sat in the sun and watched him play.









Somewhere in the above pictures is Jonathan finally getting to take a walk around the whole house with Grandma, of course he is naked :).

Also, he really wanted her mug of iced tea, so Jonathan traded his water bottle with Grandma! What a good sharer!