Wahoo!!!

As Jackson likes to say when he is excited about something..... wahoo!!

Wahoo for:

1.) John passing the 1st section of the CPA test that he had taken back in October!! He just found out yesterday!

2.) Tomorrow being Wednesday and the start of our Thanksgiving break!! Nick and Christi fly into Eugene in the morning and we will be leaving here around 5pm after John takes the 2nd test and driving straight on down to Glide to be with all the family! 

3.) Making it another day without having the baby before all the important stuff gets done! 

Wahoo!!

Guess Who's 2?!?!

Yep, Jackson is now 2 years old! And..... I am also at a 2! Yesterday I went to the dr. and discovered that I am dilated to a 2 almost 3 already! Wahoo! This is a huge deal for me because even if Baron still doesn't come for another 3 more weeks, I am past a 1- it took me 2 days of constant contractions with Jackson to get from a 1 to a 2, so the fact that I am past a 1 already was the best news I have ever heard! So its looking like he will probably be an early baby, but you still never know! We just really hope he waits til after John takes the CPA on Wednesday and then it would also be nice if he waited for a couple more days after that so we could still be with family on Thanksgiving!

But back to Jackson! Yesterday was his birthday and he had a fun day! In the morning he got to play with his best buddy Jack while I went to my dr. appointment (Thank you Lisa!!), and then him and I headed over to Washington Square mall for some shopping and fun.  He got some new vans shoes, some jamba juice, which is his favorite, for lunch, he got to sit on santa's lap and get a candy cane from him, and then he got to play on the indoor play area for awhile.  After that we headed over to target to pick up a few things including a new train piece which he was very excited about, and then we went to party city to pick out a birthday balloon- he got a Thomas and friends one of course!

Later that night we had pancakes and hash browns for dinner because that is his favorite food, and then we sang happy birthday to him and he absolutely loves being sang to! He kept saying "Happy Day!", and when we finished singing and blowing out candles he would say,  "again birthday!"- so we ended up singing a lot.  After all that we all got our PJ's on and cuddled up on the couch and watched Kung Fu Panda.  All in all I think it was a fun birthday for the little guy! I cant believe we have a 2 year old already and are about to have another one! Crazy how fast time flies when you're busy and having fun!

   the birthday boy!

trying to blow out the candles

Jack decided that the cake needed more candles, so here he is adding more

the 2nd time singing with more candles!

Here's what the 2 year old is up to:

-He absolutely loves cars and now trains (Thomas especially)

-He talks so good now- it always surprises us when he repeats things he hears in a conversation

-He is 37" long- still in the 97%

-He weighs 28 pounds- 50%

-He loves to read books. His favorites are Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See and Go Dogs Go (he has them both memorized)

-He always has to sleep with his blanket and doggie 

-He loves playing with his "fishies" in the bath

-He loves nursery

-He absolutely loves to be outdoors running around

Thank you so much to everyone that called to sing to him yesterday and for all the presents which he absolutely LOVES! Jackson is very lucky to have lots of family and friends that love him and spoil him so much! Thanks again!

Just a Boring Update

So we finally got the internet back- we haven't had it all week and it was driving me crazy, but it was kind of fun to get behind on looking at everyone's blogs because almost everyone had something new!  As for us, I wish I had something more to post about right now, but as it is, not much is going on.  Jackson woke up yesterday with yet another cold- i cannot wait for cold season to be over!! He is pretty miserable since he can't breath too well.  John is once again using every spare second to study for the 2nd CPA test which he takes the day before Thanksgiving (the 26th).  Jack and I are literally going to pick him up from the testing center after he finishes and head straight on down to Glide for the holiday weekend, which is now less than 2 weeks away!! We are pretty dang excited and John is especially happy to be able to have a vacation from work and studying.  As for me, the baby has already dropped quite a bit, which makes it even more uncomfortable...... i feel like i am constantly going to the bathroom and waddling around the place. (TMI?)  I wish I could be all excited about him dropping early thinking he will be coming early, but Jackson dropped a month before he was born too, so it could still be awhile!  Apparently, my kids are just like me and get over anxious and like to be prepared way too far in advanced.  On a good note, I had a dr.'s appointment Wednesday and I only gained 2 pounds in the past 3 weeks, Halloween and all! That is like a miracle because I sure had a lot of candy!  Next Wednesday I start the exciting once a week appointments where they see where you're at, so stay tuned!!

He knows his pregnant wife....

So I have done a lot better with this pregnancy than I did with Jackson in not gaining as much weight, not eating as much junk food and working out more and for longer into the pregnancy.  Last night however, I had a major break down.  I had been having all these strong cravings all day, and when John got home from work I was telling him things like, "You know what sounds really good right now? A shirley temple.... no Dad's root beer....... and some mini butterfingers, or just a big piece of milk chocolate."  After dinner, John, being the amazing husband that he is made a quick trip to the store.  When he left he asked what I wanted and I just said butterfingers.  Then, while he was gone I kept thinking, I really want something to drink too and some other chocolate, but I decided not to call him.  Luckily John knows me all too well while I am pregnant and came home with this:

Isn't he just the best??!  And don't worry, I didn't eat it all- I actually only had a little of each and that was plenty to satisfy my cravings. :)

Last night I had the 2nd dream in the past month of baby Baron being here.  I could see his little face so clear and knew exactly what he looked like- he was a little cutie! His hair was lighter than Jackson's was when he was born, and he had a little more of it too, with a cute little bald spot right on the back top- that part was kind of random. He looked a lot like Jackson, but with more of John's eyes than mine, though he still had really long eyelashes (which I don't know why he wouldn't since John and I both have long lashes)  He was super smiley and cuddly and I love having these dreams, but it also is making me more impatient just to have him here.  So I gave him the pep talk again this morning.  This is what it is:

"Baron, I would really appreciate it if you came early.......... however, just make sure your arrival doesn't prevent:

1.) Us from going to Glide for Thanksgiving to see Nick and Christi and their girls and eating a super yummy Thanksgiving meal

and 

2.) Me from getting to see Twilight with the Graham girls the day after Thanksgiving

-Besides those 2 things, you are good to come whenever!"

Halloween

We had a very fun Halloween!  During the week we went to a couple of Halloween story times where they did puppet shows and sang songs about pumpkins and fall and all that fun stuff.  All the kids wore their costumes and they were so cute, my favorite being Superman of course (aka Jackson).  Wednesday night the youth in our ward had a Halloween party for mutual and the adults had to dress up, so I threw together a Bee outfit, complete with duck tape stripes. :)  After I got all dressed up and was leaving for the activity, Jackson said to me, "Bye Bzzzzzz!" - that's what he calls bees- bzzzzzz's.  He thought it was pretty funny that I was all dressed up as a Bee.  Friday I got Jack dressed in his costume and we rode the Max into town to eat lunch with John and get some very yummy and warm carmel apple spice cider from Starbucks to warm us up since it was cold and rainy during the day.  That night we took Jack trick-or-treating to some of the members houses in our ward and around their neighborhood, and he absolutely loved it!  At first, after the people would put candy in his bucket he would say, "Thank You!", but then he would just stand there and wait for them to put more candy in.  Eventually he got the idea and would run up to each door and knock until someone came and then throw on the charm :) They all loved him, and I have to admit he was pretty darn cute in his costume complete with Lightning McQueen rain boots that he insisted on wearing.  We didn't really get the best pictures cuz we made the mistake of waiting til that night to take them, but here's the ones we did get:

and here's my costume

complete with wings and a stinger