Typical Toddler

At 15 months and weighing at a mere 20lb (he is a tiny one) our boy is embracing toddler-hood. Here are some examples of this:

#1: Yesterday before church he took my wallet out of the diaper bag. I have spent the largest part of my day looking for it....no success!!

#2: His first Oreo experience was commercial worthy. Before even tasting this yummy double stuffed treat, he broke it apart, tasted the cream first and enjoyed!! Here is the proof...

#3: He LOVES to dance. Any music that comes on the TV, computer, or his toys, he will either bob his head and/or dance around. It is sooo cute! I will try to post video soon.

#4: He eats like a big boy. With all teeth cut/in except for the eye teeth he enjoys taking bites and chewing up his food like mommy and daddy.

5#: His new favorite word is "gen" (again). And he is not afraid to use it! Anything fun to him we must do OVER AND OVER AND OVER!! ha ha ha. but we love it!

6#: He loves to "get" us. Meaning he will come up and think he is tickling you. It is so cute b/c he thinks he is sooo funny. which he is. we just love his big personality!

#7: The scratches and bruises!! ha ha. Last night he got his first sort of black-eye. We have our guesses of what happened but at small group, with all the babies, there are no for sure answers. ha ha. But, you should've seen the other guy!! (or the toy basket, we think. ha ha

#8: He LOVES!! He loves to give kisses, hug mommy and daddy just because, and when we tell him that we love him, he will blow us a kiss. I can already tell that he has such a tender heart! He is going to be such a great big brother!

My 1st Haircut!!

Today we went to get J.David's haircut for the first time! It was an interesting experience because he had just woken up from a car nap. For J.David waking up from the car are among the few times he is not in good spirits. This will be very obvious as you scroll through the pics. The place we went was adorable!! He got his haircut in a truck, got to watch TV, and he was offered a lollipop but was crying too hard to eat it. He walked out with a certificate (you can click on the word certifcate to view it), a lock of his hair, and looking so much older! It blows my mind!

8/22/2009

That will be the due date for BABY #2!!! That's right folks, we are expecting a precious sibling for J.David in August and couldn't be more thrilled! We are nine weeks along now and saw our sweet new addition yesterday via ultrasound. Since we don't like called the baby "it" we have decided to call him/her boo in honor of JD's love for monster's Inc. ha ha ha. So, Boo's heartbeat was 180bpm and wiggling around all cute and peanut like.

Now for the funny story:

The week after Morgan's cousin wedding J.David and I came home sick. We were pretty much out for the week. I had my suspicions so i tried to fight it off without the help of any meds. By Friday this was not working. So about 10 min before meeting my dad for our annual shopping trip i bought a test in Target and headed over to our meeting place of Bed Bath and Beyond. My plan was that if the test came back negative I would go back to target and get some meds for some relief. Well, not the case! The test came back with a very clear pregnant reading! I was shocked that i was right, i had a feeling for a little over a week now that this might be the case. So I told J.David and then had to pretend for the rest of the evening with my dad that there was nothing exciting going on with us! ha ha ha. Morgan met us off the plane at the Galleria and I just blurted it out as soon as my dad left. ha ha ha. This was truely a public affair! Below is the picture I took of J.David within minutes of telling him the news. He looks pretty pumped huh? ha ha.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! (its a long one!)

WOW!! I feel like I have so much to blog about. First I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season! We did and are so sad that it is over. We spent the entire week of Christmas in Arkansas with the Trotter side of the family. We had a great Christmas and really enjoyed watching JD and Eden interact and enjoy Santa's goodies together. We came home the weekend after and spent New Year's Eve with my fam and did our Xmas celebration. That is always a fun night of games, laughter, and this year Rock Band! ha ha ha. Morgan was off for TWO weeks and we loved having him home. After his crazy travel schedule it was so wonderful to have him all to ourselves for two whole weeks. We did a little bit of nothing and a lot of everything with him, it was great!! JD is hands down a Daddy's boy, and although my feelings get a little hurt when he denies his mom I sure do love to watch them interact, plus it gives me a little break :). He loves Daddy sooo much and is so lucky to have such a great man to look up to. Here are some pics from Xmas in searcy. I need to get some of the pics from my mom from Christmas here, i was not a great picture taker.

J.David and Eden after getting into their stockings. Eden looks a little more excited than JD

Eden's push toy that J.David claimed as his "seat" all week.

Chillin in his gifts Christmas morning. His excitement is over whelming! ha ha ha.


Getting into his stocking.

Reading the night before Christmas on Christmas Eve.

My original plan was to have a blog simply dedicated to JD with Santa pictures. He got to see Santa THREE times in one weekend and all his reactions were priceless. I have two of the pics i can post, the other two need to be scanned so i may add them later. The first pic is of J.David meeting Santa for the first time at the galleria. He was calm, but very unsure. I was trying to explain to him who this was on the way to Santa's lap and Santa said, "Now don't hesitate mom, just put him on my lap and walk away." I found this to be quite funny, but listened since he is the pro...ha ha. The second time was the next morning at Breakfast with Santa at my sister's school. This time he cried immediately, UNTIL he saw the camera flash!! not kidding! He then smiled until they were done and proceeded with the crying. WHAT A HOOT!! (those are the pics not posted. We have one screaming and one smiling) Finally the following Sunday was my family reunion where Santa makes a visit. I think by this time he was Santa-ed out and well, all I got was a SCREAM!! Every kid needs a few good pics like that though. Enjoy!

The last pics are just some funnies from December. I thought the one in front of the tree was cute and the others are of his Burger King crown. On the way home from AR was stopped at BK for lunch and JD had his first kids meal, kind of. They have these apple fries (apples slices in the shape of fries) and they were a hit!! He barely touched the chicken. ha ha ha. That's my boy!

Sad Goodbyes, and Daddy's homecoming!

Friday afternoon J.David and I said goodbye or "so long" (b/c they will be back to visit) to our friends Kara and Maren. They are moving next week. Kara and I met when we were around 5 months pregnant with the babies. I was working at the Closet Factory at the time and in the process of designing her closet when we discovered we had the same due date! Maren was actually born 3 weeks before J.David, but we thought it was a pretty wierd coincidence. It has been such a blessing to have them in our lives over this last year+ and we are really going to miss them! Here are some pics from our last playdate with them living here.

Grace, Asher, Maren, J.David, and Grady

Asher and J.David. (i think we have one of them exactly like this at 4 months!)

On to more positive news. Morgan is FINALLY home!! I am not allowed to post when he is out of town so now that he is back i can share. He has been gone since what feels like since the beginning of November. Between the trip to Egypt and this recent project it has been nearly 5-6 weeks that he has been gone. Tonight he came home for 2 weeks of vacation and we couldn't be more excited!! Although he would get to come home most weekends, it was obvious how much J.David missed him daily. We are so thankful to have him home for the holidays! We love you Morgan!!

Pics!

Here are my WAY over due pics. The first ones are of the day we worked on the tree and mantle.

This was J.David all weekend at Breakfast with Santa and the family reunion. ALL OVER!! he really enjoyed the santa breakfast b/c he had nearly an entire cafeteria to walk around. He loved it!!

This was at dinner with my Dad on Friday for our annual holiday shopping/dinner. The past two years we have gone to CPK, there's nothing like finishing off a pizza all by yourself!

Family reunion on Sunday. And Santa came....ha ha ha. I think our Santa weekend is going to need a post of its own so i will save those pics for later this week.
This is my fave!! The weekend after Thanksgiving we played Rock Band at my parents' house. J.David watched and quickly learned how to use a microphone. Today he found this princess flashlight of mine and thought it was a microphone. It was sooo cute!! He can't sing of course, but he says "Go, Go, Go" and holds the "O" part for just a second longer than normal. So we think he believes that he is singing. I love it!!

Update now with pics to come....

Ok, what a crazy last few weeks we have had!! Morgan has been in and out town since early November (gone during the week home for most weekends) and we sure do miss him. He is coming home tonight and we are ready for some good quality Daddy time! I don't realize how much I count on him in the evenings until he leaves again. He is such a great dad!
In addition to that were able to go to Morgan cousin's wedding last weekend in AR and see almost the entire Morgan side of the family!! It was such a special weekend since it is so rare that we are all in one place at one time. Sadly i didn't get any photos! I am really mad at myself for this one b/c there were so many kiddos there and they were so cute playing together. j.david even got tackled for the very first time by his cousin 4 months older!! I realized quickly that JD will probably be more of a baseball player like his daddy and will not be joining Houston on the football field! he proved to not be quite as tough as I gave him credit for. ha ha ha. I know Leslie felt badly about in the incident, but I thought it was quite funny. ha ha ha. The only negative of the entire weekend was coming home with colds. J.David and i both came home with nice little colds that have seemed to linger throughout the week. I just hope they go away before Christmas and don't turn into anything more.
J.David is officially walking...EVERYWHERE!! we called it official the day he turned 13 months and he is so funny to watch. I need to post some video, i know. He is also trying to mimic everything i do and it is so cute!! (i have to keep blowing my nose, so he grabs the tissues and wipes his nose and then throws the tissue in the kitchen through the gate. so funny). I will post some pics this weekend. We are going to enjoy a day of shopping with Pap-pa (my dad)today so i better get ready! Have a great weekend!!