29 Weeks

L to R:  last week, this week, 29 weeks pg w/Cole

So last night we went to On the Border again, this time with friends.  I ate so much, and never got full.  Anyway, Cole was eating and just looking around, people watching.  Well, he found a 20-something hot little thing to look at and BOY did he look at her.  She was walking from the bathroom across the whole dining area, and he watched her the ENTIRE way.  I could hear the dialog in his head.  It went a little something like this...DANG!!  If he could have asked for her number, he would have. lololol  His father was so proud.

Oh, and P.S. I'm not sure what's up with my hair in the pg w/Cole pic.  Or the other 2 for that matter. :)

Cole sings his ABCs

This is definitely not his best performance, but it is the only time I've even remotely gotten it on video.  Justin and I might be the only people who can understand it, but I am so proud! ;)

Weekend Update

Justin, Cole and I went to On the Border on Saturday night. When we pulled up Cole started yelling “news!” I could not for the life of me figure out why. I looked around the parking lot for a news van or something that would trigger him to think about the news. When we were leaving after we ate, I saw there was a design on the side of the restaurant that looked like the NBC peacock emblem. We watch the NBC news…so there you go. He finds stuff like that everywhere. Anytime he sees Justin Bieber on tv he yells “Colton” because he kind of looks like him. If we’re ever watching ABC or ABC Family he says “abc!” He will sing his entire ABCs now, but only when he feels like it. Never when you ask him to. He will also count to 10, again, only when he feels like it.


He has turned into a rambunctious little boy. He will just run in circles yelling for no apparent reason. He was bitten on the arm at day care on Friday. The teacher said he didn’t cry or even act like anything happened. In fact, they really don’t know when it happened; they just saw him after nap and he had a full set of teeth marks on his arm. Every chance he got (after he came home) he would tell you, “Miah, bit you!” Translastion: Jeremiah bit me. Then he wouldn’t leave you alone until you kissed it. After a couple of days, he had forgotten which arm it was and would show you the other arm and say "Miah, bit you!"  Sorry, buddy, it's the other arm.  He did have a set of teeth shaped bruise, though.  Justin told him next time that kid bites you, you punch him.  So what does he do?  He starts punching me!!  He always wants to play fight with me for some reason.  So he'll walk up and start punching me (playing, of course).  I'm like, dude!  What the crap?  Your daddy's the one who wants to fight, not me!! 

Yesterday, when he woke up from his nap, he was rubbing his head and saying “Ow! Head!” I said, “oh, what’s wrong?” He said, “cup!” I asked him, kinda confused, “you hit your head on your cup?” He picked up his cup and kind of hit himself in the head with it, and said “cup. Head.” I have no idea how he hurt his head on his cup. The point is, he’s growing up and is talking so much more.

He’s always so friendly whenever we go places. He waves and say hi to everyone. The other night I needed to run to walmart real quick. The second he heard me say walmart (I wasn’t planning on taking him) he ran to the door “walmart, let’s go!” I wasn’t even ready yet, so for the next 10 minutes he stood at the door saying “walmart!” and getting really impatient. He was so excited because he loves to go to walmart and wave at people and I guess just watch people.  Lord know walmart is a good place to people watch!  So now I have to be super careful about saying walmart because he thinks he gets to go.

So for now, we’re just trying to prepare for Cass and hoping and praying that Cole adjusts well. I’m sure it will be a struggle at first, but hopefully we’ll all adjust relatively quickly. Cass should be here in about 10-12 weeks! Holy canoli!

Big Babies

I had to have a follow up ultrasound this past Wednesday to check on my marginal placenta previa.  They were pretty assured that it would be fine, and it was, so really it was just an opportunity for another look at my handsome little man. 
Just like last time, he was super cooperative (a good sign!) and stayed still for all of his measurements.  The tech measured his head and chest circumferences.  I knew she was going to say something about him having a big head because Cole had a big head.  The nurse went on and on about how big Cole's head was when he was born.  To me, it just looked proportional to his BIG body!  :)
Anyway, the tech looked at me while she was measuring and asked if I passed my gestational diabetes test.  I told her yes...why, is he big?  She was like, um, yeah...he's a big boy!  You're measuring around 10 days ahead.  Then she got to his femur measurement and said, well, you're measuring about 2 weeks ahead.  He weighs 3 pounds.  That was the first time I was shocked!  I said, omg, isn't he only supposed to be about 2 pounds right now.  She said, yeah.  Holy crap!  He's already huge!! 
So, God willing and the creek don't rise, Cass will be merciful on me and come a little bit early to spare me the agony of delivering a 10 pound baby.  Cole was 2 weeks early, so Cass is more than welcome to come at 38 weeks, too...but NOT EARLIER!  :)  Listen to me, acting like I have a say so.  Oh, and we got a second look just to make sure he was still a boy, and boy is he ever!  There was no question really, but you know, since I was there, might as well ask, right?  The tech said we might have a little exhibitionist on our hands.  He was more than willing to show off the goods.  His feet was almost over his head! lol 

Beautiful little profile!

28 Weeks

L to R:  last week, this week, and 28 weeks pg with Cole

My Boo Boos

Okay, so let me start with this adorable picture of my boy...

I didn't even realize we were color coordinated until I was posting the picture.  He's such a little mess!  His new thing is "right here."  He points out stuff and says it's right here.  Cup.  Right here.  Dinosaurs.  Right here.  And then we were driving around the parking lot at Cabela's looking for a parking spot.  The whole time he was yelling "we're here!!"  Yes, buddy, we're here.  "We're here!!"  Yes, Cole, we're here.  "We're here!!"  You get the picture. 

So onto my boo boos.  So let's see, I think it was Wednesday of last week it was raining and I was told it was supposed to hail.  So I decided to go move my car from the lot across the street to the parking garage down the street.  While I was walking back to the office my foot was wet from the rain and down I went.  It was super embarrassing, but I thought okay, no big deal.  I started mashing on my belly to see if I could get Cass to move around and he just wasn't moving as much as I would have liked for him to.  So I called my doctor and she told me to go in to triage at labor and delivery and have them put a monitor on me just to make sure he was okay.  I stayed for about an hour and everything was perfect.  Cass was moving all around and his heartbeat was perfect.  Then my soreness started hitting.  I fell all along my right side.  My arm was super sore for a few days and I have scratches on my elbow. You can see them in my 27 week belly pic.  Here are my other bruises. 

All that matter is that Cass is alright, obviously.  The rest of me is doing much better!

I go back to have a follow up ultrasound on Wednesday to check on my placenta previa.  According to my doctor "I won't have it."  So hopefully she's right.  But, at least I get to get another look at my handsome little man!!

27 Weeks

L to R:  last week, this week (super cheesing) and 27 weeks pg w/Cole

First Haircut

 Here is the before shot.  Mullet still intact...

 During...

After...

We started out with Cole sitting in Daddy's lap with a cape just on Daddy, which is why Cole doesn't have a shirt on.  He didn't like the cape on Daddy, so he took it off.  Then he decided he wanted Mama.  So I held him without a cape on either one of us.  I spent the rest of the day with little Cole hairs all over me.  But, he looks so much better.  

26 Weeks

 

L to R:  last week, this week, and 26 weeks pg w/Cole

I was sick all weekend so I finally took this week's pic on Monday evening, and yeah, I hadn't gotten dressed all day.  I think the picture is misleading, though, because I looked a lot bigger w/Cole.

It's Wednesday. I have pics.

I couldn't think of a good title for this, but it IS Wednesday and I DO have pics. 

So, yeah...the mullet is out of control.  He's getting a haircut this weekend.  I'm sure that will go over like a pregnant high jumper.

Random Cole-isms

Okay, so my mom keeps telling me that I need to write this stuff down when I tell her about stuff that Cole does.  I have written some especially funny stuff in his baby book, but let's face it, this kid does something crazy on a daily basis, so I need to start putting more stuff on the blog.  So here goes...

Sometimes he gets in these "I'm-going-to-name-everything-I-can-think-of" moods.  He'll just sit there and say random words that he knows.  Cow.  Puppy.  Cup.  Wall.  Light.  Even if those things are no where to be seen.  Show off.  :)
He likes to play "is that?"  That's where he points at everything and asks "is that?"  Translation:  what is that?  We play it with him, so I guess he thinks one good turn deserves another.
He gets SO excited about stuff sometimes.  Like we were driving down the road and saw some cows on the side of the road.  I seriously thought he was going to pee his pants he was so excited.  Cows!  Cows!  Oh my gosh.  It was like he won the lottery or something.  It's just too cute. 
He knows what motorcycles are now.  He is fascinated by them, which, frankly, worries me.  But, he confuses bicycles and motorcycles.  Last night, we were trying to move stuff around in the garage (to fit our vehicles in it because it was supposed to hail).  Cole all of a sudden realized there was a bicycle in the garage.  It's been there since forever, but he just hasn't ever noticed it I guess.  Well, he starts running to it saying "mo-cy-cle!"  And he wants me to "help you" get on it.  That's another thing...when he wants help he says "help you!"  Or he reaches out his little hand and says "hand?"  Um, sorry kiddo, but there's no way you can ride that mo-cy-cle and besides that we're trying to get our cars in the garage before it starts hailing.  Cole ended up freaking out and throwing a fit which was easily rectified by turning on a couple of episodes of Thomas.  Yes, I let Thomas babysit my kid for 5 minutes so we could get our vehicles put away.  And did it hail???  Of course not!! 
He knows what dinosaurs are now.  He calls them di-mo-saurs and he always breaks it down into 3 words. 
He will not SAY please.  He will sign it, but he refuses to say it.
He does not like for you to cut his food up.  If you give him a sandwich or a hamburger and you cut it up he will almost refuse to eat it.  He has to have a utensil to eat with, and now he wants a big boy fork.  He is very opinionated about his food.  But, he loves broccoli and carrots and cauliflower.  He hates zucchini squash.  When he eats something he doesn't like he makes a horrible face.  Sometimes I try to get him to eat stuff I know he hates just so I can see the face.  Mean?  Maybe.  But, it's funny. :)
The kid is obsessed with baseball.  Well honestly he just loves all sports.  We have to watch baseball every night.  He gets his bat and sometimes will mimic the players swinging at the ball.  Then he golfs his baseball around the house.  Speaking of golf he has play golf clubs that he hits around, too.  Funny thing is, when he is "golfing" he tees off every time.  He literally knocks the FIRE out of the ball and has a follow through and everything.  You have to watch him because he WILL hit you with the ball and it DOES hurt.  He has hit both of us with either the bat or the golf club.  In fact, he likes to throw balls to you (at you) and if you don't watch him he will hit you and it hurts, too.  He's got an arm on him!  He also knows what hockey, football and soccer are.
He loves to go outside and throws a fit if you make him go back in before he's ready.  He loves the idea of animals.  He'll see a dog across the neighborhood and have a fit (see excitement about cow paragraph above).  PUPPY!  PUPPY!  DOGGY!  But if the dog starts coming towards him, he freaks out!  He'll run away whining.  We've let him pet puppies and he's okay with it as long as the dog doesn't try to lick him/sniff him/look at him/think about looking at him.  He's the same way about every animal he's come in contact with directly. 
Oh!  And he LOVES to argue.  He will argue with you about a tomato being an apple.  He will argue about a T being and I.  But, his favorite thing to do is argue that his daddy's name is mama.  He knows that he's daddy.  But, he just likes to argue.  And he will NOT give up; which makes for interesting times with someone as hard-headed as Justin is.  I wonder where Cole gets it from?
He knows his entire alphabet by sight and has started singing parts of the alphabet song.  He will randomly break out into "W-X-Y & Z" and then the "now I know my ABCs" part.  But I have yet to hear him sing more of the song.  Although, he's been signing something here lately that I just cannot decipher.  Sometimes whatever this song is has hand motions though. 

Alright, for anyone who made it though all of that, congrats!