I told you!

He loves vehicles, doesn't matter what it is. In this case, a cart at Best Buy. Poor little one, shortly before this he had teetered this way...then that way...then landed flat on his little face. Looked up and had two lips bleeding and blood streaming from both nostrils. He recovered quickly though once he saw the opportunity to push the "guck".

PAT was hear today and she told us we really need to start practicing using a spoon and cup. Oh, the messes I envision. And, she said that he's got great fine motor skills. And shows a great empathy for others at this age (she tested him with a bottle and baby doll). I figure that will really come in handy when Sisbro arrives.

Girl Scout Cookies

Why do they release girl scout cookies right after the holidays? At a time when we've all got our resolutions to lose weight, eat less crap - here they're selling these wonderful delectable goodies that you can't resist. And mainly, because it's cute little girls selling them. Who could turn them away? At least this year we only ended up with 6 boxes and not the 9-10 we did last year. Drew loves them too, so at least there's another mouth in the house to eat them.

Drew is picking up so much. When he walks by the cat food, he literally picks it up and eats it. It's been interesting trying to teach him not to eat it, but mostly I've just resorted to picking it up off of the floor. He loves to read books with us, and of course, is still enthralled by anything and everything truck or train related. "Truck" is usually of the first things out of his mouth in the morning, next to Dada or Mama.

A really cute thing he's begun to do lately is come take my hand and lead me to something he'd like to show me. Adorable.

Sisbro continues to grow and move lots. Midwife says everything is progressing normally, except that she mentioned the six pounds I gained over Christmas was probably due to water retention, since that's quite a lot to gain in 3 weeks. She wasn't taking into consideration the batch of russian tea cakes I ate on my own, though.

We are excited to meet him/her. I think we've pretty much let go of a preference for gender. We just want to meet the little one and get into our routine as a family.

Drew's New Room

Our goal is to move Drew to his 'big boy' room over the next couple weeks so that he can adjust prior to Sisbro's appearance. Today, we plan to buy furniture. But until now, we have been diligently working on the painting and design (Dr. Seuss theme). We painted stripes on the wall similar to the Cat in the Hat's hat, I painted a picture of Drew riding an elephant, and there will be some other Dr. Suess themed items that will go in the room.

The tough part is separating out all of Drew's stuff and clothes and getting it moved over to his new room, while keeping out the newborn items for Sisbro (IF Sisbro is a bro.) So it's good we still have 8 weeks to go cuz there's so much to do!

New Year

Just returned from a lovely visit up north in snowy Petoskey. It was beautiful. Drew had fun in the snow, he was adorable in his snow suit - couldn't put his arms down. This photo is Drew posing as Thing One from The Cat in the Hat at Christmas.

See more Christmas pics here.

See more New Years pics in Petosky here.

Sorry for short post - so tired from the 18 hour drive! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!