Joe, Keek, and baby 3!

Joey (as of September 27/2016)

Lately, Joey has had a great imagination with his lego. He builds robots, speed trains, smoke stacks, airports, airplanes, fire halls, hospitals, car repair shops, etc. He's really interested in 'hitches'. He's always trying to hitch things up to each other, either just to chug together, or to tow.

He's also (just in the past week) started to get into drawing.  This is a really good independent activity for him.  He's very careful about how he does things, too. I always look over and see him concentrating so hard. It's sooo cute.  His favorite thing to draw is circles, because he's perfected that.  He never tells me that something he's drawn is any object other than it is. I think he's too logical for that.  For instance, he will have color marks all over his paper, and I'll ask him what he drew. "oh! Is that a cloud?" "No, mommy. That's a circle. This is a circle. This is a line. Over here is blue and red and green." And just yesterday he's started to ask me to draw shapes on his paper and he colors them in.  A great thing about Joey is that he'll color on a page until the page is absolutely full instead of drawing a few things, turning the page, and starting a new one.

He's been doing this hilarious thing lately where he takes my yoga mat out and lays it flat, lays down on one side and holds on and wraps up his body like a burrito and starts meowing at the top of his lungs.  He saw a cat on our computer screen that was wrapped up in a piece of paper or something and now he does it like 10 times a day.  It's sooo funny.

Something else that he's started doing endlessly is asking me how to spell things.  It's pretty cool.  We've been sounding out lots of words lately and he's really interested in knowing how sounds of letters work together to create words.  OH! and he likes to randomly count to twenty, but he ALWAYS misses thirteen.

He's less interested in reading books lately, which is disappointing because I always love to do that with him.  It's a nice, quiet interactive activity where I don't have to be creative. He always wants to play pretend or trucks, or lego with me lately, and sometimes I don't feel like making up a story or want to pretend I'm a truck, or a fireman, or anything for that matter. Buuuut, that's what I do. A lot. And he loves it, so I GUESS that's okay!

He's also getting really good on his scooter. He's super fast and coordinated and I'm so proud of him! He can lift up one of his legs after he's pushed off and stay steady and he's great at turning. He's also learned to 'stop, look, and listen' before driveways.  He's getting really good at following rules.

Frankie (as of September 27, 2016)

Frankie is at SUCH a cute age.  She's at that age where when I come into her bedroom she's standing holding her bunny in one arm, soother in her mouth, fuzzy hair on her head all staticy, and starts bouncing up and down and laughing the minute she sees me, then collapses into her crib on her tummy and waits for me to rub her back.  If i could freeze her at this age for another year, I would.

She loves to take things out of containers and put them in other containers. And she LOVES to take allllll the recycling out of the brown paper bag in the kitchen and explore it. And take apart my purse, and drawers of clothes, and basically anything. She doesn't play with toys much at ALL. She's always just exploring things around the house.  Opening and closing the screen door is one of her favorite past times.

One thing I WISH she liked doing is reading books. Joey at her age, would sit ENDLESSLY and look through books either by himself, or with me.  Frankie can't sit and look at a book for more than 2 seconds before she's off to another activity! She's never been able to sit to listen to a book. Ever.

Frankie is OBSESSED with animals. Anytime she sees any animal, she looses it. Laughing, yelling, pointing, chasing.  It's so cute and makes me wish that we had a cat or something! Joey is the total opposite! He either couldn't care less about an animal, or freaks out over them (in a bad way).

Frankie's age comes with challenges, too.  She won't sit in her high chair for more than a couple of minutes before getting really whiney and wanting to come out, but when she does come out, she just stands at my legs begging to be fed even though there was food on her high chair.

Frankie also is suuuper needy lately and always wants to be held and yells and cries at my feet until I pick her up.  It makes it challenging to get anything done around the house and she's sooo heavy!


My pregnancy so far:

I'm seven weeks pregnant (obviously with our third) and I had my first ultrasound yesterday. Everything is looking good! I'm so sick though and I honestly don't know how I'm going to make it through this first trimester! I completely forgot about this sea sick, everything is disgusting but I'm starving kind of a feeling that plagues the body during the first 12 or so weeks.
My doctor started me on a diet of carb-y plain foods (no liquids) to try for the next two weeks that I started yesterday.  Here's hoping it helps.