Saturday at Home

We've had busy weekends pretty much since we moved in. So today we enjoyed a nice day at home. Richard stained some wooden crosses for cadets. He's decided to volunteer to help out with cadets and seems to be enjoying it.

We picked up the house, I made a chocolate cake, and we took Benjamin to the park. Nothing exciting, but a nice day anyway :) Click Here for the pictures...blogger won't upload them!

A Husband's Cruelty

Richard sent me a text message this morning that said, "Hey, look up the song Bring Him Home Santa." So naively I did...and that video is what I found.

Of course, I only cried my eyes out. So I have to ask...WHY? Why would a husband knowingly request that his very pregnant (and already pretty emotional) wife listen to a sad little voice asking Santa to bring home her daddy....and if you watched this thing until the end please let me know if the last little boy's face turned your tears into sobs. Gosh!

Seriously...it's not even right.

***EDIT***

Richard heard on the radio this morning that when the DJ played that song he got tons of calls asking him to play it again, so it was announced that he would play it again at 9:15. Well, Rick had class at 9am and thought if the song was that good he should let me in on it. So, he never actually heard it before telling me to look it up. We knew he wouldn't do that intentionally...and for the record, when he watched, that last little boy choked him up a little too.

Santa Clause is Comin' to Town

Click ME!

Oh, and does anyone else think the shaking globe at the beginning looks like me?

Benjamin Goes to the Dr.

We had Ben's 15 month well baby check up today. It's about time I got him back to the doctor's office.

The last time he saw a doctor he was 6 months old. I didn't care though because he has been healthy.

Today we did the developmental assessment, my little genius is 23 months old on paper. I told you all he could do a lot of stuff. :-D

He's 33.5 inches tall and weighs 25.1 pounds. He's actually lost a few pounds, but I think it's because he's gotten so tall and of course all the running. I didn't catch the exact head measurement, but it's in the 90th percentile. Wonder where he gets that? His daddy I presume. My dad gave me a pin head, so it's not from me. LoL

He got 3 shots today. We're now playing catch up since we only had him up to his 2 month round of shots. The Dr. was nice to me and listened to my concerns about vaccines and we will be waiting for a while longer before we do MMR and Chicken Pox. I've read a lot about vaccines, and I know the facts, but I also don't feel like I can ignore all the other info about the vaccines either. I want to be a good mom, I don't want any unnecessary harm to come to my babies. It's hard to know what is right when it comes to doctors and shots.

Men may want to skip this one...

Dr. visit went fine. A little unpleasant at times, but you will have that.

He gave me a book and told me it was time to make a birth plan. Unfortunately I have no wonderous labor progress to speak of.

He was able to feel the baby's head which is something my german doctor never could do with Ben. He was never low enough. So that's kind of cool.

My belly didn't grow any since last time, but I did gain 2 pounds.

I asked him about the trip home and he didn't think it would be a problem, he is convinced the baby is big enough and that she will be arriving early.

Now, if only we could find her a name. :-/

Nothing to write about!

I'm 36wks and 2 days pregnant now. I have an appointment today and I am hoping for some progress. It would be really nice if I could have the baby before Christmas, but I'm not getting my hopes to high. But if you guys want to pray that she's big and healthy enough to be born early so we can come home in January, we wouldn't mind. ;)

Rick's leave is approved for January (Flying on the 6th). If the baby is born after Christmas, she can only fly with a medical release...if there are any problems with me or her at all, I won't be able to come. So we haven't purchased any tickets yet. We just don't know what to do.

I am going to mention it to my doctor today and see what his thoughts are.

Benjamin is obsessed with cars these days. But before you get any ideas, he has about 150 hot wheels cars that used to be Rick's. His favorites are mostly the same ones that were Richard's favorites and he (Richard) thinks that's cool. Grandma M. gave us money for Ben's Christmas gift (to avoid shipping costs, loaded suitcases, etc.) and Richard got this on his Black Friday escapades. He got it from Target or Kohl's for 20 dollars! It is actually pretty huge, and we both think Ben will really like it.

I think when you have little kids at home Christmas might be more fun for the parents. Rick and I both usually find that we love Ben's toys more than he does, with a few exceptions. His favorites include a piggy bank from Aunt Ang that he got for his birthday, this farm set that my mom used for his birthday cake, his vacuum cleaner, and a tonka truck we got from a garage sale for $1. He now also loves his hot wheels ramp, which was supposed to be for Christmas, but since he was already engineering ramps on his own, we couldn't wait to show it to him. It's been the highest priority for play time since we gave it to him. He won't even go to bed without at least 2 cars. Bones is chopped liver compared to cars. Here is a video of him racing his cars, he always throws his hands up over his head after the race, we don't know where he got that, but it's pretty cute.

The quality of the video kind of stinks, but what can you expect with a phone? We ordered a new camera from Amazon.com (we got the insurance money from the break in), it should be here soon!

Anyway...I'd better get on with my day...

It's December!

Videos continued.

Benjamin love music and loves to dance, we almost always listen to music when we're having breakfast. (This music is HSM3)

This is from last night, my mom requested a close up of his face. It looks distorted on here though. He makes the dog noise, monkey noise, and tiger noise, and says hi(ya). He obviously realized that I ask him to make animal noises in the same pattern all the time...bc he started to make a monkey noise before I even asked. He can do it out of order though.....

This is a week or so ago, He got up from his nap and was playing with the boxes of stuff and his cars...next thing I know my little genius built a ramp!

Videos From the Phone...

It's that special time again...time when I clean out my phone and all you people who don't get video and txt get to see what Benjamin has been up to! I know you're excited. I'm going to keep adding more, I have a bunch, but I think putting them all on one post is what caused the missing sound last time..so we will see.




Benjamin has some sweet dance moves in the Kitchen

This one is from earlier this fall, maybe in October...Ben watched Rick butter his bagel and then decided to try to "butter" his...only he used soup!

This was a few nights ago, it's a little dark, but his car noises are pretty cute.