Saturday, May 29, 2010

Hello Again.

So it's been a while (again) since my last post. This is due in part to the fact that I'm in the middle of finals week and can't wait to have a little time off before the next bambino arrives... AND I keep forgetting my stinkin' password. That's a prego brain for ya, because it's the same as pretty much every password I have set up for everything else! Anywho... Let me see what we've been up to.

Still house-hunting.. with no luck. It's pretty difficult to find a standard sale house since there are tons and tons of short sale and foreclosures. Frustrating! I am 34 weeks pregnant now as of yesterday, and this past week we made the move of putting Jed back in his own room after nearly 9 months of sleeping with us!! I kept putting it off because I was convinced it would be such a pain in the butt having to wake up with him in the middle of the night and get him back to sleep, etc. But it has really been alot easier than I was anticipating. Thank You Jesus! I'm still hoping the process of him falling asleep without me laying with him will become easier and easier... but once he's asleep he's out and doesn't make a peep til 7:30-8 in the morning so that's sweet. This is the little man taking his first nap in his big boy bed. :)

Next weekend is my baby shower... and I have been counting down the days to it. Why you ask? For the best cake in the world. DUH. It's going to be amazing. It's from Sweet Layers, a red velvet cake with cookies and cream filling. So amazing. The downside of this is that my camera decided to stop working a couple days ago, so I took it into Best Buy yesterday because my smart husband somehow knew it would be a good idea to purchase the extended warranty on it... So my camera is now chillin' with the Geek Squad. Those geeks told me it would take 2-3 weeks to fix it and if they can't I can get a new one. Such Geeks! Don't they know my baby could be here in 2-3 weeks and my baby shower is next weekend! I'm having camera withdrawls for sure.

Moving onto the weather... Those of you who know me well know that I'm not a huge fan of the sun and heat (hence the pasty-whiteness my friend Tash loves to point out as much as possible)... With the weather warming up quite a bit last week we started getting use out of our Heritage lake passes Chris bought mainly for fishing, but they do have a sweet little water park for little ones and a huge pool. So we've been trying to take advantage of that, and I've been trying to take advantage of Jed's 3hr naps after a day at the water park. :) I had to add a quick pic of Jed in his new glasses Aunt Gina gave him. He's not too crazy about them, if you can't tell. "Uncle Monkey" lives at Heritage Lake, so he stopped by to play with the dude. He was even starting to swim on his own and loved jumping in the water over and over again and eventually started jumping in without anyone there to catch him. He is crazy.




I already mentioned that I'm 34 weeks pregnant now. I was 38 weeks when Jed was born, and that's sort of starting to freak me out that we will have another little boy in a few short weeks! The time is really starting to fly by! Cruz is starting to feel really large in my belly and even woke Chris up in the middle of the night the other day because I'm pretty sure he was practicing his Kung Fu... We can't wait to finally meet this little guy and see what he looks like after so many months of using our imagination. Chris has a pretty crazy imagination too... kinda freaks me out. Hopefully he doesn't come out the way Chris imagines sometimes. Lord, help us.
Here's a couple pics of me, Cruz, and Jed at 33 weeks.

That's pretty much all for now... Gunna go enjoy pretend "dragon time" with my boys. Makes for a perfect Saturday morning. :) Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Little Guy With A Big Situation




So Jed and I went to the ultrasound doctor this morning for the last ultrasound to check and make sure his heart and all that good stuff have developed normally. He is looking great weighing in at 1lb. 5oz. The technician asked me if I wanted her to confirm that he is still in fact a boy, so I said sure... She freezes this picture up on the big tv screen and says, "You tell me".
I have never seen such a big willie on an ultrasound picture before. Maybe it's just the perfect view he gave us or I'm beginning to think he was pretty "excited" for us to see him again. I have no idea, but all I know is Chris is one proud Daddy right about now. :)








Saturday, March 20, 2010

24 weeks!


Many of my friends have been NAGGING me about putting up more belly pictures lately. So I thought I'd take advantage of today, being Chris' Great Grandma's birthday party, to take a pic of me and Baby Cruz-in-utero.

Every other day I look like a grouchy pregnant lady, even though this woman came up to me yesterday in Payless while I was DRIPPING sweat trying on a gazillion different shoes that don't fit my ever-growing Duff-feet (apparently, my belly isn't the only thing growing these days).... and she tells me, "Honey, you're so beautiful. You are just glowing!" I smiled and said, "Aww thanks", but what I really felt like saying was, "See this shoe that my fat foot is squeezed into right now??? Huh, see it? It's going up your rear in two seconds 'cause I'm NOT glowing, I'm sweating like a fat disgusting pig. Have a nice day." But she was a sweet lady, which is what I realized once I got into my air conditioned car.


This is my pregnant rant of the day. Hope you enjoyed.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Little Big Man, Jedidiah

Jed is sooo full of energy everyday. He is quite hard to keep up with especially when you have to pee every 5 minutes and can't run and chase after him like you used to...

Some new things he is doing these days:

* He is 2 years and 3 months old now, and has been potty trained for almost 7 months now.
*He loves being outside "working" with Daddy on his machines
*He loves brushing his teeth
*Favorite movie is Lion King and The Chronicles of Narnia (a.k.a. The Lion Movie)
*He roars like "Simba" and when he gets carried away bites and scratches like a real lion. We're trying to teach him that he really isn't a lion, and can only pretend to bite and scratch. :)
*He has perfected counting to ten, and is working on counting to fifteen.
*He loves sleeping in bed with us! He's been in there with us for like 6 months now, and I am not looking forward to the transition back into his own room. Which may be happening very soon.
*He loves to kiss his mommy and pretend like he is Daddy. He says, "Gimme a kiss, gotta go to work".
*He's so funny.
* He tries to feed his baby brother cheerios through my belly button. Wish I got it on video.

Just a few updates on him... Enjoy the video.

We are having ANOTHER Boy!!!


So we found out on February 9th that I am officially going to be out-numbered in this family. This baby will be the 13th straight boy in a row over three generations for the Latham side of the family. Maybe someday we may have a baby girl, but I'm not counting on it. We are naming this baby....

CRUZ ALEXANDER LATHAM

In case you're wondering, I came across the name Cruz online and found out that it means "The Cross of Christ" in Spanish, and then we chose Alexander for the middle name after Chris' grandpa who passed away in September of 2009. We are so excited to welcome this beautiful boy into our family and are anxious to see what kind of a big brother Jedidiah will make. I am now 22 weeks pregnant and can feel him moving and getting stronger everyday. :)

I Think I Can, I Think I Can....

I would like to be more consistent with this blog, but I'm kinda blog-tarded at this point. So I promise to try and do better. :)

Friday, November 13, 2009

"Stupid Lamb"


For all my fellow Twilight lovers: This one is for you! Can I just say I have the BEST husband in the world for doing this pose with me! Seriously....