say yes or no trace :)

Trace is amazing once again. He now has the ability to signal by not or shake of the head. when i ask him what he wants and go off on a list he will answer. It is a small mile stone but it is a good one. it seems like he will be growing again. He is eating and sleeping a lot.

As for dannon he is moving more than trace did. crazy!
i am having sleepless nights and lots of belly and pelvic pain. Not to mention i have the worst allergies right now. I refuse to take anything during the day but will take benadryl for sleeping because that is necessary. We have less than 10 weeks until he comes and we still have not done his room :(
we are going to focus on that this weekend hopefully.
as for trace's room it does get clean!

Future firefighter?

SO we went to trace's first OFD family event. Loved it so much he did not nap all day and totally crashed the night of.
He played with the other kids and he swam in the port-a-tank with the other kids which was a great thing because we thought he had a fear of water but seems to get side tracked from it when there are other kids around. the day wasn't with out him throwing his usual tantrums from sleep dep., but it still was so much fun.
Yesterday was the first day he got to go to a fire scene. A house fire came and i was more than excited to actually take photos for the first time in a while. I took trace and he became all excited when he had seen the first fire trcuk. saying mama firetruck!
then when we first had seen the scene he ran up to the port-a-tank trying to undress to get in. He settled with playing in a puddle of foamy water on the sidewalk. He was so excited to be there. He crashed not too much later when we got home. then we wend shopping and he was a great little boy. He makes me smile so much.
In his development he is getting better at repeating words in a full manner instead of his own way. he is now saying two and three words together so it is some progress. We are so proud of him. Potty training is still on hold but hopefully that will come as his understanding of language increases.

Not much to post

Not much to sat but Trace is having night time issues. We need to get things adjusted. But that is something we just need to tough out and do.
He has such a wonderful imagination now. He likes to play with different things in ways one can only imagine what is going through his little mind.
We have not been pressuring on the potty. He needs to get to the point of understanding a little more for a rewards program to take place. I am not too concerned.
his favorite cartoon is spongebob and he will even recite things from it. It is too funny.
he is getting real good at counting. He has understanding of number progressions and will count to 10 with ease if he takes his time.
He knows some of the alphabet. Will repeat if coaxed, and will say several letters on his own in the correct order. It is nice to hear him have some progress.
he knows certain things like shoes and socks, he knows to give me a kiss before he leaves with daddy, he knows how to ask for things and he can make small sentances now.

as for dannon.
last appointment was great. The placenta moved away from the cervix.
no word on the glucose test so that should be fine.
dannon looks active and it does not seem like he has any issues. Time is coming close.
I am contracting like crazy so it is driving me nuts! Daemon will kick me just as hard if not harder than trace used to . There will be times where he will kick for more than hours straight. VERY active. I can see feet moving and his head moving across my belly and he is not shy to make my tummy look lopsided by balling up in a section that is not in the center of my belly.
I have been doing real good on my weight. I am almost 29 weeks and I am 154. So only 9 lbs gained. This will be good for me to have weight loss after the pregnancy .. It might even counter act the post partum depression. That is what made me real depressed last time. I had gained a lot of weight without caring until I gave birth and it did not come off. It made me real sad and I did not think it would ever. Now 9 lbs could just be the weight of baby and fluid at the time of birth . After that .. Breastfeeding will possibly help kickstart some metabolism. Then we can start some spring and summer activities as a family to help.
trace is just so special. I am totally in love with him and I cannot wait until I have another little boy to love. I just hope I can help them love eachother as much as their father and I love them. That is our main goal, to be a close knit family that we had always wanted when we were younger. And this is kinda cool too because both Jason and I wanted brothers when we were younger and so we can live this vicariously through our children..