30 weeks!

Believe it or not, I'm 30 weeks today!  Only 10 weeks left.  Wow, I have a lot to do before this baby comes!  

Well, before we went to the beach, I had my glucose test, and found out the next day that I failed :(  Everything else seemed to great.  The heartbeat was fine, and the baby is moving a lot!  For some reason I was much more nervous about the second test this time than I was with the last pregnancy.  So, Tuesday I did the 3 hour test, and I passed.  Whew!  I did not want to go on a diet! 

I also got scolded by the nurse because I pulled a stomach muscle going down the water slide with William.  I know, I know...no rides, but it was the kiddie slide!  I rode 2 of the slides twice each without any problem, but apparently the 3rd slide was the "big one," and in the last turn, it pulled me back, and in my attempt to stay up and hold on to William, I must of pulled something.  Anyway, after a few days of pain, everything seems to be fine now.

Now for some good news...we decided on a name!  Our new little guy is going to be...

Elliott Andrew!

We are getting excited!  I can't believe we are going to have another baby soon! 

 

21 Months!

William will be 21 months tomorrow!  He is getting to be such a big boy!  He stayed with David's parents for a few days last week, and when he got back, I felt like he had grown two feet!  He is trying to talk more and more.  He knows lots of animal sounds, and he will try to repeat things we ask him to say.  He also carries on conversations with us even if we don't understand what he is talking about.  I think he's going to take after his daddy and talk with his hands :)  He has become Mr. Independent as well.  He is always making us laugh.  Here he is on the way home from the beach.  William was screaming (not crying) at the top of his lungs trying to keep himself awake, and David turned around and put his finger up to his mouth and said "shh."  Well, William must have thought he was sticking his finger up his nose because he did this and thought it was hilarious!  The whole time he kept making snorting noises and laughing at himself.  Too silly!

We love you so much even with both fingers up your nose!

Fun at the Beach!

We were really excited to go to the beach with David's family last weekend.  Too bad Hurricane Irene also decided to join us.  But she didn't ruin all our fun.  Even though it was rainy most of Friday and Saturday, we still had a great time.  On Friday evening, we went to see The Pirate's Voyage.  William loved it!  And so did David :)

Here's William, Katie (Jason's girlfriend), and David making the best of it indoors with Play-Doh!

Finally, we made it to the beach!

We also went to the Water Park!  David and John had a great time on the big rides, while Jackie and I had fun with William at the kiddie pool and slides.  William LOVED the water-slides.  At first, he was a little nervous of all the water spraying everywhere, but after I took him down the first slide, he was ready to go all by himself!  He wasn't quite big enough, so after I took him a few more times, David went with him lots!  

Our last night, we went to dinner at the Flying Fish!  

On our way home, we took a couple of detours to Oak Island and South Port.  We even took the Ferry!

We had such a great time!  Too bad vacations have to end :)

Mmm...Cupcakes!

Cupcakes are always better when you are sharing with friends! 

Thanks to Annecy and Livia for helping David make the cupcakes!

Cool Wheels!

Riding the cool car carts at Best Buy and Food Lion!  He loves to drive!  The problem is having to leave the store - they're too much fun to leave behind!

Riding his tricycle!

Not sure why, but he loves wearing this basket on his head, and making us wear it on our heads!  Silly William!

20 Month Blues

I missed William's 20 month post, but a lot of not so good things happened.  We've been very lucky for a having such a healthy baby.  William has hardly ever been sick, but we got a taste of what it's like to have a sick child in his 20th month.  After a couple of weeks of having a green nose and just feeling yucky, William had a fever one night, so David took him to the doctor the next day to find out he had his first ever ear infection.  They prescribed him an antibiotic, but just a couple of days later he was running another fever of 104.  David took him to the doctor again, where they changed his antibiotic. He seemed to be doing better over the weekend, and then Monday, Kay Lee called me at work and asked if I knew William had a rash all over.  Because David was sleeping, I came home and took William to the doctor again.  Turns out he had Roseola, but just in case it was a reaction to the medicine, they changed his antibiotic for the 3rd time.  Poor baby!

Then to make things worse, apparently being on antibiotics can give a baby yeast diaper rash.  William had never really had bad diaper rash either, until now.  He screamed every time we had to change his diaper, and walked like he had been riding a horse.  I went to Walgreens to see if they had a rash medicine for yeast rash.  The pharmacist said that the only thing over the counter you could use was Clotrimazole which could be found in the foot isle.  Well, what I found was Lotrimin Jock Itch medicine.  It worked!  It took a week or two to be completely gone, but it really worked.  Finally, William was all better!  It's tough having a sick baby :(

Where are my keys?!

I have a lot of catching up to do on the blog, and I decided to start with David's missing keys.  One day after I got home from work, David was going to run to the grocery store, but couldn't find his keys.  We looked everywhere for 5 days.  We looked in all William's toys, favorite spots, even the garbage.  We couldn't find them anywhere.  No, we didn't have a spare.  There was only one key when we bought the car.

Finally, David called a locksmith and had his car key replaced for a mere $180.  The next day, William and I were playing with his music table, and this is what I found...

This is the only opening on this toy, and it never occurred to either one of us to look here.  When I opened this little pocket, William burst out laughing.  He thought it was hilarious.  David did not.  But I guess we have a spare key now :)  And now David will listen to me when I tell him not to let William play with our keys!