New way of walking the dog.

Koen always wants to put the leash on Koda and today I decided what the heck, I'll let him until Koda hates it. Then I realized when Koen combined his running around the table(which he frequents) and Koda with the leash, our dog probably got the most exercise hes had in months! Cracked me up! After about 10 minutes Koda was beat.

Gotta love his huge underwear.

Had to stop and say cheese when he realized I had the camera.

Koda trying to take a break!

How interesting....

How interesting that I got this email about Koen today when he woke up at 6:40 AM! Hello, Alesha! Early-Bird Strategies Sometimes preschoolers turn into early birds — very early. If your child has begun to wake up too early for your tastes, take a look at her sleep habits. Is she going to bed too early? She should get 10 to 11 hours of sleep a night. Is the room too bright? Try room-darkening shades. Parents often blame the afternoon nap and drop it prematurely. Don't make this your first response to early rising. 6 hours of sleep really doesnt cut it for someone who seriously needs 9 to function and more to grow a baby! Ü

Happy Valentines...& a few other things

On Thursday Stacey had a little Valentine party (thank you for planning it on a day I could come) I was so happy she did, because we did so many fun things last year in Erie when Koen was so little and I want to make sure he does fun things now that he understands more, but the poor kid doesn't have as many friends as before. sad. :( All week long he has been saying "Happy Valentines Day" to everyone and was so excited for Ava's party.
They decorated Valentine boxes (well he is a boy so I mostly decorated it Ü), and cupcakes, ate lunch and traded valentines. I think he had a lot of fun.

Devery enjoying her cupcake!

Mindy and Bevin

I had to snap one of Ava eating the frosting

Ko made me refrost his cupcake everytime it got down to just cake.

Some of the party

Ryann and Ava, and little Devery

Me and Ko

Exchanging Valentines

Ko with his box. I papered it, he stickered it and I painted his name

Koen and Ava, eating their treats.

Last week we made and decorated some cupcakes of our own. Note to self: don't try to make your cupcakes low fat by using half oil and half water, they taste the same but don't stay together. Koen mostly just licked his knife repeatedly and enjoyed "sharing" (or eating half) his cupcakes with Grandma and Grandpa.

On a side note I think Koen is "feeling" all our changes. Which ones are affecting him most I am not sure (baby, my school, babysitters etc)He has started acting extremely whinny and cryey. It is really obnoxious. I have been trying to spend more time playing with him when I am home and he is awake, is that going to backfire when the baby comes and I cant do that anymore? He has only been napping a few times a week which makes it hard because I count on that time to study. So then I end up "trying" to study while he is awake. As I am getting in to the thick of the semester I realize it is going to be quite hard to get all the studying in I need to get my necessary B's.
As for the baby I have taken Ko to my last couple Doctors appointments which he thinks is great. I think he thinks anytime he gets to come with mom and not go to someones house is excellent. At 18 weeks I was measuring 20 cm or whatever, basically two weeks big, and was a little dissapointed at my ultrasound when the baby measured right on, I mean who wants to be bigger than necessary when it isn't the baby? So when I went in this past week I was measuring just a little bit small. So I must have just had a growth spurt and then kinda stayed the same. Everything else checked out great too. However I do have my 3rd and 4th (yes that is right, two at one time) coldsores for this pregnancy so my doc gave me a prescription if I get another one. Random question for any moms out there, when did you start wearing maternity clothes? I keep thinking I should probably start busting mine out but have been delaying it remembering how sick I got of them all by the end last time.

22 weeks, before church is really the only time someone else can take a picture of me.

Still no names, people keep asking and it is a sensitive topic. haha. We really dont agree very easily on names, especially boy names and for that reason a girl would have been nice because they seem to come a little easier. Any suggestions are welcome. I am a person who would really like a name BEFORE the baby is being birthed, but that just may not happen this time.