28 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 28 Weeks

Size Of Baby: Our little guy weighs 2 1/4 and almost 15 inches head to feet!

Total Weight Gain/Loss: 12-13 pounds so far I think...I go back to the doctor tomorrow so we'll see if it's more!

Maternity Clothes: Most definitely

Best Moment This Week: Actually seeing him kick on my belly

Gender: We're having a sweet little boy!

Movement: All the time!

Food Craving: Everything, my appetite has picked up recently, I think he's starting to gain some weight!

What I Miss: Nothing I can think of this week!

Sleep: Typical...just waking once in the night to pee, tossing and turning to get comfortable.

What I Am Looking Forward To: Finishing up preparations for Kellan!

Belly Button: Stretching from side to side

Stretch Marks: Leftovers from first pregnancy

Symptoms: I've been getting more heartburn in the past couple of weeks...I guess Kellan's hair is growing!

Happy 18 Months Kerrington Leigh!

Kerrington! You are 18 months old today! I can't believe it! Well, I suppose I can, you are definitely acting like an 18 month old these days. You are sweet as can be most of the time... but you definitely have your moments where your daddy and I don't know what we'll do with you. For instance, in the picture above you're eating a Popsicle. If I let you, you'd eat 4 a day. You are adorable...you run up to the freezer and yell "ice" and just hold on to the handle. I really don't think you need more than one a day, or one at 9:30 in the morning either so you often will get pretty upset if I tell you no.





You absolutely love being outside. You'll go up to the door to our back yard and say "side" which your word for 'outside'. It's still HOT outside here in Savannah, but a little bit more bearable than earlier this summer, so we'll usually go outside for awhile after your afternoon nap. You just started calling to Ollie. You'll yell his name and then say "mon" and wave your little fingers. You're telling him to 'come on'. It made me realize that you are starting to boss him around and your little brother is in for it!

You try to copy every word you hear these days. It's really cute. When I ask you to say 'slide' that also comes out as 'side'. If I ask you if you want to got down the slide you will shake you head down toward the ground just once. You also just learned (in the past week) the word "no". I was really surprised it took you this long to figure this one out. When you say it though, you say ' no, no, no, no". Not just once, what a silly girl!

You're starting to get picky with eating. The other night you ate two (maybe) bites of dinner. I'm learning to just be okay with you not eating as much and realizing that you'll survive until breakfast! Later that night we were at bible study and you were begging anyone that would give you eye contact to give you some cake you saw on the counter. It was pretty funny. You have 'poopied' in the potty two times! So far you're not consistent with it, but whenever you see us on the potty you want to wipe and throw a piece of toilet paper in the toilet and flush it. I'm not going to push you with this, I'll let you discover and learn for awhile and see how things go.

You love other kids, especially ones that are a little bigger than you are. You also can hold your own with them. You usually don't get too upset when we drop you off for class at church and your teachers say that you are good for them. I worry sometimes because I'm afraid they'll tell me that you tried to bite a kid. From what I've noticed, you don't do it to be mean, you're usually just 'playing'. We're doing our best to teach you not to do that though! You also love babies. I'm not sure how you'll react when your brother comes and he is here all the time, but for now you just love looking at them and pointing to their eyes (yikes!).

You are sleeping in your big girl bed! Although, the past couple of days I have put you in the crib for your afternoon nap because you have just learned to crawl out of your bed. Last night we put a gate out to the hallway because I was afraid you would get out in the middle of the night. You didn't, but we heard you get out of your bed in the morning. You went up to the gate first and said hi to Ollie, but once we called your name, you came walking into our room. It was pretty cute! You are using your pacifier for bedtime and naps. I was thinking about trying to get rid of them, but I don't think either of us are ready to deal with that yet. I don't want you to be 4 and still have a pacifier, I think I might try when you're a bit closer to 2.

Tomorrow we have your 18 month check up. I am really excited to see what you weigh and how tall you've gotten. It's been three months since our last check up so I know you've grown! I'll have to update tomorrow your latest statistics. Right now you're fitting into a wide range of clothes. I still have a few 12 month clothes, but you're mostly in 18 to 24 month and some 2T things. You're in a size 5-6 shoe. We had to buy you size 6 sneakers for the fall so that with a sock, the strap would Velcro to the other side!

People still always comment on how cute your legs are. They think your rolls are just so cute! You definitely still have some, but they are getting less and less. I do have to agree though, they are pretty cute. Recently you had an aversion to taking baths (by yourself at least) and you had been either taking showers with mommy or daddy or taking a bath with mommy. You did although enjoy taking a bath tonight at grandmas by yourself.

You are such a joy to your mommy and daddy. Like I said, you're certainly becoming more of a challenge these days as we enter the 'terrible two' stage, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I thank God for you each day, and pray that your daddy and I can be good parents for you and guide you into a relationship with Jesus. They days are nearing that you will no longer be the only child/grandchild and although it will probably be stressful at first, I can't wait to see your relationship develop with your little brother. I love you so much Kerrington Leigh Humphreys. You make my day, every single day, with your sweet smile and bubbly personality. Thank you for blessing our lives.

Ready or not!

Well, I decided to try K in her big girl bed overnight tonight.... I realized that it was more of a matter of ME being ready for it than her. There is just something about taking her out of that crib that makes her more grown up and I don't like it!!! I definitely was a little sad as I was laying in bed with her tonight. As I was laying there, I thought about being able to do this when she is a bit older and us getting to 'talk' before bed. That's something to look forward to, but at the same time, I just want her to stay a baby...

As we speak, I believe she has finally fallen asleep. It took about a half an hour. The good thing is, so far she hasn't tried to get down from the bed herself. I don't know how long that will last, but I'm glad she hasn't tried so far! We don't have side rails for the bed, I've just put down some pillows on the ground. We'll see how the night goes, and how my big girl does!

26 Weeks!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 26 Weeks

Size Of Baby: About a pound and two thirds and 14 inches in length
(about the length of an English cucumber)

Total Weight Gain/Loss: about 10 pounds

Maternity Clothes: definitely!

Best Moment This Week: having family up North see the baby bump

Gender: It's a BOY!

Movement: A little less often, I think he's starting to get cramped!

Food Craving: Yesterday I craved Black bean and Corn Salad...yummy!

What I Miss: We drove all day home Wednesday from Indiana...I was super sore when we finally got home. I miss not feeling that way!

Sleep: Tossing and turning, up once to pee.

What I Am Looking Forward To: We set up Kerrington's room this week and put the crib in our old office....looking forward to having a baby in there soon!

Belly Button: It's starting to stretch from side to side!

Stretch Marks: Leftovers from the first time around.

Symptoms: I think I might be swelling a little bit towards the end of the day.

Big Girl Bed

We set up K's new big girl bed yesterday! We are using all the furniture that was in her room for her little brother who will be here in December. So, we had to get our girl a new bed! Because we were on a budget, we got the bed really cheap at Ikea and luckily, the bedding was on sale at Pottery Barn Kids...I absolutely love it!!!

Here's the finished product.

We surprised K after her nap...

She was so happy! She wanted to get up in it right away!

Loving the new bed...

Look at me!

Today, she took a nap in her bed and did really well... we're so proud of our girl.

Vacation

We just got back around 9:00 last night from our trip up North. We left last Tuesday for Cincinnati (with a stop overnight in North Carolina). We decided to take a trip up now because we won't be able to travel North this winter due to a precious arrival coming in December!

We enjoyed some time in Cincinnati visiting with family and friends we haven't seen in awhile. We also drove over to Sellersburg, Indiana to visit Drew's family. We also got to see Drew's sister Morgan's college (University of Southern Indiana) and dorm room. All in all it was a great trip with many fond memories. We spent a lot of time in the car and Drew and I are so proud of how our girl was. She did very well....especially when we decided to make the 10-12 hour trip home all at once yesterday.

Here are some pics of our trip:


Playing Ring Around the Rosie with Sage, Crew, and Sable Gibson.

We tried to get a picture of the girls and I asked Kerrington to give Sable a kiss..it just ended up looking like she was trying to strangle Sable instead!

At the Cincinnati Zoo!

Feeding the birdies!

Just strummin the guitar at the Smith house!

She got more Michigan gear to sport this fall!

Visiting with Great Grandma Dobbie.

Playing with Conner, Maggie's (Drew's cousin) little boy.

Trying anything to keep her occupied on the trip home!

McDonald break!

on a mission

It's been a rough day here. This afternoon K has had many (I lost count... or actually chose not to keep count) tantrums and upsets. It got bad enough that I got to the point of crying, which, for those of you who know me, doesn't happen often. You just begin to doubt yourself and question what you're doing wrong when your child behaves in this way. Drew took K out this morning and spent some time with her (and let me sleep in!) that of which I was so greatful for. But, when we tried to go out to lunch as a family, things went down hill.

Both Drew and I were stressed, and didn't know what to do, how to react... I know both of us were praying, that's for sure. That's one thing we do realize. We know we can't do this on our own and we both pray for guidance and consistency when it comes to disciplining our children.

We've racked our brains trying to figure out what is going on in our little one's head that makes her behave this way...is she sick? do her ears hurt? is she tired? I think it's possible that in this instance it was the third option, because as you can see from the picture above, she finally (after about an hour of playing/and then finally crying it out in her crib) fell asleep and has been asleep for the past hour our so. I am sure that some of it too is her figuring out how to express her emotions. That, coupled with us being first time parents I guess means there will be a lot of trial and error. I just pray we don't make too many mistakes.

So it's become my mission, I'm researching, reading, trying to understand what is the best way to deal with this all. Pray for us. I know God will guide us. Well...she's waking now! Time to go!