I forgot to post here on my blog thing….how I forgot I don’t really know. I seemed to have posted/emailed it everywhere else but here Plus, he’s already 5 weeks old! Where did that time go? I have lots to update about but really no time..can’t believe he’s sleeping right now for this!

Sooo Merrick Conner was born April 29th @ 2:43 - 9 lbs 1 oz. and just shy of 22 inches. At his 2 day check up he was 8 lbs 9 oz. At his 2 week check he up to 9 lbs 15 oz and 23 inches long. He started rolling front to back just shy of 2 weeks..SCARY but typical since Braysen did it too. I guess we aren’t meant to have non-mobile kiddos. I’m just hoping he isn’t so quick to crawl and walk like his older brother was!

Here’s a pic then birth story (if not TMI) cut to save ya!

pic of him in the early days after he was born

cute pic of face

one of the boys laying next to each other from this past week

great hair pic of him while on his tummy

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So going back to last week ~

Will cut this so you don’t have to read the whole thing unless you want to! (more…)

to spend money, get caught up in the rush and stress of the holidays, have weekends booked with events of some form for weeks on end and lastly try to take a break to enjoy some of this time with our family and be thankful for what we have in our lives.

So a lot has been going on but I keep forgetting to update my blog and write out the craziness of life. With the holidays approaching there isn’t a slow down in sight and then of course the baby coming in May is going to keep us on our toes as we progress through the new year. Last but not least there’s the ever so adventurous toddler that rules the house, who wouldn’t allow us to slow down even if we wanted to!

ALL of our holiday shopping was finished early after my Black Friday shopping trip. I can tell the little man is going to be thoroughly spoiled this Christmas (mainly by everyone else but I will admit to a small part in it). We decided early this year that the almost $1,000 plane tickets out were well our present to ourselves in some sense and then there’s the new king bedroom set we bought at the end of the summer and toss in a PSP slim that Patrick got for his business traveling trips and we exceeded the budget a bit! It’s amazing how many presents you end up buying people when you have a large family, it gets to be overwhelming to say the least and we set ourselves up a certain $ / person limit early on and had a number in our heads that we’d end up at. We pretty much were right at that number to my surprise! I’m just glad the shopping is done and we can stop watching the bank account go down. Well, I did go FINALLY buy some maternity clothes last night and spent money on myself! We got kiddo his holiday dress up clothes for KC visit too but I’m just very hapy to have new clothes that fit and are comfy + cute. I found way more things at the motherhood store then I should’ve and had a hard time narrowing my decisions down. Thanks to a very patient mother in-law we spent a long time trying on nearly every shirt in the store. I walked out with shirts, a DRESS!, some slacks and the lovely new bra that I was dreading having to buy.

Now onto some Braysen stories or funnies (he’ll be 21 months on the 23rd of December):

He is addicted to Tigger and Friends Super Sleuth, he “bounces” just like Tigger around the room. Both of his feet off the ground and all hopping from here to there. If Tigger ends in the morning, he tells me “Tigger go bye bye”. (he watches from 8:00-8:30 before I take him to daycare so I can finish getting ready!)

He came running in the kitchen the other day and tackled our cat, Xaria. She started meowing of course and he starts going “meooooooowwwww” really loud after she would cry out. I had to get him off of her but she is very tolerant and lets him pick her up (or attempt to) and tackles her on a regular basis. He also tells her “down kitty” when she’s up on the counter or “bad kitty” when she’s up there. He’s also quite aware of her litter box in the laundry room (that is gated off from him) and points to it then says “kitty poop”. If he is looking for his kitty he walks around with his hands shrugged up and says “whereareyou kitty” (all one slurred word) and then makes the clicking sound with his tongue like I do when I call her.

For some reason he has a thing for the word “broken”. If anything isn’t working the way it should be or doing what he wants it to do it is “broken”. He comes running in the other day to tell me “broken broken broken” and he has the little Pooh window clings I bought for him to put on and off the windows. Apparently he took it off the window and couldn’t get it back on so it was “broken”. If the huge ball won’t fit into the tiny container like he wants, it’s broken. Where does he get this stuff?

We haven’t had any major cuss word problems…yet. Patrick said something was “crappy” the other day and Braysen started saying “crappy” but that ended after about 30 minutes and we have yet to hear it again thankfully. He is a little Parrot though and will repeat

He’s got a slew of new phrases.
“I see snow” after Patrick showed him snow Sat. morning for the first time. He says “I see…..” all the time and it’s so cute. Again, where did he get that phrase? LOL
“Go boo boo house” means we are going to grandpas house. For some reason my father in-laws name is “boo boo”. I can’t even try and list all the words he has honestly. He can pretty much point to and say each name of the objects in his picture books without much problem now. The kid has diarrhea of the mouth now a days and is nonstop talking.
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*I’m going to apologize right now for not cutting this on my lj friends pages. It’s been so long, I cannot for the life of me remember how to do it in wordpress now, so I’ll figure it out later and edit it. Again, I’m so sorry!!!!! I know this is a pet peeve of some of ya so again, I didn’t mean to spam your page!*
Pumpkin patch pics from last weekend

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve done a blog update on this thing. I managed to get some posts out on myspace or a few message boards but I’ve neglected this way too long!

Big news first (although no news to some I know!)
~ Braysen is going to be a big brother somewhere around May 1st, 2008!!!!~

Yep, we are expecting #2! They’ll be just over 2 years apart, which is right where we were hoping (2-3 years ideally hehe). That probably should answer the famous question I keep getting asked, “Was this planned?” Why yes actually it was. I’m around 12 weeks and FINALLY feeling relief from my 24/7 morning sickness that plagued me again this pregnancy. I got on the same drugs that they put me on for Braysen but this time around they didn’t work. It’s been a daily battle of trying to not throw up or eat constantly hoping to curb the nausea. I swear I’ll be a cow just from having to eat snacks all day long. I have been eating healthy snacks like yogurt, cucumbers, fruits and such at least. I have horrible nausea in the late afternoon/evening currently and if that would pass I might just feel slightly human. I can’t sleep worth crap but that comes with the territory.

We’ve had an early ultrasound just shy of 7 weeks (I think it was) and saw the baby’s heartbeat. I heard the heartbeat by Doppler around 9 ½ weeks (I’m horrible at remember the exact dates unless I look at my calendar at home). My next appt. is next Thursday. The sad news to me is that I won’t have another ultrasound until 22-24 weeks. I was hoping to find out the sex of the baby before Christmas vacation when we head off to KC but it looks as it’ll happen when we return. *sighs* I’m really hoping for a girl, healthy baby first of course.

I think we are done after this, I am not a happy pregnant girl. I know they say pregnancies can be different from kid to kid but 2 times in a row of this throwing up stuff is almost too much for me. It gets even more difficult when you are throwing up with a toddler running around! I’m thankful Patrick has been a huge help. He has been working from home 2 days a week lately so he tends to get some dishes done or do a quick vacuuming before I get home. God bless a man who helps out with the housework! How did I get so lucky? He’s also been a great French Toast cooker. I’ve sadly seen Braysen turn into quite the little daddy’s boy because of this but it’s ok.

On Braysen news~ He’s quite the talker. I mean the kid has a vocab that astounds us. He picks up new words so quick. He has started to learn what certain shapes are in books and what colors are. I should say this is by him looking at picture books and pointing at things and telling us what they are or we tell him if it’s word he isn’t quite there yet on. He LOVES books still and plops into our laps after he throws the book at my head ½ the time. He gets mad if you won’t read the book he brings to you hehe. For the longest time he’d say “dada dada dada” all the flipping time but no mama. This was until we figured out finally that I’m “baba” not “mama”. We do this cute thing where I point at his chest and say Braysen then I’ll point at Patrick and say Dada and finally myself and say mama. His latest thing with this is that if we are out with other people, when we first start talking to them, he’ll point at me and say “baba” and look at the person like he’s trying to tell them I’m his mom or if dad is holding him he’ll point and say “dada”. It’s adorable!!! I need to get him on video with his little finger puppet duck that he now puts on his finger and says “quack quack quack” as he hops his finger around in the air. He also has taking a thing to Tigger and “bouncing”. He’ll bounce (basically tries to jump up and down) around the room in circles, saying bounce bounce bounce all the while and it had us rolling the first time we saw it.

Home stuff~ I can’t remember if I posted about our new furniture purchase but we got ourselves a new King Bedroom set last month and it’s beautiful. When our room isn’t a disaster I’ll get some pics of it. I think it’s a marriage saver LOL as Patrick no longer has to feel pushed out by the million pillows that have formed around me to keep me comfy.

For another update, our friends Koby & Rain were out visiting 2 weeks ago. It’s raining nonstop here in the good ol’ NW and of course I can’t stand it but oh well.
We’ll that’s some stuff for another update, sorry all!