Lately, Joey’s only been interested in foods he can dip. I’ve had to plan dinners accordingly to make sure he ate enough before bed. This week we’ve had chicken kabob with hummus and pita, chicken fingers w/ BBQ sauce and cheese paninis dipped in tomato soup 🙂 He even tried dipping his cantaloupe in the tomato soup, too!
We’re almost at the 21-week mark, believe it or not! I STILL often forget I’m pregnant, despite G2 kicking like crazy throughout the day and especially at night. I’ve been feeling good, except for this week where I felt like I was back in my first trimester.
All in all, no complaints! We had our 20-week appt. today and received confirmation that we’re, in fact, having another boy!
Doc says we’ll be having another linebacker, who should arrive post-due-date!
P.S. – I’m so excited to begin decorating Joey’s new room 🙂
We had fun coloring yesterday. It was really the first time we had “success” with arts and crafts! I was impressed with how many colors he tried out…I would have let him continue, except he kept eating them and I thought he had reached his wax intake for the day.
He looks nothing like it, but Joey’s Great-Grandpa is 80 today! We celebrated on Sunday night, with many close family and friends.
Making a wish!
Zeyde and Joey
Bubbie Gorgeous had new toys waiting for Joey at his table. They worked like a charm and kept him happy throughout the meal!
We also took the opportunity to take some family photos!
Joey with our photographer, Aunt Cari!
Bubbie watched Joey this morning so I could run some errands. She brought him to the Burnetts to check out their new house, but didn’t bring his diaper bag along.
Check out her makeshift diaper…not bad!
I cant believe her wedding is almost here! We had a great time celebrating last Saturday, despite not being able to get extremely intoxicated (as I had always pictured to be at her bachelorette party). I even made it out past midnight and paid for it all day on Sunday….
We joined the usual Thursday brunch group this week and had a blast!
He would NOT cooperate for a photo with Bubbie Gogo
When ADT was here installing our security system, they made a gruesome discovery in our crawl space. We have visitors, big and unwelcome visitors.
We had pest control out that same day to clean out the space and set up traps. Here’s what Greg woke up to the next morning. Seriously, they’re HUGE!
By the time the pest control guy came back out, a pregnant rat had been trapped as well. Bubbie didn’t want Joey or Pacman getting eaten by a rat, so he’s spending a few nights in HP until the situation is resolved.
I couldn’t take another minute and we couldn’t find a plumber that would come out to plug up the holes (they all said they didn’t “do” rats), so it was all up to Greg!
He headed to Home Depot to stock up…
I set up this blockade just in case any rats wanted to make an appearance while the crawl space was open…
Check out my mask, just for effect
While I was helping “prep,” I managed to cut my finger on steel wool
That was the end of my helpfulness, as the ammonia was about to make an appearance and my pregnant self needed to vacate.
And in he goes….
Mission accomplished (we hope)! Greg will check the space tonight when he gets home from work. Either way, I’m so proud and can’t believe my husband went into a claustrophobic, rat infested crawl space and poured cement all on his own!
Keep your fingers crossed!!!
We celebrated Stella’s birthday this past weekend! We can’t believe how quickly time is flying by…
They got happy meals for all of the kids for lunch. Joey loved both the chicken nuggets and french fries! The toy that came with the meal looked like a fake iPhone, which kept him busy ALL afternoon!
Lunch with the Smileys!
Music time with the Birthday Girl!
Joey refusing to look at the camera or smile
Time to shake, rattle and roll!
Hanging out under the parachute
Time for bubbles (Joey’s personal favorite)!!!
We have Pacman as a houseguest for the next 2.5 weeks. He’s been a pleasure so far (except for the little turds he leaves in the kitchen immediately following his morning walk). After his first night here, we moved him to Joey’s room to sleep (he insisted on sleeping under the covers with us and making obscenely loud noises at the same time and that just couldn’t continue for 2 more weeks). Now that he and Joey are roommates, Joey’s content in his crib longer (he started fussing around 8:45AM this morning) and he goes to bed more tired than usual from Pacman entertaining his so well all day.
The boys watching morning cartoons
Waiting patiently for a bite of Joey’s cookie…
Don’t get me wrong, I still won’t miss him when its time to go back to the Dog Whisperer (Bubbie)
We met Jessie at the pool this week for some swimming. Joey wanted nothing to do with Jessie while in the water, but quickly flirted with her once we were at lunch.
Hollie came to meet us too!
Joey was exhausted by the end of lunch and started to fall asleep while he was eating…We didn’t quite catch it on camera, but it was adorable!
…all caught on camera by the super-talented, Ellis!
We headed to Nanny and Poppy’s for a BBQ tonight! It was great catching up with Aunt Lisa and cousins, Naiya and Ellis too!
Joey was like a celebrity tonight (and Ellis was the paparazzi stalking him). Check out some of Joey’s many expressions caught on camera!
Loving being wrapped in Daddy’s arms
Joey did not like being trapped inside while all of the guys were BBQing
Poppy on the grill
Group shot!
Some quality time with Dad
Some other VIPs photographed
18 weeks preggo and caught on camera!
Joey went to camp with Nanny and Poppy today. Here’s a video of him during music time…
Trying to shoot hoops
After camp, they had a great lunch at Yolk!
Joey and I walked to Millennium Park yesterday. There was a free Wiggleworms concert (I think they have them each Wednesday). Joey could care less about the singing, as he was so concerned about what the other kids were eating/drinking.
Appearing content (but really just happy to be munching on graham crackers)
I basically chased him around for 20 minutes, before deciding to just put him in his stroller and find something he was more interested in doing…
He had way more fun climbing,
stealing toys from older kids,
and starring at himself in The Bean.
After checking out the entire park, we headed to Old Navy to shop the 40% off sale (if you didn’t go yesterday, its over). I found a few things for me and Joey, but we got a bunch of stuff for Greg!
Greg worked late so Abby and Alex stopped by to say “hi” (and just in time to change a dirty diaper 🙂
We had a great time at camp yesterday! Joey’s favorite part of the day was the instrument room, where he got to bang on drums the entire time. Towards the end of his time in music, Joey made us so proud! The class “bully” had been hitting kids all day (with little intervention from his mom). Joey watched the “bully” hit one of the little girls and immediately ran up to him and pushed the “bully” on his butt. I, obviously, told Joey “no,” but was smiling from ear-to-ear inside!
We also went to the singing station, where after singing some songs, the kids got to play with cars and dolls. Joey, of course, played with the cars the entire time.
The gym station is another favorite, although Joey fell off a tricycle and got a nice mark on his head today,
