It’s been a few days, so here are a few
unrelated thoughts for you.

My smart boy
Lex
grows smarter by the minute and his communication skills have
really taken off. He can now use two word phrases, which is
sometimes helpful (“more milk”) and sometimes just silly (“big
clock”). He’s fascinated with clocks and points them out
everywhere we go. He still confuses clocks and gauges, like the
speedometer or a pressure gauge, but that’s an understandable
mistake. He also tries very hard to repeat everything I say and
seems to be picking up new words rapidly. I love it. The other
day I was zoning into my computer and he came running in (with
his silly, silly run) saying “help, help” and doing the sign as
he ran. When he got to me he pointed to his sippy cup which was
stuck in his overall buckles :) He pointed to the cup, said and
signed “help” and pointed to the cup again. So smart!
(excluding the fact that he got his sippy cup stuck in his
overalls, of course :) ). So I unhooked the cup and handed it
to him. He immediately handed it back and said and signed “more
milk.” The cup was empty. He ran to the fridge and said/signed
“more milk” again. Soooo smart!! He also has been peeing on the
potty once or twice a day lately, and on his own accord. He’ll
sit right down on the potty (clothes and all) or come get me
and bring me to his potty. Then, once the diaper is off, he
sits right down and pees.

My fears
Like I
said, some unrelated thoughts here. The house is moving along
nicely. The flooring guy comes on Monday for the week so dad
and crew are putting in some overtime to be sure we’re ready
for him. I wish so much I could go over and help too. As much
as I love the little man, he’s definitely not good to have
around at a construction site. So my visits are just that –
short and social. Then I leave and the work continues. Anyway,
my biggest fear right now is that they will get done and I’ll
look around and think “Oh my god, I can’t believe I chose
that color!” We have been making so many
decisions and I’m just hoping that when we put it all together
it actually looks good :) I can’t even imagine the scary
decisions you have to make when you build a house from scratch.
Oh well. I guess if I have to have fears, those are ok ones to
have.

My little
one
The little one inside seems to be
coming along nicely. My belly is definitely sticking out these
days. We have an appointment in 2 weeks for another ultrasound
and the morning sickness, for the most part, has passed. Not
much else to report. I was looking at my baby blog for Lex and
saw that I felt the first kicks around 19 weeks. I’m looking
forward to that again. It’s a pretty cool feeling having
someone growing inside you. We saw a great shirt awhile back
that said “I grow people.” Made me laugh.