Still here . . .

Hey! Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I am a terribly inconsistent blogger. Anyway, had my 22 week checkup yesterday, and everything is looking and sounding great. This has been a very uneventful pregnancy thus far, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it stays that way. It's amazing how much faster a second pregnancy seems to go than a first when you're busy with a toddler! We had our 20 week ultrasound just over two weeks ago (5/14/07), and the important news - IT'S A GIRL!!! Sean is going to have a little sister. So, the clothes buying has begun, albeit slowly thus far. I still need to go through all of the stuff we have packed away to see what is neutral enough to reuse from Sean. I've found some bedding on the internet that I love, now we just need to narrow it down, choose one, and order it so we can get the room painted. Sean is as funny as ever and growing like a weed. He loves to talk! Guess that's it for now. Later!

He ain't heavy . . .

So, this past Sunday (5/6/07), mom and dad agreed to babysit for Sean at our house while we bowled the last night in our league. A few weeks back, they babysat as well, then spent the night and spent a huge portion of the next day helping us put together a swingset in the backyard for Sean. This past Sunday, all that was left was to install the slide and add plastic rocks to the climbing wall. After it was all finished, Sean was having a blast checking it out and playing on it. The rock climbing wall has plastic rocks and a rope affixed to it to assist with climbing. However, Sean has decided that he likes to climb on the rocks only, and ignore the rope. My mom decided to try to teach him to use the rope, so after he finished climbing to the top, he was sitting on the platform looking at us. Mom said “here Sean, you use the rope like this (holding it with both her hands), and pull yourself up like this”. She placed a foot on one of the rocks and pulled up a bit. Sean looks at us from his perch on the platform and says “No Grandma, you too heavy.” I haven’t laughed that hard in quite awhile!

Who knew mowing the lawn could be so fun?

Monday evening (5/7/07), Sean had an appointment with his ENT to check the tubes in his ears, so by the time we grabbed dinner at Red Robin and stopped at the store, it was just after 7 PM by the time we got home for the day. Scott decided to try to get at least half the lawn cut before we put Sean to bed, so I took Sean to the backyard to play on his swingset. He asked for his lawnmower, so we retrieved it from the garage. I told him that he could cut the backyard while daddy cut the front. He wanted to see daddy, but I wanted him to stay out of the way, so I kept him in the back. He was pretty excited when daddy made a pass through the side yard, and we could see him from the back. He began yelling “Hi Daddy, Hi Daddy”, but over the noise of the mower, Scott couldn’t hear him. When he made the next pass, I told him to wave to maybe daddy could see him. He waved excitedly and yelled even louder, “Hi Daddy”, Scott waved, and as he headed back toward the front yard, Sean yelled “Daddy, I cut grass too!”. He is just so darn cute sometimes! We eventually headed to the front yard, where he took his mower, and watched daddy for a second, then started walking along the same pattern up and down the yard from the house to the street and back, pushing his mower just a few feet over from daddy. Adorable!