Monday, June 28, 2010

Neglectful blogger returns...

Since the last post (a million years ago) a lot has happened. When Lucy does something cool, I always tell myself to remember to blog about it, but I just do not have the energy to sit at the computer at night. This pregnancy has been so different from the last. It may just because I'm chasing an ornery 15 month old around, but I am exhausted! Thankfully Lucy has been a champion napper and sleeping for an hour and a half during the day. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a big improvement from before.

Lucy has a whoppin' 22 word vocabulary right now, and is learning (mimicking) new words every day. She has a funny little voice with funny little facial expressions, and it makes it so hard not to crack up when she answers you. Her favorite words are: tickle, hot dog, ischeeeeee (popsicle), go!, and dada. We had her 15 month check up today, and she is in the 94% for height and the 44% for weight.








It was a sad day at the pediatrician. We had to say good bye to our favorite doctor and nurse, Dr. Franke, and Karen. Since we moved out to the country, it was just too hard to keep doctoring over an hour away. We will miss them so much! Those two ladies got us through so much during those first crazy months of constant crying, excema, and frantic questions. Thankfully, Dr. Franke went to school with some of the pediatricians closer to us, so we got some good referrals. We'll be checking those out doctors out soon, and hopefully making a smooth transition before the next one arrives.

Baby Duece will have his/her gender identified on July 14th. I'm 16.5 weeks now, and s/he is getting more active. I forgot how much of a welcoming distraction those little flutters are. At our 14 week appointment, they were unable to find the heartbeat with the doppler, so I got to have a quick ultrasound. S/he is big already! and cute!

Jon is keeping busy at work, and flying a lot. He just got back from a trip to New York on Sunday, and going back tomorrow just for the day. He'll be home for a day, and then we leave on our Alaskan Adventure until the 6th.

I'm working on a couple projects for the baby. Something was telling me that this baby needed an orange blanket, so I'm crocheting a super soft blanket for him/her. (I can't wait to find out the sex, so I can be more pronoun specific)

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Busy, busy, busy

Things have just been so busy around the Whittemore house lately. We just got back from a mini trip to Toledo, OH for almost a week. Jon had recurrent training in one of the jets, so Lucy and I took advantage and got out of WI too.

I am now 14 weeks pregnant with this little being, and it is zapping every ounce of energy out of me. I had a weird case of vertigo for about a week last week. Other than that, I haven't felt too bad...just TIRED! Yesterday we had an appointment, and couldn't find his little heartbeat with the doppler. They had to get the ultrasound machine out to verify that everything was ok. Sure enough, it was. He was just sleeping in a position that made it heard to track his little beat. Little stinker!

Lucy is growing so fast. She is adding words to her vocabulary nearly every day. It's amazing. She loves to wave at everyone and will offer a cheesy smile to anyone that waves back. She is becoming more and more of a Daddy's girl. Yesterday when Jon left for his trip, she lunged at him to give him a huge hug, and wouldn't let go. She sat by the service door to the garage and cried for about fifteen minutes. Poor thing!

Jon is taking three summer courses, and then one this fall....then DONE! Lucy is helping him as much as possible....