Sticker Fun

Rexford is into stickers lately and likes to put them on his hands, cheeks, shirt, toys, books, etc. Last night I gave him a page of stickers and he decided to decorate his feet.

Sugar Cookies

A couple of weeks ago we made sugar cookies after a little family home evening. Rexford is old enough to help now and he was very excited to help stir the cookie dough and decorate them. He was very proud of his cookies. I am super excited for Christmas time because that is my favorite sugar cookie baking/decorating time of the year! I think he will lots of fun with the cookie cutters and sprinkles this year. This time we had sprinkles all over the floor but we had fun!

Enjoying the Slightly Cooler Weather

We haven't been to Sea World since June because it has just been too hot. I took Rexford in June when Brian was out of town and it was pretty unbearable so we have been sticking to the water park instead. Last week it finally cooled down a bit! The air was a little drier and the temp cooler and there was actually a little breeze now and then. We met our friends there and Rexford had a great time enjoying the animals and rides with his friend Bennett. He was so excited to see Shamu again after several months of going without. He was so tired that he fell asleep as soon as we got out of the parking lot and slept for 3 hours until I woke up him around dinner time. We had a fun day and hopefully we'll be able to squeeze another trip in before the baby comes.

Bennett and Rexford playing in the fun new sand area with all of the cool trucks

Babies

Here's our conversation from the car today.

Kimberly: You're going to be a big brother. Your cousin Ethan is going to be a big brother too. Mommy is having one baby and Ethan's mommy is going to have two babies.

Rexford: Mommy have one baby. Ethan have two babies.

Kimberly: Yes, Ethan's going to be a big brother to two babies and you're going to have one baby brother.

Rexford: What's Daddy having?

I think he thinks everyone is having a baby...

Difficult

Tonight Rexford was giving us a hard time after his bath when I was trying to put on his diaper and pajamas.

Brian: Why are you being so difficult?

Rexford: Difficult (laughing). Difficult... What does that mean?

I don't think we ever told him what it meant because we both just started laughing.

Sesame Street Show

Last year I took Rexford to the Sesame Street show at UCF and wanted to take him again this year. With all of my doctor and hospital appointments there was no good time to go to the show. So I decided to have Alyson take him this year. He was very excited and kept telling me that when he woke up in the morning he was going to the Elmo show at Uncle Todd's school. We had to hold him off that morning because he wanted to leave too soon! Alyson said he got antsy the last bit of it and wanted to leave (an hour and a half is a little long for a two year old). I know he enjoyed the show though because he's been talking about it since he went. He told me all about it and said he had fun. Here are a couple of pictures they snapped.

Alyson and Rexford in front of the Sesame Street truck- it was sunny out I guess

Rexford hanging out with Uncle Todd before the show and in between Todd's classes

Elmo Grows Up show

Alyson and Rexford playing at home after the show

Happy Birthday Shannon!

Just wanted to wish Shannon a Happy Birthday! We had cake on Sunday and Rexford was so excited. He definitely understands all about birthdays and cake! He wanted to sit on her lap and blow out her candles and eat her cake. She let him stick his finger in the cake and he had so much fun eating the icing. We couldn't get any good pictures since he was so preoccupied with the cake but it was fun!

Blowing out the candles

ooh, this is good stuff

Licking all the icing

To Aly's House We Go

We didn't have anything to do today and I wasn't really up for anything outside so we decided to go visit Aunt Aly. Rexford was so excited when I asked him if he wanted to go and ran into his room to get dressed (usually I have to chase him a little to get him dressed). We packed a bag to take and we were off. Of course he had a blast playing at her house and wanted to play with all of her fun toys. Thanks Aly for entertaining us and getting Rexford tired and ready for his nap :)

Here's Rexford all dressed and ready to go. He wouldn't smile but I think he looks so grown up lately.

My tall play dough snowman

Rexford and Aly pretending to eat their play dough food

Aly playing pirates

Pirate Rexford with his keys

Rexford said he wanted to play video games so Aly spent forever trying to figure out how to turn it on. Then once she got it on he pushed buttons for a minute and then said he wanted to turn it off. I guess he didn't like Super Monkey Ball...

Rexford likes to play with Uncle Todd's keyboard so Aly got it out for him and showed him how to make funny sounds.

Gathering

So Rexford has developed this obsession with gathering things into big piles. At least once a day (usually it's more than once) he will go around the house and gather all of the pillows, blankets, and stuffed animals and put them in one big pile on the floor or his bed. Then he sits on the pile or lays there or hides under stuff. He always wants Brian or me to sit in the pile with him. I'm not really sure why he likes to do this but he gets mad if you don't let him. Maybe he likes it because everything is soft. He is very into his blanky and he constantly rubs his mouth on the silky side so maybe he wants to have soft things all around him. Who knows... So we just let him and then clean it all up later. He is tall and so he doesn't have much room in his crib but he insists on having about 10 animals in there with him and 3 blankets. I guess it makes him feel all cozy so what's the harm :) These pictures were taken the other day but today we had a pile twice this size because he gathered a ton more stuffed animals!

Rexford enjoying his soft pile

This pile is small since there aren't many animals in it - they seem to get bigger each time he makes one!

Baby Ursic Update

There aren't many benefits to having gestational diabetes but one good thing is that we get to have ultrasounds every few weeks. I went today and they said that everything looks fine. The baby is average size, about 4 pounds, 6 oz., and not too big at all so that is good news. I went back and looked and Rexford weighed that same amount two weeks earlier so this little guy is smaller so far. I'm doing well also - I feel good and my numbers are great.

As I was looking at the baby during the ultrasound I was thinking that his profile shot looked just like Rexford's ultrasound picture. I got home and pulled out Rexford's picture and they do look very similar. It will be fun to see how alike/different they look in person. We're getting close - only about 7 weeks to go!

Here is a profile picture of our little one. On the ultrasound I could see him opening and closing his little mouth and moving his hands near his face.

Here is a picture of his foot. He kept grabbing his little toes with his hand so that was fun.

Hot Summer Days

It is so hot every day so we try to visit our favorite water park often. We went on Thursday and it was so nice because it wasn't that crowded. I think all of the summer vacationers are starting to go back home and it made for a very enjoyable morning. We hadn't gone in a few weeks so Rexford had so much fun playing and splashing in the water. Aunt Aly went with us and we took a few pictures.

Rexford and Aly on the tube ride - Rexford loves this one and you get a workout carrying the tube up the stairs over and over

Rexford and Mommy on the tube ride

He loves the slides. They are really a lot of fun, I go on them too :)

Rexford's favorite slide is this twisty yellow one. He'll go on it over and over and over again.

Rexford enjoyed swimming around and just cooling off