ummm. pregnant much?

so...this pic makes me look REALLY REALLY preg...but then again.... I am really really preg. I am much bigger with baby logan than I was with Zoey! Zoey I could hide my pregnancy pretty easily up until that last few weeks. Not so much this time.

I am 38 weeks in this pic. Today I am 39 weeks and 2 days. After a great week off of school, I go back to teaching tomorrow. It will be hard going back to the grind after such a great relaxing week. As long as I can make it through each day without going into labor at school I will be satisfied.

This pregnancy has been much harder than my first. For 3 weeks I had really bad back pain that made it so hard to walk, sit, stand, roll over in bed, bend over and work in general! One day last week, it just went away I think due to the baby moving off the nerve causing the pain!

Logan moves so much more than Zoey. You can see my entire stomach moving. He is not afraid to stretch out that little body of his. I often can feel his feet and arms punching out on all sides of my stomach and his head smashing into my bladder ALL AT ONCE!
I haven't really felt any contractions during this pregnancy and have been feeling pretty great this last week making me think I might have to induce this lil sucker out like his sister, but in the last day I have been having more natural signs of labor that give me hope to going into labor on my own this week!

Jake's mom is coming out next Wed to help us and I am sure my mom will be on her way down as soon as we give her the "it's time" call. I have def learned to not expect much when it comes to labor and delivery. All I am hoping for is a smooth, shorter labor and smooth shorter recovery.

I can't wait to meet my little boy and put a name with a face!

Getting the Tree

I had a whole week off of school for Thanksgiving and it was just the break I needed! Jake and I took the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit not knowing how into Christmas we would be able to get with a newborn and Zoey keeping us busy! We got out the lights, decorations and most importantly, got our Christmas tree!

Mom Dad and Charly came down to spend some of the week with us and we had so much fun bringing them with us to the Pine Valley Christmas tree farm. We were the only ones there on a Tues afternoon (cause apparently everyone else gets their tree AFTER thanksgiving!) but we loved having free roam of the place....zoey especially.

Jake took to tree hunting VERY seriously and after a good hour back and forth we got the perfect tree! Jake cut it down, threw it in the back of truck and then we all went out for Mexican food! It was a great day!

Zoey holding 1 red m&m that got all over her clothes and face!

The tree hunting crew!

She loved every minute being in the cool fresh air!

Jake with the tree! (and his fly down) :o)

Uncle Jake and Charly

13 months!

I have just been fascinated watching her learn so fast! It seems like every day she is picking up a new word, or new baby sign, or making a new animal sound.

She loves her books. She will carry a book to you and demand it be read! lol. She LOVES LOVES her book of words and if you say "What does a monkey say?" she will say "oooo ah ah ah" (like a monkey) then go to the other side of the house, find her book, bring it to you and open to the page with the monkey and show it to you. She loves all those words in the book and finding the ones she knows when you ask her.

Today the babysitter was reading her a book about baby Jesus. When she said the word Jesus, Zoey turned around and pointed to the picture of Jesus on her wall. She loves her pictures of Jesus around the house!
We have been working a lot on Baby Signs. I look up the American Sign Language Sign for different words and teach them to Zoey. She is learning them really fast. She does MORE, ALL DONE, SLEEP/NAP, PLEASE, EAT. Of course when she wants something she will not do PLEASE. She prob wishes she knew the sign for GIVE ME NOW!

I am just loving this stage of her life!! The only complaint I have is that she does not say Mama. She says "ma!" sometimes but we think its only when she is tired. Maybe she just thinks I am the hired babysitter! lol. She doesn't say dada a ton either though. Either way, we love her!!

Halloween 2010

Our neighborhood really knows how to do Halloween! Every year they have a huge parade right down our street with firetruck and all with kids and families of all ages trailing behind in their costumes! The parade goes down to the park and everyone hangs out until they start doing costume judging! After all the prizes are given out everyone takes off for trick or treating. Our neighborhood is perfect for trick or treating with the houses nice and close together!

Everyone just sits outside on their lawn and hands out candy. Jake and I thought having 100 pieces of candy we would be set. Nope. We ran out within an hour and had to go inside and feel guilty! It was fun to dress up Zoey and Linkin as bumble bees. Yeah for Halloween!!

This little bumble bee won for her costume in the 0-2 year old category!

Zoey and Jake. Jake wasn't dressed as anything. He just hadn't changed since church.

Walking in the parade

Zoey got this adorable outfit from a family friend for her Birthday! It was perfect that Halloween fell on a Sunday. She looked sooo cute! Thanks Ann!!

My Oct Wedding

Here are a few pictures from the Wedding I ran in Oct! It was physically just exhausting being so pregnant and putting the whole outdoor wedding together...but it was a huge success and I loved every second of it!

The wedding was super casual. No assigned seating, buffet style food, beers etc... Her colors were grey and yellow which came together really nicely. It was the perfect fall day for this outdoor wedding!

More of Zoey's Birthday Party

I finally got a second to put some pics on the computer and thought I would share a few more from Zoey's party!

Here is my best friend, Aunt Melissa (20 week preg) trying to open a present for Zoey! lol. I found this slightly amusing! (Meliss had just found out that week she is having a boy!! We are having boys 3 months apart! It's perfect!)

The pile of presents!! Zoey is one loved lucky little girl!!!

Jake did such an awesome job with the streamers I had to get a picture of them! I HEART the black and white polka dot streamers!