My friend Lisa was there with her little guy, Nathan for his 18 month check up.
Josh, her husband, was playing Angry Birds on his tablet and had the boys entranced.
He has lost a little weight since October but not too much to be a concern really.
There has been a lot going on since then - surgery and all.
He weighs 30 lbs. 6 oz. and is 35" tall. His head is still off the charts but that's genetic.
The bad part of this appointment was that Jace's sinus infection was back. He had finished his antibiotics last Saturday and started with nose again on Tuesday. His doctor said to do antibiotics again but this time for 14 days rather than just 10. I hope this kicks it this time.
On the way home Jace was being silly in the car seat. When its nap time and we are in the care, we tell him to go night night and he will just hang his head all crazy. It looks so uncomfortable but hes just playing around. Lately he has been saying "night night" and doing this on his own.
This weekend we went to Lexington. I finally finished the valance for the barn and was able to hang it up!
There are some things I did wrong but being that it was one of my first projects I am pretty proud of it!
Jace got a hold of JB's predator call. He has played with it before but used his voice rather than blowing air.
He figured it out this time! He's turning out to be quite a little hunter following in his daddy's footsteps.
This week I am 22 weeks with June Bug!
I still have moments when I am dressed that I just feel like I look fat and not pregnant.
I guess it doesn't help that its not obvious enough that people at work were not quite sure if I was pregnant.
I was a hostess although after getting there I realized I didn't help much at all!
The shower was beautiful and so cute!
Here are a few pics of the shower
The tree was covered with baby items! This is such a cute idea!
Besides bringing chips and a 5 layer dip, I made a diaper cake for the shower.
I feel like I didn't really help "host" at all - that's ok though.
Ashlee had a fabulous shower and that is what matters!
I made Ashlee's gifts from inspirations on Pinterest.
I made a car seat canopy with a peek a boo window and some burp cloths.
I was getting my tissue paper and a gift bag from my closet so I could wrap the gifts up.
I turn around to leave my closet and I see that Jace threw two of the burp cloths in the toilet!!
This is the first thing he has EVER thrown in the toilet.
So....I of course had to wash them. I kind of wish I had washed them before sewing because the fabric laid on them differently after washing them. They did not turn out as great as I had liked but they are functional! :)
If you asked me 10 years ago if we would be pregnant at the same time I would have said I don't think so.
I am excited we get to share this special time with each other.
JB was out of town with a few buddies hunting and there was no way I could really help host a shower (much less enjoy the shower) with Jace. He got to go spend the day with his Aunt Mitty and Uncle Zane.
He really enjoyed him self and didn't want to come back home with me - that was a little heartbreaking.
I finally decided on the fabric for the nursery!
Its pretty neutral and I can easily add pink bows later if June Bug is a girl.
The crib skirt will be green and the paisley fabric (with chocolate piping)
and the curtains with be chocolate and paisley fabric (with green piping)
I think its going to be GORGEOUS! I need to get started on cutting it before I get too big to get down on the floor to cut fabric! LOL
On Saturday Jace helped me make pancakes. He loved to watch them bubble up while they cooked!
And I loved to hear him pick up the new word "cancake" (pancake).
I am amazed more and more everyday when he has a new word that can be understood clearly.
I noticed this evening that he is starting to say short sentences. They are VERY simple but still!
Just 2 months ago he was barely learning new words and now he is putting sentences together like:
"That is a tractor" or "Theres the star"
Its not the clearest but we understand him!
This makes my heart just fill with joy. We are so blessed! As each day passes I feel more and more confident in the choice we made to go through with his surgery.
Yesterday made 2 months since his surgery and today makes him 2 1/2 years old!
Jace loves to see how big he is and standing by his growth chart. I never mark unless I see a difference.
We don't really have a set time that I check it....just as he feels like it. I do try to mark his birthday and 1/2 birthdays on there.
He is ALMOST 3 feet tall!
Ok he has 2 inches to go but look how much he has grown in the past 6 months!
I forgot to post about this last week.
Jace's PT reevaluated him and said we don't have to use the braces anymore!
YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!
She will come back to see how he is in 3 months (unless we need her before then).
In 3 months she would like to see some of an arch starting on his foot. He is still pretty flat footed - not unusual at this age which is why she wants to see he is progressing as he should.
His right foot is BARELY turned in more than the left but she said if she was not LOOKING for it no one would see. He is no longer clumsy like he was before and his legs really have straightened after surgery.
Honestly its hard to tell if it was the surgery or the inch he seemed to grow the past few months!
Either way we will take it!
He also started back with Speech therapy. She is pleased with how talkative Jace is. He is much more focused for her and retains more. This I KNOW is due to surgery!
I am excited to see his progress with his speech therapy!
We went back and forth on wanting to find out what we were having but decided not to.
We enjoy the suspense, it will give me incentive to push when that time gets here and I can't wait to hear Justin announce what the baby it when its born!!! :)
We had our 20 week anatomy scan today and everything looks great!
With all the measurements the baby is measuring 6 days sooner than my estimated due date (June 5th). No surprise considering part of the measurements are from the head. We all know that Justin AND Jace have huge heads ;)
June Bug was head down and so CUTE! Kept its hands by the face a lot until the tech giggled my belly LOL
Here are some pics from the ultrasound today:
Waving HI!
Cutest profile ever ;)
Crossed legs - the baby is much more modest than Jace was!
BABY FEET!
Alien face
Since she had a somewhat difficult time getting a face shot she switched over to 3D
Does that not look SO much like Jace did as a baby??
And this week's belly shot! 20 Weeks......wow!
Half way through - where did the time go!?
So now to play catch up.
I have been crafting and making things for my BFF, Patti's, 40th birthday and my other BFF, Ashlee's, baby shower! I am finally done with most all of that so I can finally hope on here and blog.
A couple weeks ago I had girls night with Patti and Lisa (before Patti's birthday) and JB had daddy duty.
So, I know how quick Jace can wreck his room and over time it can just go down hill even farther.......so when I got home from girls night - this is what I saw:
Jace was proud! LOL
That girls night out for me turned into all weekend daddy duty for JB. I came down with a tummy bug and boy was that rough! Its one thing to have a tummy bug but to be pregnant on top of that? YUCK!
Also, Jace started with a nasty snotty nose that quickly turned into a sinus infection and bronchiolitis.
A trip to the pedi had us worried quick. He sounded wheezy and they said if a breathing treatment didn't help we would have to get a chest x-ray done. Thankfully the breathing treatment made the wheezing sound looser so it was working as it should. They prescribed an antibiotic and breathing treatments.
Both medications together were almost $400! We were given coupons for this making our cost $25 for both! What a blessing!
However when I got to Walgreens they told me the coupon system was down. Well being an emotional hormonal person I got all teary eyed. LOL I still can't believe how emotional I got over all this. Eventually it was all transerred to CVS and we didn't get the breathing treatment meds since that coupon was expired.
Since I had to wait to get in touch with the pedi the next day to get a generic we did a stream room treatment
He is so silly! :)
He did great when we got the breathing treatment meds......he wore his mask and all!
Thursday night was the party for Patti's 40th! Lisa and I put together a little Chanel themed party.
Lisa etched some martini glasses with the Chanel C's but we didn't get a picture of that.
Happy 40th Birthday Patti!
We bought Jace his first baseball hat. We were not sure he would like it.....
he not only likes it but he LOVES it!
This past weekend we went to a birthday party for Kaden and Parker.
Kaden turned 3 and Parker turned 1.
It was Pirates and Fairy themed....the party was CUTE! I didn't get many pictures of the party but it was done well. Jace had so much fun with all the kids there.
Since was ina crafting mood I made a few cards to go on thier gifts :)
Jace playing on the tractor at the party
Sunday we went over to Kendra and Kelly's to watch the Texans game.
Jace was ready to cheer the team on!
Jace's bedtime routine is PJs, book then prayer. He knows when we get to prayer its time for bed and has started to be so upset about this. We caught a funny clip of this on JB's phone:
I hope to post again after the shower to share my crafts from that! :)
We went to Lexington this weekend to bring in the New Year!
Friday night we went to Papa's house to watch the UFC fight.
Lincoln had some Elmo slippers there and Jace LOVED them!
He calls Elmos "Melmo"
Only in Lexington on the backroads can you catch Jace's driving
He LOVES to drive the truck with Daddy.
We went looking for ducks on uncle Nathan's tank but didn't see any so we went fishing instead :)
(didn't catch any fish either )
New Years Eve was a little low key for us. It was nice!
Spent the evening with our precious baby boy and then sat around a fire at the barn.
We bought some fireworks especially for Jace.
They had a little bag of small fireworks that didn't pop much and is perfect for the little guys!
The bag had sparklers, smoke balls, popper that you throw, tanks and a snake.
Daddy lighting a sparkler
Not too sure about the sparkler.......but he LOVED the poppers that you throw!!
I thought for sure he would not like the poppers but he proved me wrong big time!
He loved them so much he kept asking "want?" because he wanted more.
When we ran out he was SO upset!
Daddy carrying him back inside - he was upset but still said "cheese" for the camera LOL
Jace got a 1st Trampoline from JoJo.
I thought Jace was going to have nothing to do with it.
He has always hated bounce houses or anything with enclosures but that WAS all before surgery.
Its pretty neat to see him be a normal toddler and LOVE his "Jump"!
We wonder what his doctors would think about him being on a trampoline with it being only a little past a month since surgery....? They DID say to treat him like a normal kid.....so we are ;)
This was the first day he had the trampoline and the next day he got better at jumping.
I didn't get a video of it - I was having too much fun watching him having fun!
Trey and Keely came by to play with Jace and after watching Trey ride on the 4 Wheeler Jace was interested in it again. He finally gets the idea that he has to keep his foot down on the pedal to go!
This was so exciting too!
Before surgery he was not interested in his 4 wheeler at all and didn't understand to keep his foot down.
He would drive.....point to where he wanted to go......then start going in that direction :)
We came home last night and it was nice to sleep in our beds :)
The barn is comfy but out beds at home are the BEST!
I woke up this morning just a little bit after Jace woke up walked into his room to find this mess....
Powder Play.........or mess
And......today marks Week 18 for June Bug......the belly is getting bigger and baby is moving a lot!
