Bridger is Getting Promoted! :)

As most of you probably saw on Facebook, Bridger is getting promoted! We are due around June 5th, Bridger is going to be a big brother!! :) We are still trying to comprehend that we will be the parents of two cuties in about five months...pretty crazy! I'm 16 weeks, 17 weeks on Wednesday. We were able to hear the baby's heartbeat a couple weeks ago, it was fast, 156-160 BPM, but don't let that trick you...Bridger's heartbeat was that fast throughout my entire pregnancy with him so we all thought he might be a girl...I guess we'll see this time, ha ha. We waited so long to tell anyone because at my first appointment (10 weeks) we couldn't find the heartbeat, I had to wait four whole weeks to know that my little baby was really in there and okay! I was sort of stressing out (even though I still had all the signs of pregnancy...ha ha). We finally heard it at 14 weeks...Oh, was it glorious. :) I could have listened to it for hours, I was so happy. We are keeping the gender a surprise again, although, we are still doing an ultrasound around 20 weeks. I'm so glad we bought gender neutral nursery and car seat/stroller things with Bridger, I don't have to worry about having to start completely over if we have a girl. :)

We started feeling the baby move about 13-14 weeks, well, I did. Jeremy has really been able to feel those tiny kicks since about 14-15 weeks...tiny little flutters and an occasional really good jab for him, ha ha. :) It's cute. I have been telling Bridger that there is a baby in my tummy but he just gives me a weird look and then doesn't care, he can't really comprehend it yet I don't think...he just knows I'm his still. I'll always be his, but he's going to have to share a little bit, we'll work on that. ;)

With Bridger I had some morning sickness, I was super nauseous and threw up about three or four times until 12 weeks. This time I just had a severe lack of appetite and slight nausea...it's like having the flu and you watch TV and a food commercial comes on...yeah. Get what I'm saying? ha ha. That drifted off around 13 weeks and was pretty much gone by 14 weeks, which I have been grateful for. I was also SO so so so tired! All I wanted to do was sleep and sit on the couch, that has gotten better too, thankfully. :) I'm not showing too much yet, and I'm still wearing all my regular clothes. I don't know about you other ladies, but I have a couple pairs of jeans that after I wash them I've got to like squeeze into them until they get comfortable, ha ha. Those ones are starting to not fit anymore, but that's ok. :)

I've had some random cravings...around nine weeks all I wanted was Icee's for like two days, then it was Chinese (that lasted one day, ha ha). Other random cravings in the last 11 weeks...sour gummy worms, chocolate with toffee chips in it (think Symphony bar), butterfinger blizzards, and...KNEADER'S! I love Kneader's. One thing I can't even THINK about is broccoli soup. barf. Broccoli soup is SO disgusting right now, I doubt I'll ever see it the same again.

Right now our baby is between the size of an avocado and a sweet potato. It's cute. :)

So, there it is, we'll be a family of four in just a few months! :)

Holidays!

Alright, I didn't blog for like four months and that is not normal for me...at all. I don't like it, I just haven't had much time, now I'm making some time so it will quit stressing me out!

In September Jeremy and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary, my mom came up and watched Bridger for us and we went to the temple to do sealings, then went out to dinner. :) Pretty low key, it was fun. The next day I went to a day-long writing conference at UVU that was awesome, my mom babysat Bridge for that too. I actually wrote a book in July or August, I don't remember which month. I should say, most of a book, it's not finished yet, but I'm not sure where to go with it...I wrote over 50,000 words in a month, it was awesome! The only person who has read any of it is Jeremy, my sister Bri read a page and that's all I would share, ha ha. I don't know if anyone else writes but I realized how personal your book can become and it's scary to put it out there for critiquing, I'm not ready! It's a piece of my mind, literally, on pages...the words are my personal thoughts, so I have to prepare myself for a lot of changes and comments. Not only that, I am a perfectionist and I want it to be perfect before I let anyone else read it. As if that will ever happen. ha. It's sort of a historical romance with a twist. That's all I'm saying! :)

Somewhere in August or September we went to the zoo...for FREE! yes. for free...and we can go for free for a YEAR. My little sister won a gift card to buy a year pass and since she doesn't live close enough to use it, gave it to us as long as we'd take her a few times. I think we are going to go in the next month again, when the lights are up. :) We love the zoo!!

Cute boys. :)

Ignore my crazy look, I had to make up for his serious expression. 

Halloween was such a blast!! We decided to stay home this year, since it was in the middle of the week and Jeremy had to work. My mom came up and helped me sew Bridger's costume, he was Peter Pan, and it turned out SO cute!

He had a little brown Peter Pan hat with a red feather sticking out of it, BUT, he wouldn't wear it. :p His little knife is made out of felt, the rest of his costume is made out of wool. (that was an accident btw, we meant to buy felt...when we looked at the receipt we paid a whole lot more than we would have for felt! At least he was super warm).

He was so excited!!

Bridger LOVED trick-or-treating, loved it. We went around the neighborhood with the Hoffman's and their two girls Ruby and Olive, which I think helped because Ruby is older and showed him how to do it. :) He would go up to the door and bang his little fist on it and when it opened he held out his little bucket while I said "trick-or-treat!" Then I would say "thank you!" and sometimes he would copy me, we're workin' on that. :) ha ha. It was adorable though. He started getting tired and his little bucket was getting way full, but he did NOT want to be carried, and he did NOT want to let go of his bucket, so I just helped him hold the handle instead while we walked. Jeremy was Captain Hook, and I was tinkerbell. My mom and I shopped forEVER for a long coat for Jeremy, we finally found a perfect one...but the dry cleaning cost more than the actual coat...I kept my costume simple, my mom and I just made a tulle skirt and I wore leggings. :)

It's kinda blurry, but right when we walked in the door after our Halloween party at the Hoffman's, he dumped out his bucket and started going through all of his candy. That's what my sister and I used to do! He doesn't even know that it's all candy, he played with it for like a week, then lost interest. He knew the M&M's were candy, but that's about it. I like it that way. :)

His first time decorating Halloween cookies!!

Bridger's work of art. :) I had to get this picture fast...that cookie was gone within a few minutes!

Thanksgiving was a blast too! We went down to Hurricane two different times for Thanksgiving, once to eat with my family, the next time to eat with Jer's. The first weekend was my family, and it was amazingly delicious...we even ate...turkey. Yes, we sure did. Ha ha. And believe it or not, I drank soda too! I told myself it was a holiday so I could break a few rules. Anyway, we just hung out most of the day and played a few games that night, it was nice to just relax. 

The next weekend we came down and ate with Jeremy's family, Rich and Emily were even there, visiting from Virginia! It was fun to see everyone! Then...on Black Friday Jeremy helped out at my mom's store from 10 pm-3 am, it's sort of a tradition now, and I usually go too, but Bridger was sick all week. :p So we stayed home and went to bed! That week was pretty rough for our little guy, he was hardly sleeping at all. He's just so particular about everything. If there were ANY boogers in his nose he would start freaking out, even at 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 in the morning. It didn't matter what time it was. We were all so exhausted, from having him crying all night for like two nights with a 102.5 fever, it was awful...but that finally passed! He still has a runny nose, though, hopefully he can get over the last of this fast so he can be his happy self again. :)

That's about it for catching up! Yay! :) Now I'm just getting ready for Christmas and Bridger's birthday.  I am sewing him a huge car/city mat and getting him some more Hot Wheels for Christmas, and a little red trike. For his birthday we got him one of those little red cars with the yellow roof that they can get in and use their feet to move it, it even has a little trailer, he's gonna love it! I need to plan his party still...I'm thinking a Curious George party, since that's his very favorite show, I already have some ideas. I'm just feeling a little overwhelmed with all the crafts I need to get finished in the next few weeks, but when I get them done, I'll post pictures! :)

Christmas vacation was such a blast! We went down to Hurricane for ten whole days, and, for the most part, relaxed. It was so nice to have Jeremy home everyday, I love him. And it was so nice to be with all our family. :)

Christmas Eve was spent with both our families, we had a really nice dinner and opened presents with Jeremy's family then headed back to my parents house for Christmas stories and singing Christmas hymns with yummy snacks before we all headed off to bed. We had our Christmas/Christmas Eve on the same night with the Jarvis's. Justin gave us some sweet hats, and a hilarious shirt for Jeremy that has a picture of Bridger on the front and it says "I'm WAY good at having kids." I have no idea where he came up with that, but it's cute. :) ha ha. Emily gave us some matching animal hats (Jer has a picture on his phone I will steal later), and Aaron gave Bridger a Curious George book that Bridge is in love with. It was so fun, we even got to Skype Emily and Rich while we opened presents since they couldn't be there with us this year. I just have to say that I love that this family is so silly. :)

Christmas morning we let Bridger be our alarm clock, he woke up around 8 so that's when we started! He actually opened his presents this year, ha ha, and I think he really liked it! He got a whole set of 20 Hot Wheels, a homemade car/city mat I made for him, an oversized car that goes on it's own with noises and stuff from G&G Brown, and a train with a track from G Jarvis. He got Finding Nemo and The Lion King in his stocking along with some mini m&m's that he loved. :) Oh, and when we got home he got to open his car!! He got one of those little tikes cars that you can ride in and you make it go with your feet...if you know what I'm talking about, ha ha. He loves it. :)

Jeremy got Logic Pro (a professional music program), pajama pants, $20 to take me on a date ;), and new SOCKS! Whoo hoo for socks! ha ha. My parents also got him an military ammo box and his dad got him some ammo, he was pretty excited. :)

Jeremy got me a new cookbook that I'm in love with "The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook." It is so perfect. He also got me a book on Vegan eating that I'm pretty excited about. He also got me $50 to Amazon for BOOKS! I love reading, I've already used most of it... :l

My parents got us an awesome ladder and a much needed step stool for our kitchen. They got me some socks and a food chopper thing I've really been wanting, it's Pampered Chef and chops onions like a pro, it's amazing. And, Jarom got me a super cute watch. :) We got so many other things, and I'm so grateful! We have the best friends and family ever.

We got totally spoiled.

 Jeremy's sweet ammo box, and Bridger's sweet bed hair.

 Reading Bridger's new Curious George book together...so cute. :) Both in their Christmas PJ's.

 Bridger's first Christmas present!

 He loves it! He wanted me to open it right that second. :)

 And...his new car mat!! That thing took some blood, sweat, and tears...and a good chunk of time but it was SO worth it, he loves it. :)

 My first Christmas present... :)

 More presents... 

 Playing with the cousins. :)

The finished city! :)

22 Months. :)

Long, but much needed update post on my little munchkin...with a bunch of random pictures. :)

His new fireman's hat from Governor's Day. :)

Playing video games with his daddy's phone. He's a pro.

Bridger will be 23 months in only a few days! 

Words he can say...where'd it go?, where is it?, I don't know, all done, oh no, thank you, mom, dad, Kaylee, grandma, more, car, ball, no, fish, eiei o, three, go, teeth, nose, ear, toes, eye, hot, uh-oh, let's go!, poo (we've been potty training), cow, night night, wow/whoa, bubble, beep beep, uh-huh, bum, quack quack, coat, door, shoe... There are more words, but I can't think of them at the moment...

My little artists. :) 

I found him sitting in his tiny little toy box, when he saw me get the camera he started getting out.

He can point to all the parts of his face, he shows me his fingers, his hair, his tummy, and his toes. It's so cute. 

He goes to sleep at between 8 & 8:30 and sleeps until about 7:45-8:30. He also takes one 2.5-3 hour nap everyday. :)

He is daytime potty trained, he has been accident free at home for about two months. I haven't tried letting him wear underwear when we go to the store or go shopping, or when he goes to sleep, yet. I actually planned on doing that when he turned 2, so, in a few weeks we will start that and see how it goes. :) It really only took him about three days to catch on to going pee in the potty, but I introduced the potty at about 15 months and since then he has gone occasionally in it, which I think helps. Plus, since he was born I've let him have naked time, another big factor. He probably could have potty trained sooner, but I had to work up the motivation first. :) Personally, I think most kids are ready way before most people think. I even think Bridger was ready before we really started, people are always surprised that he's doing so good and tell me that boys usually take longer than girls...but that doesn't make sense to me. Bridger has realized he's peeing since he was about 13 months. So, I don't know.

This kid has THE craziest bed hair of anyone I know...even mine! ha ha. This one was classic, so I took a picture. Isn't that awesome??? I love him. He looks zoned out because he is...he was watching Curious George and eating gold fish after naptime. :)

He loves to color in the shower, and occasionally he'll let me read him a book. Mostly he just flips through a big chunk of pages, then closes the book so he can say "all done!" ha ha.

This sucker took him like an hour to eat, it was hilarious. 

His favorite snacks are goldfish, slices of cheese, fruit, fruit snacks, and chocolate milk (carnation in almond milk) and Life cereal. For real food...he is SO PICKY! My heavens. This boy keeps me surprised. Pretty much the only sure things he'll eat are pizza and mac & cheese. Healthy, right? not. Besides those, I really don't know if he'll eat what I make for dinner every night, sometimes he surprises us and takes a few bites, other times he shoves it away and I freak out thinking he's going to starve. It's quite stressful. :p I am just grateful he's still nursing, it helps me feel a little better knowing that even if he didn't eat that healthy one day, at least he's still getting nutrients from his breast milk. We are going to nurse until he's two, so, only another month. :) He loves his milk. 

His favorite things...he loves going to Grandma and Grandpa's house, he loves Curious George, he loves going outside and playing with his best friend Capri (our next door neighbor who is only a few months younger, they play so well together, it's crazy!), he loves CARS...cars...and more cars! He always has a car in hand, whether it's a puzzle piece, his ride-on car, his dump trucks, or his hot wheels.  He loves going to nursery, and he loves bubbles. :) Oh, and he loves to go to the park and on walks and play basketball with daddy. Oh, and he loves to talk on the phone and play "go, go, go!" with daddy (they push his car & ball popper around together), and play with play dough.

Bridger and Capri playing outside. :)

He's already had two haircuts and I'm thinking another one will be coming soon. :( His cute little baby hair...

He loves to give kisses. :) 

Ok, one last thing, I really need to get this recorded but when I say "let's go outside!" Bridger runs and grabs his red ride-on car and pushes it out the door, down our front steps and then runs over to Capri's house. THEN, he hauls his car up their steps and then looks in their front window (it's a long skinny window the length of their front door) and starts yelling for Capri while pressing his face against the glass and looking for her in their house. I can't help but laugh, ha ha, it's so funny, but I feel bad because she can see him in the window and freaks out cause she wants to play so...if they don't want to come outside it makes it hard. It's almost like he can't play outside without her anymore. We joke that they are going to get married, they are just so cute together. Seriously, I have never seen two tiny kids play like this together. They are good for each other. :)

The lighting in our kitchen is awful, but here is Bridge playin' with his play dough.

I can't believe my baby is almost 2! I'm already planning his birthday party, but it feels like I just finished his 1 year party! He is so fun, we love him so much. He keeps us SO busy, but I love it. :)

Jeremy marching at Governor's Day, seeing all the soldiers marching, the flags, and hearing the canon made me cry...it's not everyday you see that many soldiers marching together, it was amazing! I get to see my soldier everyday in his uniform, that's what he goes to work in, but seeing him marching with hundreds of other men just really hit home with me, made me think, you know?

Me and my sexy husband. :)

Love him. :)

Just to throw this in...we found him like this on the couch with a mouthful of candy, a pile beside him, and a full bag in his lap watching Curious George like he thought that was ok...baha. He just made sure to be super quiet. I'm pretty sure he had a few mouthfuls before we found him. Little stinker.