3 Weeks Left...

I can't believe I only have 3 weeks left till Bennett gets here. I'm so excited an so nervous to be a mother of 3. I don't feel old enough to have 3 kids but yet here I am. We have been trying to get things ready for him. I have all of these ideas of things to do and things to get done that I feel like I'm going crazy some days. But I have been getting quite a few things done surprisingly. I still have a little energy left at the end of this pregnancy so I have been trying to organize and clean our house as much as I can. I also finally finished Grays quilt (it only took me a year) So now that Grays quilt is done we have been transitioning him into a big boy bed. The first couple of days were a synch! He would just lay right in the new big boy bed and fall right to sleep just as if he were in his crib he didn't come out of the room once till the morning, I thought it was amazing. Then I think he realized that he could get out no problem, and now that he knows how to open the doors he has been having a hard time staying in his big boy bed. So we have been switching back and forth. Hopefully he will start doing better. Once Bennett starts sleeping fairly well he is going to need that crib.

Gray just turn 18 months which means he is in Nursery now at church and it's AMAZING!!! I love it and he is doing so well. They tell me he mostly is very quiet and just plays. It has been so nice to not have him in primary with me running around disrupting the kids. He has also been getting better about talking, it's still hard to understand him he mostly grunts when he wants to say something. We have been trying to encourage him to talk more but sometimes he gets more frustrated and stubborn about talking if we try to force it. Here are a few words that he "knows":

first of all he has been signing a lot more if I show him the sign and ask him to sign it he will try. right now he knows, more, please, banana, and sorry.

here are the words that he will actually speak:

Dada

Mama

Kew (Krew)

Baba (baby)

Wawa (water)

Buba (could be either blankie, Bongo his monkey pillow pet, or Binky)

Baa (Ball)

Baba Gam (Barton Graham)

Ge cu (thank you)

Uh (up)

Bu (bug)

aga (again)

And then the rest of his talking consists of grunting the right "pitch" (anything we tell him to say he will grunt it just like we said it, it's kind of hard to explain I guess) He LOVES LOVES to sing and he sings pretty much right on pitch I always know what song he is singing and he sings all the time, every-time we are shopping he will just be in the cart singing his heart out and I always have people stopping and commenting about his singing. His favorite song right now is "Popcorn Popping" he loves to do the actions with it, and he also LOVES to dance anytime there is music he is dancing, it doesn't matter where we are if he hears music he will stop and dance.

He just had his 18 month check up and he is:

26 lbs 12 oz

33 inches long

He's getting so big I can't believe that soon he wont be my baby anymore.

Krew is also getting so big all of his clothes all of the sudden don't fit him anymore. but the problem it he is SO skinny that the next size up in pants is the perfect length but fall right off his little bum. He just had a check up as well and is 33 lbs and 3 feet tall. The thing that he talks about the most is how he is getting big big big like daddy. The other day he turned to Brandon and said:

"Daddy? Mommy doesn't want me to get big big big she wants me to stay little, but she is going to stay little little and I'm going to be BIG BIG BIG just like you"

He also loves to run. The other night we were having a picnic dinner outside and we told Krew to run around the house and we would time him, he ran around our house 18 times he LOVED it!!! He kept asking if he did better on his time, his best time was 24 sec. He's pretty fast.

Another thing that happened actually yesterday, usually Krew doesn't eat much of his food and Gray will eat A LOT and we have to keep coaxing Krew to eat with treats at the end of dinner and sometimes he hasn't been able to earn his treat but Gray will, well last night Gray wouldn't touch his dinner and we always say all you have to do is try it and he wouldn't try it so he didn't earn a treat and he threw a fit wanting a treat. Krew then turns to me and says

"Please mommy can you just give him a treat" and I had to tell him "no I'm sorry I know he wants one but he didn't try his dinner so he doesn't get any" and then Krew said "Well if you cant give him some can I share mine with him" Of course I said yes how can you say no to that. What a sweet boy I have. (he is also naughty a lot lately but we wont get into that) When ever I am upset at him he just looks at me and says "Mommy I love you" and then gives me a big hug! Sometimes it's frustrating because then I think oh man how can I punish him now he's so sweet. (I think he might know how to manipulate me.)

Oh something else he said yesterday we thought was pretty funny he said "Mommy if you touch my M&Ms I'm going to be real angry like this" .... then he shows me his angry face and points to one eyebrow then the other. I reassured him I would not touch his M&M's

i guess since I have shared what Krew and Gray have been up to lately I will share what Brandon and I have been up to lately

Lets see

Brandon ........ School/studying

Diedre......... Cleaning the house/taking care of 2 boys and growing a third boy

Yep that's about it