Week 35

Our appointment on Tuesday went great! We had an ultrasound and the fluid levels were normal and everything looked perfect. His little arm was resting across his face. They estimated the weight to be just under six pounds, but our doctor says that in her experience the measurements tend to overestimate poundage by about a pound and aren't that accurate. So I'm guessing he's somewhere between 5-6 lbs now? That was great to hear. I'm all for being able to take this baby straight home from the hospital. Such a blessings to do so nowadays and can't be taken for granted. So far this pregnancy has been fairly easy and pretty much as complication free as one can get. We got an estimate of what we'll pay for the hospital stay. Let's just say that it's exponentially less than what Kylie ended up costing us (but she was sooooo worth it...!). I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to being able to bring this little one home straight from the hospital (hopefully). I was just so hard to be stuck out of state with a newborn with all the stress of caseworkers, attorneys, arranging flights back and forth and the legal problems. I'm hoping to enjoy the simplicity of things this time, but who knows. Kylie was such an easy breezy infant. This one could easily be the opposite. So we shall see I guess!

Kylie, bless her heart has been keeping me on my toes this week. I think a new streak of independence has started and all of a sudden she wants to do things her way or not at all (aka many meltdowns lately). So I guess the term "terrible two's" is somewhat a true thing! She is absolutely becoming more independent and forthcoming (even stubborn!) with what she wants to do. She's such a mommies little helper. If I'm cooking she'll help me dump in the ingredients, if I'm dusting, putting away laundry or sweeping she must do that too. Her favorite thing to do is to "go!" which is unfortunate for me because she's running pretty wild lately if I try to take her to the store. She's definitely a social butterfly and we don't have a shy wall flower on our hands in this house!

I really underestimate how much she understands. The other day Jared and I were sitting on the couch and I brought up the idea of cooking a frozen pizza in the oven. Kylie disappeared for a few minute, and we were just shocked when she brought us a frozen pizza out of the freezer! Mind you we rarely have pizza and I didn't even know she knew what that was! She surprises us with things like that all the time. We've been very blessed that she hasn't picked up phrase "NO!" that most kids seem to love, but this week she's decided that "stop it!" is her favorite phrase of choice. So I hear that multiple times a day unfortunately, still working on correcting that one :).

Jared's been working a ton this week trying to get a project to work. Last night he didn't get home till after midnight trying to get his program to work. He then woke up early this morning with an epiphany of something to try and it worked! He had some big customer meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday that he had to prepare for in addition. It's made for a long week for all of us. Looking forward to him having a few days off after Christmas.