Garrison and Mommy Date

Schools out for summer!  The last couple of weeks have been so busy with swim lessons.  Garrison did great with swim after a pretty tough first day.  He was so brave and confident.  Both boys will go to school a little this summer.  My goal is to spend more one on one time with each of them.  To start this goal off and to celebrate swim lesson success I took Garrison to his first movie.  The theater has a summer kid's show so we went to see Rio.  I wanted a G rated and fun movie.  Rio was perfect.  His Mamo had already bought this for him so I think it helped that he knew what was about to happen next.  He danced to all the songs and loved eating his popcorn.  It was so much fun for me to see him experience a movie.  When he heard how loud the speakers were he said it scared him to death.  A few times he leaned over and told me he loved me.  I treasure these special times with my oldest little man.  Then we went and had pizza and cupcakes.  :)  Back to healthier food tomorrow.  You only get to see your 1st movie once.

Things Sullivan Can Say at 19 months

This little guy is talking up a storm -- here are some of the words he is saying right now.
Bubba  (brother)
Dada
Mama
Gigi
Papa
Baby
All Done and All Gone(and signs)
More (and signs)
Water
Eat
Cracker
Duck
Various Animal Sounds (oink, baaa, moo, neigh, roar)
Wow
Hey
Bye Bye
Whoa
Bear
Book
Up
Bubbles
Nose
bee
teeth
cheese
points to his body parts (nose, mouth, eyes, ears, teeth)
Uh oh
euwee  (when he has a poo poo in diaper)
BallOon
Ball
Flower
HOt
No

Things Garrison Can Say...

I have been a slacker when it comes to writing things down about Garrison.  His baby book only covers his first year, but there is so much more that happens!  The last few weeks he has been saying so much.  At 19 months, these are things Garrison is saying...

-ball
-MaMa
-DaDa
-PaPa
-GiGi
-Bob
-almost all his abcs (mostly repeats after us)
-hat
-off
-bye, bye
-ti ti
-do do
-poo poo
-one
-several numbers (1 -10)
-snack
-sit
-bear
-shirt
-bath
-fan
-bug
-bird
-ice
-boo boo
-bad
-dog
-cat
-uh oh
-he can make lots of animal sounds (dog, cat, cow, duck, sheep, horse)
-hot
-juice
-no
-yeah
-hey
-ear
-teeth
-belly (normally points to mommy's belly)
-duck
-knock, knock
-balloon
-TV
-moon
-good
-boy
-Bible
-more
-up
-cheese
-he can point to all his body parts (hair, eyes, mouth, tongue, teeth, ears, arm, belly, back, knee, foot, toes, fingers, hand)

-He tries to repeat almost everything he hears!

Perfect Job

Last week I started working at a new school.  The first week was in-service so I got to know a lot of the teachers.  Everyone is so sweet.  It is a private school so we plan on Garrison and Sullivan going there for school.  Right now, I will only work three half days each week.  Garrison will go with me and be at PDO while I work.  It is the perfect job for me and the perfect schedule for our family.  As the boys get older, I will probably work more during the week.  I am so thankful for this opportunity.  I feel like God definitely had a hand in me working there.  I couldn't be happier with it. 

Past 2 Weeks

It has been kind of a crazy past two weeks.  I have been in/out of the doctor office and the hospital several times.  Basically, Sullivan is doing great.  He is measuring BIG (but not too big).  I am on my second round of antibiotics for a bladder infection.  That is what my doctor seems to think might be causing my contractions.  Although, she said I might just have contractions until I have Sullivan.:(  I am going to weekly dr. visits now so they can check me.  As long as nothing is physically changing with me (cervix, etc.) they would rather not do medicine.  So I am just praying that I can carry him to full-term.  I would love if the contractions would stop or go away so, praying the antibiotics work.  I know all that matters is we have a healthy baby.  This has definitely been a faith walk because I am a controller and I worry about things.  I think God is constantly teaching me to have peace and faith since that is my struggle.  We can't wait to meet him, but we want him to have lots of baby fat. :)