The Brotherly Love Continues

These pictures were on my phone from last month, but they're still cute. Both boys are sitting in the single stroller from JCPenney. They're certainly skinny enough to manage that, but happy enough too...






This is also from last month, I looked back to find them both this way. Gross!


Anyway, we went to Wal-Mart yesterday and both boys were great. Dalton begged Bubba to hold his hand in the car so Easton obliged. We had a special idea for our trip yesterday...I gave Easton his very own list. He can't really read but once I told him what each of the 5 things was, he could remember based on the starting letters. With his list in hand he told me he was also going to get his own cart. I didn't think that was probably the best idea but I did give him the umbrella stroller as his "cart" and he was just fine with that. Actually he was planning to go off all on his own to get the things on his list while Dalton and I went to get the things on our list but when I caught him trying to eat a booger in the backseat I told him I didn't think he was quite mature enough to go off shopping on his own just yet.

Next time I'll have to make sure to write the items on his list in the order we'll actually find them in the store because he really wanted to go in order down the list. I could reason with him and explain how things were close by and we'd get the other stuff when we got there but I also liked how linear he was being (because I'm that way) and it would just make it easier. He was the cutest little thing pushing his cart through the store and loading his items into it:

One of the things on his list was "dirt" because I wanted to get a bag of potting soil and he said, "I might have to put that on the bottom of my cart!" but instead he had to settle for putting it on the bottom of mine. When we got to the bread I reminded him how it can easily get squished and you should've seen how careful he was...he pinched the bag like an expert with one hand and balanced the rest of the loaf on his other arm while placing it so gingerly in his "cart". Oh he was the sweetest. He was so proud of himself. Didn't need too much help either except for the cheese we needed was too high and he doesn't know which bread we get. Those kinds of things. We got so many smiles and "What a great helper you have!" compliments. The boy was beaming, it made for a VERY pleasant trip.

When we left the store I was loading the groceries into the back and Easton complained, "I don't have anything to play with" and I didn't care...shut the trunk and returned the cart. When I came back to the car he had two of Dalton's toys. Worried that he might have taken them from his brother I said, "Did your bubba give you those?" to which both boys answered with a proud, "Yes!" Dalton had handed over two of his four car toys for his brother. Awwwwwwww.

In today's news, Jason went to observe Easton's classroom this morning. He'll be done with school in a month from today so if Jason wanted to see, he needed to get in there soon. Today ended up being a good day and I had to drop them off (so I could have the car with the car seats) and apparently Jason even got to do some works with Easton. When I observed I had to sit in a chair in the corner, but Jason got to participate a bit. I haven't gotten to catch up with him too much about the morning as he had to rush off to work afterwards but it sounds like he enjoyed himself. Easton certainly enjoyed having him there!

While they were at school, Dalton and I headed up for my 20 week OB visit. Things were good...no weight gain yet. I don't think I mentioned it on the blog but those two pounds I was fretting over gaining, I lost again. So, I'm currently the exact same as my pre-pregnancy weight. Like I said last month, the doctor doesn't care yet. My BP was great at 104/62 and Wabie's heart rate was "140s" again. The big news is that the OB agreed to 09/09/09 assuming Wabie and I can hang in there till then. She explained that no matter what day they schedule me for, there's still always the chance that I'd get sick (preeclamptic) or go into labor before then because they don't schedule C-sections till the 39th week anyway. Therefore, she's alright with waiting 2 days. If it was ten she'd say no way. We're not at the point of actually scheduling it, but at least she's said okay.

I have NO idea what to expect from my body...I've never been in labor. Never even been pregnant past 38 weeks 6 days. I guess we'll see, won't we? I'm predicting a fairly sedentary last few weeks (which I don't imagine will be too hard for a big pregnant gal). And then avoiding all those potential labor inducers...squats, spicy foods, pineapple, um, "other stuff" that has been known to bring on labor... Again, for a big fat preggie in the midst of summer heat I don't think much of that will be too hard to avoid so if it's otherwise time, then it's time.

Dalton and I wandered over to L&D afterwards to see if anyone was trying to fill up the 09/09/09 slot and it was totally empty so one of my old nurse pals penciled me in "just in case". I don't think we'll officially schedule it till 28 weeks at the earliest but I'll probably bring it up at my 24 week again all the same. :)

That's the latest from our end...Bye!