Jess in the City

Monday, March 2, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

"I'm checking my email!"

Me: Noah, what are you doing back there?

(as he wedges himself behind the stereo speaker)

Noah: I'm checking my email!

Me: Oh, really! What does it say?

Noah: MOMMY.... IS.... PERFECT!

Me: giant grin :)

***I've since learned that when he says he's checking his email... it also means that he's pooping. awesome.***

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

So, I'll admit it... I'm not the easiest person to live with right now. My pregnancy hormones have been working some serious overtime and this past month has been kind of a crazy ride. I just really hate not feeling like myself and especially feeling like I have zero control over my emotions -- top that with my ever-growing belly and in the words of Juno... feeling like I'm "trapped in a fat suit that I can't take off"... and it's just a bad combination. My family has definitely gotten the worst of having to deal with me and I feel really bad about it. Sometimes I'm surprised that my husband rushes home from work like he does and doesn't find some excuse to stay away for a little longer everyday! (I'm sure he thinks that would make things worse... which is probably right :)

Anyway, in preparation for baby boy #2 we've been in the middle of some serious home improvement projects... basically just trying to use the space we have better and de-clutter. Although these projects have taken tons of time -- time that we really haven't had lately -- it's been so nice to see it all come together. In fact after we finally got Noah's new toy shelves put together I exclaimed, "This is the happiest I've been in 7 months!" That's seriously pathetic... but oh so true.

(here's a picture... I can't tell you how much I even love cleaning up toys now!)

So, after seeing how happy that made me, the other day I came home from a morning of errands to find this...

and this...

Jon had come home from work after a patient cancelled, put together more furniture and brought me flowers. I was in tears...

Thursday, February 5, 2009

computer nerd

A few weeks ago my friend told me about a website that helps kids learn to read... it's called starfall. She claimed it to be one of the best guilt-free websites out there for computer time, especially if the kid can navigate the mouse on his own. I've been starting to do some reading games with Noah and he's been pretty into it, but sometimes he's just way to busy to concentrate. So, we checked it out... and it is awesome. He is completely obsessed with it. We tried it out together for the first few times because he wasn't quite that coordinated to do work the mouse on his own. But after about the 3rd try, he said, "Noah's turn?," grabbed the mouse and started clicking away. I was seriously shocked.

Now he's completely capable of navigating the website by himself which means he gets some quality pre-reading training and I get dinner made.

check it out...

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

big boy bed!

We've had a few transitions we've been trying to make with Noah before baby brother makes his debut... one of them being moving Noah to a "big boy bed". I've been so hesitant about doing this because he really has been an amazing sleeper and to this day has never tried to climb out of his crib (although he is perfectly able to). But I really wanted him to make the transition to a bed before the new baby came so he didn't feel like he was getting booted out of his crib -- even though that is exactly what's happening!

Gma and Gpa S. were generous enough to spring for his new bed and we got it on Saturday. Noah helped daddy put it together and then slept in it that night. I was seriously shocked as to how well he slept in it. I was a nervous wreck the whole night and couldn't sleep -- I had nightmares of him ending up underneath the bed, getting wedged between the wall and the bed, or even suffocating under his pillow. I kept going in to check on him all night... I did find him halfway off the bed the first time I went in. I think he dropped one of his stuffed animals and tried to get out to pick it up, but was too tired to actually get back in bed so he slept with his feet on the floor and his head on the bed! But other than that he was totally fine and actually slept in the next morning :) He's even napping really well in it and is going to sleep faster than he had been in his crib... I'm completely shocked.

I think he still hasn't figured out that he can get out of it because he's so used to us picking him up and putting him in bed and then getting him out after he wakes up. So, he has yet to actually start wandering around his room or even attempting to escape... KNOCK ON WOOD... but, whatever... I'll take what I can get at this point!

#2 on the transition list... potty training... HA! HA!

helping daddy

napping...

awake after a great nap!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

back to the blog

So, I really don't have any very good excuses for not blogging for the past month -- except for maybe the fact that my husband has worked the past 20 days straight without a day off (not that I'm counting or anything), it's been insanely cold/snowy here thus making it very difficult to do anything fun anyway, I'm 7 months pregnant with some serious nesting ambitions, and my 2 1/2 year-old could care less that I have no energy to keep up with him! (I guess there were a few excuses there.)

In any case... I apologize to the distant extended family that likes the blog updates and pictures. So, I thought I'd post a few pics that I never posted from Christmas and New Years and vow to do a better blogging job in 2009.