Such is Life These Days...

Life is going pretty well for us, despite the occasional mishaps that are bound to happen. Here is what we have each been up to:

Devin:
-Devin is in his second to last semester of school (can I get a hallelujah from the choir?)

-He is quite interested in "sports turf". I know this sounds funny, but he may make a career out of taking care of a golf course, baseball field, or soccer field. Rough life, eh? We will see where we end up once he graduates in April.

-Dev is still working at good ol' Smiths and loving every minute of it (that's some sarcasm if you didn't catch it). I don't mind the job at all, grocery discounts, great insurance, cheaper gas. I can't complain. But easy for me to say, right?

-Devin is still a great daddy. He loves Hallie and is so good with her. He can calm her better than I can most of the time and is happy that she is now old enough to "rough house."

Kim:
-I have been very busy at work these days. Between a quickie hospital placement and another birth mom who delivered 6 weeks early, I have been basically living at the hospital. Between these wonderful experiences, I have also had a few embarrassing ones on the job lately...1) wrecking the agency car in the hospital parking lot (it was not my fault but its still not good to be known as the one who wrecked the car) and 2) meeting with a new client with pretty severe mental health issues, I had the clinical director sit in with me. I went to stand up to get some paperwork and my leg was completely and unexpectedly asleep. I ended up tripping as I stood up, but luckily didn't face plant it. It took me a good minute to get my foot back awake and to clear my head (I got that I-stood-up-too-fast-and-I-am-going-to-pass-out feeling) and only then did I realize that I had a death grip on the director's knee. No wonder he was looking at me quite awkwardly. What can I say? I am champ of awkward experiences like that. Anyone remember the time I fell asleep on the random man's lap on a flight to Virginia when I was 14? Yeah, I remember that too. I am still upset with those "friends" I was with who did not wake me up...(Just kidding ladies, I am over it)

-I went to Idaho over the weekend with Hals for two bridal showers for my soon to be sister-in-law Lara. She is crazy enough to be marrying my brother Mikey. We are excited to have her in the fam! Hals and I had a great time and ate way way way too much. We are excited for the wedding in a few weeks in Oakland. The only thing that is not exciting about it is that we fly out the day after Hallie's birthday, which means we had to buy her a ticket. Boo.

Hallie:
-Hallie got her first concussion today. Super sad, I know. It was traumatizing for both of us. We were at the doctor's office where she was having a well check and I was having a baby check. She thought it would be fun to climb up on the table while I was up there and ended up launching off and landing on her head on the hard floor. Good thing we were at the doctor's office. He sprang into action while she and I both sat there and cried (yeah, I think the doctor thinks I am a nut job because I have cried in front of him so many times). It took her a few hours to act fine and it really scared me. She was totally lethargic and wouldn't speak. She kept trying to fall asleep, which is totally not like her at 10 am. She also threw up repeatedly on the drive home. Rough. I was afraid I had scarred her for life. She was fine the rest of the day, though and I am so glad.

-We are beginning potty training more earnestly. We have gotten her interested in the potty in the past and she really likes to wear underwear. We want her to be potty trained by the time the baby comes (crossing our fingers). Two kids in diapers just doesn't sound fun. She does great for the most part. She knows when she needs to "go" and will tell us so, but the problem so far has been that she is afraid of the potty. She sits up there for a while until she gets the courage to actually go. She gets one smartie for going, so that keeps her motivated. We will see how it goes!

-Also being the big girl that she is, she is moving on up to a regular bed! Heaven help us. I like having her be trapped in a crib (particularly in the morning when she wakes up too early), but sooner or later we knew she would need to move to a bed so the baby can have the crib. We have two twin beds, so we just moved one up to her room. This is the first night, so I really don't know how it will go, though I did just go up there and snap her picture and she was asleep in the bed.

Baby:
-I know it is unfortunate that we must call him "baby", but we have ZERO name possibilities at this point. Why are boy names so much harder than girl names??? I don't remember when we had Hallie's name picked out, but it was well in advance of her coming. We will work on it...

-He is measuring large. Very large. At the ultrasound, he was basically 3 or 4 days bigger than my due date. Now, not even two weeks later, I am measuring a full two weeks larger than I should be. I asked the doctor if I should be worried and he said no, just that I will likely have a 9 pound or larger baby if I go full term. Should I start re-thinking my plan to go overdue at this point???? I think so...

-So far, he is much more mild than Hallie was in the womb. I feel him move, but not as much as Hallie did and not nearly so rough-ish. She was all over the place all the time. He still has time, but so far, I think he is more mild.

Well, I know none of that was thrilling, but there is the update!