26 weeks (tomorrow) and a TWO year old!

I'll be 26 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I honestly can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going! I'm a little scared actually. I had my glucose test this past Thursday and all went ok. I guess I am anemic, but I do not have gestational diabetes! That's really good news. I didn't think I did because I didn't with Jacob, but I was still worried. Just need to take extra iron and go from there. All seems to be going well with this pregnancy now. I don't feel sick anymore and sleep seems to be ok (of course now that I said that, I am sure it will change). She is VERY active though. Jacob wasn't nearly this active. She's a light sleeper too. She seems to wake up even when I sneeze. Jacob wasn't like that at all! He was tough to wake up (he still is). I'm hoping that doesn't mean trouble!

I am stuck on her name. We are 99.9% positive we are going with Madelyn Nicole, but I LOVE the name Charlotte too. I don't know what I want to do. I think we may wait until she gets here to decide. I do keep calling her Madelyn though. I have a feeling we may be going that route. :)

Jacob turned TWO on July 9th and I can't believe it. Feels like just yesterday that he came home from the hospital. Everyone told us it went fast, I just didn't believe them. I hear it only gets worse too which makes me pretty sad. I need to enjoy every single second with these kiddos.

We had a big birthday party for him here in Midland before we left for California. It was so amazing. We had it at Flippenbounce and the kids LOVED it. It was a little warm since it was only 150 degrees out (ick). It worked out great though. So many of his friends came and everyone played for the 2 hours that we had the place. We did Superhero theme because Jacob is currently obsessed with everything superhero. It's adorable and of course daddy is pretty excited about it since he was (and still is) a big fan too. Right now his favorite ones are Iron Man (his #1 fav), Hulk and Spiderman. He sleeps with all three (and Woody too of course). We made all the kids capes, which was probably a little over kill on my part, but that's me. Thankfully Tawylia and Alex helped a ton or I would have NEVER been able to get them done. Tawylia did most of it all. God BLESS that woman. I lucked out in the Mother-in-law department, that's for sure. The kids didn't wear them much, but hopefully they will.

The paci (Jacob's love) is slowly going away. We have managed to get it down to only nap and bedtime now. He's okay with it, kinda. Night time is going to be a hard one. He will wake up sometimes crying for it. :( I don't have the heart to take it away just yet. I'm not so worried about it at night as I was with it ALL the dang time. It was getting a little much. He had it in his mouth 24/7 and I couldn't stand it.

He is currently off ALL medications!!! We took him off the reflux meds about a week or so before California and he's been PERFECT! He's even eating cheese, yogurt and even drinking some milk! I think it's safe to say he's grown out of all of his ailments. I am hoping and praying that this baby girl in my belly doesn't have any of those same problems!!

His second birthday on the beach! 

One of his favorite things! The swing in Laguna Beach. We would go on a morning walk almost every day and he got to play!  

 My life.

 My little stud on the 4th of July

 Baby GIRL at 22 1/2 weeks

 The boys cruising the boardwalk in Laguna. 

 Jacob's cake and cupcakes by our neighbor Joie! 

 He's so great on the plane! 

Pee in the POTTY! Pee pee in the POTTY!

Well, Jacob went pee pee in the POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, let's get to how that actually came to be....

Alex's mom (Gigi AKA my amazing mother in law) is in town for 2 weeks. She said that she could get Jacob potty trained. I laughed at first. No, really laughed and told her he is NOT ready. He wasn't showing any signs yet, but after a bit I decided I would run with her idea and let her try. I gave it all to her and put it in her hands. She's done it 4 times before, I'm sure the 5th would work. My only problem was the fact that we were leaving for California for 2 weeks just a few days after the initial potty training would begin. Hmm...the plane, Disneyland, Sea World, long car rides? Just didn't seem like a good idea, but I was still willing to give it a try.

Wednesday morning, June 27th came and I was READY! Let's DO THIS! We brought the potty out into the living room and put it in the dining room next to his play area. He ate breakfast first and then we put his big boy pants on. He was less than thrilled about them. He HATED them! Finally, after a little bit of getting his mind of of them, he was ok. We had an accident and then rushed him to the potty where he sat for awhile and nothing. Alex came up with a great idea to put his show on and put the potty in front of the TV. Ok. Why not? We sat there for 2 and a half hours. YES. 2 1/2 hours!!!!! His poor bottom had a nice red ring around it. hahahahahaha. We fed him SO much juice, water, milk and begged and pleaded with him to go. We both needed to use the restroom ourselves and were a bit cramped from sitting on the floor. BUT....right at 12:40 p.m. he went. He did it. BUT....mommy scared the living day lights out of him and he stopped mid stream. I THOUGHT he was finished because there was a good amount in there, so we celebrated and he got his Iron Man light up toy. We put his big boy pants on, called daddy, celebrated more, tried to give him candy (he wouldn't eat it?), and then we had an accident. Ok, not so bad, he said "oh no." So he knew it wasn't a good thing. Then when daddy got home, we went into the bathroom and put the pee pee in the potty, flushed and washed his hands (he loves that part). Then, another accident. This time it was a BIG one. It was okay though, I scared the shat out of him...he didn't understand yet. We put a diaper on him and put him down for his nap...

After nap I asked him if he wanted to go potty and he wasn't as excited about it as he had been. I put his big boy pants on, again, not so happy, but since he woke up with a super full and warm diaper, I knew he should be okay. We figured we would let him play for about an hour and a half, since last time it took 2 1/2 hours before he went (ah!). He was playing on the dining room chair when I saw he started to go. I rushed him over to the potty to finish. We sat for about 45 minutes on the potty in front of the TV. It wasn't too bad this time. He started a little (I kept my big mouth shut) and then stopped because he looked a little confused. Then about 5-10 minutes later he went! Oh boy did he go! We had a huge celebration again and he got a new Hulk toy (he is obsessed!!). He had one small accident after that, which really shocked me because he literally peed his brains out the time before! I was getting a little discouraged, but only because I was getting worried for the next two weeks while we were in California.

After talking about it, we decided we would wait until we got back from our trip, which is MUCH better and made me feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulder. I am SO proud of him though!! He's such a big boy!!

In other (semi-related news), he's losing the paci! He says it's "caca" great word, huh? It's working, so I don't really care. He stopped using it 24-7 and only uses it at night and nap time, which we plan on cutting when we get back from California. I don't think it will be as bad as I thought! Yay!! He's growing up too fast!!!!!!!!!!!