Surprise Park Shananigans!

We had a fun impromptu trip to the park this morning with Sarah and 2 of her crew!

This is Jacob and Sarah on the swings!  Brother/sisterly love!

This is how Sarah and I train for marathons!  

Take that, Jacob!  We are sooooo ready to run a marathon!

It's always fun to spend a day together in the bright sunshine!

19 months...and a very crowded/overwhelming children's museum!

Jaden turned 19 months old on Thursday!  Where has the time gone???  I feel like it was just yesterday when I held him for the first time!  I am excited that I am blogging now, and I can do monthly updates on what is going on in Jaden's life.  Things change so much so fast.
Jaden, you are 19 months old.  You love straws and your toy bus!  We give you straws to unwrap in restaurants, and you want to open everyone's for them.  You love to play cars and you make the vroom sound when you play with them.  You love to talk too.  You will pretty much repeat anything we say.  Last night I was singing 'I've got joy down in my heart' ... you then kept saying "Joy, joy, joy heart".  That was so precious!  You love the dogs.  You love to give them hugs and chase them.  You also have recently had a passion for cleaning.  You will take a wipe and wipe down every surface you can find!  You also just started making up your own 'songs'.  In the car the other day you just kept singing the word "Sunshine"  over and over again.  I love that!  You have a wonderful singing voice!  You always request 'kicken and wawuus' (chicken and waffles) for breakfast.  I haven't given in to the chicken part of that yet.  But, I think those are your two favorite foods! You also love yogurt, which you call 'cilk'.  You also call milk 'cilk'.  You love apple juice... which you call apple juice!:)  You are such a big boy now.  I can't believe how fast the last year and a half have gone.  I love you soooooo soooo much!!

We went to the children's museum with my SIL Sarah and her sweetheart little girls on Friday.  It was crazy crowded... but we still managed to have a magical time!  (it's not too hard for us to do when we have each other to joke with!)

Jaden loved these neon light sticks... This is him SCREAMING with delight!

He loved drumming with Isabelle!  I think he has a passion for music already!

 The best part of the day was the humungous water table!  Yup... he still got soaked even with the poncho on!

Isabelle is such a great cousin!  She played with Jaden the whole time!

My silly niece, Victoria.  She loved this wind tunnel.

The wind tunnel didn't thrill Jaden.. but he let me hold him for a fun photo-op!

Sarah just didn't know what to do with herself... she was soooooo excited!

"Peace, peeps... from the children's museum!  Hollah"

We then enjoyed a yummy picnic lunch in the basement.  Poor little Lilly-bug... I didn't get many pictures of her:(

It was a ton of fun!

Fertility fun!

We met with our fertility doctor today.  He is a wonderful man, so compassionate and caring.  We struggled through a couple years of infertility before we got pregnant with Jaden.  We did 3 IUI's before beginning the IVF process.  We ran into a couple of snags through the IVF process... I became hyperstimulated twice during egg retrievals.  But after our second frozen transfer we got pregnant!   So, through all of that- the fertility dr and his staff were our new bff's!  It was so strange to be back there.  It was even weirder talking about doing our first frozen transfer to TTC baby #2.  Ohhhhhh... I'm SO excited!
Don't you think this little guy will make a great big brother???

I know he is super excited too!  So, the plan is to start the pill in December and have the transfer in January!  We will transfer 2 embryos and hope for the best!
We are so ready to have another precious addition to our family!

Go ahead... try to think of one person....

That doesn't love the Cracker Barrel!

... I know this little guy loves it!  Especially the tiny rocking chairs!

Do you like 80's fashions and home furnishings????

If your answer to that question was yes.... you are going to love these gems!

That's my BFF/SIL Sarah sporting a lovely multi-colored track jacket whilst sitting a-top a plastic cushioned chair!

That's me!  Sporting two beautiful 80's old lady style shirts....one is a button up...one is a knit vest!  I am sitting atop a green lounger someone surely peed in!

You're Welcome!

Busy, Busy....

Jaden and I have been keeping ourselves busy since Jacob is out of town for a few days.  We dropped him off at the airport on Wednesday.  It was a little sad.... is it weird that I felt like I wanted to cry?  It's only a few days!  I do worry about him, though.  He is on a trip where he is racing cars, and that is why I worry!  But, anyway.... after we dropped him off, we went to visit the preschool where I taught before Jaden came along.  He had so much fun making a mess there!  It was great to see all of my old friends.  Literally...old.  Just kidding...but they are actually old.  So, we played there for a couple of hours and then we headed to the mall to scope out some deals.  Carson's just put out a $2.99 rack.  It was AWESOME!!!!  So I scored a couple of dressy tanks to wear under cardigans this winter.  Oh... shopping is so joyous!  We then came home to recover from the busy day.. and to rest up for our Thursday!  Jaden fell asleep at 6 Wednesday night... so he must have been worn out! 
Thursday was a fun day too!  I called my sister-in-law (who was about to have her wisdom teeth removed) to see if she wanted me to pick up her little Lilly-bug for a playdate.  Of course, Lilly was all over that idea!  She is 4, and Jaden loves playing with her!  So we headed over to Nanny's house to mess it all up for her!  Score!  We played there for a while and then we had to head out to pick up my other nieces from school.  Suddenly my sweet honeymoon van was filled with 4 children!  I was excited to drop all of these kiddos off to their mother.... just so I could see how out of it Sarah was from the wisdom tooth drugs!  Much to my dismay, she was totally with it.  She didn't even say anything strange or embarassing.  I was totally disappointed.  But she was laying in bed, which totally freaked Jaden out!  He wouldn't even go near her.  Ha!
We left Sarah's...and went to meet my mom at a purse/accessory party in town.  It was a blast.  Jaden loved all of the necklaces and watches!  He also enjoyed the little coin purses.  We stayed there for a little bit and headed home for dinner.
When we got home, Jaden couldn't get Sarah out of his head.  He kept saying "RaRa...teeth...bed" over and over again.  Sad. 
Jacob comes home tomorrow!

Trick-or-Treat!

You guessed it... It's another halloween post!  I love halloween!  This year was so fun with Jaden.  He loved going from door to door, getting more candy for his bucket!  He would actually trade...since he would hold a piece of candy in both hands at all times.  Each house he went to, he put a piece of candy in their basket and took a new one from them.  It was priceless!

After we trick-or-treated around Jacob's old hood, we went to Nanny and Papa's!  They were just tickled pink about us coming by!

Jaden took off his costume so he could run around at full speed... he loves Nanny and Papa's house!

Next, we headed over to Grandma and Grampie's house.  My mom was out of town, but luckily Grampie was there to hand out all the yummy-ness! Jaden just dug right in.  He was a pro by the time we got there!


Checking out his 'cookies'




"Should I really be eating allllll of this candy right before bed?"

 Oh, it was a magical day!  I loved experiencing the fun of halloween through Jaden's eyes!