Family Update

A lot has happened in our little family since the start of the new year.

Pregnancy Update:
Though we found out about our second baby before Christmas, we waited until the holiday to share with our families and then waited until the new year's celebrations to tell our friends.  Since then we've pretty much told anyone and everyone.  I haven't been feeling that great, but I don't know how much of that is actually due to being pregnant.  I had the stomach flu for an entire week, which happened to overlap into returning to school after the holiday break - not so much fun!  Then I felt better for a few days and caught a pretty bad cold.  I'm not a wimp when it comes to colds, but not being able to take anything definitely makes it harder and the biggest issue is really just the lack of energy I have right now.  Speaking of which, that lovely bout of complete exhaustion we all get to experience during our first trimester has hit and hit hard!  Phew, it is rough when you have a 15-month old running around.  When I was pregnant with Logan, I would come home from work, watch some TV, and fall asleep on the couch for about an hour almost every day.  Well, there's no sleeping on the couch with this one!  So I have been trying to go to bed earlier, which is difficult now that my shows are back on!  Overall I really don't have any pregnancy complaints at this point.  I went to see the nurse on Tuesday - she took my weight, which was exactly what I weighed pre-pregnancy with Logan.  A little disappointing considering I had lost SO much after having him, but I'm really just glad I don't weigh any MORE than I did before Logan.  I gained 26 pounds with him, we'll see how much this baby brings.  She gave me my official due date, which is September 1st.  Two September babies - I am so lucky!

Logan Update:
My little mini-Todd is growing up so fast!  I was just telling my mom on the phone last week that I feel like he has grown up more since his first birthday than during his entire first year!  I know this isn't the case, but the changes he's been going through lately are so drastic!  I can hardly believe he has been walking for almost six months now!  I can't even remember what it was like before then.  He has started talking and he tries to say almost everything we say.  In my opinion, I'm probably the only one who can understand most of his talking, but it's exciting nonetheless.  Some of his favorite words are wreath (even now that they are put away he still says it every time I open his blinds), kitty, cookie, light, milk, baby, love-love (which is his little cow blanket buddy he sleeps with), ball, touchdown, baa-ball (basketball), vroom vroom, read (woo hoo, I'm happy about this one!), shoes, and of course mama, dada, and Mol (Grama and Grampa Lawniczak's dog, Molly).
Some of Logan's current favorite toys are the laser pointer we bought for the cat, any ball he can find, his electric guitar, books, his basketball hoop, the lids from my pots, empty pitchers, and the cat (who HATES him).  He loves to dance and has recently started trying to sing.  We've yet to get either on video  but are hoping to capture it soon!  He knows almost every body part he has including hair, ear, eye, nose, mouth, tongue, arm, finger, leg, knee, toes, bottom, and of course his boy parts!  He can throw and catch a ball most of the time.  Recently he learned how to climb onto the bed in our guest room, so now I frequently find him jumping on the bed when he disappears.  He goes up and down the stairs with absolutely no problem, which can be a pain sometimes.  We don't keep our stairs gated because the only gate we have bolts into the wall (see previous post about issues with Babies R Us) and we didn't think that would be a good thing to have up with our house on the market.  He now knows how to open doors as well, so that's going to warrant a trip to Target or Babies R Us very soon to buy child-proof doorknob protectors.  He keeps me busy, but he's at such a fun age.  I wouldn't trade it for the world!