You're Too Grown Up

Dear Teagan:
You are too grown up for my liking these days! Well, I guess it's bittersweet. I don't like to think about you growing up so fast, but then again, it's such an exciting time!
You keep progressing with the potty training. We even bought you some big boy underwear! We have Cars, Mickey & Thomas (choochoos). The first time wearing them I put them on you with just a tee shirt on and told you that you had to tell me if you had to go potty.
Well apparently you wanted to test what would happen if you peed in your underwear. But, you were smart enough to pee in a bucket. It was so funny. I found your squating over the bucket peeing through your underwear.
Then we sent the underwear to daycare. You went until naptime after lunch with only one accident! I was so proud. You're so smart and just love to learn!
You know all of you colors now and you're doing really good with shapes. You know red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown. You get brown and black mixed up and you like to think that pink is just red. But either way, I think you are the smartest kid around!

Oh and you're such an outdoor boy! All you ever want to do is play outside.
Last week it was super duper warm out and we caught toads from the pond. They were sitting on top of the weeds and so easy to catch just sitting there. So you and I went out and played by the pond with Buster and caught so many toads! You didn't want to touch them, but you wanted me to get as many as I could then you wanted them to go back in the pond. It was fun. And of course with daddy all you want to do is "wide, wide" (ride the fourwheeler). Then it's a huge hassle to get you to come back inside. You scream and cry and throw a fit and stand at the door yelling to go outside. It's sad, but it gets old after a while.

You've begun to be quite the helper in the kitchen. I try to let you stand on a chair and help as much as possible to keep you from getting into things while I'm busy. It works and you seem to really enjoy it. We made a pie yesterday and I taught you to stick your finger in it to taste....that was probably a mistake. Now you want to stick your fingers in everything we're making or eating.

Easter Sunday you got your first real big booboo. It was so, so sad. You ran straight into the door while I was holding it open for you. You fell right down and was screaming so much. By the time I bent down and picked you up, your head was swelled right out and black and blue. It was horrible. I was so scared for you. I thought something was seriously wrong. But by bedtime the swelling was almost gone and you were good as new acting. I think you were just clumsy from all that Easter candy and no nap! That aught to teach you!

I love you to the moon and back, baby.
Love,
Mommy

You're Killing Me, Smalls!

Dear Sprout:
I am only 8 weeks and 1 day pregnant with you and you're causing me sooo much sickness.
It's been this way for 2 weeks to the day. Started out feeling just a little queasy like I was too full. Then it turned into just downright sicky feeling ALL DAY LONG! It doesn't matter what or when I eat, I still feel yucky. Some days are better than others though.
Like Wednesday I threw up three times. Once at home before work, once in a Walmart bathroom and then once on the side of Route 11. That was HORRIBLE!!
But then I have days like today and I'm pretty good.
I'm just ready for the sicky part to be over and for me to be feeling like a cute pregnant lady.
I loved being pregnant for your brother and I want to enjoy being pregnant for you too!! That's what I've told people. Last time I was pregnant I only had my thoughts on my due date, this time I said I would just embrace being pregnant. Well, so far I've done anything BUT that. And I feel bad.
Hopefully this sickness goes away within the next couple of weeks!

Next Monday, only 3 more days, and we get to see you on the ultrasound!! I'm so excited! Maybe there will be 2 in there! I have had two dreams about having twins! So maybe! That would be super neat! But also very crazy and stressful probably. Not to mention expensive. We shall see in 3 days though!! :-)

I can't wait to see you little Sprout!
I love you tons and tons already!
Love,
Mommy

I'm Sorry

Dear Teagan:
I'm sorry I'm such a bad mommy lately.
I'm just so sick and tired all the time. I didn't cook dinner all last week. All I want to do is sleep and throw up. It's horrible.
It'll all be worth it though when you get your baby brother or sister home!
I just feel so bad because now that I know there's going to be another baby soon I feel like I need to be spending extra time with you right now while you're my one and only.
I also feel like you're going to be mad once Sprout comes along.
Hopefully I'll be back to normal soon.

I booked our flight to go down to North Carolina to see Dani, Jed & Owen today. I'm really excited. But I'm also really nervous about flying with you and being pregnant. It's not so much the flying part that scares me, its the layover part. I'm so scare you'll get kidnapped or something. I'm going to buy you one of those backpack leashes and make you wear that. Although I read today that a stroller is considered a carry on and I can bring that and not have to pay extra. So we'll see. I just feel like a leash would be easiest though so you can get up and stretch your legs and move freely. I don't want to have to be "that girl" that has troubles putting her stroller in the thing up above or have trouble folding or unfolding it. So we'll go with the backpack.
I'll be 17 weeks when we go. Hopefully I won't be too big by then that we'll be uncomfortable since you'll be riding on my lap.
We sure are going to miss Daddy. But we're going to have so much fun!!

You've been doing so so good on the potty lately. You will just randomly start saying "potty, potty" and when we ask if you have to go you either say yes or no. If you say yes then we run in to the potty and sit you down. Sometimes you pee, sometimes you poop, sometimes you just sit there and grunt because you think it's funny. But I'm so proud of you. You'll be using the big boy potty regularly in no time at all!!

Alright baby, its time for me to leave work and come pick you up.
I love you tons and tons and to the moon and back!

Love,
Mommy