January re-cap

I hope everyone has had a great start to the New Year. It's, as usual, flying by for us. With Kyle traveling a lot more lately, days have been long for me, but weeks have been short. He is on his 4th week of traveling for work. It's been Brazil, Atlanta, Indianapolis, and now Mexico this week. Usually being home Thursday through Sunday. After this, he doesn't have much planned. I already made him block off mid March to mid April- he's not missing the birth (Hopefully!) I'm feeling pretty good still. My back started acting up last week, so I made a few trips to the chiropractor but all is well again. I'm also getting super tired- like first trimester tired- wanting to sleep all the time. I attribute it to being 32 weeks pregnant and being a single mom during the weeks, not getting much of a break.

31 1/2 weeks

 

Here's a little re cap of what we have been upto in January. Mondays and Wednesdays I watch my friends baby for 5 hours, allowing her to work from home baby free. Hudson is 9 months old and Preston and him get along great! Reese is always sad he is here when she is at school, so we show her lots of pictures of what we do with him throughout the day :) 

Kyle and I signed up for a 6 week class given by the New Glarus school on Monday nights called "Raising a Thinking Child". Its from 5:45-7:15 pm every Monday. They give us dinner (yay to no cooking!) then provide childcare while we go to class for an hour. Little did I know when I signed up, I'd be attending 4 of them alone since Kyle was traveling :) But it's been really interesting and I'm glad I'm doing it. We have two weeks left.

Tuesday and Thursdays we are busy with Reese taking gymnastics. She is still really loving it, and it gives her a good outlet for her energy during these winter months. I will probably stop it in the summer when t-ball and swimming start up. I signed her up for soccer again (starting in April) because she said all her "friends were doing it." A few days ago she said she changed her mind and didn't want to, so we will she is she ends up playing.

We had our first bout with winter sickness last week- and luckily, it only hit one of us. I got a call from the school nurse on Wednesday around 2:00 saying Reese was not feeling well and looking really pale. I went to get her right away, and as soon as we got home she got sick. After lots of afternoon sleep, and getting sick two more times, she was on the mend. It was only a 12 hour bug, and none of us caught it. I kept her quarantined in her room and didn't let Kyle or Preston near her!

Friday she did not have school because the school district did a birth through 5 year old development day. Preston had an appointment as he was screened so he can do 4K next year. After our morning appointment, we took off for the Dells for a nice little getaway. We had only intended on staying Friday night, but the kids had SO much fun swimming in the hotel pool that we booked another night. We did some outlet mall shopping Saturday too, and I got some good deals on things for baby. They were pretty sad to come home yesterday morning. It was a really fun weekend and nice to have some family time! The kids swam for literally 3 straight hours Friday afternoon, 2 straight hours upon waking Saturday morning, and probably another 2 straight hours Saturday afternoon. They were exhausted Saturday night! Preston's favorite part was the "hot pool" (aka hot tub) :)

We went to a friends house for the Super Bowl yesterday and had lots of yummy food and were happy to see the Broncos win (Kyle has lots of extended family in Denver) so we were cheering Peyton on.

Our kitchen is complete! The tile was installed by Kyle and his dad a few weekends ago, and Kyle and I did the grout by ourselves. The last step in these pictures was the outlet covers, but other than that, we are done, and VERY happy with it!

Our February is turning out to be a busy one too! This past weekend was the Dells, this weekend ahead we are traveling up to my sisters for the weekend, the following weekend we are going to a waterpark with some friends, and then we have a couples weekend the last weekend in February with some of my college girlfriends and their husbands. No wonder our months fly by!