Imagination, Part 2

More examples of Jeric's developing imagination -- and these are just some of the ones I've taken pictures of.

Using a dustpan and mop bucket as "paint and a paintbrush" -- He kept saying "I painting like Papa!" while wiping the dustpan on the floor.


He drew half of this picture, then came and told me it was Mommy and Jeric. I asked where Daddy and Baby Sister were, and he added them to the picture.


"Ice cream" (I have no idea).


"Cake" -- this is a game he plays frequently, often with random blocks, but this time he used little battery-operated lights.

Imagination, Part 1

This boy of mine has quite the imagination!

Here are some pictures of Jeric and his friend Jane "fixing" her shopping cart with tools. Jeric noticed that there was a broken spot on it and took off running into the other room shouting "I NEED TOOLS!!"


Using screwdrivers:


Using a C-clamp as a saw (see, he's making sound effects) and Jane copied him by using a wrench as a saw:


More work with the screwdriver:


Got his foot stuck:


This toy is actually used to launch little motorcycles across a flat surface, but he is using it as an electric screwdriver:

Pregnancy update

I am currently 33 weeks and 4 days into this pregnancy (if you want to be exact). I had an appointment on Friday and everything still looks great. Baby girl is positioned exactly how I thought she was: head-down and slightly posterior with her feet curled up on my right side.

I've been getting mixed reviews from people as to my size. When some people hear that it's still about a month and a half to my guess date (Feb 1), they give me this look like oh-I-thought-you-were-almost-done-because-you're-huge. Other people seem surprised for the opposite reason and think I'm too small to be that far along. (I think I prefer the second reaction, although I tend to agree with people who have the first reaction.) It's definitely true that I'm bigger than I was at this point with Jeric! I think this is for a number of reasons: (1) second baby, looser muscles; (2) she sits higher up than he did; (3) I have an anterior placenta (on the front of the uterus) as opposed to the posterior placenta I had last time; (4) I think she's going to be a bit bigger than Jeric was.

I'm still feeling pretty good. I am more uncomfortable than I was with Jeric (see reason 2 above: she sits higher up and is therefore in my ribs more), but not too bad. I have some heartburn and occasional sciatic pain, but nothing too intense. Yay for papaya enzyme to take care of the heartburn! Mostly I'm just enjoying feeling this child move around!

Jeric is very interested in baby sister. He likes to hug and kiss my belly, then he'll say "love you!" and go play some more. He wants to hold her, but I tell him she's too little to come out yet. We talk about all the fun things we're going to do with baby sister when she is born. I don't think he really understands that he's going to have to share Mommy and Daddy, and I'm fully expecting some jealousy and an adjustment period, but I think he'll do pretty well. He will be about 29 months when she is born.

And for those of you who stuck it out, here is a picture of me and my sister-in-law, who is due a week after I am. (She is also having a girl!) This picture was taken last Sunday.

Imagination

I just love that Jeric has an imagination. That kid cracks me up!

Picture overload

Most of these pictures are pretty self-explanatory, so don't have captions :)

(Mostly because I'm lazy. And a slacker blogger.)

For some unfathomable reason, he turns this chair upside down over his head and runs around saying, "My fireman hat! I a fireman!"

He calls this his leaf blower and makes sound effects to go with it. (As seen a few pictures above this,
Jeric loves to help blow the leaves in the yard.)

Applesauce ALL over him.

He had just woken up from a nap.

Reading scriptures. He LOVES this.