In an increasingly desperate attempt to get labor started, I went for an hour long walk and took Andrew to the new exhibit at the nature center. He loved exploring with the animals, seeing the ‘fishies’and playing with the blocks. Definitely a win for the neighborhood.
Let’s hope this mornings activities kick starts his sibling into making their appearance. I’m getting very impatient! 
As my work is winding down and we’re desperate to keep Andrew healthy, we’ve cut back his time at daycare to just a few hours in the morning. Our new routine now includes us picking him up from school at 12:15 after lunch and bringing him home for nap and afternoon play. While I only have 3 days under my belt, I’m really loving the time with just Andrew in the afternoon to play before the evening dinner and bath rush starts.
Here’s some video today of snack time and some impromptu singing. Let’s hope he develops a better singing voice than mommy!
There’s no question now, we’re in the home stretch with baby #2! Our due date is officially 5 days away! February 18, 2017 felt light years away when we started this journey in June and now it’s hard to believe we’ll be a family of four in just days! But seriously, any time this baby wants to make it’s grand entrance is fine with me. I’m mentally ready, my bags are packed, slightly rested from the weekend (about as good as it will get), there’s no snow in the forecast, all grandparents are in position and I’m pretty sure Andy is well over my daily (really hourly) complaining about my general discomfort.
So as we start to close this pregnancy chapter (FOREVER! There will be NO trying for a 3rd folks), I thought it important to take a moment to reflect….because I may never get a moment to myself EVER again.
So for now we wait, enjoy our last few days with just Andrew and I look like this: 
Last week brought almost a foot of snow to New Jersey. We had to wait until Saturday when the temperatures rose to go outside for some play time because Andrew REFUSES to wear anything besides a coat outside….even his boots at one point. But when we did make it out he really enjoyed his sled. And daddy got a little cardio in too! 
This morning I heard Andrew saying ‘cheese, cheese!,’ while sitting on the couch. Turns out he had gotten ahold of my phone, opened it to the camera and was taking pictures of himself. Here are baby’s first selfies! 
And the cherry on top of a week of fevers and tube surgery: pneumonia! Let’s hope the antibiotics kick in fast and we can get this kiddo back to normal and in school fast. We’re all going a little crazy!
Andrew has battled chronic ear infections forever even after having tubes put in when he was 9 months. In an effort to get him healthy and stop the latest string of illness, we opted the have ear tubes put in again and have his adenoids out (pre-baby!). Despite a little drama before due to a fever, I am happy report we have surgery success!
Coming home sick from School pre-surgery. 
Pre-op
Post-op on the way home. 
Doesn’t everyone take off their pants when they get home from work/school and play with their trains? 
