Hartle Happenings: February 2010

Thank HEAVENS pregnancy doesn't last 19 months! I re-read my title to this post and figured it would need an explanation. Jace turned 19 months old today. No big deal other than next month he'll be in the 20's. I can't believe how fast he is growing up! He has been seriously the BEST little boy a mother could ask for! Even when he's onry or for the fifth time in a row, drags out the lids from the kitchen drawer and throws them EVERYWHERE. He still is able to make me smile. Of course he makes up for it:

We had kind of a scare the other day with him. He woke up swollen from head to toe. I thought it might have been something on his clothes because I just switched his detergent, so I put him in the bath. I asked Ryan to come look at him and he said it wasn't detergent. It had to have been something he ate. So I began to run through my mind what he ate earlier and realized I gave him a chocolate shake with peanut butter in it! He's allergic to peanut butter! Thankfully Heavenly Father had part in it this and I knew it was because of Him Jace only drank 1/3 of what I gave him! It just makes my heart sink to think of what could have happened if he didn't wake up or drank more than he did. We gave him some allergy medicine and by the end of the night he was back to normal. See...God does watch out for us even when we're not looking. Or thinking.

The other half of the title is how far along I am in my 2nd pregnancy. (For those of you who don't understand it by weeks like I didn't before I was pregnant, that means I'm in my 6th month) I'm doing and feeling incredible! I did have a couple of days of light headedness and fast heart beats, but with a lot of help from friends and family I found that sugar on an empty stomach will cause that. So with a little change with diet and vitamins, I'm back to normal. Kayden has been really active. I even think he's getting hiccups. Ryan has been able to feel him kick a few times already and it just makes me think June is fast approaching. It seemed like FOREVER before we could feel Jace kick and move, and here with Kayden the time has flown by. I guess that has to do with staying home this pregnancy. It seems there is PLENTY of work to be done. I have managed to clean and organize the downstairs, hang a few pictures, and organize the upstairs storage closet. It's so nice to have time to do that. Ryan and I are still doing Weight Loss Challenges and we just finished numbers 3 and 4. But I will write about those on another post. Number 5 and 6 start this week!

Our newest addition to the family, Tator, is doing GREAT as well. He does have to fight Jace for his bed, but other than that it's going smoothly. I was worried when we got him that I would have to watch that he didn't attack or smother Jace, but it's actually Tator that I have to watch out for! Jace LOVES this dog! He'll pick him up, hug him, kiss him (ewwww!) and play with him ALL DAY!!! It's such a nice distraction and I know that when Kayden gets here neither of them will feel like they've been abandoned. They will have each other! Here's a cute video of him "protecting" the family!

Valentines Day was AWESOME! Ryan gave me family pictures as my gift! We went to a studio and had our pictures taken professionally for the first time! I will post them when we get them. They were SO fun to do! (Thank you my wonderful husband!) Isaac was able to be here too, so that worked out perfect! I gave Ryan a picnic/movie night and we watched The Time Travelers Wife. It was good, but not as good as The Notebook. Well I want to write a WHOLE lot more, but this post is already too long. So I will stop here and save some for later. Talk to you all soon!

p.s. Please keep the Tenney family in your prayers. They are my friends family and they are going through a rough time right now. All I can say is how thankful I am that families can be together FOREVER! Our thoughts and prayers are with you!