Easter and Other Stuff

Today is Easter and because it is Sunday I am at work. We celebrated Easter yesterday though and just when I thought THIS Easter would be without snow (because it fell later in the month), we did our Easter egg hunt in the the snow flurries. B didn't really know what to do, but he does follow instructions, so Mike put the eggs in obvious areas and we pointed to them and told him to put them in his basket and he did. He even got a little excited about it too. It was really cute. Once we got inside I shook the eggs the let him know there was a treat inside (puffs) and he got excited and ate all of them. Glad I took out the chocolate last minute, he just didn't need that too. Later in the day we had Easter Lunch/Dinner at my Mom's house. It was nice getting the whole family together again. Last time we did that was Christmas. B had fun with his cousins, especially Nene (Delanie). Her and Summer played with him the most, they kept saying how adorable he was, haha. Cute.

Mike and I just recently got back from a little get away to San Francisco and Napa Valley. We had a good time. I will say we didn't do as much relaxing as I would have liked, but we did squeeze in a lot of activities. We went to a Giants game, took a ferry to Napa, rode the Napa Valley Wine train, went wine tasting and karaoking, rode bikes in downtown Napa, met up with my friend for dinner and drinks, walked ALL around San Fran, and took a ferry tour of the bay which included the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. Exhausting but fun. We sure missed B, but it sounds like he had fun with Nana and Grandma. He did well for them.

Now for a little vent...

Yes, we are trying for a sibling for B. We have been for 6 months. If you ask if we have been "really trying" the answer is still yes. Will I tell you if and when I get pregnant...yes. Just going to say it has been frustrating at times and I knew it would be slightly more difficult for us to get pregnant, but I do have faith that it will happen in His time and Mike and I will continue to do everything in our power to aide in that process. We aren't going to extremes and are not sure we even will. The option has been given to me, but am not ready to take that rode or not even sure if we will take that rode. If you tell me to relax and it will happen I might just stare at you blankly. If you ask if we just do this or that I might just stare at you some more. Don't take it personally, but we already know. Thanks for your concerns and advice (and prayers). I can't imagine the feelings of someone who has been trying for years, I hope I never get to feel that! Thanks for the vent!

So excited to go to Napa next week. I'm not a huge wine drinker ( I like my Chardonnays every once in awhile), but just excited for a vacation. We've done the beach and mountain vacations so this is a change of pace for us and I'm looking forward to it. B won't be going, obviously, so I hope he does well for the grandmas (two days with Grandma Sue and two days with Nana). His separation anxiety is still there, but it at least seems to be getting better. We will miss him though. We always look at pictures of him when we leave, even if it is to dinner, we will pull our cell phones out and scroll through pictures.

I am pleased to announce that we will be adding another Johnson boy to the family...no not me, Cari. She came in today for a scan and sure enough he fooled us all. I don't know if we were all convinced it was a girl since its been awhile for a girl or if it was Cari saying she felt different this time. Either way it looks to be a healthy little man. One more boy and we have a soft ball team (provided Dan can still hang with the boys in 15 years). So excited for another baby in the family.

Craziest weather today. Yesterday was 75 degrees, today blizzard. Weird. Glad I got the yard work done yesterday. Here is our latest project. (Its a garden)

Mike has been working hard to get our garden ready for planting (ok what ever, I did pull a bunch of rocks out of it). I think it has turned into a competition though with his Brian. I caught him texting pictures of their gardens to each other for comparison. I think its very. Every thing has to be a competition with him.

"She's leaving on a jet plane, don't know when she'll be back again"

Sad sad day we had (although from the pictures it doesn't look like it). We did good though, didn't cry in public, (I know I saved that for home) we did tear up. The Trujillos have left the building folks! B's best friend and my best friend are heading to California for a better opportunity and earthquakes...just saying. As an earthquake survivor myself (early 90's) they are scary and hopefully willbring them back home to Colorado ;-) (only half joking). At least I got to see Robbie Roo walk! We will be skyping quite often and Mike and I will see them when we go to Napa in April. Before they left we went out to breakfast and then let the kids play at Monkey Business. Now I need to find someone new to hang with wed-fri. Most other people work or live too far away. It was really nice to be able to vent my fraustrations to another new mom, bounce our lack of parenting knowledge off each other and share in the excitment of our kids accomplishing new milestones.I enjoyed our trips out and loved watching our kids interact with eachother. I will truly miss hanging out with them. ok moving on before I start crying again.

B is really testing my patience lately. He is really really good at throwing a fit (he must have got that from me). The other day at the zoo was pretty embarassing. I had to literally wrestle him back into the stroller (yes- he is getting very strong) all while people looked at us. He screamed and cried for a good 15 min. Iremember when we finally approached the picnic area where we were going to eat, this other mom, having a peaceful lunch with her 2 yr old, looked over at me with this look that said "come on, we are trying to eat here." I just wanted to say to her "like your kid is perfect!" He did finally calme down and ate some lunch with that lady still there so she could see that maybe he was just hungry OK. After that my friend was like "I think I am going to head out now." I don't blame her. This is the 4th public tantrum in the 8 days I've been with him. God, I hope this is a phase.

$0.01 Pony Rides At The Store= Negative

Every time, and I mean every time, we go to the grocery store B whines at something. It used to be the balloons (sometimes it still is) and sometimes its a free cookie (thanks to his dad for introducing that to him) , but lately its the Pony. You know, the $ 0.01 pony rides that kids just love. As soon as we enter the store the words "neigh neigh" come out of his cute little mouth and do not stop until we go over and LOOK at the pony. God forbid you try and put him on the thing, no he is just fine looking at it. I've tried to put him on without out it moving, after he watches another little kid ride it, and with me on it too. He just gripes on to you like a cat about to get in the bathtub. I don't get it?! He is so mesmerized by it but wants nothing to do with it, kind of like with babies. He loves my friend's baby, always pointing at it and staring at it. But, don't you dare bring that baby too close to him. He does this with the babies at the indoor playgrounds too. It's kind of funny, really.

On a side note, Mike and I are planning to go to Napa Valley for vacation here soon, if we ever get around to actually booking it. We always do this, talk talk talk about it and then book last minute. Not really cool when your trying to book a babysitter. I told him to just do it already and he said "We got plenty of time, its not for another five weeks". Typical Mike- procrastinator.
I also decided to get an Ipad. My computer (the old Apple Mike gave me because it was too slow and sucked) finally went dead. I hope we can shock it back one more time to retrieve all the pictures off of it and put it on my Ipad. I am excited to get it. Hopefully more blogging and I want to turn this blog into a book so maybe that will finally happen.

Squeezing One More In

Man, you can tell life is a little more hectic since I am trying hard to squeeze in at least 3 posts for the month of February. It used to be 5-6 posts a month. Oh well.

We decided on the more pre-school type daycare for B man. I feel more comfortable knowing that she has done this for years and that there is another adult with her. Now we got to get all the paper work and doctors notes together. Never realized how much information they need, but it is a good thing, don't want my child hanging around some non-immunized kid, haha.

B has become pretty funny lately. He laughs at a lot of things. One thing that is really funny to him is farting. Yes, I know I shouldn't encourage it but it is pretty funny. They other day I thought I heard him wake from his nap and when I got closer to his room I heard him laughing and saying "poooh". I quietly opened the door and saw him lying there laughing while pinching his nose closed and saying "pooooh". And boy did it stink. Sure enough he pooped his pants and it was stinky. He also thinks it is so funny when Daddy asks him to pull his finger and he farts. Boys?!?! I won't even tell you about the new fascination with his boy parts, I don't want to embarrass him, but according to other mothers of boys, it IS normal. Oh yeah, B also laughs at pictures of other kids doing funny things. For instance, we went to the library and I got him this book called "Baby Giggles". There are these two kids that he always laughs at. One has her teddy bear on her head and the other is picking her nose. B thinks the girl with her finger in her nose is hilarious. He only wants you to read that page and he will laugh at it for 5 mins straight. B does have the most adorable giggle. I love it!

Day Care choices.

I guess I better post something before the month is up.As you can see the amount of blogs are getting shorter and shorter. They only new thing going on now is that B will go to daycare. We have interview 4 in home daycare places and I've talked to/visited 3 daycare centers. I hope this is enough. Because of the lack of days we need care for B man we decided to go with an at home daycare. For anyone that knows what it is like to try and decide which place is best for your precious baby, then you know it can be a struggle. I am going back and forth on two very nice ladies but very different ladies. One is real structured, has a curriculum, years of experience, and an assistant. The other was really welcoming and warm, reached out for B and held him, loves her adopted 2 yr old son about as much as I love B (we pretty much cried at our interview talking about how much we love our boys.). They both have a really good areas set up at their house and are licensed and follow the regulations on number of kids and what to feed the kids. What I didn't like about #1 was she didn't seem as nurturing to B, didn't say hi to him and wouldn't hold him. What I didn't like about the other lady is her lack of experience (just opened this year). I'm sure B will do great at either place and come home just fine, but I can't help but think that maybe I could open a daycare at my house? Then my sister reminded me that I wouldn't be good at it. ;-)

So we go around and around on the who is best for B and where he would fit in the best. AHHHH so hard to

decide.

(first day of daycare a week later).

New Things Going On Here

There are a couple exciting things going on right now in our lives. The first excited thing is that I get a sister in-law. I've never had one before (haha I have all sisters and just kept gaining brother in laws ;-) ). Adam and Cari will marry on February 11th and I can't be more excited and want to wish them a life time of happiness together. Also, B is going to get two cousins out of the deal, no not twins. Cari has a 6 year old from a previous relationship and is pregnant again! The newest addition with arrive in late September. What a blessing. Now if only I could get knocked up with her... that would be so fun. I was pregnant with my sister and it was nice to talk to someone who understood how you felt.

On a lighter note but another good note, B has more than six teeth now! I noticed he was chewing on his fingers a lot and biting things, but every time I looked at his teeth (the ones in front) I never noticed any neighbors coming in. Honestly I was getting a little worried he would only have the top 4 and the bottom 2 forever, but that's what I do, worry. We were playing around together the other day and he was laughing and I thought I saw some food in his mouth. I stuck my finger back there and sure enough he has a molar! Three that is. One on each side up top and one on the bottom left. I wonder when the middle ones will fill in? AWWW my little chomper. Surprisingly things haven't been too rough with those coming in, like I said just more drooling and chewing on fingers. Speaking of fingers, I am crossing mine that it wont get any worse for him. He's is getting so big and smart. I just love him.