Halfway there

I've hit the 20 week mark! I thought I'd finally post a picture of my pregnant self. The lighting isn't so great, but oh well. I felt the baby move around 17.5 weeks and have been feeling pretty good with only the occasional heartburn. I've brought my maternity clothes from out of the basement but haven't had to start wearing them yet.

We were supposed to go camping this weekend, but it rained for almost 24 hours from Thursday to Friday and we decided it just wouldn't be fun setting up a tent in the mud with kids. We ended up spending most of the weekend with our friends the Christensens (whom we were going to go camping with). Saturday morning I went to a fun craft fair with my friend Cassie and her mother-in-law, Cynthia and the guys (Jordan and Cody) took all the kids to the zoo.
(Tucker and Colby)
It was sooo nice to have some girl time without the kids. Plus I bought some really cute stuff at the fair, and have some great ideas of things to make. Hopefully I'll have some new posts on Pieces by Lisa in the next little while. : ) We watched the BYU game and have just been hanging out at home other than that.

Tucker is doing awesome with the potty training business. He has far exceeded my expectations at this point. The past 4 mornings he's woken up with a dry pull-up and immediately tells me he needs to go potty. We even tried a nap with just underwear and he did great. He's not perfect by any means, still had an accident or two, but overall I'm very impressed and proud of him. Whahoo!
Aubrey came down with the croup the last couple days and has the horrible cough and sad sounding cry. She's slept a lot and I think is starting to improve. She had croup over Christmas last year as well, but that was much worse than this time around.

I took Tucker into the doctor this past Wednesday cuz I thought he might be getting sick, but nothing was wrong with him. I was surprised that he still weighs under 30lbs. His pediatrician (whom I love - I finally found an office that will do a great job with my kids!) had me get Tucker retested for his peanut allergies. I explained his past history with the peanut and how he'd been tested before (with results coming back as negative) and they immediately sent me down to the lab for a retest. We'll find out the results this week. He's obviously allergic, and I don't feed him peanuts, but I do feed him cashews, pistachios, pecans, and almonds because so far he's been fine with those.
Today is my parents 30th wedding anniversary. All of us siblings are surprising them with a framed picture of the above for them. They don't have any pictures up around our house of back in their early days, so we thought it would be fun for their anniversary. Unfortunately, the quality of the scan we took is horrible. We blew the picture up anyway and are hoping they'll be able to provide us with the original slide so we can get a better picture.

Hmm..not much else is new with us. I'm reading my first Anita Stansfield book and Confessions of a Shopaholic book; been scrapbooking a bit and taking a little break from sewing. Cody is working away, loving that it's football season and playing WOW.

We find out on September 25th the gender of our baby. We can't wait to find out. I've had a feeling that it's a girl, but have been thinking boy names all week, so who knows.

Nothing too exciting happening as of late, but we've got birthdays coming up the next 2 weeks, TV shows returning to the networks, a baby to find out more about, possible visitors and much more, so stay tuned!