names

Ethan just told me that if the baby is a girl he thinks we should name her Helfin. If it's a boy then he would like to name him Peetin. I told him we'd keep those under consideration.

what I've been up to lately

Little heart beating away at 8 weeks

5 weeks

8 weeks

12 weeks

After 2.5 years of praying for another child, over 10 months of waiting on a list at an adoption agency, we were pretty excited to say the least. I've been super sick. Medicine is helping some, but it's been rough. Even so, we are so happy to be welcoming another little one into our family, due around May 5. And Ethan is also over the moon excited to be a big brother :) He talks to his baby brother or sister, kisses my tummy, and keeps track of what size fruit/veggie the chart we have says his little sibling is similar to.

corn maze

We broke out our winter gear, and headed to the nearby giant corn maze! We had a blast, and thankfully the nasty weather held off until we were ready to head home. 

video games

So Ethan's gotten super into a couple of games either on my phone or the iPad recently. I guess we're non-traditional in our views of video games because I think it's really neat to see his coordination and problem solving skills improve through playing games like these. The really funny thing is that it's translated into real life and sometimes I think he thinks he's in a real-life video game in his mind.

A couple of weeks ago Ethan and I picked up Steve at the convention center downtown. Ethan told me he had to go potty and so he and Steve ran into the convention center quickly to find a bathroom while I went across the street to parking a lot and wait for them. They ran down the hall, went potty, ran back through the hall and down the street, crossed at the light, ran to the car and buckled in. Ethan gets buckled in and says "whew, that was a really tricky level!".

Then a few nights ago we were starting to get him ready for bed and I told him to come get his teeth brushed. He replies "but I still have 20 more lives left!". No dude, you don't. It's 8:30 and we're tired. :)

dreams

Lately Ethan's been talking about dreams that he's had, but I've always gotten the impression that he's just telling me stories that he's making up, and that he's not quite certain what a dream actually is. I know he's had scary dreams that he's waken up to, and started talking incoherently about monsters or someone being mean to him. I've tried to explain that it was just a bad dream, and didn't really happen.

This morning was the first time I've been convinced that he's telling me about an actual dream. He told me that he had a dream where he was riding a bike with "the other guy" and that he got off his bike and the other guy rode over his bike and up the two.. tube? (didn't quite catch that part). Then he had to get his bike and fix it, and then he kept riding up the two/tube with the other guy.

Not the most exciting dream, but it sounded legit to me! He brought it up again later and then asked me if I had that dream too. I told him about a dream that I had the other night and he seemed really curious that we didn't have the same dreams. So fun to watch him figure it all out.