I Love the Summer

Brady's favorite past time has become playing in the pool. He is always eager to put on his bathing suit and ear plugs and splash in the pool!

Spending time with dada in the pool

Brady's other past time has been spending lots of time in the bath because we are usually playing outside most of the day! He also enjoys combing his hair and brushing his teeth! In this picture he is sporting his new hair cut from Auntie Shanna (although you can't see it very well) Thanks Auntie Shanna! Wuv You

Summer Update 2007, by Brady Stack

Hey guys, its me, Brady! I'll bet you are as excited as I am that summer is here. Every day when I wake up, I pull the shade up in my room and start jumping up and down in my crib. When Mama or Dada comes by and opens the door, I say to them, "I wanna go outside." I love playing outside. This past week, we went in the pool. This is so much fun. I remember going in it last year too. I hope I can learn to swim this summer. It is nice to have Mama home with me all day now. She is on summer vacation, and she told me that I am going to have a friend my age coming tot he house every day this summer to play with. His name is Jordan. I'm looking forward to that.

Do you see the picture of me in the tree? Dada told me that when I get older, we will build a tree fort together. That will be so much fun. I'll get to play in it with my brother *&$#@+&$. Sorry, Mama and Dada said I couldn't actually tell you what the baby is going to be called, it is a surprise.

That's all for now!

25 week check up

I had my 25 week check-up today. Everything was pretty good. My blood pressure is a little high (borderline) So I go back in 2 weeks for a blood pressure check and glucose tolerance test. If it is still high in two weeks the Doctor suggested going on medication. I would like to avoid this. I asked if i exercised if it would help. Dr. White said possibly, so I'm going to do my part. I went downstairs tonight and walked for 30 minutes. Hopefully it will help, but he did say that it is sometimes beyond our control during pregnancy. Other than that the heart rate looked good and I'm measuring on target.

A sad good bye

As of tomorow at 3:00pm I will officially be done working outside of the house. It is actually very sad for me. I complained about my job as everyone does, but I will truly miss the children that I have worked with. I have spent nights up thinking about different ways to get through to them and different strategies to try to get some of them to speak. They have all made gains in their own ways and I'm proud to say that I had something to do with it. EVERY child is a gift no matter their disability. I guess I can now focus on my own children for a little while. However I still would like to stay in the field of special ed/autism by doing some consulting work. We'll see what comes my way.

New Pictures

We had some new pictures of Brady taken recently. Here are some of the highlights. Next time we go to get pictures, it will be of both boys!!!

Washington DC 2007

This past weekend, five twenty-somethings took forty high school students to our nation's capital. Sanborn's band director (Joe Widman, a high school friend of mine) asked me to go with him and three other Sanborn teachers. All of us, under the age of thirty, found it a bit ironic that we were in charge of a trip liek this. But, it was an overall success. We took a plane from Manchester NH, stayed in a hotel near the pentagon for two nights, and traveled in and around DC via the Metro.

Just the Mama and The baba for the weekend

So Brian left Saturday morning for DC with the band, leaving Brady and I to fend for ourselves. We had fun. On Saturday we did some shopping and then went to the park that was just the right size for Brady. He was able to climb up the steps to the slide and bridge all by himself! We had lots of fun but it was hot and Humid so we stayed for about an hour. That night, My parents came over (A.K.A Grammy and Pappa) They played with Brady until he went to bed and then they stayed and had dinner with me. It was nice to see them, I feel like time is going by so fast that we don't get to see them as often as we would like. Thank goodness they came over too, because we had a big thunderstorm while they were there and I certainly would a have hated to be home alone for that one.

On Sunday We went and visited my sister and Mackenzie and Uncle Dave. We had lots of fun. It's nice that Brady and Mackenzie are at an age where they will play together.

Brady did have some difficulty with understanding that dada wasn't going to be home every time we returned home and he would point to our wedding pictures and say "where's Dada?' He didn't really understand. Brian came home Monday night, Way to late to see Brady but they were reunited tonight after Brian came home from work, and Brady was a happy boy! Here's to hoping Dada doesn't have to go away again any time soon!

22 weeks all ready

Ok so I haven't been the best at blogging about this pregnancy, but then again I wasn't with Brady either. I'm over the morning sickness and feeling pretty good. I get tired more easily this time around but keeping up with Brady would wear anyone out. I've already been having braxton hicks contractions which is normal just annoying at times. I definately think I'm more emotional this time around, but you know what they say, every pregnancy is different. I can feel the baby move all the time now really strong kicks and what seems like constantly just like Brady, so I'll have two active boys running around! I shouldn't have any problem losing the baby weight this time around! That's all for now. I'll post a picture soon.