BIG...

I haven't mentioned that I'm pregnant. I also haven't posted very well since I have been.  Here's a little bit of what's going on with me. :)

 I'm now 33 weeks along this Sunday and according to strangers, I look like I'm “about to pop” I've had quite a few people tell me that lately. When I say that I'm not due until January, they always look at me in shock and ask if I'm sure there aren't twins in there. Yes, four ultrasounds have revealed only one. My new favorite stranger conversation went about like this, I was walking through the dollar store and went to pass this older looking gentlemen, he asked, as if he knew me, “Are you having a boy or a girl?” I told him it was a girl as he watched the two children following me down the isle. He then continues, gesturing to the kids, “so, it'll be two to one” I said yes. The man chuckled pointing toward Shaylor and said “that's good, so they can keep him in line... “ I laughed and replied, “I hope so!” He then paused for a second and looked at me thoughtfully, “you're doing good though?” I smiled and said yes and that was the extend of our conversation. I'll probably never see him again and if I did, I probably wouldn't even recognize him but it was a nice little moment. :)

Kids :)

Well, I usually post mainly pics and fun stories. I thought I'd post Journal style.  I wrote this in Oct.

Shaylor is learning his letter sounds. He want's to read just like his sister. I don't want to push him too hard so that he's bord when he starts school but I do think he will be reading a little bit by the time he is in kindergarten. He is also now potty trained!!!

We thought he was ready and so I put him in underwear one day. I reminded him to go every 20 minutes throughout the day and he would go for a candycorn. By the end of day two he was begging for his diapers and I realized that I was training myself not him. (We went back to diapers) A few days later I found some monster truck and race car underwear. I also found "slide on diapers" so he could switch back and forth whenever he chose. ( he doesn't like pull-ups or the potty watch he borrowed from KatieMae because it was forcing him to fo in the potty) This time I just fold him that if he wanted to wear them he needed to go in the potty, and if he went in the potty, he would get a candy corn. He basically did the rest himself. It was amazing. after two days three days, he was having dry nights. He still "likes diapers" but he doesn't go in them and rarely asks to use them. Seriously surprised me!!!

Lauren is doing great at school. She is reading and writing beautifully. She even gets extra credit on her spelling tests. ( She gets all of the words and some of the bonus, harder words) Her math skillls are very good as well, She can do addition and subtraction and thinks it's really cool when she gets it right really quickly. :)

Her eye is improving as well, in febuary her weak eye tested at around 20/60 or 70 and this month she tested at 20/50. This ais a pretty good improvement. this is with her glasses and at the same time she tested her strong eye at 20/20 with her glasses on, which was an inprovement as well. YAY!!! The next step would be to wear her contact in the weak eye, which has been a struggle. She's been scared but I think she's getting ready. we've been practicing her "finger in ey technic". She's getting pretty good at it and pretty soon I hope she'll be ready to do the real thing. When she does strat to wear her contact, we'll see a huge improvement. She'll be able to use both eyes and her weak eye will become her dominant eye when it is in. This will force it to use those muscles that her brain is not used to using and make it stronger because of it. It's will aslo mhelp her brain to put the images together better.

Right now she has such a drastic difference between the two eyes as far as perscription that her brain has trouble putting together the two images. She has no idea because that is what she is used to but when that contact is in I think she'll start to realize the difference and really like it. 

Random Fun

Just some quick fun stories, ready set go.... :) oh, and the stories have nothing to do with the videos. ha ha!

Corey was on the roof hanging some Christmas lights, Shaylor, standing on the ground, could see him on the roof and still kept calling out, "Dad,-you-up-deh?" Corey's response repeatedly was, "yes, I'm up here."  He would even ask if shaylor could see him or even say that he wasn't up there and shaylor knowing better would tell him that he was up there and then ask again, "dad,-you-up-deh?"

We kept reminding Shaylor not to tug on the lights or strings on the tree Two days before Christmas, I heard a horrible scream followed by a loud crash. I ran to the family room expecting to see the tree laying on top of my two year old, but he had realized it soon enough and can run fast in fear so he was only knocked over by the tip of the tree leaving a scratch on the back of his head and sap on his shirt.  I had to re-wrap some presents and clean up one broken bulb not to mention hanving to re set the tree, but I was grateful that he was ok.  He didn't pull on the tree again.

Lauren has discovered coloring in the lines.  She never got into to it and would get bored. Until she found out that crayons could be sharp.  Now a whole new world has opened up.  He can write, color, and draw, and it's fun!  Shaylor loves to color with her. His new famous line is, "duss a decond, I'm tollering."