Oh, you don't even wanna know....

There has been so much stuff going on lately, I don't even know where to start. But you probably don't really want to know everything anyway. And who am I kidding, I write this stuff mainly so my wonder of a mommy brain doesn't forget the cute little things. lol

Anyway. Like I said last time, we're pregnant. Went for my first visit the other day and had the bravery to take Tyler in with me. John had Brayden, but they went to Sears during my appointment. We both kind of made the agreement that it wouldn't (or couldn't) be all or nothing for either of us, so we each took one. I have no idea how we'll split baby #3. Haha. Back to the doctor, though... Tyler and I had to sit for just a little while - it was mainly waiting on me to get all the initial paper work done and what have you. He was pretty good. I won't even venture to say that he WAS good, though. Finally we get called back. My "starting" weight is officially 128 - even though I've probably already put on a few pounds because at that appointment I was already 12 weeks. But we did the whole lovely long history thing and then the nurse let us hear the heartbeat. Tyler really liked that - he said it was a choo-choo train. :D The heart was beating at 170. I like the old wives tales right now because the faster beat means girl. But it's pretty unreliable.

The weather turned nice for a day last week - Thursday. I loaded up the boys that morning and took them to my mom's so that they could play outside all day. Which they did. They helped her plant some flowers, rode in their truck, and played in the mud. After that was supper and bath... THEN Brayden escaped the house before getting dressed. So... yeah... he played outside for a little while with nothing on but a smile. (I think the whole neighborhood probably heard his little chant, "I nakkid!!!") Fun stuff that we will forever have photo blackmail proof of.

So we come home on Friday and had a wonderfully crazy weekend of boys who had been spoiled a bit too much at Grandma's house. I'll just skip all that because I don't want to try to remember it.

A few nights ago Lord of the Rings was on TNT, and I hadn't seen it in a while, so I was watching part of it while the boys ate supper. They got done and came to join me on the couch for a few minutes... Tyler pointed excitedly at Gandolf and said, "Jesus!!" John said that we now know what Tyler's perception of Jesus is. lol

Brayden on the other hand is a bit more creative. He and I have a little thing we do while scratching each others' backs called "Desert Island." He loves it and makes me do it multiple times. I finally got him to do it for me the other night. He told me he needed to do it on my back so he pulled the back of my shirt out of the way (cause I always do his on his bare skin). As he pulled up my shirt, he let me know that I had a seat belt on (the back of my bra). I about died laughing at this. It's funny how little kids put what they know onto things they don't. Oh, by the way - to Brayden, it's called a "beat selt."

Last one, I promise... Brayden's been playing on an online letter recognizion website (starfall.com). He LOVES this thing - and he's really good with the mouse, too. It's almost scary how quickly he took to using a computer. It's worked wonders with him and his letters, too. He can click on almost any letter you ask him to if you help him by saying, click "t" for "train." Well, we were watching Super Why on PBS the other morning and they were sounding out "ladder." I paused the dvr after each letter trying to get him to tell me what the right letter for that sound was. I didn't get to L in time, but they did the short a - and he got that. He tried to tell me that "d" was actually "b"... they didn't do "e" because I think they skip vowels that are confusing?? I don't really know. But they said "e is next." I paused and asked Brayden what starts with E? I expected him to say egg or elephant... but he broke out the big guns and said, "Erin." That's my little genius. I have no idea where he learned that, but my jaw hit the ground. I think he'll be reading before too long.