Big Boy, Big Belly

I know it has been ages since I last did an update on Patrick or the progress of our bun in the oven. All I can say is that I have been a little distracted. I'll do my best to summarize Patrick's development in the last few months and share the photos that I have, but there aren't many. Delmar likes to describe my "nesting" as "gettin' twiggy", which surprisingly manifests itself in me being crafty! I know it's hard to believe, but I've been spending Patrick's naptimes working on art projects to decorate the boy's bedrooms.

Despite our disbelief, Patrick will be turning two years old in just over a month. He has developed into quite the little man, quite literally. He's a little man's man. Here's a list of Patrick's usual daily activities: playing with his toy trucks and cars, playing with his toy trucks and cars inside my Subaru, playing with his toy trucks and cars on top of his dog, Sophie, playing in Mommy and Daddy's cars (he can get the keys in the ignition but luckily can't turn it all the way!), playing soccer and t-ball, and tormenting Sophie and his ducks. He's a simple boy with a few simple interests and we love him for it!

Oh, and he loves the dirt! Playing with his cement mixer truck.

Playing in Daddy's lawn mower, sitting where the battery should be :)

Before I forget to mention it, I should tell those of you that haven't heard yet that Bailey is no longer with us. Unfortunately, we had to put him down after he bit Patrick on the face. Luckily Patrick is just fine, he just has a few nice scars now. I actually took a few great pictures of Patrick and Delmar about and hour before it happened. Here they are.

My models :)

The day after Patrick was bit, we went up to The Sandy Bar Ranch on the Klamath River up in Orick again with the rest of the Nakamotos. Patrick was a trooper. He didn't even seem to be bothered by his swollen shut, black eye. We were all able to still have an amazing trip, we just had to keep a close eye on Patrick to keep him out of the sand and water the first couple days.

I guess the last big change for Patrick is that he now has his own "big boy" bedroom. We moved him into the guest room, where he has his own twin size bed! It's so adorable when he's all curled up at night, he barely takes up a quarter of the bed. I'll add a couple pictures of his bedroom but the wall decorations that I'm working on still aren't hanging yet. I'll have to add some pictures of those later because I am very proud of them!

Patrick still isn't talking a whole lot but he's definitely getting closer. We hear lots of "mama" and "dada", he's really good at "more" and "no" and his "hi" and "bye-bye" are pretty adorable when he also blows you a kiss. Everyone else hears him say more words but it all sounds like jabbering to us. With time it'll become more clear I'm sure.

So that's our Big Boy, now onto my Big Belly. I have officially entered the third trimester. Personally, I can't believe I still have three months to go. I am much bigger than with Patrick and definitely less mobile. During my 20 week ultrasound we found out that we are having another boy! And he looked very healthy, which is all we really cared about anyways (two kidneys, yay!). So in about 12 weeks (hopefully less!), Patrick will have a new little brother named Graham Dean. We're so excited to meet him!

This is Patrick trying to get to the frosting inside of the cupcake that would reveal the gender of his younger sibling...it was blue frosting!

Well, that's all for now folks!

Love,
Sarah