a fun surprise

A couple of weeks ago a few friends mentioned they wanted to take me out to dinner before Blake's arrival. I found this odd....I guess because another friend is pregnant and we didn't take her out to eat and some other friends weren't invited. Well, the dinner was last night and when I got there ALL my friends were there! They had thrown me a surprise baby shower. I couldn't believe it! They claimed they wanted to throw me a shower and didn't ask me because they knew I would say no. I truly am blessed with some great friends.

this might be a snoozer

Well, not much to report around the Landy household. Andrew's over the flu and feeling better. I think he's teething though (hence the fingers in the mouth.) He's still gets pretty fussy and just hasn't been back in full force. I'm chalking it up to teething...hope that's what it is.

I've been nesting lately!! Hope that doesn't mean Blake's coming early. I've washed all Andrew's old clothes up to 6 months. It was fun going through them. I don't even remember Andrew being as little as some of those clothes!! He loves to go in his brother's room... mainly to hide in the closet. He calls it "bee's" room.

Matt's been working in the evenings lately so I'm going to start scrapping Blake's album. One day I'm going to catch my OWN album up!!

Next weekend I'll (hopefully) be enjoying a girl's weekend in Dallas (aka Jill's shower). I'm very excited!! It will be my FIRST time to be away from Andrew overnight!! Hope I make it through the night!! This all depends on how my doctor apt. goes on Thursday. At 29 weeks with Andrew I wasn't allowed to travel...hopefully this one will be different!

Sorry for the boring post with random info... I added the pictures so you wouldn't be too bored! What can I say, it's been boring around here!!!

mani or pedi

If you've ever had a manicure or pedicure...you HAVE to watch this. If not, feel free to click NEXT BLOG!

eating my words

The other day I was talking to a friend about how Andrew's only been sick one time (aside from having an occasional cold) and that was when Jolie and Megan were here. Well, he made me eat those words at 3:30 AM Friday. He was throwing up!! Can I just tell you my pregnant self doesn't handle that kind of stuff well. Matt was working so I couldn't make him help. I definitely had to suck it up!!! We've been couped up in the house for 3 days now and we are going a little crazy!!!!!!! Andrew's doing much better and finally keeping stuff down. I'm just praying that Matt and I don't get it.

We have watched 113 Baby Einstein videos, and 218 Praise Baby videos. Okay, maybe not that many but we have watched a lot of videos. It's the ONLY way I could get his mind off eating and drinking.

Here's how Andrew made the time pass...

Mommy was too tired to read to him so he had to read it to himself. And yes, he was spoiled and got to suck on his passy during the day.

He was getting bored with his toys so I pulled out Christmas presents I had stashed away. I should have known that he just wanted to play with the box.

So, Carrie, due to lack of sleep and one sick little guy...this is as good as it gets! Sorry no video and good luck with the TAKS!

Here's my funny Andrew story for the week. I'm sure I have more but this one sticks out. When Andrew takes a bath he has some letters in the tub that he plays with. He loves to pick up random letters and call it either an A, E, or I. So the other day he picked up the letter G and said "I." I said, "No, that's a G." So he says...."ahhhgeee." Get it? A G? I was like..."no, baby, it's just GGGG." Okay, well, it cracked me up! Maybe it's because I've been stuck in the house all weekend!!

my little drooling martian

Does the boy have teeth coming in or what?

He thought it was SO funny to put his cups on his ears!! Never a dull moment here.

I have to add this story...

Whenever we leave the house Andrew always brings one of his puppy dogs. Well, today he took one with him to church. When I went to pick him up his teacher told me that there was a boy who cried when his mommy dropped him off. Andrew walked over to him and handed him his dog. The teacher said it was so sweet because the boy actually stopped crying for a few minutes. Now a normal mom would think...aww, my child is so sweet. Not me! The whole time I was thinking...now I've gotta go home and wash that dog!!!

Andrew's new room

This weekend we moved Andrew's "baby furniture" out of his room and into Blake's. We started with the changing table. As we pushed it out Andrew whimpered and followed us out of the room. It was then that it hit me...this could be hard for Andrew. I really hadn't thought about it before then. We continued on and had Andrew help us move stuff in to Blake's room. He loved helping and I think it took his mind off of what was really going on. I worried that bedtime would be hard for him...but he went down without a sound. Thankfully!!

We haven't purchased him a real bed and won't for a while. He'll stay in my sister's old crib (which was attacked by beavers!) and then we'll eventually turn it into a toddler bed. I don't want to make him grow up too fast!! We aren't done with his room though...I'd like new curtains, basket liners (not important details) and his dresser should come this week. So I can't do much at this point.

I will add that it is SO nice to have a living room with a FEW toys and books in it. I know once Blake gets here it will be filled with a swing, bouncy seat and such...but I can enjoy these next few months!!!

this is for you moms out there...

Lately I've been talking to some friends about babies being on a schedule. I'm not going to go into details because I don't want to start a debate or anything. What I want to know is ....

--- did you put your baby on a schedule (by baby I mean one month or older) (by schedule I mean did you have your baby eat every 3 hours or so or did you just feed whenever.)
---also, when did your baby start sleeping through the night?

Thanks for your input!!!

how cute are these???...

Michelle made me these for Blake!! Are they not the cutest??? I'm not sure how long she's been doing it...but the girl is a pro! I was definitely impressed!! Can I just add that she is CHEAP!! You should definitely hit her up for some baby stuff because I'm sold!! Thanks Michelle! It is all adorable!! Can't wait for Blake to get here and put them to use!

arkansas or bust!

This weekend we went to meet Andrew's new cousin Jack!!! He's a month old now and is such a little cutie! Just holding him got me all excited about Blake coming! It was a VERY quick trip. We spent the night in Shreveport Satuday night and headed up to Arkansas for the day on Sunday to meet Jack. Headed back to Shreveport Sunday night and came home today! My prego body was KILLING me on the way home! I was worse than a 3 year old asking... "Are we there yet???" Jack was definitely worth it though!! We can't wait for him to get big so he can play with Andrew!!!Aunt Shandra, Uncle Matt and little Jack

Best "buds" to be!

One busy weekend leads to one tired little guy!