Josh's B-day

So Josh celebrated his 26th Birthday this year. Wow he's getting old (j/k). Seeing that it falls in the middle of tax season we just had a small celebration with our little family. I attempted to make him a cake, but it didn't turn out very pretty so he told me not to take a picture (someday I'll eventually make a cool cake and be able to brag about the awesomeness of it). I made him a nice dinner and he actually picked out his gifts, which was fine by me. He picked out things that will go with hunting so I think overall he was a happy camper. Here's to another great year hun! We love ya!

Potty Training~Feeding the Fishies

So after finding out that we are expecting I told Josh that there was no way that I was going to have 3 kids in diapers. I said the same thing when expecting Kaylee but I was more determined this time. So once Ashlyn finished her bag of pull-ups I told her that she had to wear panties. She has done really well with pottying in the toilet but bowel movements were another story.

Somedays I really wanted to just go back to the pull-ups but I knew it wouldn't help so I continued to clean up after her and make her help. Well as you can imagine having to clean up yucky panties while being pregnant is not the funnest thing in the world. So I decided one day to search on babycenter.com on the discussion boards to see what other parents were doing.

One lady said that the only way her to get her 3 year old to poop in the toilet was to tell her that she was feeding the fishies. At first I just laughed and thought that was so gross, but it was literally the only thing on the boards that I hadn't tried. So I told Ashlyn the same thing and ever since she has been going regularly in the toilet. What a relief! There are still days that she has an accident but overall she is doing really well at it. She gets so excited to feed those fishies that live at the bottom of the tank and tells me that they are all fed and she's a big girl for feeding them. She even had me document it, so here's a picture of her sending the fishies their food (don't worry it's just her flushing the toilet and pointing as it goes down).

Goodbye 1st trimester

So I have definitely been blessed to have a rather easy 1st trimester and can't believe that tomorrow I start the second one.

A few things I won't miss: Being so tired and getting over my cold.

Things that I'm looking forward to: More energy, food cravings (but kept in check), feeling the baby move, hearing baby's heartbeat on March 20th, finding out baby's gender and seeing the little sweetie again in April (roughly around the 17th, and starting my yoga up.

Here's a belly shot for anyone that wants to see; I'm 13 weeks 6 days in this picture.