Baby News!

I had an ultrasound appointment last Friday & we were able to find out we are having another wonderful baby boy. I was slightly convinced there was a little princess in there because the way my belly looks. It's completely different from when I was pregnant with Matti. With him, it was more pronounced & rounded. This one, my belly seems wider and flatter--I don't know how else to explain it. Add on the what seems to be the list of things that I didn't experience with Matti, I assumed trouble = girl. When we saw his goodies, I looked at Jason and he seemed somewhat surprised as well. We're happy with our baby boy though! We've always said we wanted two boys first and two girls so that they boys could watch over their sisters. Matti came to the appointment with us and was able to see his baby brother. We decided to tell our families on Easter since we had a huge Easter celebration at my parents' house. We baked a cake and I dyed the batter blue so that when we cut into the cake, the blue showed. I've read the new things is to have 'Gender Cake Parties' and that just seems a little too much. I figured we're already in one place, let's just add a little more something to it.

Easter was just a big party. We had praise & worship, good food, a huge egg hunt for the 30+ kids there (which ended in like 10 seconds!), kite flying (?), bubbles, Frisbee, lots of soccer for Matti, more eggs getting dyed, & more! It was such a beautiful day despite the weather forecast being thunderstorms. We ended the night with playing Dance Central on Kinect. Well, I just watched, but it was a good time. Until next time :) 

Dinner Dilemma

We've been having what I call "Dinner Dilemma" for a week or so now. Since I work until 6pm every night, it's really hard for us to have dinner at a decent time. Our average dinner time was 8pm every night, and I just feel that it's so late since Matti has to go to bed soon & Jason goes to bed early. He likes to sleep. I then feel like I've spent no time with them and it makes me feel like I'm in a slump. I do my best to try to think ahead of time what we'll have for dinner, but honestly, I'm a bad preggo & I don't really have cravings for much of anything. Between 4:30-5:00, I'll call Jason for dinner ideas and just like me, he doesn't have any cravings. By the time it's time for me to leave work, I just want to pick up something (usually Chinese) for dinner so I don't have to worry about cooking. It gets pretty boring after a while.

The other day, I wanted to find "new" recipes for dinner. I somehow ran into one of my old recipes (Taco Soup) and told Jason we had to have it sometime this week. He returned back with, "I've been wanting your chili for a while though.." So, off I went looking for my recipe. Well, I think that most of them are at my parents' house on their computer =/ So, I had to search all my previous blogs, forums, etc for any place that I might have posted them. I found some of them and I was excited to have found some of our favorites again. I also ran into a few of my crock pot recipes and decided that I was going to use it yesterday. How perfect! I can start it before I leave for work (varies between 11am-1pm) and we can have dinner right at a decent time! We've been going on walks before dinner, so it would be around 7pm. I'm okay with that! So, I've busted my crock pot out and will be using it a lot more often now. Dinner Dilemma solved!

*Although dinner was ready by the time I got home, I got a call from my dad asking us to come over to we can have Seder Meal since it was Passover. So, after a few test tastes (boy was it good), we are having it for lunch instead. I'm really excited for lunch today, haha. *

Woohoo!

My BB Cream finally arrived today. I didn't realize when I ordered it that it was coming from Korea! I was getting anxious about how long it was taking, but I'm excited to finally have it. I did a lot of research trying to figure out which one to buy since it was my first BB purchase. I ended up with this: http://www.amazon.com/Missha-Perfect-Cover-Cream-Natural/dp/B002OPZEJQ  I found BB creams through a friend who constantly raves about it and when I saw her video about it, I was sold.

Two :) Matti called me yesterday while I was at work yelling, "Mommy! I went poo poo in the toilet! THEN I FLUSH IT! i FLUSSSHHH it!!" I mean he was so excited, haha. He hasn't gone one the toilet for me, and I think he is responding better to Jason. It's okay though, at least he is starting to respond to someone. He does know when he has a dirty diaper, he just doesn't get the chance to tell us before it happens. It's easier to catch him before a #2 than a #1. I am hoping this is the start of our adventures in potty training. He's such a big boy in every aspect so I know he can do it :)

Things we teach.

As parents, we are our child's first teacher. Of course, we teach them their manners, ABCs, numbers, colors, etc. & when they do learn these things, we get so much joy out of it. I know I do. I get really excited and I usually ask him, "Wait, what did you just say!? Say it again!" Well, last night was one of those moments. For those that don't know, Jason & I fall in the "religious" category. Not necessarily a bad thing to us. I mean Matthias is from the Bible. He was the 13th disciple who replace Judas after he (Judas) betrayed Jesus. We've taken him to Mass since he was born and now, he knows we go to church to see Jesus. He knows to pray and he knows how to act while at Mass. We constantly get comments on how well behaved he is & didn't even know that he was there during Mass. He knows before we eat, we pray. He does the sign of the cross. Way before Matti was even in my belly, we knew that we would raise our children with God in their life. Not to say we are perfect, because no one is. Before Lent started, we looked at our life and saw what we needed to change. & saw parts in our life that we knew should be at a better state than it was. Prayer. We both knew it was a necessity and we were badly lacking in that department. Since Lent, we've had family prayer time (which is something I grew up with) and we read a devotional. We almost forgot last night (or I did). Jason was putting Matti to bed and I was laying in bed watching TV. In comes Jason&Matti telling me to turn the TV off. "We're gonna pray," says Jason. We started praying and we were starting off so that Matti could say something if he wanted. We started off with the Thanksgiving. (We try to pray using ACTS. A-acclamation C-contrition T-thanksgiving and S-supplication). In the middle of thanking Him for our day,  Matti started chiming in....It went a little like this.

"Thank youu.....mommy...daddy..LOLA...lolo..uncle Ed..Bicycle (he rode his around that day)...miss susan (daycare)..thank you DJ (his friend at daycare)...uh....COOKIES! cars...toys...dinosauuur! *at this point I said something about Jason & the Air Force* ...yea thank you mommy & daddy drivingggg....aand airplanes. Ok I done. Amen! *sign of the cross*

Jason & I looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh. It was the funniest and cutest thing. We weren't close to finishing the prayer, but it's okay if we just thank Him for our day. And in a way, Matti led the prayer. We praised him so much for participating in our prayer time and loved him up so much. That moment. Is one I will remember and it's the moment when we kinda looked at each other and said, "We're doing it. We're doing a good job."

He's a keeper.

Today marks another special day for us. Today, Jason will be enlisting again, but this time, he'll be going reservist. This is something he's always considered since getting out September 2009, and he's finally doing it. Sure, we'll have days&nights apart again, but I'm confident we will get through it. It will definitely be interesting since he went from Navy & this time around, he will be Air Force.

Day 2.

Lent started yesterday! This is one of my favorite times of the year...well except for Christmas, but I love Lent just the same.

I ended up going to Mass alone yesterday before work, but I just wanted to quickly write this down before I forget. I posted it on FB, but I know that'll soon get lost.

"Lent is not all about me, me me. It's about God & improving our relationship with Him. When thinking of what to "give up," think about what you can do MORE to strengthen that relationship. What can we do more?" Fr. Dave

Happy Lenten Season!

I'm pretty sure that's he's gonna be an awesome big brother. This is his baby cousin, Tony. & he loves to hold him.