Luckiest Boy in the World

This last week we have been busy moving things out of Ronins room to put laminate flooring down... so his bed was in our bedroom for a few days and of course he loved that.  When daddy was ordering padding off of amazon.com he accidentally ordered 3 moons... woops, I shouldn't leave things in "shopping carts" when I'm browing ;)  Although we didn't need 3 moons, we laughed since it was a very random mistake... and we kept one for Ronin's room since we are doing a "space" theme.  It's a light up, realistic moon with a remote control...  Ronin told me he's the "luckiest boy in the world" because he has a light up moon.  So sweet! 

Wednesday at Ronins swim class he dove for toys in the pool!  He was the only one in his class that got the ribbon that says "I got the rings from the bottom of the pool!"  his friends got the "I had a good torpedo" ribbon.  Ronin was so excited and proud of himself, he had to call daddy right away to tell him about his ribbon.  He even slept with it.

Our ultrasound on Friday went really well, the tech says the kidneys look fine now, although I have to wait for the official "okay" from the doctor.  And he's measuring exactly on date for his due date.  He's got a cute little profile and she said lots of hair too!

Quinn's profile -- the "smoke ring" looking thing is the umbillical cord.

Quinn's face, tilt your head to the right and you'll see...

Ronin asked me the other morning why his baby brother won't be able to walk when he's born.  Seems like a simple enough question... but I didn't have a great answer!  I just said because he's got to get bigger and build muscles first.  And he asked if I'll be able to pick up his baby brother and carry him.  I think he asked this because I tell him he's too heavy for me to pick up right now, so he's concerned about his baby brother.  I said after his brother comes I should be able to pick them both up with no problem.   He is still a bit confused as to why his baby brother can't have grapejuice or "food"... so I tried to explain that he'll get all his vitamins from milk for a while and doesn't need grapejuice or other foods...   Lots of questions from the big brother! :)

We finally got the laminate flooring done last night (Tuesday) in Ronins room -- it looks amazing!  I told Ronin that his friends will love to come play on his new floor with his toys and he said "Yeah, and I'll tell them my daddy worked really hard on it!"   What a sweetheart :)   Last night he also asked why I had two shirts on, so I explained that I "layered" my shirts, and he wanted to know what "layering" meant, so I told him - and he said "The next time I go to McDonalds, I'm going to layer lots of clothes on me and the kids there will say 'that boy is chubby!'"  haha  He cracks me up!

His new flooring :) 

He wanted the big box in the picture for some reason... (the lens is really dirty- so ignore the spots) We still need to paint a space mural on the blue wall, stay tuned for that project ;)

He put the face pieces on his monster and taped him to the front door. 

He's very excited to start decorating for Halloween... I told him we had to wait until this weekend though!

This morning we saw a fire truck and several police cars at a gas station we always pass, and we were discussing what was going on there.  He said it was probably a bully.  I said maybe, but fire trucks usually don't show up for bully's since they don't have guns.  His response was "yeah, but a bully probably doesn't want to get sprayed with water either!"   He had a point!  :)  Smarty!

My BIG 34 week belly--- ouch!

Lots of love,
C

Ronins stay-cation

This last week Ronin got to stay up late and sleep in late since Nana was here to watch him while Shelley took her vacation.  Poor nana had to endure hours of "Phineas & Ferb" cartoons and many refills on "warm grapejuice in a grapejuice cup who has a lid".  He also convinced her to let him have piece after piece of yummy zucchini bread she baked...

Wednesday was his usual swim class night.  He has a new teacher this season and it was his best class so far!  Luckily I brought the video camera, so I have to share some clips!  He's so proud of himself for doing the "torpedo" and putting his head under the water.  For the first time I heard him say he LIKES going under water.  This is a huge step! 

Doing the "torpedo"

Barbell on his back

Face in the water

Frog arms in the water

Barbell

Torpedo again

I had my prenatal checkup on Wednesday as well.  All is good and he was already head down, but I'm sure that changes a lot before the last month.  I'm supposed to drink more water and eat more often because I get a little dizzy by the end of the day.  We have another appointment in 4 weeks and then they go down to every other week... eek!  We are getting close!

Saturday Ronin and I went to his friend Trenton's dinosaur theme birthday party.  He got to jump on Trentons new trampoline, which he now wants for his birthday too.  Trentons mom, Shauna, made a volcano errupt in their backyard too, which was amazing to Ronin.  Okay, it was a little amazing to me too!



Trenton and Ronin



The trampoline

The errupting volcano

Sunday we went to Ikea with Grandma Jan and Grandpa Rod to get Quinn a little blue rug for his room.  Ronin found a stuffed rat that he said reminded him of the dead mouse daddy found in the yard and threw away. ew.  Needless to say, it's his favorite stuffed animal right now and carries it everywhere. 

The rat from Ikea

Ronin has decided that I'm not allowed to use "his" bathroom any more.  When I asked why he said because I "stink" it up!  I told him that daddy stinks it up too, and he said "no, daddy's pooh doesn't smell"   haha!  Disgusting and you can believe Rory agreed with Ronin on this one.  Rude boys!

He still seems to be afraid of Bigfoot and "Dust Bunnies" which is an effective method to keep him from crawling under tables and restaurants "the dust bunnies will get you!" and to get him to come in the house at night "I think I heard Bigfoot coming!".    I'm sure he'll be speaking to his counselor someday about these things...  ;)

That's about it for this week...  Thank you Nana for entertaining him all week!  and Thanks Rod & Jan for coming with us to Ikea - the 2 hour minimum shopping maze...  We all rolled on the new rug last night to test it's plushness.  ;)

-C

Some Ronin Videos...

When posting the swim class videos I had some other older videos I ran across... so here is a bunch of them!

Ronin dancing to Michael Jackson (July 2010 - 2 1/2 yrs old)

Rory and Ronin playing the piano (July 2010 - 2 1/2 yrs old)



Ronin singing his ABC's (July 2010 - 2 1/2 yrs old)

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (July 2010 - 2 1/2 yrs old)

Ronin singing ABC's and playing piano (Sept 2010 - 2 1/2 yrs old)

Ronin talking about green girlfriends (Sept 2010)

Ronin saying he has no time for me... (Sept 2010)

Ronin soccer class (Sept 2010)



Ronin singing about monsters (Jan 2011 - almost 3!)

Ronin playing in the snow (Jan 2011)

Singing to Syd the Science Kid (Sept. 2010?)

Ronin telling us about dreams (Sept 2011 - 3 1/2 yrs old)

Rabbits don't bark

The last 2 weeks have flown by...  Let's see...  Ronin got a huge bag of lincoln logs from a garage sale we went to a couple weekends ago.  This is very exciting since we could only build one house at a time with his first set.  Here he is smiling over his stash of logs...

He and daddy also tried camping in the yard that weekend since mommy didn't want to go camping while pregnant and needing several potty breaks during the night...  camping in the city isn't quite as peaceful though.  I guess they heard sirens and dogs howling all night and it got really cold so they were back in the house by 6am that morning.

Labor Day we got up early to go to Chuck E. Cheese while nobody else was there.  Ronin won 60+ tickets just doing a submarine game all by himself and got to pick out some prizes when it was time to leave.  We also went swimming in the river together that day... 

During the week he got to go to Oaks Park for the 2nd time with his babysitter Shelley, her son Sean, and my best friend Tracy.  He had a blast and I can't wait to go with him next year!

This week I was telling Ronin that summer is almost over and that fall is coming, the leaves would be changing, the weather would get colder and Halloween would be here soon.  He replied with "YAY, and THEN my baby brother will be here!"   He's so smart- he used to ask when his baby brother would be here and I would tell him not until after Halloween... and apparently he's made the connection and remembers that.  I didn't even think he was paying attention ;)

We did some crafts over the weekend, a stepping stone and some Halloween tombstones... he loves painting and creating things, such a little artist!

Nanna (my mom) is in town this week to watch Ronin while we are at work since Shelley is on vacation this week.  She made little Quinn his first quilt, it's soooo cute and the inside is really fuzzy and soft...  I love the silly owls, they are so cute!  Ronin loves it too but says it's for baby brother and he won't take it.  Which is a change since he keeps taking all the toys out of Quinns room.

A funny thing Ronin said this week... He has an "Alphie the Talking Robot" toy, and Alphie keeps asking you to learn or play with him a few times before shutting off.  We heard Ronin say "Be Quiet Alphie, I don't want to learn with you right now!"  ha ha!

He also told us he wished he had a rabbit instead of dogs because they don't bark.  He told Nanna that he has "marshmallow buns" the other day... that's my little pet name for his butt cheeks, apparently he thinks it fits him since he shared the information with Nanna.

Some weird Ronin-isms that haven't seemed to go away:  His fear of buttons.  He hates buttons on anything!  He refuses to wear pants or shirts that have buttons or anything resembling a button.  He won't even hug people if they have buttons!  He also hates wearing anything but "fuzzy pants".  Not sweat pants, but fleecey pants that are fuzzy both inside and on the outside.  I can manage to get shorts on him occasionally and sweatpants are still a fight but at least I can get them on him.  Jeans or overalls are absolutely out of the question.  He also has to have everything he drinks be warm... not cold and not hot, but warm.  "Can I have some warm grapejuice in a grapjuice cup who has a lid?" is a common saying we hear out of him. 

It's all kind of cute and for the most part doesn't seem to be harmful... of course 20 years from now we'll probably be on the news saying "we should have known..." while being interviewed about his extra-cirricular criminal activities... haha

Doctors appointment on Wednesday and ultrasound on the 23rd... pretty soon little Quinn will be making his way into these blogs :)