Crazy Tennessee Weather

Finally over the cold, cold winter in Tennessee and it has been beautiful and in the 80's for the past month or so. We had a devistating flood this past weekend that left many people without a home and completely devistated many businesses and lives. We were thankfully not effected by this, but its very sad for all of those in shelters and without flood insurance who are left with nothing right now.

On to a brighter note: Gavin has been wonderful lately. Very happy and always trying new sports and new games. He is very talkative and can articulate what he wants very well. He usually wears big boy underwear and I would say he is potty trained. He has some accidents, but for the most part he goes on the potty. He is very excited to become a big brother. He talks about it often and he says he wants a 'baby sister', but who knows.

Gavin has had so many different sitters and nannys for the past several months I am happy to finally feel like he has a little structure. He goes to someone else's house Monday and Wednesday where we gets to play all day with his friend Camden who is right about the same age, and then on Tuesday and Thursday he gets to play at our house with his sitter Haley who takes good care of him as well. He seems happy with this arrangement and if Gavin is happy, mommy is happy.

11 Week Belly

I am a few weeks behind. I still need to take and post my 12 week belly as I will be 13 weeks on Friday. Here is 11 week belly.

Amazing... 11 and a half week old fetus.. mine

Baby #2 is on the way - 10 weeks pregnant

Gavin is going to be a proud big brother. I will start to document my belly as I did last time. I am not as thrilled about it growing this time. It is already much bigger than before, which I heard is normal after the first one.

Belly Pic and a Gavin Pic.

10 weeks, 3 days. I look like I did at 14 weeks last pregnancy. This was also right after eating dinner.

Gavin will be a big brother!

In case you didn't know, I am pregnant. I am due November 12th. I will know the sex sometime in June and can't wait to find out. We are very excited. I will start documenting my belly as I did the first time and I think I will do it in the same place I did my last blog, which is HollandBaby.blogspot.com

Update on The Holland's

Well we have been so busy trying to get everything in order that I have neglected blogging as usual. So I will update you all the best I can.

Gavin is now 22 months. He is talking a lot. He says 4 to 5 word sentences and can name colors and can count to 5 sometimes (1,2,5) lol.

He is very active and very happy usually, although he does throw many fits when he does not get his way.

Gavin is a very social child, he thrives off of attention, but does not like to share much with other kids at this point. He cries when other toddlers take whatever it is that he wanted at that moment.

We are trying to get ready for all of the family at christmas who are coming here to visit us. I have done some christmas shopping, although I still have more to do.

We are trying to settle in still, although we are still furnishing and putting up decorations around the house as needed. I really just need a little elf to clean up.

Gavin 20 months old. Settling in, in Tennessee

The last few months have been very busy for us. We moved in, traveled to New York, traveled to Indiana, and then started remodeling our home. Within the last 2 weeks we changed all the brass in our house to brushed nickel, including all the hinges on all the doors. We changed the showers, faucets, drains, light fixtures, hardware, you name it and we changed it. We even got granite counter tops and a new stainless steel sink. We have been very busy to say the least.

Gavin has been sick several times from his new preschool, however I have heard that it will build his immune system now instead of later. He had Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Step Throat and an ear infection at the same time, and several colds, all within a few months. Yuck!!

It is now fall and everything is cooling down. The only downfall is it has been raining a lot. Almost every day this fall.

Gavin's Milestones:

Gavin can now say 3 word sentences and is progressing very quickly. He knows his main colors, he can repeat any word you give him and he says things without being prompted such as "Where is daddy?" or "I want yogurt". He is very coordinated and climbs everything! He is still in his crib but we are thinking of moving him to a bed soon. He can name all main relatives from a picture without ever being reminded of who they are.

We have planned to go to the pumpkin patch several times but the weather keeps raining on us on the weekends.