It's been a long time since I have picked up my computer and blogged and just did it all on my phone app. which I then don't end up REALLY blogging. So here is a REAL blog with probably lots of pictures, we'll see if I'm up to all of it.
Lets start with my wonderful husband Tanner:
He is now working for customer loyalty for T-mobile call center. Unfortunately since this was a new job in a new department he ended up having to do closing shifts for 6 months. So he would leave for work at 1:30pm and not get home until about 12am. Which really messed with all our sleeping schedules. He now has a new shift which is 4-10 hour shifts so he works; Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday... from 10-9 so he's home about 9:45pm which I prefer so much more! We have a love hate relationship with this schedule we love it because I get him all to myself Tuesday, Thursdays, and Fridays. We hate it because well church is at 9am Sundays. he leaves for work at about 9:15am to be at work by 10am. So needless to say he'll be inactive in our ward for the next 6 months :-( Luckily though there is a church super close to the call center so on Sundays he leaves like an hour earlier so he can get to their sacrament and take the sacrament and sit for a talk or two before he heads to work. That I'm glad about because with the Boise temple now closed for at least a year we can't get down to Twin Falls to go do sessions there. Having a kid kind of makes it harder that's a long time for a babysitter and well really I don't trust anyone with my kid besides grandparents. Anyway so with him on this shift go figure he didn't get a new shift until after school started and so we didn't know what schedule he was in because he wasn't going to just get the first one he picked so he wasn't able to sign up for pictures. Hopefully next semester he can get back into school. Can I just express how much I love my husband? he sacrifices so much for us so that I am able to stay home with our son and soon be be daughter. Hopefully soon though things can get all figured out and he can do all he wants and needs, and gets a job he loves.
Next me;
Well I am 33 weeks pregnant. The time has seemed to go fast yet slow ALL at the same time. However I'm ready for it to speed up and get it all over with. Being pregnant with a toddler isn't easy, I just find myself all the time tired, and not being able to do all the things I want to do with Joseph. Plus I'm one of the unlucky ones that gets the lovely morning sickness all 9 months instead of just the first few. My morning sickness has hit hardcore again. It never fully went away but it did ease up to where I was only sick in the mornings. But whats one to do? I wanted all this again I guess I shouldn't complain to much. So it turns out with your second kid because your muscles aren't as strong as they are with the first one you end up carrying lower and I just feel like everything is bruised as of late. Bummer. But Lucy (what we are naming our daughter) is one strong little girl! :-D So Tanner and I were talking and well because of work there isn't really much of an option for me just going into labor on my own if I want him and my mom there (who also works at T-mobile) I am one of those girls that can't do it with out my mom. I want her there to help me walk and hold my hand when I'm in labor. Anyways so Lucy is due Nov. 5th but we have needed to talk to my OB about induction earlier because well I want my husband and mom there so we needed long in advance for them to get time off of work. Well Joseph turns 2 on Nov. 9th and I kind of wanted their birthdays some what spaced. My husband being as fun as he is requested a Halloween baby. So we talked to the OB and he will induce me early morning on Halloween. I know I have friends who aren't for induction and epidurals but you know I did it with Joseph and everything went fine, and we feel it's best for this next one too. So come Halloween we'll (hopefully) have our little girl with us. Tanner and I are kind of in shock and excited at the same time. Why we are in shock you ask? Well, our (mostly mine and Josephs hospital visit wasn't exactly a grand experience. I never got medicine when I needed it. No nurses helped me with Joseph like when it came time to feed if my mom wasn't there I would of had No idea what to do. No help what so ever. When it came time for Josephs pediatrician to check on Joseph they didn't contact him until HOURS after I asked them. They said we could go home at like 5pm. Well 8pm came and they were then trying for the pediatrician to come. Then go figure they discharged us at 11:45pm. Lovely huh? I'm tired, SORE, grumpy, and scared. We're new parents. It was COLD middle of the night and we are leaving the hospital with our newborn baby. All I wanted to do was go home crawl into bed and sleep... well guess what? that didn't so much happen, Joseph was screaming non stop. I was in pain and emotional, Tanner was in pain and emotional and we found ourselves just not happy with each other. He wanted to help but of course neither of us really knew what to do with this little 6lb baby. I couldn't get him to latch on right and I was frustrated. We were living with my parents at the time waiting to move into our new house that we had just got approved for the day before my mom said that she would help me whenever I needed it but I just felt bad. She had stayed with us in the hospital the whole time we were there and didn't sleep much because anytime Joseph cried, she was more then willing to get up with him in the middle of the night so I wanted her to sleep. But with him non stop crying and me with NO sleep at 5am I ended up bawling to my mom begging for help and sleep which more then willing she did. (she's the best) Our good friends who aren't parents yet just asked us to be truthfully honest and what was the thing that we didn't expect and was the worst for us. We both just said the first night home. Anyway well Tanner and I are just not looking forward to the whole hospital experience again. But this time there is new management and I know what to expect and will be more demanding on when it comes to help and won't let them discharge us so late. I did tell my mom this time around she doesn't have to stay the night with us. She has a week off to help, and my sister Nikki comes to town for the first week also. The in laws will take Joseph for us for a night or two and will take him trick or treating which will be great, we won't have to worry about him to much. That's pretty much all "new" with me. Just waiting for little Lucy to make her appearance! I still can't believe I'll be doing it all again. The nursing, the midnight feedings, the burping, the figuring out what they want they need. Yet I'm excited!
Now for our Jo Jo Idaho Potato
He went from This... 
To this in what seriously seems like a Blink of an eye
Seriously what happened to my little boy? How is he already 22 months? he's going to be 2!!!! He is talking SO much. Tries to copy all the words I say, he knows animals pretty good and what noises most of them make. It kind of makes me sad how fast he's growing up. So he LOVES babies loves holding them and pretending to take care of them. I know he's going to be a great big brother. However I don't think he really understands what changes are going to come up. He is SUCH a mama's boy and soon he's going to have to share me with his little sister. When I ask him where Lucy is he'll tap my belly and give it a kiss but always has a look like "um mom that is not a baby" we'll see what he thinks once shes out.So being a parent its a learning experience as you go. I now know what to watch what I say. I got sick of Joseph calling my boobs "babies" all the time and I would just say "no that's a boob" well guess what his new favorite word is? yeah you guessed it BOOBS. woops. he points at mine all the time. Points at ladies and says "boobs, boobs, boobs" woops. whats worse is when I take my bra off, he some how gets a hold of it and it ends up on his head and he walks around the house going "boob hat, boob hat" yeah um.. ooops. It is pretty funny but its embarrassing when it is in public that he starts talking about boobs. So fyi parents just watch what little things you say because it could become your kids favorite words to say. Josephs new obsession is HATS, he LOVES the Toy Story movies and loves woody. His birthday theme is going to be Toy Story and I'm going to make his side of the room kind of Toy Story themed. I don't mind to much because I actually wanted him to love Toy Story but we took him to the 3rd movie in theaters and since then he LOVES it. It's pretty cute. and he LOVES hats like I said but he chooses bowls, and buckets to be his hats but will walk around all day long with something on his head. If he falls he'll start crying and I'll be all worried and check on him. Guess what he was crying about? yeah his hat fell off. and he just goes "hat, hat, hat, hat" but once he gets it back on he's good to go. Luckily its not so bad that he doesn't have to sleep with a hat on.
Alright I wrote like a novel. most of it just rambling so I'm going to get off. Thanks for reading!
P.S. Oh I didn't mention that for the first time ever Tanner and I are reading the Harry Potter books. (about time yeah i know) But we LOVE them!!! We are in the middle of the 5th book and are wishing we had more time to just sit and read with each other. Once we finish them up, we're going to do a little Harry Potter movie thing. and I'm going to learn how to make butter beer haha. I hear its yummy... oh question that I have in the books is it real alcohol for them? Dobby the elf just talks about Winky getting drunk and Tanner and I don't know if its real beer or not. Anyways. just had to share that!
Joseph being a goof with daddy's hat 
