I haven't updated this blog for months. So sad! Lets go through everyone in the family:
(Brandon took a pen to himself while waiting in the van for Daddy to get out of the motorcycle shop)
Brandon is now 4 years old and busier than ever. He's learning to ride his new bike he got for Christmas. He loves everything that has to do with dinosaurs or pirates. He's hungry ALL THE TIME. I'm nervous for when this kid hits teenage years. I hope Brian is an administrator by then! He's going to eat us out of house and home. He's finally getting excited about learning his ABCs. His brain thinks and learns differently than mine so I've had to be inventive and creative (thank goodness for pinterest) to help him stay interested in the alphabet.
(Malachi playing with his new drum he got from his physical therapist)
Malachi is growing and learning by leaps and bounds. I feel like everyday he is doing or saying something new, which is a nice change of pace for us! For the past year every milestone or achievement has been after weeks of work and lots of sleep lost on mommy's part thinking about how to help him. I'm still updating a blog for him at www.adventuresofbionicboy.blogspot.com because I don't want to turn this blog into everything to do with Malachi's CIs. I just posted something new over there this morning so go check it out! He's signing about 14 signs right now, and responses to a good chunk of them by sound too. He's starting to play with sounds more. He's babbling a lot, which is awesome! He's just figuring out that you "talk" on the phone and you actually hear something come out of it. He's also learning to love and understand music. He now gets that music is different from other sounds. We've had many dance parties lately and so far the favorites are Michael Jackson and Queen.
Right now I'm 13 pregnant with baby number three! This pregnancy has been particularly exhausting. My doctor said that most of the time when he sees women who are in their third pregnancy usually complain more of the exhaustion than the nausea. It seems to be that the morning sickness is starting to wear off a little, so here's to hoping that we're only a week or two away from it all being gone! My due date is September 11th (I know no one is ever going to forget that lol). I'm not really up to much else than just trying to keep up with the boys and try to keep the laundry going and keep the house clean.
Brian has been crazy busy as always. He teaches Spanish 2 all day, coaches track all afternoon, and working at the local rec on Saturdays. And this is probably his least busy time of year. He is still in the Stake Young Men's presidency and in our stake, this time of year during ward conferences means traveling several hours almost every Sunday. He also recently ran the Myrtle Beach Marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon AGAIN! But this time he cut more than 7 minutes off his PR. He ran a chip time of 3:01:03. He ran his heart out and I am just so crazy proud of him! Here is a video of him finishing his marathon :)