24 Weeks - December 2012

Our house has been a little chaotic lately... Fast growing, eating chewing, niping puppy (already 24 lbs) Crazy toddler, Christams prep and then add almost 25 weeks pregnant, but I wouldn't change anything for the world. Cody is in the full swing of the Christams season. He just loves everything about... the lights, the blow ups (his favorite) the characters and most of all the fun cartoon specials. He just can't get enough of watching Frosty and Rudolph...

Cody has been lucky enough to see 2x so far this Christams season. He's is definitely growing up. Both times he waited patiently in line until it was his turn. Lucky for us the lines haven't been to too lng. We first saw Santa at the Sand Tree Lighting (only in S. Florida) then we went Christams @ Yesteryear Village and saw him again. I just love watching the sparkle he has in his eyes. So magincal

K3 is the first year Cody is able to participate in his school's Christams pagaent. My Mom and I went and it brought tears to my eyes. Each class gets to sing and act 3 songs. Cody was right up front and did such a good job, then they bring the entire school out for a finally together. Just love watching him grow and learn

Cody's Christams Paegent

24 weeks

As for me... This pregnancy is really different then with Cody. Everything seems to be starting much earlier. Seems that baby girl has already settled on my sciatic nerves. Some days are worse than others but bad enough that I have to go to the Chirpractor 1x a week. Cody didn't effect me til well into 32+ weeks. Also the heartburn has started, not too bad but it is there. I'll take everything she gives me because it is such a blessing, but it still stinks while I'm going through it. It's going to be a long 15 weeks :) Oh... and i'm much bigger

Spartan Trocey Bautz

In the midst of all our miracle news, our beloved Trojan passed away in September. He had been really slow lately, had tons of accidents but still eating. One random Tuesday Craig came home for lunch and found him gone. I was hoping he would go in his sleep instead of us having to make the decision to put him down, so this was a blessing, but I really wished I had been the one to find him, not Craig. I came home immediately of course and we decided to have him cremated. I had never seen Craig so upset, but I knew this was how it would be. Trojan was almost eleven... ELEVEN. For a large breed dog this was very old and we had alot of great years with him, but he was Craigs best friend, and not easy to let go.

We decided we would wait just a bit to get another puppy, but not even 4 days later I came home to find Craig on the phone with a women who had Rotweiller puppies and they would be ready in 4 weeks. YIKES... Craig was so excited, this was the first time I had seen him smile in days. So 4 weeks later we picked up Spartan Trocey (what Cody called trojan) Bautz. Of course he had the biggest block head of all the puppies to choose from. Now 12 weeks old he is almost 23lbs. Man, I think this one will be bigger than the last. My hope is that he is fully trained when the baby arrives :)


Baby Spartan about 9 weeks old