Odds and Ends

We've been pretty boring around here this week so I don't have a whole lot to blog about. I thought I'd just do a quick update and post a couple pictures.

Me:
I'm doing much better than I was! I'm 14 weeks along and the morning sickness is definitely tapering off. I'm still very tired a lot but I'll take that over how it was around weeks 7-10. My kids aikido classes start back up later this month. I have scaled back to once a week for the time being. I actually didn't really want to do the toddler class again (just have my older kids class and my adult class) because it's exhausting and I feel like I'm doing a terrible job but I found out that almost all the kids who were coming are coming back--how cool is that? Plus, every time we go to school now Autumn asks, "when we going to my kido class?" :) So, if anyone has any tips or tricks or activity suggestions for toddlers (we don't just do aikido--we sing, count in Japanese, act like different animals, stuff like that), I am all for them!

Oh! And I just realized I haven't posted many photos from our session with Elizabeth in November so...here are some of those:


Mike:
Mike has been very busy with work and side work. He's started working a 7am-4pm shift which means he misses rush hour but also means he wakes up at 5:30am! I am NOT an early riser so I will pass on that! He's also been going to a different side job every night. It's a huge blessing and I'm really thankful for his technical skills and for his clients. Mike has also been a little sick late this week with some sinus stuff. Poor him. Autumn has the same little bug so they are very pitiful together today. Mike is on my happy list because he got me a papa john's pizza for lunch today. I have been wanting one for a couple of weeks now so I am very grateful for that little splurge. Thank you, Mike!


Autumn:
She's a little sicky. Poor thing woke up in the night sick and coughing. She's mostly fine in the day. Plays, then snuggles, then plays, then snuggles. Haha. She and Mike just had some monkey and papa sniffle and snuggle time on the couch watching football. I think she's going to be fine in a couple days. Other than that, she's doing great. Loving her new Christmas toys. She likes to pat "her baby." She'll say, "is my baby still growing in there?" She's talking up a storm and mostly really well. One of my favorite things she says is "very, very" except it comes out as "werry, werry" like, "that is werry, werry pretty, mama." Oh! And she bought me a bracelet. :) Autumn, Aunt Lauren, and Lainey were out and about last week and, I don't know whose idea it was, but Autumn ended up getting me a gift. Lainey says Autumn went up to the sales lady and told her that the door was locked but she needs to see the colors for her mama. Later, Autumn said, "I got you a present! I want you to open your bracelet." Hahaha, toddlers are not so good at surprises, huh? It was sweet.


By the way! Click here and see this pic of Autumn from Donnie and Liz's wedding. I'm going to have to order a big one to hang and like 20 small ones to give out. :D I was looking at it and recognized Landon and Tamara in the background immediately. I didn't realize it was me, too, until I thought, "hey, those are cute shoes...oh, wait, those are my shoes." There's also a blog post with some more wedding pics.

I think that's enough for one Sunday night! I will leave you all with a pic of Autumn having tea with her babies:


Have a great week, everyone!