Growing

You know when it is spring time because many little things begin to grow, sprouting up from a tiny seedling to something bright and beautiful. I love seeing the flowers grow and trees blossom but lately for me, the focus has been more on how much our little man is growing! You know the phrase growing like a weed? Well he is...but the good kind of weed of course. Here he is at Easter very happy about his findings. Doesn't he look so grown up? It kills me. But at the same time I am so excited for him to be a big brother and let him pass on the baby torch to the new little Steinberg on the way, which by the way is also growing...and kicking...and bringing so much joy already.

Even harder to believe is how Korban went from this......

To this!

He was very much posing for me by the way. I guess he was in the mood for pictures because he made the same pose for several of these photos. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised because when you water things with love and attention they are bound to grow, and it is pretty hard to ignore this guy.

Heart Day

I know it was weeks ago but I had to share all the fun and mess we had for Valentines day. I found a craft that Korban could do with me and enjoy. He loved crumpling the tissue paper and tossing them into the bowl on the table so much that he wanted to dump them out and do it allover again...Thanks for the help little man but mommy will finish the rest.

The finished product was pretty cute too.

I even tried my hand at baking a cake, not out of a box, and using fondant instead of frosting for my boys. With some frustrations and I'm sure mis-measured ingredients, it turned out pretty tasty but surely nothing Cake boss worth...sorry Buddy. All in all the fondant was fun to work with though hard to shape without cracking a little section here or there but it was nothing that couldn't be masked with a few fondant hearts.

The Funny Things You Do

Looking through some of our photos from the past month, I had to smile. Korban does the silliest things and finds joy in the simplest things that it really makes me think that maybe I am not enjoying enough of the simple things in life lately. Oh to have the innocence of a child.

For example, Try wearing a bucket on your head and riding your giraffe like a race car around the kitchen island. Doesn't that sound like fun?

Or just plop down in the middle of your kitchen with a bowl of blueberries and enjoy each and every one.

Find a cozy hiding place full of toys meant for your

little cousins and just sit for a while.

Take a few moments to walk in someone else's shoes even if they are too big for you.

Of course I would not do these things exactly because when a child does it, it's cute and adorable and picture worthy. But if it

were me my husband might question his wife's mental stability and recommend I get out more and socialize with a more adult crowd.

However I have nothing against sitting on the

kitchen floor with a bowl full of ice cream, with blueberries on top, and

enjoying it completely.

My apologies if the text is a little choppy....I'm not happy with blogger tright now:(

Amazing June

I think everybody is entitled to a few proud moments in their life, right? I mean their is your wedding day, all your childrens firsts, job promotions and what not, but I have another one to share. I know I have spoken of these beloved people to some of you before and can't help but feel my heart swell at the fact that they brought and still bring so much fun and joy to children and even us still today. My Grandparents Ray and June A.K.A. Bampa and Grandmommy to us grand kids, were involved in some of the first cartoon animations that we still watch today. Recently Grandmommy (June) was interviewed for the magazine "Vanity fare" . It was all about the "women behind the men" in Walt Disney's animation studio. I always understood that it was hard tedious work and all but my goodness! I was exhausted just after reading the article! So many young women painted countless cartoon cells from literally "sun up to sun down" as one woman was quoted saying. Some even fainted from sleepiness and longed for the "Snow White" movie to just be done already. And if some of you are wondering if the women in or around Hollywood really did dress as cute and glamerous as they appear in the black and white movies...yes they did. Every single picture I have seen of Grandmommy, even while holding a baby, she looked fabulous!

I am glad that those women like my grandmother were not forgotten and I will never watch another old Disney movie the same, I will pay attention to every little detail that was carefully created by the hard working women who sat so many hours behind a desk just to make us a love story and fairy tale.

I love you Grandmommy and of course Bampa too, behind every strong man is a supportive and hard working woman:)

The Bookie And Nugi

Something I have been meaning to blog about lately. The Bookie and the Nugi. These are two of Korban's very treasured things. Every child eventually develops a name for the pacifier and blanket AKA the Bookie and the Nugi. I can't quite remember when he actually started calling them those specific names but they stuck, and so that is what they are. Bookie derived from mom's term of Binky and nugi derived from mom's term of snugly. I think it's adorable even though some parents out there might poo poo the whole thing. There is nothing wrong with having a corking device when a child is getting restless in the store or a soft and cuddly snugly to rest his little head on when he is tired and falling asleep in the cart. That is the first part of my case. The second.....if he had chosen to suck a thumb or any of his other adorable little fingers, I can't ever take those away! I didn't want that to happen but as every other little boy, he is growing up, starting to potty train, and doing all sorts of wonderful little boy things and eventually the bookie and nugi will have to mysteriously disappear. Do you remember your favorite thing as a toddler? I had a blanket once and I don't miss it. All that's left of it now is a tiny satin corner that I used to scratch with my fingers. But to this day, now don't laugh, if I have a blanket on the bed with satin trim, I will still scratch it with my fingers the same way I did when I was a little girl. Weird I know.

Peanut

Well here He or She is folks. This was our first ultrasound that we had done a few weeks ago which puts me at about 12 weeks along now and beginning to show too! I know it looks like a blurry little blob but I think it is the cutest little peanut ever especially when I witnessed it wiggling around so much it looked like dancing. It is just a miracle to me that at nine weeks you can see little arm nubs and legs all curled up just waiting to kick me in the tummy some day soon.
My midwife has determined the due date to be August 4Th. August 4Th! I am so not prepared for what a hot summer it is going to be! Praise God we have a pool where I can float aimlessly about to relive the not too anticipated elephant ankles.

I don't know if any of you out there have had the wonderful stomach bug going around lately, you know the one where even an ice chip won't stay down? If you haven't then consider yourself oh so blessed. Me on the other hand....not so happy this last weekend. It hit me like a ton of bricks! I was sleeping just fine after a wonderful outing to the movies and dinner with some friends of ours and wamo...puke city. This is new to me during a pregnancy. I never had morning sickness with Korban and I have not had any problems yet with this one, but I knew it was not morning sickness. After a full day Saturday of putting up with the horrible reoccurring yukiness, we were advised to go to the emergency room to get checked out. Two IVs, one dose of anti nausea medicine and an hour nap later we went home. Cursed for a day with sickness but blessed our little peanut was way o.k. We Even got to see our little baby on a sonogram pretty close to its face. Let me just say this is one cute little baby...oh my I can't wait to see him or her in person. I mean I could see the eyes and nose and little lips! Too cute.
We are all well and rested now feeling pretty much back to normal and praying this does not happen again EVER.
And let me just give a shout out to my man who took such good care of me and Korban....your awesome!

Hey Baby!

Well break out the maternity clothes and put away the skinny jeans....this little mama is having another baby! Woohoooo! That's how I felt when the test, two tests, came up positive. We couldn't be more thrilled at the wonderful little bundle that will come into this family in...August? An ultrasound on the 29th should give us a better estimation but August is my guess.

I had to keep it a secret for one night from Josh because I wanted to try a different test to be sure. I could hardly sleep that night and scurried about the next day to find a "Big Brother"

T-shirt for Korban to ware when Josh walked in the door from work. Apparently those shirts do not exist at Target or Babies R Us so my search ended. Thankfully A white t-shirt and some sharpies saved the day and we made our own, (wish I had thought of it sooner and saved the trip). Needless to say the look on Josh's face was priceless and Korban was just happy to see him home. Even more priceless was the Grandma's reaction to the whole thing. I think I may need permission to post those videos on here but they were pretty funny. Hopefully the next post will include an ultrasound picture of the new Steinberg baby. Love to you all and Merry Christmas!