Baby #2 Update 2

Robyn's been feeling a bit exhausted recently and had some contractions Friday while she was being monitored. As a result, the doctor wants her taking it easy and resting 2 to 4 hours a day. Needless to say, this is not the easiest thing to do with active Jackie running around and while she is trying to finish up her last script. Over the weekend, she was able to rest and at least not be on her feet much. This seemed to pay off as she has felt much better the last two days and had only one contraction while being monitored today. That is great news and means we're less likely to have to have the baby earlier than we'd planned. She goes to a different doctor on Friday to have the baby measured again. As long as the baby's growing well, we'll be able to wait at least another week to have the baby.

Baby #2 Update

We're down to the last three weeks now and we're certainly ready for the little girl to make her appearance. Well, we're not quite ready as we still need to do some rearranging in the house and buy a few things, but we're excited nonetheless. Jack is getting excited as well and was talking about how he will get to show the baby how to do things and will get to hold her. He also likes reading his book about being a big brother. His future baby sister still does not have a name yet, although we've narrowed it to two.

Below are some pictures of Robyn and the new baby to be, in utero! We found out from the doctor last week that the baby is a little on the small side, so he wants Robyn to try to take it easy and to get monitored at the hospital twice week. Everything looks ok so far, but we'll need to keep an eye on how well she is growing.

Trip to Palm Springs

Two weeks ago, we went out to Palm Springs for a weekend of relaxing before the baby comes. Although Robyn is winding down her last quarter at UCLA and needs to finalize her last two scripts, it seemed like a good time before things really get busy. We got in Friday afternoon after a quick stop at the outlet malls and spent most of the weekend relaxing. Robyn got a motherhood massage and Jack & I went to an outdoor zoo called the Living Desert. One of the attractions is the largest model train set I have ever seen. It's HUGE! I didn't think I was going to be able to get Jack away, but eventually we went to see the giraffes, zebras, bighorn sheep, etc.

One common activity was feeding the ducks that were outside our room. Jack had an absolute blast chasing them and having them eat out of his hand. On Sunday, we couldn't leave until we fed the ducks which turned out to be more work than we thought since most of them were hiding from the wind. Eventually we found some on the 18th fairway of one of the golf courses and managed to feed them while staying out of the way of golfballs.

Jack Riding His Bike and Trike

One of Jack's new favorite hobbies is to ride his tricycle or bicycle (depending on how he feels). He's getting good at both of them and likes riding around the backyard or around the neighborhood. He rode is bike over to his friend Zion's house which is about 6 blocks away! Oh yeah, and he likes to ride in his footed jammies.

Jack's Third Birthday Party

On February 9, Jack celebrated his third birthday. Yep, hard to believe he's three, but he is! The party was at a place called Joey's Gym, which is a big play place. Jack, Mommy, Daddy, Nanny, and Poppy all got there early to setup which gave Jack lots of time to play on the equipment before the other kids got there. He loved that and by the time the kids started showing up, he'd already started sweating. The kids ran and played and followed along with a bunch of games. After playtime, they had cheese quesadillas, rice and beans (all of which Jack declined in favor of fruit and cheese). For the cake, Jack wanted ice cream cake with the Cars theme and a big Lightning McQueen on top. He loves ice cream, but still doesn't really like the cake part.

Baby #2: It's a Girl!

We're excited to announce that not only are we having another baby, we found out today that it's a girl! We are really excited for her anticipated arrival on April 6. Above is a picture of the beautiful girl.

Halloween

Ok, so we're not as timely with the postings as I would like, but at least I didn't go three months between postings this time.

Last week was Halloween and we took Jack over to his friend's house for a little trick or treating and a lot of running and playing. He had two potential costumes and tt took a bit of coaxing, but he eventually opted for "Mater" from the Cars movie.

At his friend Zion's house, the kids (mostly boys) ran around for a bit, as boys tend to do, and then the dads took all of the kids trick or treating in the neighborhood. He was hesitant at first, but then soon learned that if he went up to the house, they gave him candy. Pretty soon he was running out ahead of me with his little green jack o' lantern dragging behind and yelling, "there's another one Daddy!" He also learned that if you just kept standing at the door amongst a crowd, the owner of the house would sometimes forget that they had given you candy and would give you another piece. We hit pretty much every house we passed with the exception of one where the owners had gone all out on the decorating. I'm talking smoke machines, giant spider webs, tombstones, and some sort of goblin booth at the front of the house. Jack stared at the house for at least minute and then said he wanted to just go to the next one.

In the end, he got tons of candy, which I think he has sort of forgotten about, and had a great time.