School and Mickey!

A couple of weeks ago my friend asked me if I would want Dawson to go to this toddler preschool that her son goes to. It's twice a week for 3 hours a day and they do things like crafts, sensory activities, circle time where they sing and practice throwing a ball back and forth and stuff like that. Dawson is totally a people person and loves being around people, especially other kids so I told her we would definitely try it out. The first time that we went I stayed for the whole 3 hours. Not because Dawson wanted me to, he would have been fine if I had left at anytime but I just couldn't. I've never left him anywhere before besides my mom's house once or twice for an hour or two. We missed the next class because Dave had the day off and he has been gone or working long hours lately so we just wanted to spend some time together as a family. Last Thursday I took Dawson back to school. He was really excited. When we were getting ready that morning he kept saying "play with Landon" (that's my friend's son) so I decided to take some video of him.



And once we got to school he was excited to see Landon and they walked in together. :)



I stayed for the first 2 hours and then decided to leave when they had about an hour left. I really didn't want to... :( I cried. I ended up driving to Burlington Coat Factory which was right down the street from the school to browse around for a little bit. The hour went by pretty quickly and I was excited to go pick Dawson back up. When I saw him I started crying again! I missed my baby!

I haven't decided for sure if I want him to keep going. I know he has a lot of fun but leaving him is torture and worry about him. I think I want to try and find something that we can do together...some kind of toddler gym or something. I don't know. Me and Dave are definitely going to have to talk about it. I'm not ready to let my baby go, he's not even 2 yet!!

Today we took Dawson to the mall to see Mickey Mouse! They just opened a Disney store at that mall so they had Mickey and Minnie there to celebrate. We got there about an hour before Mickey was supposed to come out so we could get in line. I honestly expected there to be a long line already but luckily there were only about 15-20 people in front of us. We got there at the perfect time because right after we got in line the line started to really build up.

Before Mickey came out they told us that they were going to be moving the line quickly and each family was only allowed to take 1 picture. Once Mickey did come out I was surprised at how fast the line was moving! They weren't kidding when they said it had to go fast!

We let Dawson walk up to Mickey by himself. I love that he is not scared at all. Once he got in front of Mickey can you guess what he started doing? Dancing of course!!! It was awesome! The whole crowd was clapping and screaming for him. I didn't have the camera ready to take video because I thought we had to move quickly...they weren't rushing Dawson at all though!

Here he is dancing and Mickey started dancing with him...


Mickey thought he was too cute and started clapping and putting his hands over his mouth. :) Then he stood up to dance with him some more. (I so wish I would have taken some video!!! At least I snapped a few pictures.) Here they are dancing together some more...


I cut of Mickey's head but you can see that he put his hand over his heart. :) Dawson melts everybody's heart, he is such a sweet, cute kid!


Then Dawson gave Mickey a kiss.


And Mickey gave him one back.


We are so happy we were able to take him. Dawson loved seeing Mickey and me and Dave loved seeing Dawson so happy and excited. When I was getting Dawson out of the car once we got home he said "Mickey kisses" it was really sweet. I love how he remembers things now and thinks about what he did earlier.

I have an ultrasound on Wednesday! It's not until 6pm so that day is going to go by really slow for me I bet! I'm excited to see our baby again though. :) And if they tell us that we are for sure having a girl we'll tell everybody what we're going to name her. The lady that did the first ultrasound told us that she was sure that it was a girl, but I'm paranoid about everything. *lol*

About a week ago I started feeling her move a lot more. For a couple of weeks I thought I could feel her for a second but wasn't sure but this last week I am positive that I feel her moving around in there. In fact, when I started writing this post I felt 3 little kicks. :) She is defintiely getting stronger! I'll update again after the ultrasound and share the new pictures that we get and hopefully some video too!

Videos from the Park and Dawson's Halloween costume!

Yesterday was such a fun day! It so nice when Dave is home and we are able to do things as a family. We did a little shopping yesterday, went to look at some dogs at an adoption drive they had going on, went and bought Dawson a balloon, got his Halloween costume and then took him to the park to play!

Here are some videos from the park. He is so good at getting to the slide by myself and going down. It was so much fun to watch him and he was having a blast!




He went down the slide head first on his belly once, it was really funny (he doesn't go down very fast) and he came up with the idea all by himself. I wish I could have gotten it on video but I had no idea he was going to go down like that.

Here is some video of him swinging. He's a natural! He was leaning forward and backward when he was supposed to to keep himself swinging.





We went after dinner and it was starting to get cold so we only stayed for about 30 minutes but Dawson did not want to leave when it was time. He was having too much fun to care about getting cold I guess.

Earlier in this post I mentioned that we bought Dawson's Halloween costume. At first we were thinking that we wanted him to be a skeleton but yesterday when we were out looking at Halloween stuff we learned that he is scared of skeletons! He doesn't like any of the decorations that move or talk either. He wouldn't cry or anything but he would sort of lean back, put his hand up and say "bye!" It was pretty cute.

We headed over to Party City to get Dawson a balloon and decided to look at some costumes there, too. Me and Dave both liked this pirate costume and Dawson wasn't scared of it so we decided to get it. Before he went to bed last night we tried it on him... these are not the best pictures because I took them with my phone (I accidentally left our camera in the car after we went to the park). Me and Dave could not get over how cute he looked in the costume! And Dawson liked wearing it!!!

Now I must warn you... you are about to see an overload of cuteness. Prepare yourself. ;)


Isn't he the cutest pirate ever?!? The boots are a little big but Dave thinks we can trim them down a bit and make them look better. I am so happy that we went with the pirate costume, I can't wait for Halloween!!

It's a Girl!

Dave came home yesterday so we were able to go get a 3D ultrasound and we found out that we're having a baby girl! I'll post some pictures from the ultrasound and some video in this post too. She was moving around a lot at first and then she was really still for awhile, it looked like she was sucking her thumb! And then towards the end she started moving and stretching again. It was so neat to see her hands, fingers and feet!

Here is her cute little profile:


This is the top of her head and one of her hands.


Here you can see the side of her head, an arm and her legs pretty good.


And this one you can see the front of her face and both arms.


And of course the It's A Girl! shot. :)


And here is about a minute or so of the ultrasound where you can see her move around quite a bit. (I think she yawns at the beginning, it's pretty cute)




We'll be getting another ultrasound in about a month and that will just be the regular black and white ultrasound that you typically see. It's kind of neat that we will have both. :)

After dinner we went to Target to pick out a pink outfit and blanket. :) We haven't been able to shop for pink before so it was kind of exciting! Me and Dave picked out 3 outfits that we liked and then we let Dawson choose the one we were going to buy. We had him do it twice and he picked the same outfit both times so he definitely had his mind made up. :)

Here is what we got. :)


I know Dawson doesn't look very happy in the picture, but he was! He was laughing and having fun but I think when I said "Dawson, look at mama!" so I could take his picture he was like what?!?! *lol*

We are all so excited! Well, Dawson doesn't really know what's going on but I know he is going to love his baby sister when she gets here.