Pregnancy with a toddler around is exhausting… add in a growing business (yay!) and you get one tired momma at the end of the day who has no desire to blog. Big surprise, huh. And now, we are 17 days away from the arrival of our second boy which means my desire/time to blog will probably decrease exponentially. But… I’m going to make a big effort to really work on keeping up with you guys weekly. I want to do at least one Project 365 post, and one post with (hopefully) cohesive thoughts. I’m crossing my fingers 
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For now, here are the first week (or so) of pics for this year. Hope you enjoy!
Happy New Year! Jack has finally started actually smiling for the camera when we ask him to say “cheese”. And bring the cheese he does – every smile is a huge goofy one. He’s becoming quite the character.
After spending the weekend at my parents celebrating a belated Christmas, we came home to find the freezer door had popped open and all of our meat/frozen goods oozing out onto the floor. So not a good way to come home! I’m still battling a strange scent from some juice puddles I can’t seem to find. What upset me more than losing the meat and leftovers we had frozen, was the fact that we had just made a batch of homemade peppermint ice cream that I was so looking forward to enjoying when we got back. Ugh… still makes me mad. Stupid freezer.
If you didn’t know, my son is obsessed with cars. He has so many cars, there’s a basket in our living room full of matchbox cars, and an entire shelving unit in his bedroom closet full of larger cars. Granny and Grandpa gave Jack this cool rug for his bedroom for him to race all of those cars on. The kid can’t get enough.
Brushing teeth is a favorite past time in our house these days. Jack has gotten really good at it (mostly) and only needs a little help from mommy & daddy. He especially likes rinsing his brush off 15 times and pretending to spit into the sink.
Tonight, we went out to eat at Raising Cane’s. It looks like Jack is starting to throw a fit here, but really he’s just being a complete ham. We’ve decided that Jack is going to be the life of the party. He was laughing and dancing to the music and getting lots of attention and laughs from the people sitting around us. He definitely has his daddy’s personality.
Another morning at the Lincoln Children’s Museum. Jack has been pretend playing a lot more lately, and one of his new favorite things to do at LCM is to play at the pizza parlor. He likes to pretend to eat his “zaza” and sprinkle cheese and ketchup on each slice. Jack could play in there for a whole hour if I let him, but I can’t quite get my pregnant belly into the booth, so I usually suggest playing with something else after ten minutes!
Today, Nick and I had our last date before the new guy arrives. We had a great lunch at Red Lobster, and went to see “Black Swan” at the theatre. In between, we decided to brave the cold and head to the Haymarket to take some maternity pictures. I never did get a chance to have any official pictures taken when I was pregnant with Jack, and to be honest, we just don’t have the funds to get them done professionally (so expensive!). So, we decided that since Nick takes pretty good photos himself, we’d just have him take a few and see what came up. And I’m so glad we did it – I love how they turned out! (even though some make my belly look gargantuan!) If you’d like to see the rest, go here.
Well, that’s our first week of the year. Hope you liked it! And here’s hoping I don’t fall off the bandwagon again 
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Great photos. If you want to link up with my 365 you can.