Kotter Family

A couple weeks ago, Julie and Julisa threw a baby shower for Kryssi.  I wasn’t there (except at the end for some pie, which was great) but Kryssi had a great time and was very thankful to both Julie and Julisa for the time and effort put into the shower.  We got a bunch of nice clothes, as well as a lot of blankets.

This was the “cake” they had at the shower.  Julie made it out of a bunch of different baby items.  Most of it was made up of diapers, but there are wash clothes, a pacifier, bottles, toys, etc. that make up the rest of it.

Here are the various clothes that we got.  Kryssi was happy to get some nice girl baby clothes.

The blankets that Kryssi got.  There is a lot of them, and we got a lot with Lucas, but they are all nice.  I believe most, if not all of them are homemade, or handmade, however you want to look at it.

The baby blessing dress that Kryssi’s sister Katie made for her.

Well summer has come to a close and I am back in school.  I was excited to start again, as I’m anxious to learn more and grow my skill set.  This will be my third semester and after this one I’ll have one more to go.  It wasn’t looking like it would be a very hard year but I ended up adding a class that normally would be taken next semester.  It’s called Supervised Work Experience and it is basically just an internship.  One came up and my teacher gave me the option to do it so I decided I might as well.  So that makes my schedule a lot busier!

Kryssi is getting closer to the end of the pregnancy, which is really hard to believe.  Time has just flown by!  Her due date is Oct. 19th, so not many more weeks left to go.  So far everything has been going great, no real issues.  She’s had problems with heart burn lately, so hopefully we can find something that will help with that.

Lucas is growing and changing every day it seems.  He is so smart and seems to learn new words every day.  He is always making us laugh and we love having him around.  That was the hardest part of going back to school, leaving him here.  But it is wonderful to come home and see how excited he is.  He has such a wild imagination and he seems so much smarter then I’d ever expect a 2-year old to be.  I think we’ve finally got him sleeping in his toddler bed for naps as well as at night.  He hasn’t slept in his crib for a while, so that is good.  We are working on potty training him, which is coming along fairly well.  He loves using his potty, and even tells us sometimes he has to go.  I think if we worked a little harder at it he’d be trained fairly fast.

Lucas with his cheesy grin sitting on his chair he got for his birthday.  He has a new shirt on that was part of a bunch of older clothes Great Grandma brought us that were stored at their house.

Lucas was taking some pictures with the camera (one of his favorite things to do) and he wanted pictures of himself taken so this is what we got.

Lucas dressed up in his Superman costume from last Halloween.  It’s small on him but he has been in a Superman/superhero kick lately.  He watched The Incredibles, and since then he’s loved pretending to fly around as Superman.  I reminded him he had a costume, so he had to have it out and try it on.  He flew around in it for a while.  It was pretty cute!

A recent picture of Kryssi.  You can’t really see her pregnant belly at this angle but it is there, trust me.  Everything is growing at a normal rate and hopefully this baby will be more then the 6 lbs. Lucas was.

Here are some more recent pictures of Lucas.  He is getting so big and it seems he is constantly changing.  He always makes us laugh, though, so we are a happy family!

Well it has been a long time since the last post, mostly I’ve been pretty busy but also lately our internet has not been working very good.  But a lot’s happened since the last post.  We celebrated 4th of July in Utah, which I’ll post pictures later.  Lucas turned 2 on July 14th, which I’ll post pictures of that as well.

We can’t believe how much Lucas is changing.  He just seemed to grow up overnight.  He has become very independent, and wants to do everything by himself.  Anytime you try and help him, that’s what he’ll tell you, “by myself.”  I guess it’s good he is learning how to do things, but it sure tests our patience as parents.

He loves to repeat whatever you tell him, which is a lot better then him constantly saying “hmm” which was his typical response to everything you asked him before, which he still does some of that.  So his vocabulary is growing more and more each day, which makes it a lot nicer for us to communicate with him.

We got a toddler bed for him, and have been working on getting him sleeping there instead of his crib.  He’s actually done pretty well since his birthday, but he still usually gets up and plays multiple times before finally staying and falling asleep.  Last night he actually fell asleep in front of the door, so I had to push him a little to get his door open.

We are also trying to get him potty trained, and he is starting to use his potty more and more.  He basically just likes dumping it in the toilet and then flushing it, but at least he’s using his potty some.  I think if we worked a little more on it he’d get the hang of it pretty fast.

It seems like there are a lot more things he’s been doing lately that are all pretty cool, but I can’t think of them right now.  He’s just a really funny boy and we love having him in our lives.  Kryssi is getting pretty far along in the pregnancy, and getting more and more uncomfortable.  So far everything is going great, which we are happy for.  She actually went to the dentist a few weeks ago and had one of her wisdom teeth taken out, and she gets the other one out this week, along with a bunch of cavities filled.  She actually recovered really fast the first time so let’s hope this second time goes just as smoothly.

GIRL!

We went to the doctor on Tuesday and had the ultrasound.  They said they can’t guarantee it’s a girl as good as with a boy, but she said she was positive it was a girl.  Kryssi wanted a girl so she is super excited.  I’d be happy either way but it will be nice to have a girl.  I must admit I’m more scared this time then with Lucas, since raising a girl puts me more out of my comfort zone, but I’m sure we’ll do fine as parents.

Below are some pictures from the ultrasound.  The first set is of the babies spine and then her foot (if you can see it).  The next set is of her hands.  She was being stubborn and was facing away from us the whole time, so we never got a profile view.  I don’t know if it’s a good sign that she’s already being stubborn!