Latest on our family.....mostly an update of Rosten for our families

We went night skiiing with some friends the first part of February at a ski place near our house.  Ryan is becoming quite the skiier and was able to take Rosten out on the bunny hill a few times.  It was pretty cute, and Rosten loved it.  We're starting him out a lot younger than either of us ever thought of starting. 

Rosten has a few new obsessions, one being trains.  Last summer we purchased a season pass to the dinosaur park in town, which included a pass to the train museum.  We took Rosten for the first time in February and he loved it.  They had a few little trains on tracks that you could follow around and he had Ryan running all over the place following them.  We'll definitely be going back soon, and also taking advantage of another part of the membership which is the airplane museum at Hill Air Force Base.

 On Valentine's Day, Ryan had the day off, so after Rosten was able to name 25 of the 26 animals in his ABC animal book, we took him to the Hogle Zoo (another annual membership we have). He loved seeing all the animals, and especially loved playing in Discovery Land.  Aunt Miss joined us for the excursion, which we all really enjoyed.  Rosten loves all his family so much!

 Here is another picture at the zoo.  Rosten had just finished saying, "raffe," or giraffe as most people would say.  He loved all the animals, especially the "wunkeys, eefants, and raffes"

 No your eyes are not deceiving you.  He is quite the little ladies man.  Since most all of my friends have girls, that's who Rosten plays with.  This is my friend, Marchaan's daughter.  They love to kiss each other.  It's pretty funny actually.  We went to dinner a few weeks ago, and we almost had to pry them apart because they just love to kiss.  It's cute, but a little worrisome for both sets of parents.  What will we have to deal with in the future???

 Rosten is definitely a momma's boy.  He loves me to hold him, love him, and he loves to pull my cooking stuff out of the drawers and bang it together.  It is cute though.  I may never have a girl, so if he wants to help me cook, I'm okay with that.  He is a daddy's helper too.  He makes us so happy.  Don't get me wrong though,  He can be the devil! Just ask me 5 out of the 7 days of the week and I'll tell you just how devilish he can be!  ;-)

Another obsession is dinosaurs.  There is a cartoon called "Dinosaur Train," that he has watched a few times and now he loves them. Just this morning he was singing the theme song to the show.  I can't get him to sing any other song with me, but he'll sing dinosaur train.  Silly boy! We had taken him to the Dinosaur Park several times before, but just the last week we took him, and he loved it.  In the picture above, he's saying hi to the hairy dino.  Daily we get a request for "dinasoar pawk."  We're hoping the weather cooperates so we can take him tomorrow.

Playing at the Dinosaur Park.  He prefers the slides.  No pictures of that though.  It takes two of us to make sure the little dare devil gets up the steps and down the slide without killing himself.

They have speakers set up throughout the park that make dinosaur noises, and in the picture he's leading daddy towards louder noises.

Our little miner (at least that's what we think it is?)

 I love these two so much!  I'm one lucky lady!!

I took this picture about the time Rosty realized what was behind him.  As soon as I snapped the picture he was running into my arms saying, "momma, scawy(scary)!"

Last obsession, CARS!!  I think I have seen that movie over 500 times now.  I about can't handle even hearing it anymore.  We went to the mall, both yesterday and today, just so Rosty could play on the cars.  This particular one happened to have a dog as well, which he absolutely loves.  What a little ham!

 "Mommy, car says VROOM, VROOM"

I tried to add our ultrasound picture from this week, but for some reason was unable to get it to load, so this one is from January 21st.  The baby as of Monday, is measuring at 28 weeks.  The doc says everything looks great.  Less than 3 months left!  We're so excited to have another little guy in our house.  Ryan is convinced this one will have his nose, so we'll see.  He and his family have told me how strong his families' genes are, then he'll look at Rosten and say yours must be stronger, so we'll see whose strong genes win out this time.  Hopefully he'll be as much fun as his big brother. 

Finally the last picture.  I thought I should throw in one picture of my since I always get ragged on because I'm usually behind the camera.  This is me about 3 weeks ago at 25 weeks.  I'm going to be 28 weeks tomorrow.  Hello 3rd trimester!!  I'm thinking the baby will come early, but we've decided until the doc tell us we need to be induced, we just going to hold out and wait for him to come no matter when he comes.  Rosty likes to point at my belly and say "bruder."  He's finally past the stage of lifting my shirt to look at my belly which I am very grateful for!  One more story about Rosty.  Last week he crawled up on the bed as we were laying there.  He sat on my lap facing me, and had a book and was telling his little brother all the things in the book.  He would say, "Was dis? an eefant, bruder. Was dis? a ball, bruder. Was dis? a buket bruder." (translation: What's this? An elephant, brother. What's this? A ball, brother. What's this? A bucket, brother) It was so cute.  Then he would kiss the belly and say "Wuv u!"  I think he's going to be such a good big brother, when he's not teaching his little brother to do all the naughty things he does. ;-)

Hopefully, I'll be better about updating this thing more often.  I hope you enjoyed the update.