He's not a teenager anymore!

Happy 20 months!!!

Grandpa bought Mitchell his first Chiefs shirt, which he wears proudly despite the season outlook :) Mitchell is SO MUCH FUN lately. He is talking up a storm and starting to make little sentences. It's always so entertaining to see what's going to come out of his mouth next! He knows all of his little daycare buddies by name "Bye Bye, Brady" or "Good Morning, Piper." My dad thinks Mitchell acts like a politician as he leaves daycare, waving and giving high fives to all of the old people. :)

He continues to say so many things that make me think 'how did he know that?' He saw a number 8 on his jersey shirt the other day and promptly pointed at it and said "Eight". I questioned whether I heard him right the first time, but he was certain to tell me the same thing many more times. He's also learning his colors, the favorite seeming to be blue. He can pick out a few letters too. He realizes that books have pictures and words, but if I ask him what a word says, he always answers "hi". Apparently every word is a greeting :) Books and balls continue to be his favorite toys! Jacob's Mom (Gran) continues to send Mitchell fun new books, which he loves to read over and over! He memorizes little things about each of them, and can barely sit through the first few pages until we get to part that he remembers. And only he is allowed to turn pages now days, hands off Mommmy!

Our house constantly looks like a hurricane hit it. He's into EVERYTHING! He's so adventurous and curious! He's becoming really good at swimming! We visited the local baby last week a few times and he's crazy for the water slides, demanding absolutely no assistance from me...did I mention he's really independent these days? "I do it!" is a common phrase around here!

In the water, he crawls around using his arms and kicking his legs behind him and even tries to float on his back and kick his legs. He has learned what the word "pretty" means and will often tell me when ladies on magazine covers, etc are pretty. We had a cute lifeguard at the baby pool the other day and Mitchell pointed to her and told me "pretty". Of course the lifeguard heard him and got a kick out of that one. :)

He continues to dress himself in my undergarments at least 3 times per week. I have no idea what the fascination is, but we still get a kick out of it :)

He loves driving our cars. He knows which cars belong to mommy, daddy, grandpa, sherri, etc. As we're driving along, he'll often say "mommy is driving", etc and then demands to drive when I'm done.

Fall is my favorite time of year...beautiful weather, beautiful leaves, pumpkin patches, college football tailgates, etc! I CAN'T wait for Halloween this year, we've already started practicing "Trick or Treat!" The only bad thing about my switch into campus recruiting is that fall is now my busy season at work. Jacob's big Omaha job has a 9/30 year-end, which means he's also swamped this fall. We are struggling to merry up our travel schedules...and THANK GOD my dad and Sherri are always so willing to watch the little guy in a pinch! I also THANK GOD that he is so enjoyable to be around right now, so that they continue to look forward to spending time with him. :) Mitchell is also going to spend some of my busiest October times visiting my mom and David...should be a great arrangement.

So Mitchell and I have a weekend to ourselves...and we're going to do lots of fun things outdoors to enjoy the wonderful fall weather!

The new baby is growing nicely..I feel some fluttering now and then, but not yet enough to confidently say that I can feel him move yet! We have our sonogram appointment rapidly approaching (September 14th). I'm still convinced it's a boy, but we'll see! It's hard to believe the pregancy has almost reached the half way point...it's going so fast! I continue to have very few pregnancy symptoms and have had a really good experience again, so far!!!!