Nickerson News

One being I feel too sick to blog.

This little one is sure putting its momma through a lot of pain. Some nasty heartburn & indigestion type of pain. I had no idea it could ever get this bad. I got heartburn with both my other pregnancies but it wasn’t till like the 7th or 8th month and it wasn’t this bad or all the time.

Somehow even though I run 2 miles almost every day and am faithful at my Pilates and Zumba classes and look at food and want to run, I still have manage to put on around 5lbs. I hate this chubby stage and I think will welcome a cute bump. Hopefully, it will be cute. I sure don’t feel cute and round right now.

Work is picking up and thankfully the Lord has given me the strength to get through my sessions.

I’m behind on posting some pictures…my little girl is finally getting hair and with the start of the humidity and heat, curls now sprout on top of her head. (no pictures of that yet since these were all taken a few weeks ago).

I got addicted to leggings when she was stuck in her brace. I can’t help myself and she looks so cute in them.

I probably should not post this, but it is too funny not to. We are in the slow stages of potty training. She trains when she wants to and we don’t push it. Some days it is like “wow, girl you got this” and other days she could care less. It would be a super awesome gift if she was trained by baby #3′s arrival.

I guess I should probably tell you Abel has picked out his names for the baby. If it is a girl, he wants her name to be Essi and if it is a boy he wants “X-0″. (We told him right around Valentine’s day and he was seeing a lot of x’s & o’s and I think that is how he came up with it.) I actually kinda like Essi…So now we just call baby “EssiXo” Way too long of a nickname, but it stuck.

Storytime with daddy.

I’ve been working on a project for our church. Here is a little peak.

Abel and his buddies.

Since I was taking pictures of everyone else at church, I gave the camera to my friend and ask her to snap of few of my crew.

Don’t ask Abel to smile at the camera, because this is what you get.

What did I get myself into just 4 short months after my kitchen renovations were complete? We decided on a whim to get both bathrooms upstairs renovated. The problem is when you do updates in your house, you realize other areas in your home need to be updated (esp. if you live in a 1960′s pad). We’ve been wanting to do it for awhile but of course, it can cost lots of money for bathroom updates. Thankfully, we ended up getting a great deal that we couldn’t pass up. So, here we are in the midst of chaos….again. We have one toilet sitting in the hall and the other toilet sitting in our bedroom floor.

The front yard looked like this today. Thankfully, it has been cleaned up.

It is really hard keeping a busy toddler out of all the mess. Sage is obsessed with “Mr. Mark” the contractor and she asks what he is doing all day long. Hopefully, by the end of Friday, our house will start to look back in order. I will just have a few days of some hard core cleaning to do.

In other news, Sage had her hip check up yesterday and her hips are still fantastic! Her doctor told us she calls Sage “Fame Sage” and shares her success story to other HD families. That make me happy. We now don’t have to see her doctor for 6 more months. This is the longest we have gone. It comforts me to know she will be checked the rest of her growing years.

The other day Abel looked so handsome in his church clothes and I begged him to let me take his picture. He told me playing cars is way more fun than having his picture taken. You can tell in these pictures just how painful it is to him.

However, he LOVES to use my camera. He is getting really good too. Here is a series he took of Sage. She was actually willing to let him take her picture, but not me. I did nothing to this pictures but brighten them a bit.

She is wearing her brother’s police badge.

And sweet story time together. She loves to sit on his lap and have her big brother read to her.

Look at her crazy hair!

It has felt like Spring here so we have been taking advantage of the gorgeous weather.

I wanted to get a picture on their bikes together and before I knew it they were kissing. Abel wanted more kisses and Sage had enough. (ignore Abel’s blue lips. He just had a ring pop from his Valentine’s candy bag.)

He still loves playing with his trucks in the dirt.

I honestly don’t think I would care if I found out no one reads my blog. This blog totally keeps me on track with taking pictures of my kids and the latest happenings in their life. Let’s face it, I haven’t been the best at keeping up with their baby books, but I feel like this blog will save me in the future when they are giving me the guilt trip of not writing too much in their baby books.

Winter is my slower season with the business so it has been so lovely spending more time with the kids. I can’t get enough of them. Sage is a bundle of fearless energy. The girl is a dare devil. I can’t believe it. I never dreamed after having such a wild little guy that my girly girl would be so daring and bold. Even though she loves a good wrestle with her boys she just as much loves mommy’s make up and jewelery. She reminds me now to put a “pretties” in her hair. ha!

The other day after running errands, she started crying when we pulled into our community letting me know she wasn’t happy to be home. She kept shouting, “no home, more shopping mommy”. She pushes her little grocery cart around saying “I’m shopping.” I’m not even a huge shopper at all,  but she loves being out and about and meeting new people.

Here are some recent pics…

I did set up the backdrop earlier in the week for my niece’s photo shoot. Sage is obsessed with this white chair so she immediately jumped into the set. I actually adore this picture of her crazy hair.

Speaking of crazy hair…

Help! Sage is stuck! (this wasn’t pretty after I snapped this shot.)

When Sage naps, I make Abel have quiet time of some sort. (more like, let mommy rest and get a few things done without kids talking to me and pulling on my leg.) He sometimes likes to get out the little shuffle and listen to music. I walked in and saw this…awesome sauce!

His shirt is fitting, don’t you think. “Born Wild”

Sage’s buddy, Levi, came over the other day. Aren’t they cute together.

My niece is turning one soon! She is a feisty one and full of energy. She’s extremely expressive and busy (and quite talkative too. It must be the Italian in our blood that has our babies talking so early). My sister wanted one good shot for her one year picture. Let me tell you, this 11 month old had me working hard to get these pictures.

Somehow I am already 32! The lady at the store told me the other day, I looked 15! Wow, I think she was being overly nice. It must have been the teenage zit I was sporting that week on my face.

It was a great day filled with lots of love from my little ones and beardless hubby. Seth has been growing a monster on his face the past 3 months and my birthday request was for him to get rid of it.

As we were sitting eating together the evening of my birthday, I just sat there and looked at my beautiful family and was overjoyed at the many blessings in my life. I’m not gonna lie…I love my 30′s.

Impossible to get them both to look at me the same time.

Testing out my new backdrop…I had to bribe him with candy to get these.