Little Sommerfeldt #2 is now 17 weeks along. Sometimes I can feel him (her?) move - just a little bit. Particularly if I'm laying on my stomach. We're in that awesome phase where sometimes I forget I'm pregnant - until I remember I'm wearing maternity pants (and have been for over a month! My pants got uncomfortable a lot faster this time around).
Little Sommerfeldt has a nice strong heartbeat (heard it yesterday) and recently went through a growth spurt (evidenced by the fact that Mom couldn't stop eating all day long for three days). We're working on eating more vegetables and drinking more water - although that inevitably leads to spending half the day in the bathroom because this baby seems to put a lot of pressure in that area - more so than I remember with Jack.
We're working on teaching Jack to say "baby" (it sounds the same as everything else he says) and teaching him to be "soft" with people (not going so well so far. He loves to hit people in the face and laugh.) Hopefully by the time September comes he'll be a little more well-behaved in that respect.
Jack himself is doing great. He's so close to walking and standing on his own, but seems unwilling to try it out without holding on to something. We have a doctor's appointment next week, and I think we'll find he's gained 5-10 lbs and quite a few inches. He's right in the 12-18 month clothes size (and he's 14 months old) so that's just right. His vocabulary is beginning to take off. At various times and depending on the situation he can say "Mommy, Daddy, uh-oh, ball, bzzzz (for a bee), woof-woof (for a dog), thank you (daaa- doo), up, uh-uh, and No!).
We love our little family!
