Getting more real....

A couple days ago I had Jamie pull out the box of maternity clothes that I had just packed away in August or September... weird but I was pregnant at the time and didn't know it. Anyways, I went through it and pulled out the pants and shirts I want to keep/wear and gave the rest to Goodwill. I started wearing the pants right away. The rubberband through the button hole trick just isn't cutting it lately. The maternity pants feel much better but they are still a touch too bog, oh well, guess that means I get to eat more! I also got out the Snoo.gle and started sleeping with it a couple of nights ago. It takes some getting used to but sleeping on my stomach was starting to get uncomfortable.

Today I am 16 weeks and I think I have started to feel a couple of pokes in the last couple of days. It's right when I go to bed and roll over or something. How exciting to think I might feel kicks soon! I checked back in the blog and with Kacey I started feeling her at 19 weeks.

I feel pretty good these days, a bit more tired but since being pregnant with Kacey I can't really remember a time I wasn't tired. HAHA! Maybe when these two are away at college... OOOHH!!! I know, Jamie got me tickets to Bett.e Midl.er (HUGE FAN HERE!) and a flight to Vegas and a hotel room. We are going in January and beside being super excited to see Bett.e again (I went to the same show while pregnant with Kacey!) I may even be more excited about Kacey staying here with Grandma Pat and sleeping in a 5 star hotel room with blackout shades. I may not leave the bed until our flight! or maybe to go get a pregnancy massage :)

But I digress... speaking of sleep... I think we are going to convert Kacey's crib to a toddler bed this weekend. I don't like that she has climbed out twice. I wish we could wait longer, I am not looking forward to her wandering her room. Ugh, any advice??? Please comment! I am hopefully going to Tar.get today and we will look at bedding stuff for Kacey, try to get her excited about a big girl bed. Not sure if she will understand the idea but... oh well. Wish me luck.

A big long picture post.....

Just a quick little bit about Kacey, she turned 18 months on the 28th. How crazy is that? In related news, we got home from our vacation and last night was her first night back. This morning she climbed out of her crib. So not quite on her 18 month birthday but as close as she could. AGH! I am sitting here uploading pics and she is in her room crying (She is sick and having trouble sleeping) I just heard a loud thump. Yep, ran into her room and there she was on the floor. Ugh, guess it wasn't a one time fluke. Looks like we need to be converting to a toddler bed ASAP!

Not much time to write much stuff so I will update via pictures.... so behind!

Here she is signing the charge receipt at Joselitos! She bought us lunch!

At Descanso Gardens riding the train. She has done this a few times with Grandma Pat and daddy but it was my first time!

At the Arboretum with daddy sniffing a desert rose.

Learning how to play the piano withcousin Megann.

We went up to the Sequoia's for Thanksgiving and this year Grandma Pat and G.G. were able to come too! Here we are on a little hike.

Kacey LOVES hiking!

Kacey and mommy in front of the tree I take a picture in front of every year. 2 years ago I was holding a twig, last year I was holding the real thing! This year, Kacey is holding the twig for me. WOW, next year's picture will be amazing!

Kacey eating snow. (BTW, she calls it noes.)

Snowman that daddy and Kacey built.

This one didn't make the cut for the Christmas card but it sure is cute! The dress was sent to Kacey by her Grandma Rie and Grandpa Babu!!! Thank you, it's gorgeous!

Kacey and daddy taking a walk.

Big enough to buy a candy bar!
And finally a video of Kacey's first playing in the snow experience. She walked in it, ate it and went sledding in it with the help of the turkey roasting pan!

Better late than....

I posted a link to the October pics... look over there ------------>

Twiglet #2 Update

I went in for another check today and Jamie was able to go to work late and go with me. My doctor had promised to do and u/s and she did. It was so fun to see the baby dancing around, waving it's arms and kicking it's legs. It sure is moving! I have felt an odd little poke a few times down, bottom right and sure enough, that is where the legs are. Still not sure it wasn't just gas but I think it's more fun to think I have felt a bit of kicking. :) She did look between the legs but there is so much umbilical cord in the way that she made a guess but didn't sound very sure at all. Oh well, who cares! Jamie and I both just enjoyed seeing s/he moving around and hearing the heartbeat. Everything looks good, baby is a good size, couple of arms and a couple of legs. We even saw the spine, heart thumping and a hand waving. We could even make out the fingers!

I came home and made my appointment for the big u/s which will be 4 weeks from Wednesday. I will be 19 weeks that day and will definitely find out the sex just in time for Christmas.

I still cannot believe how blessed we are with this amazing miracle. Maybe I am even starting to believe it. :)

All about Dash

Sorry Taline but Dash is all Kacey talks about these days. She has taken to pointing at the computer and saying "Dash". We then open up Dash's blog and she grins from ear to ear. I can't tell you how many times she and daddy have watched the same Dash videos over and over again. (Jamie is getting a bit tired of them now...) She smiles and points and just cannot get enough! It's getting pretty close between Dash and Elmo.

Bittersweet

On Friday, Kacey got really fidgety at nursing time. She barely ate on one side but did fine on the other. I was down to 2 minutes each side and I really don't think she was getting much. It has been a little sad though because the last few days at nap time she has said "Boo-Boo" and pointed at my and at the rocking chair. We haven't nursed at naptime in months so I don't know if she is just missing it at night or what.

On Saturday night, Jamie and I had a date night so my mom watched Kacey and put her to bed without any complaints. Since she had hardly nursed Friday and not at all Saturday I decided to let Jamie put her to bed last night and see what happened.

She went to bed fine. No crying, no yelling, just a bit of chatting and then quiet. She didn't miss nursing as far as I can tell. This is bittersweet. On one hand I would prefer this as an ending, no drama and no trauma. But on the other hand, I am sad because she doesn't need me anymore. Of course she needs my love and all of that but nursing was just me and her. No one else could give that to her. I wanted to be done by her 18 month birthday so this is only a few days early.

I must admit this is really sad and hard for me. My baby girl is growing up.

Here is a picture Jamie took when she was 3 weeks old. It's the only nursing picture I really like and I think that's because it is modest on my part and she looks so sweet.

Request of my readers..

I would like some suggestions from you!!! I have lots of questions about how it is going to work with a second baby. I know lots of people do it all the time but it is new to me. I am fortunate to have found out that four (OMG! four) of my mommy friends are pregnant but I am the farthest along so I will be experiencing all of this first. I do have one very good friend who has a 2.5 year old and a 4 month old so I am learning a lot from her (yes I also have friends with older kids but seeing an example right now of what I will have in 6 short months is better than seeing a 6 and 8 year old.)

I have a couple of blogs I read that have similar situations but I would like to find a few more. Please leave me a comment with a link to a blog (or two or three) that you read and like where they have one child and are pregnant with a second or have a second newborn. I would be especially interested if they have a small 2 bedroom house and are wondering where to put that second child. (Kacey's sandbox is really soft and has a cover....)

Thanks!!!

PEEEESSSS!!!!

Kacey is feeling much better, yay!

Yesterday afternoon we went to the park. My little daredevil has decided the last few times we have gone to try to give mommy (or daddy or grandma, whoever she is with) a heart attack. On most plyground structures there are these open spots that have a ladder or pole for an older kid to go down. Kacey likes going to those and just trying to walk off. Jamie caught her once mid-fall and it scared him so bad they left the park immediately. My tactic is to tell her no and take her down. The second time we do a time out where I take her to a bench sit down with her on my lap facing away from me and I hold her around the waist. She does not like it. That is the point. After a minute she has either learned her lesson or more likely just gotten distracted enough that she does not go back to do it again. At least not right away.

Yesterday SHE tried a new tactic. While we were doing time out she kept turning her head to look at me, I try to ignore her since it is quiet time but she kept persisting. She then got me. She started blowing kisses at me. How do I resist that??? This child has recently stopped kissing me, Jamie and grandma and only shares kisses with her animals, pictures in books and random plants. So this melted my heart. I kissed her back and time out was over. Oh that girls has us wrapped around her finger!!!

Here is a cute pic from the park. She wanted to bring her monkey backpack with her but did not want it on her back. It was hard to hold and climb at the same time so I attached it to the front of her. She liked having her hands free and monkeys face right at kissing level. To get her to smile for the picture I again told her to say please, works like a charm!



Another cute pic, we had stir fry last night and Kacey was fascinated by my chopsticks so I gave her a pair. She thought that was fantastic and tried SOOOOOOO hard to use them!



A final story, yesterday morning she kept saying "EMMO" and pointing to the tv. It was not time for tv yet so I said no (she gets to watch it during snack time to keep her still and that is supposed to be it.) She went and got the remote, put it in my hand, pointed it at the tv and said "EMMO!" I again told her no and she looked up at me with that sweet face and said "Peeeessss??" Ugh, guess who gave in and let her watch some Elmo?

Little Miss Sickie

Yesterday we had a fun day with Alex and Taline. We were at the mall to run some errands and ended up playing in the little climbing area. I wanted a pic of the girls together and this is what I got....



I kept telling the girls to say cheese and that wasn't working so I finally said "Say PLEASE!!!" That worked because they are both into saying please these days. Kacey says it more like PEEEESSE but she gets the biggest smile! So here is how that worked.



Today she woke up with a fever though. She has had a cold for a few days but it must have really gotten her. She asked to watch EMMO on tv (Elmo) so we obliged.



She does look pretty cute though! I did take her to the doctor and she is going to be fine. She was running all over the waiting room, you never would have guessed she was sick at all. Hopefully she will be 100% very soon.

2nd Trimester and a photo catch up

Well here we are, 2 days into the 2nd trimester of a pregnancy I could not have imagined in my dreams. I am feeling much better these days, still pretty tired but going to bed by 8:30 seems to help. My belly is definitely expanding and I feel like it is obvious I am pregnant. Here is a pic we took yesterday. I was 13 weeks and 3 days...



compare to 13 weeks with Kacey.....



but I really think I look more like 21 weeks....



I have another doctor appointment in one week. My doctor is going to do an u/s and is hoping to get a sneak peek at the sex. If not we will find out around Christmas at the big u/s. I am thinking boy as we have a definite name picked out and we have nothing for a girl.

One last baby item, I wanted to get the H1N1 vaccine for myself but couldn't find it anywhere. A mommy friend found a listing and there was a clinic over the weekend pretty close to me. She told me that she went to one of the clinics and they had a pregnant women line. So I went ahead and tried it this morning and ended up 4th in line!!!! I was done within 10 minutes. That sure beats the 7 hour waits I have been hearing about!

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Now on to Kacey pics.

On Friday we went to the Arboretum and met a bunch of mommies there. On the way we stopped at Pan.da Express for lunch. I crave it all the time and can't stop thinking about it. I know fast food is bad for Kacey and for me but sometimes... oh well. Turns out it isn't that bad for Kacey. Check out what her favorite item is....


Yep, that's broccoli. She eats a ton of it, but only at Pan.da. She also ate onions and red bell peppers. What a nut.


At the Arboretum, she tried to make me have a heart attack by climbing up this teepee shell. She would have gone higher but we stopped her. Not quite ready for this yet.



She then went back to the Arboretum with daddy yesterday. As they drove into the parking lot they saw Dave, Gwynn and Dash!! Woo-hoo! Kacey loves following Dash around. (Side note, when I am changing her diaper, if she acts up I give her a little framed pic of her and Dash together. She loves it and just keeps repeating Dass, Dass, Dass, it's a great distraction) So they had a ton of fun together. I saw these pics and just love looking at them. They are so adorable together.











and finally, a cute little video that Jamie took this morning. A little girl trying to fill some very big shoes....