I am now 35 weeks and 2 days...and yes I am definitely counting those two days! Each day is hard work at this point. :) I had a doctor's appointment this morning. There is nothing earth shattering to report though I did learn that when the baby "drops" on your second pregnancy is not an indicator of when the baby will arrive. I suppose that is good news as I don't really want the little guy to arrive early and not have a chance to develop as much as he can in the safety of my belly. My uncomfortable pregnant self, however, could go for a bit of an early arrival. :) I really don't remember being quite this uncomfortable with Lucia but perhaps I just forgot. I have been having so much trouble sleeping at night that last night I even got up and walked around the house a bit, looked at some paperwork, and had a bite of cereal at 3-something in the morning. Hopefully that was just a particularily bad night and sleep will come a bit easier tonight...
The nursery is nearly ready to go with the exception of one item on the wall. Once it is done, I will post some pictures because it is pretty fun it there! I am just wrapping up little last minute things at this point. I tested our new baby monitor (thanks Murphy's!) and my pump to make sure it still works. I washed all of the baby clothes that we have so far. My shower is this coming Tuesday...yippee! After that, I will make the final run to Babies R Us, pack our bags, and then it will really be just waiting around. Ah, the waiting is agony! I suppose we could use this time to pick his name. :)
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
July Trip to Cannon Beach
Here is another catch up post. We took a trip to Cannon Beach this July with our good friends Chris and Kristen and their super cutie son Hayden. It was just a quick weekend get away, but it was SO nice! I think that Kristen and I spend at least half the time thinking of the next 10 vacations to take together! :) Anyway, it was absolutely beautiful at the beach which is certainly not a guarentee around here. We were able to walk around the town, go out for dinner, and spend a lot of great time on the beach. Lucy loved the sand only after being totally freaked out by it. She is a funny one. Once she figured out it wasn't going to burn her flesh off and eat her bones, she dug right in. Here are some of the pictures. Chris took some really awesome ones. He has mad skills!
This group of pictures are all from Chris. I LOVE them!
Lucy stole Hayden's car for some joy riding
The two cuties
These ones are clearly my pictures....haha
Haystack and beach walking
The happy couple!
A million attempts to get a smile and Lucy looking at the camera. This is as close as we got. :)
Lucy attacking Pat's face...payback for all of the tickle attacks from Dad
Lucy being very unsure of this wet sand stuff getting her feet oh-so dirty!
This group of pictures are all from Chris. I LOVE them!
Lucy stole Hayden's car for some joy riding
The two cuties
These ones are clearly my pictures....haha
Haystack and beach walking
The happy couple!
A million attempts to get a smile and Lucy looking at the camera. This is as close as we got. :)
Lucy attacking Pat's face...payback for all of the tickle attacks from Dad
Lucy being very unsure of this wet sand stuff getting her feet oh-so dirty!
Lucy Singing
Here is yet another super old post that I never got around to actually posting. The video was taken by Lindsey when she was up in early July. Lucy loves to sing. Even now, she requests specific songs in the car and I am not talking about kids songs. She will ask for Sufjan, Jonsi, The Weepies, and Coldplay. It is pretty cute. Then she asks me to turn up the music.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Visit with Aunt Zee-Zee
Here is a post that I started months back. It was from mid July when Lindsey came for a visit. Lindsey came up for a visit and we had such a great time with her. Lucia was thrilled with every moment and loved being around Lindsey. She is quite sad that she is gone. Here are some of the highlights from the trip.
Our trip to visit Grandma Shirley!
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Lucia trying on her tutu from Tracie and Kaitlyn along with every piece of jewelery that Lindsey brought with her
The kid LOVES sticks!
Lucy with her new baby sized Dora blanket from Lindsey
Water park fun!
Our trip to visit Grandma Shirley!
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Lucia trying on her tutu from Tracie and Kaitlyn along with every piece of jewelery that Lindsey brought with her
The kid LOVES sticks!
Lucy with her new baby sized Dora blanket from Lindsey
Water park fun!
Monday, September 19, 2011
35 Weeks!
Ok, I have been terrible at blog posts recently but I am going to make another effort to stay relatively on top of this thing! I don't want to miss capturing all of the important moments with our soon to arrive son! Life will be full of lots of joy when he arrives and I don't want to forget a thing. So, to do a tiny bit of catch up...
I am now 35 weeks pregnant...whew! I have had tons of Braxton Hicks contractions this go around and much more intense than I ever had with Lucia. He is so low down at this point (dropped at 33.5 weeks) that it is even uncomfortable to sit upright all of the way and bending down is a real chore. All in all though, I feel pretty good. I am so grateful that I don't have any pregnancy complications and am just trucking along to the 40 week goal! The little man moves a ton these days which I love of course. It is pretty amazing to feel his little feet in there. In other news, we are still trying to decide on a name! We did this with Lucia too. It is just such a big decision!
Lucia is as cute as ever of course and is excited to meet her little brother. She shares toys with him/my belly often which is pretty cute. I am totally in love with her little voice and the crazy funny things that she says. Here are a few:
1. She is now potty trained but when she was learning, Pat took her to the restroom one evening when they were out at a restaurant. She went "potty" and then he told her that he also needed to go potty. Of course, she needed to stay right there with him. Observing the process, she said..."Daddy, you a sprinkler!". Possibly my favorite quote to date!
2. She found a tiny terry cloth ball that I think was once a bunny tail. She carried it around and, as far as we know completely on her own, named said ball "stinky little pine tree". She is quite attached to it. In fact, we were walking around Ballard a few weeks back, she took a decent fall skinning up her knees and, before she had recovered, she said "oh no! stinky little pine tree!" because she had dropped it during the fall.
I'll have to think of some more quoteables to add to the list.
We went camping with the Murphy/Anderson families back at the end of July. I'll leave you with some cute cousin pictures. More pics to come!
I am now 35 weeks pregnant...whew! I have had tons of Braxton Hicks contractions this go around and much more intense than I ever had with Lucia. He is so low down at this point (dropped at 33.5 weeks) that it is even uncomfortable to sit upright all of the way and bending down is a real chore. All in all though, I feel pretty good. I am so grateful that I don't have any pregnancy complications and am just trucking along to the 40 week goal! The little man moves a ton these days which I love of course. It is pretty amazing to feel his little feet in there. In other news, we are still trying to decide on a name! We did this with Lucia too. It is just such a big decision!
Lucia is as cute as ever of course and is excited to meet her little brother. She shares toys with him/my belly often which is pretty cute. I am totally in love with her little voice and the crazy funny things that she says. Here are a few:
1. She is now potty trained but when she was learning, Pat took her to the restroom one evening when they were out at a restaurant. She went "potty" and then he told her that he also needed to go potty. Of course, she needed to stay right there with him. Observing the process, she said..."Daddy, you a sprinkler!". Possibly my favorite quote to date!
2. She found a tiny terry cloth ball that I think was once a bunny tail. She carried it around and, as far as we know completely on her own, named said ball "stinky little pine tree". She is quite attached to it. In fact, we were walking around Ballard a few weeks back, she took a decent fall skinning up her knees and, before she had recovered, she said "oh no! stinky little pine tree!" because she had dropped it during the fall.
I'll have to think of some more quoteables to add to the list.
We went camping with the Murphy/Anderson families back at the end of July. I'll leave you with some cute cousin pictures. More pics to come!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Sweet Little Lucy-Lu
I just have two quick stories from Lucy land that reminded me of how sweet our little lady is.
First, last night at dinner Lucy pulled up her shirt and smooshed her belly saying "my belly getting bigger. baby brother growing in there." Her sweet 2 year old mind thinks that she is growing a "baby brother" just like Mommy is growing a baby brother. Then she proceeded to stick her sippy cup up to her belly button and said "I need to feed baby brother".
Second, she woke up at 7:30 this morning rather than her normal 8:00 wake up time, so I went in to see if I could rock her back to sleep. We snuggled in the chair for a while and then I told her that I would put her back in the crib. I laid her down and she looked up at me and said "Thank you for rocking me mommy", closed her eyes, and fell back to sleep.
I love this kid!
First, last night at dinner Lucy pulled up her shirt and smooshed her belly saying "my belly getting bigger. baby brother growing in there." Her sweet 2 year old mind thinks that she is growing a "baby brother" just like Mommy is growing a baby brother. Then she proceeded to stick her sippy cup up to her belly button and said "I need to feed baby brother".
Second, she woke up at 7:30 this morning rather than her normal 8:00 wake up time, so I went in to see if I could rock her back to sleep. We snuggled in the chair for a while and then I told her that I would put her back in the crib. I laid her down and she looked up at me and said "Thank you for rocking me mommy", closed her eyes, and fell back to sleep.
I love this kid!
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Water Park
Howdy...you probably can't tell by how I'm typing, but this is Pat. I decided that after 3 years, I'm going to get in on this blogging thing. I don't want my kids to grow up thinking that Dad doesn't get excited about the memories too.
Today Briana and I took Lucy and Aunt ZeeZee (Lindsey) to the Willis Tucker park which has a great water play area. (How anyone got funding to build a water play area at a public park in a town that gets one sunny day a month is beyond me, but I'm happy for it.) Lucy needed a little encouragement to get in on the action, but in no time she was spazzing out with the best of them. Lucy does this crazy little prancing two step when she's excited. It was on full display today.
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