Sneak Peek

Waaaay to tired to do a vacation update tonight, but I thought I would do a sneak peek to hold some of you over :-) We had a blast and I'm praying that tomorrow isn't too horrible now, b/c Raya tends to have a rough day or two after returning from weekends away from home...wish me luck with her tomorrow!

This was Raya's general feeling about the weekend....

I asked her if she was having fun and she said "Wheeeeee!!!" haha...glad Daddy caught this pic of her cuteness :-)

Look for a proper update tomorrow hopefully!

Ultrasound update

So today I had my 24 (ish) week ob appointment...good news! Had my follow up ultrasound (since Brielle was measuring at the 3rd %ile for size at her ultrasound last month) and this time Brielle was at the 11th %ile. However I stressed to the ob again after my ultrasound that I am pretty confident that my due date of Jan. 9th is inaccurate, and I am almost certain it should be Jan. 15th. Well after reviewing all 3 of my ultrasounds and discussing the results with the 3 obs at my office they all agreed that yes, it seems my due date should be Jan. 15th instead, which means Brielle is measuring just perfectly, not small at all :-) They said everything else continues to look perfect and they at this time don't need me to have any more ultrasounds at all for the remainder of the pregnancy....clean bill of health! Yippee. Maybe she'll be  born on my birthday! Oh, and she was so funny during the ultrasound today...she was HYPER and she was flipping around and kept kicking the ultrasound tech's wand b/c she didn't like it on my belly....she had me and the tech laughing haha. The tech did let me watch her in 4D for awhile too, and I think she's looking (maybe) a little  less like Raya! Her nose seems a little  different, but  still way cute. Can't wait to see her (well I can, I'm still not ready to give up my sleep so moving the due date back  is fine by me haha)....maybe they should just  put a window in my belly though so that I can watch her and see what she looks like :-P

As  far as my health, I am finally above my prepregnancy weight! As  of last month I was still 3 pounds less than before I got pregnant, but I gained 7 lbs this past month, putting me 4 lbs above prepregnancy weight! It's still a low weight gain for this far along on average, but  they aren't worried at all since I was so nauseous in the beginning and I've started gaining plenty now.

Tomorrow we leave for MN! We have  our baseball tickets, hotel reserved, zoo trip planned, and mall of america on the itinerary :-) Today during Raya's nap I whipped  her up a Twins shirt to wear to the game haha.

I have a long sleeve red shirt to go underneath and red pants and red bow :-)

Then Grandma F., I have your shirts finished and will bring them back next week....I did the "little sister" shirt for the 3rd one, b/c I thought with two older brothers that might be cute :-) I also have a matching camo hair clippie and headband for the camo outfit.

Lastly, we wouldn't want to leave Miss  Raya  out! She's been so funny lately. Her new obsession is whenever I go to the bathroom (which is constantly anymore haha) she follows me and pulls off some toilet paper for herself, then uses it to "wipe" everything in sight while I'm peeing, and then she takes her toilet paper and throws it away in the kitchen haha. Today even she found a peice of paper on the floor in the living room and the next thing I know she's marching to the kitchen to throw it away! She's going to be a good little helper soon :-)

She won't  sit for pics with mama anymore!

That's it! I'll try to update about our trip on Monday!

Grandma and Grandpa H.

Sunday Raya had a nice  visit with Grandma and Grandpa H.! She did really well this time and didn't really cry for them at all. In fact within an hour she was going up to them on her own accord and putting her arms up for them to pick her up (especially when she thought they might be taking her outside haha :-)  Grandma H. got a kick out of Raya's "personality", which I think is better described as her "diva-ness"! She threw a couple good tantrums for them, but also did lots of cute things like all her animal noises :-P

I did remember to take a picture before they left Monday morning

Grandpa H. never learns that he must always look at the camera so that when Raya
actually chooses to look  I can snap a quick picture and everyone is looking! haha

hmm, what's new? Well, Raya just  LOVES books! She never used  to like books or sit still for books, but ever since I've been staying home with her we go to the library weekly and read a ton, and now she's pretty much obsessed! I check out 5 library books each week and I kid you not I end up reading each of the 5 probably 4-5 times daily at least! Our library is about to run out of books for her too, b/c  while they have a large selection of children's books, they only have one bookshelf of board books, and Raya can't have paper pages yet...so now I'm on a mission to track down more board books! If anyone knows of good (cheap) bookclubs online or Grandma and Grandpa F., if you find cheap ones at garage sales we'd love some more! Raya especially loves books with ANIMALS in them. :-)

At night time Raya carries her books back and forth between Daddy and I and we each take turns reading the books over and over again....Daddy makes great animal noises!

It's a good thing Lee never reads my blog, b/c he would not approve of the angle from which I took these pics of him! :-)

This morning Raya had her 2nd kindermusik class...she did very well today! She participated for the most part and showed interest in the other kids. For today's kindermusik attire we went for a "punk" look :-)

What does Raya  have in her  mouth you might wonder? Well while I was getting ready this morning Missy Moe got into Mama's "post-pardum" drawer and had a hell of a time playing with tucks pads, nursing pads, etc. haha. She then INSISTED on carrying around nipple cream....what-ev-er! :-P

Such a goof!

Lastly, I'm so glad that I was smart last spring and  thought to buy her jacket nice and big, b/c it still fits this fall!! Looks even cuter now that she's toddling around :-)

One last thing, in Brielle news, Miss Brielle has a soul mate! My friend Jen and I were originally due on the exact same day (Jan. 6th) before my due date got moved back, and it's becoming clear that our two little babies clearly are connected in some strange way! Two nights ago I had a very vivid dream about Jen's baby (they aren't finding out the gender)....I dreamt that he's a little boy and in the dream I also dreamt that they were naming him "Tyler Jack Maxwell (lastname)"...and calling him TJMax for short HAHAHAHA. So I told Jen about my dream and come to find out that Jack is her husband's dad's name and Max is her grandpa's name and her mom's maiden name is Taylor (close to Tyler) and now her whole family are believers that I have a psychic gift :-P So I told Jen that I think Brielle must "know" her baby b/c I got such detailed info in my dream, and then today I get an email from Jen saying I won't believe it, but she actually dreamed about Brielle last night!!! She said she got a very clear picture of what Brielle looked like as a toddler (Raya's age)...in the dream Brielle as a toddler had darker blonde hair, big brown eyes, but looked like me with a longer face than Raya and my smile....how cool! So now Jen has decided that if she's right and brielle looks more like me then her and I are starting some sort of pregnancy psychic business :-) We'll soon find out if our dreams were right!

Tantrums are so last year.

My child LOVES to eat, as you all  welll know.

That last post with her crying? Yeah, she wanted to eat...like THAT SECOND....and I wasn't about to feed her supper at 3pm lol. But today? Well, I gave in and we did a cheerio snack :-)

DELISH!

And this shirt? Well, I mean come on...is it not the cutest thing ever?!? Even better was watching her toddle around at Hu Hot today wearing it, while throwing a giant tantrum lol. Gotta love toddlers :-)

Here Griffin, you can have a cheerio too!

In other news, remember this adorable little owl jumper Raya wore way back when? It's a size 3 month...

So stinkin' cute that if I wasn't already pregnant my uterus would be begging for another baby right now :-P

Well, we discovered that Raya can STILL rock that 3 month jumper haha...she loved it!

See how petite and tiny I am? I'm still wearing size 3 months!

Hmmm, what else do I have for you all tonight? Well, Lee was a big fan of rainbow baby the other day...he approved of herr colorful top and she did too!

But oh my, she was NOT happy when I had the nerve to try and take her picture before breakfast...this child is like her Mama...she needs to eat immediately upon waking!!

Cue the dramatic cry

All better now!

That's about it, other than I wanted to share the cute caterpillar onesies I made for a friend of a friend's twin girls....I think they turned out so cute! I made them so the mom can lay the girls next to eachother and the caterpillars will be smiling at eachother haha :-)  (excuse the bad lighting in my house!)

Speaking of my etsy shop...Grandma F., do not worry, that baby shower order will be done this week! I have a onesie to make for Bridgett quick and then you're next...I will bring them back the next time I'm home, which will probably be next Wednesday/Thursday.

Tomorrow Grandma and Grandpa H. are coming to visit for the day b/c Grandma H. has been DYING to see Raya walk and every time they call we are busy, but we called them tonight and said tomorrow was their chance! :-) Then next weekend guess where Daddy is taking us?? To Minnesota!!! We originally  planned to go to see a Cardinals game but they are sucking right now so instead  he's taking us to the Minnesota Zoo and then maybe a Twins game and possibly a stop at Mall of America! This is big news b/c Lee HATES zoos haha...hopefully we have nice weather!

Well that's all for tonight...later everyone!

Whiny Butt

Sometimes life just sucks....

Plaid is very "in" this season by the way :-)

...but at least Miss Raya can still look cute through all the doom and gloom!

Grandma, those are the "dress" shoes I decided on for Raya...in addition to the tennis shoes you got her :-)

Short and sweet today people....nothing more to see here :-P

My little "school" girl

Today Raya had her first Kindermusik class of the fall semester! Of course this meant getting out of the house and mingling with other kids, of which Raya had to be the cutest of course. So I decided that since she was going to class, she should wear her little schoolgirl outfit :-)

How stinkin' cute is she?

This was Raya's general feeling about Kindermusik...

Thanks for paying for my classes Grandma and Grandpa F.!

She did really well during class. She was really social and walking around about 1/2 the time and the other half she sat on my lap just taking it all in. She LOVED the bubbles at the end like usual, and  she boycotted the baby yoga part b/c she thought I was trying to change her diaper haha. There were about 4 boys from her summer class who are in this fall class, and then lots of new kids too! Lots more girls this time as well, but Raya succeeded in being the cutest of course. The teacher refers to her as "the fashionista" :-)

Those are pink kneesocks :-)

After kindermusik we had a girls only lunch at Panera :-) Raya is very good lunch company...everyone always comes up and comments on how good she is. We even had a swarm of elderly couples sitting next to us who kept coming over and talking to her haha..

Then this afternoon we played in our Cozy Coupe...she's still not bored with it!

She's looking more grown up every day...and she just keeps getting prettier!

She has become obsessed with the pillows on our couch, and insisted that the huge pillow be inside the cozy coupe with her haha

Then she carried it all around and kept laying down on the ground with it being goofy...she cracks me up!

I wish I was so easily entertained :-)

Labor Day Weekend

Yes, so I just  did a post a couple days ago, but  I have a ton of new pics again already!

Yesterday I had a bbq with the girls I went to grad school with...it was a very fun school psychologist reunion! Six of the nine of us were able to make it, plus husbands, so it was a good turn out! Raya was able to meet the daughters of 2 of the school psych girls as well (we actually have quite a tradition going in our group...since we've graduated 5 of us have had babies, and ALL of us had girls first! How crazy is that?! They had another tradition going as well though...4 of us have already had 2nd babies or are pregnant with 2nd babies and guess what...the tradition was that EVERYONE was having boys 2nd! ....However I was next in line to follow the girl/boy tradition and I broke it...oh well! Bring on my girl #2 :-)

Elia age 8 weeks, Sailor age 2 years, Raya age 15 months

The husbands were making faces...Raya thought it was hilarious!

I didn't have Lee take pics of us girls b/c so many other people were taking pics. So far only one pic has been posted on facebook though for me to steal :-) , and only half of us were looking in it! haha. It'll do for now...I know at least one of the girls got one where we were all looking at the right camera though so I can share that  later

Kelli (Elia's mom), Jill (Sailor's mom--also preggo), Erin, Rebecca, Me (preggo), Sara
(We were missing the 3 others--Kelly, Melissa, and Heather--who couldn't make it)

Ok, now today we loaded up and headed to visit my brother and Emily and baby Harper! She's so tiny!! But  very sweet (well, the guys think she's pretty dang "boring" and Raya thought she was about as exciting as watching paint dry lol...but I enjoyed a few baby cuddles! Was happy to leave her with mommy though, after hearing she eats every hour and doesn't sleep at night unless she's being held haha...gotta love newborns :-)

Very sweet right?

The good thing about newborns though? They stay still for pictures!

Can you believe Raya wore this outfit? So tiny!

Raya was pissed about Harper's very existance in the room!

And our attempt at a "big  sister practice" photo went horribly too :-P

I guess Emily and I are the only ones who appreciate a good baby cuddle
 (oops...don't  know why this pic shows up weird)

See you later baby Harper!

Then after visiting Harper we took Raya to say Hi to Grandma and Grandpa F since we were right there anyways. They were excited for Raya to see the playhouse Grandpa built since it's all finished now! It has a chalkboard and kitchen set inside, real working windows, a wall mounted phone, two peice swinging door, flag, mailbox, door knocker...you name it, it has it! Talk about spoiled grandkids! :-)

Checking the mail!

Peek!

Thanks Grandpa!

This playhouse rocks Grandpa!

Tomorrow is Raya's first fall semester Kindermusik class...yay!