Dr Visit @ 33 weeks

Had my dr visit this morning at 33 weeks. Emmi had to come with me since Jacob had a meeting and there is no preschool this week. She did awesome listening to hear the baby's heartbeating at 152 beats and while I got weighed which I am up a total of 20 pounds. Not bad considering we had the holidays and freezing temps up North preventing us from staying active. My belly measures 31.5 cms which is right on schedule.

So far so good with a few complaints. My hips have been sore the past day or so. Sleep is something I struggle with. It is just like last time it isnt that I am uncomfortable it is almost as if I dont get into a deep sleep so any noise I hear or maybe it is my mind racing wakes me up. Jacob has helped out greatly and picks up any of my slack . Despite not feeling great yesterday he did a huge amount of the unpacking after I got overwhelmed with all the toys.

Now that the holidays are over we should get the nursery situated. So that will be the main focus in the next few weeks. Painting, finding new homes for stuff, and setting it all up.

2nd Haircut

Emmi got her second haircut today from Godmother Alana aka Nana. She helped spray her hair and also comb it such a good assistant. She sat pretty while Alana went to work. If you look close you can also see Emmi's toenails painted with sparkles as she says. Memere had to paint them the other day since she was touching up her finger nails.

Snow storm

We got a snowstorm on the Cape over night. The morning started with eating snow.

Then we geared up to head out into the deep white. Here is Grandpy Harley snowblowing, you can really see how much snow we got.

Emmi didnt love the snow but did get into after a little bit.

Here is her reaction when she decided to take off her mittens and touch the snow. Kinda cold.

We ended the evening walking around in the center of town while Emmi got pushed in a sled.

Whirlwind

Jacob had to go to Connecticut for business so why not head up North a little earlier than planned....... well that is what we did. We have been hanging out at Memere's. We definitely get spoiled here and despite the earlier sunset and colder temps I think we could get used to this. Here is a pic of Emmi bundled up to play outside and Kona enjoying himself.

While we have been here on 2 different shopping trips Emmi has asked for big girl underwears. Of course she has to wear them although we are working on the success part. She succeeded at Uncle Alan & Aunt Bj's house the other night and a few random times at Memeres but have also had some misses. We are just going with the flow so chalk this up to another step closer to the whole potty training success.
On the baby front I had my appt the day we left. I have only put on one more pound for a total of 17. I am still running as long as it isnt daily and going to yoga. I am suppose to be headed back to the doctors every two weeks going forward but will be stretching that out a little bit due to the holidays. :)

Taryn's Dr. visit, Thanksgiving, and Bacon Explosion

Well, yesterday was Thanksgiving. Taryn's dad came in for the holiday. We had your usually Thanksgiving day festivities. The day after Taryn, Emmi, Grandpa, Kona and myself went to the USNWWC to check out the rapids. It was pretty much empty:

So then Emmi decided to walk Kona. Ever see a 2 year old walk a 100lb lab?

All that walking tired Kona out.

And what a better way to end the day with a little bacon explosion.

As for new baby update. Nothing really new. Taryn said she has put on 16lbs so far. Good thing she got weighed pre-bacon explosion.

Happy 2nd Birthday

The day started with Jacob tearing his left bicep muscle, but he didnt let that stop him. He wrapped ice on his arm, made a doctor appt for during naptime and still was able to have fun with us today. Emmi started at the doctor measuring at 35 1/2 inches tall and 28.4 pounds. She got a good bill of health as usual. Yeah. We then went to the "Bouncy House" place, aka Monkey Joe's. We made the mistake of asking Emmi a few days ago if that is where she wanted to go for her birthday so she had been asking every day since. Since Jacob couldnt really take part he was able to get some good photos while we played. Here she is having a blast:





We ended our morning at Just Fresh for lunch before naptime. Who knows what the rest of the day will bring. Happy Birthday to the best baby ever.

Elmo & Party

What a week.... Memere arrived, had dinner with friends to celebrate my birthday, took Emmi to Elmo with her cousins, then plenty of prep work for an awesome Cat in The Hat birthday Party on Saturday. The weather was perfect in the mid 70's. Here are the pics that captured the moments.


The Cake that we made, yes Emmi & Memere helped.
Emmi eating it up.
This is her outfit a friend let us borrow. "So cute" as Emmi would say.
The shoes and boa put the present opening to a halt so she could clip clop around the house.

The little chef

The past few days I have found something both Emmi and I love to do. She holds the measuring cups while I pour the ingredients into them. She then dumps them in the bowl to ultimately mix it together.

This is shortly after we got home from our walk yesterday, even though it was in the 60's she wore a hat. We made pumpkin pancakes for dinner.Then we made apple crisp tonight to eat after our walk with Daddy.

The Real Trick or Treat Day

Busy day, started with Emmi and I running in a 5K. It was at the airport so there were planes taking off and landing a short distance from us. So cool. Plus it is very flat so a great easy race to push Emmi in the buggie.


Went to a pre-TOTing party. Emmi had a great time being silly.

Ended with a rainy TOTing night. But she still had a great time as a banana. Here she is in action.

This is after we got home.

Preschool Halloween Par-tay

I signed up to help with the Halloween Par-Tay. It worked out great as we brought in the Purple Jello Jigglers in Ghost & Witches and Pumpkin bread muffins that were made in Pumpkin & Ghost trays. The other mom brought in a game and juice boxes with little treat bags. Here is Emmi enjoying her treats:

We weren't sure if Emmi would put on her costume since she had yet to try it on for me since I made it but when we got there she was wearing it. I have a few minor tweakings to do.
Showing Daddy the Halloween stuff hanging from the ceiling.


Only 2 more parties left before Trick or Treating. Will we last?

Dr Appt

I have the 22+ week check in today. Everything is normal, belly measured 22 1/2 inches. I have put on a total of 14 pounds so far. The baby's heartbeat was 154. So all good. I really liked this doctor as he was newer to the practice. He called my hip discomfort when exercising by its name, symphysis pubis pain. Basically I just need to suck it up so looks like I will be headed out to run this afternoon. They did ask if I wanted the flu shot which I declined due to the package warnings which state testing has not been done on pregnant women. The hospitals here have sanitizer everywhere and masks to protect people especially since kids under 18 are not allowed in hospitals at this time.

Big girl

Here is a picture my friend Ashley snapped of Emmi at a birthday party over the weekend. Check her out if you are in the Charlotte Area and need photos. http://ashleyhortonphotography.blogspot.com/
We may have her do prego shots and post baby shots.

Emmi has now been sleeping in her big girl bed for about 3 weeks. But she still likes to nap in her crib. When we set it up we figured we would just have it as an option but she jumped on it right away. She has only gotten up twice in the morning to come see us otherwise we have to go get her.

She also likes to have dance parties in the car. It comes in handy when we are bringing in the groceries or want to grab the mail. Here is a little video of her playing in the car while listening to Silversun Pickups:

Riverbend Pumpkin Patch

Here are some pics from the Pumpkin Patch that we went to over the weekend. It was beautiful weather.
The ride to go pick out our pumpkins and the one Emmi picking out hers.

The tractor to play on.




They have a bunch of slides there. Here is one that Emmi and her Daddy went down together on.

Cowgirl

Our preschool has a access only website that the teachers will post pics up of the kids. They uploaded a whole bunch. This week was cowgirl/boy week so we borrowed an outfit and bought one so she could be dressed in style. So yes I am going to be that Mom. :)

This was Tuesday's outfit with the class hat:

This was their pony ride of the day today:

Here she is doing her favorite thing, Reading:

Just the cool kid on the playground..

Soon to be surrounded by estrogen

So if you haven't heard by now, we are going to be blessed by another little girl. Once again, I was right. Taryn and I took Emmi out to her first fancy restaurant and opened the picture there, just like we did with Emmi. She is still in denial. I told Kona we were having a another girl and his response was "woof woof, woof woof woof, woof woof, woof woof woof woof woof", which means in people language "I don't care as long as you make Emmi stop striking me with closed fists". We'll get to that.....

So, I think we decided on a name. Unlike Emmi, whose name we had for about 7 years, this one was a little tougher. We had decided on a boys name since Taryn was convinced we're having a boy....ooops. We had to scrambled to get a girls name, since we only have about 5 months left to decide. So, we really decided to take the lazy way out and name our new little girl the same as what we were to name our boy. True story.

Now begins room change over and painting and all that fun stuff. Luckily we already have a girl so clothes and toys will be easy. I've started saving to weddings as well.

As for everyone else. Over the last couple months Emmi has become more abusive to Kona. The poor guy. She'll pull his ears, his tail, smack his nose. He's such a good dog though. He just sits there and takes it or comes to me for protection. The funniest (but not really) incident happened one night at Kona's dinner time. I put his food in his bowl and put it in his tray. He began to eat and Emmi walked over, pushed him out of the way, yelled "NO!" at him, took his food bowl and walked away with it. Poor dog just stood there and look confused at me. After all this Kona will still sleep a good portion of the night either in her room or in front of her door.

As for Emmi, pre-school is going well. She gets excited to go. She did have a small problem when both Taryn and I dropped her off one day last week. I guess she doesn't mind me leaving her.....This week she gets to take a pony ride and it's also cowboy week. We'll have to get some pics of her all decked out.

Doc Appt & Hockey

Emmi loves playing hockey in the driveway with her Daddy when he gets home from work. She also likes to put things in her mouth so here is her taking a break so she can sample the rocks.


Here are the ultrasound pics.

We have the reveal one in an envelope and was the first shot the tech was able to take. Make sure to get your vote on (http://www.expectnet.com/games/BabyBurns2010) as this weekend will be the reveal. My appt went well. I have put on a total of 9 pounds, which is pretty good for my 19th week. I am starting to get the faint hip pain I had with Emmi. So I am only running every other day to give my hips a rest but other than that no complaints here.

Emmi continues to love preschool except this morning when I dropped her off with Daddy she cried. Even Mrs Tami commented that it was unusual for her but we all know it was because I was there. We set up the big girl bed in her room over the weekend. She wanted to nap in it but when all she did was jump on it and play with the new things she can reach we decided the crib was best for now. But she has the option if she wants it. This may be the start of rearranging the upstairs to prepare for the baby.

Check back over the weekend for the big announcement. :)

Get your vote on!!!

It is that time again.... Next week on Thursday we will have the ultrasound, will be 19 weeks. We plan to do like we did with Emmi and go out to dinner/lunch over the weekend to open the envelope for the reveal. So get your vote on to let us know what you think we will be having. Aunt Claudia was the winner the first round. :)

http://www.expectnet.com/games/BabyBurns2010

On the preschool front Emmi came home with her first Injury Report. She fell in the playground and has a scraped up nose. But she is all good. She loves preschool as the one week of transition was all she needed to realize how much fun she would be having. I hope to post up some new pics soon.

Pre-preschool, carnival, & the real deal

Last week Emmi had her meet and greet at Preschool. It was great and she had to wear her sunglasses into the room. She pulled me around the room at first but soon enough Jacob and I were able to stand to the side to watch her mingle. I also definitely decided I would not be able to be the one to drop her off.


Then we had the holiday weekend where I ran in a 5k at just over 30 minutes (I really think it was under since they didn't start timing when you cross the start line.) Then we got to hit the carnival since Matthews has a big festival in the center of our town. From craft tents, to the crazy food, to rides, to the car show. We took it all in, I only got kettle corn to share with Emmi and her Daddy did win her a ball.

Today was the big day. Daddy took Emmi to school and she did great. She left him at the door and was ready to play while I tried to hold it together at home. When we went to pick her up her teacher, Miss Tami, said there were only a few cry moments which doesn't surprise me since she woke up super early and hasn't been napping much more than an hour to hour & a half lately. She goes back Thursday for another half day before full swing next week. Of course my camera wasn't focusing well this morning so the pics I thought I got I really didn't. Here is one of her Daddy helping her put her sweater on.

As a side note here is what Jacob wants for Christmas/Birthday/whatever you want to get him a present for he wont turn it down:
69 Camero SS red with black racing stripes