Growing Bump

Okay since I got a lot of comments on that last one, here's the other one that I have:



Me and B at 24(ish) weeks

A belly shot

Here is my belly at my 20-week ultrasound :). I'll post another in a week and a half when I hit the 30-week marker.

Melts her mama's heart

Last night B put herself in time out, which was hilarious. They today it was her babies who apparently were being naughty. Too cute :).

Here's the heart melting moment though. A few minutes ago when I was tucking her in for her nap and getting ready to leave, the following conversation transpired:

B: Wait Mama, wait!
Me: Yes B?
B: I love you Mama. I love you love you.
Me: Thankyou sweet girl. I love you too.

:D. Ahhh those moments that make everything worthwhile . . .

My daughter the realist

The other day B and Craig were playing with a book light, and she was so entertained by it! They opened it, shined it at stuff, closed it up again, etc. Then Craig said it looked like a boat and started to play with it as if it were a toy boat. Her response was, "No, Daddy. It's just a light". Hahaha. :D

Getting Caught Up

In reverse order: B's kitchen, some pics from Mom's house before Christmas, a photo with Craig's Great Grandma on Christmas Day, and some from New Year's at Amy's house.

Holiday Happenings

We had a very busy month! After finals were over we waited for a break in the weather to go to Boise for a pre-Christmas celebration at Mom's. We were there from the 17th to the 22nd (again, choosing to travel when the roads were the best). We made a couple of trips to the mall, got her Christmas picture taken at Kiddie Kandids, got her picture taken with Santa, and walked around a lot. The mall is decorated so beautifully for Christmas, and I just love having a warm place to walk. We made and ate lots of Christmas goodies, exchanged some presents, and just hung out a lot.

Carolyn started having a fever a couple of days before we left but it was easily controlled with childrens' motrin/ tylenol. By the time we left we were alternating - one every couple of hours. She had a really hard time with the elevation changes over the blue mountains even with her pain meds and a binki so I could tell her ears were really hurting. I figured we could probably wait til the next day to get her into the pediatrician, but her fever spiked really high that night (103.6 at home with motrin), and we took her to the ER where it read 103.9. We stripped her down, they gave her some tylenol in addition to the mortin she already had, and waited. After an hour it had gone back down below 103 so they sent us home with some amoxicillin. Poor B :(. We all slept pretty late on the 23rd after that whole ordeal (other than me getting up every couple of hours to try to give her more meds to keep her fever down). So the 23rd and 24th are pretty blurry to me. I wrapped a lot of presents and spent a lot of time in and out of the pediatrician's office on top of normal pre-Christmas errands, and of course spent a lot of time cuddling my sick girl.

We didn't realize how complicated her gift from Santa was, so we were up til 3:30 or 4 Christmas Eve haha (I will post pics soon). Christmas morning we got up, opened presents, had some breakfast, then got ready and drove to Renton where we saw Craig's aunts/uncles/cousins, grandparents, and later his Mom. It was a lot of fun, B adored them, and we headed back that night.

After a few days at home relaxing, on the 30th we went to the Leethams' house again in the Portland/Vancouver area for New Year's Eve (we had been there for Thanksgiving too). It was a short trip filled with lots of games and goodies. Dan, Jessica, and Truxton joined us for New Year's Eve and we all ate way too much and had a lot of fun. It was really nice to be able to celebrate with them. It's even nicer that with the 3 of us living in the same state now, we can pretty easily get together for any holiday we want!

We had good roads with each trip, for which we are very thankful. It was a lot of traveling in such a short time, but with one child it's still relatively easy to do that so it's probably good that we are taking advantage of it while we can!!!

For those of you not on Face Book

If you haven't heard already . . . WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER GIRL! She looks great. I do have a partial placenta previa, but all that means for sure right now is that I get another ultrasound :).

Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas season and staying reasonably healthy and warm!