Christmas continues!

Grammie and Grampie came for Christmas - and they brought a Blizzard and LOTS of cool presents.

Of all Katie's toys from this day, she really enjoyed her wooden spice bottle collection - she had to carry them everywhere - it was Hysterical!

Her chef outfit made an appearance because she got so much new play food, she had to cook it in her kitchen.

Since there was a 30" blizzard - we got to go play outside for the first time. She was NOT happy about getting her snow outfit on - but she liked the snow for a good 10 minutes before she decided she was too cold and wanted to come in!

Cuddled up in a blanket after the snow!

After grammie and grampie left, we had to go visit Uncle Louie and Titi Millie and all our cousins and on the way we stopped to check out this SUPER cool Step 2 OLD kitchen set that was for sale on Craigslist. I had been looking for a play refrigerator for her, but they don't make them anymore, so when I found this listing that had the fridge, stove AND dishwasher I was SUPER excited! The bonus is that it was too far away to go get normally, but only 10 minutes away from where we were headed that day! So, Katie got a whole new kitchen for $30 and we LOVE them.

We had the best Christmas ever - even with the Blizzard and with Katie being sick on and off for the last month - I suppose now it's time to start getting ready for Mr. Man to make his appearance!

Merry Christms 2010

Dave and I on the way to the hospital Christmas Eve night because my Braxton Hicks contractions persisted ALL DAY LONG even though I was on the couch. We were worried and I wanted to make sure that I wouldn't end up in the hospital on Christmas day, so we had to go in for a Non-stress test to make sure our little man wasn't trying to plot an early escape.

Not where I wanted to be for Christmas Eve, but we felt better once we got all checked out and were told that everything looks just fine - just to take it easy and drink more water.

Christmas Dinner

Katie LOVES her Elmo pizza set and immediately set out to make Elmo a lunch at her red table.

This is what makes Christmas fun!!!

Mimi with her thrown out back and me resting so my Braxton Hicks contractions would stop! The poor boys had to do all the cooking, etc on Christmas Eve and they did a GREAT job:) Every time I stood up from the couch I had a Braxton Hicks contraction and they were lasting a long time and very close together, so we were on strict couch duty for the day.

The power of a 2 year old little girl! All the boys had to wear cooking clothes to help in her kitchen. Even my brother... which was the best part of Christmas for me! hahaha
Apparently Chef Katie isn't too impressed with his technique in this picture.

Today starts round too with Grammie and Grampie and we're thinking it's gonna be a White Christmas as this snowstorm is headed towards us. So, it should prove to be an interesting few days weather wise...
We have a check up tomorrow morning, so let's hope the snow doesn't cause trouble for that.
More pictures later.

Merry Christmas!!! Hope you had a WONDERFUL weekend - even with our illnesses, and disabilities - we were able to have the best christmas ever:)

Being Sick and HEART Projects

What a few weeks we have had. Katie seems to have never gotten better from her cold from Thanksgiving week. This week we had the worst of it.
Long story short, we ended up thinking Katie had a Urinary Tract Infection, which is apparently VERY Common in kids, especially newly potty trained girls.

So, we have had the pleasure of sleepless nights, crankiness, whining, not eating and just general fun with her.
Then it got worse and she stopped peeing and started saying it hurt.

So I had the pleasure of collecting my first urine sample from her. We went to the doctor which is always fun with Katie and then were prescribed antibiotics because the doctor said no matter what she is fighting something and they would help.

So, last night was day 2 of antibiotics and the first day she instantly was acting better... then last night it was like she OD'd on speed and she refused to nap and also has been up since 2 am and is still going strong. (it's 9:54 am right now) We get the lab results back today that will tell us if we have to continue the medicine or if we can stop it.

On top of all of this, I have been getting Braxton Hicks contractions too often for our liking - they tend to go away once I sit down and relax but last night they started just from me brushing my teeth. So... since it's christmas eve and I have a doctors appointment on Monday, I am on self/dave-induced "bed" rest until the appt on Monday. If I get more today, I will call the doctor but he's just gonna tell me to take it easy - so that's our game plan for the next few days.

Lucky for me, Dave is home ALL next week and can do stuff around the house and with Katie.

On a GOOD/HAPPY note.. Katie is a Craft-a-holic. She calls them HEART projects and wants to do them ALL DAY/EVERY DAY. She's going to make us bankrupt with the amount of stickers and such that we have to provide for her. The good thing is that the dollar store across the street has foam stickers sometimes, so I will go and BUY them out of stock next time I go in as she goes through them at alarming rates.... but it makes me happy cause now I have a crafting partner:)

Merry Christmas everyone! We are so excited for tomorrow morning and will post pics as soon as we can:)

27 weeks

The colors are awful as I was trying to get these done during naptime in a POORLY lit room with very little patience to fix the issue - but you can get the point for now... better ones to come over the Holidays:)

This one is fairly innocent.... just a regular old lady walking down the street hobbling a little bit as if she has some sort of pain in her lower back (because I do!) Seems to be struggling with carrying the 2 year she's with and you're thinking what is her problem...

Then she turns to the side and BAM - there it is... The Penthouse Suite Sir Metcalfe is residing in which is located directly on my bladder and which is holding enough weight in it to cause said hobbling and back pain and explains the struggle to also be carrying the 25 pound 2 year old.
3 months left.... I can do this!!!!:)

We've been busy!!:)

We have been busy preparing for Christmas just like everyone else around the world!
We are staying home for our first Christmas and are super excited that Katie will get to wake up in her crib and come out to see what Santa brought her at home this year. Traveling during the holidays is just really starting to take it's toll on us so this will be a nice break.
Plus we LOVE Cooking, we so both get to spend some quality time in the kitchen this year - which is sorely missed when we are not here - so we are anxiously awaiting our Pea Pod Delivery on Wednesday with all our goodies for a long weekend of family visits:)

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In the meantime, we made a gingerbread house.... Katie was more interested in the icing than the rest of it, but she LOVES arts and crafts:) So we have been busy trying to keep her busy!

We are going to start touring day cares next week and the week after and I think Katie is going to start going pretty soon after her first birthday for 2 - 3 mornings a week because she is just super bored at home and I'm starting to get super tired again (being in the 3rd trimester PLUS huge amounts of weight gain are exhausting me.) so I think it will be win win for both of us.
If we ever take any other pictures of my belly, I'll post them... sorry I'm usually the one behind the camera so we have definitely dropped the ball on this one :(

Happy Holidays - Hope you all have a GREAT 2 weeks :)

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Possible Christmas card -

This year I am going to go out and buy real Christmas cards and include a 4*6 of Katie instead. I know I always HATE throwing away christmas cards with pictures on them when the season is over, so I figured this way you can keep the picture and throw away the card.

I hope to get them out in the next week or so :)

We're a little busy so I'm WAY behind schedule!!!! Sorry

Santa Train

We all took a special surprise trip today on the Santa Train. It was a 2 hour train ride that had some singing, carols, and a visit from Santa... here are some highlights - it was VERY successful!

Christmas Picture

I don't think we are going to get Christmas Cards out this year... I am just not feeling it and am kinda busy with other stuff... But I did try to get a picture of my lovely lady in front of the tree.... here are some highlights of our photo shoot.

I don't think we are going to get Christmas Cards out this year... I am just not feeling it and am kinda busy with other stuff... But I did try to get a picture of my lovely lady in front of the tree.... here are some highlights of our photo shoot.

Updates - Holidays

Just some pictures from our last few weeks including Thanksgiving and putting up our Christmas tree.

Katie and I went to the doctor earlier this week for a checkup and the doc said that our little boy was actually due closer to March 21. That's our only real update there:)

Watching Thomas before bed at Grammie and Grampies

Yes, she is wearing high heels!!!

Giving her cousins Phone advice!

She LOVED sitting at dinner with her cousins

Helping Decorate the tree.... kind of - she put all the decorations in the same place!