tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5454122562896267702024-03-18T20:46:04.116-07:00Introducing...Baby J!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-20659979811788895412016-08-12T19:51:00.000-07:002016-09-24T19:52:34.306-07:00Juliette: 10 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">10 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She can stand AND she can get up without pushing off or pulling on anything. She goes from the floor to standing totally hands free, which I can't even do some days. I SWEAR she took her first solo step, and even if she didn't, she's been using the kid chairs as walkers allllll over the house. She can also now climb up stairs, drink out of a cup, and wave...that happened at Dini & Gramps house. We were across the yard and as Gramps started walking towards</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.48px;"> us, Juliette started waving to him. It was SO precious! She also tries really hard to say Jenna, and does it pretty well sometimes!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>Her laugh! It cracks me up everytime. I just love how joyful and social she is too. And determined! And focused and clever...she's just great. I love getting to know her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">BBopping up and down in her chair, "singing" with us, putting on tiaras and sunglasses (although they usually end up on the back of her head), playing kazoos (or anything that's somewhat shaped like a kazoo haha), peeking at people through the window, playing in the pool, and DOGS! She was OBSESSED with the dogs at her Dini & Gramps house. When she saw them, she was so...ebullient is really the best word I can think of. And in awe. It was just this joyful and delighted disbelief that she got to touch these dogs. It was so fun to watch.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>Three things: First, she is so darn FAST! There could be a leaf clear across the porch and in .28 seconds it's in her mouth. Second, she wiggles her tongue back and forth when she's concentrating or having fun, which is CRAZY because I use</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">d to do the same thing when I was a kid! Who knew something like that could be genetic?? And third, we do a little bit of sign language and she has done each one absolutely perfectly...ONE time. One perfect "more," one perfect "all done," one perfect "please" ... and now anytime she wants to sign anything, she just claps her hands. Which, as you can imagine, is quite confusing, albeit hilarious</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>She had her first table food!! Spaghetti, a classic. She also had her first airplane ride. She did amazing. She was asleep for most of it, and then on the descent she started being so goofy and throwing her whole self backwards and going "whooaaaaa!" over and over and over again. It was the nuttiest thing, everyone around her was cracking up. And then we got a ton of quality time in with our family up in IL, which was marvelous.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>When she can walk!!! She and Jenna are going to be able to have so much more fun together when they can chase each other around 😍</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-14427123694059622372016-07-12T20:57:00.000-07:002016-08-24T20:58:30.798-07:00Juliette: 9 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">9 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She can stand on her own for like a second, and she says "mama" and "dada!" (Mama was first ;))</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>She's so silly!! I love watching her play peek-a-boo and how she cracks up when Jacob dances with her. And I love watching her with Jenna! She just wants to do everything Jenna does, it's precious.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Putting things in her mouth and crawling around with them...like a puppy dog. Being read to...she sits so still in my lap, except when she gets excited about turning the page or sticking her fingers in the holes of Hungry Little Caterpillar. She also LOVES going through tunnels, playing with our little kitchen, sippy cups, and playing peek-a-boo with the tambourine which I think is HILARIOUS</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>That she's already standing! I just forgot how quickly that all happens</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>First Father's Day, Her first time watching TV! Don't get me wrong, me and Jenna watch shows ALL the time, but we usually do it when she's napping or eating in another room. But the girls all sat down together to watch Winnie the Pooh and Juliette LOVED it. She was just filled with awe and excitement and joy the whole time. I swear, she didn't stop smiling from beginning to end. It was adorable.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Looking Forward To...: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Hearing her talk more! Hearing mama and dada is just about my favorite thing in the world and I can't wait to hear more. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-26106229376219400712016-06-20T12:12:00.000-07:002016-08-08T12:20:28.272-07:00Jenna 2.6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">2 1/2 years old</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She's really into making choices. She loves putting an item in each hand, bobbing them up and down like a see saw, and asking, "Whatchu want?" When we were planning her birthday party she asked, "Can I have eggs at my party?" I told her she could and she said victoriously, "YES!" and then added very matter-of-factly, "We will eat eggs at my party! That is my choice." </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">he's also getting more and more creative and able to come up with different ideas on her own. One day we were singing a song version of "This Little Piggy" and she asked, "Mom, are the piggies in an airplane?" I said, "Hm, I'm not sure. Why do you ask?" And she very simply replied, "I just thought maybe the piggies were in an airplane. That was my thought." I don't know what it was about that comment that struck a chord with me, but I just remember thinking we were at a new level, developmentally. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>Her sense of style. She's all about the accessories, whether it's a hat, sunglasses, or socks on her hands. She insists on wearing rainboots with her tutus and her rainbow pony sweatshirt (named "Steven") goes over just about everything. I also LOVE that she is able to create her own songs and imagination play! It started with her singing a few words...she'd sing something like "Sliding on the slide..." and then say, "Sing it, Mom!" and expect me to sing a whole song about sliding haha. But then she started making up her own songs! Have you not heard the hit single, "There's A Frog In My House"? The verse even (amazingly) rhymes..."There's a frog in the sky, there's a frog on the door, there's a frog in the oven, and it goes to the floor." Genius.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I also love watching her learn to use the English language and especially when she hasn't quite figured it out yet. For example: Do you like this song? = Are you like this song? and Do you want to play with me? = Are you want to play with you?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Her family...she relates everything back to her family. If she sees any grouping of anything (dinosaurs, snails, rocks, you name it) she immediately designates which one is Mommy, Daddy, Jenna, and Juliette and then it becomes a family. She also loves horses, dinosaurs, cats, mermaids, looking for Easter eggs, construction machines (that I've called "diggers" "pushers" "breakers" etc. because I don't know what they're really called), feeding Juliette, playing with the hose, accessories, Snapchat, making tunnels and forts with blankets, baking, the zoo, feeding the birds, being a big helper and having braids in her hair.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>I have to say, it was "There's A Frog In My House." I don't think I've ever been more surprised than when she hopped up on a chair and gave an impromptu performance of that little number. And that really sweet moment when we were sitting together and she asked, "How can I pray for YOU, Mommy?" </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>A series of visits from several family members! It was so funny to see her interact with them. She ALWAYS wanted to be talking to them, but sometimes didn't know what to say or was feeling shy, so her go-to conversation starter was "LOOKIT!" and then she would hold up some random object or do a jump or kick or something. It's now a classic family catchphrase. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>More. Just more. More sister bonding, more goofy songs, more fashion statements, more sweet moments. More of it all :)</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">8 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She is a SUPER crawler, AND she can pull herself up to a standing position! She also had her first experience with snow (which she touched for two seconds and then cried #southernbelle) and went to her first major league baseball game (not the Cubs, but the Astros are still pretty fun anyways)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>Her little personality. I love how happy and easygoing she is about almost everything, and I love seeing how much she genuinely enjoys life and watching all of the fun around her. You can tell she's excited to be a part of it, but at the same time she enjoys just watching it all go down.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Basically everything a baby should not have, e.g. cords, phones, tiny things, hair, and whatever big sister is eating. She also LOVES giving zerberts, playing with the "other" baby in the mirror, and watching the constant shenanigans going on around her. You know what is NOT her favorite? Broccoli. Because I fed her one spoonful and she vomited all over the place. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How distinct her personality is already!! She is such a happy little girl 99% of the time, but when she feels things, she FEEEEELS things. It's not that she's moody or sensitive...in fact, rarely anything makes her cry (just if she thinks we're leaving her and if she's really really hungry), but when she does cry, it's INTENSE. It's never "wah feed me wah wah"...it's always a "MOOOOMMMMMM MY WORLD IS ENDDDDINGGGGGGGGGG I'M SOOO MAAADDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!" kind of cry, which is <i>heartbreaking</i>...but then as soon as the problem is resolved she recovers instantly. She's also CRAZY determined. Whenever she gets a new skill, I can already see her wheels turning like, "ok...what new things can THIS help me do?" The VERY day she learned how to crawl, she used her newfound ability to crawl over to a ledge and try to pull herself up to a standing position...and succeeded. Somehow I think we're going to be a lot alike...is it too premature to make that prediction?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>She got her first little spanking :( (she kept going after cords, it was a safety thing!!) I gave her a little tap on the thigh and she looked around at me and smiled like "Everything's still ok, right? I'm sure you didn't mean that, Mom." and then she went after the cords again, so I had to give her another little tap. She looked at me and tried to smile again, but this really really sad face kept peeking through. I gave Juliette a hug and looked at Jenna, who was intently watching her sister with a look of total sympathy and concern. As soon as she saw the spanking part was over, she rushed over to Juliette and started singing "Sisters" from White Christmas to make her feel better. And my heart exploded.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>When she can talk! She's pretty quiet most of the time, but I want to hear her little thoughts!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-2908448067047220182016-05-12T21:17:00.000-07:002016-06-05T21:17:55.240-07:00Juliette: 7 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">7 months...look at that face!!!! <3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She started eating solids!! And oooh my goodness did she love it. The sweet potatoes went in her mouth and it was like her world went from black and white to color. After that, she couldn't shovel it in fast enough. It was SO cute seeing how into it she was! Here's hoping introducing other foods is this easy! And if that's not enough, she also started sitting herself up on her own! Which is crazy because she JUST started sitting up in general. You've got to admire that tenacity.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b> Sometimes she licks her chops after eating, and I just love seeing her tiny little tongue sticking out. I'm excited for her to get teeth because it means more food options for her, but this gummy phase is just so darn cute</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Sweet potatoes, her sister, sitting in the grass because she can grab it, and trying to make people look at her (she cranes her neck around and stares them down until they look...it cracks me up)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How quickly she's becoming mobile! I mean I guess I shouldn't be surprised...I think this is about when it all happens, it just feels like it's happening so fast! One second she rolled over, and the next second she's sitting herself up and rolling herself across the floor...I can't believe it!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>An inevitable moment in every Houston baby's life...their first flood! Our lawn was completely covered in water, but it was like she didn't even notice. What a pro. She also went in the swing for the first time which she LOVED and in the stroller without a carseat for the first time, which looked like it might've been a little exhausting. She also clocked in some quality hours with her cousins. She and Sofia are only a week or so apart, so it was REALLY cute to see them interact!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>I can't wait until she starts talking more! For being such a friendly and smiley baby, she's surprisingly quiet. I'm excited for when she starts chattering more...and of course, when she starts saying "mama!!" :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sure, being a mom is not always glamorous. My clothes usually have peanut butter and/or stickers on them somewhere and I've encountered more poop face-to-face over the last two years than I ever dreamed. Still, it is AWESOME and I love being a mom, especially because of all the funny little things my kids do. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Everyone keeps telling me to write these things down, so I thought I'd put down a few of my favorites...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For a while, everytime Jenna would see Juliette asleep, she would run up to her and yell, "JULIETTE!" and of course, Juliette would be startled and wake up. Well, I finally sat Jenna down and told her that babies grow big and strong while they're sleeping, so we shouldn't wake Juliette up. The good news is, she listened and stopped yelling Juliette's name. The bad news is, NOW whenever she sees Juliette sleeping, she starts chanting, "GROW! GROW! GROW! GROW!" So.....you can't win 'em all, I guess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jenna has been really into feeding the birds since watching Mary Poppins. We had a dove in our yard so Jenna grabbed a few leftover pieces of waffle, threw them in the grass, turned to me and breathlessly said, "OK! Ok. Mommy, push up my sleeves! Push up my sleeves!" And then ran out towards the bird with her arm outstretched saying, "Here bird! Sit here! Sit here, bird!" Her face was totally like, "This is it! This is the moment!" It was hilarious. Needless to say she did NOT get a bird to sit on her arm, but she hasn't given up yet. She's even varied her tactics over time...a few weeks later we were in the tropical bird house at the zoo and she ran up to one of the birds with her arm outstretched and said, "Here bird! Sit here! It's me, ANNA!" As in, Anna from Frozen. Because even at 2 years old, she knows that being a Disney princess will up the odds of a bird landing on you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ok, for those of you who have never read Duck on a Bike before, here it is in a nutshell: a duck rides a bike and all of the farm animals are watching him. Then a bunch of kids ride their bikes to the farm, and when they go inside, all of the animals grab a bike and start riding too. It's cute. Anyway, we were reading it and I decided to have Jenna practice some inferencing. There's a double-page spread illustration in the book just after the kids leave their bikes out...all of the animals are staring bug-eyed and you can just see the front of a bike tire. I asked Jenna, "what do you think they're looking at?" and all of a sudden she got very very serious and said (maybe a little darkly?), "Tigers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up until recently, Jenna hadn't really made things up. She only talked about things she had seen or heard others say. UNTIL dinner one day, she busted out the most <i>random</i> monologue, all while wildly gesturing and nodding her head. She looked over at me and urgently said, "Mommy! A cow knock on the door? And get Mommy's phone and take a picture Jenna's back. Ok? Cows. Knock on the door. Ok? Take a picture Jenna's back! Ok? Ok Mommy?" So I just said "...yeah. Ok!" because what else am I going to say? But then she got really scared!! And she climbed into my lap and I had to spend the next ten minutes trying to convince her that a cow wasn't <i>actually</i> going to knock on our door. (?!??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh yes, and then there's BCOI. Every time we color with anything....markers, chalk, crayons, a pen, paints, you name it....Jenna asks me to write BCOI over and over and over again. I have no idea where she heard it or why she always asks for it, but we have BCOI graffitied all over our house. Come over sometime and see how many you can spot. It's like those numbers from Lost. <br /> BCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOIBCOI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And of course, we can't forget about Juliette! She's in that phase where she wants EVERYTHING in her mouth. If we're being really silly with her and our faces are close together, she gets overly excited. She grabs my cheeks, opens her mouth as wide as possible, and tries to pull my entire face into her mouth. It always makes me start laughing, which makes her start laughing, which gets her even MORE excited, which makes her work even harder at getting my face in her mouth. It's a vicious cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Anyway, like I said: I love being a mom. I'm sure I'll have lots more stories like this in the future so stay tuned.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-14065292191003078682016-04-13T19:39:00.000-07:002016-04-13T19:39:19.354-07:00Jenna 2.3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">2 years and 3 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She went from speaking in short, clipped sentences to giving full-on monologues and having long imaginary conversations with her toys or nearby animals. She has the best imagination! She can also jump with both feet, which she's been trying to do for almost a year.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>I just love chatting with her. I love asking about what she learned at Sunday School or what her favorite moments of the day were. I love when she asks to pray for Juliette when she's crying and for her BSF teacher who's in the hospital. I love being able to reason with her and hearing her try to reason with me. It's just fun, this whole stage is just really really fun.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Birds!! We feed the birds in our yard almost every day and she would love nothing more than for a bird to land on her arm. She also loves running, galloping, jumping...pretty much any ultra-high energy motion is her preferred mode of transportation. And, of course, she loves tutus, dinosaurs, stickers, twirling, garbage trucks, sunglasses, trumpets, cheese sticks, Sofia the First, party hats, slides, sea lions, tea parties, puzzles, wearing a backpack, cleaning, soccer, horses, band-aids, taking care of her sister, and helping me cook.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">These past three months have been full of doctor's visits and poison control calls. Oy. I've been so impressed though. Well...first, impressed with her knack for getting into these situations haha. But also impressed with her attitude through it all! For instance, the doctor heard some irregular beats so Jenna had to wear a heart monitor for a day. She had all these wires stuck on her chest with a huge battery pack clipped on her pants...I was nervous how she would handle it, but she just patted the battery pack and said, "I got my phone!" and bounded away. She showed her stickers to everyone she ran into, cried when we had to take them off, and asked "More doctor, please?" It was adorable. Most impressive was at a separate ER visit (after getting into some Dermaplast) when she had to have her blood drawn from an arterial vein. They couldn't find the vein and wiggled the needle around in her arm for literally. twenty. minutes. It was THE WORST! But she sat completely still and silent until the very last two minutes. THEN she started crying because by that point, she had had enough...and frankly, I had too!! She was such a champ!</span><br />
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Other Notable Moments: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Christmas, Valentine's Day (complete with a Galentine's Day tea party and Daddy/Daughter dance), her third Rodeo (because she's a true Texan), and Easter</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-75605137404822482272016-04-12T12:24:00.000-07:002016-05-21T12:47:38.573-07:00Juliette: 6 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">6 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Sitting up without me spotting her at all, and she's even rolled over a few times!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>I just love getting to know her more and more. I love how easily she smiles, how she rolls over to her right side when she's tired, how much she loves people, how badly she wants to be able to do the things big sister does...it's just so fun getting to see her personality come out more and more</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Sitting up! She worked sooo hard to be able to do it, and it makes her so happy now that she can. She also loves just being with her family. She has a really hard time being left in the church nursery...it's sad to see her so upset, but it's also really sweet seeing how excited she gets when I come back :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>It's amazing to me how smiley she is! She's so friendly to everyone...every time we go out, people ask me, "Is she always this <i>happy?" </i>Yup, pretty much.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>A trip to New Orleans, Easter, a visit from Grammy and Poppy, and a visit from Uncle Adam and her cousin Pete...it's been a whirlwind month, but so fun!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>More visitors! My sister and her family are coming to visit next month and I can't wait for Juliette to meet more of her cousins!</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">5</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Rolling over! She can roll over from back to front. She can also sit for a few seconds at a time. She's getting to be such a big girl!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>I've almost<i> completely </i>sleep trained her, only during her afternoon nap she wakes up after about 45 minutes and only goes back to sleep if I bring her into bed with me for some snuggles. I'm sure it COULD be fixed with some more training...except I have no interest in fixing it! I love our one-on-one snuggle time and am ok with it going on as long as possible.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Squeaking! She is such a happy, friendly little squeaker! She also loves playing with her rings. I have them hanging from the top of her carseat and she gets SO excited whenever she sees them. I let her play with them when she was sitting in her Bumbo, and every time she dropped them she would cry. I didn't really realize how much she loved them until then! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>She sleeps on her side! I had no idea little babies did that and I love watching her roll to her side as soon as I lay her in the crib. Oh yeah, and her hair is totally golden! It was super dark when she was born, but now it's coming in pure gold! Not blonde, definitely not blonde. Not red. And not brown. It really is a glowy beautiful gold, and with the dark tips from when she was born, it's a very stylish reverse ombre. She's so trendy!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>Her first Valentine's Day! She was too little for the Father/Daughter dance this year, but we went on a family picnic to celebrate and it was blast. She also went to her first Rodeo and particularly enjoyed the sand box filled with corn kernels</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>This whole month! Well, the next two months, really. We have so many fun visitors and plans coming up! I can't wait for Juliette to meet and spend time with more of her family</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-73986476197083949792016-02-12T22:03:00.000-08:002016-03-08T22:04:17.247-08:00Juliette: 4 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">4</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Pulling her paci in and out of her mouth! It's not perfect, but she has gotten super coordinated</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>Making her laugh! She cracks up when you get anywhere near her cheeks, so I tickle them pretty much any chance I get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Grabbing her feet. It's pretty much her standard position these days. And of course, she still loves being completely buried in blankets, her sister, and pretty much anytime anyone looks at her.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>It's amazing to me how coordinated she is! Grabbing and holding things and putting them in her mouth...she's getting really good! We started sleep training her a little and when we go in to pop her paci she grabs our fingers and pulls them as close to her as possible. It's so cute how much she doesn't want us to leave</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>We found out that she is dairy intolerant...for now, anyway. Apparently kids usually grow out of it eventually, which is good news. It took a few ice cream binges on my part before we finally figured it all out, but now that I've stopped eating dairy, she's SO much happier! No more crying when she's gassy, no more dry itchy skin, no spitting up...it's pretty incredible what a difference it's made!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>When she and Jenna can play! I love when she gives her those huge grins and I can't wait until they can do even more together</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-69344411618812538172016-01-12T17:53:00.002-08:002016-03-12T13:40:28.784-08:00Hospital Bag Must-Haves<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have a bunch of friends who are about to be new mommys, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on hospital bags. Packing your hospital bag can be a daunting task. For some reason, I had a <i>major</i> mental block about putting mine together. If Juliette had come any earlier, I would've been completely unprepared! In the hopes of saving others from my mental anguish, I thought I'd put together a list of things I found useful at the hospital (and some things I didn't!) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Identification/Insurance Card/Paperwork</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Duh. Just getting the boring stuff out of the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Nice toilet paper</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You might think I'm joking putting this one right at the top but </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">trust </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">me...after pushing out a baby and potentially having stitches down there, you do NOT want some thin as garbage TP falling apart on you. Going to the bathroom is scary enough as it is. This is actually something I didn't think to pack and had my mom bring from home later on. It is just that important!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Colace</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The only thing scarier than hospital-grade toilet paper is your first postpartum #2. Bring some stool softeners from home just in case, but I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that if you ask your nurses, they'll give some. Still, you do not want to try going through that first BM unassisted. Why, you ask? 2 reasons: #1 hemorrhoids and #2 anal fissures. </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anal. FISSURES! </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enough said, y'all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also known as Tuck's, hemorrhoid pads, little discs of heaven, etc. Not just for hemorrhoids, these little babies will help with itching, pain, and swelling...all things that can (and probably will) happen after delivery. Stick them in the fridge for a little extra oooh and aaah.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hair ties</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because you'll want a way to quickly make your hair not bonkers. On that note, depending on how you roll, you may want to pack a few favorite make up items for visitors/pictures with baby/not feeling like a </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">total </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">slob. Or not, whatevs. You just had a baby. Do what you want!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again, depending on how you roll, you may be totally cool with chilling in just your hospital gown for a couple days. However, at some point you may want the option for a little more coverage/support. I think it's a good idea to have at least</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> one outfit for when you feel like junk, one outfit for when you want to pretend like you have your life together, and a nursing bra. By the way, cute or not, all of these should be very loose and comfortable! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Toiletries</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Namely, a toothbrush, toothpaste, chapstick, lotion, and some </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">shower stuff</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">. You're going to be dealing with enough without having to worry about bad breath or dry skin. Just buy travel-sized ones so you can have them packed well in advance. Also, is gum a toiletry? Because gum is also a great idea. You will most likely be napping every few hours and sometimes you just need a little refresher, know what I'm sayin?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bring burp rags and a cute little outfit to bring him/her home in! Maybe a big fuzzy blanket, if you're due during the cooler months. I'll cover this later, but the hospital will likely provide diapers and wipes, so don't worry about those.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe it's just me, but I just feel like there is no substitute for your own pillow. I don't sleep the same without it. Besides, after having a baby you really don't need anything else messing with your sleep. Just make sure you have a non-white pillow case so it doesn't get mixed up with the hospital's pillows!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Midnight snacks</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trust me, the hospital will keep you very well fed. However, they don't necessarily feed your hubby so it's a good idea to keep some things around for his sake. AND because until you've been a breastfeeding mom, you do not. know. hunger. I'm talking calories like WHOA.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cell phone charger</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because it's 2016 and everyone is going to be constantly texting and asking for pictures and commenting on Facebook....you know what? Maybe "forgetting" your charger wouldn't be the worst thing in the world...</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Garbage Bag</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is actually for the car ride over. Look, apparently only 30% of women have their water break outside of the hospital, but there was NO way I was going to risk getting amniotic fluid all up in my car upholstery. Cleaning fabric in your car is the WORST. Trust the woman that is currently trying to get rotten applesauce out of her backseat. #toddlermomproblems</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Underwear </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I mean, by all means you can wear it when you go to the hospital, but don't worry about packing any. They will give you giant stretchy underwear that can fit your giant (and I mean GIANT) postpartum pads. Even if you get a c-section, things are still a little, uh...messy afterwards. The mesh underwear are not cute or flattering by any means, but they're comfortable and more importantly, disposable. Suck it up, buttercup.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Books, magazines, etc.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You <i>may</i> think you'll need something to keep you from getting bored (after all, you're going to be there for two whole days!!) but really, any spare moment you have, you just need to be sleeping. Sure, there might be a few moments of lucidity and energy in those first few days where you're like, hey! I feel great! And those moments are nice. Use them to snap a few quick pics of you and your munchkin being an adorable family....but then go back to sleep. Somewhere around day 3-5, you are going to be hit with a tsunami of emotions and exhaustion. Don't worry, it'll pass soon enough, but just...just sleep, ok?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Your dignity</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Really, just leave it right on at home. Nurses and doctors and sanitation people and photography people and food service people and lactation consultant people and customer service survey people and billing people and birth certificate people and probably 8 other different kinds of people are going to be walking in and out whenever they please and you're going to be disheveled and breastfeeding and walking to the bathroom with your tush hanging out of your hospital gown and you're just going to be too tired to do anything about it. Sure, you're maybe not looking your best, but you just had a baby. If you have so much as a smile on your face, they'll be impressed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Anything the hospital provides</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can find this out on your hospital tour...my hospital provided diapers, wipes, giant mesh underwear, giant pads, Dermaplast (which I love), a squirt bottle, nipple cream, drrruuuuuuugssss, little baby shirts, blankets (that we could not take home), baby hats (that we could), and a huge amazing water bottle with a bendy straw like my mom had in the 90's. I think all of these things are pretty standard but again, double check with your hospital. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And really, truly, that's all you need. HOWEVER, if you would feel better bringing your lavender aromatherapy incense, entire case of essential oils, poster of a peaceful meadow, and electric scalp massager then hey...you do you. You're the one having the baby after all.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FYI, on Google Images the caption for this was "Image of a pregnant woman having a natural childbirth" Uuuuummmm agree to disagree.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-52134999926748729562016-01-12T16:20:00.000-08:002016-03-08T22:04:41.456-08:00Juliette: 3 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">3 months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Sitting in the Bumbo! Huge. She loves it, I think because it makes her feel included in all of our shenanigans :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>How smiley she is!! She just lights up whenever anyone looks at her, it just melts my heart!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Being around people, chatting, and her bugs that hang from the top of her car seat. She can sit there, smiling and talking to them for the longest time. They're best buds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How different she is from Jenna at this age! I mean, nothing drastic and if I were to make a list, there would probably be more similarities than differences but...they're just each their own little person! It's so fun!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>Her first Christmas and New Years! Jenna did most of the present opening for her, but she is enjoying her new black & white picture books :) MY favorite part was all of the festive outfits, naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-4789369445390674322015-12-31T12:19:00.001-08:002015-12-31T16:09:26.453-08:00Jenna 2.0<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">This post is for 1 year and 10 months all the way through turning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><i>2 years old</i>!!! I'm going to have to start chunking these into 3 month sections...first, because Jenna's changing a lot less quickly now that she's getting older, and second, because I'm much busier now that I have two little munchkins to look after!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She just started speaking in full sentences every now and then. Her first one was when we were FaceTiming with Jacob...she was pointing out where everything was (a favorite past time) and then said "And Juliette's Tummy Time is also over there." After months of hearing her say only disjointed words, we both did a double-take! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">We also got rid of the paci!!! I was sooo anxious about it because Jenna <i>loved </i>her pacifiers. I actually cried when we started talking about taking them away. I was probably hormonal, but I just felt so bad!! The only way she got to sleep at night was if she had one in her mouth and one rubbing against her eye. I don't really know how <i>that </i>started, but she was always so easy to put down that we just rolled with it. One time, Jacob was trying to get her to sing Jesus Loves Me before putting her to bed and she finally exasperatedly said, "JesuslovesmethisIknow! Paci?" Anyway, when we finally took them away, we explained to her that now that she was a big girl, pacifiers could hurt her teeth so she couldn't have them anymore. She actually took it really well and hasn't asked for them since, but she DID have a reeeallllly hard time getting to sleep over the next few days. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b>To name a few things: yogurt, dinosaurs, mermaids, sea lions, accessories, tutus, lizards, hanging on things, painting her nails, Sofia the First, stickers, coloring, and...h</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">er sister! For the first solid month, anytime she would walk into a room with Juliette, Jenna would squish her hands onto her (Jenna's) cheeks and say, "Awww Ju-we-ette! <i>CUTE!</i>" The first night we had Juliette at the house and she started crying at night, Jenna woke up and started crying too. I went in there and the first thing Jenna said was, "Ju-we-ette" and didn't stop crying until I explained that Juliette was ok, and babies just cry to tell us they need something. Juliette is still the first thing Jenna asks about when she wakes up, she always wants to lay next to her on the floor and sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to her, and she always is bringing her a blanket or paci or showing her things she's excited about (like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEdKJQQNIA" target="_blank">The Little Mermaid, followed by her sweet dance moves</a>.) They are going to be best buds.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">She's also obsessed with all things Christmas! I'm still befuddled as to how <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10105639428896100&set=a.10100820427663200.3059699.1948089&type=3&theater" target="_blank">she knew</a> that the wreaths at HEB were for Christmas since we definitely had not talked about Christmas at all yet. NOW we do though...she loves the movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and her favorite CD is Hanson's Snowed In. In fact, according to Jenna that is the ONLY "Christmas tree music" there is. Bing Crosby? Amy Grant? Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Get outta here with that noise. Hanson. is. everything. <i>(That's my girl.)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">AND she loves talking about where things are..."over there" and "right there" are her favorite phrases which is convenient because......</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>She always knows where everything is!! As a sleep-deprived mom of two, I LOVE being able to say, "where's my phone?" and have Jenna say, "Table! Over there!" Because really at this point, I honestly need help finding my phone AND the table...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I also just can't get enough of seeing my girls together. Jenna is so sweet with Juliette. She always holds her hand, but she's not super into actually <i>holding</i> her...she'll ask to do it every now and then but then after exactly 1 second of holding Juliette she says, "ALL DONE!" which, in truth, makes things much easier for me.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">A few other favorites are watching her play with friends, hearing about her day (even though I was there for all of it, I just like to hear what parts stood out to her), how she calls lizards "scissors" and scissors "sharps," and how goofy she is! She KNOWS a few things that always make me laugh, and she'll bust them out randomly when she's feeling silly. I love it.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How easy the transition into having a little sister has been. I haven't seen a hint of jealousy and she has so far always been really gentle with Juliette. There was a little bit of potty training regression, but I think that was more because I got really lazy about it and kept putting her in pull-ups. We're back on track now, though!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>Going Trick-or-Treating for the first time! We only went to two or three houses, but Jenna got REALLY into it. She started randomly saying "TRICK-OR-TREAT!!!!! ..........candy, please?" over the next few weeks. Unrelated to her new obsession with candy, we also had her first trip to the dentist, which went awesome, and moved her into a big girl bed!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Also, she got her first bangs, officially. They look super cute, but ever since I cut them, I'm paranoid that she'll take cutting hair into her own hands. I've already seen her try to do it with toenail clippers on her mermaid toy...Lord help me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>The cooler weather! Between the summer heat and having Juliette, I feel like we've essentially been hermits. Now that I have my act together a little more, I'm excited for more trips to the park, zoo, walks around the neighborhood, and even just playing in the backyard. It's so fun to watch her explore!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-55451516178184307902015-12-12T14:07:00.000-08:002016-01-24T14:08:24.869-08:00Juliette: 2 Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">2</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Social smiling!! It's the best! And she has slept through the night a few times, which I am definitely excited about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>All of her sweet little noises! I could listen to her all day. Plus, that dimple!! It just kills me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Chatting with us. She loves just sitting on our laps, smiling and cooing and gurgling. She is very social and knows her family...mom, dad, and big sister always get big smiles. She also loves being extremely cozy and warm, listening to music, and her swing.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How easy she is! I kind of forgot how much babies sleep and just...hang out. It's great. Of course, that's not to say there aren't moments where she's fussy or has giant poop explosions (like the one at church when I didn't have any back up clothes for her OR me OR newborn diapers so I had to put a size 5 diaper on her, cover her with a blanket, and cart a nekked baby around church. Oh yeah, and hope no one saw the poop on my pants.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>Her first Thanksgiving...I mean, she obviously couldn't appreciate the holiday to its full extent, but she definitely was on board with the napping part! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>When she can sit up more! Even if she's just in the Bumbo, I feel like she'll be able to be more of a part of everything. Right now I feel like my attention is kind of divided between my girls because one is flat on her back and the other is up and playing. I can't wait until Juliette can be upright and interact with all of us more often!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-10617996473255837852015-12-01T18:30:00.001-08:002015-12-01T18:30:33.515-08:00...Hello Juliette!!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Honestly, I didn't think giving birth could get any easier after Jenna buuuuuut I was wrong. Listen, I wouldn't really classify myself as being outstandingly talented at anything, but you guys? I am really really good at giving birth. Seriously. The nurses asked me to come back and do it again the next day. Granted, it's much easier to be good at giving birth when you have an epidural, but still. I am a birth-giving </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">machine</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, y'all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It all started around 12:30 in the afternoon. I had just spent a delightful morning interacting with the crazy people of Walmart <i>(see previous post)</i> and was settling down for my lunch/nap when I felt the first contraction. Actually, I didn't know if it was a contraction or if Juliette was just moving around in an uncomfortable way, so I waited to see if there was any sort of pattern to what I was feeling. If you've never been in labor before, contractions (for me, anyway) feel kind of like period cramps, except instead of being a dull ache that hangs around all the time, it comes on gradually and increases in intensity before tapering off again. And of course, they happen at regular intervals. After I felt it again roughly 20 minutes later, I texted Jacob to let him know I MIGHT be in labor. Not to leave work yet, but just to be on alert. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 2:30, my contractions were the same low level of intensity, but were now 2 minutes apart. I called my OB's office, and the nurse COMPLETELY freaked out. I tried to tell her that I think that's just how my body does early labor (my contractions were 2 minutes apart with Jenna for a while too), but she told me I should come in anyway. I started preparing to go to the hospital (making all the necessary calls, getting my things together, etc.) but I was suuuuuper slow about it because I was afraid of going in too early...I really didn't want to get there just to be sent home after they checked me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 4:30, our friend Joel was over to watch Jenna, Jacob was home from work, and we were on our way to the hospital! For the most part, we held off letting people know because I really wasn't sure if I was actually in labor and I didn't want to have to send out a second "JK NEVERMIND!" text later on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently, October 12 was a popular day for giving birth, because there was no room left in triage for me and we were put straight into a room (score!) I still felt really silly being there because I rated my contractions as being a 1 or a 2 on the pain scale and when the nurse examined me, I was 4.5 cm dilated, which wasn't that different from my last OB appointment. (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the way, can we talk about that pain scale for a second?? I hate being asked to rate my pain because it's so relative! In the grand scheme of things, a 10 is probably like...getting your arm sawed off and I've never felt anything like that, so how can I judge where I'm at??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, our nurse was so great, and reassured me that as I was 40 weeks, having regular contractions, and dilated halfway, she would make me sign an AMA if I wanted to leave now and I should really stay. I agreed, but asked for my water to be broken just to make sure things kept rolling along. I still felt like it couldn't be real that I was actually in labor, so at one point I asked</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, "Just to be clear...I'm definitely going to have this baby in the next 24 hours?" She laughed and said, "You're probably going to have the baby in the next 6 hours." Huge relief.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> That finally gave me the confidence to tell my mom to go ahead and book a flight, and to have Jacob spread the word that it was go time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, also our nurse was amazing because as soon as I said I wanted to stay, she made sure to get my IV drip and paperwork going RIGHT away so I would be ready to get my epidural at the first hint of any increased discomfort. God bless you, Amber. It worked out perfectly too. She came in to check on me maybe 20 minutes after having my water broken and asked how I was doing. This is pretty much how it went down:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Nurse: "How are you doing? Do you think you're ready for your epidural yet?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Me: "Umm I don't know. My contractions are a little more intense, but I don't think I'm in <i>active</i> labor yet."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Nurse: (gives me a look) You're 6-7 cm dilated. You're in active labor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Me: Oh ok well...yeah let's go ahead and get the epidural then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the time the epidural was put in and working like a charm, I had only had about 3 or 4 actually painful contractions. Then all we had to do was wait! I mean really, could it have been any easier?? That was around 7:00 and we were getting kind of hungry, so Jacob and I ordered some food from Cheesecake Factory to eat when everything was said and done. Then we just hung out, chatted and periodically checked the Cubs score (they won, by the way. Maybe Juliette will be a lucky charm for them!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shortly after 9:00, the whole labor and delivery entourage came in. I was at 10 cm so they had me push through a contraction and there was her head! The OB told me to wait until the next contraction, but then she looked up kind of unsurely and said, "Unless...you want to push now?" I shrugged and said something like, "Might as well" or "Sure, I could push." Maybe 30 seconds later at 9:07 PM, she was born at 20 inches, 6 lb. 15 oz., and with an APGAR score of 9 and 9 because we're high achievers like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They saw a little bit of meconium in the amniotic fluid earlier on, so I was preparing myself for them to take her away to examine for a while before I could see her (that happened with Jenna and it was really hard for me) BUT they made it a point to hold her up and let me see her right when she was born. I totally lost it and started crying. Honestly, I probably cried more than Juliette did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we just got to snuggle and take pictures and eat Cheesecake Factory....I mean, can you imagine anything better?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wait, yes I can. The next day </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh4CxxvUBxE" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">when Jenna came</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and our whole family was together for the first time. THAT was better than anything else I could possibly imagine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Welcome to the world, Juliette Elize!! We love you a whole lot!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually, this is probably a more accurate depiction of our life now... :)</span></td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 39 weeks and 2 days...although according to the doctor's due date, I was an even 40 weeks. You win this time around, science.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Total weight gain: </b>34 pounds...WHICH, by the way, is something I totally don't mind talking about but...let me start by saying this: I managed to make it almost all the way through my pregnancy without ANY strange pregnancy-related interactions with strangers. I had several pleasant and helpful ones, but nothing weird or awkward until the VERY LAST WEEK of my pregnancy. And then the crazies came out of the woodwork. I had one lady rub my belly like a Magic 8 Ball...seriously, she rubbed aaallll around it. And then on very the day I went into labor, I was at Walmart buying a new coffee machine and was stopped by a woman who asked me if I'd ever been to Trader Joe's. She then proceeded to tell me how I shouldn't buy any food at Walmart because it's all "bad for baby" and she ONLY shops at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. First of all, lady...you're clearly a little late in the game to be talking to me about my pregnancy diet. Second of all, your grocery bill must be outrageous. Just sayin'. THEN she asks, "So how much weight have you gained?" UM!!! And not in an "Oh my gosh, you look so great! You can't have gained any weight during this pregnancy!" way but in a "Let me scrutinize every morsel you've put in your mouth over the last 10 months" way. And then she really and truly did give me an analysis of whether that was an appropriate amount of weight to gain or not. (It was, because <i>she</i> gained 30 lb. during her pregnancy and was back to her pre-pregnancy weight immediately after pushing out her baby. Yeah right, if your baby weighed 20 POUNDS) Oh man...I really wish I could've seen her reaction to me putting down Hostess Cupcakes a few months ago like my life depended on it. Folks, can we just all agree that asking strangers about their weight isn't super polite? Kgreatthanx. Oh also, I really liked the part of my shopping trip where an employee stood there and <i>shook her head at me</i> while Jenna had a full on meltdown because she wasn't big enough to push the cart. Rude. This is what I get for going to Walmart.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Target maternity tanks and hand-me-down maternity jeans were king this pregnancy! Not to mention my trusty yoga pants (sans any actual yoga, of course)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>There were definite ups and downs, but I think I slept better at night overall this pregnancy than I was expecting to. And I had WAY less weird dreams. Unfortunately, the night before I went into labor I decided it would be a good idea to stay up super late and work on every meaningless project ever...or maybe I just binged on Netflix. I can't remember because I'm (unsurprisingly) still quite sleep deprived </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Best thing about pregnancy overall: </b>There are a lot of really great things about pregnancy. Everybody always tells you how cute you are, your hormones can do awesome inexplicable things like make the hair on your head really thick and your leg hair basically stop growing, you wear tight shirts everyday without a care in the world, you get a free pass for eating seconds on everything, and the best parking spots at Kroger...BUT! BUT! BUT! Actually having that little tiny human at the end of it all? I mean, there's just no contest. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The thing I missed most during this pregnancy was my mobility/comfort. It's tough running around after a 1-year-old when you're carrying 30+ extra pounds and can't twist or bend like you used to! [However, side note: there are huge perks to having a 1-year-old around when pregnant. Besides the cute factor and the part where I love her and stuff, it was awesome having her around because she totally picked up after me and would run and get me things when getting up off the floor just seemed way too hard. Love my little helper!]</span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Juliette was so active!! She moved a lot, but it was a lot less like kicking and a lot more like just getting comfortable in there...she loved stretching herself aallllll the way out (</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">which involved pushing out on opposite sides of my stomach, which both feels and looks totally bizarre) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">and tossing around until she found just the right place to curl up. They actually had a really hard time monitoring my contractions and Juliette's heartbeat during labor because she kept moving around so much.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sweets!!! Nuff said.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Other than my one week of chicken aversion, I didn't have too many issues with queasiness. PTL!!!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The baby bump:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> I mean, what is there to say? I was pretty large and in charge there for a while, and practically busting out of my skin at the end. I think I might've been bigger with this pregnancy, or maybe Juliette was just lower...but I DEFINITELY had to waddle quite a bit in those last few weeks. I mean, it wasn't an option. My legs literally did not have room to move straight forward</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl!! I'm already having so much fun putting her in all of Jenna's old clothes...and we've only dipped into the footie pajamas so far. They're so cute!! <3</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I felt like I had labor signs for SO long!! The waiting was so hard because I just wanted to meet Juliette, but it made things go much quicker in the end, which I definitely appreciated!!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Sooooo far out! Jenna loved it, Jacob hated it, and I finally got my outie back after all these years. It was a nice reunion, old friend.</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> They ended up off. I couldn't squeeze them back on my finger in the end if I wanted to. Luckily I was able to put them on again at about a week postpartum, so I'm not permanently sausage-fingered</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Overall happy, but I had a lot of anxiety during this pregnancy! I really wasn't expecting that, but I think I just wanted to make sure I did things right AND I had a much better idea of what I'd be missing if something went wrong!! I know there are no guarantees ever, but I'm just super happy that she's out safe and sound</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Watching my girls grow up together! I can't wait to see their relationship grow...I love them both so much!!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-89382165920472044072015-11-12T16:04:00.000-08:002016-03-08T22:05:20.040-08:00Juliette: 1 Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">1 month</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">I mean, all of the obvious firsts...first cry, first poop, first trip to the grocery store (more of a milestone for me than for her, probably), umbilical cord falling off after less than a week (because she's advanced, obviously), and MOST gloriously that she has gone 5-6 hours between feedings overnight a few times. It's marvelous to only have to wake up once during the night. It was really tough for the first few weeks. She spit up a lot so I was always afraid of her choking overnight and i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">t felt like she cried anytime we set her down...we ended up sleeping with her on our chests almost every night for the first two weeks which a) is definitely not AAP sanctioned and b) while it is so snuggly and fun, is not actually particularly <i>restful. </i> BUT after a few weeks, we figured out that we weren't bundling her up enough, so she was crying because she was cold. #parentingfail She sleeps great now though...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>When she smiles at me!!! Sometimes it's just gas, but I think she really does know me and smiles when she sees me. She has the cutest little coo when I smile at her. And I love her dimples!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Her Favorites: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Being held, hearing me and Jenna sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (it gets a smile every time), baths, being swayed back and forth, being in the swing, and being practically buried in blankets. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Surprises: </b>How fast time has gone!! She already holds up her head so well knows who I am and has things that she likes...I forgot how quickly that all happens. Also, girl is NOISY!!! She just grunts and growls and makes all kinds of noises,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPZueaU8xX0" target="_blank"> even when she sleeps</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>Her first Halloween!! The girls both had cat costumes, which Jenna was obsessed with and Juliette didn't poop or spit up on so I can only assume she loved them as well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Looking Forward To...: </b>Oh, everything. Each stage is so fun and I'm just enjoying the one we're in right now.</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 39 weeks. Baby apparently is the size of a watermelon! Yep, that sounds about right.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;">We also did our first pumpkin patch of the year, complete with petting zoo, mini-pumpkin decorating, and pony/cart ride through a Frozen-themed forest. Basically everything Jenna is obsessed with and it was really really fun. If I haven't mentioned, I flipping love everything about October through December.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sitting on the couch! It just hurts my back too much right now. I've been sitting on the tile whenever we watch TV, and let me tell you...sitting on tile = cold cold buns</span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> So much! I honestly don't remember Jenna being this active when I was this far along with her. Juliette definitely loves to stretch out and shift around to find just the perfect snuggle spot!</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sweets, burgers, and fries. Basically my favorite things in general anyways, but now I want them 100x more!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>No, and I feel like I've been STARVING this week! Seriously, I'm a bottomless pit right now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Yes, almost all of the gross ones! I won't list them here because if you don't know, you really don't need to. I will say this though...I feel like if you're at the point in your life when you're having babies and you don't have <i>anyone </i>to text about your pre-labor diarrhea, you're doing life wrong. Whoops, I guess I just said one of the gross things. Well anyway, I'm not even sure if that one was due to impending labor or because of all of the weirdo organic pregnancy tea I've been guzzling to "ready my womb for labor," as it says on the box. Aaand since I haven't ACTUALLY gone into labor yet, I'm going to go ahead and guess the latter. Rats.</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Still off! I miss my ring! </span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">In the interest of being totally honest, I actually had a lot of really blue moments this week! I think it was a combination of hormones and anxiousness over birthing logistics and very little sleep and feeling listless because all of my to-do's have been to-done and because I </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">really really really really thought Thursday was going to be the day and then it wasn't....this weekend really rejuvenated me, but up until that point I was struggling with just feeling really <i>sad!</i> It made me nervous too because I had ZERO postpartum depression with Jenna and I was (and still am a little) afraid that my moodiness this week meant I might be hit with the baby blues pretty hard this time around. And who knows, I might. The good news is this past week gave me and Jacob a chance to talk about potentially having postpartum depression, since I don't think it crossed either of our minds up until this point. At least we'll be prepared if it happens!</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Meeting my sweet little girl, and having all of the grandparents come down to visit/help!! (Not all at once, naturally. That would be insane.) My mom is flying down as soon as I go into labor and I'm SO excited to see her!!!!! Not to mention, having her visit be shortly followed up by my dad's (staggered to maximize help and to make sure someone is around the Chicago area for the birth of my niece Sofia!!) and then Jacob's parents in early November. I'm just so psyched to see all of our folks!! <3 <3 <3</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-51054009578374884832015-10-10T20:02:00.000-07:002015-10-10T20:02:37.824-07:00Jenna 1.9<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Age: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">One year and nine months. I've just started telling people that she's "almost 2" when they ask, which I can't believe is true!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Milestones: </b>Potty training!! We're not QUITE there yet, but she's getting really good at telling us when she needs to go. We just need to work on sitting patiently on the potty for #2 to come out. AND not stripping naked in her crib whenever she has a wet diaper overnight....yeah, that's been happening.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>My Favorites: </b>Potty training!! Don't get me wrong...the whole process has definitely had its ups and downs, but all in all I LOVE not having to change her diaper all the time. I'd so much rather just pop her on the potty when we're running errands than cross my fingers that her poopy diaper doesn't leak before finding a changing station somewhere. PLUS, because we always celebrate when she goes in the potty, she has started celebrating when WE go too. She comes flying around the corner, wildly applauding and saying, "YAAAAYYYY MOMMMYYYYYY!!!! POTTTYYYYY YAAAYYYYYY!!!!" every time she hears the toilet flush. I don't know the last time anyone applauded you for anything, but let me tell you...it's an ego booster.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Her Favorites: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Gymnastics! I wasn't sure how long it would take her to warm up to it, but it was instantly a hit. The second I let her hang from the uneven bars, I peeked around to see her face and I'm telling you...the Easter Bunny could've been standing there singing Frozen and holding 10 kittens and giant vat of cottage cheese and she wouldn't have looked more excited. We're also getting really into Winnie the Pooh and Sophia the First since Mommy is getting huge and sometimes needs a mid-morning nap. Can I just say too, that I love how she love frogs, trucks, and dinosaurs just as much as she loves kitties, tutus, and tea parties? Still not a huge fan of bugs though.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Surprises: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">How well she knows songs!! I love hearing her sing along with whatever we're listening to...she chimes in with the words that she knows and does all the hand motions like a pro. We also have Disney Pandora on a lot...just in the past week she's been asking to look at the album covers whenever a new song comes on, and now can identify which song is from "Mermaid!" or "Lion!" when she hears them, even though she's never seen the movie. What a pro!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><b>Other Notable Moments: </b>She started putting two words together! Her first phrases were "bye bye tape" when Jacob threw away a tape dispenser and "dog bath" when we were at Petsmart. Profound stuff, really. Other than that, potty training and prepping for Juliette's arrival have sort of dominated this month. Other than little outings to the library, some friends' houses, and Mother's Day Out, we haven't been up to much.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Looking Forward To... </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Seeing her with Juliette! She's been having so much fun pretending to feed, change, and put her stuffed animals and baby down for naps. I can't wait to see how loving she is with her new little sister!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"MOM! No pictures right now, we needed to get these figures out like...yesterday!"</td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 38 weeks</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Yes, and I've officially graduated from my medium yoga pants to my large ones. #movingonup</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>Really good for the first part of the week, and then towards the end of the week my back just started killing me and sleep got reeeeally tricky! I think because she's so low, it's rolling out my hips and pinching some nerves near my tailbone. Yowza. Either that or it's back contractions....fingers crossed for that one, (even though it's not any less uncomfortable!) On the cute side, Jenna has started rubbing my back and moving Jacob's hands onto my back to help fix Mommy's "owies" haha<br /><b>Best moment this week: </b>October's arrival!!!! I LOVE this month, and I'm so glad that Juliette is officially going to be born in it!!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sleeping on my stomach. Although I can pretend like I'm sleeping on my stomach if I lean towards my front and sprawl my legs out so I take up almost the whole bed...poor Jacob</span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Lots from her, she's gotten very active! She loves pushing her feet against the side of my stomach, and I think I felt her toes from the outside last night!! And as for my movement...I never really understood why pregnant ladies walked with their backs arched and hips pushed out until this week. I'm definitely getting my waddle on (or "pregnancy swagger," if you'd like to make me sound a little cooler. Please and thank you.)</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Eh...not really. Don't get me wrong, I'm still plenty hungry and am definitely eating for two....or three...I'm just not wanting anything in particular</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Nada</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have you started to show yet:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Yes, and she's lowwww</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A few more irregular contractions, and the OB said I'm almost 3 cm!!! She asked if I wanted her to sweep my membranes to move the labor process along...and I totally panicked! All of a sudden I felt like...whoa whoa whoa, AM I ready to have a baby?! I felt a lot better after talking to my friend Kathleen though...she just had a baby a few months ago and it was so good to be reminded that the newborn phase of feedings every two hours and very little sleep, etc. only lasts for a month or two! That's what I was feeling the most nervous about, but it's a phase and it'll pass and every day of having a baby just gets better and better (except when they go through growth spurts, but let's not talk about that)</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> OFF!!!!! Ahhhh I didn't take my ring off before bed on Wednesday night and woke up the next morning with it TOTALLY stuck on my finger! It woke the claustrophobic up in me pretty quick, I'll tell ya that. I've been wearing a fake ring ever since (that's about two sizes too big) because I do NOT want to go through that again!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I want to say happy, because honestly that's how I feel most of the time, but I have definitely had some super crabby mood swings. It's either hormones or lack of a good night's sleep, but I've found myself having to apologize to Jacob more often than not these days...womp womp, sorry family...</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Enjoying more of this amazing weather!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-15508559691351698802015-09-29T20:08:00.001-07:002015-09-29T20:20:32.244-07:0037 Weeks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 37 weeks, YAYYYYY!!!! </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Also for the record, I just realized this is my 100th blog post! So...this is me acknowledging and celebrating that little milestone along with the bigger milestone of being full term </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Of course! I've definitely had more gruff days than cute ones lately...I've officially entered the "I'm enormously pregnant so I don't care that I'm wearing flip flops and yoga pants to church" phase. Just as an example. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sleep: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Pretty good! Although rolling over is rough. business. Wakes me up every time. But I was just saying to Jacob how I have had way less weird dreams this pregnancy than I did with Jenna's....I must just be really worn out by the end of the day!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Best moment this week: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Being officially full term!!!! I'm doing my best to soak up these last moments of pregnancy, since this is (</span></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">theoretically) our last one....but it's hard when I'm so excited to meet Juliette! And am the size of a whale...</span><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Not having my thighs touch my belly when I sit will be <i>glorious</i></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Yes, she LOVES stretching her legs out and pushing them against my side!</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sweets. This poor kid. I solemnly swear to eat lots of broccoli this week so she'll at least want to eat some of that in between Hostess cupcakes someday....</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Nope, I feel great!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have you started to show yet:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Yeah, <i>apparently </i>I got huge this week! Look at last week's picture compared to this week's picture. WHAT?! HAPPENED?! I have to believe it's an angle thing because I don't see how that's even possible to grow that much in a week</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl! Even though everyone keeps telling me that it looks like I'm having a boy. Wouldn't that be a surprise!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">No more Braxton Hicks this week (yay) but also no more dilation progress according to my OB (boo)</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Soooooo out!!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> On! I do take them off at night though. That's when I feel the most swell-y</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Well, OTHER than having Juliette with us in person, I'm looking forward to our neighborhood Halloween parade next week!! I'm so excited for seasonal festivities to begin, especially since Jenna will actually be able to appreciate them this year, and I'll have TWO little munchkins to put in cute little {fill-in-the-holiday-blank} outfits! I still think that having a baby in December was way better pregnancy-wise because it wasn't as hot when I was super big, BUT having a baby in October is way better postpartum-wise because I'll have this cute tiny little baby to dress up during the best holidays of the year!! Do you think she'd forgive me for dressing her up as a mini-pilgrim for Thanksgiving?? (Answer: probably not, as I'm not sure I've wholly forgiven my parents for dressing me up as one in 4th grade...JUST me, mind you. My puffy hair must've made me the best candidate for looking like I came from ye olde rustic times. I promise I'll post a picture if I can find it.)</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-19182343877755173622015-09-21T17:09:00.000-07:002015-09-21T19:31:54.094-07:0036 Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 18px;"></b>We finally settled on a name!!!! ...I think. Even just two days ago I started having doubts again, but Jacob reminded me how much we love the name and I calmed down :) For the record, she's NOT named after me. In fact, we almost didn't choose it because we felt weird that it was so similar to mine. But we stuck with it because Juliette was the name we both liked the best after all of the voting...(results shown below!) We chose Elize for her middle name because it means "pledged to God," which we thought was beautiful.</span></div>
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<b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 36 weeks. You guys!! One week from today I'm going to be full term. I could have a baby at our house in ONE WEEK!!! Ahhh!!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Definitely...even my maternity tanks are starting to look a little short. YIKES!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>Good!! I've been napping a lot more...I don't know if that's because I'm getting toward the end of my pregnancy or because Jacob and I have stayed up late a few nights this week to work on little projects (putting together dressers, Halloween costume for Jenna, etc.) but I haven't minded the few extra zzz's during the day<br /><b>Best moment this week: </b>We went to an infant CPR class at the hospital and got to walk by all of the tiny little babies in the hospital nursery!! I forgot how small they are and I can't wait to hold my very own soon :)</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I would say having more of a variety of outfits but let's be real...it's so much worse to dress postpartum than it is pregnant. I will cherish these last moments of having people tell me I look cute because of my big belly!!</span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Not as often, but when she does, they're BIG! Sometimes it makes me nervous because she'll go a little while without moving, but all I have to do is drum a little beat on my tummy and she starts jammin'!</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Still sweets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Nothing</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have you started to show yet:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Yes yes yes.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl!! I keep picturing another little Jenna, but I know she could look so different! I can't wait to see!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">No more Braxton Hicks this week, but my OB says I'm almost 2 cm dilated now!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> On</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">MOSTLY happy, although I was prrrrreeeettty cranky Thursday evening and Friday. I think I just needed a little bit of me time...something I definitely won't have as much of in a few weeks!!</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> HAVING! MY! BABY! Oh, and PDQ (YUMMY, in case you don't know) is opening nearby this weekend aaaand they have half-price shakes from 3-5. Thank GOODNESS I didn't have this available my whole pregnancy but I will definitely be taking advantage of it these last few weeks!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-58857055876709861932015-09-14T17:44:00.002-07:002015-09-14T17:44:43.289-07:0035 Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 35 weeks</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Yep, it's either maternity clothes or Jacob's clothes these days!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>For the first half of the week, it was not fantastic. I was just feeling so uncomfortable...it's my toes! And my feet! I feel like I can feel them swelling by the second. I think I wore myself out so much at the beginning of the week though, that the second half of the week I slept wonderfully<br /><b>Best moment this week: </b>Going to Baby J's shower!! It was so great to be surrounded by so many people I love, celebrating a baby I love :) And I feel much more prepared for her to be born!! Jacob and I worked on putting together her nursery afterwards...it's not totally done, but I will share this picture of her cute little reading/nursing corner!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I miss being able to crack my back easily!! Terrible habit, I know, But the twisting is just not in the cards right now and I miss it!!!</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Let's talk about MY movement for a second, shall we? I've basically been waddling everywhere and sometimes even needing to hold up my belly for a little extra support. BUT. I don't think I have ever moved so fast as I did this week. Let me tell you friends, you don't know fear until your child starts saying "potty!" when you're in line at the post office. Which DOESN'T have a bathroom, by the way. And they won't let you use the employee bathroom, even when your potty training toddler needs to go. And then you go outside and your toddler squats down and starts grunting. And then you put her in the (fairly new and clean) carseat as fast as you can, while half-begging/half-encouraging your toddler to hold it. And you want to speed down the neighborhood streets back to your house, but you're stuck behind a giant and apparently very law-abiding van. And then you hear grunting from the back seat. ("Hold it! Hold it!!! No mess!! You'll get a treat if you put your poo poo's in the potty!!") And then you make it home and everyone and everything is miraculously dry and clean, so you run run run inside and get to the potty....and your toddler puts her stuffed kitty on the potty instead, because apparently it was KITTY that had to go potty all along. -_- </span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Still sweets, and a few nights in a row where I really wanted a burger and fries!! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>No</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have you started to show yet:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> LOL</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I went to the OB this week and she said I'm 1 cm dilated! Woo hoo, I'm already 1/10th of the way through labor! Or something like that haha. She also said that it seems like the baby has dropped and that my belly is measuring at 37 cm, when it's supposed to match the number of weeks you are. </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I've had several rounds of Braxton Hicks this week too. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Who knows, maybe this baby will be early! Not TOO early though, I hope! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Way out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> On</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So happy!!</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Baby J being born!! I can't WAIT to see what she looks like and I'm so excited for Jenna to meet her!!!!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-67447015715901257922015-09-06T20:51:00.000-07:002015-09-10T06:21:51.946-07:0034 Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 34 weeks</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Yep! I especially love when I go to hike up my big pregnant lady pants and grab my big pregnant lady underwear by mistake and give myself a big pregnant lady wedgie. #adorable</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>Great, although I have had a few insomniac moments after waking up to pee<br /><b>Best moment this week: </b>We were in an aisle at the grocery store (secluded, don't worry!), and Jenna wanted to say hello to her sister. She lifted up my shirt, grabbed my belly, gave it several kisses, and said "love you!" It was so so so so so so so so precious. I can't wait until they're face to face!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Cookie dough! I'm probably going to give in and make an egg-less version tomorrow...yum!</span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> All the time! I love it!! Except when I get randomly kicked (punched?) in the cervix. Anyone who's been pregnant before, you know what I'm talking about. #notatrampoline #savetheladybits</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I don't think this counts as a craving, but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I'm getting excited for fall foods!! I'm trying to wait until it cools down a little more before I really dive in, but I might have to make some chili for the NFL season kickoff next weekend!! Maybe wiiiiiith...</span><a href="http://www.thecountrycook.net/2015/04/cornbread-waffles-with-chili-fixins.html#_a5y_p=3645620" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">cornbread waffles</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Nope, feeling great!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Have you started to show yet:</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Most definitely. I'm getting to the phase where my belly is getting in the way of my leg movements</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Girl</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Nope! Hang in there, Baby J! Just a few more weeks!!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> On</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy! I did have a couple moody moments, but as Jacob was traveling and I was flying solo all week with a sick toddler (mostly snuggly, but sometimes very cranky)...I say I had my reasons</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Fall, and everything that goes with it!! Cooler weather, sweaters, pumpkins, boots, apples, scarves...although, not while pregnant. For some reason being super pregnant and wearing a scarf just makes you look 10x bigger.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-545412256289626770.post-36981835090724461522015-09-04T20:07:00.000-07:002015-09-04T20:14:15.241-07:0033 Weeks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">How far along?</b><span style="color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> 33 weeks....ignore the fact that the 33rd element is arsenic for a second, ok? I was just so excited to work in a chemistry connection. Baby J is the size of a durian fruit and/or a head of lettuce (both of which, coincidentally, I'm equally as likely to consume as arsenic. Just saying.)</span></div>
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Maternity clothes?</b> Yes a bit, but I can't wait until it cools down enough to wear my jeans!! I can only rock my yoga pants/skirt/one pair of shorts so many times in public without feeling like a total bum.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Sleep: </b>Good! I'm pretty reliant on my body pillow....although unless you have one of those U-shaped ones (which I don't) then every time you roll over it feels a little bit like wresting with an alligator<br /><b>Best moment this week: </b>Just some really nice get-togethers with friends. Bible study, work out sessions, High Tea hosted by a British friend...let's talk about scones for a second, shall we? YUM.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Miss Anything? </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I was definitely missing cookie dough this week while I was baking!! Jenna enjoyed herself though...she was supposed to be helping me, but she ended up grabbing a spoon from her tea set and just digging in. </span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Movement:</b> Still plenty, but definitely less than before. Or maybe just less drastic movements...she must be running out of room in there!</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Food cravings: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sweeeeeeeeets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Anything making you queasy or sick: </b>Not this week!!! Phew.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Have you started to show yet:</b> Oh yeah. You KNOW you're getting big when your toddler keeps trying to lay on you but keeps rolling off instead. And then when she finally figures out how to stay up there, she realizes that it might not be as comfortable as she was picturing...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Gender:</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> A girl</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Some cramping, nothing major</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Belly Button in or out?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> Out</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> On...this has been the biggest surprise for me this pregnancy!!</span></span><br /><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Happy! But also maybe a little extra hormonal...we've been potty training this week and I definitely started weeping at the dinner table when Jenna asked to go potty and rocked the whole process from start to finish. She had done it before, but I think since that was the first time she did it in front of Jacob...I just had a super proud (and pregnant!) mama moment haha</span></span><b style="color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: #fb5e53; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5b5b5b;"><b>Looking forward to:</b> Jenna starts gymnastics this week!! Doing sports/activities is one of the things I was most excited about when we started having kids, so I can't wait to see her in action!!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296922656772324932noreply@blogger.com1