I am babysitting Susannah this morning, so her Mommy can go run. But instead of being twice as busy taking care of two babies, the girls are happily entertaining themselves with each other, and I have time to get lots of stuff done. Normally I would try to get some cooking and cleaning done, but this pregnancy has already started being less than wonderful, so I am forcing myself to sit and relax and catch up on some blogging.
I know I am 100% blessed to be able to carry another baby and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. But to say that being pregnant is a piece of cake would be a lie. For several weeks now, my low back has been acting up. I had the same problem late in my last pregnancy, and it appears that this time around my body just picked up where it left off. If I am on my feet too much, or push it too hard, which I do basically daily, them by evening my SI joint sends shooting pains through my back and my hip hurts. It makes our evening walks rather uncomfortable, but it is nothing I can't deal with. I am still sleeping well at night, and can still to my (very modified) Crossfit workouts in the morning, so I am happy.
Also, I am going to officially put it in writing that I think we are having another girl. I keep referring to the baby as 'she', although this is most likely due to the fact that my brain is most accustomed to that pronoun. Ryan has thought girl all along, but again, for no really 'good' reason. He thinks that helo pilots have more girls.. something to do with the radar they sit on and the female sperm being stronger. Last time we both had dreams about having a girl, but so far neither of us has had a gender dream. Poppy (my dad) has though, and he dreamed it was a boy. So, no hard evidence to go on either way, but if I where to bet, I'd say girl. I actually I read somewhere that Mom's guess correctly about 70% of the time... so there you go.
And now to my other kid, Ms. Leyton. She is hilarious. She makes us laugh every day. Sometimes it's what she wears, what she does, or what she says. She loves to dress herself, so she will find a hat, or something she can fashion as a hat, and wear it around proudly as she plays. I also know she is taller, because she can reach new shelves and climb onto the kitchen table chairs (and the kitchen table too for that matter, but I don't let her do that). And she has new words. Most resent is CRASH. She likes to crash her car, stroller, wagon, etc into other things and yell CRASH (but it sounds more like GASH)! And she has a new phrase for Sippy Cup. It sounds like 'Ga Go Gah!' but we know what it means. She also says Nigh-Nigh (Goodnight) and Nah! for No!. We are working on her colors now and she finally likes to sit on her potty again. We went through a little phase when she wouldn't even sit on it, but now she loves to go 'potty' and read books whenever Mommy goes. She also wipes her mouth when I give her toliet paper to 'wipe' and then she closes the lid to both her toliet and mine and flushes mine. I don't have a set date to start real potty training, but I would like to give it a go try before September. We are going to take a mini-vacation to Disneyland the first part of June, so I think when we get back, we'll give the potty training a real shot.
We are excited for our Disney trip, but we have very low expectations. Leyton loves all the Disney characters in BOOKS, but I doubt she will feel the same when they get up close and personal (case-in-point: Santa). But we wanted to do some kind of family vacation this summer, and Disney seemed to be the best option. Briefly I entertained the thought of Hawaii, but then I recalled our thanksgiving trip with the airplane vomit... and our Christmas trip with either Ryan and I having to sing Twinkle Twinkle hourly every night because LC doesn't sleep well in another crib/location...not to mention we can go to the beach any day we want... and I'm fat and pregnant, making beaches and plane rides and being hot even less fun... So we are going to keep it to a brief three day trip that we can drive to (and drive home if it is a complete disaster). We will hopefully have lots of fun, but we could be in store for some famous toddler tantrums. Like she had today (this post took several days to type) at the doctor's office. As soon as they called us back to the room, she was out of control crying and screaming. The doctor said this kind of fear is normal and that it should get better by her next appointment, which isn't until after she turns two. Today she weighed in at 22lbs (20%ile) and she was 32.5 inches tall (75%ile), though that was with much kicking and thrashing about, so she is probably a little taller. I guess a doctor's visit is a good reason to have a fit. Generally though she will have them if any little thing does not go her way -which is often. It's tough being a toddler!
So, wish us luck with an easy pregnancy, fun vacation, potty training, and tantrum management. We need it!
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| This wagon is the best. She loves to ride in it and play with it. She will fill it up with animals and push it around, or sit of the handle and ride it like a horsy. |
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| This is the sweet new house she scored from a nice neighbor. His son is 9 now and it was just taking up space in their yard. |
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| It's spacious and functional. |
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| And a big hit with the neighbor kids too. She loves to play with the big kids, especially Dylan, who is the little girl in the green shirt in this picture. And Dylan gave Leyton her old tricycle too, which she LOVES. |
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| We have started making Saturday's our beach day. |
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| We walk to Starbucks, and then to the beach to play in the sand. Leyton has a ball and is never happy to get back in her stroller to head home. Poor kid has a tough life... |
