Happy Birthday

I miss you, Wa

phew!

we've had a busy busy week! a play date and groceries on Monday, snow day and furnace maintenance on Tuesday, play date Thursday, ultrasound, shopping with Grandma, and errands on Friday. now if my sleepy tired daughter would just give in and nap, we'd be all set :)

Mom got to see my u/s this am because Lilly was calm enough to let her... a first for both of them! Mom had only seen the still pictures before, so she was happy to be able to see the new baby dancing around and hear the heartbeat. measuring right on target for August 31st, and according to the tech and dr, today's downs syndrome screening is nothing to be worried about. I'll get the official result next week. It wouldn't change anything, just give us warning, but I'm glad to get this result :)

I contacted the crib company.. apparently all i have to do to convert it to a daybed is take off the front rail. the bed spring platform thing holds the front together. so woohoo, the $20 bed rail i found will fit and keep Lilly in and save us from spending $90 on the crib's official toddler rail.

rumor has it that one of the other young women in my family is also pregnant! yay! between the two of us and another of my playgroup moms, this will be another exciting summer/fall. I do need to register for a mom n toddler swim class for this spring tho - it'll be great for Lilly to get into a pool early this year and i know we will be swimming alot this summer.

alright.. got to get *something* done now that the soon to be big sister is quiet...

help!

With baby #2 in the works for August, I've been thinking about what we'll need to get for furniture. Especially since babies r us is doing a trade-in get 25% off promotion and my sister and i went nuts finding cheap pack n plays at garage sales! Going to get a second wooden Graco highchair which goes nicely with our table, fits under it (w/o the big tray on it), and converts into a big kid chair.

After our first crib was recalled, we got this one : Sorelle Tuscany Elite Lifetime Crib. Might end up getting another one for #2. Fine, right? well I've been very happy with it so far. Need to think about converting Lilly's into a toddler bed in the near future tho. So I asked at BRU yesterday and was told that if it converts into a daybed, i can get a generic wooden bedrail that they sell off the shelf and save some $$ insted of special ordering the sorelle toddler rail. The info on the display model of our crib says it converts to a daybed, but the instructions were AWOL. My instructions don't have *anything* about it. not even how to convert to a twin bed. So now i'm on the hunt. This is what naptime will be about today.

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Oh, and Sorelle's website doesn't even have this version of the crib - they only have this crib with the attached changer. And their directions? HA! even THAT doesn't say anything about converting it to a daybed even tho it's in the description of the crib. it's freaking rediculous. they still MAKE this crib, so what the hell?! They will be hearing from me today.

uuuuuugh..

So last post i said Lilly woke up full of snot, right? well the inevitable happened. I caught it. fine and expected, but I'm now 10wks pregnant so i can't take a damn thing to help. And the icing on the cake is that the hubby came home from work last night MISERABLE. He's got it too. I love him, but he's such a whiner when he's sick! Not to mention how badly he snores... over the weekend i'd end up on the couch by morning because of how i felt + the obnoxious snoring. Last night i kicked the poor guy out of bed at 10pm. i know i slept better w/o hearing the chainsaw.. he was doped up on nyquil anyway so i don't feel tooooo bad, but this is rediculous! I need to get out of the house and interact with adults, but I can't risk my dad getting this cold - he can now blow his nose normally without feeling like he's going to split his chest again. he doesn't need to do it this much AND cough.

poor, lonely me... waah waah waah...

Mrs Slacker

I know, i know.. it's been over a month. I've been busy with dr appointments and trips to my parents' and dealing with feeling like absolute CRAP! For those that hadn't heard yet, I'm pregnant! Made both of my parents tear up the day before Christmas Eve at the hospital with that news. :) So I feel so much better than I had before, but now it's switched from bad nausea to round ligament pain - super fun when you're carrying a 25lb+ Lilly around!

Speaking of Lilly, she woke up yesterday full of snot. Poor baby can't breathe well, has a real phlegmy cough, and a slight fever... Still deciding if it warrents a call to her doctor since she's still snoring and coughing in her sleep this morning. I'll probably run it past my mom first :)

le sigh

So it's Christmas Eve.. should be a happy, merry time right? maybe not so much this year. This is the first time EVER that one of my immediate family is not here. I miss you so much Wa! Not only that, but Dad ended up back in the hospital on monday. irregular heartbeat and kept almost fainting. Apparently when they released him, they had discontinued his blood thinner and changed all his other meds. jackasses. So Dad's sitting in the hospital for christmas, physically feeling fine, with a weirdo roommate who's non-christian so not celebrating christmas, waiting for his meds to even out. once they do he can go home. We'd had hopes that he'd be home today, but it doesn't look like it now. My extended family all gathers for christmas eve each year. as long as i can remember, it's been at Grandma's house... until last year when it got moved to my parents' where there is soo much more space for our growing family. Well, this year Mom is more than willing to let the party go on if she's home or not. I just can't do it. It's not a big venture physically because most of the food arrives with family and the pigs in a blanket are always done by my baby cousin (who's now what.. 22? gah!) But without Wa? And with Dad in the hospital? I cannot emotionally handle hosting that party in my parents' house. So we've moved the gathering to my baby cousin's parents' place. I'm so grateful that our family is so flexable! My sister's husband and kids are going to be there, and were willing to travel even further to another Aunt's home if needed.

So during naptime today my MIL is babysitting so The hubby and I will head to the hospital with christmas gifts. I spread the word to the family that everyone is more than welcome to stop by and visit. We can't bring dad to Christmas Eve, so I'm doing my best to bring christmas eve to my Daddy.

on that same kind of sad note.. one of the Catholic campus ministers from my university days passed away last week. After a fall she was diagnosed with cancer.. in her brain and collarbone, and i'd heard her hip too. She was diagnosed Nov 2nd, and passed away at home, resting comfortably with a smile on her face Dec 18th. Anne was a wonderful source of support for so many over the years. She was accepting of all kinds of people, and didn't care that I'd never even been baptized. If the church would have let her, she would have gladly married my hubby and I. And she gave the best, warmest hugs ever. Anne, you will be missed!

What a mixed holiday season it is this year.. Missing so many people, and blessed by the ones that are here.