The Day My Heart Melted

Emma is 6 weeks old as of yesterday. That was the same day that she melted my heart!! I remember that Benjamin would smile at us with huge open mouth grins about as early as 4 or 5 weeks. I was waiting and waiting for this day to happen with Emma. Few have claimed that she has given them a smile or two but I wasn't sure until yesterday that those were actually smiles and not gas. Yesterday, after Benjamin went to bed, I laid Emma in front of me on my lap and was talking to her and smiling. All the sudden, she was smiling back, and not just a grimace but a huge, wide, open mouth smile followed by cooing and mouthing back or copying my mouth movements. She continued to smile back and forth with me for at least a half of an hour. Those were the sweetest smiles I have ever seen! She has the cutest crooked smile. After I passed her off to daddy, she continued to show off those chubby smiles and melt daddy's heart too!
Today, I wasn't sure if she was going to continue smiling or if she just had a good day. Tonight, I got my answer! She was smiling again in response to me, it wasn't just a fluke and it made me get teary eyed because she hit this milestone and was responding to mommy! Even though I have been through this with Benjamin, it doesn't make it any less as sweet!! How can a baby's smile not melt you to pieces!! I can't wait until she laughs!!

4 weeks old!

Tomorrow, Emma will be 4 weeks old. And in 3 more days, she will be a month old! I can't believe it has been almost a month already. Almost a month since I slept in my own bed. Almost a month since I slept flat on my back without something laying on my chest. Almost a month since my 2 year old has felt abandoned by his mommy! Almost a month since I got more than 3 hours of sleep at a time. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying my beautiful little girl, but sometimes it still seems surreal. My little guy is searching for attention every second he can. He has been struggling with some hitting, biting, and naughtiness, but I feel like most of it stems from the lack of being #1 anymore. Personally, I feel like he gets just as much attention, if not more, especially from all the time he spends with daddy. Apparently, it's still not enough. He is still my little angel and I remind him of that every second I can.

Since Emma has been home, it has been a whirlwind of emotions. She has been a great baby and sleeps still most of the day. She is pretty predictable. If she wakes, she wants to eat. As soon as she is done eating, she pretty much passes right back out. Typically though, she at least finishes eating before she passes out, which is unlike Ben when he was a baby. I struggled feeding him because I could not keep him awake. Emma eats sometimes for a half of an hour, passes out for 10 minutes, and then wakes up crying to eat again. Sometimes we do this for hours, even though I feel like she has already emptied each breast!

I think I have gotten her to smile at me a couple times but I am still not sure if it was just gas or a mommy smile. She holds her head and neck up pretty well when trying to look for food. She seems to be growing very fast. At her 2 week appointment 2 weeks ago, she had gone from 7 pounds 4 ozs. that she weighed when we left the hospital, to 8 pounds 10 ozs. and was up to 22 inches from 20 inches that she was born at. Ben grow almost exactly the same. So almost a month old and almost too big for 0-3 month clothes already!! Thank goodness for hand-me-downs, otherwise I would have wasted alot of money on clothes she might never wear!

So far Ben doesn't pay too much attention to his new sister. The most he does is say, "baby cry" when she cries and when he is dispensing his kisses, he will kiss her head. Otherwise, he doesn't even pay attention to her at all. We managed to get one picture of him holding her. He was sitting on the couch and I quick set her in his lap. To my amazement, he didn't fuss or shy away. He is enjoying playing with all the old baby stuff. Today we tried to take them both for a walk and both of them wanted to be carried! She was fussy in her car seat/stroller so I carried her and pushed and he didn't want to walk so Jared carried him most of the way. I offered for him to sit in the car seat, even though he is too big, and he was more than happy too! He looked so funny, squished up in the car seat in the stroller. He just rolled along with a huge grin on his face!

Ben's vocabulary has taken off in the past month. He is so much better at putting words together, although Jared and I are still pretty much the only ones that can understand most of what he says. He loves to mimic most words that he says from us and TV and music. He is such a character. When he used to say thank you, we would say your welcome. Now he just says, "thank you welcome." He is also saying things like "Hi daddy", "I get it", "you get it", "be right back". Before he goes to bed, he likes to spit out almost every word he knows and things that are on his mind. Tonight before bed, this is what I could hear him telling daddy in the monitor:
Ben: "Daddy. Baby cry. Mommy. Grandma and Charlie. Grandma. House. Charlie. Cars. Charlie. Grandma's house. Dog ball. Grandma. Dinosaur. Grandma."
He has a whole lot to say!
Well, I am sure I had more to say but baby duty calls. I don't get much of a chance away from momma's girl who is a spittin image of her daddy!!
Love to you all and thanks again everyone for sharing in our special journey.

Ben and his haircut showing off his party beads!!

This is my baby sissy!!

Umm, mommy....what do I do now???


Grandma Judi and Emma


Grandpa John and sleepy Emma


Ben's first nap in a week! Passed out in Emma's car seat!


Passed out on daddy!


This is what I woke up to when I fell asleep on the couch for a minute!
A whole roll of paper towel and Ben's favorite toys!


Daddy and his entourage!


Chillin' in Emma's chair!


Getting some love from cousin Addie and her mommy Jennie!


Ben checking out his old play yard.


Ben likes to line up his outdoor toys!


Cool dude in the tub!


Sleepy baby!


Video of Ben taking his "baby" to the potty and "cleaning" her.

My sweet Emma

We are now the proud parents of two beautiful children! Emma Marie was born at 4:30pm on May 11th weighing in at 8 lbs. even and 20 inches. I gotta tell ya, the birth of Emma was so different from that of Ben, even though they were both c-sections. I was so nervous this second time around seeing that with my first c-section, I was given the spinal and could still feel them cutting me open. At that point, I was given multiple locals and was then finally knocked out because I could still feel the sharp knife. Because I was knocked out, they would not let Jared in the room to witness Ben's birth. This time around, I was so nervous about how things were going to go down, I did NOT want to feel the knife again! I spoke with the anesthesiologist about what happened last time and he actually gave me the option to skip the spinal and just be knocked out completely, or chance it and go with the flow. As tempting as it was to avoid the whole "needle in the back" thing, I wanted to make sure that Jared was able to be in the room this time to see his daughter being born. I sucked it up and opted for the spinal but I was incredibly nervous. The spinal was not too bad, I usually do good with needles and shots. The numbness actually felt good but they would not let me go to the bathroom in the few hours before the surgery so I hate to say it but I think once all my muscles were relaxed, I might have just used the operating table as a urinal!! I warned them!!
I was so relieved when they called Jared into the room and was so happy that he could finally be in there! At that point, I know they started the surgery but thank the Lord, I could not feel a thing!!! What a difference from the first surgery! I couldn't believe that this was how it was supposed to be, it was so easy! It did feel like they were rootin around for her for a bit and I guess the reason was because they said she was just "floating" which meant that she was not in the birth canal, that doesn't surprise me but it surprised them. Plus, she was laying sideways and breach and her but was facing forward. So when they opened up, she must have been mooning the doctor!! That's my girl! I guess the digging around was to find where her head was. I guess they couldn't find it because they ended up pulling her out butt first. I am thinking because of this, she ended up swallowing a bit of some gunk because she was spitting it up for the first couple of days and still has a bit of a problem choking on her spit. They say it's not too uncommon for the first few weeks of c-section babies.
So I got to hear her cry and daddy was able to hold her up to show me. I had not experienced that before so it was such a blessing. Daddy was able to take her to the room and cuddle while they closed me up. First thing I asked the doctor was, "who's ordering the pizza??" I hadn't eaten or drank anything in over 12 hours at this point and I was starving!
My stay in the hospital went well although I have to say, it was alot different being alone most of the time. With Ben, Jared stayed in the room with me 24/7 and this time since he was home with Ben, he was only able to come visit a few times for short periods. My surgery was actually pushed back an hour and shortly after she was born, Jared had to go home to take care of Ben. I apologize to anyone and everyone for not being in touch after she was born. I got little to terrible reception in the hospital, other than being able to text and at home, Jared was very busy taking care of the little "terrible two's" man that he barely had time to eat!
We got home late afternoon on Saturday and by Monday, I was starting to feel a little off. By Tuesday I was miserable and noticed that when breastfeeding, one of my breasts did not feel right. My whole body was incredible achey, I had the chills but my body was hot, I had a headache and a slight fever. I had spoken with a couple of doctors thinking maybe that I had mastitis, an infection in the breast, but apparently, couldn't give the doc enough information to let her believe that was exactly what I had so she wouldn't perscribe me an antibiotic over the phone. As miserable as I was, she had me wait until my appointment this morning. I had a rough night and morning and had to sit through over an hour appointment. I barely made it. I got a call this morning from Emma's doctor saying that a pustule that they found above her belly button, as small as it was, came back positive for MRSA which is a bacterial infection. My thought at this point was that maybe I got an infection from her, passed on through the breastfeeding. Thank goodness they called me because the antibiotics they gave me could help with both MRSA and mastitis. They were going to treat both which is a difficult combination, hence, the long wait in the office. I am anxiously awaiting the antibiotics to really kick in. My whole body is on fire even though I am cold and I look like I just spend a day in the Florida sun with a sunburn!
Well, aside from all the birth details, we are getting along fine at home. Ben does not pay too much attention to his sister but he is very interested when it is time to change or feed her. I went to breastfeed her the other day and he was peering over at me and giggling! I don't know why he thought it was so funny! He gives her kisses here and there and likes to touch her feet, hands, and hair. All he says about her is "momma...baby" since I am with her ALL day. Since we got home from the hospital, all Emma and mommy do is sit on the couch and eat, fall asleep, eat, fall asleep! She sleeps about 21 hours of the day and pretty much eats for the other 3 hours. Mommy tries to catch a snooze when she sleeps for a long time during the day because I am getting about 4 1/2 hours of sleep each night. We are doing what I did with Ben and that is that she and I sleep on the couch with her on my chest. Because of her "choking" and gagging stuff going on, I don't like to have her on her back. When she is on her back, she gets the hiccups almost every time. She she usually feeds from midnight to 1:00 or 1:30am. We sleep until about 4:00 and wake for another hour feed and then we sleep until about 7am. Then after another feed in the morning, mommy tries to get one more nap in while she is on a marathon nap. I usually wake up to my little guy standing in front of me by the couch saying, "momma?" He's so sweet but I feel like I have missed out on so much of his life! In the past week with me being gone, his whole schedule has changed! As of today, he is pretty much refusing naps. It was a good run while we had it! He has become a bit rebellious and not wanting to do much for daddy and since mommy can't lift or carry him, he doesn't have much of a choice. He knows mommy doesn't put up with his tantrums but has been enjoying getting away with as much as he can with his best friend daddy! They had a playdate outside today in the back yard since it was so beautiful out and since daddy and mommy could no longer stand his shaggy hair cut (he will no longer let us go near his head and cut his hair), daddy decided to get the shaver out and just chop it off!!! He came inside and as sick as I felt today, I couldn't stop laughing at how it looked! Daddy did a great job doing what Ben would actually "let" him do but he would not let daddy do his sides and the rest had a few long pieces in with the short pieces and looked hilarious! It looked like he cut it himself but he still looked so handsome, of course, since I could see his sweet little face again and he looked like such a little man! I swear it aged him about 2 years! I will post pictures when I get them before mommy goes in for the final sweep!
Well, I know this has been a long post already but I wanted to thank all of those who visited in the hospital to meet our sweet little Emma and thank you for all the well-wishes, calls, cards, texts, etc. We are so blessed. Again, I do apologize for not being in touch with everyone. I hope to feel back to myself soon and enjoy our little Ben and Emma and share with all of those who are so special to us. Thank you all for sharing in our journey.
I'm the BIG BROTHER!

Our beautiful Emma Marie!



A visit with Bum Bum and Uncle.

Daddy and baby.

Sleeping beauty!

First ride in car seat!

First swing ride!

Sleeping on mommy in the hospital.

More sleeping!

I am so excited but nervous to know that baby girl Nehmer will be here in 1 1/2 days!! Tomorrow is my last full day with only having one child in my life and that makes me so nervous! I am starting to miss Ben already, he will not be the center of my attention anymore, he will have to share my attention! Since day one, he has been my little man, I have held him as much as I could and probably more than most would. He slept on my chest for 3 1/2 months! How much closer can you get than that?? He napped on my lap after nursing and slept with his head on my shoulder for 7 hours every night! I missed him so much when he started sleeping in his crib and now I can't believe he has a big boy room with a big boy bed and he's growing up too fast!
Well, since my last post, Ben seems to have definitely hit his terrible twos!! He is testing his surroundings and his parents as much as he possibly can and enjoying every minute of it! He still sleeps well in his bed but he is testing our guidelines on when and if we will come back and sing more to him when he jumps out of bed and pulls on the door. He now lays there for 20 minutes of so and sings and talks until he finally crashes. Things that he knows he's not supposed to do, he will now bring more attention to it to get a reaction from us. He will no longer let us go near his head to cut his hair and it's even a task just to wash his hair even though he loves bathtime. Every day is now different with him as he is growing, changing, experiencing, and living every moment! He even helped mommy take off my socks the other day and attempted to put them back on! He loves to mimmick almost every thing we do and it makes me laugh all day long! We can only pray that he will continue to be a big boy and a great help with his little sister!

Playing punch balloon with Grandma and Grandpa Nehmer!


I finally got him to wear a hat!!

The baby has dropped so low, she's barely in the picture!!

3 weeks and counting...

Well, 3 weeks from now, I will be a mother of two! This past week has had it's ups and downs for me. One day I will be into some serious nesting and trying to prepare for the baby and the next day I can't keep my eyes open, I cramp all day long with constant Braxton Hicks, and lots of low pressure. I was so nervous the other day with all the cramping that I was worried because I hadn't packed my bags yet. It seemed so far away and now I just hope I am prepared in time. With Benjamin, I researched the heck out of everything, read books, etc. This time, I haven't done any of that, other than personal experience, so I actually feel less prepared this time around because none of it is fresh in my mind. I know I will be fine, but I still worry.
I have been the most sad about leaving my little guy for 5 days. Some times when I put Ben to bed or I am snuggling with him during the day, I find myself in tears because I am missing him already. I worry that he will no longer be my baby and that he will be upset that he does not get 110% of my time and attention. He is going to be such a good big brother and a big help to mommy, I just don't want things between us to change.
We took Ben on his last "only child" hoorah this past weekend. We just took him to a hotel close to Milwaukee that had a toddler pool. I was so worried about the sleeping situation because he has only been in his big boy bed for a few weeks and I had no clue how he would do on a hotel pull out bed right next to us. How do you think my big boy did??
We got there after 5:00 after eating chicken nuggets in the car on the way, went up to our room on the 3rd floor, and got ready to jump in the pool. It was so funny to see this little guy hopping and bouncing down the hallway in just a little swimmer diaper with his butt cheeks hanging out on our way to the pool. He loved the water and the little frog slide in the toddler pool. Most of all, he loved his freedom in the water. After about an hour in the pool, we had a last minute meal of cheetos, subway, and m&m's (his favorite!) We decided to keep him up a little later than normal so we didn't have to go to bed so early so bedtime that night was at about 10:30. We brought his bed rails for the pull out bed and his two favorite pillows so it was a little familiar to him. Other than taking a few minutes to get over the fact that he could see daddy in the bed next to him while I sang him to sleep, he passed out almost as soon as I laid him down. He slept straight through the night but got up really early around 6 after it was light enough to again see daddy in the bed next to him so we got up for our free continental breakfast before heading back to the pool. This time he had some big boys to watch so he learned how to kick his legs while daddy "swam" him around the adult pool. After an hour or swimming, Ben was ready to get outta there so we headed to the room to pack up and head home. He had a good time and I was glad we were able to do it before baby came. Doctor said yesterday that she is finally no longer breech so that should make for an easier c-section delivery. She is starting to drop and I can feel all the pressure below and feel her feet gliding around and poking on the top.
Below are some pictures from our getaway and other updated pics.

Waiting at the window for daddy to come home.

Mommy and handsome baby!

The view from our hotel room!

Big boy in the pool.

Weeeeeee!

Watching The Wiggles!

Mmmm, candy!

Fun with my cup in the water.

Where's Benjamin??

There he is!! Playing in my old car seat before my baby sister gets it!

I think I fit in here just fine!

Baby Sister practice

Here is a video of Ben "singing" Rock-a-by-baby and practicing with "baby sister" in the swing! Click on the play arrow below to view!

Not my pillow!!

I have discovered that my tactic for the big boy bed transition was well planned without knowing it!
First of all, know that my child DESPISED anything in his crib other than himself, his nuk, and his burpcloth!! Any previous attempts I made at putting a pillow or blanket in there with him had failed. He would immediately stand and throw them out. So, when I had purchased the new sheet set for his queen size big boy bed that had pictures of cars all over it, I thought maybe I would give him a pillow with his new pillowcase so he can call it his own. For about two weeks before the transition, I would place this pillow in his crib with him AFTER he woke up instead of trying to actually get him to sleep with it. He thought it was fun and would snuggle up to it and say, "nigh nigh". He would also point out every single car on the pillowcase and repeat the word car over and over again as he pointed. So, he realized that this pillow was his and his alone.
A couple weeks later, he saw his big boy bed for the first time and he was so excited about all of the same cars all over his bed. He immediately snuggled up to the pillow like he did when it was in the crib. I didn't realize until today that my plan to familiarize really worked. After taking his pillow on a trip with us and taking it off to wash when we got home, I placed the pillow without a case on his bed for nap time. As I watched him in the video monitor after putting him down for his nap, I witnessed him lay his head down first on the same pillow that he always lays on which was the one without the pillowcase. Within 2 seconds, he lifted his head up and looked at the pillow and scooted over to the other pillow that he NEVER sleeps on because it had the same pillow case. He doesn't like the other one because it is placed on the outside of the bed and not towards the wall where he likes to sleep. So it just proved to me that he knows what is his and prefers it and he knows that this is HIS bed because it has something familiar to him even though it is not his crib. So for anyone who will be transitioning in the future, this might be something to think about to make your child more familiar with his/her new settings.

Growing too fast!

I am just so proud of my little guy. After springing the whole "big boy bed" thing on him and taking it like a trooper, two days ago, I decided to take away his Nuk. We were playing during the day and he grabbed it and threw it over the side of the couch. Since he couldn't see it or get it, I just decided to tell him it was all gone and left it at that! Two days later, the only times he has asked for it was during the day when it's his "settle down" time when he likes to snuggle on our laps and watch some TV. We just tell him that it's all gone and he doesn't ask again. He hasn't even asked for it at bed time. I was worried that he would wake up during the night looking around for it...probably because he did that when he did have it, but he has slept just as long and just as good even being in the new bed and without the Nuk. Our biggest trial will be when going in the car and when we need him to calm down at certain places we go. He is used to it during trips, while getting his hair cut, after a meal, etc. All I can do is trust that we are making the right decision and trust that he can handle it on his own.
One way I know that now is the time is that I feel like he has grown up so much, so quickly lately. Tonight after his bath was the first time that he wanted to help get himself dressed. He did a pretty good job trying to get his shirt on, although it was backwards, but had no clue on how to work the pants. Now that he seems interested in dressing and undressing himself, I foresee potty training soon in the future!! Other than the potty training, getting him to take his milk out of a sippy or a cup will be our last big transition for him for awhile...I hope! I don't care how many transitions...as long as he is still my baby!!

Nice day for a car ride!

Ben waited all day for daddy to come home from work so he could go outside and play. Mommy was just too tired to do it by herself today so for hours and hours, all I heard was, "Daddy, outside. Daddy, outside!" He was so excited when Daddy finally came home so we could pull out all of his toys and cars from the garage to play with. Last summer we purchased a used motorized "Jeep" from someone on Craigslist and attempted to introduce it to him then. He was scared and cried at that time and we thought we just wasted a few bucks and hoped it would be different this year. He looked at it with Daddy yesterday and was still a bit skeptical but would sit in it as long as it wasn't moving. Today, mommy came out and pushed on the pedal while he was sitting in the car to see his reaction. He seemed excited but it hurt mommy's big 'ol belly to bend over and keep pushing on it so daddy tried. It's not too easy to do. So I came and took his foot and pushed on the pedal expecting him to put up a fuss...and he didn't fuss. The video below will show whether he liked it or not!! Click on the play arrow to watch!

Catching up since January!!

If you read my last update on Ben's old page, you will notice that this will be our new site for updating for Ben and his baby sister (6 more weeks to go!!)
I have so much to catch up on but on this site, I hope to update more with smaller updates. Once again, there will be no email reminders, you can just check in whenever you want and scroll down to find the latest updates.
Hmm, where do I start with Ben. As I noted in his last update, his communication is really taking off. I still don't know if I would say that others can understand him as much as we can but he does try to copy and repeat most of what he hears around him. Of course, it sounds much cuter coming from him!
One of my favorite things that he says is, "kay.." as in "okay". The reason why I think it's so cute is because this is his way of verbalizing that he is either agreeing with what we or saying or acknowledging that what we say to him is what he wants. If he says something that he wants to eat like, "dohku" which I know means "poptart", don't ask how I know this, and I follow up by asking him if he wants a poptart he says, "kayyy". Or he will just say what he wants and say "kay" right away like "candy? kayyyy". He thinks he is going to get away with giving the ok without us saying it's ok. He's really tricky I tell ya!
Another of his favorite ways of letting us know that he likes something (food) is by saying "Mmmm" and rubbing his tummy. This lets us know that whatever he has just eaten is one of his favorites!
Ben now tries to say, "love you" back to us and it is the sweetest thing! My favorite though was the other day when out of nowhere he says, "Momma? Love you!" I almost started crying!
He still only lets mommy sing and put him down to bed. While I sing to him with his head on my shoulder, he says, "momma?" over and over just to make sure I am paying attention to him. Ben is now completely in his Big Boy bed!! About a month ago, I started getting his new room ready. Jared and I moved all of our stuff over into the guest room which is alot smaller and moved the queen size spare bed into the large room so there would be space to bring up all his toys from the living room. (I need the space for all of the baby stuff that's coming back in!) If you look down at my post from last week, you will see some of the details but now, no crying, just singing, laying him down, singing a bit more, and then he rolls over and sleeps for 11-12 hours!! I cannot believe he transitioned so easily. It took 1 1/2 days to train him! Next on the list is potty training and getting rid of his Nuk!! I just hope my hesitations don't hinder the process!
One little mishap we had back in January was during our first trip to toddler time at the gym. He had a great time (as you can see in the video below). He jumped and played with some of the items they had to play with. It was only an hour session so we didn't have long. As I was picking him up to carry him out, because of course, he didn't want to leave, he pushed his feet off of my pregnant belly and literally jumped out of my arms. It happened so fast, I didn't really know where he went so I didn't attempt to catch him. All I saw in a flash was his body do a complete flip as he arched his back and his body turned face down and he smacked FLAT as a pancake onto the gym floor. Now these floors are those felt material-like spring floors but he still fell about 5 feet down face first. His hands were flat to the sides of his face and he went nose down to the ground. All I did was scream his name because I didn't know what was happening! He started crying after a few seconds because I think he was in shock but he really didn't look too hurt. As he was crying, I noticed just a tint of blood on top of his tongue which could have been from his mouth and teeth hitting the ground but nothing was loose and nothing was bleeding. I just held him in the middle of the floor as he cried for a few minutes and not one person came up to me to check on him. I just carried him out and he wanted to be a big boy and walk up the stairs and out to the car by himself. In the car, he was his old self, singing to his favorite Wiggles movie and you never would have known what he just went through. He came home and ate and drank and took a good nap and that was that. It still haunts me though to this day!
Ben's favorites right now are bananas, baby food fruits (still), strawberries, apples, yogurt, some baby food veggies, green beans, peas, corn, cheetos, poptarts, cereal, pancakes, sausage, mac and cheese, M&M's (CANDY!!), waffles, juice, and PIZZA (Mmmmm). He is somewhat of a picky eater (like mommy) but likes to eat. He loves to watch Christmas episodes of Mickey Mouse and he loves his Wiggles movies. He can't get enough and he knows all the dances and songs and makes us do them with him! It is hilarious watch him mimic and try to sing! He is just getting into Thomas the Train and choo choos and loves to play cars. He is such an explorer and loves to go outside, go for walks, and go to Gramma's!
So far, Ben really has no clue what is going on in mommy's tummy and that he is about to be a big brother. Now that he has his big boy room, I am revamping his old room (the baby's room) and I think he still thinks it's his. We just moved the mattress back up to the top and now he wants to get back in it!! No way! You have your big boy bed and you're not movin back!! Mommy is anxiously waiting for this pregnancy to be over as I am very tired, hence the lack of updates on his site, and it is getting harder to do the things that Ben would like Mommy to do. As of this Tuesday, I have 6 weeks left. I have been having A LOT of Braxton Hicks contractions for the past 5 weeks which with him, I didn't get until I was about 37 weeks. I have been feeling things alot harder and earlier this time around. I had my last ultrasound this past week and was told she was just over 4 lbs and is looking to be maybe 7.5 pounds at birth. This is tiny to me as Ben was 9lbs. 4ozs. so it will be totally different for us. My c-section is scheduled for May 11th at 3:30pm. It will be c-section because I had one with Ben and this hospital is not equipped with emergency surgery if I tried to deliver VBAC and something were to happen so I was never given a choice. So I will be delivering 4 days before my actual due date and I am excited to be pregnant free with my two babies for the summer!!
Thanks for checking in and check back often because I am going to do short updates more often since I am too tired to continue with these long ones and pretty soon, I won't have the time!!!
Oh, and if anyone gets the sudden urge to shop for adorable baby girl things because it's so fun, I did put together just a very small baby registry at Target. Please please, do not feel obligated, this is my second baby and these are just a few things that I would like but of course, don't HAVE to have, unless you feel that I do!! Hee hee! Shopping for girls is soo fun!! I have been really restraining myself though and have only bought two outfits and a couple other things. I am soooo lucky to have been the recipient of hand-me-downs from my sister, friends, and cousins with bags and bags of lovely girl clothes! It has been so exciting to look through it all! I am sad to see Ben's things go (especially since I am being told to hang onto it until that baby comes out without boy parts) but I wanted to share them with friends who can benefit from them right now. I know where they live, I can come and collect if I need!!!
Hope you are all staying healthy and getting ready for summer (any minute now!).

Pics since January!!

Since I haven't updated my old site since late January and have decided not to renew my photo storage, I will be uploading photos and videos to this site. So now I have to catch up since Jan. 18th!!! (Hit the play arrow to view the videos!) (Click on a picture to view larger)

Here I am jammin on my drums!

Watching mommy use her new Dyson while I help!

Helping feed the dog dog.

Bouncing on the trampoline at the gym! Bounce Bounce Weee!!!

Here's what my poor face looked like after my wipe-out at the gym. Ouch!

Washing my new baby doll to prepare for helping with my baby sister!

Hangin out with my cousin Alaina.

Mommy's big belly at 29 weeks (Feb, 26th)

Jamming to the piano at Gramma Karin's house!! Wiggle wiggle!

ACHOO!! ACHOO!!

Hannah and me. Cheese!!! Hanging out in my new Big Boy bed!! Riding in my car with my shades. Beep Beep! Watch out ladies!!