Baby Running Barefoot #2

3 posts in 3 days...this must be a record for me. I guess there is a lot of news to report around here. It's true, we are I am pregnant again (I'm not allowed to say "we" according to the rules of Ben i.e. "We are expecting", "We are due..."). At my appointment today the midwife decided to go with the early ultrasound dating, so that means we are ...er....I am 11 weeks along. And our my due date is May 18, 2010.

These are the first pictures of our little bean. Here is BRB* at 8 weeks and 3 days old. Measuring just 19 mm it's amazing that you can definitely tell it is a baby already! And we could even see the little heart beating at 171 bpm....how amazing!


*Baby Running-Barefoot

Tobi is excited too. She got a T-Shirt to help celebrate.


I don't know why but she keeps lifting up my shirt and pointing to my belly and saying "baby"...I may have told her that once, but I really don't even remember doing it. She also does the same thing to Ben...so she's not a total genius....but pretty close!

So far so good, I am pretty much right on track with my last pregnancy, pretty tired some days (Tobi and I take naps together most days) but no real morning sickness, just some appetite loss at night and certain foods make me feel like I might have an episode of "morning sickness"...but all in all it's been smooth sailing so far. We...yes WE...are very excited. It will be interesting having a 22 month old and a new born...but it's a pretty great thing that God is blessing us with another precious gift!!!!

15 months old today

Another month... they just seem to fly by these days. Tobi is a busy girl. She is a walking/toddling machine. She has to take care of "babies" everywhere she goes. It's becoming a bit of a stress on her I fear because she cannot finish a meal if she spots a "baby", she cries for her "baby" even when she can barely keep her eyes open from exhaustion, and she wails if we should have to leave a "baby" at the nursery, play room, or house to which that "baby" belongs.

Also she used to have more of a vocabulary but pretty much everything she loves has become "baby"...her sucky, blanky and the cat are all "baby" right now.
She does like to say "Dah-deee" a lot during the day. Every noise she hears makes her think that Ben is coming home...Dah-deee, Dah-dee. I think she works herself up so much that when Ben actually does come home she gets all excited and runs towards him and the u-turns towards me and start crying and begging for me to pick her up. I'm pretty sure this is the beginning of the turn and soon "Dah-dee will be it and "Mama" will be just that lady who's always around :)

Other loves include stacking toys, "ba-boo" (peek-a-boo) books, the book "Hugs" and for that matter almost all books. I love when she gets a book and sits down and starts flipping through the pages like she is reading it.

She loves looking at pictures and she loves playing with the big kids. She has definitely started exerting her independence in letting me know what she wants and doesn't want... hmmm, I don't know what that means for when we reach the 2's & 3's.
She is the best form of entertainment in my day and I'm just amazed at all the things she can do and all that she is learning...with what seems like very little help from me. I mean, I'm there caring, loving, nurturing, demonstrating, encouraging, but then she just does something that I never showed her or had any idea that she even was aware of...amazing.

Not Me Monday

It's that time of week again...time to NOT fess up. I can't think of how many times I thought to myself I am definitely blogging about this Not Me! moment this week....and now I can only think of a couple, but believe me when I say there must have been hundreds of moments that have all melded together in my mind by now.

Good thing I did NOT knowing let Tobi play with a box of wipies while I was in the next room assuming that she wouldn't know how to open it by herself and thus be able to empty the entire container out one by one onto the floor. If I had done that I might have found something like this:

When Tobi found her nucky that her Dad had given her as a special gift last Christmas in with all the toys I did NOT let her walk around with it just so I could laugh and take pictures...
And I would NEVER just keep snapping pictures even when she was obviously crying for me to pick her up...

And in a moment of last minute rush out the door haste I did NOT realize the only nucky that I didn't have to go back upstairs for was the same gag gift nucky she found earlier and just throw that in my bag to save me an extra trip. And I certainly would NOT have found some delight in looking in the rear view mirror to see this ridiculous scene:


At least her Daddy bought her the one with the "good" teeth...the other possibilities would have just been cruel.

If you want to read more stories of things people did not do then head over to MckMama'a blog here.

Frolicking in the Fall!

Last fall we stopped at a park for a few quick pictures. I laid her down in the leaves and she just laid there while I snapped away. At just 2 1/2 months old she really didn't have an option!

What a difference a year makes. This year we stopped at the same park but there was no laying still.
There was a lot of running ....

and crawling ....

and throwing leaves.

I got a lot of blurry action shots...but boy did she love the crinkly sound of the leaves under her feet.


After the park we stopped to pick out a pumpkin...but unfortunately I discovered I left my wallet at home. So no buying a pumpkin, but Tobi did try to bring this "ball" home.
There's my sweet little pumpkin. Love this girl!

Not Me Monday

This week...much like any other week...has had it's share of ups and downs. I have been trying to get over this cold that has attacked me, not in a full out way, but more like a blood-sucker...just daily zapping the life out of me...not enough to make me feel totally out of commission but certainly enough to make me feel like the smallest tasks are huge obstacles...

I'm sure however that, even though I have been lacking for energy, that I did NOT take any short cuts or shirk on any of my homemaking duties. I certainly wouldn't have planned to do 4 or 5 things everyday but after completing one of those ordinary task "reward" myself with a rest on the couch....for the rest of the day.

Also, I would NOT have realized after Tobi's pants were on that I had forgotten to snap the onesie and just let her walk around tails out all day...and I could NOT have been too lazy to find ther other slipper and just let my daughter walk around like "diddle, diddle, dumpling..." (you know the rest), because obviously even when we are just home alone we are both ALWAYS bathed, dressed to the nines, and prepared for any unexpected visitors.

And the thing I am most proud to say that I did NOT do was due to the fact that I have restless legs that prevent me from sleeping sometimes. I may have gotten up after wrestling the sleep fairy for an hour or more and I may have picked up the down comforter off the floor, but I certainly did NOT take one step on the stairs catch my foot on the blanket and bang and bump my way all the way to the bottom of our very unforgiving, uncarpeted, unpadded, wooden stairs. If this had happened I would NOT have banged so loudly that my husband, who never woke up for six months of a baby screaming to be fed in the same room, bolted out of bed and came running to make sure I had not killed or seriously injured myself. I'm glad I did NOT do that because if I had I would probably have a gigantic bruise on my hip and backside!

These are just a few of the things I did NOT do this week...join in the denial fun and visit some other Not Me posts here.