Not enough time for a long post, but SkyWalker had to talk at morning program this morning at school. The video for those of you logged in and in my neighborhood:
Littleman will never cease to make us laugh. I uploaded some pictures the other day and found these:
This must be what he's doing while I am changing diapers....I love, LOVE that my kid is such a character.
Also, Papabear and I recently discovered that Littleman has an interesting way of saying November and December. For some reason he adds "derf" to the end. So, he says, "Novemberderf" and "Decemberderf." Go ahead, say it out loud a couple of times - we were in tears.
Here's the "snow" we had the other day.
I have a video up on facebook of the snowfall, I'll try to get it up here soon.
Littleman has finally begun to show an interest in letters and writing. Here's a drawing of the two of us. (I'm on the right, you can tell by the hair.) :-)
And finally, this year's gingerbread house.
Chewie had her first spoonful of cereal at Thanksgiving dinner and followed it with the whole bowl. You know how they say start out with 1 tablespoon and go slow? No such thing with my girls. She did not gag once, she did not refuse once, she ate and ate and ate and finished a full serving. The next day she did refuse it at dinner because she was tired so it's not like she doesn't know how to say no. She's been doing good with it, except she started getting a little constipated and was up at night again (to put that in perspective, she was up at 10 and then again at 4/5. So really, who am I to complain?). I started oatmeal yesterday morning to try to help in that area. Last night was the worst in that she was crying quite a bit and then this morning during breakfast she was crying A LOT. She had poop when she woke up this morning and I don't think she's stopped since. I decided to skip the cereal this morning and give her a rest. I gave her oatmeal at lunch and might just stick with that today instead of doing the rice for dinner. She is at least smiling now and she was NOT doing that this morning. I think she really needed to get her poop out and now that's it coming all at once her little heiney is getting sore. And this sounds SO FAMILIAR does it not? I'm going to start fruits soon and hopefully she will balance out and get regular again.
for some SERIOUS cuteness! Can you believe his shirt says "little guy"??????? AND, it was only three bucks at WalMart! This might be the most perfect picture I have ever taken. Ever.
And I almost wish these two were related so this could be my christmas card!!!!
Can you stand it???? I know, neither can I. *sigh* Such cuties....
Well, technically, the turkey is still with us in the form of blessed leftovers! Mmmmm, can't wait for my sandwich at lunch today. I prepped everything for turkey day the day before, so all there was to do was put the turkey in the oven and wait. SO, we decided to put up our tree. As I have mentioned, Littleman is beyond excited about the holidays, so we went ahead and got them rolling. We had a really nice morning together and a very nice afternoon with the family. Here are some photos:
These two are just of LittleGuy gearing up for chilly mornings...
Papabear is always cracking me up...
Yes, our tree topper is a chicken.
I included this one not so much to showcase our tree but to show that while my boobs and belly continue to grow, my butt appears to be keeping itself at bay.
This is serious business for Littleman.
The beloved 19 lb turkey....
LittleGuy hung out here for two hours while we decorated the tree!!
Always love an opportunity to use the wedding china.
My little turkeys with grandma (Maday).
Let the feasting begin!!
Grandma brought some fun stuff!
I can be an airplane, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did not get up this morning.
Sometimes I get a little boxed in by my routines. For the most part things work out really well and by sticking to my routines as much as possible I can keep control over my days. I had been "dream feeding" Chewie at 10--feeding her in her sleep so that she would make it until the morning (7:30) and not have her sleep interrupted. Lately she's been waking up at 10. Which is no longer a dream feed and pretty indicative of a habitual waking. The last couple of nights I fed her only one side, something that would have caused a 3 or 4 am waking a few weeks ago. She took it and slept until 7:30. Or well, 7:20, but we're not going to quibble. Last night I decided not to go up there at all. She woke when Vader took SkyWalker and the Princess to the bathroom. I grumbled but didn't go up. She wasn't screaming or crying but really just fussing. She went back to sleep after just a few minutes. I was truly shocked when my alarm went off at 5:30 and I realized I hadn't been up yet. I knew this had become a habit waking but part of me was afraid to not feed her. Not that she would wake me up later, but just because she seems so similar to SkyWalker--born early and small, not the easiest pooping, looks just like him--that in the back of my head I thought "I don't want another baby to stop gaining weight." But she is not SkyWalker and she is still gaining weight. She now has some chunky thighs like her big sister. And she is a week away from cereal anyway. I decided I didn't need to wait until EXACTLY 6 months, so I'm doing it just one week early--on Thanksgiving so my mom can be there. My mother was there for the other 2 and now she can be there for Chewie's first cereal tasting as well.
We did the prescreening test for down syndrome and several other genetic abnormalities for our baby. We got a call this past week that our baby popped for having a high risk of Down Snydrome. We went in for an extra ultra sound to look for signs of down syndrome in our baby. They found that the baby's nose appears small and it is a risk factor for Down Snydrome. They did not see any other signs in the ultra sound but the ultra sound is not an accurate enough to determine whether to be concerned or not to be concerned. We had a 1/37 chance of the baby having down snydrome with the ultra sound showing a risk factor it increases that possiblity. We having an Amino done on Monday which will tell us for sure whether or not the baby has down snydrome. We wont know the results for1 to 2 weeks so we are waiting, hoping and praying! We accpet all hope and prayers from anyone else with us! because I'm pretty scared but on the postive side we are having a girl!
I am up before the sun and all the children and dogs and husband are still sleeping and it is glorious. I was only tired for a few minutes and now I am awake and wondering why I couldn't drag my lazy butt out of bed for the last couple of weeks. We have had a rough patch-- Chewie has been eating like a fiend and SkyWalker spent a few days throwing up. And when you have 3 the odds of you being woken up in the middle of the night aren't 3 times as great it's a MILLION times as great. Throw in Scratchy the dog who likes to scratch his skin off or lick himself ad nauseum. Literally--he threw up this week too.
are so adorable.
