growing up

I just can’t believe Av is 4.5 and Camille is 1.5. How did that happen? They are getting so big. It’s partly nice. Av can pretty much help herself to a snack when she needs one, including water, but it still makes me sad. She has one more year left of preschool thank goodness. I still call Camille baby, trying to make it true a little while longer. I know all parents think this but everything she does is just too cute. Just seeing her running around our house and the things she does. Just wish I could videotape their lives so I could watch them over and over again. Yesterday she put on some of sis’s high heals and was pushing her very full (stuffed animals) grocery cart around. She certainly does not see me grocery shopping in heals. I just really wish I could stop time and enjoy them at this age a little while longer.

scare

I had a slight scare last Wednesday. I woke up and out of the blue started bleeding a little. I bleed with both girls but it was much earlier. We thought we had escaped it this time. Guess not. After a few calls to my doctor with them trying to reassure me I finally convinced them to bring me in to be checked out. Everything with ncb is fine. I was also able to see his “boy parts!” First time I had an ultrasound like that! So now that we have seen his parts via an ultrasound we felt comfortable telling everyone it’s a NCB!!!

"ncb"

This poor little boy has been nicknamed that for a while now. So much so that I almost call him that to people it’s not really appropriate for. My friend Marci and I came up with it. I was supposed to text her “ncb” for boy or “cb” for girl when I found out the sex. Why you ask. Well, girls are actually much easier to spot on ultrasounds. They have 3 very distinct lines down below. For slang that equals a cheeseburger. So a girl is a cheeseburger and so to us a boy became a non-cheeseburger or ncb. I know, it's horrible but it has just kind of stuck.

15 weeks

Everything is going well. I still have at least one real intense period of nausea a day but it seems to be more that I get air trapped in my belly and need to burp very badly. As soon as I do I feel better. It is really weird. We have not told most people it’s a boy so that has been a little confusing remembering who knows and who doesn’t. We find out for real April 28th so that will be fun. I’m starting to wear my maternity clothes but really they are still big. This part is hard, to big for normal clothes but too small for maternity. I finally told work this past week. This was a little bit of a surprise and a big shock but I’m so glad and blessed. I look at Avery and Camille and they are just growing up so fast. I’m so glad I will have one more little baby and child to hold and love and teach. Life will be crazy for sure but it will be a good crazy and John is the perfect partner to get through the craziness with. The 4 of us really have a good time together and I know sweet little baby boy in my belly will just add to the fun.

“Conversation” I had with Camille this morning

She was running around the house eating a plain bagel. I asked, “would you like to get up into your high chair and have peanut butter on that?” “NOOOOOOO!” was her response. I could see her thinking why would I give up freedom for peanut butter. I had to go upstairs to get dressed so I asked her if she wanted to come with me. I got another NO. So then I asked if she would be a good girl while I went upstairs. To that she shook her head yes. She changed her mind though and came running after me.

WI

This past weekend we took our annual trip to WI to see John’s mom and his grandparents. It was a short trip but we all had a great time. We left on Thursday late afternoon and the girls were so good. They watched movies and played. Camille has discovered Elmo and is obsessed. That is all she wants to watch and she will not fall asleep if it’s on. Poor Av got slighted on the movies and let her sis watch Elmo a lot more than she got to watch her two favs (strawberry shortcake or the care bear movie AA and UM got her). Camille stayed up all the way past Chicago watching Elmo. Av gave up and fell asleep about 9:30.

We stayed in a hotel that night. The girls were real excited and were running around that room like crazy. We all settled down and were fast asleep by midnight. Camille had us up bight and early at 7 but it was a nice solid 7 hours. From there it was just a quick 2-hour drive to great grandma and great grandpa’s house. We had a wonderful time there. Had lunch and just played. The girls ate up the special attention from their ggma&ggpa. It was so nice to see them. We stayed until close to dinner and then headed to John’s mom’s house. There we had a yummy dinner (pot roast which Camille could not get enough of) and then took a nice walk to a neighborhood zoo. Such a cute little zoo that had monkeys, goats, prairie dogs, deer, ducks, and a bear!! It was pretty neat. At bedtime Camille of course fought it. I think she was a little scared being in a new place. Av was in the room with her and we could hear Av trying to comfort her, she was saying, “it’s okay sissy, go night night.” So sweet. Finally Camille settled but had a restless night and so we were up a lot but poor Av had to sleep in the same room with her.

The next day we went on a nice hike at Devil’s lake and then headed back over to ggma&ggpa’s. The rest of the family came over and we had a nice dinner with them. We stayed until about 8 and then it was time for us to get back on the road again. More Elmo until we got to the north side of Chicago where we had decided to stop. Again the girls were so excited by the hotel room. This one was big with 2 rooms and a big couch they could run and jump on. Camille slept in the couch room but had a coughing fit from 12am-1. I felt so helpless. She was coughing in her sleep. I didn’t know what to do for her and all I wanted to do was sleep. We kept giving her drinks of water and at one point I thought a bite of bread/bagel would help the tickle in her throat so I pulled her out of her bed but in her sleep I could not get her to eat the bread. She finally stopped though and we all slept till 8:30!

The next day we got up and had a nice drive back. We stopped to get a Starbucks for me (WI has NO starbucks. One had a broken espresso machine and so she told us of another we couldn’t find, I was starting to have bad withdrawals), then we stopped at a park on Purdue’s campus (very pretty campus) to play, then lunch, then at the outlets. No I didn’t get anything fun, J got a new Puma jacket because he “lost” his old one. Guess I need to start “losing” stuff. Again the girls did not sleep at all until about the last hour they wanted to. By that time it was 6 pm and we could not let them sleep. Av tired first. It was so hard to wake her. Then after telling Camille to go “night night” all day she finally wanted to 10 minutes from home. Poor thing was so tired she could just not stay awake. At home I got her out of the car and brought her into the house and set her down on the floor and she laid right down and was out. Even with us laughing at her and Jack saying hi she was out. Finally John made me stand her up. She took a few steps and fell. She was mad but woke up to eat her dinner.

Easter Pics

The first 2 pics are of the girls with the baskets UM and AA sent. The next few are of their baskets, then the egg hunt (including C sampling her findings) and the last are of the egg dying. Don't you just love the look on the mad scientist's face in the last one. Notice the drops of blue dye on her check. And yes, I know those are Christmas PJ's they are wearing. hehehhe