Viva a Mexico

I can't believe we've been back almost a week and this is the first I'm posting! Work has been crazy. I'm exhausted and puffy at the end of the day, and Q is on a schedule of 9/10pm bedtime. I don't like it. Give me Mexico back!!!

We had a great time in Cabo. Highly recommend a week of doing nothing and pools to anyone. Not seeing rain for a week...to crazy storms popping up left and right here. The sirens even went off last night!! Our trees seems to have survived the wind and rain...with more to come today!

On our second full day, Mike's birthday, I decided sitting around the resort sounded too relaxing, so I joined a group of Mike's family (there were 26 of us most of the week!!) on a 5 mile walk, on the beach, to town. It was a great time...


...until about 3pm when we were in town and I said to myself...these are contractions. So I had some water and a snack sat down. And they got more regular. Every 10 minutes for 15-45 seconds, I had PAINFUL contractions and I seriously thought we'd have a preemie in Mexico! So, I put myself on bed rest for the night (after dinner of course since it was Mike's birthday after all!). Mike yelled at baby peanut that he couldn't celebrate this birthday in Mexico. I felt okay the rest of the week, but after about 14 hours of contractions every 10 minutes....I just wanted to have the baby! That's labor man! It took the rest of the week to recover...and I still don't feel quite as energetic this week. Crazy how the beginning of the 3rd trimester changed how I felt completely!!

Apple Juice

My Miss Independent. It's odd when she can and can not get into the fridge. Most of the time she's successful, but she gets VERY upset when she "can't do it open the fridge!" This time in the video, she was successful. I'm pretty sure it was during one of my many trips to el bano these days! Can you tell how tired I am by my voice? I think this was, like, 5:30 am the other day! :)

Spider Song

It's bath time. Quinn's babbling while I catch up on my charting so I can take Friday off of work and enjoy MEXICO next week.

"itty bitty spideeerrrrrrr climbeded to RING of FIRE
up the water out
down down comes rain and wash spider out
out camed sun and dry rain
out camed suuuunnnnnnnn
itty bitty spiiiiderr
RING OF FIRE"

This is the first time I've witnessed random singing come from her.
I'm laughing.

So, yes, Cabo, Mexico coming soon!!!! I'm looking forward to 7 days away. I'm not really looking forward to 7 days of work waiting upon my return. And I'm not really looking forward to 8-10 hours in a plane with Quinn. At least there will be 15ish others to help with the plane entertainment! And we'll have to get movies ready, because they seem to keep her attention pretty well when she's sleepy.

Baby Boy Born is a move-a-holic some days. At he's got a crush on one of the nurses I work with. As soon as I get within 10 feet of her and she's talking, he'll kick kick kick punch MOVE his body. It's crazy funny!

I have my glucose testing Thursday...wish me luck. I can't imagine the next 12 weeks without dessert.

He's also more mobile today (I think) because he's finally starting to flip (or so it feels like). He's been feet first since always. And I feel MUCH more movement like kicking on my left side than I have since ever and more punches on my right side and more butt stretch-like feelings on my underbelly. he's still well below my belly button, but according to "the books" (online because I'm too lazy for books) he's about 2# now! So, the past two weeks has been about 1# of growth for the little guy....and about that for me too. SOOO, at least there's not crazy weight relations with all the dessert I eat. :)

Yet.

Flowers, Frisbee & Fun

We've had an interesting week.
Last week Friday, I had a day "off" and actually took some time off during the day to hang out with my tot.
She planted her own flowers. I'm not sure if you can quite tell that she managed to empty ALL the rest of the flowers from the black plastic containers and just put them in a pot and then took them to the backyard! All in the time it took me to walk from the front of the house, to the back shed, get a shovel, and back to the front again!!



Mama got some new shades with a "free" bag I got from Motherhood Maternity for spending "too much" money.
Q tried them on...

"upsid-di-di-down"
" 'rund neck"

"dis way!"

"oh, cheese" she says cheese so fast and expects the shot to be taken that her face always looks super ridiculous when saying cheese.

Then on Sunday and Monday, we had a quick visit with my family for some birthday and Memorial Day celebration. And heck, anytime the whole family and all kids are involved, it's a party for the sake of there being a ton of us! Sunday and Monday also brought the Born family and Louis to College Ultimate Nationals held in (near) Madison! So, we got to endure the 90+ weather for a bit. Sadly, the U of M didn't do so great, but we got to watch some of their last game. AND we watched Wisconsin girls win a game. AND we saw most of the final final game on Monday between Florida and Carlton. Who would've guessed a local college would've even made it to the final game!!?? In retrospect, it was a pretty freaking cool experience...despite the heat, tired tot, and pregnancy. We did, however, score a free hat and shirt (we believe mostly because of our cute Quinn!!). Quinn has her first ultimate jersey and an "ultimate player of the future" sponsored by madison ultimate frisbee association. So, an overall productive weekend...but LOTS of time in the car.






This week, then ,flew by considering it was only 3 full workdays in Farmington. And I had planned on working when I got home, but the weather and the tot decided it was a sprinkler afternoon instead. She wanted pool, but that's more work.

601

Wow, 600 posts? That was the "Ring of Fire" post.

Post 601 will be "Quinn painted her own toes" (not a typo...meant to say "toes" not "toe nails") while we watched Hopkins Hustle B-squad do not so awesome in the scoring aspect, but man there were some NICE plays and points (from the little I saw). Unfortunately, the completely unpredicted (last night) rain and thunderstorms put the tournament on hold so Q and I came back home...only to have her not nap and spend time outside anyway!





Obviously, from the photos, the weather is MUCH more like the forcasted 70s and sunny.

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I can't believe these photos were taken Monday already! This was the slowest fast week ever. The weeks are flying by these days and I feel like I'm getting WAAAY to wrapped up with work and not enjoying my toddler nearly as much as a I should. HOWEVER, Sunday and Monday nights Q, Mike and I enjoyed "the ring of fire!" in our backyard.



It was nice to enjoy time in the chill of the evening while they're still around (assuming they'll go away and it's going to be 75 plus through my pregnancy, of course.

Sunday night, Q didn't get back from Grammy's until almost 9pm! We had more the 24 hours without a kid...and it was crazy weird. So weird, in fact, that Quinn was up until after 10pm! I just wanted to spend time with her, but she wanted bed. Then didn't and wanted ring of fire. We made her a s'more or two and she headed to "brush teess" and go to bed. I think Mike and I watched that fire until after 11pm...crazy.

We had so much fun, we invited Scott over on Monday night to enjoy the great stillness of Minnetonka (as if SLP is so hopping!).

Q enjoyed an ice cream sandwich on Monday instead of hot melty goodness.



And all was fun and good and games....until the pit broke on us! The bottom fell out when we added a log!! I should've video'd but I was busy getting water to try to save most of the grass....we did lose a nice patch right in the middle of the lawn but we created a temporary way to keep the fire going for several more hours.....the guys did at least. Let's just say I could use some new oven pads and mitts. :)


Mike's going to try to find a way to keep the bottom in place for our next fire. Sadly, it's not currently very safe to have a fire in our own backyard. Hopefully a neighbor will step up soon and invite us over!!! :)

We're going to have some new neighbors soon! We discovered that a family of 4 (1 and 3yr olds) are moving in around the corner. Some other neighbors "our age" that live in our kiddy corner back yard are expecting in mid August. And the house across the street from us says "sold"! We have no idea who bought as those neighbors have been moved out for awhile, but I'm excited for company across the street!! Hopefully they'll be friendly and not mind Q's loud mouth coming home each night (our front driveway really echos between our house and the neighbor's across the street)....it's odd.

OOH, and here's Katie POPPED OUT at week 24 (ish).



It's been awhile since I've take the profile pic...since the week Dad visited us (week 14ish)!

And I thought I was huge then!

And of course then the shot of like, 6 weeks...I love how I'm all arched back as if thinking my barely belly was something to note! :)

Changes in my life since baby boy:
*Vision changes!!! I can wear glasses only (contact not only dry out, but I can't see with them in!! It's like they're swapped...but they're not...I went through a few pair --mostly old ones hanging out in solution around the house in travel bags -- until I convinced myself that it was the contacts, not my inability to tell left from right!)
*Baby belly! He's active, but mostly during the day and when I go longer than 3 hours without eating during the day. He also moves after some snacks like peanut butter, applesauce, and some juices...almost all the time after those things. And it's his favorite when I sit down and recline my feet! You can see him move most of the time now...kicks and exaggerated movements.
*Swelling: My wedding band is too small for my slightly swollen fingers, so it's engagement only..which is actually a little loose on the left hand. My ankles hate these long days at work, driving, and then housework: in addition to the increasing temps and dew point! This summer will be F-U-N. Crazy idea to do late 2nd and 3rd trimester in the hottest part of the year...oh well!
*Cravings: peanut butter, sugary cereal, anything dessert with lots of sugar, cucumbers, broccoli, pie, Outback baked sweet potatoes & potato chips and Deans French Onion Dip. I don't really ever have an appetite, but wow do I eat all day some days! And water galore...can't seem to get enough! Which means lots of potty time. We'll see how the glucose test comes out in a few weeks...if the result is gestational diabetes, I may cry...we have so many desserts at work it's hard to say NO!
*Kid loves music just like Q did. Car rides home (when Q yells for RADIO LOUDER MAMA! the rare times she's not demanding nemo or puppy do) are fun for the kiddo---he moves a ton.
*Driving: I moved the seat back yesterday! I realized I couldn't really get behind the steering wheel yesterday morning...didn't think anything of it until I reached back to give Q some more cereal and my belly hit the wheel in the slight body rotation!!! Ha ha...yeah. So I have to find some sort of happy medium because it was more difficult to reach the pedals further back!!
*Names: NO WE DON'T HAVE A NAME YET! Stop asking! It won't be Michael Jerome, we don't really want a junior.
*Weight gain: slow and steady...I'm still almost already at the recommended weight gain, but I'm a tiny gal, so no one's too worried...especially if it's baby growth and not fluid retention. And hopefully slow and steady stays!! I can still move fairly easily and want to keep as active as possible. Having Q around sure makes 7pm bedtime more difficult (as 7 or 8 was often bedtime when preggo with Q). So I'm still plenty active through my work day, and then with Q after work too! Not to mention I'm in almost all my largest summer clothes and don't really care to buy a whole new wardrobe for the last few months (seeing as my last months with Q were cold!). Not to mention I lived in sports clothes since I wasn't working....oh well. We'll see where that goes.

Well, Q's actually napping....off to clean!

Oregon!

These are so not even in the order they were taken, but I'm too lazy to edit the right order...just go with it!

What a cute family! :)




You can just barely tell how windy it is by looking at Q's hair. It was mighty cold....and with at that time was probably a double ear infection, she tolerated the wind, chill and ocean wonderfully!!


Thad and Q trying to find a way to pass over the water streaming between ocean and land...who will figure out the way to go!? The engineer or the toddler?



The big rock above...we decided to walk there. It was much farther than I thought...but as you can see below (and in some of the other pictures as we get closer to it), we made it! It was filled with shallow water and ocean life. Crabs, tadpoles and sea anemone (Nemo home!!)! It was pretty cool. Q wanted to touch them...but I know she just likes to kill them, so her hands stayed safely within someone else's so she could balance and not kill..


WATER MOUNTAIN!! Muhltnomah Falls in Oregon. GORGEOUS; even in comparison to Niagara that we saw just last summer!


The background below is Washington State!!!! We were in Oregon, but got to look across the river to see Washington! It was pretty cool.


Q needed to show my the sand! Everywhere there was sand and ocean! She loved it. And well, turns out we brought quite a bit back with the car seat! :)


Q got there and was immediately attracted to Jimmer's trolls. And my favorite part of Quinn and Jimmer--she couldn't quite comprehend that Jimmer and Jim are different people. When we told her they were Jimmer's she said "and finn and stacy" and we said. No, Jimmer, not Jim. "yeah, jim and finn and stacy too". Hmm....oh well. She decided the trolls needed to sit on the couch, so they did...and they stayed there most of the week!!


Microbrews!! And Thad too.


Meagan showing off the ocean to Quinn. Q really wanted to go to the water but the drop here was pretty much straight down...we know I wasn't going after her if she fell..TOOOO HIGH!!! But, the other three had good tabs on her...I only had about 4 real scares to her falling or walking onto the highway....in hind sight, probably not a kid-proof place to be...BUT A FABULOUS VIEW!


An M&M donut for Quinn from Voodoo donuts! Yummy!! She loved every bite that I let her have (I ate most of it!!).



Our trip was a blast! Meagan and Thad are great hosts and their house is looking amazing!!! Makes me wonder what we would've done if we had bought any of the other options that needed "just a little work". We've barely painted here, and yet it can be home! They've done more in a year than I honestly care to ever do in a lifetime to any one home....much less all homes I may live in until I die!!!! Thanks a ton! We loved our spring Born family vacation to Oregon!!! We hope to host you some time in the future months.

Girl's Day (With Some Boy Influence)

So, for the most part yesterday in Mankato was a "girl's party" yesterday, but we did have some Dad's and the two lone boys.


Quinn was not nearly as shy as she has shown me in previous group interactions...I guess the frequent visits to blogs helped her feel "at home" at Shanna and Audry's home!

We had a good day, good eats, good weather, and good company! Insert great into there too if you want, it was a fun day!!

Double is Better?

Not in the case of Ear Infections.

But, ultimately, I suppose if the best route is antibiotics, you may as well have a cough, runny nose, double ear infection and puss coming out of your tear ducts. OH, and after we saw the doctor, the fever spikes to a Quinn all-time high of 99.8 degrees (barely a fever for many toddlers).

So, yes, Quinn's on antibiotics for the first time in her life.

BUT, she must have had an awesome time gradually getting more ill in Portland because during dinner tonight, our conversation went something like this.

"Q, please come finish your dinner"

"No, I an airplane!"
Running in circles in the other room.

"Really? Where are you going, airplane?"

"Visit Thad and Meagan with Daddy and see Water Mountains!"
Yes, we went on an airplane to visit Meagan and Thad and saw Waterfalls.


Yes, we spent the weekend and early part of the week in Portland. Saturday morning as we're getting ready to leave, I notice a new cough, think not much of it. Each day, illness, crabbiness, and Q sleepiness increase, do not think anything of it until she's oozing out of her eyes on Tuesday, the day we came home.

Despite the gradual illness, she had fun.

She seemed to enjoy the ocean and sand the most.
"See Nemo in ocean!!"

And Gizmo, most tolerant cat Q's ever met.
"I LOVE Gizmo kitty" she says the first morning when she woke up at 4:30AM (to her credit, it was 6:30 CST/normal wake-up time). She barely ever tells ME she loves me unprompted!

And motorcycles on TV.
On our last night there, Q woke up, got out of bed (air mattress on floor), opened the door, down the hallway, down the stairs, and found Thad and Mike playing games. Story something like this, "Hi Quinn, where's Mommy?" "Sleeping." "How did you get down here?" "I got out of bed and came down stairs. I careful. I want cereal." So, Mike proceeded to get her cereal, grapes, & juice. OH, and it's around 1am. She didn't want to go back to bed and watched Thad and Mike play a motorcycle game. She's asked to watch motorcycles and Daddy and Thad since. If I say no, she says Nemo. If I say no, she says motorcycles.
Can't win with a toddler. You really can't win.

I can not find the camera or I'd have some photos of the wonderful vacation we had!

It's hard to believe we're just a few weeks from MEXICO!!!

"I want..."

....fill in the blank.

80% of Quinn's sentences these days (phrases rarely, mostly sentences) start with "I want". It's kind of annoying when she's in repeat mode "I want sucker, I want sucker I want sucker I want sucker" "I want cake, I want cake I want cake I want cake" "I want eat I want eat I want eat", etc. But mostly, I guess she knows what she wants so I should be happy?

New development this week....she's almost grasping addition and subtraction! We sing/read "5 little monkeys" frequently and she'll count along on each page and almost always go from 5 to 1 and stay at 1, but she realizes that there's less each time, even if it goes 5 4 3 2 1 ... not 5 1 all done! When reading, we count each monkey, but just singing in the car is a little more difficult to grasp that there's only one less each time. Regardless, I'm pretty excited about this development this week...if she's like me, it'll take until 1st grade to get the whole addition subtraction thing down!!

Her new love is "spinny things". There's yard in the neighborhood that has spinning flowers...I can't seem to find the fabric ones that they have anywhere, but I found plastic/foil pinwheels at Target yesterday and she's nicely placed them in a flowerpot outside and all she wants to do is look at them! Maybe they'll keep the 'peckers off the house?!?!?

Her latest complaint, "Mommy, windy outside again!? NO MORE WINDY" AND wow, on nights like today and last night, I couldn't agree more! Really, we can barely do anything outside with the wind...no fun!

And she got a big gnat bite on the side of her head yesterday!!! I'm trying to figure out how to assess it as she won't let me get hear her to clean the scab...it looks like it's smaller than it looks right now with lots of dried blood on her head. It unfortunately happened just before I got there yesterday so Trisha didn't have time to really get to clean it either (slapped Trisha away and cried)...and Mike wasn't home before bedtime...sooooooo...no full assessment of damages there. :) It does look kinda painful though...right behind her ear....

Mike, his parents, and myself went to the Twins game on Monday night. The new stadium is pretty cool....literally and figuratively. :) When the people next to us would get up, I got significantly colder, but overall layered appropriately for a windy, 50 degree, sorta rainy evening. Photos to come!

"I chase him, Mama!"

"I chase him, Mama. now he gone. now what?"

Yep, Q had a busy morning chasing squirrels up trees and away from our bird feeders.

Now she's busy dressing up as "black and decker" tool lady running into furniture and walls.. "oh, i fell again mama! runned into the couch again!"

She's a busy girl today too!

Yesterday was gym class day, and Friday we had open gym...two days of gym class! She was sooo excited...but sad that the trampoline was not part of "fitness month May" activities. After Friday's gym class, Grammy met us in Chaska (in the downpouring sheets of rain) for a quick Kohl's run (of course) and dinner at Baja Sol (yummy mango salsa!!). Grammy and Q were excited to spend the rainy afternoon together. I'm glad she could come up for the day on Friday.

We also had the pleasure of attending the zoo yesterday with Teddy and Scott. I am impressed that both kids (and adults, for that matter) WALKED most of the zoo, climbed almost anything possible, played at the park at the zoo, and ate like champs for lunch. We ended the day by playing in Q's new/used (FREE!) turtle sandbox, played hockey, and played at the little park. And both kids only had a nap as long as it takes to get from Apple Valley to Minnetonka....and Mike even cooked us dinner!! It was enjoyable. I'm amazed at how well Q and Teddy played for not seeing each other in a few months. Not to mention the fact that Q really doesn't play with kids all that often...she fights with them and usually says "mine mine mine!!!!". With Teddy, it was sharing and hugging and laughing and a lot of fun. Easy for me and Scott to supervise kids that play so well together! And Teddy's vocabulary has grown tremendously! He's growing into such an adorable little man!!

To end it all well, Peanut (baby boy to be) hadn't moved much all day. It's very odd for me to go from 8am to 5pm with no movement, so obviously I was concerned. But, Scott offered to finish dinner final touches and Mike grilled, so I plopped on the couch and put up my feet. HOLY MOLEY Peanut is getting big and strong! Mike came over after a few minutes of movement and Peanut high fived him! Mike got a big smile. Now that movement can be felt by him, baby coming is getting more real....and oh dear are there house things to do yet...but time will allow for that, right?

This week will go all too fast, but next weekend brings a vacation to Portland to visit friends!! We'll see how Q travels, as it's been A LONG time since we've had a vacation to someplace other than Grandparents houses!! It used to be a very regular part of our life. She's excited to go in a plane "up high!!!!" We'll see how she really does! She'll get her own seat this time, so that should be mighty exciting for the little one.

Well, I'm getting piled with dishes and pretend food, so I should probably go eat the lunch she's prepared for me. :) Maybe she'll even nap today!!!!???? (by the way, she did nap at Trisha's all week...go figure!).

No "preliminary" tags

!

After a long week of survey, and a day of questions, research, and intense resident and staff questions...we ended our week with no deficiencies! This is crazy awesome and I'm so proud of my co-workers! I'm exhausted, but turns out it was all worth it in the end! WOOHOO!

Now, for getting the new menus done...

Long Week

Q helped pick up pine cones a few days ago.....they were nicely arranged around our trees. So, she picked them up, put them in a bag....and scattered them all over the yard -- "dump out, mama, no go by big tree". Hmm....oh well!



And wish I had more photos! I need to remind Trisha that I need all these cute photos she keeps telling me about. Q seems to be adjusting well to Trisha's little one. However, she did say on Monday after a long weekend of time with just me that she wanted Charlee to go somewhere else. But, quickly realized she was staying and "dealt with it". She's still apparently really good and gently playing with her and comforting her and is teaching her "high five!" It's tough for her to leave for the day without finding Charlee to give her a high five...it's cute.

The long week I've had had consisted of a long weekend with Mike away with his Ultimate teams (Varsity teams won! guys and girls, yay!) and Q being sick; attempting potty training...oh and our state surveyors showed up at work on Monday afternoon!! So, Q and I have been up and out of the house before 6am. And, if we're lucky, we're home around 6pm. That's a long day for both of us and we're both a little cranky at each other. SO, today I decided we'd get some drive through garbage and eat at a new park. Not a play park, a park in Eden Prairie that I think leads towards the water in the park in our "back yard" -- or our adopted back yard. Since I introduced Q to the creek behind our neighbor's house, she likes to go there. The house is still for sale...hopefully our new neighbors are nice enough to not mind Q taking a bolt for the creek every now and then! It's sooo tempting as you can see the water from our mailbox (across the street by the house with the creek).

Did you know the sun is up before 6 am so early these days already? How and the heck did that happen? And I met the sprinklers every day this week...and this morning there was almost frost on the grass before the sun met them...32 degrees! And to top that off, it was 67 on the way home. Where exactly are we living these days?

Overall, our survey seems to be going okay, but the days are tiring and the change in schedule isn't agreeing with baby-boy Born. He kicks the whole way to work as if saying, "uhm, no, go back to bed, I need more sleep". And he kicks crazy about every 2-4 hours as if saying "FEED ME NOW". So, Q did the same thing, so I'm anticipating an eater. HOWEVER, different than with Q is that Q was most active at night until about 2am. This kid is active all day. SOOO, maybe I'll get a kid that sleeps through the night? We'll hope and well...we have PLENTY of weeks to wait to find out! I'm in NO WAY anxious or wanting to meet baby boy anytime soon...and there are no signs that it could happen anytime soon...so YAY!

Now, I'm pretty sure this blog makes no sense today. I think bedtime soon may be the best option....

Too much Nemo?

So, since the new minivan (I think I posted that I'm a minivan gal now...) ... Q watches many the movies and DVDs. One of her favorites (because I love it and there's little violence and "scary" parts) is Finding Nemo. Well, quite honestly, the days in the car of her whining of boredom are over as she calls for "more Nemo" whenever she can! We've switched it up, mermaids, cars, bears, toy story, puppydogs...but it all comes to "more Nemo!" Today we're trying "a bugs life" and it seems to be going well. She's giggling a lot and asking what each but is....if only I knew--we'll have to get Claire K over here to help us out with that task!

Well, today we're getting out of the bath (rainy day mid-day bath tub fun) and she says to me, "time let go, it be okay, i whale". Nemo line "He says it's time to let go! Everything will be okay!" -actually a Dori line while her and Marlin are in a whale and Dori speaks "whale", hence the 'I whale' at the end.

I can't even being to think about how much more she's quoting that I don't realize. But the best part was that she grabbed my shoulder like in the movie, Marlin is holding onto Dori or something like. It's a sign, I think?

Was she trying to comfort me? I'm not sure. I have been attempting to get her to nap, so maybe it's Q's way of saying "give it up Mom, no more naps ever again". She was up at 8 yesterday (actually up at 6, but fell back asleep), did not nap yesterday, and did not go to bed until after 8. Today--up at 5:30. No nap. If she sleeps at Trisha's tomorrow, I may cry. :) She's actually been a lot of fun and we've had a blast destroying the house and trying to piece it together again. I've been rearranging cabinets and drawers as my storage spaces somehow never got organized in the unpacking process. Not to mention the fact that nothing that's come into the house since we've been here has really ever had a home...so. Working on that this weekend as it's been rainy and wet and damp and gross. Q's working on finishing off all the ends of bags of snacks and ends of veggies and leftovers from the fridge. We both greatly enjoyed our bowl of cereal this morning--we've been without milk at home almost all week!! Oh well....

Q's had a runny nose and one watery eye all weekend too. On Friday there was a slight temp, but nothing more than clear goo. She's getting good at tissues! :)

On another note...Q likes parks. Mike and I like to show her new tricks. Since I sort of have a bump that would inhibit me showing her this trick....Mike did the honors. And man this hill would've been fun and close sledding!! At least we know for next year when she may enjoy stepping in snow!

Easter Weekend

Oh dear, am I far behind on this business of blogging.

As some have hinted/told me lately "you should move back to NYC so I know what you're doing and what Q's doing again". Wow, I thought. If that isn't the sad, sad truth. Where does time go?! I've been back at work more then 6 months now. And holy moley, how did I get to be 20 weeks preggo already (well, according to today's ultrasound, 18 weeks...whatever)?!

We've been busy working. Mike's been busy coaching--which he seems to be good at and LOVES! Maybe someday Q and I will make it to a game/tournament if they're close. Q's busy growing. We're in potty training days. Trisha tried today at day care and she peed twice. She's hating wearing pants and "underwears" so it leaks, and leaks quickly. She's in this odd transition when she knows she's going/know she's gone, has slight and quick potty dance and it's over....pee everywhere. So, we'll try a few more days, see where it goes, and maybe just switch to a thicker cloth diaper/potty training pant. She really likes the do-it-yourself of the underwear and pull ups pull apart (and are sooo ridiculously priced it's not funny) when you pull them up (or when Q tries at least).

A little bump if you look close! Camera is with Mike in the car, otherwise I'd sport a 20 week photo for you. I didn't take any profiles while I was not sure if we'd make the 20 week mark, so the last one I have is the last one posted. We did get some cute U.S. photos today...but again, with Mike who's at practice. Maybe a later viewing of our baby BOY to be!

Yes, she's a crazy driver already! She loved this power car...it was awesome watching her in Grandma's yard Easter weekend.
Why use the hands when the stuff your face in the cupcake works so much better?? Only my girl.....I think...
Easter bunny goodies...!!!
Q and Hailey. They're such cute cousins. Maybe someday they'll really like playing together instead of fighting over toys. :) Someday.....