Happy Valentine's...with a toddler

Sadly, Cameron and my biggest "gift" this Valentine's was the fact that Ms Emmy sat on her little potty with no diaper tonight.

Woot-woot! Who would have known!

Here's the news...

The above profile shot is my favorite....

Can you see that baseball cap the technician drew on the little guy?!? Funny.


And of course, there's the proof....BOY! We are very excited, but I have this weird feeling of, "well, I know exactly what to do with a girl. What do I do with a boy?" Silly isn't it. I am sure it will fade, it has already, but it's going to be so different! Here we go!

The Reveal.....tomorrow!

Our appointment is tomorrow-late afternoon....it's going to be fun! Well, except for the 5 MILLION ounces of water I will have to drink before going. Seriously, do they HAVE to push on your full and overflowing bladder with that ice cold equipment in order to get a good shot?!? Really!?

I think I have mentioned before that we are finding out the gender.

Cam will have it no other way...My comment to him was, well that means we may have to try for a third one (because I want at least one kid to be a surprise!). I bet he thinks I'm bluffing. Haha, maybe I am!

Just be sure not to ask me right after pushing this one out. Because with Emmy, ugh. WE don't need to bring that up again!

Well, here's to manana...!


Oh, and one last thing....let me know how you all like the new layout. I just love those photos up top of little miss. She's getting so big already though. She's 21 months, people...CRAZY!

Tubing, Emmy Style!

She never went down the hill, but I think she had a great time!

Identification

Me: Where's Pop-pop?

Me: Yeah, there he is! How about Mimi, where's Mimi?

Me: Smart girl! (*sigh* I just wish you could see them more often in person.)

Mangoes

There it is, the size of my kiddo growin' inside me. Next week supposedly it'll be a cantaloupe.

We find out the gender on Monday....20 week ultrasound.

Cam wants to know. I think I could have been surprised, that could have been fun. But nope. We are planners.

Onto other things.....I am kind of surprised I survived last week. I fell Monday outside Emalyn's daycare. Pretty hard on my left cheek/hip. Turns out everything is okay and I have had no troubles with the pregnancy (praise God).

That night, Emalyn didn't sleep. Turns out she was constipated. Cam got about 2 hours of sleep and I think I got 3 or so. It was really ugly. She finally filled a diaper Tuesday afternoon after we all arrived home from work and school (yay-success!).

Wednesday was (thankfully) uneventful. However, Thursday we got a virus on our computer and thought we lost all our photos (that I was supposed to be updating on our portable hard drive).

Luckily they were there. Cameron spent all Friday night saving them to CD's.

Then Saturday...now I'm really going to show you all how much I deserve the Mother of the year award....I gave expired milk to Emalyn. Believe me, it didn't smell, wasn't gross, NOTHING. I promise!

She puked all Saturday night/Sunday morning until 3 AM.

This week has started off MUCH better....even though it's snowing outside right now. The commute in was horrendous this morning....but I still made it into the office only 10 minutes late. (My optimism starts small :) lol)

I am so O V E R winter. Too bad I live in MN-there are three more months of winter to be had. Tough for me!

So, here's to another week....hopefully a better one! And now that I'm thinking about it, a mango sounds pretty good. I might just have to go get one for tonight-YUM!

Misc Photos (otherwise known as playing catch up!)

Playing under a fort with Daddy-we've only just realized (meaning Emmy) how fun it is to play under a blanket. It is really sweet, because this is one of her favorite things to do with her dad. (1/26/10) Below is a fort made using the couches and other blankets....(1/30/10).

Of course next, we have our favorite place....

The zoo!! The fish in the shark reef kind of startled her because of their size, so as you can see she CLUNG to her daddy for dear life for a little while....eventually she let go a bit, but didn't wander far (and was ready to bolt in a minute)!! (1/30/10)

Here we are outside the beaver dam. It was SO COLD that day we never thought we would see the animals, however, all of them were out. Including the big ole beaver that we've only seen once before!

Ah, and now my little ski bunny. No idea how or why she wanted to put on my boots, but it was hilariously cute, as you can see! (1/28/10)

Happy Birthday, Mimi!

Emalyn has learned that an "airpane" goes to the "airpote." And somehow, anytime we get in the car, we need to discuss whether or not we are actually going to the "airpote."

Man I love kid talk, just LOVE IT.

One more....when she is undressed and ready for bath she is "nuney, nuney!" I inadvertently taught her to say nudey. :) The cutest part is she rubs her hands on her tummy saying "nuney, nuney!"

Happy birthday mom. Sorry I forgot to call. I'm horrible, I know.

Housekeeping

If you read this blog in a reader, I am so sorry as I am finally getting around to getting back the photos that were lost awhile back....unfortunately that means you will be seeing new "posts" from 2007 and 2008!

For me, it is a great reminder of where I was with baby #1 versus baby #2.

So please bear with me, there'll be a lot of new, old posts!

4 months (officially 1/11/10)

I'm definitely starting to get that rounded belly look! I always feel better when people can just tell I am pregnant rather than when they stand there wondering "is she..or isn't she?"...such vanity I tell you! :)

She's full of the dickens! Or just full of something...she was flipping her head around shaking it side to side like a crazy girl and Cameron and I kept asking her to look at the camera...say cheese! and then at the VERY last second, she whipped her head to the side with that loony grin.

She's full of somethin' alright. And I sure LOVE it! :)