33 Weeks!

At my appointment yesterday, the midwife said..."in 3 weeks, we wouldn't stop you if you went into labor."

WHAAAAAAT???!?!?!??

I don't think I'll go into labor that early but just the possibility of being able to have a baby in 3 weeks? We are not ready! Bailey needs to percolate a while longer!! We aren't even starting our childbirth refresher course until March ;)

I am still feeling really good. Tired still, but I am sleeping better for the most part.

SNOW, Day 4

I couldn't resist another picture. Tuesday it rained ALL DAY but when we got home, Isabella just wanted to play outside. Mommy stood INside and watched while she ran back and forth on the sidewalk, stepping in the snow, picking up and throwing the snow, hitting bushes with a stick...and yes, getting rained on.

She was not dressed for the snow - that would have required wearing her "yeg mormors" aka leg warmers. We love it when she says that - yeg mormors.

Those of you on Facebook know that we switched her to a big girl bed last night! The night went very well (and I don't have to lean my big belly over the side of the crib anymore, hooray!). I am curious to see how she'll react when she wakes up this morning. I'll post more details (including pictures of her room) soon.

SNOW, Day 3

Like many aspects of her life, the more exposure Isabella has to something, the more comfortable she is. Today we spent over an hour outside. We took a ride in the sled, since the roads are still bad (and I am off of work!!). Then she walked up our street and spent lots of time throwing snowballs.

SNOW, Day 2

Today was a much better day to be outside in the snow. It is warm and sunny, and Isabella enjoyed her sled ride much more today. She even had fun "crunch crunch" in the snow (mostly just on the street, where the snow was packed down enough not to be scary). Even though we got a lot of snow, I don't think it will be around as long as the last time. I wouldn't even be surprised if we had school tomorrow.

SNOW

It took us about 15 or 20 minutes to get all ready to go out in the snow today...and spent about 10 minutes outside. It is cold! And still precipitating (not snowing). I think we got about 7 or 8 inches last night but today it has been sleeting/freezing raining all day long. Not a lot of fun. But at this point it doesn't look like the ice is sticking to the trees and power lines so there is still a good chance that we won't lose power. BUT they say the wind will really pick up today. We've got our fingers crossed.

Isabella did ok in the snow today (she still doesn't like walking in it, and will do so only reluctantly and if we are holding her hands). Of course today's snow is much deeper than when it snowed in December. We pulled her around on her sled, which she likes. But poor thing, it was sleeting in her face so we would look down and she had her hand up to protect her face. But she wasn't complaining about it! We didn't stay out long.

Unfortunately, it is not good snowman snow; it is much too powdery. If I weren't pregnant, we would drop Isabella off at my parents' house and go sledding, because I LOVE SLEDDING!! But somehow, I don't think that is a responsible course of action.

I am wondering how many days off work will result from this storm? The temps are supposed to be sub-freezing at least through Monday. I don't even think it is all that pretty out there because there is no snow in the trees. I am thankful there is no ice in the trees but I think that snowy tree look is so peaceful. It is going to take a while to go away because we really have a lot out there!

Just one little lye

Found in the computer lab at work today:

This story is about a cookie who liked to lye he got in trouble for telling just one little lye

The Big Sister

We were at Target the other day (Isabella loves Target...ahh, American materialism and marketing at its finest) and there was a cute little t-shirt on the dollar shelf that we bought for Bailey. Isabella liked it so much that we bought one for her baby doll too. Baby has been wearing the shirt for awhile now.

Last night, Isabella insisted that it was Baby Bailey's shirt and wanted me to take it off of Baby. Then she held it up to my belly - she wanted Baby Bailey* to wear it. A few minutes later, Nick leaned in to my belly to talk to Bailey. He asked Isabella to tell Bailey she loved her. Isabella leaned in real close and said "Have a good weekend Baby Bailey!" A few minutes later she had her mouth smooshed up to my belly and was singing the ABCs. Although she has some sense of her sister-to-be, she really has no idea how her life will change in a couple months! I think she will like having a baby sister though.

We are STILL dragging our feet on transitioning her to a big girl bed! I mean, when she will be in her room awake in the mornings for even as long as 30 minutes, just quietly talking, and when you finally go in there, she is just as happy as can be in her crib...what parent wants to take THAT away? We are thinking about making the switch tomorrow but with the possible winter weather, I think we may wait until next week. (What excuse will I come up with next week?? If we're not careful, Bailey will end up in the pack-n-play for the first year of her life). I was talking to her about it this morning and I told her we would be saying bye-bye to her crib. No. She didn't want to do that. That didn't make her happy at all. Sigh.

*When Isabella says Bailey, it sounds like "Baity". We actually met a little girl named Baity at the park one day. If you are familiar with this area, you may have heard of Baity's Discount Tires - yes, this girl was of that family. Anyway, I digress.