Birthday Girl

Why does blogging spontaneously load in reverse order?? Urghh!

So here I am explaining how to open the presents. After each present she would exclaim

"Oh wow, oh whoa!!" So stinking cute!

The one and only bite she took of her birthday cake.


Oh yes you are seeing correctly. Cupcakes. In. Cones.
Cupcake Ice Cream Cones!!
Wish I could take the credit for this fabulous idea.
The chocolate cake in the background was the dessert for the adults!




I may or may not have just bought Betty Crocker rainbow cupcakes and (gasp) store bought cream cheese icing. I may or may not have seen recipe for ice cream cakes on the back of the box. I may or may not have dug in the back of my cabinet for some (gasp...STALE) ice cream cones. I wish I could say it was the thought that counts, but apparently I didn't give it much thought.
MY DEFENSE: Her bday is ridiculously close to Christmas, and we did do Homemade pizza's for dinner (like real homemade dough--thanks Traci for the recipe!)
I may or may not have pawned off the making of the dough to my mom. But they were at least baked in my oven!

We just had a low key get together to celebrate her birthday and it was really fun and relaxing. The toy bin is a little bit bigger and my little girl doesn't seem quite so little anymore!

Missed the memo

Olivia is still figuring out what all this Christmas hullabaloo is about. Apparently she missed the memo about what stockings are used for.

We let her play on our bed and we walked into the room to find her dancing around with my stocking on.

Then she started stinging her version of the abc song. It goes kinda like "a b c d p p p h p p p a b p" apparently the letter P is very Popular in her alphabet.

Downside to having her birthday so close to Christmas?? After opening her birthday presents she has asked me everyday if she can open the other presents under the tree. She will even just stand by them and then just rest her hand on them and see how long she can keep it there before I catch her. Like resting her hand on the present would make it magically open for her.

I think she thinks that the tree and everything are all for her birthday.

Comparatively Speaking

Here is Bianca at 3.5 months.

Totally one of my favorite outfits for her!

Here she is again, in another favorite outfit...

thanks Auntie Santaija!

Now here is Olivia at 3.5 months

REAL close up shot!

I can see some resemblances, but looking at these I can also see the differences. Like Olivia's bolder kookier attitude was already on the scene here. We could get her to laugh and laugh at us. The most Bianca has given us is a few quiet giggles and shy smiles. Bianca is already so reflective and observant. Like she is always thinking about something.

It also appears that Bianca is winning in the hair department, Olivia still looked like a baldy at this age. It is so much fun for me to look and compare between the two.

Also Christmas is going to rock. There is going to be a lot more "little people" in our house after the 25th, courtesy of Fisher Price! I may or may not have a slight obsession with all things Fisher Price related, their toys are the BEST!

My two year old

This funny little girl is two years old today. She is into instant gratification. Like looking at the screen on my camera a millisecond after I take the picture so she can she how her pretties turned out.
She thinks that sitting beside her Konka is about the coolest thing ever!

She gives super creepy-crazy smiles when you ask her to smile for the camera.

She thinks photo sessions with her Sissy are hilarious. Especially when she "toots" loud enough that we can all hear it.

I guess I am to blame for that one, I can't help but laugh at her when she toots! Ergo she now thinks that it is funny to laugh anytime anyone toots ;)

She loves to dance, freeze (stand still in a crazy position), have tubby time and give Konka loves. She laughs anytime she hears anyone else laughing... like really cheesy fake laugh, she just likes to pretend she is in on the joke. She fake laughs non-stop when pretending to talk on the phone, I guess I laugh a lot whenever I talk on the phone!

When asked questions she needs time to think and hum while rubbing her chin contemplating how to best answer. She is the official door greeter whenever anyone arrives. Marcus waits patiently outside the door when he comes home from work while she figures out how to get the door open for him so he can see her huge smile at accomplishing it.

She loves "seesee" Sesame Street, but always stops watching it at the Abby's Flying Fairy School segment to take a break and resume watching when Elmo's World starts. She loves acting crazy with her Daddy and loves to have horsey rides on his back.

She loves going on shopping trips with Pampa and reading books to Mamma.

She is so crazy and funny and I am so glad she is mine!

Breakfast Extraordinaire!

MMMMMMMmmmmmmmm

Olivia had the fanciest looking breakfast the other day. Who made this fruit flower for her? I wish I could say it was me, my breakfasts look more and more like Olivia watching cartoons with a bowl of dry cheerios and a sippy cup of milk.

After sleeping in late on a Saturday I came out to see this fruit feast that Marcus had arranged for Olivia. Daddy's are the best at coming up with fun new ways to do things. I wish I could say that this has inspired me to make creative looking for meals for Olivia, but it hasn't. She may or may not have had her breakfast with Curious George this morning... again. (Hey when else am I supposed to have a shower where all the shampoo gets rinsed out of my hair?!?!).

Bianca's Blessing

Our little girl is getting so big! My mom made this dress for my girls to be blessed in. I think it makes her look like a pioneer baby!
We felt like we were having a photo shoot in the foyer at church.

Yes we are laughing, do you want to know why??

Because my toddler decided to throw a tantrum for the group shot! That doesn't make us mean to laugh at her... right?!?

I have been not blogging as much as I would like so I am going to try and play some catch up this week!

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I love this dress and bonnet that my mom made when Olivia was blessed. It was a little on the big side for Bianca as Olivia was quite a lot larger than Bianca is, but she still looked like an angel. I am glad we got some pictures at church because I have yet to take any more of Bianca in the gown since then (best laid plans right?).

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The source of Olivia's tantrum was two fold. For starters as soon as the closing song starts she tries to make a mad dash for the door because she is so excited to go to nursery. That day was not a nursery day for her because we left right after sacrament. The second reason is that my Dad (Pampa as she calls him) was holding her--her favorite person EVER-- and she was not happy to be taken away from him to get some pictures taken.

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My Dad joked afterwards something along the lines of "same time next year right??" but I think I will be okay on the baby department for a little longer than that.

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I am so glad that Kaitlyn took some pictures for me, they turned out really nice!

The Babe

Finally after a bazillion pictures I get a little smile out of her!

Normally this is the look that I see 90% of the day...

Like she is trying to figure me out. Like I am some kind of alien she is trying to make sense of. She even cocks one eyebrow in a questioning look.

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She is getting a lot bigger. I've already started busting into the 6 month clothes, there were some 3 month outfits I never had her wear yet! It's really been fun to see her little personality grow. I think she will be a pretty reserved kid, it's still pretty early to tell that yet, but it's just the vibe I get from her. Everything about her is quiet. Quiet little half smiles, quiet little coo's, quiet when she wakes up.

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The other morning I woke up and it was light out and I realized she never woke up during the night to feed. I thought about it for a second (because how could she have possibly done that!). Then I see that it is 7 am, I jump out of bed certain she must not be breathing or something and stand in front of her bassinet. There she is wide awake looking at me, she had to have been starvation central, and there she is just checking me out, like "oh cool you woke up... so do you mind feeding me now?". She had to have just woken up a few minutes before, but just so typical of her. Most nights I wake up to the sound of her rustling around in her blanket, and if I am lazy and don't get up right away she will kind of go "waa" just a little burst of noise to remind me she needs to eat.

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My kids teach me a lot. Olivia shows me how to be goofy and to laugh and have fun. Bianca shows me how to chill out and not be such a worry wort, it's okay to just sit back for a minute and take it all in. I always thought that they got sent to me because I needed to be their teacher, but I am learning more and more that they are the ones teaching me.

Seriously?

So in October Marcus was sick, followed by Olivia and then followed by me. We have had 7-10 days of no one being sick and Olivia woke up the boogies crusted all over her face and just looking so forlorn. So according to this cycle I can expect for members of my family to be sick for approximately 70% of each month from now until the late spring.

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I feel like I just got my house decontaminated from the last round. Once I saw that Olivia was sick again I just wanted to crawl back into bed for the rest of the day. For my sanity there has been lots of Sesame Street on (thank goodness that the new season has started, I was really getting sick of all the reruns!). There has also been lots of juice drinking. Water and milk are the norm, juice is for special occasions but beings how the milk makes the booger factory work overtime I have been letting her have rasp lemonade all day. I know that this is the norm and that I should expect with the more children that I have, the more chances for people to be sick.... but it doesn't mean I have to LIKE it. Alright enough complaining, I gotta go wipe my kid's runny nose.

Time Change

So why is it that a time change of an hour can freak my kids up so much? Olivia's patterns for the day have gotten all freaked up and last night she WANTED (as in asking) to go to bed at 6:30. She was out the minute that she hit the pillow. The only problem with that is the earlier she goes to sleep, the earlier she wakes up... ergo the earlier I have to wake up.
Bianca has been having a fussy time this week that is between 4 and 6 where she is really restless and needs to be held the whole time. That isn't a big deal as much as the fact that Olivia has been crankster extraordinaire from shortly after nap to bedtime. So basically the last two hours before Marcus gets home I am just trying to survive and kinda loosing my mind in the process. I hope that things will get regulated by the end of this week so I can get some more sanity. My threshold for whining has about hit its limit!

Let's trim that up!

Blogger uploaded these in opposite order, urgh! But here is a side shot of the finished product. Some nice trimmed up bangs.

And here is a front shot. Getting her haircut happened during the week that she was sick, so that's why she doesn't look that excited about it, and why she looks slightly drugged up, glassy eyed and drooly.

We pinned a towel around her so she could have the whole experience!

And bribing her with fishy crackers definitely helped her to sit still too!

I honestly can't believe how big she is getting!

My favorite Aunt Rosalie came to visit last week and it was SO MUCH FUN! She has been a hairdresser since she was a wee young lass and I used to get my hair done by her when I was growing up and when we still lived in Canada. I had been nervous about taking Olivia anywhere for a trim for fear they would chop off too many of the locks that I had been waiting all this time to grow in. I was also way too nervous to attempt trimming it myself. Her hair was getting some pretty seriously scraggly witchy ends. I was so thrilled when my Aunt suggested that she could do it for me. It was so fun and such a full circle moment. She cut my hair when I was little and now she is cutting my baby's hair, SO SPECIAL! She did such a wonderful job and you can hardly tell that she had a haircut (as she still has length left), I can still get it into pony tails and everything.

Olivia loves it whenever I do her hair in "pretties" (normally requesting me to do this about once a day at least), so I think under normal circumstances she would have thought it was the coolest ever. That day, because of being sick and doped up, she just sat patiently and quietly with not much enthusiasm about it. The downside? Her mullet is much more....PRONOUNCED.... now that her hair has a straight edge at the bottom. But it also feels so much more healthy now that all the split ends are off.

I CAN'T WAIT.....

So I know I am going to sound like a thirteen year old saying this, but I am so excited for this movie to come out! I can see it now, sitting in the line up for the movie, my stomach full of PF Changs, surrounded by a bunch of prepubescent teens trying to rock my baby to sleep.... oh that's right I do have an infant. I wonder how hard it would be to get Marcus to come down to Lynnwood only to be on babysitting duty so I can go watch the movie?

Obsess a bit much?
Reveal embarrassing information about myself a bit much??
I can't be that much of a dork if there are other NORMAL mom's who will be in the line with me... RIGHT?!??
Feel free to comment and offer me reassurance that I am not a total crazy for posting this :)

It's all in a name

Olivia thinks her sisters name is "konka". She says it over and over when we first get up and we spot her. She whispers it to her when she gets up close to her face and I tell her to be quiet "konka, konka". Then she puts it to a tune and will sing it for (no joke) half an hour straight... over and over.

Her speech is slowly but surely picking up speed (after I put the kibosh to binkies during anytime but naptime and car time). A couple of weeks ago she was really interested in saying "b" or "bebebebebebe" so it was a perfect opportunity for me to try and have her say Bianca's name the right way.

Me: "Okay Olivia sissy's name is BEONKA, BE BE BE BEEEOOONNKKAAAA. Can you say it? BEEEEEEEOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNKKKKAAAAA. You try it."

Olivia: "BEEEEE.....KONKA."

I'm pretty sure this is Bianca's first nickname and it is here to stay!

Escape

See ya Mom!

Busted!

The front door now has to have the dead bolt locked all day. If I don't then this is what happens! If Olivia gets bored with what is going on in the house then she will grab a purse (shoes are optional) and try and make an escape to Grandma and Grandpa's house. Even though the door has been locked for a couple of weeks she will still try to open in about 3 times a day. She will even grab my keys and fiddle the keys around the door handle in an attempt to get out.

There is that one time a week I forget to lock the door, which is probably why she still tries it, and then I will feel a draft and see her truckin on down the driveway. I guess I'm just not as fun as Grandma and Grandpa are ;)

So proud of this girl!

Olivia is doing better than I ever would have imagined with the arrival of Bianca into our family. I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I just really feel like things are going so smoothly. The first two weeks were a learning curve for both of us, but since we are both in our groove and we are sailing right along. She loves Bianca and thinks it is so funny when I coo and baby talk to the baby.

I am just really proud of her, her willingness to help and her happy attitude about life. I know we are only at 1.5 months along (really!?!? already?!?!) and there is totally room for that to change. But everyday things just keep getting better and better. I mentally prepared myself for the worst and have been so pleasantly surprised by how our whole family is adjusting. We still have our rough days and work through those as best as we can, but there are A LOT of good days!

Lunch Time

Hello Cream of Broccoli Soup!

I LOVE to eat soup, I really crave it around this time of year. I had a lot of broccoli in my fridge and decided to make my own Cream of Broccoli soup for the first time. It was perfect because Olivia was distracted with Sesame Street and Bianca was asleep in her swing, PLUS it was surprisingly easy!

I got the recipe from here and I only had milk so I used that instead. Plus I added like double the broccoli. It was a little bit runny for my taste (blended it with my trusty immersion blender) so I added two tablespoons of my potato pearls and it thickened it just right! Gotta love my food storage for the potato pearls ;) So Yummy!

Olivia loved it too. I had never given her soup before (soup + toddler = mess) but I just cracked some saltines into her bowl and the thickened the soup to like a porridge consistency and she gobbled it up! The crackers were my mom's brainy idea. After bragging to her about my mad soup skills, and my dismay for Olivia not being able to eat it, she told me that she feeds Olivia soup all the time with the cracker trick--why didn't I think of that?

I have to say it felt really good to make a soup from scratch. I always remember my Mom making such delicious home-made goodness for us to eat as kids, and all her yummy soups when the weather turned cold. It was a full circle moment for me to make it to my little girl! If only I had the same enthusiasm to tackle the laundry pile...

We like to match!

Olivia loves it when we wrap up her baby. She loves it even more since Bianca came home with us. She will sit beside me holding her baby, sometimes patting it on the face while we watch TV. She especially thinks she is cool when she can use the boppy to hold her baby. There are some days, that between Bianca and Olivia's baby, I feel like I've been swaddling kids ALL DAY LONG. Whatever keeps her happy, keeps ME happy!

Today was...

... A GREAT DAY!

WHY??

I was able to:

A) Sleep REAL good last night. Bianca is making it a good 6 hour straight her first stretch of the night! Plus Marcus got up with Olivia and I slept in with the baby til 9:30!

B) LOTSA cleaning was accomplished. Fridge totally wiped out and detailed. 6 Loads of laundry folded and put away. Truck loaded up with trash for a dump run. Husbands hair cut (he was starting to look like a homeless man).

C) Had me some estrogen time at Jayme's house. Although it was kind of a zoo with all the kids running around (and Bianca deciding to NOT take any naps) it was so fun to hang out with the ladies (Jayme and Kaitlyn!) while the hubs all went to the Priesthood Session of Conference. Jayme was so kind to let me invite myself over! Come to think of it I tend to invite myself to a lot of things, oops!

D) During estrogen time I had Butterfinger ice cream for dessert~SO GOOD! (The Safeway brand kind) It is my favorite!!!

So all in all it was the perfect way to spend my Saturday!

Can I get some quiet PLEASE!?

My toddler really likes her TV. By TV I mean more specifically Sesame Street, or in Owaya speech "seesee". She loves it so much that when I do allow her to watch it she does NOT like to be distracted/interrupted.

Case in point:
Mom needs a shower so on goes "seesee". I come around the corner to a baby screaming because she is hungry with the toddler standing in front of her plugging her ears because all the crying is too distracting for her TV show. Sesame Street is SO mesmerizing to her that not even wailing will make her stop watching it. When she finally notices that I am taking pictures of this, Olivia mimes "please" and points to the baby. As in "PLEASE make this baby stop crying so I can finish my show!". I just about died I was laughing so hard!

Hello My Love

Dear Cradle Swing oh how I love thee! Let me count the ways...

~I can eat a meal with it still being at least warm

~Showers can now be taken wherewith ALL shampoo and/or conditioner gets rinsed out of my hair

~Quality time can happen with JUST me and my toddler

~Quality time can happen with my baby, because toddler is receiving her own time with mommy and won't throw a fit when mommy holds baby.

~Happiest baby ever because she is NOT sleep deprived

~Happiest Mommy ever because she is LESS sleep deprived then last week

~Toddler has not showed any signs of jealousy since my magical swing arrived. (I'm thinking because she is getting more time with Mommy to read books or cuddle)

~Mommy even has time to herself to read, clean, do laundry..... BLOG!!

Bianca is still receiving her fair share of Mommy time, it is the time I would have normally spent trying to rock her to go to sleep or just holding her so she will sleep that now gets spent on Olivia. Wanna hear the best part about my new love??? It only cost me $30.00!! I love Craigslist! I also love my BF Kaitlyn who helps me to negotiate such good deals (I am kind of a pansy about bargaining).

Owaya's Room

Olivia's BF Blaine calls Olivia "Owaya", I think it was easier for her to say when she first started talking and it has just stuck. It is one of Olivia's nicknames, we always joke (we meaning Holman's and Radder's) that the girls we be 13 and having slumber parties with Blaine still saying Owaya!

Anyway I am going to be playing some catch up over the next little bit, this post being one of them. At the end of July Marcus painted the front bedroom and transformed it from the storage and random stuff room to a girlie girl room. It turned out so great and Olivia loves it. We now have all of her books in that room and all the toys are now in the jungle room (her old room). The first week of her being in it was a little rough, she would forget where she was when she would wake up and it would scare her. Plus when we would say "go put this in your room" she would go to the jungle room and then we would have to clarify "no, your NEW room!". It has since become HER room and she loves to go in there, turn the lights off and on and pick out her favorite books to read.

I love the color of the paint. It's a pretty light lilac color with a dark purple band going around the top. Then we did white curtains on the windows. Marcus covered up the electrical panel with a cork board that has pictures of us on it. I still have other things that need to go on the wall, I blame the baby for that ;)

Just Hanging Out

Marcus took some pictures of the girls the other day. Olivia thinks when we say "cheese" that we are saying "teeth" so she always smiles and points to her teeth. It is almost impossible to get any pictures of her smiling without her pointing to her pearly whites!

I think Bianca looks more like me, or the Rose side of the family everyday. It looks like for sure she has inherited "the Rose Nose" as we call it in our family. Rose noses tend to be more on the... robust size. Don't worry, it is okay for me to call it this beings as I have the Rose nose myself. I like to think it allows me to have an incredible sense of smell, like a secret superpower or something. My only hope is that in addition to the shnoze she will also have my curly hair!

Olivia loves her more and more each day and I think my body is starting to figure out how to operate being sleep deprived. Bianca is getting better and better at sleeping which is awesome. Plus I totally scored a cheap cradle swing which she is in more often than not. Olivia is turning into a really big helper, throwing diapers in the trash, cleaning up her toys (when I sing the clean up song) and helping to burp baby sister.

Mostly we just hang out at the house, enjoying all the new shows that have started up again. I REALLY love my DVR!

Big Sister

I have to say that the first week of Marcus back at work went better than I expected. I really was bracing myself for the worst, not to say that there weren't a fair share of meltdowns (from all parties) but it was just less than I had anticipated. Olivia really loves Bianca, just as long as I am not holding her, which is slightly problematic as I am holding/feeding her quite a lot. We are working on that though! I'm sure it is not helping that Olivia is teething, so less sleep at night equals a fussy toddler at day.

As far as everything with the baby I feel awesome. I've done it before, I know the ropes and it has gone so smoothly. She sleeps pretty decent for being a newborn. She's on the gassier side (come on she is MY daughter after all!) but instead of crying about it she just grunts quietly to herself. She loves to cuddle and has already given me her version of hugs!

Instead I find myself more stressed with the toddler factor. I have not done the toddler thing before and as such it has been difficult for me to know if I am handling things as best as I should. I have been praying a lot to be a good mom to my babies and as such have been inspired A LOT as to how to handle different situations. I know that eventually I/we will get it all figured out and fall into a new routine. I just hope I still have my sanity when we reach that point!

PS~ I always find I am exhausted at like 6 or 7 and could totally pass out, but then once the girls are down I get a second wind and can't fall asleep until midnight! Does anyone else have this problem, if so how do you help yourself got to sleep earlier?

Here's the Story

Marcus at 40 weeks

Vashti at 40 Weeks

At the Doctor's (1:00 pm):

I had a Doctor appointment on Wednesday and Marcus surprised me by getting off work early to go with me. I am glad he did because I would have been pretty stressed out if I was by myself. My blood pressure was high when they first checked (146/118) and we had even got there early and I had been sitting down in the lobby for 1/2 an hour first. They checked it again at the end of the appointment and it had gone up even more. No dialation whatsoever.

Dr K "So how do you feel about having your baby today?"

Me "Well if that is what you think - I'm not crazy about being induced."

Dr K "Maybe I should have phrased that differently, you don't have a choice your BP is too high"

Me "Oh! Well today it is then"

Run home, get the bags and last minute things tied up. Olivia was with Kaitlyn and ended up staying there the first night (THANK YOU SO MUCH!). I ate dinner at Kaitlyn's before heading in, just in case they weren't going to feed me at the hospital.

At the hospital (5:00 pm):

I am not crazy about being induced. I felt like I had a really successful labor/delivery (no pain meds) with Olivia and I like being able to have most of the contractions at my own home. They give me cervadil at 6:00 and am told it should take 12 hours for it to make me all "loosey goosey" (not a clinical term) and at 6:00 am if nothing was moving yet they would break my water and start pitocin.
Getting the cervadil was NOT FUN. I don't think it helped that the nurse administering it was a prison torturer in a past life.

1:00 am

Contractions start and they are pretty intense. We play some phase 10, but only get through the first three phases before I can't concentrate anymore.

3:00 am

I am dying.

The contractions are right on top of each other and are making me want to crawl out of my skin. They take out the cervadil and check me. I went from nothing to 6 cm in less than two hours.

I am tired and exhausted.

"GIVE ME THE EPIDURAL... NOW"

I knew with how tired I was already that I wouldn't have enough energy left to push. I am still thinking at this point that it is hours before I even get to the pushing stage. They get started with the IV of saline and give me some phentanol to help with the pain. Dr K gets there and calls for the anesthesiologist and I have a couple of more contractions. Then I feel I start feeling pressure like I need to push. I inform everyone of this and then I get on the bed and my water breaks.

Dr K "Oh wow, you are at a 10 and this baby is coming now."

Mad dash ensues as no one is prepared for this.
"Wait a second, wait a second!" as Dr and nurses rush around.

WAIT?!? Are they kidding me?

I literally rip the glasses off my face and chuck them to side bed and 5 min later Bianca enters the world! Poor anesthesiologist got out of bed for nothing!

We almost named Olivia "Bianca" and so it was our first choice for the new addition. It totally fits her and her little personality. Irene is after my Mom, Irene being her middle name.

Olivia spent the first day/night playing at Kaitlyn's house (she totally rocks and is super mom with already having her OWN two kids to worry about). Then she has been staying with my parents and having the time of her life. She just came back tonight and it was so nice to have the down time and also know that while she was over there she was thriving. It is nice to have all of us under one roof again. I am loving how more laid back I feel and it is much easier the second time around!

Bianca Irene

6 lbs 13 oz 19 1/4 inches long
She is here and we love her! Yes that is a newborn onesie that is hanging off of her. The newborn diapers are constantly sliding off her tiny bottom! And yes it is 10:30 pm and I am blogging instead of sleeping, but I couldn't resist!

We weren't fully set up for such a tiny addition (Olivia was 9 lbs 5 oz) so we had to race out and purchase newborn diapers and such and all her clothes hang off of her. She hardly fusses (yet) and sleeps all day and is up all night. She is so tiny I feel like I might break her. We are doing well and enjoying some time minus the toddler as she is partying it up at my parents house. My recovery is 1000 % better than Olivia already and I feel so grateful. My next post will have more details of how she arrived (consider yourself warned).

How Olivia has been preparing for sister...

Consulting with her BFF about how baby sisters change your life...

Testing out all the infant stuff to make sure it is safe for sister...

Playing with Dadda's tools (life can't be all work right?)...

Eating smores! What can I say, the girl is like her Momma and LOVES to eat!

Due date fastly approaching (Wed). We are all really excited to meet the new addition to our family. Struggling with wanting to get out and be busy and hibernating in my house til she arrives

~You STILL haven't had that baby yet?

~What.... No baby yet?

~When are you going to EVER have that baby?!?!

(Like I'm not doing everything within my power to will her out already!)

The weather being so nice really does help with the hormonalness. So I think I will stick with the plan of keeping myself busy, the faster the time flies by the less I will notice all the comments! I am really enjoying the down time with Olivia right now and it has been fun to think up what adventure we are going to do each day.