Finally feeling normal again

Today I finally feel normal. The last few days have been a bit crazy. Saturday night I had a Mom's Night Out with a couple of my girl friends. We went to Rock Bottom and had a really nice time. I come home that night to find out Lily had been getting sick once an hour since about 6:30pm. She continued to get sick once an hour until 6am. We were a fairly mellow family on Sunday. Then I had insomnia on Sunday night. Therefore, Monday was a very hard day for me. I was so very tired all day long. I finally got some sleep last night. I feel like a person again!

Just showing off my latte skills again. My foaming skills are so varied. One day it's awesome, the other, not so much. I still don't know how to make it consistently foamy.

Since David and I are big coffee drinkers, Lily like to pretend she is having her coffee too. We give her an espresso cup, fill it with foam and she has a ball.

I bought myself a new baby sling. It holds kiddos up to 35lbs. David tried it out for me and Lily seemed to enjoy it! I plan to use this quite often with Baby #2!

These are pics from my Mom's Night Out on Saturday:

Tonya and Denise


Sabrina and Tonya

Kristi and Nicole

Nicole and me

Don't you love girlfriend pictures? We can never be alone in the picture, must have a friend to get a picture. hee hee!

Scratching Backs and Coco Ryan

A few weeks ago I gave Lily a little back rub/scratch. Now she requests them. Every day! She asks "Scratch back?" I love love love back massages, so I can't blame her. The other day I was attempting to do my prenatal yoga while Lily was awake. On a few of my poses, she scratched my back! Sweet girl. The rest of the time, I was a jungle gym. So, no more yoga with awake child.

Lily is speaking really well lately. She is putting more and more words together. When she wants something, she puts the color of the object along with with name of the object. She may ask for her "white blanket" or "pink spoon" or "red Elmo" or "purple shirt". She is also using more verbs/nouns together. I came downstairs the other morning and had just washed my hair. Lily asked "Wash hair?" The best was when I was making coffee and making quite a bit of noise in the process. Lily asked "Mama, doing?" I'm really enjoying this stage with Lily. It's like having a little buddy around whom you can actually interact with now! That being said, I still need my adult time and sometimes miss it greatly during the day. Thank goodness for playgroups and bookclubs and going out. Speaking of, a couple of my girl friends are taking me out this Saturday to celebrate the up and coming birth of Baby #2! I can't wait!!


This is David's good buddy, Ryan. He stopped by this weekend. Lily calls him "Uncle Ryan" but sounds like "Coco Ryan" to me. So, Ryan, this is your new name: Coco Ryan! Lily was fascinated with Coco Ryan's phone and was reluctant to return it.

I'm feeling pretty good right now. I'm 33 weeks pregnant. This pregnancy is flying by. My only symptoms right now are feeling like a walking watermelon and insomnia. So, if anyone is up between 3am to 5am, I may be up with you!

YES WE CAN!

I must admit I am enormously relieved by the choice America made last night. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest. I didn't realize this weight was there until 9pm MST last night when I found out my next President will be Barack Obama. I have new found hope for our country to turn around and fix many many problems of the last 8 years. I know not all my friends were supporters and please know that I believe you will find Obama to be a good President and we will see many good changes. I don't think the country will go crazy liberal, just a bit more moderate again. We need balance and the last 8 years we have been out of balance.

Side note: For that person who stole our Obama/Biden yard sign. You may steal my sign, but you didn't steal my vote or my hope for this country!

Go Vote!!

Halloween

Lily, David and I had a nice Halloween. I couldn't get Lily to wear her angel dress, but got her to wear the wings and halo for a few minutes. Unfortunately, David is dealing with a cold, so instead of trick or treating, Lily and I had door duty and passed out candy. Lily's favorite costume was a devil with red eyes. She talked about the red eyes all night and even this morning! I'm just glad that she didn't realize that was supposed to be a scary costume.

At least she tried the wings and halo!

Lily's favorite yard decoration! This was next door and Lily would talk about "Kiki-stein". When he was deflated, Lily would say "Kikistein sleeping?"
When they inflated him Lily said, "Kikistein up? There he is!"