Emma's First Skinned Knee

While leaving the Mexican restaurant today, Emma was paying more attention to her surroundings than to walking.  These days, as big as my belly is, I let her walk as much as she will.  While walking to the car, she tripped and skinned her little knee.  After we got home, I tried doctoring up her little skinned knee, I think I cried more than she did. As I was trying to put some neosporin on it, she was crying with big crocodile tears rolling down her sweet, little face.  For the last 30 minutes, she's been running around the house chasing her Bubby A-ree (as she calls him,) you'd never know her knee had been hurting her so bad not long before.  She is laughing harder than I've heard her laugh before and is having so much fun!  I, of course, am encouraging the running and playing because I want her to take a good nap!  I'm trying to type all of this out while laughing at Emma, laughing!  Childen's laughter is always music to my ears!!

Emma's 2nd Birthday party plans

Well, plans are coming along for Miss Emma's 2nd birthday party!!  I still CAN'T believe that my baby girl is going to be 2 in just a few days!!!  We're having an Elmo themed party, which if you know Emma, that shouldn't suprise you!  She's been obsessed with Elmo for a LONG time now!  She loves watching Sesame Street and knows almost every puppets name.  She even names each of them in the intro of the show!  So, we're doing Elmo and Dorothy plates which are coming along!  Here's the start of them:

Here's the Elmo eyes, with the nose

Here are the Elmo eyes/nose finished!

Thank God for Pinterest!!!  That's where I found most of my inspiration for her party!!  I'll also be making ribbon topiaries, homemade pom-poms, Elmo cupcakes, and an Elmo cake.  We won't be having a cookout this year like we normally do.  Instead, we're just having refreshments and cake/cupcakes.  I'll be making Elmo fruit and veggie trays!! (Another Pinterest idea:-)  My Dad and I also found balloons with Emma's name on them at Party City the other day YAY!  The party colors are hot pink, orange, and red!  Lauren from Raby Baby Boutique is making her birthday dress, which I can't wait to see!!  I know it will be adorable:-)

I'll post more pics as the decorations are made:-)

We're ready for Hayden...Almost!

This week, we got the rest of the things that I had ordered for Hayden!  His towels, burp clothes, wash cloths, bibs, and tons of onsies!  I learned with Emma that you want double the wash clothes, onsies, bibs, and burp towels you think you'll need because there are days where you're so exhausted you might not feel like washing a load of clothes! 

The only things left to get are the crib, changing table, diaper bag, and bath tub.  Oh, and repainting the nursery!!  I don't think Hayden would appreciate a VERY pink bedroom! LOL!!  He's definitely growing because my poor belly is getting bigger by the second!  I'll be 22 weeks on Tuesday the 27th and even though I'm pretty miserable, I'm just fine with him baking a little while longer! LOL!

Hayden's stuff:-)

Other than needing a diaper bag, bath tub, swing, and a couple of other minor things, there are several things that have arrived the last two days for Mr. Hayden and Miss Emma's NEW nursery!!!  Yesterday we got Hayden's Baby Einstein playmat, foam pad for the changing table, and his Boppy Lounger.  Today we got his bedding and a suprise: Emma's bedding!!  They hadn't sent me a shipping confirmation on it, so I wasn't expecting it:-)

As far as clothing goes, Hayden is set!  I've bought him sleepers, socks, and several cute little outfits!
Here's the picture of all of the things we've gotten the last two days.  Emma's bedding is hanging on the dining chair.

Halfway There:-)

I'm officially 20 weeks along now and have hit the halfway mark!  Hayden is still growing and moving and is definitely proving he's a boy!  He moves the most around meal times! LOL!!!  I've ordered everything we need for him except for a few things: crib, changing table, bath tub (ordered, then Target cancelled it), and a diaper bag.  I either have or have ordered everything else.  My husband asked me if I still had Emma's bathtub.  He told me, "we can use it if we still have it,"  I said, "No we can't I sold it months ago and, It's pink," and his manly response, "well, that's what spraypaint's for."  hahaha

I'm waiting on several shipments to come in over the next few days so that I can get all of the burp towels, bibs, onsies, etc. washed and ready for Mr. Hayden's arrival in July!  Emma comes up to me multiple times a day and wants to give the baby a hug.  She hugs my belly and says, " Hi bubba, wuv u!"  How precious is that?? 

With all of this awesome weather, Emma and I have been spending a lot of time outside.  We took a trip on Tuesday to The Avenue in Murfreesboro to do some shopping!!  I was waiting for Carter's to have their 50% off sale and of course when I checked it ended on Tuesday! lol  So, here we go flying to Murfreesboro to get Emma and Hayden some new Spring/Summer clothes!!  If I were to have bought everything at retail prices it would have cost me $340 pre-tax.  But thanks to the sales, I paid just $183 pre-tax!!  That's an awesome amount of savings for buying retail!!  I also got Emma some of the cutest shoes at Stride Rite!!  They had a BOGO 1/2 off the whole store!! YAY!!  We saved $21 there.  Any savings at Stride Rite is awesome to me:-) 

Here's a picture of my little shopping buddy!  It hit 82 degrees here on Tuesday, so we both were sporting our warm weather clothes!  The sad part is that the skirt she's wearing is skirt #3 that we tried on.  That one is an 18 months size with darts in the waist because she's so tiny! LOL!!!  I had to put darts in her shorts yesterday before we could even leave the house!

Since Dr. Watlington is no longer delivering babies here in McMinnville anymore:-(  I start going to my new doctor on Monday, the 19th.  My friend Casey goes there and loves Dr. Riley.  I'm so excited to find out what Casey is having!!  She finds out on the Tuesday, the 20th!!  We're due just a few days apart!

WE'RE HAVING A.......

A BOY!!!

HAYDEN JOSEPH LAWRENCE IS DUE JULY 31st, 2012

 

We are SO excited and now we're in suspense no longer!!  Now I've got to get Emma's room ready to share with the new baby!  And since we're having a boy, I've definitely got to paint the pink room a different color! LOL!!!

17 weeks and counting!!

I went to the doctor on Monday of this week and after the baby finally sat still long enough, they found the heartbeat with the handheld dopplar and the HB was 152.  This baby's heartbeat is running between 152 and 176.  Emma's ran very high as well!  They also did bloodwork to run the screening for Downs Syndrome, Spina Bifida, etc.  I spoke with them today and they said the test came back good!!  I'm still feeling tired and a little out of breath at times, my feet aren't wanting to fit comfortable in my shoes anymore and my belly is definitely growing.  And as with Emma, I'm all belly!  From my last appointment to Monday, 1 months time, I hadn't gained any weight which is a good thing.  The sad thing that I found out is that after March, my doctor will no longer be delivering babies:-(  SO, that means I have to change doctors.  Thankfully there are two other doctors in town that are very nice, so they're switching all of my files and paperwork over to Dr. Riley. 

I've been having quite a bit of trouble with migranes, as I have for the past few years so Dr. Watlington gave me a precription for some medicine to help with them, since Tylenol doesn't even phase them.  He also gave me one for Zantac as I have heartburn trouble.  Thankfully it isn't as bad as when I was pregnant with Emma.  Before my appointment was over I asked him if he thought we could do an ultrasound this next week to find out what the baby is, since I'll be 18 weeks on Tuesday.  I was so happy when he said, "I think we could do that!"

So... on Wednesday Feb. 29th, I've got an ultrasound scheduled to find out whether we'll be having Hayden Joseph or Hannah Grace!!  Emma seems to think the baby's a girl and has said that repeatedly since I found out I was pregnant.  She always asks about Baby Sissy and when asked if she thinks the baby will be Hannah or Hayden, she always says Hannah!  Maybe she knows something none of us do?!? 

Today, I'm 17 weeks and 2 days and the weather has been absolutely beautiful!!  Emma and I went to town earlier to run our usual Thursday errands.  We went to the playground to play.  Even with all of the rain we had yesterday, we were still able to play thanks to Mr. Sunshine!  By the time we got there, the sun had dried up most of the water from yesterday!  We were the only people there and Emma had the playground all to herself!  This of course never happens!  We stopped at Lacazona and ate out on the patio!!  Then as soon as we got home, we went right back outside to play!!  We're trying to enjoy every second of the beautiful, warm day today since it'll be the last one we'll see for a while!