Drama Queen #2 on her way!

I had an ultrasound today and well... Lucy is going to have a little sister!!! Yay!!! I thought for sure it was going to be a boy but I thought the same with Lucy. I have to say I was a little shocked but I am so excited that Lucy will have a little friend, plus we won't have to buy a thing! Everything looks good and the baby is healthy and growing normally. I have to go back for another ultrasound in 4-6 weeks because the placenta was low and covering part of the cervix, which was the case with Lucy, but as the baby gets bigger the placenta should move up into the uterus more, which it did with Lucy. I'm sure it will be fine but they just want to check it to make sure that it all is growing where it is supposed to, although I wouldn't mind having another C-section... it was actually kinda nice. Thanks to Holly (my sis-in-law) and Candice for coming to the ultrasound with me. Dave has been out of town and I couldn't reschedule the ultrasound for 2 more weeks because they were booked and I couldn't wait so I went without him. We made it a date and went to dinner afterward. What a good day! I think Dave is excited, he loves us right? Who wants boys anyway? JK! My due date is Aprl 28, 2009.

Also, we said (well, I said bye bye) to Lucy's bink today. I cut the end off and let's just say she learned a new word "broken". It has been a rough day for the both of us. She cried and asked for her bink all day long, "bink go, mom?". My heart breaks for her everytime she goes over to the drawer where I kept them and she would look in there and then look at me and say "Mom, bink gone, broken." Sad! I feel so bad taking her only comfort away from her. It also made me sad tonight when I put her to bed. I gave her the "broken" bink because she was freaking out without it in her hand and she tried so hard to keep it in her mouth. She was so frustrated and sad. She finally fell asleep (45 minutes later) with her hand holding it up against her mouth. I hope she sleeps okay tonight. She has only been asleep for an hour and has already been tossing and turning and crying for her bink. It is going to be a long night. I have thought about giving it to her only at night for a while but I don't want her to be confused about it. What do you think? Anyway, I wanted to get rid of it in July when she turned 2 but with Dave being gone so much the last couple of months and me working I didn't know how regular of a schedule she would have and who she would be with so I opted to let her keep it for a while and now that things are starting to slow down and get back to normal I felt like it was a good time to get rid of the darn thing. It became to the point where she wanted to suck on it all day (she would throw a huge tantrum when we went to the store, church, gym, in the car, playing outside etc. when I wouldn't let her have it, I asked myself it is worth it?, then give in... no wonder why the kid doesn't know how to talk she constantly sucks on that thing) and all night long and would whine and cry for it when I would take it away from her, plus... she is 2 1/2 years old! It's time even though I feel totally guilty about taking it away from her because she loves it so much. I know it is not a big deal but it is something I will read back on and know it all will work out... it always does even though it is hard sometimes.

Sarah also had her baby today, Sadie Lyn. I saw a picture of her and she is darling. I'm excited to see her. I miss having a little baby. Not long and I will have one of my very own. I'm so blessed and excited to be having another one. Congrats to you on the new baby!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone this week!

Carrie Underwood 08

For my birthday back in June Dave gave me tics to see Carrie Underwood, my all time favorite country singer.  It was so fun!  I love her.  This pic is so cool!  If you look hard enough you can see her to the side of us singing on the screen.  We had awesome seats!
Before the concert we went out to eat.  My sisters, Candice and Jen, also had tickets so we all went together.  Another fun date night for us.  It doesn't happen very often so I have to make a big deal about it when it does.
Thanks for the tickets EZO.  What a great idea!  Happy Birthday to me last June.  I'm getting old.

New York 08

Dave interviewed in Long Island, New York last week and I was able to go with him.  The place was beautiful but it gives me a pit in my stomach thinking that we could be living there come this summer and not just for the summer but for 5 or 6 years.  It is so far away from home!  Wherever we end up will be fine but it will be a huge adjustment that I'm not sure I am ready for, especially just after having a baby.  We left Lucy behind, which I was really nervous about because I had never left her for more than a night before but she did just fine.  Dave's super sweet sister and her family took care of her for the first couple of nights and then my sister took her the last night.  I missed her so much.  

This pic is cool with all of the bridges, water, etc behind us but I can't figure out how to get the blasted picture to turn so that you can see it normal.  I am also trying to finish this in a hurry because Dave takes off for another 5 days and takes the laptop and memory stick with him so I don't have time to mess with it, so here you go.  He is interviewing in Ohio, Texas, and LA this week.  Last week he was in NY, Virginia and Santa Fe (although this was for a presentation on a research project he did).  It was a long week and I miss him so much when he is gone.  I am excited for it to all be over with.  We had such a fun time hanging out together in New York.  

Manhattan is only about 1 hr and a few minutes away from Long Island so we drove there on Friday after his interview for the weekend.  We have some friends that live in Manhattan so we were able to see a lot of them while we were out there.  We ate a lot, shopped a little, saw a play on Broadway, and walked a million miles.  

It was such a fun getaway.  I wish we could do it more often.  I love you babe!  Thanks for taking me along.

Winter is coming!

I think this picture is so cute!  I can't believe she actually looked at the camera and smiled for me.  I was going through my closet and found this gloworm that I bought for her when she was a baby and she loved it.  I thought I had lost it but it was in a pile of random things in my closet and I was so happy that I found it.  I gave it to Lucy and she hummed to the songs all night and carried it with her where ever  she went.  She also loves this Shrek baby.  I recently bought "Shrek the Halls" for her and she watches it 20 times a day.  She also calls the baby  (her soon to be brother or sister) shrek baby.  I hope it doesn't come out looking like a Shrek baby.  Yikes!  She's funny.  I think she is going to love having a new baby around, we'll see.Since Halloween is over I decided that since it was freezing cold and snowy outside that we would start decorating for the holidays.  Lucy loves helping me put up these window stickers.
When we woke up the other morning there was about 6 inches of snow on the ground.  When I opened the blinds Lucy was so excited about it.  She acted like she had never seen snow before.  She probably doesn't remember it from last year.  She stared out the window and pointed and said "snow mom, snow!"  She was still in her jammies but she wanted to go outside so I bundled her in her winter coat and we went outside to play.  I started shoveling the snow off of the driveway and she wanted to help so I found this shovel that I plant flowers etc with and she helped me.  What usually takes me 5 minutes took me 15.  The joy of having kids, right?  I love her.She loved eating the snow.  I tried to tell her there were bugs in the snow but she didn't care, she kept on eating.  Gross.
I'm excited for the winter to come and wish it only lasted through the holidays instead of until March or later.  I don't know what I am going to do with with Lucy all winter while it is cold outside.  I guess we will have to go walk around the mall everyday.  Breaks my heart!

Happy Halloween!

I have been talking to Lucy about Halloween for a couple of months now.  I bought her a couple of books with Halloween things and she has learned so many new words... ghost, pumpkin, cupcakes, doughnuts, spiders, witch, worms, candle, owl, bones, pizza (random but it was in her book), bat, pirate, treasure, cookie, frog, apple, monster, tiger, bird, and treats were the main ones although she already knew some of the words already.  Of course she had no idea what Halloween was all about but she quickly learned when we took her trick-or-treating on Halloween night.  This picture was taken at the University mall where all of the stores were handing out candy.  At first we had to help her and show her what to do and after a few stores she caught on and was running from store to store with all of the other millions of kids that were there.  It was really fun!  What a great idea.I love this shirt!  It glows in the dark.  I wore it to work one night and the kids loved it.  I'm wearing it every year from now on.  I hate dressing up so it's perfect.
Trick-or-treating at the Clarks (my parents), we also went to see Dave's parents.  His mom was home alone so she was excited to see Lucy then we went over to see his dad, he was working on painting their new condo.  She would get excited every time we would put her butterfly costume back on thinking she was going trick-or-treating again.

She was so happy all night but of course I couldn't get one picture of her smiling at the camera.
It was a good Halloween and it's going to get better every year!  What will she be next year? Also Luly, thanks for working so hard collecting all of that candy for me.  All of you parents know you do the same thing, you pick out the candy you like and give the rest to your kids that worked so hard running from door to door for 1 little piece of candy.  I love it!

Carving pumpkins

It's Halloween time!  Yay!  While Dave was out in Rochester, NY this last week interviewing for a residency program out there, Lucy and I went (suprise, suprise) down to chill with the fam.  We carved pumpkins and watched Biggest Loser, which my family is totally hooked on.  I think they ended up pretty cute or "spooky" as Lucy would say.
She loves her Aunt Jenny!  Here she is doing her "spooky" face.  Pretty scary Luce!
I didn't actually carve a pumpkin, I was the designated pumpkin seed sorter and maker.  They were so good!  Thanks for letting us come and stay at your house... again!  Dave goes to Illinois this week for another interview and has another one in Long Island, NY (which I am going with! I can't wait although we are leaving Lucy behind.  Sad!  I am going to miss her so much), 2 in Texas, 1 in Virginia, and Utah so far.  I'm sure there are more to come as well so I will keep everyone updated.  Good luck babe!  I love you.

Fall hiking 08

The weather has been so nice!  I wish it was like this all year round.  It was such a nice day so we decided to take advantage of it before the cold snowy weather hits.  There are a whole bunch of trails above our house that we like to go hiking on.  I LOVE this picture!!!  Dave looks so cute and Lucy is the happiest thing ever!  I can't believe she still fits in this carrier.  I told Dave we need to invest in a a better carrier for hiking...  this one is meant for little babies, which Lucy is not anymore.  I will miss the mountains so much if we move out of state this next summer, which is a huge possibility... but I am totally okay with it.