Two Girlies

It's a toss-up as to who loves dressing-up Emma more - Emma or Dani. Whenever Emma finds necklaces or bracelets, she loves to put them on. And Dani loves to decorate her sister. Some kind of repressed girliness surfacing, because Dani was not much of a girly-girl when she was a toddler, hardly wanting to fix her hair until she got into elementary school, and girliness started to rub off on her, just a little.


14 Aug

Connor's 4th Bday

Connor's 4th Bday, 9 Aug, celebrated here on Aug 11th:

Mmmm, hair tastes good with icing.




Transformers, but we wound up throwing them away several months later. They were way too complicated, and eventually broke, anyway. But he still loves the movie!

Dani was the funmeister, making the cake, and probably kicking us all in the butt to get a party going, and I was almost useless, except to take some pics.

Love Me Some 'Tatoes

Fun pics at home - Emma mooching mashed potatoes, 9 Aug 09.

Allred Reunion Kitty

Okay, my picture-taking started diminishing rapidly in the face of my pregnancy, and being in the start of my first trimester, so the only pics I have of the Allred Reunion, are the kids chasing after this wild kitten they found in the garden.

I loved all the daisies in Rose's garden. A plain flower, but cheery just the same.

The kids were playing outside, and kept hearing the pitiful meowing sound. The found the kitten hiding in the garden, and couldn't wait to show me.

Emma wanted that kitty really, really badly.

Classic baby - cry until you get what you want. And the kids tried to talk me into keeping the kitty, but I firmly refused. I think Jenn would be disappointed in me, but ever since the kids were little, I have had an aversion to taking care of pets. I hope Jenn will always love her critters. But I'm a crustier person than Jenn. Her pets are probably safe.

Well...It's Human

Yep, had my ultrasound Monday, and nope, my doc couldn't tell which kind it was. But all the other parts seem to be in working order, and in the right place. So, we're looking at a surprise baby. But, it was a little bit of a stressful experience at the time, though. I picked Dani up from school, because she'd been begging to go with me. I thought it would also be good, because she could help me corral Connor and Emma. That was true, however, Connor was all over the place because we were in the waiting room forever, and then in the ultrasound room forever again, so he got really bored and was messing with stuff. Emma was going stir crazy, and when I laid down on the table, and put on the paper cover they give you for modesty, she flipped a monkey. So, Dani would up taking them both out of the room, and she missed the ultrasound anyway. I felt bad for her, but I was really glad she was there to help. If I have another ultrasound before my due date, Connor and Emma are not coming with me! And I should have realized they should not have come in the first place, but oh well. Hindsight is 20/20. I've got pics to post, but I'll see if I can do that tomorrow.

I was going to start being such a good blogger, but I've been working like crazy with my eBay auctions, and may not be a good blogger this week, after all. But at least I'll have dough to pay my bills.

Half Way There

I'm now officially half way to baby. I've got my dr appt this week. I might find out if it's a boy or girl. My doc likes to wait forever on that issue, he does the ultrasound himself in his office, so he might not do my ultrasound until next month, but we'll see.

I felt the baby kicking me just this past Thursday night, and I was kind of relieved. It was the first time I definitely felt movement. It seemed kind of late this time around, compared to the others, when I'm sure I felt things several weeks earlier. I think I'm just so stressed out all the time right now, that I just don't notice something so tiny. But more on that later.

I want to blog more consistently. I need a little extra joy in my life. I got caught up on everyone's blogs last night and this morning, so I feel like I have extra permission to blog again. More tonight. Love, Becky

Wisdom or Weirdness?

Connor did it again. Just a few days ago, he made a weird/interesting observation. Just a little bit after waking up, we're hanging out in the kitchen, and he says, completely astonished, almost irritated, "Mom, pee and poop control everyone!" The nerve of the human body! I said, "Yep, everyone has to pee and poop." The next bit was a little garbled, but went something like this, "Mom, I can use my eyes to stop the pee and poop." "Well, that probably won't work very well." He thought for a little bit, then he said, kind of offended, "There are little guys in my brain making me pee and poop!" Little boogers, getting in the way of his play time. "Actually, that's not so far from the truth." Connor just has this way of making the funniest observations, that while childlike, are always surprising to me, coming from a four-year-old.