Christmas Our House

Christmas Granny and Grampy's

Christmas at Nana and Papa's

Miss C anxiously awaits Christmas breakfast sitting under the table.

Cooking with Nana.

Our own version of Santa.

Christmas Heading to Louisville

We headed to Louisville Wednesday after I got off work. The Jeep was loaded down will all of our presents, our bags, 1 dog, 1 toddler and 2 adults. Miss C was all decked out and ready for the trip with her shades on just like her Daddy.

Worry

There are a lot of things I worry about when thinking about having two kids. Silly stuff mostly. But tucked in among those silly things that will all work themselves out is a true worry about Miss C.

How will our first baby girl handle the arrival of a new baby girl?

Our world revolves around her now. She is the highlight of our lives and we are thrilled beyond belief at the wonderfulness that is our Miss C. Everything we do now is because of her. Everything we do is about her and for her. She knows she is the center of our world and I am worried the adjustment to being the big sister and having to share us with someone else will be a struggle for her.

It is inevitable that things will change. We will all have to adjust but I am her Momma and I want that change to impact her as little as possible. I want to place her in a bubble and protect her from the hurt she may feel in her little heart when her Momma and her Daddy tend to her new baby sister. But I can't.

So I am trying now to help her adjust. We talk a lot about the new baby. I spend more time at the day care in the morning because she has started crying again when I leave. The routine is still the same but I do things a little slower to help her adjust to my leaving. At night I hold her longer and spend more time cuddling and talking about her day. I am also making sure she plays alone and don't interrupt her so she is comfortable occupying herself. That will be just as important as anything else.

But that mushy sensitive side of my heart just worries about her. The child beams with happiness and I want to ensure that glow never leaves her. I definitely don't want a new sibling to even slightly darken the brightness that is Miss C.

It's a Girl!!!!

Wow! Didn't expect that

Our girl is fighting a little bug I think and she is CRANKY and coughing a lot. Last night she did not want to go to bed and you would have thought I was killing her putting her in the crib. No! No! No! Momma she said. Over and over and over again.

I put her down and we typically wait a bit, if she is resistant to going down, before we go back in to give her time to wind herself down. Some times this involves jumping up and down. Other times she throws her stuffed animals out of the crib or talks to them. Other times she sings or plays her ocean music thing.

Last night, well, it was a different sort of bed time experience.

There was a period of quite when I thought she was asleep than a big WAIL so I went to check on her. Imagine my surprise when I found her completely naked and smiling in her crib. Her face clearly communicated, "Look Mom, no clothes!" Her diaper was on the floor. Her PJs were thrown to the side and she looked damned proud of herself.

We are going to have our hands full, aren't we. Ha!

19 Weeks

I have to say I look ginormous in these pictures. Not sure if it's the jersey, the fact that I am holding Miss C or that I am bigger than I think I am, but damn. I am actually 16 weeks in these pictures and may never take a picture of myself again this pregnancy.

In other news I can feel the baby move. This is WAY earlier than I felt it with Miss C but I think it's because I know what I am feeling this time around. It's like flips and flops.

I am still sickness free...THANK GOD. The only physical issue I am having is pretty severe pelvic pain that at times makes it difficult for me to even walk if I have not been moving for awhile. I experienced similar discomfort when pregnant with Miss C, but not this severe or this constant.

Thus far the doctors have given me the "this is part of pregnancy, ligaments" BS, but I honestly don't buy it. I don't think it's necessarily a gynological thing but I think there's something going on there that is being made much worse by the pregnancy. Still, it's not vomiting so I am sucking it up.

Lights and other brightness

I really wasn't able to snap a good picture to capture the sheer joy on Miss C's face when we starting putting up the tree. She LOVES the lights and kept going "oh!oh!oh!" whenever I'd turn them on. In this picture you can see her putting on ornaments with her Daddy.

What you can't see is that after she went to bed we completely changed the tree. I thought I'd try something different this year with the lights and ornaments but we didn't like it. Typically we do purple and white lights with purple, pink, silver and white ornaments. This year I tried multi-colored lights and ornaments...not good.

We ended up taking the multi-colored lights and hanging them in Miss C's room where she proceeded to jump up and down in her crib with the biggest freakin smile on her face. I haven't been this excited about Christmas or Christmas decorations...EVER. She makes me excited.

Adult time

For Christmas I got SP tickets to go to The Guy Fi*ri Roadshow. I knew he really liked his shows and it was billed as more of a party type show than a typical cooking show. The show itself did not disappoint. It was wild. Unlike anything I have ever been to before.

The show started out with a guy who make the most deliciously sounding cocktails and then served them to people whose seats were on the stage. So jealous.

When Guy actually came on it was a mixture of hard rock, stories, jokes, drinking and some cooking thrown in for good measure. We were 4 rows from the stage...our seats were great. Only would have been better if we could have sampled the food. Yum.

Family time

Holiday Tradition #2 - H*liday in Lights

These pictures don't really show you H*liday in Lights but really it's less about that and more about the sheer joy Miss C displayed seeing the lights. Basically what this was, was a car ride through a local park that had a couple miles worth of holiday lights on display.

It was the highlight of Miss C's day. The noises she made showing her excitment pointing here and there at everything was hilarious. I think her face in these pictures speaks volumes.

Holiday Tradition #1 - Cookie Making

These are not the best pictures mostly because they are blurry but I wanted to share anyway. We decided to start a cookie making tradition with Miss C during the holidays. We got off pretty easy this year because we could just buy one of those pre-made cookie dough logs and she was super excited. I am sure in years to come this will develop into some cookies from scratch but for now this worked just fine.

We let Miss C roll her own cookie dough which went into her mouth first, then onto the baking sheet. After they baked we decorated them with red icing and let her eat as many as she wanted. Yum Yum.

Surprise

Last week Miss C surprised me when she came into the bathroom while I was getting ready for work and said poo poo. Now, this isn't the first time she has said that so I wasn't surprised by that exactly. I was more surprised by her actually sitting on the potty and proceeding to pee pee and poo poo on the potty for the very first time.

I acted like a fool making a big deal about it so she wouldn't freak out. Hasn't happened since, but I figure that we are heading in the right direction.