emma's birthday questions (shes 5!)

1. What is your favorite color? purple, and yellow, and pink
2. What is your favorite toy? ariels pet and my two ariels and my ponies
3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberry
4. What is your favorite tv show?  all the saturday cartoons, daniel tigers neighborhood, super why, peg+cat
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? grilled cheese
6. What is your favorite outfit?  the dress with the flowers you made me (she got a dress out of her closet, i bought it at ross a year ag, its still a little too big. will probably fit by easter.)
7. What is your favorite game? candy land
8. What is your favorite snack? gold fish
9. What is your favorite animal? ponies
10. What is your favorite song? in the manger jesus lay, sheep look down at his small form, asking why this boy was born. be near me lord jesus i ask you to stay, close by me forever and love me i pray. bless all the dear children in your loving care and take us to heaven to live with you there.
11. What is your favorite book? the big book. the big red book of beginner books (she just got it for her birthday, but has a copy at school.)
12. Who is your best friend?  claire and libby
13. What is your favorite cereal?  captian crunch, i mean life actually.
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play on the swing set
15. What is your favorite drink? pink (gator aid)
16. What is your favorite holiday? christmas (why? because its jesuses birhtday!)
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my brand new pony (i aske what she used to sleep with before she got her pony two days ago huge meltdown. apparently she cannot remember anything from before she was 5.)
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? cereal
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? we had red robin. she chose her corn dog and oranges as always, with chocolate milk.
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? mommy. a mom. <3 p="">

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georgie is three!

1. What is your favorite color? (asked in the car on the way home from church june 2, he answered:) uh... (full 60 second pause) hotdog! then we all laughed till we got home.

2. What is your favorite toy? its the cars

3. What is your favorite fruit? watermelon

4. What is your favorite tv show?  thomas the train

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? uhhhh... with a marker. (asked again) uh, i dont know. i like peanut butter and jelly for lunch. (he would eat pb and j for every meal forever if i let him.)

6. What is your favorite outfit? thomas shirt. (i have no idea what hes talking about. i think he just got hung up on thomas.  hes not picky about his clothes at all though.)

7. What is your favorite game? i

dont have a favorite.
8. What is your favorite snack? i want gold fish

9. What is your favorite animal? the dinosaurs are my favorite animal.

10. What is your favorite song? (he mostly sings the abcs, and several fish songs emma has taught him.) the monster one, and the airplane song. (i have no idea what hes talking about.)

11. What is your favorite book? brown bear brown bear what do you see

12. Who is your best friend? kaylynn is. (asked again, who are your friends at church?) libbys mommy is my friend.

13. What is your favorite cereal? i like Os.

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? i like to do outside my bubbles!

15. What is your favorite drink? i like to drink water

16. What is your favorite holiday? easter (what do we do on easter?) we like to do on easter the bubbles.

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? with snakey. (a huge fuzzy snake from ashley and her boys.)

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Os.

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? he was mad we didnt have pb and j for third time on monday, but instead did tacos. we celebrated sunday night by going out to red robin and he had a corn dog and avocado off of my salad, and then they sang and he ate a sundae too.

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? (a little sad) i want to stay little.

okay georgie, you can stay little forever. ill let you. feel better?

yes.

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"When I put the whole back of my skin and hair in the water that makes all the yuckies and dirt get out from behind my ears."
Emma.

we are having a baby

this is old news now, but there it is.

(i found out for certain november 26th, but i was pretty sure since the 16th.  i just knew. also i craved steak and hamburgers. big jucy burgers. queue iron deficiency. and nausea. but i didnt say anything untill we returned from our surprise thanksgiving trip to california and took a test. then we still didnt say anything until i broke out maternity clothes here, and we waited until we got to california to tell jasons family. i just thought it would be nice to tell them in person this time, since we could.  i let emma tell her grandma by giving her a christmas ornament about the baby. now fast forward three months...) 

i went searching through past pregnancy posts to see if i felt exhausted and like i was gaining buckets of weight at this point in the past and there is nothing. i can only assume that means i was just as tired.

so i am 16 weeks today and thought i should be honest with myself about these weeks. i remember in the past referring to the second trimester as the sham of pregnancy. its that part where you feel sick, and tired, and gain weight and dont feel pregnant, just bigger than usual. thats where im at. also, the last 4 weeks i have had headaches. at first it was nearly every afternoon and lasted through the night. they have lessened to about three times a week and they last between two hours and through the night.coffee helps. i stopped drinking it every day back in october, on a whim, so the headaches are not from deprivation. but combined with tylenol, and switching between my contacts and glasses every couple days, the coffee tends to stop the headaches from getting out of control.

last wednesday though, i felt the baby move. i have several times since then, its just fluttery motion sickness movements, but im sure its the baby. im excited to start feeling some real big movements.

i think i look about the same as i did around 20 weeks with emma, and between 16 and 20 weeks with gerogie.  probably because i gained so much weight in november, december and january. i lost a ton of weight after g was born (it took 8 months, and i lost more than 70 pounds)and ive gained a bit back since after my half marathon a year ago, so as soon as i got pregnant, my body just jumped up to my pre pregnancy weight with george. its been a big adjustment mentally, thats for sure. but it doesnt really matter how much i gain, i know how to take it off, and that i am capable.

i have my second appointment this afternoon. the next one i schedule will be with an ultrasound to tell me if this babe is a boy or a girl. i am excited to find out. i am hoping for a girl. there are just so many little boys in my life, id love to add another girl to that mix. i will get over it if its a boy. i cried at georgies ultrasound when i found out he was a boy, but i love that little boy. just took some getting over.

so thats the update. im always tired. i sleep ten hours a night (with multiple potty breaks and weird dreams) and im still tired. i have headaches, but the nausea is pretty much gone, and im not dizzy anymore.