Julia and Blankie Reunited

You'll be happy to hear that I was able to reunite Julia with her own blankie on Saturday. As many times as John told me he was positive we had it when we went to Best Buy, I still decided to call Home Depot (the store we went to just before Best Buy) just to make sure. They had it! At any rate all of us were glad to have blankie back. I've also ordered a pink back up blankie just in case. Not the exact one though. At $50 a pop, I figure I'm going to try and get her used to the new one before anything goes wrong. It is very interesting to me the things that become priority to me after having Julia and one on the way.

Speaking of one on the way....I haven't really posted too much about this pregnancy online. I guess because I have the count down baby brother fetus ticker. The photo to the right that tells the count down days and if you click on it; it will tell you all about this week in pregnancy. This pregnancy is going fairly smoothly (knock on wood!). I feel pretty good right now, as I have been working out 3-4 times a week. I like to speed walk, use the elliptical, and swim. I feel much better cardiovascularly than I did with my pregnancy with Julia. I was a pretty avid exerciser before I became pregnant with Julia. Then when I was pregnant with her there was always something crazy going on so, I was scared to work out. Which was probably for the best since she was preterm . At my doctors appointment yesterday I was happy to hear I've only gained about 14 lbs so far. Also, my doctor is awesome and she did a sonogram. I asked if she could tell me about how much baby brother is weighing and she did numerous measurements and told me he is weighing just under 3 lbs! She stated this was greater than the 50% range. Most baby boys at this gestational age are only 2.4-2.6lbs! I guess this more coincides with the fact that he is also measuring a week ahead and has since the beginning. I am very sure of dates though, so he must be just a little on the bigger size. Unlike Julia who has always been on the smaller side!


Julia with more of mommys shoes and a new swimsuit! Covergirl!

Julia is forever saying more funny phrases. She like to say, "everybody just calm down!" She says this when the room gets too loud or she just doesn't like your reaction to something she has done. She still calls John, "Babe." She will wake up and say, "where is babe?" Then I'll say at school. So now when I ask her where is daddy, she says "probably at school." She has taken to liking BIG words. You'd be surprised how much Disney teaches her, good and bad. In the second Ice Age Movie the tiger calls the possums "Cretans." She loves to call people Cretan now. Her vocabulary already seems amazing to me. You can't get anything past her and I already have to spell numerous things to John when discussing things I don't want her to know about. Before to long she'll know what I'm spelling before John knows...lol. Last night she also amazed me by being very creative. She took this PVC pipe and connectors that we have in my bedroom closet that is part of a clothes hamper and was putting it together and taking it apart for a long time. She called it building. She was completely absorbed in this building. I had to drag her to bed and she kept saying no mommy, I want to build. I was just very amazed at how she got so lost in time and was figuring out how to put the PVC pipe and connectors together so easily. What a sweet girl.

John and Amanda at company party. THHBP at Southfork Ranch.
John finished school this week. On Saturday we leave for California! Lots of fun pictures to come!