37 Weeks

Is is possible for the baby to be moving UP this late in pregnancy? It sure feels like it. A week ago it felt like this baby was going to fall out if I sneezed. And now it seems she has taken a liking to being WAY up in my ribcage.

Why now, baby? I had a wonderful 8 months of almost zero rib kicking. (Such a nice change from your sister!) Of course my internal organs feel like they have become minced meat, but my ribs? They were doing good. I could breathe okay and I never had to try to dislodge whatever random body part was trying to break my ribs.

Until the doctor did that ultrasound last week and discovered that you are not the ginormous monster your sister was and he would not be inducing me at 38ish weeks. That did not mean you were not welcome to come out at that time! In fact, I would be THRILLED to have you come out before your due date. I'd love to know what it feels like to have "tiny" baby around 8 pounds.

And yet, it feels like your head has dislodged and your feet are clinging to my ribcage for dear life.

It's not that bad out here!

I promise you!

Yes, it will be cold and bright and I'm sure a little bit scary but I promise you that you'll like it out here! And I will be much more comfortable, hopefully in a lot less pain, and (at least after the first week or so) a generally sane person again.

So please baby, please, return to your nice, low position and start considering making your entrance.

Mommy would really appreciate it! (And so would your daddy and your sister and anybody else who puts up with me on a daily basis!)

Guitar Hero

Like father, like daughter :-)

Snow in Texas!

We didn't get a whole lot of snow here yesterday, but we got enough to bundle Audrey up and let her see it. Despite the wrestling it took to get her gloves on her, she had a blast! And it was snowing harder than it looks... The snow just doesn't show up well on this camera. And of course the flakes were bigger and fluffier right before we got out there and right after we came inside. Oh well :-)

This is a first!

Audrey has never been an easygoing sleeper. She didn't sleep well as a newborn, an infant, and she still is very particular about her sleep.

She needs to be in her own space, with her sound machine on, with her blankie and stuffed animal. She wakes up when someone breathes next to her. It's ridiculous.

Right now she's working on her molars and hasn't been sleeping very well at night. She's been seriously fighting naps all week (she still takes 2 a day) and today was no exception. She wouldn't nap this morning and she's been awake since about 5:30. She was soooo tired!

So this is what happened at lunch:


Poor baby passed out in her highchair! She didn't even budge when I took the tray off.

Good news is she's been sleeping in her bed for over an hour now. Plus, I got some super cute pictures of her!

More Help With Bedding

Okay, so we decided to go with Tropical Punch
Then Today I found this one. It's called Mod Daisy...
It's not quite as bright as I thought I would want to go but It's just so darn cute and pretty. Now which one is your favorite??

I think I need some serious help. It shouldn't be this difficult to buy bedding... Right?

We need your help!

We seriously can't decide on baby bedding this time... I think we've got it narrowed down to 2 for now. But we need your help!

Should we go with Tropical Punch?

Or A La Mode?
Thoughts? Opinions? Leave me a comment and let me know!

Halloween Fun

So I wanted to get this posted over the weekend or at least on Monday but my laptop doesn't want to work correctly anymore and Mark kinda temporarily broke the internet on our desktop... So here is my Halloween post. Better late than never, right??

Mark had to work Saturday morning so it was just Audrey and I for a while. It was kinda cold in the apartment and I couldn't find any of her socks so I put on her tights (only took about 5 minutes of screaming to get them on) and her cute little Halloween cats shirt. She spent most of the day like this. She looked pretty darn comfy to me.


We put her in her ladybug costume when Mark got home around lunch time (about ten minutes of screaming for this. She really hated putting that dress on. I don't get it...) and went outside to play for a while.


She's the cutest ladybug ever!

And she had a blast!



Then she took a nap.

Then we went "trick-or-treating" with her to our old apartment. We needed to clean out the fridge still so we went upstairs to show off her costume. Her treat was home-made cookies. Yum!


All-in-all we had a very good day (despite the ruined ladybug costume from all the pulling and screaming and cutting out the tulle so she might kinda like it...).