No baby yet.....

Well, no baby yet! Ugh. I have been very grumpy the past few days because of it! haha. I'm good at the moment though because KaeLee is upstairs, sounds asleep.... whew! Although, it's been an hour already, so she will probably wake up at any time. Owell. At least Shawn will be home soon. Hopefully anyway. He better be home in time for her dinner feeding because I can't handle trying to feed her again today! I hate eating times! Breakfast is torture. Lunch is torture. Dinner is torture. And all her in-between meal snacks are torture! Now that she has experienced feeding herself, she REFUSES to allow us to feed her. It is SUPER frustrating because she makes such a mess with her food and isn't good at using a spoon yet, so she doesn't get a lot to eat. She just flings it everywhere. Then she tries to use her hand and then smears it all over herself. UGH. I can't stand it and I don't have any patience whatsoever to deal with this phase of hers until she gets better at using the spoon.

Anyway..... I am still trying to find things she likes to eat and that she WILL eat, but it is SO hard! She is still not into much textured foods. Last night, she really enjoyed her mashed sweet potatoes with some diced glazed carrots in them though. Again, she made a huge mess and I hate cleaning it up, but she really liked it and ate quite a bit. (Oh, and now it takes FOREVER for her to eat too!)

Shawn left me without a car today..... BOO!! His car broke down last night when he was almost home. He started walking home with KaeLee (I was still at work) and the moxee cop pulled over and offered him a ride the rest of the way home. I was SHOCKED because he didn't have a carseat, but yet he let Shawn and KaeLee ride in the front seat of the cop car! Granted, it was only a few more blocks.... but STILL! I was shocked! Shawn charged the battery for the Truck last night so he could drive it to work today (YES! The battery was dead!) and it didn't work. So now, we've got to get a new battery for the truck and do who-knows-what to the car! Ugh. It never seems to end! If only that stupid lady wouldn't have ran the stop sign, causing me to total my car, we would have had a new car for Shawn last year and this would have never happened! So anyway, he took my car to work, and who knows when we'll get his car taken in. At least yesterday was my last day of work, so I don't really HAVE to go anywhere, I suppose.....

Well, some pretty exciting news is that my little brother has made it into the second round of a huge writing contest. He wrote a book (yes, a 50,000 + word book!) for an international writing contest. There were more than 5,000 entries and in the first round, they narrowed it down to 1,000 and he made it! That's amazing! Especially since he's only 13 and the age limit goes to 17 or 18! And it's international! He has to wait till the end of March to find out the results of the next cut. I can't remember how many they cut it down to next though. But he's pretty excited and stoked about it! The first place winner gets $15,000 and a publishing contract. Good job Konner!

Well, my bags are packed and so are Hannah's and KaeLee's (Shawn never packs in advance, of course...) and we are just waiting around for something to happen! I went to the doctor on Wednesday and he said my cervix is 60% thinned out and I am dialated to 1 cm. Which, really doesn't mean anything, in case you're wondering. I've known people to be dialated at 3 cm for a couple weeks! Hahaha!! With KaeLee, I was 80% thinned out and not dialated at all and then I had her 3 days later! So you never know! I was hoping for today, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen! Msybe Monday. March 1st is sounding like a good date. My mom's guess is February 28th. I haven't had any contractions, but am kinda hoping I don't and that it'll happen like KaeLee's, where my water just randomly broke without any contractions. That way I don't have to deal with the contractions and wait around until they are close together and keep wondering when I should head to the hospital....

Anyway, I should probably pick up KaeLee's toys before she gets up and figure out something to make for dinner since it's already after 5! KaeLee has now been sleeping for an hour and a half, so she is bound to get up any minute! Probably as soon as I hit "post". hahaha. Well, I will keep you all updated on Hannah's arrival (or lack there of!) haha. Hopefully it will be soon because I am awefully grumpy waiting around for her! Talk to ya all later!

PS. Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks...


I'm READY to go! So are my dollies!


I love my carseat! (It's by the door, ready to go with Grandma and Grandpa when we go to the hospital)


Ah, they were holding hands. Hayden was shaking KaeLee's hand, saying "meet you" It was SO cute!


Yes, they both squeezed in for a ride together in KaeLee's car


KaeLee and Daddy


It's all gone!


mmmmmm..... SO good!


yummy! I'm such a BIG girl!


Yay! I love to feed myself!


Covering up my dollies with mommy's kitchen towels


I love taking care of my dollies!


This is what I look like after daddy's done feeding me (hmmm..... what exactly did he give her in her juice cup????)


Getting my dolly ready for a walk around the house

Our daughter is SO cute!

So I just wanted to share how absolutely CUTE KaeLee is!! We got home from work/daycare about an hour ago and she has just been happy and super cute! She has learned the words "hi" and "uh-oh" and she is walking around the house saying hi to everything. She will pick things up and throw them down and then put her hands up and say "UH oh!". It is hilarious! Although it wasn't so cute yesterday during her snack time and she was throwing things off her high chair and then pointing to it and putting her hands up and saying uh oh. (okay, so it was pretty cute, but it got old real fast!)

So she's not talking much other than that. Of course, she rambles on and on to her dollies and will thumb through a pile of books while "reading" to herself. She has learned other ways to communicate though and has learned that if she comes running over to me, babbling and pointing towards the other room, that I will follow her. She will then run into the other room (making sure I am following her) and she will run to either her zebra, her swing or her picnic table and pat it and then turn to me and put her arms up. This means she wants on it. So I put her on it and we play and she's all smiles. She also has discovered that if she goes over to the cabinet with all her food in it and bang on the door, yelling, then come over and get me, that I will feed her. Hahaha. It's pretty funny. I'm glad she can communicate a little more now though and can't wait till she can tell me that she's hungry or tired or what she's wanting. It will be really nice! (though people are telling me that I won't want her to talk once she starts.... but I don't know how it could get old listening to her talk! she's just too darn cute!)

She is also learning how to use a spoon. Though, I let her do this mainly at daycare because I can't handle the mess.... I get really anxious and fidgety and just want to clean her up..... haha. But yesterday, I gave her a bowl of yogurt and a spoon and went and sat on the couch. (I couldn't bare to watch the soon-to-be-mess!) She did really good! She actually ate most all of it and even though she got it all over her face, her bib, her clothes, the highchair and the floor, she enjoyed it thoroughly! I will have to become a little braver and let her do it more often. Though it will take me a while before I allow her to do this with something like spaghetti..... haha. I took some pictures and will have to post them soon. (the camera is ALL the way across the room at the moment or else I'd do it now..... hahaha)

Well, I had another OB appointment yesterday. Same ole, Same ole. I thought for sure he would check me this week, but he said he'd do that next Wednesday. I told him "well, I hope to have this baby by then!" and he just laughed. I told him that Monday was my hopeful date and Shawn's was next Friday, and he just laughed and said either day would work and it could be possible.... So I am not looking forward to next week.... Unless I have the baby, that is! It's crazy to think that I could very well have her in less than a week! We will then officially have TWO kids! AHHHHHHH!!!! I have made my lists of things to do beforehand.... lots of lists. In fact, one girl at work was making fun of me because I was making a list of all the "lists" I need to make. Now all I need to do is start crossing things off those lists. There are about 8 lists.... things like My Hospital Bag, What to bring for Hannah, What to bring for Shawn, KaeLee's overnight bag for when I go into labor, Things left to do with Hannah's room and before her arrival, a cleaning list, a grocery list..... and on and on. What can I say.... I'm a list girl! Speaking of which, I really need to make a list of foods I've tried with KaeLee, what she likes, what she doesn't, and what I still want to try with her. (sorry, just thinking aloud)....

Anyway, it is now nearly 5:00 already! This post took me an hour! WOW!! I guess that's what happens when I am playing with KaeLee at the same time and then giving her snack time. (yogurt melts and crackers today.... nothing messy.... sorry KaeLee) Well, I gotta go find something to make for dinner I suppose. I hate making dinner. As soon as I start, KaeLee gets super whiny and wants me to hold her. Go figure. Right now she is being super content playing with her dollies and covering them up with my kitchen towels and wrapping them up.... I hate making dinner before Shawn gets home because it's just so much easier if he is here to play with her and keep her off of my feet! But I suppose I will go give it a try!...... wish me luck. I'm thinking Chicken Cordon Blue sounds good....

It's looking up....

So, I have to say, that the rest of the day yesterday went wonderfully. Despite KaeLee only taking an hour long nap in the morning, she was a very good girl and only threw one fit till her second nap. I think being at Grandma Beaudry's house helped this. If it were just me and her at home, she would have been more rotten probably! haha. But there she had new people to play with. She especially enjoyed Aunt Deanne, who happened to stop by while we were there. She definitely put on a charming show for them. I think she said "hi" about 50 gazillion times to them. It WAS pretty cute, I guess.... :)

I finally got my wax yesterday and let me tell you..... I feel like a completely different person! Ah, MUCH better! The lady took forever though and it was starting to get really uncomfortable, but I somehow managed to hang in there till she was done and not throw up everywhere. I hate it when they start plucking my eyebrows.... I came for a WAX, not a pluck, thank you! When my eyebrows get plucked, it makes my stomach turn and I get SO queasy that I feel like throwing up. it is really not much fun. Anyway, I some time before I had to be up at my mom's (for our weekly viewing of the Bachelor, my one night a week away from KaeLee)so I went to TJMaxx to look around and I ended up finding a couple of purple baby blankets! YAY! Purple one's are not to easy to run across! And they were super cheap, so I was WAY excited! (you know me, I LOVE a great deal!)

Shawn had a little trouble getting KaeLee down for bedtime, but it only took a bout a half hour this time. Then she woke up at 2am this morning and was hungry for some reason (maybe she should have ate more lunch and dinner yesterday, eh?). She downed a large bottle then went back to sleep. Whew. That only took a half hour. An hour and a half later I was up and getting ready for work. Whoo-Hoo.... I work today, have tomorrow off, then work the next 4 days.... I am hoping that that will be the end of my working days for a while, as I am hoping to have this baby on Monday! If not, I only work Thursday and Friday next week, then I am done for sure! YAY! (that means only 5 more days of daycare!)

Well, breakfast trayline is about to start, so I should get back to work I suppose.... Have a great Tuesday.... or Monday for most of you since you probably had yesterday off work... We'll talk again soon...