Different Kids, Different Pregnancies

Now that I am in the 2nd (gasp) trimester, I have noticed some distinct differences in each pregnancy.

1-With Little Lady I was sick from DAY 1 till about 22 weeks or so. Sick from the moment I got up till the moment I went to bed, praying to throw up to get some relief but never finding any.
With Puppy the sickness came and went. It would have to have a trigger - the smell of coffee, getting hungry, etc.
2-Which brings me to point number 2 - with Little Lady I was never hungry during the first tri because I felt sooo sick.
With Puppy (and this is still true) if I get hungry I feel really sick.
3-With Little Lady I didn't feel as exhausted as I have this time. Maybe it was because I sat a desk all day but I didn't feel like I couldn't move by the end of the day.
With Puppy I was COMPLETELY exhausted. If you would have seen my house during the first tri you would have been sure that it was not this slightly OCD womans house. For sure.
4-Their locations are completely different. When I would go in for a heartbeat check with Little Lady she was ALWAYS down low, like really low. This baby is up HIGH, like REALLY high. The doppler for Puppy is typically right around my belly button.
5- A similarity! The smell of popcorn can send me into feeling like throwing up in the nearest trashcan. It's terrible. I like to eat popcorn, but to smell it has to be the worst thing you could throw at this pregnant woman during those long 40 weeks!

Itchin for Spring

Last week when Little Lady and I left gymnastics we took the top off the jeep, had a picnic, and spent the afternoon in the park enjoying a nice 70-some degree day. Yesterday we spent the afternoon in the backyard swinging and enjoying a breezy but nice 60 degree today. I woke up in the middle of the night to a thunderstorm, woke up again early in the morning to sleet, and we left gymnastics class driving home through slush and snow. We are READY for spring. Granted, I love snow. I think it's beautiful and peaceful. I got married in Colorado in the winter for guaranteed snowfall during the wedding. But, after being in the house for months on end without sunshine or outside play and a little girl that stands at the back door asking to swing come rain, snow, or shine- we are ready. We are ready for the park, the pool, the childrens zoo, the big zoo, swimming lessons, fishing. You name the summer time activity and we are ready for it! So, while I do love snow in all its peaceful glory, can we get some spring please, and soon (minus tornado weather - I'm not ready for that:))

Let the IMAGINATION begin!

Little Lady's imagination has really taken off lately. She will make food in her kitchen for all of her stuffed animals. She will wash their hands in the play sink and then sit them at the table. She makes "nummy" noises for them. The other night she told me she was a "dog-dog" and put a play plate on the floor and pretended to eat like a dog on all floors with her nose to the little pink plate. I love it. I mean I really love it. I gives me a chance to see the world through an almost two year old point of view and it's fantastic. I love when she is rocking her babies and telling them "shhhh, it ok." And I love that she has hit a naked phase and that her babies need to run around with no diapers on too! But her imagination hit an all time peak of cuteness yesterday - a little background first. She has been really into Happy Feet. It would soothe her when she was a little baby and now she wants to watch it at least once a day. The word LOVE does not begin to describe how this girl feels about her beloved "pengins." She even has a stuffed one that used to be Sissy's that she is in love with and since her love affair with this stuffed animal has started she often times has to put a bow that matches hers on the penguins wing - which by the way has started to lose the stitching because she drags it around by the same wing. She also has a book that I swear has almost every animal in the world in it but she keeps it open to the penguins page and leaves it on her nightstand. The same nightstand that has her fish tank which also has a penguin mommy and baby in it. So, you get the picture, the girl loves a penguin. Yesterday, she dressed up the said beloved penguin in her baby's dress (yes, that would be the baby that is currently naked) and she was pretending it was her baby and then what does she do but pretend that she is regurgitating fish into her penguins mouth because that is after-all what momma penguins do. Like I said, peak of all time cuteness.

Sick In The House Of Pickle

Today we are supposed to be at gymnastics right now. Little Lady's favorite day of the week. The one day we are guaranteed to get out and do something during this very snowy, cold winter. But, instead we are at home in pj's carrying around a box of kleenex and trying to cough up the crud that decided to take up residence in my little ones chest. Yep, it's one of those kind of weeks. It started last week. Big A didn't go to work during the blizzard because he was sick and he came home early Friday because he didn't want to spread the nastiness to those he works with. Instead, the crud has been spread around the house like wildfire. Sunday we were at my parents and that's when Little Lady started coughing and it only got worse as the night progressed and by the next day it was full blown chest cold. We have been sleeping with her on our chests, watching morning cartoons laying on the couch snuggled under Dora blankets, and having plenty of juice and Toy Story chicken noodle soup. She is getting better. She covers her cough with her elbow which is good and very very cute at the same time. Then yesterday, I woke up with the soar throat and today am a little coughy. I'm hoping it just kind of hop, skips, and jumps it's way over me but most likely it won't. My biggest hope at this point is that we are on the up and up by Monday - Valentine's Day - so we can go to her playdate party. Fingers crossed. Until then, stay away from the House of Pickle.

The Big Announcement!

I can finally start blogging again. Everything in my brain that I want to write has been about babies, or being a Mommy to two, etc. So now, I can get my write on. The side bar is also updated. Right now we are affectionately calling the new baby Puppy - Little Lady picked that one all on her own! We asked her if she was getting a brother or a sister and she says she is getting a Puppy so the nickname sticks for now:)

Feeling Motivated and a Little Refreshed

I didn't do anything to make myself feel motivated but maybe getting snowed in for three days helps with reevaluating things. New fallen snow can do that with all its untouched beauty you know, and when there is a foot of it, I guess it gives you a foot of things to reevaluate. Lately, I have been feeling like I can barely get through a day and take care of Little Lady and clean house and do laundry, etc, let alone blog. But I'm starting to feel better and I'm starting to realize that I think that I put expectations on myself that are unrealistic. Yes, I haven't had any energy lately and seeing the heaps of laundry that need to be washed and the dog hair and cheerios that need to be vacuumed can do little for a persons motivation, it's slowly coming back. But not in it's usual I have to get everything done every day kind of way. Thanks to a good friends blog about her pajama Fridays with her girls, I have realized I can do all the fun things and pick up a little during the week but maybe, just maybe, I need to change my thinking on the way my house needs to look. This week I took a different route into my week of being the "perfect" SAHM. I picked up the toys, did the dishes, threw in a load of laundry every day. BUT, I didn't force the cleaning. I said to myself, that this Friday, Little Lady and I are going to stay in and I'm going to clean. And what would you know, I, for the first time in a few weeks, have gotten the entire downstairs clean. Like, REALLY clean. And I didn't stress out about it, I had dance time outs with my girl during her fav parts of Happy Feet and had sit down convos with the hubs since he came home sick today. I don't have to stress out every day that I'm not getting enough done. And knowing that I was dedicating a whole day to get it all done helped me get through my week. So, like I said I finally found my motivation - just in a little different direction - AND it makes me feel refreshed to know I CAN do things differently with the outcome I want, actually with an outcome I like a lot more.