Hello Elmo!

Kinsley will be Elmo for Halloween and we got to practice! Every year her daycare has a parade where the kids walk around outside in their costumes. At first I had to bribe her with her passy to get her to wear it, but once we were outside she was very into it! I think she looks cute, needs a hair cut but she's cute!

K's best friend Yaya.

Kinsley has a style all her own.

maybe this will be the start of a fashionesta or another Lady Gaga (oh dear lord, while i like her music i don't think i want my baby girl taking fashion advice).

K and I were getting out her PJ's for the night and I asked her which ones she wanted to wear. She started digging and found Elmo... then she also wanted Mickey. K..... then she needed her shoes, on the wrong feet.

Toddler fashion. Why fight it?

She's a hambone

I swear i have NO idea where she gets her sassy personality... it HAS to be her father!

I asked Kinsley to cheese for me Friday morning at school because i thought she looked so cute in her little outfit and this is what i got...

I said if she would give me a decent cheese i would give her a spoon for her yogurt...

I don't know if i would call that "decent" but I'll go with it since she's almost 23 month (OMG that means its one month and one week away from her second birthday and i think i just died by her oldness)!

Kinsley's personality has been coming out more and more. From know exactly what she wants (even if we have no idea what she's saying) to "I do it" when i can't help her at THAT EXACT MOMENT.

She still needs me though, so that's nice. Like in the mornings when she wakes up before I've dried my hair (because i only wash my hair every third day she wakes up early on THOSE mornings, thanks) and wants to sit on my lap WHILE i dry my hair. Have you tried to dry your hair while sitting without a mirror and with a toddler on your lap... skill, i have MAD skills!

Kinsley also knows when she wants to use a spoon or a fork. I when she needs one or the other, but when she wants to use one or the other. We might use forks with soup and spoons with pasta, but that's okay. LET HER!

The pantry has a lock on it, along with our new cabinet in the Kitchen. In the pantry is dog food that she will feed NON-STOP to our dogs AND fruit snacks that she will get out without permission and then bug the hell out of you until you open them. The new cabinet is her new playground where she likes to crawl into and hide. Both needed locks.

K loves to brush her teeth, most of the time. She gets to use Elmo, momma gets to use the poop tooth brush. All goes well, unless i didn't get her memo about how i was supposed to use Elmo and SHE was supposed to use pooh... Geezz!~

She's a cutie and tootie, but i can't wait to see what she'll be next!

Parker Parker Parker

Yeah that's his name... everyone keeps asking if that's his "official" name and I've decided that it is. Unless Chris decides that it's not, at which case we will done our gloves and throw down, and i will win because who is REALLY going to hit a pregnant woman? mmmkay?!?!

So here's Parker at 23 weeks in my belly

yeah he's a bigen. AND he's a wild man. If he's not tap dancing in my lower abdomen then he's practicing his break-dancing moves and turning flips in my belly. Doesn't help the queasiness when he does this. Kinsley always had a party after i ate. Parker has a party whenever and where ever he chooses. No reason needed for this man to party (oh so like his Dad already~).

Right now my guy is right around the size of a papaya

His face is all formed, just needs to fatten up. He can hear everything and by his movement he likes it. Or maybe he doesn't and is pissed at being constantly woken up. Eh, get use to it kid, wait until you meet your sister, no sleep ever again!

He's very curious. He's been trying out all kinds of different pregnancy symptoms on me. Sciatic nerve issues, tailbone moving (learning bad habits from his sister!), extremely bad acne, constant evening heartburn (even before i lay down), aversion to many smells, aversion to foods still, should i keep going?

We have decided on his nursery bedding... i know you thought we had before but we changed our minds and here it is:

I know i was all "I'm going to do a boat theme without boats" but Chris wasn't a fan of my previous choice so here's what little man gets.
We'll do the top half of the room in a light light blue, the bottom in that dark navy blue you see and then we're going to use a natural rope as the chair rail. There's more but i can't give away ALL my secrets yet!

So yea, we're 23 weeks. CRAZY i know! He's due in just less than 4 months, K will be two in just over a month. Throw in Thanksgiving, Christmas, and dog that has a death wish* and time is FLYING!


*As of Friday afternoon Sadie was still not able to keep food down. She is "looking" better and they are going to give her more meds to help keep food down. Hopefully she'll be home soon. I'll update you more after the weekend.

K's new room!

I told you it was coming and here it is! I still have to put the maternity pics from her old room above the flower decals and some decorative shelves above her bed, but i think it's pretty darn cute!

The curtains are from her nursery.

her closet sucks, see that "step", that's for the stairs below... totally takes away needed space. oh well! she likes that her shoes are at her level~

The lamp, clock, and pink bins are from her nursery as well~

The mirror above her bed was in her nursery, the wall to the right (which is next to the window) will have 2 decorative shelves on it that are still in her nursery. Her bed is a hot mess because that's how she likes it. She likes all of her "things" with her, so i just moved them over from her old room to make her feel at home.

The bed was a hand-me-down gift from our neighbor's mom, it was natural color wood so i sanded it down and spray painted it white.

The bow holder was in her nursery and I made it using a white canvas from Michael's and ribbon I already had, just hot glued the ribbon to the back of the canvas.

The dresser is my FAVORITE! This was a hand-me-down gift from my awesome sister-in-law. She didn't need it anymore and K needed one so it was meant to be! It was a medium/dark wood so i knew it needed some glamour brought to it for K's big girl room. I sanded it and spray painted it and then just reused the knobs from K's nursery! I'm in love!

I found these cute decals and sprinkled them through the room. Above this one will be the 4 maternity pictures from K's nursery. As soon as she walked in the room she said "FLOWER!"

And we can't have a puppy room without a puppy on the wall!

Hope you like as much as K and I do!

I just saw Sadie... and K REALLY loves shoes.

So the first part of this post is sad, to me. I know i complain an awful lot about Sadie the Labrador from hell but honestly I love her sweet little puppy face. I hate her big jumping paws and snatching ways but i love her. I went to visit her at the vet and sat down on the floor to pet her in her crate and she just curled up on my lap and laid her head on my knees like "Oh there you are mom! I've been waiting to sleep all day!". I cried. My big pregnant self sat on the floor of a vet hospital crying for my dog to eat and keep food down so that i could take her home. I also might have contemplated curling up in a ball in her crate with her so that she could curl up in a ball and lay her head on my belly like she likes to do, but then i realized this might seem strange to the roaming tech and decided against it, I mean WAS in work clothes and had to return to work.

So we're waiting for her to eat again and hopefully keep that down since she didn't keep down what she ate last night. cross your fingers!

The other day we were out and about and we went past a Rack Room Shoes. So i told the hubs i was going to run in and see if they had black boots for K. We (K and I) ran in, I squatted down to see if they had her size, they didn't, so i turned around to go and MY daughter was on the ground shoes off and trying on whatever pair of shoes she could grab. My heart swelled with pride!

This morning while we were getting ready in her new big girl room (more on that later) she saw her shoes all lined up nicely in her closet. "SHOES!" she squealed with delight and ran over to get her Elmo rain boots. She asked for my help and told her i would help her as soon as she was dressed, so she told me "I Do it" and she got her shoes and insisted on wearing them to school. Girl loves her shoes! I love my girl!

Dog for Free! Dog for FREE!

Honestly i don't know how much more i can take. I know i know, with all of these GLOWING reviews of my lab it's a wonder people aren't lining up on my side walk to take her home... oh but wait! I have ANOTHER great story!

Remember the awesome poo story of 09? Well i can't locate the post to remind you but it involved Sadie's ass exploding all over my upstairs and me and my pregnant nose having to clean it up.

Fast forward to 11'. Sadie decided to floss her insides with hair from one of Kinsley's dolls. BUT her insides were just fine as they were and so she's been vomiting every since. Not.Kidding.


OKay, started THAT post on 10/25... today is 10/27... here's the what happened.

Later that night Chris and i went to get into bed and Sadie, who hadn't eaten all day, jumped up and started throwing up water and bile into our bed... again. So we looked at each other and decided to take her to the emergency vet.

We dropped off K's monitor with our neighbors and headed out with a very docile (which is not like her) and sick 5 year old puppy. We arrived and they started with x-rays, didn't see much more then gray area they were concerned about and LOTS of backed up poop. They went in with a scope and didn't see anything perforated. Stuck in an enema and gave her an IV and we left her for the night around midnight.

The next day we got a call that she was still throwing up. Not good. They had a radiologist do a scan and saw stringy material going from her stomach to her intestines and they couldn't tell if it was a blockage or irritation that was causing her intestines to contract. So they recommended surgery.

She went into surgery and i got a call around 630pm saying they pulled out a lot of hair and other material from her stomach and intestines. That her intestines were in really bad twisted state but they were looking healthy again by the end of surgery. Also, that her pancreas was swollen and irritated but that would be treated with antibiotics, which she'll be on anyway to prevent infection after surgery.

She'll spend another night there at least to make sure there aren't complications from surgery and then she might be able to come home on Friday. and $6000 later we are looking into pet insurance.

Combine that with the drama of the rest of my family and I'm ready for this week to be over. Oye!