The Reason For My Silence..."Morning" Sickness

That's right, we have a NEW BABY on the way! It came as a bit of a surprise to us, so soon after our loss in March. But we couldn't be more thrilled.  The Fifth member of our family is due to arrive in mid to late January 2012. Phew! Missed the December boat by a hair! :0D (In case you don't know we have The Holidays, my birthday, Hub's birthday, Roo's Birthday and our Wedding Anniversary all in December!)

Baby playing with feet here.

Sweet Newby was kicking and rolling and playing with his or her feet. And so active the tech had a hard time getting all the measurements necessary! It was amazing to see baby rolling around. And I actually felt a few kicks- during the ultrasound. Feeling and seeing the movements I realized, I've been feeling a lot of movement from this new little person. I'm not kidding this kid's got some LONG legs- I couldn't believe it! Perfectly formed teeny tiny LONG arms and legs. The tiniest feet ever.

We're zooming towards the end of the 1st trimester... Another week to go! And I'll be glad to leave (hopefully) the fatigue and nausea behind. I have been sicker than I remember being with Friendly. And the foods that I "could" eat have been the most weird and specific foods I have ever had to eat with a pregnancy. It's nice to be able to branch out a bit. Nice to be able to be up and about with out feeling ill constantly. Yes, I'm starting to feel better... I have lots to catch up on.

More soon!

Recent quotes...delightfully 3.

Roo really wants to ride a roller coaster. We live pretty close to a fairly large amusement park, we pass it regularly when we go to visit Nana. Every time Roo asks to ride on the roller coasters "some day". We're not really amusement park kind of people. We love family trips to the swimming pool, camping, long walks in the park, trips to the beach...But paying $100+ bucks to spend the day waiting in line for hours on end (often in sweltering temps), for a 10 minute ride? No thanks.

But the Fair is coming to town in September. . And they have little roller coasters for little people like Friendly and Roo. Every time we pass the amusement park I remind them that they can ride the coasters at the Fair "in September".

Thursday we were driving and Roo announced that she didn't want to ride a "little coaster" at the fair. "I wanna ride a BIG one!!" I (don't know what I was thinking) tried to explain that she had to be 4ft9inches to ride on the big coasters.

Always logical Roo piped back, "But my feet are FINE!! Look how big they are! They really big kid feet."

She got me there.
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One day a week or two ago Roo realized she had outgrown her brown play boots. She tried unsuccessfully for 10-15 minutes to cram her feet into them. It wasn't happening. She was so sad to realize she had grown too big. She asked that we go to the store and get her new boots. I told her in the Autumn we'd see about getting her new brown play boots. We were home with Ryan's car (that didn't have the carseats installed in it) and that was the excuse I gave for not going out that morning to find her boots (I find we need to have good logical excuses with Roo). Always the problem solver, Roo came out of the bedroom a few minutes later and said, "Mommie, it's okay that we don't have car seats in Daddy's car... Friendly and I can sit in the back seats. See, we're big enough because my arms are REALLY long."

I can't say I understand her logic there.

Roo is a very logical person. And she is a problem solver. Every thing is "because" she always has a reason for things being a good idea. And she really comes up with some shockingly good solutions.

The other day in the car we had been talking about some options about what we would do that morning. After discussing it for a while we all agreed on what order we'd do things. Roo said from the back seat, "Thanks so much for giving me good choices Mommie."

3 has been a very challenging age so far. But the little thoughts she articulates... So precious.