Tired Girl

Today Reese skipped her nap. Lately she has just been reading in her bed during nap time so I didn't even lay her down. I wanted to run some errands but ended up not getting around to them. After what would have been nap time we went to play with her buddy Mitchell. About two miles from home she fell asleep in the car. Lance was home when we got there so he went to take her out of the car. She always wakes up...but this time she didn't. He layed her down in the chair and she woke up just enough to roll over on to her side. She slept like this for about 45 minutes until we woke her up for dinner. Needless to say she was a little grumpy after that.

Our tired little toddler

Trying to Get a Good Picture

...with a two year old...

and Daddy


is almost impossible


until she cuts her eyes and smiles.

The same with Mommy...

She is so silly


And then does it again.

She is too cute!

Baby Sprinkle

Today has been much better than yesterday!

My girlfriends had a "Baby Sprinkle" (a smaller, toned down version of a Baby Shower since we have all the big things) for me and Baby Cupcake. It was so wonderful and I am so blessed to have such great friends. Everything was perfect!! We got lots of great clothes, tons of necessary items, and a lot of fun visiting and catching up! One problem...I didn't pull out my camera once!! Hopefully some of you girls will share your pictures with me! Please?

Thank you so much to my wonderful friends for such a special day!!

This is me today...

Wordless Wednesday

Oops...wrong end!

B.C. Update

Today I had a doctors visit to check on Baby Cupcake. I met with a doctor I have not seen before...with this pregnancy or with Reese. So I was really glad to see her. I liked her a lot. Everything looked great...heartbeat, weight gain, blood pressure! I have another appointment in two weeks and then I start going every week! Yikes! I really can't believe things are moving so quickly!!! November, here we come!

Flood Insurance

I am pretty sure we should have invested in it...

Seriously, how can it rain this much?

And I don't see any end in sight!!

Yes, in case you were wondering, I have let Reese watch TV all day!! What else do you do on a yucky day like this besides watch TV, play on the computer, and do laundry?

Edited to Add:

Highway in Atlanta

Below are pictures from my mom's school's playground and parking lot.

Two Great Nights!

Reese has always been sensitive to the temperature when she sleeps. During her first winter she was waking up every hour on the hour for several nights and we were about to go crazy. We tried all kinds of different things each night to see if it would help. Finally one night we had the thought that maybe she was getting cold. So we put a space heater in her room about 30 minutes before bed time and let it heat up her room...I think we actually let it run the whole night. And she slept...the whole night! We were so happy the next morning. We immediately got online and ordered an econo-heater for her room...a friend of ours had it for their daughter's room at the time and had rave reviews about it. It was much cheaper to run than the space heater.

Well, with Reese's little escapades last week of waking up during the night we finally went back to the temperature thing again. This time we were afraid she was getting too hot because she has never been covered up by a sheet and a comforter. We also thought this might just be too much heaviness on her. She is used to just a quilt in her crib and most of the time that came off. So we folded down the comforter and put her quilt in her bed with her...And she slept the whole night. She has done this the last two nights and we are all so much happier. Yay!!! Hopefully I didn't just jinx it.

Even with all the thundering and rain last night she slept soundly through the night. This morning when she woke up the worst part of the storm was going through and I swear it was lightening all around our house. I went in to see if she was awake and she was still laying down so I walked over to her bed and her head popped up. She looked at me and said, "Hear dat?" I told her it was thundering and reminded her about a Franklin book that we have that talks about storms. She picked her monkey up and said, "Monkey scared of dat." I told her to give Monkey a hug and tell him it was ok so she did...she never once acted like she was scared of anything. I really hope that the rain goes away soon. I think it is supposed to rain the rest of the week but I don't know if we can handle that. However, it does look like there will be some fall weather on the other side of all of these storms so I will be happy about that! Hopefully we don't go crazy before then.

Fun Day!

Today we took Reese to see Sesame Street Live. We didn't tell her we were going until this morning because she would have been asking about it every second of every day. This morning when I went in to get her out of bed I told her we were going to see an Elmo Show. She shot out of bed and ran to tell Daddy. She was so excited!


We got to Phillips Arena about 30 minutes early and decided to buy Reese a souvenir before the show. (check the last picture)

We got to our seats about 15 minutes before the show started and Reese could not wait!

Our seats were much better than I thought they would be. They closed off a lot of the arena so it made it more intimate. There were seats on the floor that cost over $100 each...but I think our seats were much better than those. The only advantage they had on the floor was that the characters walked through and interacted down there.

Reese was in awe the entire time. She watched everything so intently and when a song would end she would say "again". At the intermission she thought it was over and was so upset. I told her that Elmo just needed a break to go potty...so she and I headed to the potty too. When it was over she was perfectly fine with it...I thought she was going to have a melt down and want more.

Our neighbors were two rows up from us so we met them at The Varsity for lunch. On our way to lunch I had given Reese her souvenir shirt to hold. She held it up, gave it a hug, and said "I yove dis!" She was trying to put it on so when we got to The Varsity I changed her shirt so she could wear her new shirt. She was so excited. By the time we got home Reese was over having her picture taken so this is the best I could do with her new t-shirt.

I am so glad we were able to do this today! We used this opportunity to spend some special time with Reese since she is not going to be our only little monkey soon. What a great day!

#2

Going #2 in the potty is still a struggle but there have been no accidents in the pants lately! So I guess that is a bonus! The stakes are higher now...no silly M&M's for #2. Now we have popsicles as a prize. And today we got one! Hooray! She seriously holds it until she is about to burst! I know she probably feels a million times better after she goes.

Hopefully these popsicles will do the trick!

Blah...

What a yucky couple of days it has been. Not only the rain but the lack of sleep around here. Reese decided she wanted to sleep in her big girl bed last Thursday night so I let her. She did great! She slept through the entire night with no problems. I probably checked on her a million times. So Friday night she did it again. Perfect! She did great again. And then for some reason she has decided she doesn't want to sleep through the whole night...that she wants Mommy to sleep with her or she wants to sleep in our bed. EVERY night she screams going to bed and around 1:00 she wakes up crying. It is so frustrating to say the least. Last night she said her big girl room was scary. As I was laying there I did notice that it is darker than her nursery was so I brought the alarm clock from the nursery in to her big girl room. It has a bright light on top of it so I figured that is what she was worried about. But no. She did the same thing. Finally Lance went upstairs to get her to go to sleep and she did but right at 1:00 she was screaming again. She fell back asleep after I laid down with her. I went back to bed and 30 minutes later she was screaming again. So Lance went in this time and she screamed and screamed. Finally I went in and it took forever for her to go back to sleep. Needless to say, all three of us are at our wits end the next day. We are all sleepy and grumpy. We HAVE to get this worked out before the baby comes because I can not handle getting up with a newborn and a two year old! And Lance doesn't wake up unless a freight train is running through the house. HELP!

Reese had school today. I was worried she would be a huge grump there because of her lack of sleep this week. She seemed to do well but has been a little disobedient since getting home. I love Thursdays though because she brings home her pictures from the week and her teacher writes a little note about what they did this week. Last week they started learning Spanish...great, now we have to figure out what she is saying in Spanish! I think they are only learning their colors and counting to five right now. She also will sing the blessing they have been learning...however, I am not exactly sure what it is. So many things for me to learn!

"Take picture my pictures, Mommy!"


Reese wore her game day clothes to school today since today is Tech game day!

And just a little teaser...

Sneak Preview of what is to come...I made this little head scarf out of left over fabric from Reese's new dress.

Seriously?!?!

Could they be any cuter??


This sweet baby girls mommy came over today to help me with a fall dress for Reese. I have never made an A-line dress before and wasn't quiet sure how to read the pattern so she came over to help me out. I had a great time sewing and Reese had a great time playing big sister.

Dress to come...