Not in Kansas Anymore

We're still adjusting to living in the county from the city. This week proved to us we no longer live on a busy street. Each morning I go up around 6:45am to get Libby up and look out the window. This is my way of knowing the forecast since I do not trust the weather people on the news. I was shocked to see NINE deer behind our house in the yard behind ours. I immediately started screaming for Jim...which is NOT a good idea when you are pregnant but it still got him up pretty fast. The deer were beautiful and have been back several times over the past few days so it must be a good spot for them. Libby thinks they are big dogs. We are definitely not on Delmar anymore!

Catch

Libby doesn't completely understand catch. It's more like she plays fetch...by herself...with people around. This is a video of her playing her version of catch with my Mom, brother (Brad), and my parent's two dogs --- who probably were the only ones besides Libby that really enjoyed the game.

Riding Around

We went outside yesterday to enjoy the lovely weather and the neighbor kids found us. There were four of them in 2 jeeps. One, Noel, was nice enough to give Libby a ride - terrifying us that a 5 year old had our daughter in a motorized vehicle. Libby LOVED it but then tried to make a break for it mid way through. It turns out, she just wanted to chase it around (and did so for the next 10 minutes or so).



She really did have a good time with it though!

My Valentine

Limitations

No one warns you that with your second child you won't be able to do as much with the first kiddo. Most of my evenings are spent laying on the couch watching my hubby play with kiddo #1 or napping. I used to be able to wrestle and have a fun time with her...now I just can't. I hate having these limitations. I didn't really think about that when we talked about trying for kiddo #2. Luckily I am starting to have more energy but still cannot wrestle with kiddo #1. It makes me sad. I realized the other day that I am missing months and months of quality wrestle time with her. So I was determined to figure out alternatives of things to do. Luckily, Libby loves crafts - LOVES THEM. So I bought some more things to do with her that doesn't involve physical harm to me, kiddo #2 in my belly, and her. So now we have new play-doh, cookie cutters and other random items to use with the play-doh, and stamps. Oh the stamps. This kid has been begging for them for months. Seriously, months. I'm not kidding. So now she has some of her very own. We spent nearly an hour playing with them this morning. It was really great. She was happy and so was I. Finally, I found a way around my limitations (ahem, exhaustion). So thank goodness for her love of crafts!

Good-bye short, gross weekend

This past weekend was the first since returning back to work after going to WDW. I was so excited - the weather was supposed to be great and we only had a few things planned. My hopes were high to catch up on some much needed sleep and maybe even taking Libby to the STL Zoo. Imagine my surprise (and disappointment) when I was woken up by my adorable child getting sick at 11pm. And again at 12am. 1am. 2am. etc. You get the point. This continued until 8am when she finally stopped. Obviously we were all exhausted after a horrible night and I definitely couldn't handle anything else gross with my weak stomach right now. After she went a few hours w/o getting sick, I thought we were finally out of the woods and then I began to feel awful. I only got sick a few times but nothing compared to Miss Libby - the trooper. We finally got a little bit of food to stay down and she slept like a rock on Saturday night... and honestly so did we. Sunday was much better but I was still scared to give her much to eat. By mid-day I knew we needed to try to give her normal food or she couldn't go back to school. I just won't send her if she is sick especially if she had been getting sick. She took the food fine and kept it down. So we were finally completely out of the woods. Jim never got sick...I only felt bad on Sat night...it was over.

I still was confused by what caused this. I didn't know if it was food poisoning? a bug? what was it? I talked with one of her teachers this morning and it turns out half of the center had a stomach bug last week. Even her teacher had to go home early because of it on Friday. So, now we know what caused it.

Good-bye weekend. Good-bye gross, gross weekend. Please don't come back!

What's in a name

Our children's names are really important to me. We knew our boy and girl names before we decided to even start trying when we got pregnant with Libby. Now that our girl's name (Elizabeth) is taken, we have to come up with a new one. I have to admit I am struggling with this. I have lots of names I like but none are just standing out as the one. Jim is convinced the baby is a boy anyways so we won't have to worry about a girl's name but I want to have options ready in case it is a girl (which lets face it, we have a 50/50 shot =) ). So any opinions? We want something really classic and not horribly long since, lets face it, our last name is a doozy! These are the ones I am thinking about so far:

• Annie
• Cassandra (Would be Cassie for a nickname)
• Abby
• Maggie
• Margaret (call her Maggie)
• Anna
• Abigail (call her Abby)
• Emily
• Emma
• Ann

They are in no specific order at all. Opinions?