Mallory likes to do little arts & craft projects with me and seeing as how I am about a year behind on my scrapbooking, I am encouraging her craftiness and give her all sorts of paper and old stickers to try to keep her occupied. One of my rules is “only on paper” with the crayons and stickers. She does pretty well with this rule for the most part but then dad was around and the rule went out the window. Look what he taught her to do with her stickers:
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The phrases are coming …
Category: Pregnancy
Boy or Girl?
I have added a new page at the top (Boy or Girl?) for everyone to be able to follow along with my “symptoms”, so I can have some people to co-obsess with me over whether I am having a boy or a girl. I know that this obsession could be easily solved by just finding out right now what we are having but it’s way more fun to annoy my mom & my mother-in-law (and Deetza and Triplet-Jen and many more) by not finding out! There will also be a link to the official Baby Arlo poll on the right …
Oh how I love that girl
Last night at about 10.30p I heard a ruckus downstairs. Being the tired mom that I am I figured that if someone was breaking in, the dog would bark. And if it was Mallory, I would soon hear “hi momma!”. So I decided that I would stay in bed until it was clearer what I would find if I actually got out of bed to investigate.
Well, I didn’t hear either of those things. Instead I heard my sweet baby girl whimper at the bottom of the steps. I ran down the stairs to see her lit up by the little …
12w6d
We had our first OB appointment today :-) And we ended up getting a quicky ultrasound! Everything looks great and we have our big ultrasound scheduled for October 20.
She's soooooo ladylike…
So, I just went to check on Mallory and this is how I found her:
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Forgot to post that Mallory & I went to see my friend and her 8+ mo old twins. My friend asked Mallory if she wanted to take a baby home with her to get used to having a baby in our house. The whole rest of our visit, Mallory was saying “baby, home?” and we’d ask her which one she wanted to take with us and she’d always point at Jake. And then our whole trip home, she’d ask me “where babies go, mama?”
It’s …
All fixed, and other good news
My stupid car is already fixed and we don’t to have to pay a dime for the repairs (since the problem was “most likely” a result of the work the dealer did on it a month ago).
And the dealership is going to reimburse us the $140 towing charges.
(This should be on the Arlo blog but it’s all part of my good news Tuesday so I’ll share here). And, I got the results of our genetics testing and everything is normal. YEAH!!!!!
12 week pictures
Here are my 12-week belly pictures:
Here is last time at 12.5 weeks; I look so much younger and more rested!
Almost 12 weeks!
Well, according to some websites, I will be in my second trimester tomorrow! Some say you don’t start the second trimester until the end of your 12th week. But we don’t like those websites.
We don’t have our first OB appointment until next Thursday. I am quickly remembering how my first pregnancy was measured in four-week increments between doctor’s appointments. Thursday – hurry up & get here already!!
I have been feeling pretty good. I think my tiredness is starting to go away but I’ve been having general yucky feelings this week but I am blaming that on the travel and different …
11w Picture
Here is baby Arlo’s 10w-6d portrait.
The Road to Arlo
(This may be a little too much information for some [or all] of you but feel it’s important for the permanent record since I would have written about this in a baby book so I might as well write about it here. )
Last Friday was 11 weeks. I had a test on Thursday to check chromosomal things – so now we start another two-week-wait for those results. The doctor who did the procedure was the same one who delivered Mallory and I love him to death (Dr VDV). He is also the same doctor who sprung my triplet-bearing friend Jennifer …