My sweet funny little girl!

I go in to get Matthew up this morning for school and she hears me. So she is basically his shadow all morning before he gets on the bus, getting dressed when he does, putting her shoes on when he does, sitting at the table to eat breakfast when he does, "helping" him feed the dog and make coffee (he pushes the buttons for me). Then his bus comes and she is so excited, she runs out with him and says she wants to go to big kid school and ride on the bus too. "That's Matthew's bus 222!" she tells the bus driver. This girl just ADORES her older brother and wants to do everything he does. She misses him during the day too, and I know she is excited to start at her school next Wed. She will go to prek4 Wed, Thurs, and Fri. When you are just about 4, though, it is hard to wait!

Oh, and night before last, at 4AM I hear "WAAAAAAH, WAAAAAH!" outside my door. I ask her what was wrong and she had wet her bed. No big deal, I said just take off your wet pjs and put them in the laundry room and I will get you some dry ones and dry sheets. As soon as she got those off, she was all talkative and cheerful and chatting on and on about here is my doggie and my kitty cat and my baby dolls, etc. while standing around naked in her room while groggy preggo mom is working at changing sheets. I keep telling her to please put on her dry clothes, and she is just chatty as can be. Finally, I got her back in bed, and she is like "night night, Mommy!" with a grin. Amazing how everything is SO tragic at first, then can change to wide awake happy at 4 in the morning! What do I do with her!

I have a first grader!

Matthew had his first day of school Monday, the 24th. He was pretty excited to go, but a little nervous about finding his class room and getting used to the routine. His teacher is Mrs. Marrs, and he recognized a couple of kids from K last year. We got up and were waiting for the bus, but it turns out the bus got stuck in traffic, so I ended up bringing him to school. Which I think was better anyway, as that way we could walk him to his class room. I think he will have a good year, his teacher seems really nice, nice class room, and he seems pretty excited to be a "big kid" first grader. He has 3 missing teeth which he has been proud to show everyone too. I love my sweet boy!

16 week prenatal appointment

I had my 16 week appointment last Friday, the 21st. Everything is looking good...bp was 108/80, weight up to 182 (2 lb gain), urine fine. Baby's heart rate was strong at 144 bpm. Michelle came with me (Chris had the day off so Matthew stayed home with daddy to play Star Wars Lego on the Wii), and was so excited to discover they had some stuffed animal ponies in the basket of toys in the room. When the nurse did the Doppler, she pipes up with, "that's the baby's heartbeat!" We got to schedule the next appointment for Sept. 16th...the 20 week one with the u/s, so hopefully we can find out what we are having! Afterwards, we came home and met Daddy and Matthew and all went to lunch at Pei Wei. So all is well.