Table Talk

Recently Caelen has enjoyed joining in the dinner conversation and last night I was able to capture some on video! She was talking to Daddy about something very important as you'll see :) (Even though Caelen's vocabulary is pretty big, when she has "conversations" sometimes they're just baby babble.)

Those who can't "Do", teach.

This is the scene I walked into about half an hour ago. Caelen potty training Bear!

She had him sitting on the little potty and she was showing him how to wipe and flush and everything. She would say, "Bear potty!" "Here Bear." Caelen isn't potty trained, but at least she's a confident teacher :)

We're big colorers these days! It's her new favorite activity. For our trip to Colorado I got her new crayons and 2 new books.
Here she is just being cute :)

C3PO has a buddy!

The magic password must be "OB7" or maybe that's the new character in a new Star Wars, but Caelen is obsessed with this. I think they're just her favorite letters and number put together. Anytime she sees writing she points and says OB7. There are literally dozens of "OB7's" all over our back patio in chalk because that's all she wants me to write! As soon as I write it she's pointing to a new spot asking me to write it there too. It's pretty darn funny.

The other day in the car she was singing "oh Sheepy" from Wonder Pets. When I tried to sing along she would put her hand up and say "NO Mommy!" then she'd continue on her own. When she said, "Wonder Pets" clear as a bell (instead of Bo Bo Pets) I said, "Good job honey! Good Wonder Pets!" she said, "NO Mommy!" I asked, "Am I just not allowed to speak anymore or what?" "Yeah" she says and continues on "Oh sheepy, oh sheepy oh sheepy...."

On Tuesday I went in for a doctor's apt to hear the baby's heartbeat and also got to have another ultrasound! It was pretty exciting. At first the baby was fast alseep just like in the 9 week one. But my doctor started pushing the ultrasound around and the baby woke up and started kicking their legs out like a little froggy and then balled up again and spun around. It must be fun in there, all weightless and tiny! The baby is fully formed, looks like a real baby, just super small! Only about 3 inches at this point. It was fun to see them move since I hadn't go to yet.
I'm sometimes feeling twinges or pressure but nothing obviously the baby moving around yet. It's still early and I'm not worried about it, I just really look forward to that part!

Can't ask for much more really

Everyone should be so lucky as me. Seriously, for 7 weeks I've been completely out of comission and barfing all day and exhausted from making a human in my belly. (Jealous aren't ya?)
That's not why! My husband has never complained as he's cleaned the house, done the grocery shopping, made his breakfast, lunch AND dinners (Caelen's too and sometime mine). He's even occasionally done the laundry. When I mention how useless I am he tells me that's absolutely NOT true, I'm making a baby and that I'll be back to normal someday and not to worry. So THAT'S why I'm lucky! I have to brag on my hubby ;)
Anyway I'm 13 weeks pregnant today and I feel like maybe I'm finally coming around. I still battle moments of nausea throughout the day but I'm eating a lot more, getting stuff done around the house (who would have ever thought it'd would be exciting to clean?), getting OUT of the house and just feeling better in general.
Today Caelen and I ran a couple errands. I got some of my favorite soap from Bath and Body Works. Sea Island Cotton YUM. I also got 4 others because they were on sale! We got lightly rained on at the park. There were a ton of kids from the Y there but that didn't intimidate Caelen, she was right in there with them!
All small accomplishments, but I'm happy to get out these days ;)

I saw a picture on the internet today of a little adorable Chinese baby and under it it said, "Chinese Gymnastics Team Captain."

Maybe this isn't working

Yesterday while we were visitng my friend Tina and her daughter Maddie who is almost 5 Caelen had to have a time out. She got up on the couch for little kids next to Maddie and immediately began telling her to move! Move Maddie! Excuse me Maddie! When I told her that wasn't kind and we didn't tell people to move like that she began to kick Maddie off. When I went to remove her she threw a book across the room. I picked her up took her the bottom step and told her to sit for time out.
While she did that I got all her diaper changing stuff ready and laid out. When it was over I told her she may be done and to come and get her diaper changed. Well she made no motions to get up. She looked and me, put her hands in her lap and said, "No mommy, sit in time out."
Maybe I need to make the new "time out" be a diaper change since it's obviously a worse punishment!!

Household Happenings

We spent Sunday (all day) cleaning the garage out. It was absolutely amazing how much junk Thomas managed to part with. He has pretty good pack rat tendencies that drive me crazy as I hate clutter and throw things out all day long. Of course I do have a couple boxes of my own that are filled with things that have a lot of sentimental value attached to them. I would never throw Thomas' stuff out without permission because I know how important those memories can be. But anyway Sunday he threw so much stuff out it could have filled the back of his truck.

The whole reason for this is we have a middle bedroom full of more junk that has to be moved out so the baby can have a room! In a 4 bedroom house I think it's perfectly reasonable for two children to have their own rooms ;) But we have a lot of work to do to get there. And we have plenty of time but I think you have to do these things when the bug bites you, it makes it so much easier.

Anyway I also found a whole bunch of fun toys and things that I couldn''t bear to throw out from my childhood so now Caelen has a slinky and a Jacob's Ladder among other fun stuffed animals that she's rapidly become attached to. They all had to take "baths" first through the washing machine!

One another topic, our garden has finally started producing something. It got killed off when all the transplants died earlier this spring and we had to start from scratch so eveything is really behind. But everyday Caelen asked "More Minnows?" and we go and pick all the tomatos and eat every single one before we've left the garden. There's green beans also and a few pumpkins although I wish there were more.And there's two types of cucumbers which Caelen will eat skin and all if I don't get it away from her. :)

I'm starting to feel like I look pregnant, although to strangers I probably just look fat LOL. I'm still barfing everyday but somedays seem a little more managable than they used to be. I at least can get myself to the grocery store if I plan well ahead. Poor Thomas is still doing everything he can to make up for my lack of energy and ability to do my normal chores and God bless him, he never complains!! I'm trying really hard whenever I get an kind of spurt of normality to do stuff around the house because I feel so bad. Today I got the laundry put away, Caelen's room tidied and started cleaning our bathroom. I plan to have that done by the time Thomas comes home. I also have to go to Target (I LOVE Target!)

So we're hanging in there and enjoying the Olympics with DVR.