PRINCESS CAMP...

Yesterday, Bailey got to go to "Princess camp" with her best friend Evan. It was at a local dance studio. They played TONS of Disney princess music (with a former Disney trained princess teaching the class) and, I have to say, Mommy was a bit jealous :) Tom and I were sitting out in the waiting area while the girls had fun and I think I said to Tom, (at least 20 times) "I'm ready for our trip to Disney!".

Boo had a GREAT time. She loves Disney and she loves spending time with Evan. There was craft time....lunch time....performances...and silly time.....and (for Bailey at least) lots of bowing :) Notice below how she even pulls out her skirt like a real princess :) The last picture at the bottom is one of my favorite of the girls to date. It shows them just as they are....wonderfully, beautifully, full of joy and the best of friends.

It was a very magical day!

POPO WOULD BE SO PROUD....

Part of our busy week these past few days, as been switching the office from the back bedroom to the front room. Goodness...what a mess! Tom had to climb under the desk to disconnect all the wiring for the computer, printers, etc. As soon as Bailey saw him to that, she ran out and got her tools :) It was the cutest thing. She's already prepared to "fix"things with her tools. I love it when I can see both the girlie YiaYia and the handy fix-it man Popo in her. Such a special thing.

Way to go Boo! Such a big helper!

Turns out her flashlight needed batteries so...she went and got daddy's :)

SUCH A BIG GIRL....

Bailey has been able to dress herself for a good 6-9 months however...it's always been my setting clothes out for her to put on. This week was an especially busy one, so one morning I told Boo to go into her room and pick out her outfit. Shorts and a shirt I told her. Well...not only did she do it, but she did it GREAT! She IS her YiaYia's granddaughter...which is to say a fashion girl. My mother is always put together and always matches. Me...?? Well, not so much :) I'm happy with 2 pair of pants and 4 shirts. Less to think about :)

Bailey got herself dressed in her pink Minnie Mouse shirt, her pink shorts and her pink and white Disney socks (they have the Mickey Mouse design on them). Later, when I did her hair, she even picked out her pink Mickey Mouse clip. She's definitely YiaYia's girl but, with the Disney thing...she's all me :)


Typical silly self...she was "posing" she told me :)

Such a big girl...

PLAYING IN THE RAIN...

Earlier this week, Bailey and I went to the park with one of her school friends (Savannah) and her mom. It was HOT; so hot that we were the only ones at the playground :) Some relief came however, when it started to rain so...rather than hide out under shelter, I took Bailey's flip flops off and let her play. The slides that were too hot, became "water slides". We got soaked but, it was a lot of fun and she had a great time!

ULTRASOUND!

Here are two small clips, from the ultrasound on Tuesday. Baby looked perfect; he's right on track with his growth (which the tech told Boo, was about the size of a banana....you'll hear Bailey say, that he doesn't look like a banana :).

SHE'S GETTING IT!

I said, in an earlier post, that Boo's not a fish. Well....she's getting it! Watch our girl go!

HALF WAY THERE!

Today I hit 20 weeks...half way through this pregnancy! It's true what they say, it does go faster the second time around. Probably because you're busy with miracle baby #1!

I'm feeling good, bigger this time around. My next doctor's appointment is this Tuesday; we'll try to get some video of the ultrasound. Bailey has decided that her baby brother's name should be Oatmeal-E (emphasize the E at the end). We're trying to see if we can work that in ;) Below is some information I found online as well as a few belly pics that I took this morning.

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. He's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of his head to his bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, he's measured from head to toe.)

He's swallowing more these days, which is good practice for his digestive system. He's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. This gooey substance will accumulate in his bowels, and you'll see it in his first soiled diaper (some babies pass meconium in the womb or during delivery).

MELON COMA....

We had to break out the bib this past week...Boo decided to eat some watermelon, straight off the rind (This is a big deal for Bailey as she's typically a very "proper" eater. She doesn't like getting dirty! :).

This part of her lunch was a HUGE hit (as you can see by the two thumbs up :). After lunch, she has what we call "quiet time". It's called quiet time (or aka Mommy's mad dash to complete work time) because Boo dropped her nap about 9 months ago so instead, she'll play in her room for about 45 minutes. However, every once in while, she'll crash. This afternoon the melon must have sat hard because she didn't last long. She had some books out but, even poor Pooh couldn't keep her awake :)

NOT SMART ENOUGH....

There are times when I'm really not smart enough to be Bailey's mom. Many times that I am just "winging it" and praying that I don't screw her up. She's always been a smart and curious child but over the past couple of months, she's really increased her number of questions. At least 10 times a day I get questions like, "what do whales eat?", "do giants grow?", "where do squirrels sleep?", "can a horse jump over a car?"....cute little random stuff such as that. Half of the time, I can answer her...the other half of the time my answer is, "we'll have to Google that".

Every once in a while however, she asks me deep questions, you know...the ones that make you squirm a little. A few days ago, she asked me, "if you and daddy both go to heaven together, who will take care of me....YiaYia and Popo?". Crushed me. I,of course, had to tell her that daddy and I were not going to heaven together and that neither of us was going to heaven for a very, very long time. Still...she is growing and learning and Tom and I can only pray that we're smart enough to answer the questions. Praise God for His wisdom because I gotta tell you....not even Google has all the answers.

Pictures below are from my cell phone last week. We were in the mall and Boo was eating an ice cream cone. She stuck her face flat into the cone (which cracked us up), then she said (rather frustrated) that she could not bite the ice cream (it was already down past the cone). We explained that she need to bite the cone first (which is funny because she's had ice cream cones before, but I guess we've always taken bites of the cone before her). Once we explained how it worked, she laughed and continued on... finishing every last bite :)