matching, another big girl, and a touch of blue

My Grace Moment: Brian decided last week the DVDs didn't need to have the extra sleeves on their cases for the kid movies. He has been letting the girls play with them though and they have been happy to do so even though it drives me NUTS to pick them up daily. This afternoon, Grace decided to put them back on the movies. I watched her match up the sleeve to the dvd boxes. She got them all on the first try minus one that wasn't even the drawer! Made me think about how much I loved the Memory games as a kid and how it will be fun to play those with her before too long. (She has a couple in hiding until her birthday ... shhh.) I have to say if she is like her mom though, you won't want to take her on in those games.;)
I should add the girls are on a Disney movie kick. They hardly want the tv on. They want movies on. We are working on taking turns on who picks out the next movie. Don't worry, Mermaid is still a favorite (at least we have three of them to rotate through now!)

My Sophie Moments: Sophie is now in her twin bed! We took her crib apart on Sunday. She is such a big girl and is very happy to get in and out of her bed by herself. Bed time now takes much longer since the girls both end up getting out of their beds as soon as we shut the bedroom door but they are both sleeping their own twin beds in the same room. Such big girls who are growing up so fast!!
Sophie has used the little potty twice now. She isn't tell using when she has to go but if we put her on there she will sometimes go. Yesterday she got her first potty treat. She was so proud of herself. I need to find the motivation to work on her telling us when she needs to go.

Little Boy Blue: Little boy will have a blue room. He will! We bought blue paint this past weekend. Maybe Brian will get time to paint on Friday ... maybe. I feel so behind on his room since the girls' rooms were done SO early.

Happy!! and good night!

"Happy" Moments: Happy moments are some of the favorites around this house these days. Any event where you say "Happy " is a happy event here. So that includes birthday, holidays, you name it. Brian recently had a birthday. I got him a few little boy hats for his birthday from the girls. We wrapped them while he was out getting our veggie share. I explained to the girls they were for Daddy's "Happy Birthday" that was tomorrow. As soon as Brian walked in the front door, Grace yelled "Happy da-da!" Needless to say, that was the only present her daddy needed for his birthday as seen by the smile on her face. Since Sophie repeats most of what Grace says, they spent the evening saying "Happy da-da!" We got him happy birthday balloons or as Grace say "happy oons". We had a "Happy cake" that they got to help blow the candles out on. The happiness continued on Mother's days where I was wished "Happy mama!" and my mom was told "Happy Grandma". It probably doesn't help that their favorite book is birthday themed picture book so it has all of the fun birthday stuff in it like balloons, cakes, games, and hats. They were very excited to have so many "happy days" all together here recently. So if you get wished a "happy", know it is a special day for you indeed!

Good night baby: Brian got what was Grace's toddler bed built back into a crib over the weekend. He got the blue crib skirt, yellow sheet, bright bumper pad, spit up pad all set up. I set the little collection of blue blankets in there. The girls were very interested in all of this. (Grace can climb the edge to look into the crib.) We told them the crib was for the new baby to sleep in. Well all they heard was baby sleep in crib. Grace ran to their bedroom and got baby dolls. She came in and gave one to Sophie and then she put the one she had in the crib. The one Sophie had went in next. Some mornings, Grace runs in the nursery and will put the babies to bed in the crib and shut the door. We get told to not open the door because the baby is ni-ni. At night, she will go get the babies out of the crib so they can go back to bed with the girls. It is all very cute. We still have to paint ... well Brian has to paint. But little boy now has a dresser full of blue clothes and a crib that definitely says "boy!" so that is a pretty good start.

and hello to you too!

Sophie and pregnant mommy: Sophie was thrilled when I came home from work on Friday. She was standing on the bed as I stood next to her. She lift up my shirt to see my ever growing belly. She said "hi" and then gave my belly a love slap. I tried to explain to her that we don't hit our brothers but she just laughed and ran away.

Grace and pregnant mommy: Grace came up to my while I was sitting on the couch yesterday. I thought she wanted a hug but she didn't. She just crawled up next to me, leaned over and kissed my belly, and said "hi" then ran away.

What a difference 15.5 months and two totally different personalities makes, huh?

Little boy update: Little bit has been moving up a storm the past few days. Brian got to feel a great dance/karate/kickboxing display the other morning. The OB got a few kicks when he measured a heart rate of 155 on Thursday and seemed quite surprised the little guy was that active. It has been decided that this little man will have a blue room with green dots. Now we must buy paint so Brian can start painting.

hi dada, a BIG girl and a little sprinkle of blue!

Sophie's New Thing: Brian told me about this last week but I have been able to see Sophie do this several times over the past two days and it is very amusing. Sophie suddenly walks up to Brian and says "hi dada". She will say "hi dada" one, two, five, a dozen, two dozen times ... she just finds it funny. Brian tries to change up his responses by saying "hi Sophie", "hi baby", "hi sweetie", "hi baby doll", etc, etc. She won't do this anyone but daddy so it must be a special name for her to say it so much! ;)

Grace's Big Girl Move: Grace has moved into "the girl's room". Last night, she slept in her twin bed in what was formerly known as "Sophie's room" for the first time. She wasn't happy at first and it took them an hour to get to sleep but she got back in the bed and covered herself up (yes, I had to peek to make sure she was in bed when all had been quiet for awhile.) Today, she napped there and tonight she went to bed in her big girl bed without any problems. She is getting so big on us!!!

Baby Boy Purchase: Baby boy got his first blue blankets yesterday. I resisted the urge to buy some last week while at Target by myself. When we all went out last night, we couldn't do the same and came home with a package of four blue blankets. Brian opened the packaged and proceeded to cover himself in a blue blanket to "bask in the blue-ness". He then put one on my belly to "try it on". I think it is safe to say, he is little excited about the bundle of blue coming our way!;)

zippers, shoving, and a big belly

Grace's New Thing: Grace loves to zip up the zipper on Sophie's pajamas at bedtime. I have to help make sure she isn't zipping up Sophie too. Grace loves zippers on anything ... coats, shirts, you name it. If you have a zipper on, she will insist you zip it up. It is a good thing she is out zipper pajamas already!

Sophie's New Thing: And it begins ... for the first time tonight I caught Sophie shoving Grace out of the way to get my attention. Grace got mad at her at first and then started laughing. So the shoving became a game between them. That all of course came to an instant stop when Grace shoved too hard and Sophie fell over. I don't know if I am ready for this ...

Baby Belly: Brian announced to me this morning that I had a much rounder belly this pregnancy. Thanks. I feel huge and way bigger than I did at this point with either Grace or Sophie. Makes me worried about what my size will be come July. Baby boy is very active. That is probably a good thing since he might end up with two big sister to beat him up.=/

roaming plastic stools and a nap worth remembering

Sophie's New Thing: Sophie will follow me (and Brian) around the house with one of the plastic stools that generally lives in the bathroom. Any time I stop, she will set the stool down and try to look at whatever I am doing. At first it is very cute to have her follow you around overly interested in every little thing you are doing ... that is until she puts the stool down on your foot which hurts way more than it seems like it should or she falls off the stool and you have to stop what you are doing to calm her tears. She is definitely my climbing monkey and wants to be into everything!

My Grace Moment: Today, I got Sophie down for a late nap. I decided to take the "half peace and quiet" time and lay on the couch for a minute (that seems to be all I ever get so that is all I ever expect!) Grace saw me laying there. She came running over and climbed under the blanket with me. She does this often if she sees me on the couch but is gone within a few minutes and needs something so I must get up too. Well not today. I woke up over an hour later with her crashed out there next to me in my arms on the couch. I can't remember the last time she took a nap with me so it was a nice little moment to stop and remember. Plus her pregnant mommy apparently really needed a nap today so I am very thankful for that part too!

spinning ... rain ... oh, BOY!!

My Sophie Moment: Sophie loves spinning. She will spin in circles until she falls over. She will fall down laughing and as soon as she can stand up and do it again. A few nights ago she decided to create her own sit and spin and sat on the hardwood floor spinning herself in a circle while sitting on her butt and pushing with her leg. This was great fun and we just couldn't help and laughed right along with her! Grace saw this and of course had to figure how to spin in a circle herself too.

My Grace Moment: Grace decided that she won't melt in the rain!! The other day, she had to go outside in the drizzling rain with her daddy. She walked down to the garden and then stood out on the front sidewalk looking at the spring flowers popping up. She came in with wet hair to prove how long she had been out in the rain! This is my child who would scream and scream if she got wet due to rain not too long ago! Of course, mommy wasn't willing to go hang out in the rain so Grace could realize she wouldn't melt. It is a good thing her daddy didn't care about getting a little wet. Oh and Sophie had to join in the stand in the rain fun too. I have to say, I don't get why that would be fun but what do I know?

New Baby News: Our big ultrasound was last Friday and baby is a BOY!! A BOY!! We have had a boy name picked out since the early days of my first pregnancy (we picked one boy name and one girl name that pregnancy). So this little bundle of blue will be our Matthew William. Grace can say Matthew or Matt. Sophie so far is calling is calling him "bubba" after I explained he was her baby brother.