Ten on Tuesday

Here is the 10 on Tuesday. Go check out others on Chelsea's blog!!

1. Pretend it’s Monday morning–take us through a day in the life of you.
Wake up around 6, watch the news, write the blog, drink some water or juice. Be greeted by Ian when he awakes. I get a nice hug then I'm told to make breakfast. Eat while watching Word World because apparently, it's the only show that Ian will watch.


Then we play, maybe even outside before it's a million degrees outside. Give Ian 100 snacks as he asks for them. Do dishes, clean, rest my back that is in pain. Have lunch, try and get Ian to take a nap. Give up after an hour if he hasn't fallen asleep yet.


Let Ian shower, get ready for work, make my work snack. Head to work. Work. Come home. See my loves. Fall asleep too early, wake up around 1. Stay up until 4 or 5, go back to sleep.

2. What’s your favorite reality tv show?
Um, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, Modern Family, It's Always Sunny, Psych, and Glee. Also, I can't read, currently, Master Chef.

3. What motto do you live by?
Um... Just do it?

4. If you knew could you try anything and not fail, what dream would you attempt?
To fly?

5. What was your first job?
Working at a dry cleaners... bad ass.

6. What is your current job?
After school supervisor/teacher.

7. What would you call yourself if you could choose your own name (and you cannot pick the one you already have)?
Amoonda.

8. What musical instruments can you play?
I used to play clarinet. Do piano and guitar count if I can only play one song? Oh, and I'm sure the recorder.

9. Is it easier to forgive or forget?
Forgive.

10. What is one food you’d never want to taste again?
Currently, pizza.

Mommy Goggles

I forgot to update yesterday! Oops. Well, here it goes (I'll be doing Ten on Tuesday tonight I think, maybe).

Ian


He's been such a rockstar lately! I'm not sure if he can have anymore personality than he already has. He's hilarious, loves to make people laugh. He's outspoken and extremely energetic. He's loving to sing and dance. He's been eating like a champ! That's right, he was 21.7 pounds at his last doctor's visit. Incredible! He's gained two pounds since his 18 month check up, I was very pleased.

He says crazy things like "you're crazy!" He is no longer into giving kisses (unless he's going night night), instead he gives lots and lots of big, long hugs! I love it! He's very into babies now too. Some of his current favorite things: grandpa, Word World, pizza, peanut butter, smoothies, cars, flips, sports, and tons of other foods I could list, but would take up this whole blog.

Today, we go to the dermatologist to get his blood vessel thing removed. I'm super nervous. My mom is going with me in case we have to hold him down, or heaven forbid, he cries and I need therapy. I literally have no idea what it's going to be like. It's a little frightening. Though, he's been keeping his bandaids on, which is amazing. He kept pulling it off, so I took his hands and I talked to him. I told him it was really important that he keep it on and to stop playing with it, etc. And guess what? He left it alone! I think it is just a coincidence.

Besides not wanting to take his nap during the day, he has been doing amazing. In fact, just yesterday he got into the A&D and rubbed it all over his body, even his hair. He actually did a good job and his hair was all slicked forward. He also tells me "no" all the time now, but in a really cute way, so it's very hard to take it personally.

Baby Girl


I thought I'd update you on names that we almost named her before we decide to reveal her name (although, some of you already know it). My number one name was: Ellyn Elizabeth. Stephen hated the name Ellyn and thought it made her an old person. Haha! I really wanted to call her "El."

Next name, Evangeline. Now, this name is still one of our top favorites. We love it. Evangeline has a million nicknames. Besides the cruel fact that her name will be an hour long, we really enjoyed it, but found that we still liked another name even more.

Here was another one of my favorites: Isla. Pronounced EYE-la. I think it goes beautifully with Ian and then they could both have 'I' names (no, they don't). Again, Stephen didn't like it and the name doesn't really mean anything besides island... and that's a little lame.

There was even a time when we wanted to name her Mary Jane. Mary - ode to my mom; Jane - ode to Stephen's mom. However, I couldn't handle the drug association, so we nixed that one. My next thoughts were our mom's middle names... Stephen can't remember his mom's middle name. Yes Janet, you read that right. How ridiculous is that? I think his old man brain is starting to get to him. So again, that idea was voted out.

Now, her name was our top contender for Ian's girl name (no, it's not Eliot). We loved it then and we still love it now. It is in fact in the baby name books, so we did not make it up. That's all I'm giving you. :)

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20 Weeks

Hello Readers!!

I am officially 20 weeks, 1 day today. It has been a good day. Full of kitchen cleaning and cooking. Breakfast tacos for breakfast, baked potato soup for dinner, and some peanut butter and jam cupcakes for dessert and for Stephen to bring to work tomorrow! I would like to say that baked potato soup is my favorite soup and I made it fantastically. I mean, it was/is incredible. And as for the cupcakes... well...

I know right? They do taste as good as they look. Muy tasty. And yes, I have yellow and pink cupcake holders because we're having a girl. With Ian, we took the family out to eat, with this one, we're making cupcakes!

Anyways, I look/feel like I'm 40 weeks pregnant. I'll start with pictures next week... hopefully. The baby is the size of a banana, so she's getting pretty big! We've officially ordered our home study birthing course (we are using a different method besides Bradley this time). We've also toured and registered at the hospital. And I'm sure glad that we did. I'm still confused on how to get places, but Stephen seemed to know where he was going the whole time. I haven't ever been to this hospital, but I think it'll be a good experience.

For those of you who don't know, we are trying to a VBAC with this baby. My doctor is 100% supportive and has the highest VBAC rate at this hospital. I will have to be hooked up to monitors and will have to go to the hospital earlier this time to be monitored. But, I'm okay with that. The hospital is very supportive of moving around and allowing me to get in the shower. I'll also be able to keep the baby in the room with me for hours before they take her away for her bath, which is freaking sweet. Ian was immediately taken from me during the c-section, so this will be a little different. And yes, Stephen will follow new baby wherever she may be going. Regardless, the tour went well and we're excited to birth there. We got to see a baby getting its cleaning with daddy in the room. And cool enough, grandma was seeing her very first grandchild for the first time, it was amazing to see.... I almost cried. I'm pregnant people, I'm allowed to do that.

My recipe made me take double the amount of frosting that I needed, so I'm going to make a cake or something tomorrow to use it, how ridiculous is that?

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It's a...

GIRL!!

I know, shocking, right? I couldn't say until everyone close knew and Stephen took forever to tell Rafik. So, there you have it. We're incredibily excited. Yes, we have a name. Only a few people know it. We like it a lot though.

Of course, she was being very difficult during the ultrasound. She never moved her hands from her face and her legs were crossed the entire time. We finally were able to get a glimpse and see that she was in fact a girl. From what we could measure/see, she was measuring pretty big, like 1.5 weeks big. Oh well. I'm sure she'll be perfect.

In other news, Ian has a hemangioma. We're taking him to the dermatologist next week to get it removed. It's on his face and he's been messing with it, so it's bleeding now. Fun fact, there is only one pediatric dermatologist in Austin. How ridiculous is that? The wait is several months, which is too long... not to mention insane. Hopefully we can get it taken care of. Though, Ian does look super cute right now because he has a Cars band aid over it... adorable.

Busy week people, sorry. Hopefully we'll share more next week. Very, very busy may even be an understatement.

Quick Mommy Goggles

Here is a quick post for the day because I'm busy today and really, I don't have enough time to be writing a blog.

Ian
Is doing awesome! He has been congested and not sleeping too well. But, I gave him some allergy medicine the other night, and he got a full nights rest, and he's back to his old (not whiny) self! I'm ecstatic! We went to Schlitterbahn yesterday where Ian had a flippin' blast. He even got brave enough toward the end to go down some kiddie slide by himself (as long as one of us was at the end). He was having sooo much fun. It was adorable. A nice lady even gave us some bread so that Ian could feed some turtles that he was gushing over. Needless to say, he was asleep as soon as we left the parking lot. Successful trip!

Ian Sequel
Is 19 weeks, 2 days (in utero). He/She is as long as an heirloom tomato from the top of their head to their bottom. Which, is about six inches, not including the legs! Wowzer! I guess that explains why I'm so big already! We find out the sex this week too! :)

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New Look

Hi People!

Just as a warning, I'm on my laptop that is missing keys... so you know, I'm probably going to have tons of spelling errors. Also, if you're an email reader or a Google reader, head on over to my blog today! I have a new layout that I'm going to stick with for a while and I'll add bios to the side. Tell me what you think.

Last weekend, the in laws came in town for a visit. We had a really good time and I got a picture of Ian doing his new weird face with hand shakes thing... and Grandado doing it too. (That's what Stephen's dad is trying to get Ian to call him).

How stinking cute is that? Today's blog is super short, I have to get ready for work and all that stuff.

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Ten on Tuesday

Well, this set of 10 on Tuesday is slightly questionable. But, here we go!

1. Where did you go to college?

University of Texas

2. What did you study?

I got my Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Sciences with a concentration in Early Childhood

3. Was college really all that it was cracked up to be?

Eh, it was alright. I really started enjoying my classes once they got more into my field.

4. How far were you from home?

I wasn't. My family followed me. But, I did live in San Antonio while they were still in Houston.

5. Did you have the same roommate all four years?

I had three/fourish/sixish roommates my freshman year and I had roommates for part of my sophomore year, then Stephen became my permanent roommate.

6. Where did you order food from at 2am?

I didn't order, I went to Kirby Lane or Magnolia... I think that's it... Jackie was with me.

7. Did you date in college or were you tied down?

I think I had two boyfriends throughout college... one of them is my current husband. :)

8. Funniest drunk college moment?

Uh, I don't know about funniest. Most fond is when... I 'met' Stephen.

9. Did you make it to class on time?

Always. I was usually early and sat up front. I was one of those.

10. What was your favorite class in college?
Dr. Loving's HDF class and Rhonda Hauser's practicum.

Here's a picture of Stephen and I at a Toadies concert. :) This is back when we had been together for about a month.

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