2010 wrap up

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? l went to San Diego? Does that count? I have never spent 6 hours in a car with a 2 yr old! We had a great time!

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I never really make resolutions because I never keep them! This year I just hope to really learn to let go as I become a mom of 2 and embrace chaos in all situations as much as I can!

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Lots of friends and acquaintances had babies this year....I can think of 8 new babies right now.

4. Did anyone close to you die? No. Whew!

5. What countries did you visit? None this year. Just local and Cali for us!

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2011? Energy! ha! I know that will be a long shot with a newborn next year though. I would like to spend more time with friends next year and have a MNO again with a cocktail!

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 11, found out I was pg!! Sept 28, found out we were having a girl!! Sept 29, Claire's 3rd Bday!!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Getting pregnant!! HA! This isn't an achievement I accomplished alone but it sure did take a lot of work! =P

9. What was your biggest failure? I don't know??

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing major. Overall, it was a pretty good year!

11. What was the best thing you bought? We got a new TV entertainment center. I also got a new beautiful purse/diaper bag.

12. Where did most of your money go? Claire, claire and more claire stuff!

13. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Finding out I was pg was really the highlight of this year!

14. What song will always remind you of 2010? Little Bear theme song overall but right now it's ending on a serious Thomas the Train theme song note!

15. Compared to this time last year, are you:a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? Much much happier...I have been fulfilled with my friendships and have been blessed with having another baby! I am fatter but that's for obvious reasons!

16. What do you wish you’d done more of? Deep breaths.....count to 10!

17. What do you wish you’d done less of? Stressing about the small stuff.

18. How did you spend Christmas? We had a low key but wonderful Christmas. Claire was way more into Santa this year and that made it extra fun for us! We did our usual Cmas Eve church service here in our neighborhood park and back to our house for dinner. 3rd annual chicken pot pies with cheesecake for dessert! I am loving have a tradition for our family that I host. Christmas day we went to Tom and Carla's house for a nice dinner and more goodies for Claire!

19. Did you fall in love in 2010? Of course, with my girls! Seeing my girl on the ultrasound was a huge love moment!

20. What was your favorite TV program? General Hospital and Oprah. Same as always!!!! Oprah's farewell season is killing me....I can't believe it's over soon! WAAAAAH!

21. What was the best book you read? Twilight....although technically I read them at the end of 2009 into early 2010. I loved them!!! They were the longest books I have ever read too. I said I'd never read those stupid vampire books and I got "sucked" in completely! And watched the movies! LOVED THEM!

22. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 33 and had dinner out with the hubs and Claire. Then my girlfriends and I went out for drinks and that was fun especially since it ended up being my last real MNO for the rest of the year!

23. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? Maternity! This pg though I am trying to dress more like myself and not like Motherhood Maternity swallowed me up!

24. What kept you sane? Other mom friends.

25. What political issue stirred you the most? I hate talking politics and since it isn't a presidential election year I don't care!

26. Who did you miss? Everyone is TEXAS!!

27. Who was the best new person you met? KELLY!! We met through Claire's preschool. Our kids were in the same class last year but we didn't really connect until February. So happy she is in my life!!!

28. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010. Never say never. Pray and let go (easier said than done) and things will fall into place as they should!

Happy Holidays

The pictures pretty much speak for themselves. There was a train and a kite just like Santa promised! We sprinkled reindeer food (oats and glitter) so the reindeer could find our front door. We put out our Santa key and cookies.....the rest is history! Our last Christmas as 3 was a great one!!

31 weeks pregnant and already feeling like I am going to pop! Last Sunday I had some random bleeding accompanied with back and front cramping. After 3 hours in the OB triage things seemed to check out ok so off I went. Nothing much has happened since then except constant Braxton Hicks and mild back cramps. Just hanging in there and taking it as easy as possible! Otherwise I feel good! Now if only the "pee" fairy would leave me alone at night! SHEESH! How does pee keep producing itself when you haven't had a drink in hours during the night. HOW?!?!

Gingerbread Houses

We did a little gingerbread house decorating yesterday with a couple of friends. It was so nice and low key. Right up my alley this season. I love this time of year but my energy has zapped me from wanting to even send Christmas cards. All that addressing and stamping....I am exhausted just thinking about it...LOL! Instead I am treating myself to new baby bedding for our sweet girl's nursery and getting Claire's big girl room ready. I am picking out paint samples and beginning the nesting process. The baby's room won't technically be put together until several months after she's born but it will be painted and ready to go when we do move her in there. For the first few months we'll keep it as our guest room/sleep bunker to get through those early days (then it's bye bye guest room)! I am so ready to get Claire's room all set up and move her into the bigger bedroom! It won't be long now!

School Party

School's out for Winter Break! To commemorate the day, the kids had a party complete with a musical. As usual, I use the term "musical" very loosely! Claire did great though. She sang and totally performed the whole gig. Last year she cried before it even started and we sat in the hallway. She's a big girl this year and it showed!! The kids just crack me up. During practice you could hear them in their classroom singing SO loud and when the parents show up they act like they barely know the words!

Now the big question is what will we do the next 2 weeks? She only goes 2 days a week so it's not a big chunk left open in our week but boy does it throw us off. I guess that's the point though. To just enjoy having wide open days to enjoy together! I am really trying to embrace that because this will be one of our last few weeks with just me and my girl alone.

I'd thought I'd share a little something we bought recently for anyone who has an early riser. Claire was waking up between 4-5:30am and never seemed sure if it was time to get up since it's so dark outside until after 7am. Her body clock was just getting wacky. We bought the Teach me Time clock. For kids who can't tell time...like Claire...it has a setting where you can have the clock glow green when it's time to wake up. She has loved it so far and every morning she comes into our room and says..."the light is green, it's wake up time!!!" The next thing we have to work on though is making her understand she can get up to pee if she needs to (not that she was doing this yet). I don't want her to wet the bed like she did yesterday b/c she stayed in her room until the light turned green. So that part is a work in progress but something we were needing to tackle anyways so she can stop wearing pull ups to bed someday!

Hi baby

28 weeks, 6 days

We had what should be our last ultrasound for the pregnancy. The 3rd trimester measuring to see how she's growing. It's been so exciting to have more ultrasounds this pregnancy! I have loved having a doc who has all the equipment in their office. My last OB outsourced everything...labs, ultrasounds. I feel like I get more sneak peaks this way!

Baby girl is doing good in there and indeed still a girl! She is measuring at 3lbs, 7oz. Woah Baby! If I go to my due date it's quite possible she'll be bigger than Claire (8lbs) was at birth. I went over my due date by 4 days the first time so it's a good possibility I could deliver around my due date this time too. We shall see! She looked so smooshed in there and a little pist that we were pushing on her. Must have been her nap time! We were just so glad to hear how well she is doing and that she is head down ready to begin her final journey into the world!!!