Good report!

I went to the Midwife today and all is well. There had been some residual concern about my blood sugar but that is all resolved. I've only gained 25 lbs so far, baby is growing right on schedule, and the midwife could find nothing to complain about. So, YAY for healthy baby! And pray for healthy delivery.......only 6-8 weeks or so left.

Update on the big girl bed: Ivria has been sleeping in it for a week or so now I guess. She has trouble staying in there if she is not tired when she goes to sleep, so I've been adjusting her nap to accomodate. Yesterday she actually climbed over the baby gate I had in her door.....and came running and giggling down the hall while mommy and daddy were snuggling in bed talking about how great it was that she could just wake up and play with her toys and not get out of her nursery.....HA! I did some experimenting and if you turn the gate the other way she can't get over. Sneaky girl!....

Blah. Just blah.

That's how we are doing. Blah.

I've had an awful cold for over two weeks now, Ivria has had it for a week and a half and Jim is going on his second week I think. Nothing else interesting to report, Jim and Ivria did have an enjoyable weekend while I was at a conference suffering through a sinus headache like none other. Sorry if I'm whining, but I'm at the point where I can't help it......... I can take tylenol and plain sudafed but it's not really helping much. Poor Ivria is wondering why Mommy is not playing as much. Jim however has been a super guy----he kept the kitchen spotless all weekend! Super Jim to the rescue!

She is growing up! WAAaaaaaah....

My baby is not a baby anymore! She sleeps in a big girl bed, and we lost her last remaining pacifier too. She seems to be able to understand the concept of "binky is bye-bye, all gone!" and is able to get to sleep after a small amount of lamenting it's loss. It's funny because we tried to get rid of the paci's right before christmas, but she would not go for it then. She is very interested in the potty too, so the last holdouts of babyhood are passing quickly before me. What is a mother to do? Oh wait, I know.....have another one!

Houston, we have a big girl....

Well, she made it through night two with less event. We put her down a little later than normal, because we both had a late nap yesterday, and she did ok for the most part. I did go peek at her after and hour or so and found her curled up on her blanket in the corner again, so I plunked her back in the bed and she conked out for an hour till daddy had to go in because she was crying. He said he just helped her arrange the blankets a little and she was off to sleep again. I was up with her at about 4am, I went in to find her crying on her tummy on the floor, so I really don't know if she fell off or what, (she has a cold so that might be affecting her too) after a kiss and a snuggle she was asleep in bed again untill 9 this morning. Her first night sleeping in the big kid bed! I was so proud! And, she did her nap time in the bed with no issue at all today! right now she is in bed not making a peep, but I think she has made the transition. Go Ivria! It's funny I never thought she'd be in a big kid bed this early, but she seemed to want it.

Adventures in the big girl bed

Not necessarily intending for her to immediately make the transition, we set up the big girl bed that we got from the Cross family. They needed it out of the garage, and I had just sorted out Ivi's room, so we put it up because we didn't have anywhere else to put it I guess. Well, Miss Ivria thought it was a novel concept and climbed right in when it was time for bed on Saturday. All was well for about oh, lets say,.....five minutes :-) when we heard an odd noise from her room, I got up to find her trying to close her bedroom door, which was at that point blocked open by a baby gate we had put in to keep her from wandering the house at night. She is used to having it closed but not latched, so I figured she was just trying to close it like it normally is, and she would go back to sleep. And so, all was well. Untill about an hour later when I hear thunk thunk thunk. So I go in to find her on her bed, with every baby board book that she had in her room, sitting there like she is reading in the dark! The noise was some of the books falling off the bed apparently. So, we said "no no books Ivi, stay in your bed" and tucked her back in and all was well. Or so we thought. Another hour later, I hear her baby word that she uses to reference the pacifier, and I go in there to find that she has piled all the blankets from her bed onto the floor in the corner, and the pacifier is nowhere to be found. So, we have to turn on the lights, and find the missing comfort item, an then she decides that she wants to go in the crib after all.

Tonight she asked to go in the big girl bed again.


All is well.........(insert ominous music) for now........

Who needs a booster seat? Not Ivira!

Apparently someone thinks she is ready to eat like a big person, with the exception of the bib of course.

She climbes up to the seat all by herself, and gobbles away.

Crazy cravings....

Salty salty salty, give me salty! I can't remember having any wierd cravings with my first pregnancy...you know people always ask that. Well, this time I do! I can't get enough Pico de Gallo (Spelling? I dunno.) Anyway, I make it at home, and it's just a bunch of diced tomatoes, soem diced onion, chopped cilantro, a few tablespoons of lime juice, some salt, and voila! It's supposed to have jalepeno but I skip that part..... Anyway, I just finished off 5 cups of that stuff in the last 24 hours. And the wierdest thing is that my favorite part is the juice that's left at the bottom of the container. Go figure with all that acid, today I don't have heartburn!


The big ordeal today is trying to finish, or at least make progress on, the "nesting" that began last weekend. I have the uncontrollable urge to organize, and I think this happened right around the same time last pregnancy too. So far I've sorted all the baby clothes in Ivria's closet, assembled a new changing table, Organized the front closet in the kitchen, and the shelves above the laundry machines, and today we pulled everything out of our bedroom closet. I've also gone through all my craft suplies and cut back by half (and that is no small feat!). AND I moved all the videos and dvds to the shelf in the kitchen, and I still need to finish up cleaning the disaster that happened in my bedroom after finishing the closet. I just wish my energy level would keep up with my desire to sort----I've had a cold this week that is just wiping me out, so I'm not getting as much done as I'd like! Must give props to Jim, he's hauled or moved everything I've asked, he even stayed home from work on Monday to take care of Ivi so I could rest some. He's such a good man. Can't wait till he gets to meet his new little girl, he is very excited.

Welcome to the new blog!

Hi everyone, I've been a terrible blogger and let Ivi's baby blog go un-updated for some time now.....

Sorry!

However, I did feel it more appropriate to condense into one family blog for simplification.

Currently, I'm 30 weeks (7months) pregnant with Ivi's baby sister Meirah. Again we are having a blessed and uncomplicated pregnancy, and I can't believe that we will have another child in just over two months! Ivria has already adjusted to having other kids around the house due to some babysitting that I do, and she is very well behaved with little babies that she meets, so I expect all to go well when we transition into a four member household :-)

Ivi just turned two years old and is an amazing little creature. We are now of course encountering discipline issues anew every day, and Ivi is quickly learning that Mama don't mess around. She tries to work the system, she will soon learn that Daddy and Mommy wrote the system long before she came along.....hahahaaa! The way I really look at it is this--- It would be such a waste of a beautiful child to allow her to be disobedient. So really, I don't get frustrated with her. She is learning the boundaries, and we make new ones all the time. We learn together how to make the day run smoothly.

I leave you with this snow-baby picture, and promises that more updates and pictures are on the way!