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BOY!!! We had the ultrasound today and everything looked good. The baby is a big, healthy boy! Average weight at this point is about 8 and a half ounces, this baby is 10 ounces already and my uterus is measuring big too. Yikes! In utero, Lucy was always a bit on the small side but she was 8lbs 2ozs at birth. So if this baby is measuring on the big side now... I'll just say yikes again! :) On the good for me side, my siactica is better than it was and I have only gained 6lbs so far (normal at this point is 10lbs or more)! Here is a much awaited belly shot:
















I had to post this one too because it demonstrates my life. I try to do something only to spend my time trying to get Lucy to stop chasing Mae. Soon Little Brother will be chasing Lucy who will be chasing Mae! :)







I taught Lucy a new word this afternoon for the occasion.

Another Video

I just took this video. I never thought that a flashlight could be so cool!



A little while I go I was getting dinner started, chicken enchiladas, yum!, so I needed to keep Lucy occupied. After she finished eating the huge piece of apple pie I gave her (Granny brought it over earlier this afternoon, thank you!), I gave her my basket of measuring cups to play with. Best toy ever!! Well as I just found out, second best toy ever after a flashlight.

Tomorrow is the big ultrasound!!!!!!! Yes, we are going to (hopefully) find out the sex of the baby. I want to know the sex even more with this baby than I wanted to know what Lucy was. Of course it turned out they were wrong with her, she isn't a little girl, she is definitely a monkey! :) I am watching her try to a somersault right now. (If she is trying to do that all on her own, is it a sign that I should find a gymnastics class for her?)

Pictures and Videos

Lucy is such a Daddy's girl. In this video she looks super cute (she chose the hat herself) and she talks about Daddy the whole time.


Here is the other video. It is from this weekend, when Lucy helped her Dad put down the flooring in the new baby's room.






When she picked out this hat to wear the other day I couldn't believe how cute she was! :)















I finally got a really good picture of my two girls. Lucy loves Mae! She follows her every where and wants Mae to do all of the things we are doing. Yesterday we washed our hands and when we were done she wanted Mae to wash her hands. :)









This is the new baby's room! The flooring is almost done and all that will be left to do is paint and put up trim.
















Daddy and Lucy

















Kim took this picture this morning for me. I am not sure why Lucy looks so forlorn. I think she is signing for Kim to take more pictures or play with her more. The point of the picture was to show off her awesome sweater that Tante Annie (her great-great aunt who lives in Holland) made for her. It is a beautiful sweater and fits her perfectly now!

Windows

Lucy and I actually did something today, besides take a nap. :) It was a good nap too, a little over two hours, I digress. We washed windows. Windows are one of my very least favorite cleaning jobs but we did a whole bunch of them today! I had forgotten that you could see out into the yard. I am feeling good that I accomplished something today. Tomorrow we are going to paint the nursery, we want to get it done while it is still nice enough to leave the windows open. I'll take a picture when it is done.

Sleeping in Bed!

Lucy is becoming such a big girl! Last night she slept in her own bed, not her crib, all night!!!!!!! She slept through the night!!!! In the bed!!!!!! I know, I know she is 18 months old and it shouldn't be a big deal that she slept through the night, but unfortunately it is a big deal. A huge deal for the exhausted pregnant mama! Over the last week she has only slept in her crib once or twice, she likes going to bed in the bed now! She has still been waking up and coming in with us. I wouldn't mind, it's just that I have a baby gate across her doorway so I don't have to worry about her falling down the stairs which means I have to go get her when she wakes up. A.k.a. I have to get up. :( The other night Dave went to get her and I hear her crying my name and he says "come here, I'll take you to her." Apparently she was running around the room away from him because she wanted me, cute but annoying at 2am!

Anyway, for my own future reference, how we got her to sleep in bed: We talked up how big girls sleep in beds not in cribs, and (unfortunately we had to do this) going into the crib was a bit of a punishment. If she wouldn't stay laying down and wouldn't settle down after a few reminders/warnings she got put in the crib and that was where she had to stay (until 2am when she woke up and came in with us. I couldn't bring myself to be that tough!). Also, I make sure to brag to everyone about how well she is doing in her big girl bed, and I do it in front of her. She looked so proud of herself this morning when I was telling everyone about how she slept through last night. She is such a little person now!

A Post From Lucy

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That is Lucy's very own contribution to the blog. She throws a fit if I get on the computer and she doesn't get to play. We've created a monster.

Today we've been cleaning house, much needed but not much fun. We are also doing some cooking. Dave took a video of Lucy and I use our apple peeler/corer to make applesauce. She had her post-nap grumpy pants on so she starts whining at the end of it. Anyone who thinks Lucy never cries should enjoy hearing her whine. :)


I was wearing my least favorite maternity shirt, so, sorry you can't really see the bump, but it definitely shows now.

I did set up an account on Facebook so if you haven't already seen that go there and check it out. (You have to have an account there to see my page. Aunt Grace, I think you would love it, we have to set you up a page! :) )

I am actually having a few moments of quiet computer time because Lucy is playing with Dave and I partially shut the computer room door so she wouldn't see what I was doing. Yes, I am pitiful, I am hiding from an 18 month old! If I stay quiet I maybe I can have some time on the totally addictive, but totally time wasting Facebook.

New Clothes, a cold...

new shoes, dress fitting, new words, and yard work. That is what we have been up to. Lucy and I met my mom at the outlet mall on Wednesday and we all got new shoes and lots of new clothes.

This is one of her new outfits and her new shoes. Her shoe size went up a size and a half, poor kid, I've been shoving her old, too small, shoes on her for a couple of weeks. I didn't think they were that small! I got a whole bag of new maternity clothes too, thanks mom and dad!

Dave had a cold last week that Lucy and I came down with early this week. Mostly it is just a stuffy nose and she is over it already. I am still not 100%, maybe I need more naps! :)

Yesterday I went to have my bridesmaid dress fitted for my brother's wedding. Not fun. :( Well, I am sure looking back on it, it will be funny. I have to have it hemmed of course, and the straps are being shortened a little. The big thing is the belly area of the dress, big surprise huh? They are going to take the fabric that they are cutting off of the bottom of the dress and use it to make a panel in the belly area so that the dress will zip in back. I will make sure to post pictures after the wedding.

After the windy storm we had on Monday we had tons of leaves and small branches all over the yard so Lucy and I worked on cleaning that up. Then we started doing some of the fall, stuff to our flower gardens. We have lots more of that to do, but it supposed to be a really nice day today so hopefully we can get to some more of it.

Last on my list is Lucy's new words. She has lots of them, but the funniest one is "clup" which means clean up she thinks it is one word! It is so funny!!! I got it on this video.


She also says "puter" all the time, which means, of course, computer. I made the mistake of finding a game for her to play online and now she wants to play it all the time. It is on the Fisher Price website. There are bunch of games where she can press any key and stuff happens on the screen. Oh, her other related new word is bookmark, because I told her I was going to bookmark that site for her! She is also addicted to the computer now because Jenny at the office goes to Nick Jr and plays episodes of Blue's Clues for her. She loves it especially since we don't really let her watch TV. Okay I admit to using TV when we are traveling. While we were on vacation Dave discovered that she thinks Tom and Jerry is hilarious. :)

I almost forgot, we have the craft almost empty and we bought paint. Soon we will have a nursery! I bought a light blue color, and I am planning on adding either pink and purple decorations or more shades of blue when we find out on the 30th. Aunt Grace is going to teach me to do rug hooking and I am going to make a nice rug for in there too.

I think that is everything. Kim has been ragging on me to start a Facebook profile so I am going to try to do that soon. I will let you know if I accomplish it or not. Right now we are going to go work in the garden.

Pictures and a Video

It has been a while since I posted any pictures or videos so yesterday we took a few. They are the end of summer. :( I meant to get these pictures all summer and finally got them, probably my last chance for this year.

The end of the 2008 sweet corn. The video is of her eating this ear.


Lucy loves to eat whole tomatoes straight out of the garden. After she finished this one she asked for another one.


Lucy and I finally did a little bit of our garden work. We weeded and moved a few plants around. We also started putting things in the shed for the winter.




I call this video "Yummy Corn". :)

She is a full fledged toddler now, there's no baby left. Good thing I will have a baby in February or else I would feel sad about that. Okay, I am a little sad anyway and I make her cuddle with me sometimes to make me feel better. :)

2nd From Me

A Second post from me today, shocking isn't it? Dave is putting Lucy to bed so I have a few minutes free. I was distracted by the baby/doggie game earlier and I forgot to say that Lucy has cradle cap. It's sort of like dandruff and is very common in newborns. Lucy never had it before now, weird. We are supposed to put baby oil or olive oil on her head, let it soak in and then try to comb or brush the stuff off of her. Sounds fun. :)

Lucy has been learning tons of new words lately, she just comes out with new ones all the time. Some catch me by surprise, the other day she pointed at a picture in her book and said "horse", I knew that she knew what a horse was and she knows what a horse says but she had never said it before. Anyway, her new favorite word is broccoli! We had some with dinner last night and she said it a couple of times and then I forgot about it. Well this morning on the way to the doctor's office she was singing to herself in the backseat and I suddenly realized she was singing "broccoli broccoli". It was very funny and cute, I will try to get a video of it.

I should probably go check on Dave and Lucy. The other night he came up to check on me because it had been quiet for a while and he found exactly what he thought he would find, both of us asleep. I can't help it, I get tired! :)

18 Months

We just got home from Lucy's 18 month doctor's appointment. She is perfect of course. :) She weighs 21 and a half pounds, that is about a two pound gain over the last year, and she grew an inch up to 30 and a half inches. She is between the 10th and 25th percentile for height and in the 10th percentile for weight, the little midget. :) I am so proud of her, she didn't cry at all not even when she got her shot!

Right now Lucy and Mae are playing chase so I had better go supervise. If Lucy catches Mae she will pull her tail. Poor Mae!

Chicken Wings, etc.

Yes, I am actually blogging! :) So this past Saturday was the 3rd Annual Chicken Wing Fung it was a great success! My dad won first place!

The prize was a jar of pickled eggs, so good for him (who else would want that prize, yuck!) :)


Here is Kim and her friend Mary, an avid blog reader.


Lucy and the Hansens chillin' at the bar.


Lucy was dressed for the occasion. She is acquiring quite the chicken wing related wardrobe!

In other news: I went to the midwife today and had a good appointment. Lucy and I heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time! We didn't get to hear it last time, which was stressful (I had an ultrasound to show that everything was okay but still stressful) so that was really exciting. The heartbeat is in the 160s which is fast and old wives tales would say that means its a girl, but I didn't throw up at all which old wives tales would say means its a boy. We get to find out which tale is true in four weeks when I have my anatomical scan (the big ultrasound). I can't wait! I am making Dave wait to paint the nursery until we find out. Lucy's room is yellow and green, I don't want another room the same color and what other neutral colors can you do?

In Lucy news: we are having a very hard time getting the girl to go to sleep. From start of her bedtime routine until she is asleep takes about an hour and a half and nap time takes around 45 minutes. It is getting very frustrating! She just won't stop babbling and tossing and turning. The good news on that front is that she is sleeping in her bed, instead of the crib, about half of the time. She still comes in with us anywhere between 1:00 and 5:30, but she sleeps until 6:30 or 7:00 which is much better than 5:30. I don't mind her coming in with us, if I could talk Dave into it I would buy a king size bed (we have a queen now) and put it on the floor so she could just come in with us instead of having to get up and get her in the night. I would certainly get more rest that way! Oh well, we'll keep working on it.

Lucy's new weird thing is that she likes to fall asleep with her hands on my cheeks. She holds my face, which is cute but is getting old. She is doing lots of cute things too. She likes to spin herself around in circles and say "woo woo". Lucy can't make her mouth make fish lips (you now when you suck your cheeks and pucker your lips) but if you do it she makes the funniest faces trying to copy you. When she wanders in the yard she puts her hands at the small of her back just like Oma does.

Well, I guess that is all for now, Lucy just woke up screaming after only half an hour. The rest of my day won't be fun.