New week, new adventures

I was soooo glad to be off this past weekend after working 6 out of 7 nights straight, which I do every single six weeks, but it never gets easier. So when I was finally free to spend time with the family, of course Chris had plans to be gone all weekend! I have to give him credit though-he worked his tail off, first with a mission project at church called the Big Give (Chris' crew built a wheelchair ramp, among other things). And on top of that he helped out with his sister's refinished floors. This doesn't even count the roof he helped lay a few weeks ago, landscaping our back yard, catching cats at his grandmother's house(sounds funny I know)...and more projects are on the way for him too including a couple plumbing jobs coming up, working on his parents house, and probably helping with our best friend's nursery!! I have to say I am married to the most giving person I know, but I have no idea how he keeps going! Luckily we do see him in between all his giving;)

So referring back to Chris catching cats at his grandmother's house....apparently her subdivision is overrun with stray cats, so Chris has spent several evenings now trying to catch them. Somehow though one little kitty ended up coming home with him (biggest heart I know too!). But being the realist that I am we decided that a new pet is definitely NOT in our future, so me and Amelia took the kitty to the Humane Society. A few tears were shed by Amelia when we left it, saying "my kitty", but I really didn't feel that bad after the lady said it would have to be bottle fed every 4 hours for weeks-that's coming soon enough for us don't you think?!?!

This is Amelia and Phoebe meeting the kitty

On another note: tonight at dinner I decided to give Amelia a big girl cup to start practicing. She was so excited and did pretty well with it, only with a couple expected spills. So Amelia's cup-drinking session went as follows:

1) Be very proud to be drinking out of this cool cup...

2) get overly excited and spill some...

3) giggle as Daddy wipes it up;)

I was off work all last week so we took full advantage of the beautiful weather! We started last weekend with an impromptu trip to KY for a long overdue visit with my family! Chris had to work all weekend so it was just us girls! Amelia was great on the 2 hour drive down-talking the whole time! Once we got there we just played all day at my Nana and Grandaddy's house, and my dad and brother came too! Amelia loved feeding Great-Grandaddy's fish! That night we went out to eat and these two tired girls headed home!

Feeding the fish;)

splashing in the water with Grandad's help
getting in a little reading time with Grandad;)

It's so good to be able to spend time with my family since we don't see each other very much! We're already looking forward to another trip in a few weeks when we can hopefully see even more of the family!

The rest of the week was just as busy filled with activities! Tuesday we went to the zoo with our good friends the Walker's. When I was getting ready that morning I walked in Amelia's room to find her reading a story to the Easter Bunny instead of trying to get her shoes on;)

...but we did finally make it to the zoo and the girls had a great time! Here's Amelia taking a snack break with friends Kailey and Lyla (little Alden's in mommy's arms;). After the zoo we had lunch at McDonald's and played even more!

Wednesday Amelia got to go to storytime and then lunch and playing at the park, then Thursday we visited with cousins Alli and Brooke and helped Aunt Holly with last minute yard sale planning (where Amelia just wanted to take everything back home), and Friday we went to the yard sale for a bit;) It was so nice to have the week together!

Happy Easter!

We had a great Easter this year! Amelia was old enough this year to really have fun with all of the Easter traditions! Here's a few pics of our Easter:

I took Amelia to an early Easter Egg Hunt with her Aunt Kelly and some of her friends;
Then had another egg hunt after church on Palm Sunday;

the night before Easter Daddy helped Amelia die some eggs;

Easter morning she helped Mommy make Easter cookies;

Easter dinner at Mamaw and Papaw's house;

hunting eggs with a little help from Mamaw;

Happy Easter!

Baby #2

I am now 22 weeks along and things are going great with the new baby! I have to remind myself that I'm pregnant sometimes, thanks mostly to the fact that I stopped puking around 15 weeks and the nausea stopped for the most part around 17 weeks. I am showing enough now to start wearing some of my old maternity clothes, and I get a strange look from Amelia when dressing and undressing-haha;) I can feel the baby move all the time now, especially after I eat;) We're still not finding out the sex of the baby-but I am VERY curious! For the most part I feel good, but as all of you mothers know, "good" in pregnant terms does not count constantly feeling tired, body aches, the absolute inability to get comfortable in bed, and the rediculous indigestion/heartburn! All of these things are nothing compared to the joy of bringing another member into the family;) Here are a few pics of the work in progress:

Doesn't he/she look cozy! I love those lips;)

sucking his/her thumbs

I'm sure this one looks crazy to most of you, but to the nurse in me it's absolutely beautiful. I love that you can see all of the body parts and the facial features, and I even love the umbilical cord (but be careful baby and don't get too crazy flipping around in there!)

Stay comfy in there baby and grow-we can't wait to meet you!

Happy Birthday to ME!

March 24 was my **th birthday (ok really I don't care-it was my 27th, and no that's not old, but it sounds older to me). After ruining the surprise that Chris had planned for that weekend for me by offering to work for a friend, he offered to take me to eat with our friends and family at Turoni's-one of my favorite pizza places! It turned out to be 30 of our closest friends and family (nothing Chris does is small)!! We ate and visited, kids played, celebrating was done. I think 27 is gonna be a good year!

Check out Miss Amelia's adorable piggies!!

A VERY Belated Blog Post!!

This is Amelia's hilarious "cheese" smile, and she's carrying her own "make-ups" bag full of old makeup and lotions that I didn't want-she just had to have her own!

At cousin Brooke's 3rd birthday party

Reorganizing the refrigerator-in style of course with her tutu;)

Sunglasses make every cupcake taste better-right?

And our new favorite thing to do since our first Pump It Up adventure: BOUNCING!

Yes I just noticed that my last blog post was about Christmas, and even though that was in January...that is a very long time! It definitely doesn't mean that nothing has happened, only that everyday life has become very busy, leading to less time on the computer! Amelia just turned 22 months old and is changing every day! She is such a funny girl, very stubborn, and down right sassy at times;) Of course I love everything about my precious baby girl-here are some of my favorite things:

when she "mothers" her baby doll-kissing her night-night, pushing her in her stroller, feeding her...

how much she loves to dress up, always putting on her tutu, hats, and sunglasses-even out in public!

how she rubs her belly and legs when we change her clothes like she loves to feel her soft skin;)

how much she LOVES her "Daddaay"-she asks where he is all day long, runs to meet him at the door, and will easily give him hugs and kisses before anyone else!

It sounds bad but I love watching Amelia's "sorry" face-when she's in trouble there is a whole dramatic procedure of 1) processing the events that have taken place, 2) heart breaking-this involves hanging her head, sticking her lip out, and breathing very heavily raising her shoulders up and down, 3) about 30 seconds into this she starts to cry and finally says "soo-yyy", at which point I melt and there's lots of hugs-WHEW DRAMA!

how easily she plays with other children-at the babysitters, library, playground-she's my little social butterfly;)

...however her new occasional bouts of bashfulness don't lack in the sweetness department either;)

how she can eat everything in sight of her and still ask for more;

when she wants me to feed her (which she can do herself) or wants me to carry her down the stairs and so on, she yells "HEEELP" in the most pitiful way!

when she says "pease" and "tanks", "welc" (you're welcome), and "cuse" (excuse me) :)

Of course there are several moments everyday when I laugh out loud and my heart breaks because of how she amazes me! I am so anxious to see how she is going to react to a new baby being around-especially taking her mommy's attention!

Merry Christmas!

Now that we're finally catching up from the holidays and new year, I'm finally updating the blog to show you a few highlights from Christmas. This year was a little different than before, one, because even though I was pregnant during Christmas with Amelia too, I was just past the dreadful first trimester sickness. However, this year the timing was not quite as convenient, so I hope my frequent runaways didn't damper anyone's holiday spirit-or appetite-LOL! Second, Amelia just happened to be sick the whole week before Christmas too, but thankfully felt better just in time for Christmas Eve and day! And third, I had to work Christmas Eve so we weren't able to go to my family's for Christmas Eve dinner;( All things considered though, we had a great Christmas with our families, with so much to be thankful for-me and Chris got to celebrate our 5th Christmas together since we were married, having the joy of seeing Amelia experience Christmas for the second year, and being so blessed to have another baby on the way, to name a few!

Our celebrations started the weekend before Christmas, with the Wolsiefer family dinner-here's Amelia being silly when we got there. Too bad later that night was the start of a long week of sickness for our poor sweetie;( But we had a good night!
Christmas Eve we went to Chris' Aunt Michelle's house for dinner. After a long week of Amelia being pretty sick, it was a last minute decision to go, and I'm glad we did because she had a great time. I went to work from their house and Chris took Amelia home to tuck her in for Santa to come;) Luckily I got off work at 1am instead of 7am, so I was able to go home and get some sleep-which worked out great!!
With some much appreciated sleep, we all woke up for Christmas morning to see what Santa brought! Amelia loved her rocking horse, her table and chairs, Dora movie, blocks, puzzles, sippy cups, and potty chair-geeze Santa sure is good!After opening gifts at home we headed over to Chris' parents house to spend Christmas Day. Amelia helped make the scrambled eggs for breakfast before we opened gifts;)
After breakfast we opened gifts-Amelia got a baby stroller and doll that she opened first, and loved it so much she didn't want to open anything else, but after we hid that she was ok again-haha! She loved her gifts, and really loved Brookies' baby doll stuff that she got too!! Hope everyone else had a great Christmas too!