Lately

We had a scare on Saturday night: (notice blood around mouth)

Myah fell pretty hard on the corner of a shelf right on her mouth. Her mouth was gushing blood and when looking at her, there was so much blood covering her teeth that I thought she'd knocked her top teeth out! She was very freaked out so I held her and tried to keep her distracted with a show and a popsicle (after the bleeding mostly stopped). Her lip got very swollen; so much that when she smiled you couldn't see any of her top teeth. After inspection, she cut part of her gums and her lip, but it's been healing nicely and today the swelling is almost gone. She's loved having lots of popsicles and ice though!

 Besides that, it's been pretty calm around here. She still loves helping me cook.

 She also loves climbing on and sitting in her old car seat and playing with the stuff around it.

And of course she LOVES to be outside. She'll constantly say "ou-side" and bring me her shoes. I could hear her say that word all day! So we do go out a lot...luckily it's nicer weather this week. This bike was given to us from a lady at Justin's work. It's way too big for her, but she loves sitting on it while we push! Her little legs don't reach the pedals all the way, so they just dangle! We think it looks hilarious!

As for me and the pregnancy, I'm pretty miserable already and am not sure how I'm going to last 8 more weeks (if I go to 40 weeks). For my future reference I'm going to list why...so skip ahead if I sound too whiny! I have heart-burn most of the day and night, my nose is always stuffed (it was the entire last pregnancy too), I'm always exhausted, I get really intense upper-back pain that makes me nauseous, I feel like my belly is going to break open from the stretching, and the other usual discomforts like not sleeping well, pressure, peeing all the time, etc. I'm so excited to be done and have her here! I do love feeling her move all the time (even though many times it hurts!). I even like feeling her hiccups at this point. I went to an appointment yesterday, and she's estimated to weigh 3 lb, 9 oz right now and everything looks great! I'll stop complaining now...

Play time!

First off, I'm 30 weeks along now, so I'm sure time will fly until the baby gets here!

 Second, the weather last week was amazing! Seems like every blog I've seen lately has park pictures. Here are ours from one of the days.

 Myah loves to go down slides and swing. She could go all day! This park didn't have a baby swing, but a few other parks we've gone to have, and she loves that!

I think it's amazing how little kids are so quick to be friends. Any time there's any kids around, they are like magnets to each other and it's like they've been friends forever. A good lesson for us all! This was her little friend this day and it was cute to see him wanting to do everything with her!



Upper 20's

A few weeks ago I turned 26. I am officially in my upper 20's, which is very strange to me. We had a little party at the Calders which was fun...but I forgot the camera! Then last Saturday we celebrated with the Tew side...also much fun! 

 I asked the girls where the camera was in this picture. (Notice the massive plate of food I got for Myah. I thought I got way too much but she ate the entire plate plus seconds on some items! She was sitting in her chair eating most of the evening being a bottom-less pit!)

 My favorite kind of b-day cake: fun-fetti with the fun-fetti frosting!

 Justin and I thought it was so cute to see Myah sitting Indian-style in her chair.

This pic was taken at the Calders a while ago, but I thought I'd throw it in. Myah and Noah are doing "touch-down" with Papa!



My little helper

Myah and I cleaned our apartment yesterday. She loved sweeping! Lately she's figured out the fun of jumping (she's still a rookie as you can tell in the video). Her favorite is jumping on our bed, but the floor will do.

Jones and play-date

Valentine's weekend we visited my oldest brother, Bryan and Jenna's family. They had their 4th baby in December and we just now went to meet baby Jones...whoops! We had a great evening with them and will have to do it again soon.

Jones is so adorable, just like the rest of their family.

 Another brother, Brady and Becky had their 4th baby in December as well. They live in Alaska, so I haven't met little Emma yet, but it will be fun to see these babies together and add mine to the mix!

 Last week we had a play-date at my mom and dad's with Myah and cousin Mabel. Fun to see the little girls together.

Myah loves these spring horses (though this picture doesn't look like it). She had a grand time!



Valentine's Day

 I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day! I know it's not a huge holiday, but I think it's fun! Something to break up dismal winter...and I always look forward to chocolates! Here were the highlights.

A pretty normal day, except for the large amount of sugar Myah packed in! We played a lot and spent time "cooking" with her stuff. (She's enjoyed cooking with me in the kitchen for a while now, but cooking with her stuff is new). She used to like to just bang her pots and pans, but now she's using her play food WITH the pans and utinsils and it's adorable! 

 Snack time got a bit messy with Nutella. Yum!

 For dinner I had to pull out our cheesy heart goblets!

 And of course the gifts! (Besides with Justin, chocolate is where my heart lies! He did a good job!)

 Our cute little Valentine girl. She helped herself to her chocolates...and any of our candy she could get out of us!

And here I am after eating much candy. Apparently I gorged myself.

(Almost 26 weeks)

Myah videos

I love this video! I think it's hilarious that she's trying to shovel and that you can hear her talking through the window!

 One night I was reading Justin some things from Myah's 18 month appointment. Myah took the paper and started reading it like I was! Hopefully that's not what she thinks I sound like!

 

At her 18 month appointment everything looked great...besides that she was crying the whole time due to being scared of the doctor's office. She was almost 23 lbs (25th percentile-which is high for her!) and 32.5 inches long (70th percentile).