Well I finished Alie's dress! This is by far the most complicated item I have ever sewn. It's a tad big on her, but it fits well enough she can wear it this year and next. I left enough fabric in the bottom hem to take it out if need be. I love it and I am so excited that I finished it. I'm bad at starting creations and not finishing for years. Thankfully, I don't have any unfinished projects to date. Picture behind the cut :)


The pink dress!

Alie was playing Cowgirl the other day. Apparently the St. Patty's hat was her cowboy hat. She also put on the dog's hankerchief. It was pretty cute :)

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I also took a picture of my (21 weeks & 6 days) pregnant belly :)
Belly Shot!

Ok I've been very behind on getting posts up here. I have been writing and keep track of things, so I just transfered everything here, FINALLY! This whole page is actually all new stuff. Here are the rest of the posts, so you don't have to search for them...

January's Posts: HERE

February's Posts: HERE

I'm 20 weeks today! Half down, half to go! I really think it will fly by. I'm not too happy about that because I actually like being pregnant. I am just going to enjoy every minute of it while I can.

We still haven't discussed names. I brought up the subject almost every day, but he doesn't want to talk about it. I don't know why he's so anti name choosing. I am going to make a list, like I did when we chose Alie's name. Hopefully he will pick one that way.

Alie already has her name chosen for the baby. She is very adamant about it. I just can't share it because it is a name I really like as well. Thank goodness she has good taste ;)

Here are my one and only set of sono pictures! The tech I had was so awesome! She answered every question I had and told me about everything she was looking at. She also printed out a ton of pictures. She made a point to take a good front face and profile picture. I got so lucky this time around!


My husband was proud how Baby Boy's parts were the same size as his hands, LOL! Typical!

Boy!

Feet and Hands:

Foot
Hand

Face and Profiles:

Face
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The balloon looking thing above him is my placenta (its located right under my belly button). The tech told me I was having a contraction at the time. It lasted about 5 min. but I didn't feel a thing. Funny lil guy had himself all crammed up by my placenta when I had plenty of room down below.

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His little back side:

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I've finally taken some photos of Alie. My camera is such a battery sucker that I've already gone through 4 batteries and only took 30 pics!! Crappy!


Grinning

Laying down

Alie has been working on writing her numbers and letters in her new dry erase preschool workbook!! This is her FIRST attempt!! I was so amazed!!

Alphabet

Numbers

Her first "Dot to Dot Ducky" :) She did have help by me pointing which two dots to connect.

Duck

More Alie funnies:
Today I was laying in bed with Alie just having some good conversation. This is what she told me about her "Let's go fishin'" game and playing with Brittany. "Brittany cheated, she was picking up the fish like this (with thumb and first finger). Then she cooked all of my fish on the stove. That's so RUDE!" As far as the cooking, she was talking about her play kitchen. Apparently Alie doesn't like her 25 tiny little fish being cooked up.

She loves me...

I caught Alie singing a song she made up. Made me the happiest momma in the world!! She was singing "Mommy is my favorite, I love mommy the most (repeat)". Luckily her Daddy didn't hear her, I would have felt so bad. Even though she has her daddy's girl moments, she made up for it :P.

When I heard her singing that, I dropped to my knees and immediately hugged and kissed her. Told her that was the nicest thing she has ever said to me. Hearing your child say things like that, unprompted, makes all the naughty things they ever did, disappear instantly. It makes being a mom totally worth it!!

P.S. and yes, I'm still feeling guilty for the big time out she had for breaking the TV, but then it dried and wasn't broken. I guess the time out was worth it in the long run because she has yet to question my authority since then. If I mention time out or anything punishment wise, she doesn't argue, back talk, or continue being naughty. She immediately does what I say. Yay for that!! OH and she accidentally spilt a little apple juice on the table today. I walked into the room and she was cleaning it up with a napkin as fast as her little arms could clean. Another proud beaming momma moment!! She's listening to me, Hallelujah!!


Two more funny things she said today:

I asked her to get me a blanket off her bed (yeah I was being lazy). She huffs, "Give me a break!" She did go get it for me despite her distaste.

She wanted some yogurt for snack. I tell her to grab a straw while I was getting the yogurt. She cheerfully says "Comin' right up!"