Oh, and I bought new jeans this weekend...and decided to grab a 6 and a smaller fitting 8. I usually wear a 4-6 but figured bigger sizes would last quite a big longer as I grow in the next few months. Crazy. I just sort of realized that most of my clothes will not fit in a few months!!
Great Grandma is home from the hospital! At her own home! And when my grandparents go back home to Wyoming she will have a lady staying with her for 24 hour care, helping her with anything she needs. She is a stubborn grandma and I know this will be hard for her as she hasn't had the best experience with in-home care when my great Grandpa needed it...but I am praying she will see this is a lot better than having to go somewhere else for care!
We're expecting a baby!!!
We found out on Thursday, December 18th, and it took me more than one test to believe it! Can a pink line be any more faint? I wanted it to be yes, but I also didn't want to get excited and find out it's nothing! Thank goodness for Rite-Aid and digital home pregnancy tests! From our reading, it looks like our due date is late August and I am 5 weeks along! Seems like a long ways to go but I imagine it will go fast as there is a lot to get ready for!
On Saturday we told Elijah's Mom and Callie that morning, then told my parents and Henry! Everybody is quite excited and this is the baby that will turn my parents into Grandparents! Dad already has the crib and cradle he built when I was born out of the boxes and assembled! I am so excited to get to use such special pieces of furniture for our own baby! We planned to tell everybody else on Christmas Day (not an easy thing to do when you are excited!). Saturday, Great Grandma was taken to the ER and as soon as we found out on Sunday, Elijah and I drove down to see her and told her the exciting news that she was going to be a "Great Great Grandma"! She was very happy as she has been crocheting hats and booties for some time now to have for all the great grandkids when they started a family. From updates, Grandma is doing okay, she is still currently in the hospital after undergoing surgery to remove cancer in her colon. The doctor is happy with how everything went, so we are praying for a comfortable and speedy recovery!
At Christmas with Elijah's family, we had Kaylin spill our "secret" and of course everybody is excited! Next to hear the news was Elijah's Grandma and Grandpa! Then to my side of the family! That didn't go quite as planned...as our "creative" way of giving the current baby in the family (Annie) a picture of the pregnancy test took quite a while for anybody to notice! They all just thought she was keeping busy with a piece of paper trash! But when she eventually ditched the picture and Justin finally picked it up off the ground, he questioned Jennifer to see what it was all about...who IMMEDIATELY figured out that we were having a baby, and she definatly gets the most outwardly excited award! Friday we had my Mom's side of the family out to our house...and it was convienently the first day I have felt like crap and decided to lay down for an hour in the middle of cleaning, and conviently the entire family (sans my parents with the food) knocked on the door about an hour and a half early than I anticipated! Thank goodness I had a half decent excuse for a half clean house!
Christmas Eve at Dad & Mom's
Annie with our "pregnant picture". Anybody watching? Nope!
At Grandma's after they all figured it out!
And a tiny Kimono (size 0-3 months) that might come in handy someday!
We finally made some serious progress on the bathroom and all except some small strips by the window are painted blue (the paintbrush was too big). Now we just have to put new molding back on the seams (and paint it too), put in the baseboards, and hang up the hardware! It already looks like a whole new bathroom! I can't wait to move onto our master bath!
Birdie is getting bigger and doesn't scream as much. She's piddle pad trained...although she's had her share of mishaps and has yet to understand that the edge of the piddle pad does not exactly count. The mop is kept readily available lately. She also caught on quick on what it means to stay in the kitchen, even without any sort of baracade. But she loves sneaking out to play with the cat and laundry. We've reclaimed our bathroom and she now sleeps in a crate which she has been suprisingly fond of from the beginning.
I don't think Henry reads this so I'll go ahead and post it...for his Christmas present I'm making him a Mustache Hanky. Eli wanted one too so this is the one I made him last night. Henry, if by some odd chance you did read this, act suprised, I've been insanely psyched to make this to support your facial hair obsession.
The snowflakes I made to decorate my work cubicle.
Last Sunday Eli and I bought a small live Christmas tree and decorated it with our new Ikea ornaments in shades of blue and some bulbs with little dutch crosses. Now we just have to find an angel or something for the top! I'll have pictures when everything is completed, but this is the tree skirt I am working on for it! The fabric is also from Ikea! I've stolen our dining room table and put it in my sewing room, so now I've got a good workspace to work on and don't have to drag all my stuff out to the kitchen to sew!
