I saw the sun...

We went to Hendrick's today with Gma Cindy. Twas pretty! I slowed us down horribly though. Danica loved picking which path to follow. I don't know how much she enjoyed the flowers vs. how much she enjoyed exploring. It's so weird to have spent time outside for 3 days in a row!

Life is not currently very exciting...

Hi! I know I haven't had a decent post in a while but there is just not anything exciting going on. I think Rob is probably pretty happy that he gets a short break from school. Danica is still the happy kid she always is. She does not ever stop chattering/singing, etc. I just hang out and whine that June is so far away ;)

Let's see if we have any interesting recent pics...

Danica made cupcakes. They were yummy delicious.

Rob reading to Danica...

The baby's quilt I did so good on for the first few days and then it's been sitting half quilted since. and I'm machine quilting so I'm just really being lazy =)

Here's a pic of our chubby cheeked child that was taken today. =) =) sorry it's fuzzy- I couldn't get our scanner to work so had to try my best with the camera. (28 weeks 2 days)

Baby Girl Dewsnup

I always thought these pics made the babies look like burn victims but Rob says wax molds. I'll have to agree =) Poor thing looks like she has a black eye. but anyhow... Here she is! Hopefully we'll be meeting her in 16 weeks, so far away! =(

The doctor was pleased with the ultrasound findings today so we don't need to see a peri anymore. =)

The Land Before Time

I needed a title, this works. So Danica is movie obsessed. I don't let her watch any cartoons on tv because I haven't seen them and I'm totally over protective and choose to shield her from junk. We do however own plenty of movies =) As much as she loves Disney Princess stuff her favorite Disney movie is still Fox and the Hound. I think I've blogged before that I simply don't get it. Well she also loves The Land Before Time and was watching it yet again today. A theme in it is the friends sticking together. So this evening Danica and I are sitting down side by side brushing our teeth and she starts talking...a difficult feat while using an electric toothbrush ...
her: I love you.
me: I love you too.
her: I love you!
me: I love you too...?
her: We'll always be best friends right?
me: sure!...well, maybe not when you're a teenager. Teenagers tend to not like their parents...
her: (all teary eyed!) We'll still be best friends! We'll always be together!
...Do you think maybe I shouldn't let her watch sad movies? Or ones where the mom dies like in both Fox and the Hound and Land Before Time? haha. It was so cute! I wish they stayed young forever. I was telling Rob later that I am going to be so sad when she gets older and isn't so sweet and he says that's why we have more kids. Boys!

I got nagged at for not blogging but I simply do not do anything. =) Danica and I have turned into Wii addicts after buying the Animal Crossing game(thanks mom for getting us hooked!) It's pretty sad. haha. but fun! I only work Wednesday afternoons so we are just home hanging out all the time. It does sound super pathetic that I hardly work but I literally can't hardly walk afterwards! I have to take baby steps and it hurts so bad. I'm broken.

Pregnancy wise things are calm right now. Talk about the most drama filled pregnancy. It's been a mess. We had our big ultrasound 3? weeks ago now. They found a couple abnormalities so we got sent to a specialist. They were concerned baby might have Trisonomy 18 and of course I hadn't had my quad marker screen done because I HATE needles and wouldn't have done anything anyway if there were any chromosomal abnormalities so why get stabbed for nothing? So we had a nerve racking couple days. I did get the quad blood test taken after the ultrasound appointment and the peri's office was able to tell me when I went in that the test results were back and looked totally normal. He didn't think the abnormalities were related and wasn't really concerned. I'll go in for another ultrasound there next tuesday. It'll be my 5th ultrasound and my 5th appointment. Sheesh!

Boo winter!

Many who know me know that I HATE snow so I was very sad to see such blinding whiteness one morning. Danica however (thankfully) does not share most of my likes/dislikes though so we ventured out. And by "we" I mean I sat bundled up sitting on the only surface not covered with snow(a manhole cover) and asked Danica if she was done yet about every 3 minutes. Sure wish I had a backyard =(
BRRR!

She was heartbroken when I said we weren't going to make gingerbread men because she had so much fun making them last year. I vetoed the gingerbread because I simply didn't like it-and making yucky cookies is just so sad- so we made sugar cookies instead. ...and yes, some in gingerbread man shapes. While many people's holiday plans were messed up due to the poor weather conditions concerning flights and such, I was ecstatic. We got to have Danica for Christmas this year! We had an early Christmas with Nana Mykie and then spent Christmas day at both the Dewsnup's and Vance's.

Danica is lucky to have such great uncles. Uncle John played several games of memory with Danica using her new cards...she cared naught that they were for old maid, go fish and crazy 8's...

Cute new pj's.

Our Christmas tree and short-stuff. I took down all the rest of the decorations right after Christmas but couldn't bear to take the tree down yet. It just seems so sad to think it lived it's "purpose." I shall mourn it's passage. Perhaps I should look into getting a fake tree? ;)

If you can't tell my hubby doesn't like getting pics taken so he halfheartedly humors me.

Grandpa Dan reading Danica a new book she got for Christmas. She LOVES being read to.

Ah, two of Danica's loves. Wilbur and Penne. (she doesn't get that from me)

So now that we've passed all the exciting parts of winter...

I'm done! Can summer come now???

oh, and if you're wondering why there aren't any pics from my folks house it's because I had a dead camera battery by then but I'm sure they'll post about Christmas...

Pilates!

No, I haven't been up to much exercise but Danica has. She absolutely loves pilates-tis the only workout dvd's we own. I had rented her a kid yoga dvd from the library and she got a big kick out of it too. The only reason I have any desire to get on-demand?, I don't know what the tv-cable thingy is called, is that they have a bunch of fun workouts on there at your fingertips. We were doing some of the yoga workouts a few weeks ago and I remembered how much I like it. I must admit I cannot do down-dog properly at all anymore.

Anyhow, purpose of this post is simply for these pics taken the other day:

...I'd like to note that it is clean laundry stacked in the background...it's actually still there. But it's clean!

Selective hearing?

Nope...she simply is hard of hearing. Poor child. I took her to the doctor today. She was to raise her hand when she heard a beep from the device stuck in her ear. Out of three beeps she heard one in one ear and two in the other. We'll recheck next week and if it's the same she'll go to a specialist. She has been sick and they could tell there was fluid on one side, though it was the side on which she did better on the hearing test.
Obviously she can hear =) just not as well as she should be able to.