My sassy girl

I just heard Danica drop the handsoap in the bathroom sink and say, "Oh dangit!!" Thanks a lot Daddy.
Then I went in to help her and she said, "Mom, how many times do I have to tell you to stop jumping on the bed?"

Another first

Danica saw her first little person today. We had stopped at Starbucks for her to go potty and decided to get a coffee (juice for her). We were going to sit and have a nice little girl's time. I was at the register ordering and she was standing beside me. She said, "Mom, look!" She was pointing behind me and had a very peculiar look on her face. I turned around and looked down to see a little person standing behind me. I tried to stop the inevitable questions by asking her to put her mittens on, then asking her what kind of juice she wanted, asking anything else I could think of. While the waitress was taking her sweet time with my credit card, Dani said, "Look at THAT little guy!!!!" Oh geez. Don't make eye contact. Talk to the cashier... I didn't hear a thing. "We'll take that to go actually... I forgot my dog's in the car!" UGH!! I'm sure that's just the beginning of many typical embarassing kid moments to come.

Oh poop, it's croup

The dreaded croup has returned to our sweet girl. Dani woke up in the middle of the night barking like a seal again, so we did the steamy shower thing and bundled her up and took her outside for a bit. Then she said to me, "Mommy, maybe cartoons will help me feel better," in her sweetest voice possible. So yes, Mommy sat up for a bit and watched cartoons at 2:30 in the morning. While laying awake for 2 hours afterward, waiting to hear more coughing (crazy, I know), I quietly wondered what that lady with 19 kids could possibly be thinking.

Aahhh, sweet memories

I was looking back over some old pictures and videos tonight and this one is just too cute to pass up. Dani was about 13 months in this video. Thank God for videos, otherwise it's just too easy to forget what kids were like as babies. SO CUTE!!!

Spring, is that you???

Emma getting some spilled Goldfish crackers.

Dani and Baby Kyla playing. She's 7 months old and almost as big as Dani!!!

Danica and her buddy Kevin having a drink together.

A little morning cuddle.

No one wants to cuddle with Mommy???

"What?! We are who we are!!"

Pretty cute, minus the creepy red eyes.

We've had a pretty fun week, considering Danica had a cold for most of it. Last Saturday we had a fun family day. We went to the Home & Garden show and then to the Flea Market (yuck). After that we decided to take Dani bowling for her first time! It was lots of fun. Daddy didn't bowl because of his knee, but I figured I would. So what's NOT good for a pregnant lady's sore back? BOWLING! :) But it was still lots of fun. Dani had the time of her life, jumping up and down each time she pushed the bowling ball down the lane. I'm really wishing we would've stopped by the house to get the camera first!

We had a busy week of preschool, gymnastics, library fun, and playing at the gym. She's been asking to see Grandma and Grandpa lately (and was very jealous they got to go to the "belly button beach"... aka Jamaica) so we let her go stay with them on Friday night. Thankfully she was on the tail end of her cold and had a great time!

Then we ventured out last night to a barbeque... YES ALREADY! We've all got spring fever! And today holds some fun with Grammy and Papa. Busy Bees we are!!!

It's a girl!!!!

We had our ultrasound today and saw our sweet little teacup. SHE is quite a little spitfire. I was absolutely certain it was a boy because she's been so darn active (a very nice way to say she's trying to dance her way out of me). And during the scan, she was bobbing and weaving and kicking and twisting and punching and hopscotching to get away from the scanner. I'm afraid this little gal isn't gonna be much of a sleeper!!!! She's quite big also... very tall. She's about as big as she should be in another week and a half. So either we have the date wrong or we've got another very tall kiddo!
I was a bit of an emotional wreck today for some other reasons (and also hormonal I'm sure) and was boo-hooing a bit in the car. Dani was just blabbering about having a baby girl and she said to me, "Moooom, don't you WANT to have a pink baby??!!" :)

Drama queen news:
The other night as I was helping Dani put her jammies on, I noticed she had scratched her tummy and made it bleed in one little spot. I asked her about it and she said, "Ya, that's cuz my dad hit me." HUH? What do you mean dad hit you? "Dad hit me and I got a owie." When? "Last weekend my dad hit me." I had to turn around so she couldn't see me giggling... meanwhile Duane came running to her door asking what the heck she was talking about. Her little smirk told it all. Little stinker.

Tonight I was just resting and watching American Idol and Dani was climbing and jumping all over me. After asking her to stop many times I finally got upset and sent her off to Daddy. Apparently she went to him saying, "Why does my mom just always tell me to get off her?!" Oh geez! Then five minutes later she came in the living room again and said, "Mom, I just have to tell you something. I'm really very sorry that I was teasing you." :) She can play me like a fiddle!!!