Getting Excited!!

I'm getting so excited about meeting my baby boy and having him on the outside!! I just wish we could decide on a name!! It'll definitely be a change going from one baby to two and I wonder how Ellen is going to adjust, but I just can't wait to hold him!! He'll be so tiny and perfect!!!

Ellen is more and more fun everyday. She still doesn't have any teeth, but she is teething pretty fierce these days. Her bottom left tooth is visible just under the gums, but it's been that way for days. She LOVES books, she loves Cookie Monster, and she's just an oomph away from walking.

We are starting to transition to one nap a day - she's still months away from that, but there's hardly enough time in the day for two naps and a decent bedtime. She's been waking up later too (almost 7) which doesn't help with the bedtime. I'd rather she wake early and go to bed early, but even though I'm usually mostly awake in the early morning hours, I just can't seem to actually get up until she calls me. And we are trying to increase her solid intake. She seems to be doing a little better with it, but still not enough to replace a bottle. We're at five bottles right now and I want to get it down to four. The ladies in my birth club are mostly down to three, some of them two!! I just can't seem to get her to eat enough solids for that though.

Tonight I made jalapeno cream sauce chicken. George brought home grown peppers to work and said most were mild, but the small green ones were mildly hot. HA! I burned the CRAP out of my whole mouth when I merely touched my tongue to one, and my FINGERS are still burning from preparing them!!! Yes, I said FINGERS - those non-sensitive digits that are at the ends of your hands!!

What I Love

I love how excited she gets to see me in the mornings, but especially after she's been at my sister's all day
I love it when she gets mad and protests (usually at diaper time) and then looks to see how I'm reacting
I love when she snuggles me after naps and lays across my ever growing belly
I love when she plays games and laughs so hard
I love it when throws her arms around my neck and hugs me tight
I love how she sometimes tilts her head to the side to look at someone or something from another perspective
And I love it that she laughs in delight when I do something right - something she wanted - like reading a book, giving her water, etc., and that she laughs when she realizes it's bath time.