8 1/2 Months, 34 Weeks

I had my Doctors appointment last Monday. All was well, Owens heartbeat was at about 150 again. My belly is measuring right on and the whole weight thing is still fine. This appointment was the first 2 week appointment which is nuts I cant believe I'm almost to the end already. I'm very excited to be done though. Mae was pretty funny at the appointment she totally knows the ropes of whats going to happen. So when we got there it was time to pee in the cup we trekked to the bathroom, I did my business and then Mae looks at me and says "I don't want to drink your juice mom". I busted up laughing and then explained that you never drink pee. It was awesome.

We Have A Name

Its official we finally decided on a name for baby brother right around the holidays. Boy names are definitely harder then girls names by the way. We had a name we were thinking of using but never really said anything because we wanted to make sure it was the right fit. Turns out it wasn't and we moved on. We always knew whenever we had a boy his middle name was going to be James after Seans dad. The first name was harder and it took logging on to a website called nymbler.com. We had been on that website over a year before just playing around, you can make lists of names that you like. When we logged on again just before Christmas his first name was on the top of the list and that was it we had his first name. It just fit right away and also goes great with Mae's name. His name is going to be Owen James!! We love it.

32 Weeks (8 Months)

I had my 32 week appointment today. Sean had the day off so I literally drug Mae and him out of bed. Neither wanted to come, although Sean came a little more willingly then Mae, she fought it kicking and screaming for a good 30 minutes. I even captured her fit on film for posterity's sake, she was not happy with me at all for filming it. Anyways we finally made it to the appointment, everything was great my weight is still steadily increasing (whats new?), blood pressure was great, and babys heartbeat was great. It was hard for the nurse to get his heartbeat today because he was rolling all over the place. When she did it was 157, right about where he has been the whole time. I am on my 2 week appointments now which is nuts. I cant believe how fast it is going. Its nice though I'm ready to have him out and get active again.

While I'm at it I might as well write a few more things like how baby brother will lodge himself between my bladder and lungs and make me have to pee and not breathe all at the same time. My numb leg (the left one) is a pain, especially at work it feels like fire and ice all at the same time, not fun. Sleeping is getting harder especially when he is pushing against by stomach and making me feel like I have food stuck in my chest, Ive been sleeping sitting up on occasion which seems to help. I never know what kind of night it is going to be so that's fun. Other then that though everything is going great. Mae is having fun with all of baby brothers clothes and what not. She keeps asking me when hes coming out. I just tell her soon enough Mae, soon enough. She informs me almost daily that my boobies have milk for baby brother. Nothing gets past her Ill tell you what. Its going to be so crazy when he is out and she is trying to help me. Yikes :)

McNard New Years Cabin Style

New Years was a new adventure this year. The McNards rented a "Cabin" in Roslyn Wa this year. It was nice, big and spacious with loads of snow. We all arrived on New Years Eve so the fun began right away. After a tour of the house we got into our costumes, Sean was white trash, I was a pregnant hippie, and Mae was Cinderella.

Mae of course found the basket of candy canes right away.

"Open it mom"
Poor Mae looks worked over and so tired. You can't see Seans fine mullet, but his handle bars are in full view.

There is always a lot of dancing at the McNard New Years, Mae was more then ready to jump into the middle of it all. The first song that played was "All Night Long" Mae caught onto the lyrics and sang right along with the song, and the rest of the night she would just bust out "ALL NIGHT LONG", it was so funny.

I'm sure she was singing it here.

The weekend was full of good food and fun. A morning of sledding that Mae loved, we have not gotten really any snow she she had a blast eating it and sledding. We all stayed up too late playing Mafia. In fact a few days after New Years Mae said "I kill you mom" (not in a mean way just in a that's what I did way) whoops, oh well she will know the game soon enough. Another highlight or low light depending on how you look at it, was the 7 am fire alarm on Saturday morning and every hour or so for most of the day. We blamed it on new house bad wiring, luckily the guys figured out how to make it stop and still have working fire alarms (just on case). It was a good weekend but I was sure glad to have Mondays off so I could have a day to recover. I think it took about a week for all of us to finally catch up on our sleep.

Big Girl Bed

The Monday after Christmas we went out in search if a big girl bed for Mae. She had been having a really hard time sleeping for about a month. Sean and I were going insane form her wanting to sleep in our bed every night. So I finally decided that was her way of tell us that she was over her crib and ready for a big girl bed. We got the mattress and the bedding (I found some cute bedding at Target) that day. Mae was so excited to set it up when we got home. She loved her Owl pillow and has been carrying it around ever since. When Sean got home that night from work we moved it into her bedroom and took some pictures (after the pictures I took down the Asian curtains since they no longer matched). Mae would not smile normal for us, she would only give us her cheeser grin.

The first few mornings she was really excited about making her bed. The first morning she had Sean help and then second morning she did it herself. I took a picture of that one since it may never happen again. I am also happy to report that ever since we got her the bed she has slept through the night! She also doesn't get out and wonder around when we are putting her to bed, once shes in shes in. Its very nice. Mae is now constantly talking about which bed is hers and which bed is baby brothers. She was over her crib and started calling it baby brothers bed the minute her bed came into the house.

Mclachlan Christmas

This year 2 day after Christmas on the 27th we had Christmas with Seans family. We did all the usual traditions wearing our pj's there, Sausage Fondue breakfast, gift exchange, competition for secret gift, dinner at Auntie Bettys. Its a very full day and I'm grateful we had a few days rest to gear up for it.

We don't open gifts right away. I was very impressed with how patient she waited for everyone to get ready. Although in this picture you can tell she was a little bit sad she was still waiting.

Mae made out pretty good and loves everything she got. But that day she rocked out the hardest with her guitar Gaga and Papa Mac got her. I have no words, but the next few pics tell the story very well. Mind you the only music playing was the music coming from the guitar itself.

Even the big kids got into the action. It was a great day spent with the McLachlans.

Christmas Eve And Day

The holidays have come and gone once again. I always look forward to them but them I'm always so happy when they are over. Once again it was a crazy busy week with my insane work schedule and family fun, not to mention 7 1/2 months pregnant.

On Christmas Eve we headed over to Nonnie and Papa D's house. Mae had a great time, Santa brought her a pair of dancing shoes (she was not excited about Santa coming in the house but the shoes were a hit). Seans cousins and their kids were also there so she had lots of kids to play with and loved every minute of it. She was so wound up that she didn't even fall asleep in the ride home.

Christmas Morning!!!! I got it all on film but I forgot to take still pictures. Mae was so excited that Santa came and filled her stocking up, she kept saying "oh thanks Santa". Then once she got it open she didn't even care that she had other stuff under the tree and wanted to play with her stocking. It actually worked out great, Gaga and Papa Mac showed up and she finished opening the rest of her gifts. It was nice that they could come over. It was a weird year with none of the other Mclachlan kids in town, so we had Gaga and Papa Mac over for breakfast and to play with Mae and her gifts.

Mae got another surprise on Christmas Day. One of our neighbors stopped by with a gift for her. A nice warm scarf and the stitching boards (I had these as a kid so I was pretty excited too).
For dinner we decided to make homemade pizza. Not a normal Christmas dinner but it was so fun all of us cooking together. Mae is wearing her new apron she got for Christmas.

Mae was the dough master. She even made her own pizza with her favorite toppings peperoni and black olives.

It was such a great day just staying home and hanging out with our little family all day!

7 Month Appointment

I had my appointment a few weeks ago and have been to busy to blog. Everything went well. It was nice though, Sean was able to come because he was on break. The heartbeat was nice and strong at 160. It has been pretty close to the same at every appointment. I got my Rogam shot so that's fun. My next appointment is only 2 weeks from now and I start my bi-weekly and weekly appointments then CRAZY! The second pregnancy goes so much faster.

Mae Speaks.....ALOT

I have not been the best at writing down what Mae says, so I am going to attempt to do that now. Yikes wish me luck :)
Mae is quite the talker, you would never know if you don't spend a lot of time with her but the more comfortable she is with a person or place the more she talks. The things that come out of her mouth are just so funny, and I can tell when shes been hanging out with certain people more and says things that they would say.

-A month ago we were having dinner and just chatting, when Mae started asking about my classroom. I told her that I wasn't a teacher (pretty much the whole McLachlan side teaches) and that I worked at the Salon Downtown. She just looked at me and said "oh yeah, you make peoples pretty."

-When we got her big girl bed the other day and brought it into the house, put the bedding on, etc... she kept saying "so comfy", "its perfect", over and over.

-every night when I'm putting Mae to bed we have to talk about everybody she knows and if they are sleeping or not. It must really matter to her that she is not the only one going to bed.

-I just started telling her bedtime stories after we read. I only have 3 that I tell right now but she pics which one she wants every night between The Princess and The Frog, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, The 3 Little Pigs. All I know is one day she is going to be so confused when she hears the actual stories and not my versions.

-Mae loves her cousins, she names them all off daily.

-She pretty much has something to say about everything, its pretty funny. I also love that I am, sometimes the only one who understands her.

-She has started counting things up to 6 she is good then she gets lost.

-Every berry is a strawberry, so we are working on that.

-Ive said this before but she loves peoples names, and pretty much always remembers them.

-About a month ago I had a crazy emotional day, we had gone to workout with friends and I just couldn't stop crying. But the crazy thing is is that was almost 2 months ago and just 4 days ago when we were driving Mae said to me "mom why you cry at daddy's workout?" Sean and I were like whoa how does she even remember that?

Well that's all for now. At least I got a few things down.

Decoration Time

We finally got the tree in the house and ready to decorate, Mae had so much fun with the lights. She wouldn't smile for a picture so I told her to smile for her Gagas, then I got a huge grin out of her.

She just had a little push-up break.
Candy Cane!!!!!

Mae wanted to put this "dancing shoe" on really bad.

But I convinced her to hang it on the tree instead. Now it feels like Christmas with the tree up and the house decorated. Now I just have to finish the shopping :P