Weekend Wrap-Up

This weekend went by WAY too fast.  Probably because we had a blast!

Saturday
Before brunch for Grandma's birthday, Cal and I checked out the new Southdale play area while Chris did some work.

I was mortified, however, when I took off her shoes and realized she was wearing 0-6 month socks. 

I have no idea how that happened or where they came from or why they weren't put away like 2.5 years ago.  But they somehow ended up on her feet and I was just hoping other parents wouldn't notice and judge me.  Though I kept telling myself that no one is going to look at the bottom of a random kid's feet, I still had the anxiety.  Regardless, we survived and Callie had fun.

Saturday night we headed to the Koch's house for dinner.  We hadn't been there for months, and this time Callie was big enough to just go off and play with Christine without us having to supervise her.  It. was. Awesome.  I went and peeked at them after a bit, and found this adorable scene:

and then promptly heard, "GO AWAY MOM!"

So I went.  Somewhat gladly.

Later, they continued their adorable little duo and played with homemade play-doh.

Thanks to the Koch's (and especially to Christine!) for a fun night!

Sunday
We had the typical morning of Sunday School, Bruegger's lunch and nap time.  After nap time we headed to an indoor water park with the Helds.  I, of course, was only able to get a picture of the backs of the toddlers as they were running by.

They were having way too much fun to stop for a picture.  I got to hang out with Miss Mabel for a bit but she wasn't too keen on me taking her picture either.

So we all hung out in the pool instead and I didn't get any more pictures the rest of the night.

Lil G (trying a new nickname out to see if I like it...thoughts?) is now 13 weeks along, three inches long and weighs about an ounce.  They say he/she is as big as a medium shrimp.  One more week til 2nd trimester!  Can't wait!

Happy Birthday Grandma!

G-ma has a special birthday today and we got to help celebrate at brunch!

Happy happy birthday Grandma!  We love you!

Favorite-Things-Phone-Dump Friday

Happy Weekend!  Hooray!

I wasn't good about getting pictures this week, but the few I got were pretty great.  At least I think so.

Favorite Thing #1- Mind BLOWN by The Lion King! (She had only ever seen a couple of Youtube clips but we let her watch the first half hour or so of the movie and she LOVED it.)

Favorite Thing #2- Kissing the baby

Favorite Thing #3- Kona wanted to cuddle the baby too

On a slightly more frustrating note, ever since we told Callie about the baby, she has totally regressed with potty training (accidents...A LOT) and has also started talking like a baby more often.  She must understand how big of a change it will be and is processing it in the only way she can.  I guess that hopefully she can get it out of her system before the baby actually comes...but who knows.

Speaking of babies, my college room mate and dear friend Melissa (out in New York) had a little baby girl yesterday- Adelyn Mae joins big brother Teddy.  Congrats Melissa and Bobby!

Relief

Wow.  It felt really good to share our baby news.  Thanks to everybody for the warm wishes and congrats... we were overwhelmed by all the love on the blog and facebook!

It is a relief to be almost through the first trimester.

The day after we found out we were pregnant with Callie was the day I started this blog, so I was blogging the whole pregnancy.  Every teeny tiny detail.  I've gone back and read some of that stuff... it was fairly ridiculous at times. Like this one. Really?  A blog post about macaroni and cheese?  If you were reading back then, I apologize and thank you for sticking around.  :)

Anyway, not talking publicly about this one until now has been beyond weird and ignited a whole new level of "mother's guilt."   But I'm going to try and not worry about it.

So now I will share a little about this pregnancy so far.

*We found out on November 10th...and shared with our families the following week.
*I started feeling nauseous at about 6 weeks...and have been feeling that way ever since.  I wake up in the morning okay, but feel progressively worse throughout the day.  The last week or so I've been puking at night.  Fun times. 
*Due to the nausea, I have to CONSTANTLY eat.  I'm not kidding.  All the time. 
*Because of my constant eating and the fact that it is my 2nd pregnancy, I started wearing maternity pants and bella bands at around 7 weeks.  Ridiculous.
*The week before Christmas break, I wore puffy vests and huge sweaters to work to try and hide my little bump.  I also walked down the hallways holding folders or books in front of my stomach... kind of like how pregnant celebrities walk around with gigantic purses in front of their stomachs to try and fool the press.
*I have been SO tired and gotten into kind of a nasty sleep pattern.  I am so exhausted by the end of the day that I'm usually asleep on the couch at 8:30.  But then I am WIDE AWAKE in the mornings anywhere from 4:30-5:30am.  Which is why I then fall asleep on the couch again that night.  I gotta figure out how to break the cycle.
*Um...can I just say that taking care of a toddler during the first trimester of pregnancy is possibly one of the hardest things ever??  And I even had loads of help.  But for real...when you can't nap whenever you want to AND have to chase around a little person who seems to have endless energy, the exhaustion seems to grow ten-fold.  HOLY MOLY.

But...despite all the uncomfortable/miserable/exhausting stuff the past 8 weeks, I'm SO SO excited and thankful.  And Chris is SO SO excited and thankful.  And Callie is...well...we hope she is excited.  She's too busy being a princess, singing Disney songs and bossing us around to pay attention to anything else.

Our Little Secret

Since we were on vacation over New Years, I didn't do a yearly wrap-up like I did in 2010 and 2011.

But I will say this- 2012 was a pretty great year.  Thank you to all of the faithful babygoose readers who have taken the time to read and support us this year.

I must confess to you that we've been keeping a secret the past couple of months, and it has been tough to carry on here as usual without letting you all in on it.

Now we can!  But I'd rather you hear it from our three-year-old.  Sort of.

Our Secret from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

She clearly has some processing to do. :)

After explaining we're having a baby, she'll be a big sister, and the baby is growing in Mommy's tummy, her most pressing question was "Where is the baby in Daddy's tummy?"

I'm 12 weeks along and our due date (as of now) is July 21st.  Here's the teeny tiny little one as of a few weeks ago.

So while 2012 has been awesome, I'm excited for all that 2013 will bring.

And our first order of business (after me hoping to stop feeling nauseous and puking soon) is to come up with a nickname for this little one.  Something goose related perhaps?  Or maybe another kind of bird?  We have no idea, but if you come up with something great, pass it on to us.

Puerto Rico!!!

How do I sum up our great trip?

We (Chris, Callie, me, Boom, Bops, Auntie Yoda, Auntie Mari and Josh) left for Puerto Rico a week ago today early in the morning.  Travel was easy and our toddler was a champ.  And she continued to be a champ the entire week.

We spent the week hanging out in our rental house that had it's own pool and was a short walk to the beach.  We went on a snorkeling/monkey watching boat tour.  We explored a fort in Old San Juan.  We drove through the rainforest.  Some of our group went deep sea fishing (and some of them got totally seasick!).  Some of our group went golfing.  Most of us took naps in the hammock. We splashed in the pool and boogey boarded in the ocean.  We had an iguana visit our backyard multiple times.  We ate out a few times but mostly enjoyed relaxing and cooking at the house. 

We absolutely reveled in our family time together in the sunshine.

But enough of me talking, I'll let the pictures tell the story of our trip.

12/29- On the plane and ready for sunshine!

12/30- Ready for a boat ride to Monkey Island!

12/30- We chose to kayak instead of snorkel

12/30- A monkey parade!

12/30- Hanging in the ocean with Boom





12/30- Enjoying the pool

12/31- Cannon balls at the fort

12/31- Boom and her girls in San Juan

12/31- Getting a lift from Bops

12/31- Searching for star fruit

12/31- We found some! (The are REALLY tart)

Our Iguana Friend from Baby Goose on Vimeo.

1/1- New Year's breakfast from Boom

1/1- Hanging with Auntie Mari

1/1- Relaxing in the pool

1/1- Beach time with the aunties

1/1- Our iguana friend is back

1/1- El Yunque rainforest with our new friend Rico

1/1- The whole gang in the rainforest

1/1- A cow on our way out of the rainforest

1/2- Ready for a deep sea adventure

1/2- Pretty girl in PR

1/2- Dinner at "home"





1/3- I'm going to miss that hammock

1/3- Enjoying our last day in the sunshine

Thanks to my parents for the wonderful trip, and to them and my sisters and Josh for being so fantastic and helpful with our little toddler so Chris and I could get some relaxation in too.  As I hope you could tell from the pictures, it was a fantastic week!

Favorite-Things-Phone-Dump Friday

We're back!

We had a wonderfully marvelous trip to Puerto Rico with my family which I will blog all about tomorrow.

We've been up since 3am (MN time) and had a very long travel day so I'm utterly exhausted.

But the one pic that I'll "dump" tonight is of our amazing traveler.  Up since 3:45am and no nap until about 6:00pm for the last half hour of our 2nd flight.  And no meltdowns or anything.  Unbelievable.

Favorite Thing- A rockstar traveler and one of her rockstar aunties

It makes me a little nervous for what tomorrow will bring...but for now we're thankful for no public displays of crazy. :)

And tonight I will be VERY thankful for my own bed.

Oh- and a shout out to Chris' cousin Carlos and his wife Rebecca.  They had little Eliana Guadalupe yesterday evening...on her grandma Karen's birthday!  Congrats!!!