I've been a terrible mom and haven't taken a single picture since the beginning of February. I have taken a bunch of videos of Riley, but like we know, I can't seem to figure out how to get them uploaded to blogger. I'm going to try to upload them to U Tube next because we've got some great videos of Riley over the past couple weeks. Here's a quick update on what we did the last few weeks of February.
- We lost Brett's Uncle Ned to cancer last week. Although it's been a sad time, we are happy that he's no longer suffering. After the past 5 months we've come to realize that cancer really is a horrible disease.
- I entered my third trimester of this pregnancy. I feel tired all day and nauseous at night. I'm tired of the progesterone shots, but have another 5-6 weeks. The 5 inch long welt that I have on my butt is really annoying and itchy!
- We've been working really hard on the basement. We are now in the "mudding" phase. We've got one layer up and are really happy with the results. Brett is picking up the last of the supplies (other than carpet and paint) tonight so that we can work on getting it done this month. We're both excited. I'll take some more pictures and post them later in the week.
- We've decided how we want to do the nursery and are going to paint the room and hang a chair rail this weekend. The room is currently brown. We plan to leave the brown on the wall under the chair rail and paint the upper wall Oxford Pink. I hope it turns out as well as we invision it will. I've also completely changed my mind on nursery furniture. After turning Riley's crib into a headboard and removing her changing pad from her dresser we realized that it would look much nicer to just buy her an actual dresser and headboard. So, that's been ordered and should arrive in a couple weeks. Which means Baby "Popper" will be using Riley's old crib and dresser/changing table.
- We have been working on potty training again. I would say that Riley is about 65% there. We are using a trip to Monkey Joes as motivation. Last weekend she had one accident about 10 minutes before we were going to leave to go to Monkey Joes. I thought for sure she was going to throw a fit since we'd been talking about it all weekend, but it didn't phase her when we said that we couldn't go. I think I was more upset than she was. I just don't know what motivates her, but I know that she understands. She even surprised us with staying dry when out to dinner Sunday night and waking up completely dry Monday morning. She seems to struggle during the week at daycare. I'm hoping that after a couple more weekends at home she will officially be a undies-wearing girl.
- We've learned that Riley has inherited her dad's baseball swing. This girl can hit the ball! We bought a plastic bat and ball at the dollar store Sunday were surprised to see her hit the ball. We're talking homeruns and line drives. I got it on video so it is the first video that I plan to post on You Tube! At some point I think you can hear me say "what are we doing letting her hit a baseball in the house??...But, she's so good!" I swear it's not just a proud mommy moment...she is unreal. Oh, and she swings lefty!
We have finally furnished every room in our house. Only took us 2 1/2 years. We've been on the look-out for the perfect chairs for our front room and found them at Big Lots, of all places. We bought one around Christmas time and waited for another shipment to come in. We waited forever and the shipment never came. Brett called every week for about 5 weeks and no luck. We thought we had struck out again, until Big Lots called to tell Brett that they had one that had been returned. Brett used his bargaining skills and we now have our two chairs. Here's a few pictures of the room and one of the munchkin:
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