A Merry Christmas

Christmas came and went so quickly, but still it was full of family and joyful appreciation for our many blessings. Here's a look at our Christmas holiday.

Christmas at the inlaws. C is helping me open a gift.

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer had very cute & curly hair.

Santa paid a visit to Nana's house. He thought C's fairy wings were pretty cute.

Uncle J and C dig through the gifts for just the right present.

"Just the right present" turned out to be a Radio Flyer scooter

that she rode through the house for two days straight.

Babies

Well, I'm 20 weeks along and we have an ultrasound scheduled for Wednesday. I am so excited to see little baby. The hubby and I have decided not to learn the gender of our baby. We're holding out for the big surprise on delivery day. The hubby asked if they (the doctor) thought I was farther along than we thought because, in his opinion, I am bigger at 20 weeks, then I was the first time at full term. Nice. True, things seem to be poking out a bit more, but from what I hear that's to be expected.

Also so excited that the sister-in-law had her ultrasound last week and everything is going well. I can't wait to be a first time aunt. Our due dates are one day apart, so it will be interesting to see which one of us delivers first, and who has what. Needless to say the grandparents are geeked about the upcoming baby overload in our family.

Recently

I don't know if it's a classic case of baby brain but I seem to be losing a lot of things lately. I don't believe that it's simply misplacing things, but that there must be an honest to goodness sort of house elf hiding crap around my house and at work. This phenomenon is really starting to drive me a bit batty.

LOST WITHIN THE PAST THREE WEEKS
Videotape of our honeymoon
Receipt for Christmas gift that will most likely have to be returned
Tube of Neosporin
C's purple boots (these did finally show up)
A set of keys (recovered within several hours)
Countless pairs of socks
One of C's "dancing slippers"
Countless copies of Christmas shopping lists
My mind


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In other news, I've recently noticed little flutterings in my abdominal area which I can only describe as little baby bobbing around in utero. I find this fairly exciting because it's a definitive sign that those hearbeats I've been hearing for a couple of months are part of something much more tangible. J and I are looking forward to our ultrasound in two or three weeks so that we can finally see our expected little one. With our first daughter, we were insistant in finding out the gender, but with baby #2 we are much more open to waiting to see what surprises us in the delivery room.

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Upon arriving home today, my husband asked me, "Do we have a container for these?" Not knowing was "these" was I was astounded to see that he was holding a 5lb. bag of in the shell peanuts. Ya know, that ones that they store in the big barrel at Logan's! "No, I really don't think that we do have a container for THOSE," was my reply. Personally, I was left wondering where one would even purchases such a large bag of peanuts. Regardless, he looked mildy put out that we did not have said containers as he was reluctant to just leave them in the bag. It was at this time that I reminded him of the enormous box of rice that he had purchased about a year ago that was still gracing the shelves of our pantry. Honestly, it must be some sort of male instict to buy random foods in super bulk quantities.

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Well, just three more days of work left for me before Christmas vacation. I can't wait because I really need to finish my Christmas shopping and to get a few lingering projects out of the way. Tis' the season!