20 weeks and it's STILL a ....

A BOY!
Daniel is pretty excited and wanted to share the 20 week ultrasound picture of his baby brother. He wore a shirt letting everyone know how awesome he thinks having a brother will be.
I'm outnumbered for sure!
He was a little fidgety during the ultrasound but when he heard the heartbeat his little eyes bugged out. 

Here he is looking at the screen. Ryan claims he couldn't zoom out any further. I question his camera operating skills. :)

BOYS RULE in this house for sure!

 

 

A 3 D picture. Little creepy but still cute as can be. Not much fat on this little guy. I wish I could say the same for me. HA! No, that's not something growing from the side of his head.

We're half way there.
We don't have names picked out yet so the fun begins.

Weekend Recap

We had a great weekend. Friday night I ventured out to look at more cabinets. I think I found them but need to take a break for 2 days and then go back and see them. :) OK, we did that Sunday, and I changed my mind so now another 2 days and these better be it. HA!

Saturday, we enjoyed a day at the pool after I came back home with a new shorter haircut. Of course we had an hour and a half break because someone threw up in the pool. The summer curse of 2012 continues with pool surprises. According to my nephew who went with us "this happens all the time at these little kid pools". We went across the street to Culver's and enjoyed some ice cream and snacks. So, the timing worked out.
Sunday, Daniel asked to drive his Cadillac to the park. It was hot but we said "sure buddy, why not". The "why not" was answered 10 minutes into the walk when the Cadillac's battery died on us. We could see the park on the horizon. D and I waited while daddy went back to get the car. My calculation of the car fitting in the trunk with no problems was obviously proof why I hated geometry, I have no concept of measurements and space because I had to go 2 miles an hour while Ry walked behind the car with it sticking out half way. I enjoyed the view from the rear view mirror.
Here is a little video of our weekend, car in trunk and all.

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19 Weeks

Week 19: Head-to-toe I grow-n-grow!   Fetal development in pregnancy week 19.

 

Your baby's the size of a mango!

At about 6.0 inches long and weighing in at about 8.5 ounces, she's getting there!

• Developing a protective coating over her skin, called vernix caseosa. It's greasy and white and you may see some of it at her birth.
• Working on her five senses. Nerve cells for her sense of taste, hearing, sight and smell are developing in her brain.

Dad's day

Our Father's Day was busy, with plenty of food and family time, just as it should be.
We started off the day with breakfast with the Marron's and ended it with my side. We laughed about Daniel's sense of humor, made sure everyone knows we don't have baby names yet despite Daniel's announcement that it should be "goo goo ga ga", moaned about the hot weather, discussed remodels, rubbed our bellies full of good food and just enjoyed each other's company. I love that Daniel is experiencing these holidays always with family just a short ride away.
I love that even though his cousins are much older they play with him and genuinely love on him. They make him repeat funny things and crack up at him. My sister asks him for kisses every 5 minutes. If he doesn't kiss her she fake cries and he goes "alright, alright, already", cuz he's sensitive like that. :)
I love that my mom's back yard door slams every 2 minutes with the kids running in and out or someone bringing bbqed food inside. This year baby bunnies were born in my mom's yard, right by my old window. Daniel saw them and said "awww they are so cute".
Thank God it wasn't like last year when my dad found the heads of 5 baby bunnies. His story is that it was a cat, Ryan being a cat lover wants evidence (perhaps a photo) of the cat actually ripping their heads off. Being the great gardener that my dad is, he dug a whole and stuck the heads in it. We all mentioned his roses looked great this year ;)

Daddy is his favorite person now. He loves playing with daddy. I've taken a back seat.

 

3 generations of Marron men.

 

We celebrated a 16th birthday, 18th Anniversary and a graduation

I just got depressed looking at this picture. This just inspired me to tone it down on the chocolate. I wasn't cute and preggo with the first one so I don't know why I expected a miracle this time around.

It was a great day to celebrate the wonderful men in my life especially the best daddy I could ask for my little nuggets.

Polish school

This summer we decided to put Daniel in a Polish summer school. He calls it "Pani Yola's house" since it's a home school and the teacher's name is Yola. He has only been there 2 weeks but we are seeing some progress in his Polish.
Friday, was his first performance.
It was 45 minutes long. I cropped as much as I could but the kids were too darn cute.
The kids were dying at the end. There were some tears shed and of course the famous running off the stage also happened. None of which were by Daniel, thank you very much. He did GREAT considering he doesn't understand everything and was only there 2 weeks to learn the songs. The girls were fighting over hair pins and one took her musical instrument so there was a breakdown. I just laughed my little heart out. The boys did the best. The older boy is the assistant's son and was embarrassed throughout the whole thing being dragged into it.
I just loved it.
Personally, they could have done 4 songs and called it a day. It was hot and 5:00pm and they were ready to go home. They were rewarded with pizza, donuts and tons of fun in the back yard afterwards. Oh yes, baby and I enjoyed some pizza and dessert as well.
I'm super proud of my little Polish boy and see some Saturday morning Polish school in his future. I'm pushing myself to speak more to him but I struggle to remember.
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7th Heaven

Thursday night we enjoyed a concert at our park. Every Thursday there is a band and every Monday there is a community band. All FREE. The group, 7th Heaven was pretty impressive. The kids had a blast.

The boys "played" soccer.

He liked running around in the field. Not after the ball or anything just ran.

It was pretty packed. The bouncy house was a hit but of course annoyed the adults. Next Thursday we are planning a Bunco night without Bunco. We are getting all the ladies together at the park to enjoy some music without the kids.

they were getting nuts towards the end and lots of dancing occured

These two love birds got a hold of each other and just danced and fell, danced and fell.

I wasn't thrilled when I opened up my camera and realized my zoom lens from last weekend was still on and was forced to take all close up pictures. Then I wanted to use the video camera and I left the camera on and drained the battery. Such is life. We're ready for a fun, HOT weekend!

Summer Fun

D is already enjoying his summer!!!

Our little fish

Daniel started swimming lessons on Tuesday. He did great for his first time. It was only 3 kids for one teacher so a good ratio. He had two older girls in his class and gosh there is a major behavioral difference in a typical boy vs. girl. He was doing all sorts of plane sounds and crashing his hands into the water. His butt couldn't stay still on the step and let's say his attention span was only good when the teacher needed him to do something. He didn't care about paying attention to his classmates.
After class when I said "Daniel you need to listen to the teacher and look at your friends and what they are doing not play around"
His response, "Mommy I was listening to the teacher carefully (long pause), OK I was playing just a little bit". HA!
We love the facility we signed him at, brand new, clean and great instructors. I was behind the glass so the pictures turned out a little blurry. Next week Ry will go with us so I will be on the pool deck and can do a video. 

Waiting for class to begin.

 

Class begins



Laying down

Practicing jumping into the pool and getting out



Arms to the side



Swimming with the teacher

At the end he said "Let's go to another pool". I think he liked it. Our little fish.

Speaking of fish, our Beta fish "Blue" died a week ago. Daniel knows that Blue went to swim with Nemo in the ocean and is much happier. He honestly hasn't even mentioned the darn thing once! He is so not an animal person, like his mommy! At least I hope he swims better than me.

Week 18

Pregnancy week 18:

"As your growing uterus starts shifting your center of gravity (belly forward, bottom out), hormones are causing your ligaments to relax and joints to loosen. The result? Back pain and soreness. On the bright side, if you want to know baby's gender, this might be your first week for a sneak peek.
Baby's now the size of a sweet potato!
Baby's become amazingly mobile (compared to you, at least), passing the hours yawning, hiccupping, rolling, twisting, kicking, punching, sucking, and swallowing. And baby is finally big enough that you'll soon be able to feel her movements."

 

I'm feeling good overall. I've been feeling movements more and more. Exciting!

Weekend Warriors

We are both drained from this weekend.
We accomplished a list of to-do's.
First, while D and Bunia stayed home Ry and I ventured out to look at cabinets. 3 hours later we came home hungry and confused on what we wanted or what I wanted in cabinets.
Saturday, afternoon we needed to take a train ride into the city to practice Ry's new commute.

We stopped at his new building, right across from Millenium park. Of course we couldn't leave without having a little fun and some food. D LOVES the water. Let's hope that love carries into this Tuesday when he starts swimming lessons.

I have yet to figure out how to make these vertical.

 

D passed out in the stroller as we walked to the Metra line, we looked over schedules and learned his new route. Piece of cake!

We both barely walked back to the train with all the walking we had done all day. D was demanding, "Let's keep moving, and go home". We were ready to smack him with his comfortable butt in the stroller as we pushed and daddy carried a backpack filled with according to him "everything".

Sunday morning turned out to be an adventure with our refrigerator. We've been having all sorts of temperature issues with it and ice build it up in the back of the freezer. It was time for a new one, but our actual NEW pretty one isn't coming until our kitchen remodel so Friday we bought a regular fridge (freezer on top, fridge on bottom) to hold us over and it will be used as our extra fridge in the basement.  No, I was not ready to bring a nice stainless steel fridge into a kitchen that is going to be torn apart soon to have it scratched during construction and me being ticked over it afterwards. Anyhoot, our current 1970s fridge had a water line connected to it and we needed to unhook it. The idiot that tried to do it had no idea what he was doing, long story short, we had water leaking into a bucket and were forced to call a plumber. $200 later the water stopped leaking, the new temporary fridge is in our family room and the 1970s antique is still in our kitchen. I won't talk about my hubby's temper during that ordeal.
After that fiasco, I unplugged at Home Depot for 3 hours getting another estimate on cabinets. The more trips I make the more I realize what I want and the more the new things don't match the old things I picked. So, once we change our minds on one thing it's spirals into "we have to start from scratch". So, far our fridge, microwave and hood have already changed. I won't even begin with the idea I had in my head of my kitchen initially and what we are ending up picking. Both good just different. It's not so simple, but according to my sister if she had my job with remodeling my kitchen she could pick stuff out with her eyes closed. That's coming from a woman that has moved like 5 times and built 2 new construction homes and remodeled twice. Whatev!

With the heat rising so have our tempers around here, as one cabinet guy told us after I asked him "how many estimates do people usually get on cabinets?" to which he replied "you can go until you're tired and usually that's what happens, people get sick of getting estimates and looking and go to the first option they wanted". GREAT!
I'm making Ry look at cabinet samples from twenty directions and in different lighting. This remodeling stuff is not for everyone. But hey we survived the Purple House. Nuff said!