Busy Busy!

alright uncle bobert and diane! time to get off my back - here is your update! ;o)

we have been so busy - i know i say that all the time but it's true. in april, chris or i were traveling 17 of the 30 days. in may, it is 25 of 31. 25! the only time that chris, thalia, and i will all be in our house at the same time in may will be next week, monday through friday. that's it! isn't that nutty?! it's okay though. thalia and i got to spend almost a week in ABQ with yiayia and papou, AND we get to spend 2 weeks in michigan in may, which is fantastic; AND iamdynamite is doing really well on its mini-tour. luckily i am finally starting to feel better! we'll see if it lasts...with thalia there was about a month where i felt great, and then it was back to misery the last two. i guess this would be a good time to give you a coco update:

here is baby coco - 25 1/2 weeks along! time is both flying by and standing still. i was laughing at myself after i took this picture and i realized it still hasn't fully sunk in that i am going to have another baby. i know - duh! probably due to the fact that it took us so long to get preggers - just isn't real yet. i am really starting to feel coco kick and wiggle. i noticed earlier this week that you can see her (oh yeah, did i tell you? we're having another girl) kick - my belly moves now! too funny. as far as i know, everything is progressing fine. i have to do my glucose test next week to test for gestational diabetes - not expecting anything to come from that. OH! on a funny note, it was recommended to me yesterday that i put coco's name down for needing day care in NOVEMBER! apparently the infant room at thalia's school has a waiting list for the rest of the summer, so i need to put coco's name on a list somewhere so that she has a spot when i go back to work 6 months from now! too funny - i feel like i am on a sitcom!!

alright, enough about me - i'm sure you want to hear about thalia. my little ham has definitely been keeping me laughing and on my toes. we have been having a lot of fun, just us girls...but every morning she asks where her daddy is. it's too cute. yesterday we played in the rain:

it has been storming off and on for the past few days and she loves to just stand out there in the rain and run around.

last weekend we went and picked strawberries. what a blast - it actually held her attention longer than i expected! at this point she was just getting into it, but not really convinced she was having a good time. after a few sweet strawberry sneaks, she was ALL about it: if you look closely, you can see strawberry juice running down her arm AND down her neck!

alrighty, that's all i have time to update for now. new hippo picture, and a slideshow of our travels on its way soon!

much love and some sleep,

c, c, and t

we're back!! (again!!)

not to worry - we haven't gone anywhere. ha! almost literally. most of my days are spent laying on the couch, not moving. i'll get to that in a minute. so many things to update! we'll start with little t-bone...

can you believe little is 3 years old?! we had a wonderful birthday party. let me rephrase...we had FIVE birthday parties. we spent the weekend before her birthday in michigan where we celebrated three times - pics of most of the cakes to come. then we came back down here and i made cupcakes for her day care class, and then dinner with some great friends. it was a busy week, but we felt really blessed to be able to celebrate with so many special and important people!

we took thalia to the doctor this week for her 3 year check up: i HAD to be the dorky mom taking a picture of her kid...just look at how adorable the little blood pressure cuff is!! she was such a big girl - did everything the MA asked her to, even answered questions from the PA. 3 going on 13 i swear. chris and i had been betting on if she would hit the 30lb mark. the official verdict - close but no cigar. 28.8lbs and 36" tall: about 25% for both. guess she got my genes :o)

aside from birthday parties and check ups, t-bone is nearly fully potty trained! just like everyone said, after all the time and methods we tried, one day it just clicked. we still put her in pull-ups at night, but i think most of that is because we had just bought a ton. she usually wakes up dry.

we've also been spending a lot of time with our friends greg and jacquie and their boys andrew and ryan (ryry). they finally got relo'd and are settling in to a great house that is almost right around the corner from us. we went over there for dinner the other day - thalia had a ton of fun playing with the boys...and being a goofball for mr. greg and his iphone app.

the following weekend we took them to the museum of life and science in durham. this place is so cool...i've posted pictures before.
one of thalia's favorite activities is this volume exhibit. she loves putting the beads in the different containers and dumping them everywhere!

then we went outside to the farm and thalia and ryry held hands. it was so adorable!!

other than that, i got a new job that i started on february first in gsk's epilepsy marketing department. i really like my new team and i get to combine what i was doing before with some really new and innovative fun projects. it's been going very well and is usually less stressful than my previous job, which is a good thing.

oh yeah...and there's that little thing about FINALLY being preggers again! it took us so long to get here - and no time at all for me to feel worse than i did with thalia. for those of you who were around then, you know that means no fun. hence the laying on the couch most days. i am 16 weeks and due on my birthday (just like stephie)! i have my next check up on thursday, and should schedule the ultrasound to find out the sex of the baby after that :o)

ps...i definitely "popped" way earlier this time this is from a few weeks ago during a first trimester screening. look at it kicking its legs out!! by the way, this fetus' nickname is coco. thalia still wants to call it sarah, but i told her we needed to name it something else in case it is a boy. her response: "how 'bout chocolate milk?!" so aunt stephie shortened it to coco and that's that.

alright, that's enough for now. more pics and more frequent posts, i promise. much, much, much, much love!!

c, c, t, and coco