Lonestar's face

Had an ultrasound today, with only 2 weeks left, don't ask why- i have no idea. Anyway...Here is a picture of Lonestar's face. The top is a hand, then under the shadow of the hand you can see one eye, the nose, puckered lips and a chubby cheek. It actually looks like a baby this time instead of alien! (if you want to look at a bigger picture, just click on the pix and it open up just the pix bigger)

They estimated the weight at 7lbs 7oz!! And I still have possibly 2 weeks left! Of course she also said they have an error of +/- a pound. +/- A POUND!! That's a big margin of error when you weigh less than 10 lbs to begin with. (At least this baby better weigh less than 10lbs!! ) So we'll see when Lonestar gets here. Evi weighed in at 7lbs 1oz. at a week late. So surely this baby will be close! Surely!

A little bit on Evi. She is all about music. She loves the ipod and has almost 75 songs on it just for her. I was tired of listening to childrens music in the car so I started bringing earphones so she can listen on her own and now I find myself turning down my music and listening to her sing along...so i'm listening to it anyway! But it's sooo cute to hear her sing the songs. Mom says I was the same way, loved music, only mine weren't portable...they were 45's!

My child is very very tan. And I apply sunblock like it's going out of style. We went to a party with about 30 other kids at a pool the other weekend and Scott and I were laughing because there was only one other kid there that was more tan than she was and we were pretty sure he had some American Indian in him!

Final Countdown

Well, Scott was surprised to find the kitty Flower at home, and then Evi and I left him alone with her for the weekend...needless to say, he is smitten with the kitten!! And the kitten is with him as well. She always seems to find his lap to curl up on. For the first time Evi did not want to go to Gigi's because she didn't want to leave Flower. Cats have always been known to to come lay down on papers when your trying to work...well flower is with the new generation and likes to try to lay on my computer if i leave it open. Needless to say, she has hit keys and made my computer do things that are completely foreign to me!!

As you can see from the pictures, Evi had her first ballet class. She does ballet for 25 min, and gymnastics for 25 min hence the footless tights. But she likes having her hair in little buns and the ballet skirt on. It was really cute to watch her. And took a little self control not to cry, i was so excited! (and pregnant & hormonal didn't help)

Evi tried a little reverse psychology on me the other day. When we go out shopping, before we go into the store I go through a list with Evi about how we aren't going to buy toys, and when mommy says to put something back no fits...yadda yadda yadda...Well, she decided to pre-empt me. Before I could say anything she said, "Mommy, when I want something in here, you need to buy it for me, ok?!" HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! She also said to me one day, "did you hear me, I said sh*t." When i told her little girls shouldn't say that, it wasn't nice, she said "I just said it to myself." oh, ok, just to yourself, well, that makes it better!

Evi also threw a huge fit going through security at the airport on our last trip from Houston. And I mean HUGE!! HYSTERICAL!! Here I am 9 months pregers, holding a hysterical child who needs to potty, holding our bags, and shoes, with everyone looking at me with some airport worker pushing a wheelchair blocking the whole walkway! Thank goodness I wasn't in uniform! I'm sure everyone assumed I took her into the bathroom to beat her (which might have made me feel better...but don't worry, there was no beating!) And here I've been thinking that traveling after the baby with 2 kids would be no problem because Evi knows the ropes...at least she proved me wrong before I tried it alone!!!

Cousin Gracie is here this month. While they fight like siblings for about the first hour they're together, they seem to have fun with each other. July is going to long and lonely after they leave!!
Speaking of July...I have 1 month left!! It's the final countdown! I have requested to be induced on my due date of July 8th if I haven't had the baby by then because 1) it's also Auntie M's bday, and 2) the birth date would then be 07-08-09!!! How easy is that to remember!!! Of course Scott's sister and her kids leave on the 7th, so she keeps trying to talk Lonestar into coming a little early. Not that I would mind that either. I'm really ready to be done!

We have a new kitty!!! Unfortunately all of Aunt Becky's were boys, so I had to start watching classifieds for black & white kitties and found one. Her name is Flower, Evi named her herself, although she wanted Horse originally! We've only had her for 2 hours at this point and I think I have said "Evi, leave her alone" at least a hundred times. Kali ( the golden) has sniffed her up and down and other than a hiss once, Flower doesn't seem to mind. Supposively she is 7 weeks old, but she is sooo tiny! She is wearing a ferrett collar with a bell on it so we'll hear where she is, the kitty collars were all too big. As of right now Scotty doesn't know she's here. I've told him we were getting one, but he doesn't know she's here now!! I'm sure he'll be totally excited!! HAHAHAHA!! Especially since Evi and I are on our way to Houston Sat-Mon. I am working my last 2 legs before maternity leave (with only 5 weeks to spare!) The pilots should be plenty nervous! teehee! I think passengers are better behaved too because they are all nervous when they see a giagantic belly onboard!!
Here's the baby bumps at almost 6 months and 8 months. Can i possibly get bigger...really!?!?!

Evi-isms

Her daddy taught her this pout...he'll regret it one day!
Evi-isms:
hang off = opposite of hang on (as in let go)
misappear = disappear
Dr. Pointment = her name when she's playing Doctor (as in doctor's appointment)
elphalant = elephant
feeget = forget
all'em all = all of them



One of her favorite phrases right now is "that's not fair!" Already!! She's not even a teenager yet and I hear this all the time. Granted she doesn't always use it correctly, but she uses it a lot, non the less. Then she recently sighed and gave Gigi a "whatever!" That just shows that she spends too much time with her Aunt Tooti!



We had cousin Melanie's wedding. She did a good job as flower girl. And Mel was beautiful. Then Evi was a dancing queen! The best part was that the DJ played the Hokey Pokey, which is her favorite, and the chicken dance which she also likes a lot. But she danced for a couple of hours straight, which means so did the rest of us, Gigi, Chacha, Auntie M and Tooti and even 8 month prego mommy!! By the end of the night I thought Lonestar might just fall out!! She kept doing this funny dance with her hands on the floor in a downdog position and dancing her feet around everywhere. It was great! And by the end of the night it was like Evi was drunk, crying and saying "I love you" to people. She was exhausted! As soon as aunt Mali was in the car with her she was out.

Aunt Becky's cat has had kittens...and I have told Evi she can have one if there is a girl in the litter. She is soooo excited. After our first visit she literally said "call Aunt Becky, I want to get the kitty" for 30 minutes straight. Since then she's done better with understanding that we can't get it for a few weeks. Her first choice in names was "Horse", I vetoed that one, and now she's decided on "Flower". Which is appropriate since the kitties are all black and white like the skunk in Bambi, named Flower. (not that she knows that!) Needless to say, we had a talk about how to hold the kitty...meaning, not by strangling it, like in the pix.

Just 7 weeks left...funny how a month ago I was freaking out that we only had 12 weeks until Lonestar's arrival. Now I feel like time is standing still!! And we're never going to get there. A month ago I was also worried that I didn't feel as much movement from Lonestar as I did from Evi, and that Evi always had the hick ups. Well, I'd say Lonestar moves as much now, no need to worry. And we've definitely had annoying cases of the hick ups! Evi loves to feel the baby move. She likes it when Lonestar kicks her in the back when we're cuddling for naps or in the morning. She's also decided that Lonestar is a girl. I keep telling her it could be a boy, and she says "no, I just love baby girls". This could get messy! (this is a pix of her hugging and kissing Lonestar from my point of view) She also has a baby in her belly and she'll let you feel it kick. She calls it "Tumble" and it's a boy, for daddy to take to work.

For mother's day I received a great gift from my husband...I came home to a clean house! He actually did a pretty good job (and he may live to regret that he proved he could do a satisfactory job in my eyes!!) It was very nice!

Sleeping Arrangements

Well...we've been working on sleeping alone, Evi that is! She went one night
and we went to Wal-Mart and picked up a fish tank with decorations,
but she had to do 3 more nights in order to get actual fish for the tank. We made a poster with a fish hook on the top corner and a little fish that had to travel 3 positions to get to the hook. (a la Supper Nanny-she's a genius) So when she wakes up at night she says "mamma" very loudly until I make it to her room and all I have to do is barely put my hand on her back and she crashes hard again. And the deal is that I will cuddle with her when the sun comes up.
Now, Daddy on the other hand wants to encourage her to come to him and get in bed whenever she wakes up because he desperately loves the cuddling and gets none from his wife. I say that's just trading one bad habit for another...she'll start coming to the room at early hours of the night, then we might as well just sleep with her from the beginning. What's the difference? So I have a feeling getting Daddy to stick to his guns when I'm on a trip is going to be hard. Good thing I'll be off work in less than a month!! (for at least 8 months!)
On the second day of sleeping alone I walked past her room to find her sitting in a chair in front of the fish tank just watching the water and decorations...no fish, how sad is that! (the pix above) But she made it through 4 nights and now has 5 little glow fish. She still wakes up and calls for me, but goes back to sleep immediately. I figure we'll conquer one thing at a time. (by the time I have actually posted this she has actually slept through the entire night a couple of times. Yipee!! Mommy, on the other hand, is still waking!)

On Saturday mornings, Scott & Evi have started going for donuts. I usually work Saturdays so I have not been privy to this tradition yet. But my husband did confess the other day that he takes Evi in her nightgown and robe to get the donuts and how cute everyone says she is. Of course, because he's a dad, he can get away with it and people think it's cute. If it was me, they would probably just consider me a lazy mom. His excuse is that it's early, 9 AM!! I had to explain to him that most people with small children have been up since 6 or 7 AM, and that 9 AM would be late!!
I recently found a piece of paper from when I registered our phone number with the DONOTCALL list (and from when I was obviously more organized than I am now) and noticed that it would expire in April, but never did anything about it. Let me just say that our phone has been suddenly ringing off the hook!! Needless to say, I have now added our phone number again!

I am at the beginning of the end of my pregnancy...it is now slightly uncomfortable no matter what I do...If I stand, my back and stomach are tired...sit, and my tail bone hurts. Even laying down doesn't help. My pillow count is now 4, I was up to being surrounded by 6 with Evi. The one behind my back was known as the pillow of death, if Scott even touched it in the night I couldn't guarantee his safety. I know I need to work as much as possible, for financial reasons while I still can, but I'm exhausted.

Easter was good. Of course it rained Easter Sunday, but luckily Scott had taken her to a big hunt when the weather was nice on Saturday. The bunny brought mostly M&M's (Evi's fav).

She has decided to take after her Aunt Mali and is deathly afraid of flying bugs. The other day she was hysterical while on the potty and when I made it in there and asked what was wrong she was freaking out over a fly!! A fly! They are abundant in OK in the summer along with many other flying insects, this summer should be fun.

For those of not in the know...Marni is expecting a GIRL!!! I'm so excited! She set her blog up as invite only, so if you want in, I have connections, just let me know.

Evi's jam since before Christmas has been "that's not my name" by the Ting Tings. It's very catchy! But I finally captured video of her singing it. Enjoy! (So for those of you who receive the full post by email, you'll have to actually go to the blog site to see the video, i think)

SmartyPants

One night while reading Evi her nightly books I remembered that Sesame Street Live was going to be in town for the weekend and every time Evi would see the commercial she'd wig out about wanting to go. I was going to be on a trip, leaving in the morning and wanted to mention to Scott before I forgot, so I decided to say it in piglatin. (we usually spell things out, but this was too long) Well, I say it and she removes her milk cup and says, "I want to see Dora too!" (Another commercial we see a lot about a Dora stage show that she also wigs out about.) So that turkey new exactly what I was talking about! So, I guess it's back to the spelling things out! What's funny about that is she thinks saying random letters is a normal part of conversation and will occasionally say letters when she's telling stories, like she knows what she's doing. It's hilarious.

We went to the Houston livestock show & rodeo and Evi loved every minute of it. She really liked the buckin' broncos and was very into to cowgirls barrell racing. We were up high with the fireworks, which was pretty neat. And she liked Clint Black. She kept asking if he would sing "itsy bitsy spider". The animals were pretty hungry and aggressive at the petting zoo. A few goats tried to eat her hat, plus she's was eye level with most of them. Now, the llama is whole different story...it seemed to feel a bond with me. Every time I turned around it was making eye contact with me and getting in my face. And boy did it have bad breath!
I finally was able to see Marni, who is about 3 months pregnant. As you can see from the pix, it's nothin' yet!!! Especially when she has me to help make her look smaller. Mali just had to get in on the pix too, but hopefully she's a good 10 years out!! (Or Better Be!) Marni says she wants to find out what sex her baby is, which I'm sad about, but understand. She too is scared to death of having a boy (a penis! what are you supposed to do with that!?!?!?!) and wants to prepare herself. I, on the other hand, have another reason why I don't want to find out....I am a procrastinator at heart, and not knowing is just one more reason for me not to do anything before the baby gets here. I'm just excited that Marni & I are finally at the same stage in life...married and knocked up!!
It seems my belly has definitely gotten bigger. While trying to adjust luggage in the overhead bins on this last trip I bumped 2 different people in the head. All I could say was "sorry, I seem to be sticking out a little more than normal!"


A conversation from when I called home from an overnight:
mommy: "Are you getting ready for bed?"
Evi: " Yes"
daddy:"She's lyin'"
Evi:"No, I'm a tiger!"

She asked her daddy for another soda while I was away
Daddy:"would mommy let you have another one?"
Evi:"no, but she's not here..."
(mommy said daddy needs to have his own rules...they just need to match mommy's!)

I told her to stop eating her pez until we arrived home and she had lunch. A little bit later I saw her chewing and asked if she was still eating her pez.
Evi: "yes"
mommy:"I told you not to"
Evi:"but I told myself yes"

Pregnancy makes my butt look flat....seriously. I have always been on good terms with my rear, but I guess the extra weight around my waist and back make it look like I have a flat butt. Of course I don't work out quite as much as I used to and of as always, with age, things have "fallen". oh well. I now also have a rash on my stomach and boobs. I had it with Evi as well. It basically looks like a sunburn, and it itches like none other. With Evi, my mom threatened to quit going in public with me if I couldn't stop scratching my boobies!! This time it is even acting like a sunburn though, the skin is peeling this morning...I don't remember this from last time.

Evi is all about "helping" these days. I realize it all about growing up and being independent, but sometimes it's annoying because I could do it all so much faster if she just didn't care. So we have now put a stool in the kitchen because you shouldn't even attempt to make her anything without her help. Or you will have one very upset child, with gigantic crocodile tears. These 2 pix are of her enjoying the fruits of her labor after she helped me make cupcakes.

Did I tell you she met another Evangeline at Disney this holiday. She was an adult and Scott and I had just happen to hear her mother say her name. So Evangeline met Evangeline.

According to her teacher Miss Stephanie, Evi is a popular girl at school. Everyone wants to sit with her. (but of course!) I was surprised and asked if she was bossy at school, because she sure is at home. She said no...which is good, Scott & I were worried.

We recently gave Evi her first piece of gum. She loves it! So now I have another easy source of bribery, plus it should help on the airplane. She's noticed her ears a lot lately and sometimes it scares her. So hopefully this will help keep them clear. She's pretty good at not swallowing it and chewing it for a long time. She also had some Snickers bar for the first time the other day and quite enjoyed it as well.
We went to the zoo the other day and Evi took her little stroller and a babydoll. It was pretty cute watching her pick up the baby and point out the animals. Or hide her face, because apparently, Flower( the baby's name) is afraid of snakes.
Evi on the other hand is afraid of every noise and darkness, which I know is part of the age, but it gets very tiresome sometimes.