Twisters

Yes, we are fine. It was an exciting couple of hours for Evi & I when the tornadoes rolled through Edmond the other afternoon. We heard the first sirens on our way home from school. By the time we got home they were listing an intersection within a mile of our house and Evi & I were in the shelter of the hallway bathtub. (tight quarters!) Evi did good. She remained very calm and held the flashlight. She was then stuck to my hip the rest of time coloring a coloring book. Shortly after getting out of the tub, we were right back in once again! This one actually did some damage to our neighborhood. It looked like it had been raining trampolines in our neighborhood when we left today! Anyway, no major damage to any houses. Some with roof damage and several flattened fences. But it looks like ours was spared! Thankfully! Evi thinks Minnie Mouse & Daisy Duck make thunder by hitting drums (and Pluto is responsible for fireworks). On Thursday she woke up and the first thing she said was "the house is spinning." Then later she asked why people were holding her playset down with ropes, was it for the twister? Poor baby, she's worried about her playset blowing away and dreaming the house is spinning like the wizard of oz.

Moving right along in the pregnancy...I had Scotty take a picture the other day. Only the second one out of 4 months! With Evi I took a pix every month and put them in her album. So this poor second child is already getting the short end of the stick. Of course, it is already proving to be more of problem child too. Worse morning sickness, and stretch marks (which I did not get with Evi) after I grew an entire inch in circumference in one week!!! So now I'm worried about the delivery. I didn't feel any contractions or any pain with Evi's delivery (literally! before & after the epidural!) so this one will probably be hell! We had our complete ultrasound last week. Did not find out the sex, and Scott didn't even ask this time. (he tried to bribe the tech with Evi.) But all is well. Two arms, 2 legs, 1 head...all the important parts.

Proving that Evi is my child, when asked what she wanted for lunch today she replied "Mesican!" that's my girl!

We didn't cry at drop off for school this week!!! yipee!!
She is now scared to death of toilets that flush themselves though. I had to fold her in half at the airport the other day, and hold her screaming over the potty, but she tinkled, so I won. (she was screaming, not me, in case you were wondering...in that situation all you can do is laugh)
Last weekend Scott wanted to make poached eggs but could not find the little silicone cups I use anywhere. So on a whim he asked Evi if she knew where they were and of course, she took him right to them!
We had a little snow and that's the best I could do for a snowman for her. My mom had given her a snowman kit and she remembered it right away when it snowed. I, on the other hand, am sooo over winter, and pretty much have been since October.

A couple of things...

I forgot to mention this one fit (out of a few) where Evi got one on me. We were in the car, on the way home from our last Disney park visit (she hadn't had a nap) and she was throwing somewhat of a fit and kicking the back of Scott's seat. I told her to stop kicking the seat. So...she left one foot on the seat and began to stomp the other foot on top of that one. When I got onto her again she looked right at me and said, "I'm not, I'm kicking my foot". How, at 3 years of age, can she already be that...I don't know, tricky?!?!?! Little Turkey. All I could do was turn around, she had me on that one.

Back to school had a rough start. All that time off with mommy made it hard to go back I guess. Even gymnastics was a challenge. It took me 50 minutes to get her to go into the last 5 minutes of class! And she usually loves gym. In any other situation that she won't participate, we just leave, but this, I pay too much for to just walk out. We actually got in the car and pulled out of the parking lot twice! I threatened her with everything I could think of...no toys, not going to GiGi & ChaCha's (we were leaving for Houston later that day regardless). It's like we backtracked over the holidays! She gets upset when people new people enter a room again, from friends to family, even when she knows who they are. Hopefully everyone takes it in stride and knows it's not personal! she's just expressing herself at the cost of everyone's feelings, but hey, she's 3, what can I do?

And man is she bossy!! Yes, I know, much like her mother! She'll stomp that foot and say "NO". Tell you what to do. Part of it is the age, since friends with kids tell me they are experiencing the same. But part of it is also me, I know. I talk so firmly to her, but it was the way I could get through and make her listen to me. So, of course, she does the same. Once again, my child is a reflection of myself and I hear the way things sound coming out of her mouth from me, and I have to reevaluate myself! But who is this child now? All of sudden she throws these fits where she just screams and tenses her whole body. (I do not do this!!) I don't understand it. Through out the holidays she started acting out in public. I'll admit it is my fault. After over a year of telling her my expectations before we go in public, I kind of got lazy about talking to her about it, assuming that after all this time she would know by now the behavior that's expected. Obviously I overestimated her 3 year old brain and control. I have started talking to her again before we go in anywhere, and it helps. So, in the end, it's mommy trying to be "nice".
I know I'm almost making her sound like a bad kid, she's not. She mostly very very sweet and a good girl, it's just my hot topic right now.

The other day she was asking what we wanted to be, she wanted to be a "tater tot" And I just thought she literally meant tater tot, like from sonic. So I kept replying "onion rings". Then a couple of days later "The Land Before Time" came on with dinosaurs, and she said, there's a tater tot! when the dinos came on. Then I realized she had been trying to say "triceratops" all along!
Chacha told her he was going running because he had to get in shape so he could keep up with her little brother (no we don't know the sex, just wishful thinking on his part). Later when he came back in the room Evi said, "Did you catch him?" It was funny!
She wants the baby to be a girl, and of course daddy is hoping for a boy. Mommy, just wants a healthy baby. Of course part of me wants it to be a girl for Evi because I'm so glad I have sisters, but the other part thinks the opposite sex might be fun(although frightening!!)
We went to visit my high school girlfriend Bethany and her 12 week old twin boys. They were so cute. But of course Evi would only look out of the corner of eye at them for about the first 2 hours! One started crying out a little while laying on the couch, so I picked him up and sat next to Evi. She immediately became hysterical! So I then had to put the baby down and pick up my LARGE 3 year old baby!! I hope this is not a sign of things to come! She did finally start tallking to one of the babies right before we left. It was pretty cute.
Speaking of babies...We are 4months along now! Can you believe it? One more month and I'll be halfway there! It definitely goes faster the second time when your already busy with one child. The first time I felt like I was pregers forever!!!! I'm definitely showing now. Although I'm at the point that just have a little potbelly. Most my maternity shirts are still too big (why buy smalls when you need them for such a short time. ) So I wear a few shirts that I have that are not maternity and they definitly show off the potbelly. But, at least I've actually got a reason for having one now!! And the names on the side are just names that have caught my attention. I'm not sold on any particular one at this point, and of course my husband has no opinions of his own.

Christmas & Mickey Mouse

Happy New Year!!
We just returned from a week at Mickey Mouse's House! And while I love Disney, I will never again go during the Holidays or Summer!!!! My children will miss a week of school to go in the off season than to go when the rest of the world has vacation too. We're talking 2 hour lines for rides that last 15-20 seconds sometimes!!!! Evi loved it though. Each time we left a park, she did not want to go. She wanted nothing to do with the characters, but didn't mind looking at them from a distance. As you can see from the pix with Minnie Mouse, she hid her face when I tried to get her to take a pix with her. Some of the rides scared her a little, especially if they were dark. Any of the "interactive" rides or 3D shows absolutely terrified her. So the ones that sprayed water, shot air or anything like that, she screamed and cried. She rode her first roller coaster though, and absolutely loved it. She had a smile plastered to her face the whole ride and said "AGAIN" when it was done.
We spent a small fortune on pins for her lanyard. It weighed almost as much as she did by the time we left! I made a little sheet to hang in her lanyard with everyone's cell # on it just in case we lost her, but luckily it never happened! There were just too many people there to let her run free, so she was in her stroller or on Scott's shoulders the whole time. I did ride some roller coasters, so if Lonestar is a little off, we'll know why! : )
Oh, yea, I have been trying to find a good Texas name to call this baby since we called Evi "Tex" while I pregers with her and someone suggested "Lonestar" and I think I really like it! So, Lonestar it is!
Christmas was a success. Santa brought Evi quite the loot. And since we left Christmas day for our trip, we were able to bribe her with her Christmas toys again by reminding her of them when it was time to leave Disney. Otherwise she would have never left! The cutest has been a microphone with stand and speaker. We have already had concerts. Right now it's really cute, but I know we'll be sick of it in the future. And poor Evi, she inherited both her parents lack of musical talent!
We spent 2 days with Scott's sister and her family in Tampa before we went to Orlando. Both days were spent on the beach. Evi's first beach trip. (she is making a sand angel in this pix) She loved the sand. She was afraid of the waves the first day, but had Scott in the cold water the next day. I am on a huge kick to try and get Scott to move there. It would be perfect. I would be within driving distance of a base. And there is no winter there!! I love it!! Of course, people keep saying it's hot there in the summer, but it is here in OKC too, and then I have to deal with winter weather which I can't stand. And that's what air conditioning is for. And it would still be an easy nonstop flight to Houston for me to see my mommy. So if anyone knows of a good job for Scott in Tampa, let him know!!!!
When we left Florida it was a lovely 80*, went through Houston where it was 73*, and then I had to go get the car in OKC where it was a balmy 35* with 30mph winds from the north. I hate OKC!

Funny Things Evi's said:
*It's freakin' me out!
*I don't love Santa

Speaking of Santa, I could not get Evi to take a pix with the big man. My only option was to let her watch ChaCha get dressed in a Santa outfit. And that actually worked, kind of. She wasn't afraid of him but still cried when I tried to put her on his lap. Oh well, maybe next year.




I recently went back to my pixie hair cut from college, and boy does it show all my gray!! And there is lots of it! I did this when I found out I was pregers with Evi too but then decided to immediately grow it out. I like the cut this time, and plan on keeping it. It will make mornings easier since I can now shower at night and refix my hair in the morning. Couldn't do that before, I had to shower in the morning. My husband says morning showers are invigorating and wake you up, I say they just piss me off more because that's 5 more minutes I could have slept! Especially when I'm at work and reporting at 5 AM!!!!

If you want to see more pix from Tampa or Disney you can see them on our picture site:
www.pix2share.shutterfly.com
I'll try and put a link on the right hand side.
There are pix from Marni's wedding and Evi's bday on there too.

3 + 1 makes 4!

Well, I have decided to start a family blog since Evi's life as she knows will now be coming to a screeching halt this summer when the "unknown" Bernauer joins us. That's right, we are pregnant... again... for the last time!! I can only afford two children. And I mean this financially and emotionally!! (or for sanity, whatever)
We are excited and Evi has no idea how her life will come to screeching halt, but she's excited too. (And yes, for those of you who saw me at Marni's wedding, I was pregnant and knew it, but it was Marni's moment, and I'm firm believer in keeping it to yourself the first trimester. I told immediate family this time because I was so sick and moody, I knew my mother would know right off. It was easier with Evi when she was out the country for the first trimester!) Evi talks about the baby in mommy's belly and wants to know when the doctor is going to take it out. I told her my belly has to get very big! We have looked at the pictures of me pregnant with her too. Of course she asked Scott if he had a baby in his belly (haha!!) and when he said no, she asked what was in there, he said "food, lots of food". (more like beer, lots of beer)
To tell our mothers I ordered a shirt for Evi that said, "I have a secret" on the front, "I'm going to be a big sister on the back". She wore to my mom's house and my mom actually read it within the first few minutes we were in the door. As she read it out loud, her voice got really high pitched and she started to cry. This, of course, scared my over dramatic child who proceeded to cry for about 5 minutes. And THEN Mali realized what was going on. A little slow on the uptake, huh Mali. (teehee)
We're due mid July. Another July birthday to go with Chacha, Auntie M, Aunt Mali and even one on Scott's side, Uncle Randy! The first couple of months were rough, with lots of nausea. I felt sick a lot with Evi too, but I could take a nap whenever I wanted then, now that's just not possible. And while I am excited, I'm also a little superstitious and am afraid to be too excited in the event that something happens. As if it would make it less of a blow, this is my hormonal reasoning...if i'm not too excited, we'll be fine. And no, I will not find out what we're having this time either. I am not one of those women who feel "great" when they are pregers. As a matter of fact, I don't enjoy it. Don't get me wrong, I love the miracle of it, the feeling the baby move etc., But I don't feel beautiful, I can't sleep very well, I am very uncomfortable, and last time I practically grew a beard! So the not knowing is the one thing that keeps me excited about the condition I'm in. Either sex would be great. Seeing as I have sisters, I would love for Evi to have a sister, but I know Scott and my dads would be excited to finally have a boy around! According to some reading I've done, our conception timing puts the odds of having a boy better than a girl, so we'll see how that goes!

Yes, I had said that I didn't want to get pregers until after we went to Disney, but I also didn't think we'd be successful on our first try!! Just call me Fertile Myrtle! Both of my children will be proof that it only takes once!
Since becoming pregnant, Evi has become a huge Daddy's girl. Which has been fine by me. It's let me lay on the couch a lot more than usual. So now that I finally have freedom, I'm starting all over!!!! aaauuuuggghhhhhhh!!!!!
Some of the pix are from Lucas's bday party at a Wildlife Park in Alvin. It was way fun, although the Ostrich scared Evi after a while. I highly recommend the park to any one in Houston! The other pix are with her friends & teachers from school.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!