Birthday Goodness

This pregnancy, there wasn't a magical change at 14 weeks (my 2nd tri). Although there were gradual changes, I was disappointed. This time the magical change happened on my birthday (about 16 weeks). Happy birthday to me!!!

With my new-found energy, Carly and I went shopping. I found some jeans that I LOVE from american eagle. It was a beautiful, warm & sunny day, which really made the day awesome. That evening, we got together with our good friends Audrey & Ginny for pizza and a movie.

I was feeling a lot of birthday love from friends and family on my special day. I got some great packages & cards in the mail. I got lots of phone calls and birthday songs :) I think I had a total of 10 birthday songs, if I remember correctly. It's possible that my parents (including Sam & Rachel) sang like 6 different birthday songs in a row to me lol.

On Tuesday, Morgan was off work so we went to Seattle. We walked around Pikes Place where we watched some fish being thrown around, tasted some delicious fruit, etc. There were lots of stores to shop around at. And of course the main reason for our Seattle trip, Cheesecake Factory :) Yumm!!! We love to get their factory burrito grande and split it. It seriously is humungous! Then I got cheesecake of course.

Morgan said I should ride the pig. Let's be honest, I almost did, but there were a LOT of people around... 

 The place where they throw the fish around.

 This was the best pic I could get of me & Carly in the dressing room at Old Navy.

Carly also got some presents on my birthday. Grandma Barb got her Dora & Dora DVDs. She had to hold Dora while she drank her bottle. 

 Then she gave Dora some kisses. 

 In Seattle we found this car wearing a purple mustache. Random.

 

 Carly was a little crazy at Cheesecake factory. She was way overdue for a nap and wouldn't settle down. Pure chaos. 

 Yummmmmm!

 Carly let me paint her toes. She started off giggling, then spent the next 1/2 hr whining... 

Baby bump at 16 weeks.  

 Who knew that to entertain a toddler, you just had to open the sliding back door and give her a cup of ice cubes. She was good for 30-60min and very busy the whole time :)

 Helping in the kitchen.

Last night I went running for the first time since I've been sick during my pregnancy. It felt great! Carly got to play before and after my 1 mile run. 1 mile was a success! I'll be ready to bump it up to 2 this next week.

17 months & I made it to my 2nd trimester

Well, we are in the final countdown to when Carly will be able to go to nursery at church. Let me just say - I am looking forward to being able to sit through a whole sunday school class & listen :) (but not so excited about what she might pick up from the other kids at nursery - hitting, germs, etc.). Carly has learned some new words, in addition to dada & dora-dora, she now says cracker & "cookoo or cooko" (cookie). She also makes a new sound that is like a whisper - it's really cute.

 Eating her Dora fruit snacks 

We went on a short Sunday walk (I didn't have as much energy as I had hoped lol). Carly is very careful, cautious and observant. She was very hesitant to step on cracks, she didn't want to walk on gravel. And she kept pausing along this sidewalk and looking in the bushes & at the flowers and whining. She cracks us up sometimes :) 

 First real ponytail!!! It all goes in!

She has been turning into a Daddy's girl. She often cries when Morgan leaves for work. On Sunday, she didn't even like it when Daddy was sitting over at the table, she wanted him to hold her to watch Dora. Very cute.  

Sometimes she just likes to chill while she's watching Dora. 

Sometimes (or all the time) she likes to steal Daddy's phone. Apparently it's cooler than Mommy's phone (even though they are the same). Just chillin' and playing on Daddy's phone. 

Her first musical instrument. Thanks Grandma Deanna!

Tacoma Children's Museum. The water & ducks were a hit! 

Tacoma Narrows Park. Apparently Carly doesn't like being barefoot in the sand. She wouldn't move or walk. But she did like playing with the rocks.  

I'm beginning to realize I don't have many pictures of Carly & me. Luckily, Carly being the computer genius that she is, opened up photobooth the other day & so we took some pictures. She didn't love the sitting still part & the not touching the computer part, hence the strained look on her face. (Note: my hair is getting long!!! Woohoo!)

Apparently I am in my 2nd trimester now. Does it feel like it? Not really. I felt ambitious and we went grocery shopping this morning. I hardly made it to check-out and asked Morgan if he would take it from there. I have the best husband - not sure I would have been willing to check-out with a cart full of groceries on my own. Needless to say, the energy is still pretty low. However, I haven't thrown up in probably 2 weeks now :) Woohoo! And I have been able to incorporate some real food into my diet on days when I'm feeling "better". Staple foods as of late: apples, green beans, bread, bread with peanut butter, pretzels. Yep that's about it. On a better day I will eat a bean burrito from Taco Bell or mashed potatoes or some cheese & lunch meat. Yeah - living the life! I look forward to the day where I can eat something delicious (even if it is a bean burrito) and not have anxiety about eating it or wonder if I'll be able to keep it down. Someday...

Easter

This last week has been the start of feeling better. I have been able to eat "real" food - at least 1 thing just about everyday and have had some more energy. Last week on Monday, I got excited about Easter and went to the store to get all the supplies for Easter baskets. I had a lot of fun putting them all together and hid them. Morgan had no idea :) Sunday morning came and I put the baskets out. Carly woke up earlier than normal (as it seems she always does) and so I told Morgan we should let her go see her Easter basket and then he could go back to sleep for a while. He was surprised there was a basket for him too!

Carly LOVED her easter basket. The first thing she noticed was her little bunny. She picked it up and gave it three kisses. Then she took time looking at the eggs. Taking one egg, opening it. Going over to another egg, opening it. I wasn't exactly thinking, and honestly I wasn't sure if she would notice the other eggs I "hid" around the living room. I filled them with starburst jelly beans and reeses peanut butter eggs meant for Morgan & myself, but thought she would have fun finding them - if she even noticed them. Well, she definitely noticed them and proceeded to eat the jelly beans. Yes, a nutritious filled breakfast lol. I ended up picking all the eggs up, so she would stop eating jelly beans, and stop getting her sticky fingers and face all over everything. She went down for a nap pretty quick and I re-hid eggs filled with her snacks (like pretzels, puffs, teddy grahams, etc.). That was much better - and we took some to church and it kept her pretty occupied during sacrament meeting, opening the egg and eating the snack inside.

The dress is actually from Grandma Diane & Grandpa Mike. We set it out for her to wear for her Easter dress and it was perfect.