30 weeks

Yeah, I know, big.

The rest of my body isn't that big (it is bigger, but not huge), but the tummy is massive.

Believe me, I have heard it all. Multiple people have told me that I am going to have a big baby, or that I am big, or asked is there just one?. None of which I want to hear. Don't think I don't look in the mirror and think I am huge. Being told that I have a big baby in there does not make me feel good. I have to push out that big baby in 10 weeks.

I don't think I looked this big at 40 weeks with Grace. Its probably a boy.

Gingerbread house making

I thought that it would be really fun for Grace and I to make a gingerbread house. And it was fun, for the first 10 minutes. I bought one of those pre-made house kits from Michaels. It had the house pieces, the icing mix and all the candy.

We started off by making the icing. Grace made her mommy so proud when she tried eating all the icing. She even actually picked up the icing bag and started sucking on the tip. I guess I passed on my deep love of icing to her. But eating the icing kept her busy while I put the house together. I finally had to cut her off from the icing. Only after she started picking off the icing that I had put on the house for windows and doors. I felt like a bad mom for letting her eat so much of it.

Then came the candy. Of course she was more interested in eating it than actually putting it on the house. And I kept putting candy on the house and she kept eating it off. This is the point where she started to lose interest and I started to get frustrated. I threw all the candy on and called 'er quits. It seriously looks like a 5 year old made it. I am a little embarassed at how it looks I won't even post pictures of it. I always have these visions of making a super-sweet house and it looking so cool. That never happens.

I tried to atleast wait a few days before I started to eat the candy off of it. No such luck.



She looks so innocent here. Um, no Grace we can all see that you have icing all over your hands and face.


I love when she says "cheese". And her little canines poking out of the gums!



For some reason my spice drawer is her fav spot to be. she is always pushing the chair over and opening the drawer and poking around in there.

Luckily I usually catch her before she gets these bottles open. Not going to be very happy the time that I find coconut extract all over the place.

And yes, she still has icing all over her hands and face.

You can see the house in the background. The windows and door are still intact at this point. She hasn't started picking them off yet. I think as soon as I shut the drawer she went in for the kill.

Santa Ho ho ho

We tried to prepare Grace to see Santa this year. We have been talking about him, showing her pictures and generally trying to make her feel at ease.

We went to the mall in Lethy and there was Santa. We walked up and showed her Santa and she said "Hohoho Santa". We stood there for a bit and let it all soak in for her. We decided to do another lap of the mall just to ease her into it. When we walked away she reached out her arms for Santa and said "Santa". We did a lap of the mall and told Grace that she was going to sit on Santas lap and he would give her a Candy Cane and that everything would be ok. She said "yup" to everything, like she was ready for it.

We went back and stood in line to get pictures. She was fine and kept saying "hohoho".

When our turn came to sit on Santa...



Yup, I would say it went well.

Baby B

We had our ultrasound well over a month ago, I just never posted anything about it.

We don't know the sex of the baby. We like to have the surprise at the end. Although I would be lying if I said that I don't think and wonder ALL the time what the sex is. It drives me crazy not knowing. Some women just know what the sex is and are right when the baby is born. I guess I am not that intune with my uterus. lol.

I was just happy when my Dr. told me that everything looked healthy and normal. When you can't see what is going on in there and have no idea what is happening, it is nice to hear that everything so far appears normal.

Part of me thinks that maybe they missed a second baby in there because I am way bigger than with Grace and already uncomfortable. But I guess I will have to trust that they were right and there is just one.

The ultrasound itself was just whatever. I was super excited for it. You know, you get to see your baby. But I left feeling just a little disappointed. First of all, Brett booked his morning off of patients so that he could come and be there, and they didn't even let him in till the very end. In Saskie he got to come in and see everything. I get they they have different rules, but I wish they would have told me ahead of time so that he didn't have to sit in the waiting room for 45 minutes. Second, the tech was running behind, so when Brett finally got to come in, the guy rushed us through the 'tour'. "Here's head, brain, heart, stomach, hands, legs. Here are your pictures, you can pay for them in the lobby". I guess atleast I got to see it.

Here is one of the pics that we got. Profile pic. The other ones we got a the face straight on and the foot. I think that it looks just like Grace's picture did. Same little nose. Maybe all babies look the same at this stage. Even though it is all labeled I had to point everything out to my mom, she just couldn't see a baby's face in it. She asked if it was like one pictures that you have to squint your eyes to see.

Funny Grace

Ok, I had to post some funny things that Grace has said lately, more so so that I will remember. She makes me laugh.

The other day she was playing with a phone and put it up to her ear and said (in a deep voice),

"Hello, bajhfahj ahjhfjh Panda, Bye"

I don't know what the two middle words are, all I got is that she was talking to a panda or asking for a panda. What is even funnier is that she did it 4 or 5 times. Then did it again later that night with her play phone and continues to do it daily. Not sure where the panda thing comes from, but she obviously wants to talk to it.


Then today she was standing on the couch and folded her arms and said,

"Heavenly Father, (pause) Amen"

She said her first prayer. It was so cute. When we say family prayer or bless the food, she always says amen (loudly), but I didn't think the other stuff was sticking. So cute.

Shivers

We took Grace to another Hockey game last night. She was a good girl again and this time I didn't even have to get popcorn. She entertained Brett and I and all the people around us. She would stand on her chair and point out the goalies and was sure to point out to everyone when "Shivers" came around (the mascot). Everytime a siren would go off her mouth and her eyes would get so wide. The best part was when she even started doing the wave with everyone. The wave would come around and her arms would go up. So cute.

I think that she likes to keep some distance between her and Shivers, because I took her onto the concourse to meet him and she cried when we got to close. She just likes to point him out and see him at a distance.

I actually brought a camera to this game. Although I brought my old crappy camera (it fits better in my purse), so the pictures are not great at all. But we decked Grace out in her Oilers jersey. I guess we will have to get her a little Kootenay Ice jersey if she is going to keep going to all the games.

She is intently watching shivers on the ice at intermission. She didn't take her eyes off him.

I guess the Raffi and Sharon, Lois, and Bram that I have been playing at home is the wrong kind of dancing music for Grace. She was seriously busting a move to the music that they were playing at the game.

I love her little "Cheese" grin. She looks at the camera and says "cheese". Cracks me up.

Halloween

I think that I was more excited to take Grace trick-or-treating than anyone else, including Grace. I took her into Brett's office on Friday, just to have another excuse to wear her costume somewhere. Then Saturday we took her out to a few friends houses. She didn't really understand it, but did like getting candy in her little bucket.

I was shocked that she wanted to wear her costume for so long. Including the hat part. Harley on the other hand hated his costume. But we still made him wear it all night long. Grace does say "Happy Ween" and "trick-o-teat". But never at the door infront of anyone else.

I actually really like handing out candy. I didn't feel bad for eating some candy too, considering I had to run up and down the stairs so many times to answer the door.

She seriously posed herself like this.

Being a monkey and climbing and then jumping off. Jumpy as she calls it.

Aunty Lissa gave her this CD player and it is awesome. She plays her music and loves to push the buttons. She points at it and says "Dancey".

Harley didn't move from this position till I took the costume off.

See, still hasn't moved.

I love this picture. She kept giving him hugs and kisses. He, of course, didn't move.

Her first house. We stopped by one of the Hygenists at Bretts office.

After that we just went to friends houses.

She was a good little trick-or-treater.