Monday

I had a doctor's appointment first thing this morning. Aaron stayed home with the kids, and I took the truck. The sun was shining, the air was fresh and cool, so I rolled down the windows and cranked the volume up on the radio and sang to myself at the top of my lungs all the way to the doctor's office. I wish I could start every morning like this, it put me in such a good mood. Not even a glucose test, having my blood drawn, and a shot to vaccinate my baby for whooping cough were able to ruin it. I highly recommend driving a truck. :)

Baby is doing well, growing like she should and all that. I go back in two weeks. Yikes! We're already down to the "appointment every two weeks" time frame. Kind of hard to believe.

In other news, Ollie is rockin' the toddler bed. Normally we don't do toddler beds, we just go straight to the twin bed; but this time around we really weren't ready to fork out money for a twin bed, and we couldn't figure out where we'd put one if we did. One of my awesome friends has a kid who has recently outgrown their toddler bed, and she gave it to us for free. Awesome! It seemed like a great temporary solution until we can agree on how to rearrange our children's bedrooms to promote optimum sleep.

Anyways, I thought we'd better put him in it right away, because it took Adelia ages and ages to learn how to sleep in her bed when we took her out of the crib. And I wanted Ollie to be used to his bed by the time Baby comes.

The very first night I did our normal bedtime routine, and layed him in the bed. He got out of the bed once, and got nervous in the dark and started to cry. I came up and put him back to bed. He cried a couple other times, because he'd kicked his blankets off, and wanted me to fix them, but never got out of the bed again. Then he fell asleep and slept all the way through the night, and has every night since. Sweet. I still put him in the crib for naps though. We'll figure that one out later. Right now I still very much need him to take naps during daytime without a fight.

And this happened at dinner the other night: "Show Mommy how the piggies eat!" (I didn't really say that, but I totally thought it when I saw him doing this.)

And Adelia is cute. So much personality packed into one small girl.