Yes, I'm about 3 weeks late announcing who guessed what. Here are the results :)
Crystal- boy
Alan - girl
Sherry(Crystal's sister) - girl
Debbie(Alan's mom) - boy
Rhobie(Alan's stepdad) - boy
Lauren(Crystal's friend) - girl
Amanda (Crystal's best friend)- girl
Amos(Alan's dad) - girl
Kari(Crystal's friend) - girl
Amy H(Crystal's friend) - boy
Lynn(Alan's aunt) - boy
April (Crystal's cousin) - boy
Windy (Crystal's cousin) - boy
Royal (Crystal's friend) girl
8 people guessed girl and 7 guessed boy!
My mom didn't put a guess in but she said she felt like it was a girl from the beginning (she also thought it was twins and I'm glad she was wrong on that one!)
Thanks for playing my little game! I will try to remember to put the results of the birthday, weight and height after Riley makes her grand entrance! People's guesses for the birthday range from December 30 to January 11! Her due date is January 8!
Growing baby-She's busy flexing her arms and legs — movements that you'll start
noticing more and more in the weeks ahead. Her blood vessels are visible
through her thin skin, and her ears are now in their final position,
although they're still standing out from her head a bit. A protective
covering of myelin is beginning to form around her nerves, a process
that will continue for a year after she's born. Her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place.
How big is your baby? Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long, and she weighs almost 7 ounces (about the size of a bell pepper).
Symptoms- round ligament pains, really bad headaches(I think it's from tension in my neck though), I'm feeling her kick a lot more but it's still not consistant and I can't tell what her schedule is. I don't typically feel her until 10am. It seems like I feel her every 2-3 hours. I hope that means she's a fantastic napper! :)
Weight- 110 lbs
Total weight gain/loss: gained .4 since last week. Still have 3 lbs to go to get to pre pregnancy weight
Belly measures- 31"
Craving-subs, salad
Bought- 10 pair of newborn pants, newborn outfit, newborn shirt, 2 pair of size 1 shoes and 3 headbands(Madison also got 3 pair of shoes and 3 bracelets-she's not being left out :) )
Done- not a whole lot to prepare. Still trying to get ideas on her room. Will try to find curtains and go from there since it's always so hard to find curtains to match the room, we will match the room to curtains! :)
Looking forward to- my massage and mani/pedion Saturday, Alan's birthday
1. When you were little what did you want to be when you grew up? Professional ice skater. Then a dolphin trainer
2. What was your favorite way to kill time as a kid? I was constantly riding my bike with a friend up the road. From the time school let out until dark. Our neighbor had a trampoline and we would jump on it a lot too. We also played in the woods a lot.
3. When did you get your first cell phone?
I think I was 21 or 22. A late bloomer, yes, but I was always with someone that had one and I didn't feel the need for one at the time.
4. What is your favorite magazine to read?
I subscribe to Redbook and Good Housekeeping. I also love Southern Living but do not currently suscribe
5. What is the one random object people would be surprised to find in your purse?
I don't keep unnecessary things in there. Just my wallet, checkbook, travel container of wipes and Chapstick.
I can't believe she will be 2 next month! Ack!! This was a fun month. Her vocabulary is crazy good. She says 4 and 5 word sentences sometimes. It's insane. She's such a sponge! You tell her something once and she remembers it for life. She's great at associating items with who bought them or gave them to her. "Grandma's turtle"(she put a lot of coins in it last time she was here) "Nimmie's hat"(she bought it for her) or the funniest thing the other day was the sheriff of a nearby town was on tv and she said "Pepaw" (Alan's dad). He does actually favor him a bit at quick glance. Any white tshirt that Alan wears is "Daddy's lawnmower shirt" It's also really nice because she can now tell you "no like it" or "down" or "hold you"(me), "eat/hungry" or "good".. It makes the guessing game so much easier! She now knows what she wants and will happily tell you "o-KAY" if she wants it or "no like it" if she doesn't want it.
She's also learned to say her name this month and even said "Madison Grace" one day. She will sometimes say "Madison eat it" or "Madison wear it".. it's cute.
We have been working on numbers and she will say "2" after we say "1" and will say "3,4,5,6" randomly! We're getting there I think!
She got a small cold this month. I can't remember the last time she's had a cold. The same day she woke up with a cold, she got stung by a bee :( I was worried because we have severe bee allergies in my family but luckily she had no reaction and only cried for about 5 seconds afterward! She had some allergy meds in her system from the cold so I'm hoping that helped with the pain afterward. She's a tough cookie, that girl!
She is growing out of some of her 2T shirts and I'm now buying 3T when I buy her shirts. In.sane. She is so tall! She towers over kids older than her. In size 4 and some 5 shoes, size 4 diapers(5 at night). Her schedule is still the same. She gets up between 8-9am(sleeps all night since 4 months old), naps around 1 or 2 for 1-2 hours then goes to bed between 7:30-8. People can't believe she sleeps from 8-8 at least, but she does. Sometimes she will wake up with a nightmare and we bring her to our bed but it's very rare. She goes down without a fuss and will play in her bed for 30 minutes-1 hour at naps and bedtime, depending on how tired she is, and then will put herself to sleep. She really is a fantastic sleeper and we know that we are pretty blessed with this. I know lots of toddlers that wake up at 6 or 7am. I'm sure when she starts school next month, she will start waking early because we will have to wake early(7:30) to get to school on time for the days she goes. I'm hoping she will sleep till 9 on the 2 days she isn't going :) One can hope!
Loves- Barney, any new toy, books, fruit, ice cream, Air heads, slushies
Dislikes-meat sometimes but is starting to eat more.
As long as she has her Mickey pillow, a blanket and a book, she's ready for nap time!
This girl should be a model.
She kept saying "Train like it, round and round". So funny!
... eating breakfast on the porch while Madison plays in her sand/water table in her pjs.
Every now and then she will ask to "eat outside", grab her breakfast and head for the door. It's a nice change of pace and we try to do it once a week or so.
...working in the yard.
We yanked out all of those ginormous bushes that are covering half of the windows.
We replaced them with some smaller bushes that shouldn't get quite as big.
We are also in the process of pulling weeds. You can see here where we stopped. Thinking of putting a layer of newspaper under our mulch for weeds. thoughts? The purple tall flowers are our replacement bushes.
Here are the other replacement bushes. They have small white flowers on them. They were tiny when we got them about a month ago. All this rain has made them quadruple in size!
We also got some mulch delivered on Thursday. Can't wait to get this out and get the house looking presentable again. Sorry neighbors but it will likely be Saturday or Sunday before it gets put out.
...long to-do lists!
I got all of this list done yesterday except planning our trips that we have coming up. I'd say that was a good yet busy day! I now have another long to-do list. Nothing major though.
-Ex.er.cise! I keep saying this but I'm for reals this time. I haven't felt good the past few days and I am feeling just kind of blah. Like I'm missing something. That something is a little walking in the neighborhood. Getting my heart rate up and maybe listening to some non-Barney or Mickey music.
-Along with that goes eating better. For us and Madison. I would like for us to snack on fruit and nuts instead of Doritoes and Sprite. I picked up lots of fruit at the store and got Madison some healthier snacking options. Her snack bowl was being overrun by sugar filled gummies, pretzel and cheese dip-its and goldfish. I blame thank Kari over at Better Together and Brittany over at A Healthy Slice of Life for posting their Munchkin Meals weekly post today.(Click their blog names to see what their kids are eating!) I will be finding, printing and making Madison some healthy snacks as well in the next couple of days. Go to A Healthy Slice of Life for some really great, healthy food/snack ideas for your kids. I will be pulling some recipes from there and will review them in the upcoming weeks/months.
-Figure out the route we want to go with Riley's room. Her walls are a silvery blue and I'm thinking hot pink accents. I found some cute polka dotted sheets at Target and thought that'd be a cute route to take. I love Madison's vinyl tree in her room(see below) and would like some sort of non-tree vinyl for Riley's.
-Schedule another date night with Alan. In July we went out to a seafood restaurant while his mom had Madison. Royal at Royal Proclaims told me about a yummy newish restaurant in our area that we need to try.
-Try to schedule a mini-vacation or a week long vacation before December. Also, book our annual Christmas tree trip.
-For goodness sake, get Madison's 2 year photobook caught up and possibly start Riley's 1st year. I need to get with it!
I think that's enough goals for now. What are some of your goals for August?
-Comment on other blogs more.
I am leaving comments on a few of the blogs I follow. A handful of the ones I follow have thousands of followers and I will comment if something strikes my fancy. A few of those are DIY type blogs with some family stuff mixed in. I also follow a ton of coupon/saving blogs and I won't comment on those because there's nothing to say really. Now if I could get a reply in email when/if the person comments, that'd be great. How do you set that setting?
-Exercise.
Nope. Big fail. I have walked a couple of times but I am vowing to do that for August. I'm feeling blah in that department.
-Work on Riley's room.
Done! It's still a huge work in progress but I'm slowly selling some of Madison's out of season clothes online and getting Riley's stuff hung up. I will post more on this in a few days :)
-Work on Madison's 2 year book.
I did upload some picturesfor it. My computer is so slow, I get more aggravated doing it than not. I need to use Alan's computer to work on it and will start soon!
-Find and buy invitations to her party and figure out what in the world we're buying her.
Invitation part done! Last night, nonetheless, but we got it done! They will be here mid-August so be looking for them! As far as what we're getting her, I'm not sure. We have some ideas. I will be emailing out some ideas as well to those who've asked.
