zoo day

We woke up to sunshine on Thursday and Kjells declared it a zoo day.  Being the middle of the week in January there was hardly anyone else there, but lots of animals were out enjoying the day.  All the cats, gorilla's and hippos were out and playing.  

The sun might have been out but it was cold!

Good thing she wore her rainboots.

We were able to track down almost all the animals in her book.  Except for the zebra's, the zoo claims to have a pair but we've never been able to find them.

22 weeks

Pregnancy highlights

How far along: 22 weeks 6 days

Size of baby: A papaya, 10.7 inches and 12.9 oz.

Total weight gain: I'll find out at my appointment next week.

Gender: Boy!  Kjella definitely has a favorite name picked out.  She also likes the idea of calling the new baby Kjella, big surprise.

Movement:  Lots of swimming around going on in there.  He's especially active in the evenings, I'll feel lots of kicks at work too.

Sleep: Kjella's sleep has been no good this week which means mine hasn't been either. 

What I miss:  Nothing this week.

Cravings: Still loving lots of juice, preferably from concentrate.  Weird.

Symptoms: Last week after I showered I noticed a bruise on my upper outer thigh.  It was still there this week and after looking a little closer I realized it's not a bruise at all but a patch of spider veins.  Blah.

Best moment this week: Sunshine!  After being cooped up in the house all last week it was nice to get back to our routine.

school days

After the holidays, MLK Jr day and all that snow it was nice to be back to school this week.  

Kjella has a lot of fun in class.  She especially loves painting and playing with her favorite buddies.  The teacher always tells the kids in so and so minutes it'll be time to start cleaning up before we head to the gym.  Kjella always runs to find me "Mama, clean up.  It's time to go to the gym!"  She likes holding hands with her classmates when we walk outside and has definitely gotten comfortable with the routine.  I think she'd be fine without me there on Monday's but I really do enjoy spending the time with her.

A little girl in her class made the comment that "Kjella just loves rainboots".  Made me laugh but it's true, this girl never wants to miss a puddle.

jimmy rigged

This happened.

things she says

After seeing me toss a toy across the room "Mama, don't throw that. It's dangerous".

Pointing out what Chip and Dale episode on youtube she wanted to watch and John told her to hold on while he found one that had better quality. She looked at him dumbfounded and asked "quality?"

"Just a minute. Just a minute". And "I am NOT ready yet". When we're trying to get out the door.

"Oh, wait. I forgot my purse". Having to run back into the house.

Two weeks ago we were talking about animals and Kjells said she wanted to go to the zoo. It was raining so I told her we'd go when the weather was nicer. When I opened the blinds yesterday morning the sun was out and Kjells promptly declared "time to go to the zoo!". She was not to happy when I told her it was a school day. This morning while I'm still in bed she peeks out the blinds and sadly tells me "oh, no zoo today. It's raining, maybe tomorrow."

She'll pick up a piece of random conversation and disagree's with it. I say to John I thought something was kind of spicy and she yells "It was not spicy!"

While taking a bath or reading books she stops and says "I hear something" when I ask her what she tells me a pig/rooster/mouse.

When we lay on the couch together she'll pat my head and tell me "your hair is beautiful Mama." Never gets old.

I love listening to her play with her ponies. The conversations are too cute. "Be careful Fluttershy, your hair is getting wet". "No you can't fly. Only I can fly, you have magic". She knows all of their names and if you get one wrong she is quick to correct you "that is NOT Twilight Sparkle, she's Radiant".

snowbunny

 We made our way out to play in the snow some more this morning.  The snow was much wetter and we were able to make an impressive snowman.  A snow plow had made it's way up the driveway and around our parking lot so even though there was less to trek through the ground was much more slippery.  All around us we could hear the trees dripping and snow falling off of branches.

Right when Kjella told me she was cold and ready to to go inside we started to feel sprinkles.  The rain started and after a few hours turned most of that snow into slush.  Not sure how long our poor snowman will survive.

21 weeks

Pregnancy highlights

How far along: 21 weeks 5 days

Size of baby: A banana, 10.5 inches and 12.7 oz.

Total weight gain: The bump is growing.

Gender: Boy!  I love hearing Kjella say the names we like, even if she veto's most of them.

Movement: Finally!  More and more movement over the last few days.  We even saw the belly jump a few times when he was rolling around.

Sleep: I've been going to bed earlier this week.  Not sure if it's being cooped up in the house because of the snow but I feel tired.  

What I miss:  Nothing this week.

Cravings: Nothing I had to have but I did make another batch of pecan chocolate chip cookies last night.

Symptoms: Random one that I forgot about having the first time is my leg hair grows much slower.  Instead of shaving every other day it's only needed every five or six.  Not a bad one!

Best moment this week: Feeling the baby move and spending some snow days with my girl.