Julia Paige!

Well, she's FINALLY here! The doctor's decided I needed to be induced on Friday because baby's heart rate was dropping whenever I would have a contraction. So we went to the hospital and Julia Paige was born on Saturday morning at 10:38 am. She was 6 lbs 12 oz and 19 in long. She is so precious!

The new big sister!
We took that picture of Katey when she was 5 days old. They look identical!

and still waiting...

Yes I know, the ticker up above says I'm 41 days pregnant. No baby yet. Today is officially the latest due date I have gotten. Last Wednesday was the first so that's what I was going by. I guess it was just wishful thinking! Apparently she's not ready to come out yet, though I'm pretty much ready! Pray for me because I'm a little freaked out about the delivery part. Knowing what to expect has made this second one worse than the first! I just can't wait for it to be over and for Julia to be here! I know Jason is really excited and anxious for her to be here too! Hopefully she'll come soon....

a really cool website!

So on Tuesday at MOPS one of the other moms at my table and I were talking about couponing and price matching at Walmart and budgets and all that good stuff. She gave me this website www.moneysavingmom.com and it is SO cool! If your family has any kind of budget, if you like saving money, this website is totally for you! One part that I'm particularly excited about is CVS. I had no idea CVS could be so cool! She explains all about how to get stuff for free there and I just can't wait! Another way we save money in our family is to shop at Wal-Mart for our groceries (Super Wal-Mart or Neighborhood Markets) because they price match other grocery store's prices. We have saved SO much money by shopping there, mainly on produce and meats! I'm a big fan!

just one of those days!

So, yesterday was just one of those days. I'm sure those of you with two-year-olds will understand. Every thing was a battle or caused a meltdown of some sort. Part of it I'm sure was my own mood and the fact that I was really hurting yesterday (I feel like I did after I had Kate, really sore, it's wierd). Katey has this thing where she loves to put her baby (and herself sometimes) into the carseat that we're storing in our room or into a bouncer seat that is also in our room and buckle either baby or herself in. That's great, except she can't do the bottom part of the buckle on the carseat so she needs help with it because everything has to be perfect and she can't undo the buckle once it's done. She wanted this done over and over and over yesterday and bending over was not on the top of my list of things to do! So we had some issues. I finally just made her take baby out and leave her out. This caused another meltdown. Anyway, that was our day! Oh and then she woke up an hour early from her nap, just when I was about to take a nap myself. She's done that maybe once before. Oh well! Needless to say, I was really really really happy when Jason got home. That seemed to cure her (and me) of her bad mood! I am so thankful for a hubby who loves his daughter and loves to play with her! What a blessing!

umm...can somebody say "brush?"

So this is what happens when we put Katey to bed without putting her hair in a braid, ponytail, bun, etc. Complete chaos in the morning! I bought her some kid detangler spray for wet or dry hair and decided to see what would happen if I didn't put her hair up before bed. It worked great! I'm pretty excited about that!

mom!

Well, the last couple of days Katey has gone to calling me "mom." It sounds really wierd coming out of a two-year-old's mouth. She used to, and still does sometimes, call me "mama." It just sounds so grown-up for her to call me "mom." Really precious though!

baby wipes!

So one of Katey's favorite things is playing with baby wipes. She loves to get them and clean her baby. Jason cleaned off baby once with a wipe so now that's the thing to do. Also, we sometimes will clean her feet with a wipe before putting her in bed so now she cleans her own feet AND our feet. She just loves wipes! So today at Target, I bought her the little Kandoo container for toddlers. Now she can have her own special little wipe dispenser. The new rule though is that she has to ask before she gets any wipes so we don't use the whole container in one day! It's nice right now while her likes are fairly inexpensive. We'll enjoy these fleeting times!