East Coast Earthquake

What an experience, my first earthquake, right before a hurricane and I'm 9 months pregnant!  And my daughter starts kindergarten this week!  We are having a very eventful week!  Now if only I go into labor, we'll have a whole new kind of storm to "enjoy."

Just had to document all these events! 

Milestones

We have reached some big milestones recently.  So let me document them here.
Emma has lost 4 teeth, all at once.  She had to have her bottom middle 4 teeth pulled b/c she had 2 permanent teeth coming in behind the baby teeth, not pushing out the baby teeth.  She did so good at the dentist.  We did not tell her ahead of time what might happen so as not to scare her.  We think we would have had a hard time getting her to go if she knew what might happen.  Fortunately, no pain involved in the procedure, guess those baby teeth do not have nerves.  She is okay now and wasn't too upset I didn't tell her ahead of time!  Also Emma has been taking swim lessons.  She would not get her head wet at the pool and was afraid to go underwater.  Until about a month ago.  All of sudden she was going underwater and picked up on swimming like a fish!  So we enrolled her in swim lessons.  She just finished her 2 week course and hopefully will go next year for the next level.  I have a ballet slipper on my keychain, so I told her now we need a flipper too! 
Matthew is getting bigger every day and really developing a personality all his own!  He is 2.5 years old and talking much better.  He is not talking as good as Emma did at his age, but he can get his point across and we are hearing longer and clearer sentences out of him!  He is braver than Emma and can do other things Emma didn't do at his age.  So every kid really is different!
I'm 32 weeks pregnant now.  Due date is 9/14/2011, but I think I am going to schedule a c-section for around 9/6/2011 if I don't go into labor before then.  My doc says he will do a c-section when I'm 39 weeks so I don't have to go past my due date waiting for labor to start.  I think I will go into labor before then though, but at least I will have an end in sight!  This pregnancy hasn't been too bad, varicose veins and short of breath have been my 2 biggest issues.  I've gained less weight so far and everyone says I'm all baby!  Let's hope I can lose the baby fat afterward quickly!
Well, there is my update.  Can't wait to update with baby picture!

Baby Boy

I'm having a baby boy and starting to get more excited about it.  Baby Boy Barbour #2 is due Sept. 14.  We do not have a name picked out yet, but we're working on it.  I'm looking forward to seeing Matthew interact and hope he doesn't get too jealous.  It will be nice to see these 2 grow closer and enjoy each other as they get older.  We won't be sharing a room yet, but maybe in a couple years.  I have Matt's room set up to share but I fear there won't be much sleeping going on.  So we may move the baby into my now office and move the office upstairs.  Still lots of work to do before September!

Closed

I hate that stores are closed today.  I have a chance to go out and do some shopping and nothing will be open!  BLAH! 

Potty Training

Today, I bought a potty for Matthew and the potty training begins!  I need this boy potty trained before September when we welcome the arrival of baby Barbour #3!  I think there is a good chance he will be potty trained soon.  He loves the potty and has been sitting on it since we brought it home!  Let's keep this up and see how it goes!

Disney World

Meeting Rapunzel & Flynn Rider

I still can't seem to add more than one picture at a time!  Oh well, I'll try again later!



What's been going on?

It has been too long since I made an entry.  I started this to keep up on Matt & Emma's progress and track their growth and cute things they say.  Well, so much for that!  I mainly use this to check out decorating blogs which I love.
But I will update on what's been going on.  Emma and I went to visit Jennifer & Autumn Prince in October and went apple picking!  That was a great weekend!  We had so much fun with the girls (and boys!)  Thomas was a trooper and the grownup girls got to take an afternoon and dinner out! 

Then in December we had our Disney Trip!  That was a wonderful trip.  Emma's 2nd time at Disney and Matthew's 1st time!  Emma was able to dress up like a princess and she picked Snow White's dress.  She is a beautiful princess!  Matthew did great on the trip and slept all night every night in the big bed with Emma at the room.  We hope we can go back in a couple years. 

I want to upload a picture but I can't seem to get it to work, I'll post some pics from Disney later.

Matthew is 2 years old now!  Growing up so fast.  He isn't talking much, but he says lots of different words, just not in a sentence structure.  I'm sure I'll hear some talk about it from the doctor at his well visit.  His hair grows so fast, I can't keep up with cutting it!  He has great hair!  He may be starting preschool soon.  I feel he needs some socializing and less attachment to me. 

Emma is 5 and will start kindergarten in the fall.  Hard to believe my baby is 5 years old.  She will enjoy school.  I think she will do well scholarly, but may have a hard time socially.  She hasn't been around alot of kids, just every now and then and I think not being #1 is going to be a big adjustment.  But it will be good for her!

That's life in a nutshell, kind of boring, but I'm enjoying it!