No Baby

Just thought I would post that there has still been no baby. She is taking he sweet time...hopefully one of these days!

Merry Christmas

Well I thought I should hurry and post our Christmas pics before the baby comes and I ignore the world for a little while. Just a side note...no I have not had the baby yet and have no signs of her coming other than my due date is in a few days. Hopefully she will decide to join us soon. Anyway, we had a fun holiday this year even though I felt so tired the entire time. My parents are in town for Christmas and we spent Christmas Eve at my aunts house with lots of family; cache had a blast with all the kids. We were awoken early Christmas morning with cache calling out to everyone that he was ready to open his presents. Dave and I bought him a miniature trampoline. It is perfect because he can get on and off by himself and I don't have to worry about him falling off or getting hurt. We have been just hanging out the rest of the time...unfortunately we all got sick with a cold and cough but hopefully it is almost done running its course. I am so worried about having a baby at this time of the year; I hope she stays healthy and we don't have any problems. Well, that has been our Christmas in a nutshell. Hopefully we will get the new addition to our family in the next couple of days. Happy Holidays! (PS sorry all the pics are out of order.)

Cache on his trampoline

I think Dave reaches the weight maximum

Christmas Eve Playing ping pong

Cache Christmas morning

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve family pic

Grandma, Cache, and Grandpa Christmas Eve

What would you do...?

Last night was a traumatic night for me. I decided to go get my nails done and do a little shopping while dave stayed at home and put cache to bed. I was heading home around 9 and decided to stop at the Mcdonalds on Gilbert and Germann. While I was in the drive thru I looked out the window and there was a truck in the sears parking lot and I saw an older man pushing a younger (like in her early twenties) into the truck and slam the door. He started walking to the driver seat and I see her open the door as he runs back over and shoves her back into the car and slams the door again. Have you ever watched those 20/20 or datelines that interview the girls getting kidnapped in broad daylight in very public areas and no one did anything to help them? I always watched those and vowed to never be one of the onlookers that just stare and say oh well, must be domestic or whatever. But I have to say when in that situation I sat there dumbfounded not really knowing what to do. I wanted to drive by the car and get the license plate number but there were cars blocking me in the drive thru and I couldn't understand why no one else was concerned. So after the man pushed the girl in the car the second time he just stood at her door yelling at her to stay in the car...lotsa cuss words...and she opened the door again yelling for help which at that point I began to dial 911. I then saw she ran out of the car to the nearby restaurant and the man took off. I hung up the phone because I saw another lady standing at the restaurant on the phone telling the girl to get inside. The police called my phone back and I gave them a description of what was going on and they did say the other lady at the restaurant had also called and reported it. After the entire incident was over I think it looked like a dispute between a parent and child because of the way it was played out, but it made me think...why did I wait so long to call the police and why were there so many people around and yet only one lady was walking towards the car? Should we really all mind our own business? What if that was you? What if no one helped you and you were taken. All I can say was that was a little too emotional of a night for a 9 1/2 month pregnant woman. I cried all the way home to a very concerned husband.

So, basically November...

Wow it is the end of the month and I am that much closer to having this baby. I am so very ready to pop this one out. This month in November I am no longer really sleeping very well, am usually in pain, have lotsa heartburn, and have had my patience and sanity pushed to my limit with an unamed 2 year old. However, November has also brought family, friends, parties, and my favorite...a finished baby room. Whoopie!!! My family (except for Clayton and Tiaunna) came out for Thanksgiving. I wish we could live by all of our family so we could see eachother more often. We all had a blast and Cache like always loves the attention he gets. Grandpa never even complained about being woken up each morning between 6:30 and 7 to cache staring at him waiting for him to wake up. He always seemed to be the one who cache chose to visit first each morning. My mom and sister in law Annie threw me a baby shower which looked super cute and we had a bunch of fun games that I think everyone really enjoyed. I am so thankful for my family and friends, it really means a lot to me that they have taken the time to support me. I cannot even begin to thank my mom who has done so much for me while here in AZ, she helped me make everything for my baby room, put up with my emotional meltdowns these past few weeks, helped me with cache, and helped throw me a baby shower. I couldn't ask for a better mom. I love this time of the year because you get to constantly be reminded of the things you are thankful for and the people in your life who are so important.

The food at the shower was delicious...lots of yummy treats and crepes made my uncle who is a great baker.

The present table

All the gals

The baby room!!!! It is done and I love it...so girly

Baby Room

Ok so I have been obsessed with getting the baby room ready...I have this compulsive disorder that does not allow me to accomplish anything else unless I get my project done. With my mom in town things have been rolling along pretty good. We have a few more big projects and then everything else is pretty small and just accessories. I think it is turning out so cute and am happy with the results. I posted a few pics just to prove my progress!

So the silver leafing dresser did not pan out and it was just so much easier to paint the dresser white and add some cute knobs. Originally bought some knobs at Anthropolgie for like $8 a knob then went to hobby lobby and they had the EXACT same knobs on sale for $2 each. Took those puppies back to Anthropologie and saved myself some moola!

Baby Bedding I just finished making...some mistakes here and there (which make me so mad after how long it takes) but all in all it turned out good.

I have curtains to match but they are at the cleaners so when more progress is made I will post more pics.

Halloween 2009

We had so much fun this Halloween. Grandma was here to join us, the night was perfect (like 70 degree weather,) and we went trick or treating with neighbors and cache's cousin Luke. My little Cachey was so cute to watch...he was in heaven running from house to house saying trick or treat and getting candy. I thought after a while he would get tired but we went for over an hour and a half and he was still going strong. We are so lucky to have had such a fun group for him to go with, it made it so much fun. After we got home and Cache went to bed we ate some of our favorite candies, threw most of it away, and left a few more for him to eat. To be honest I was more afraid I would eat all the candy then I am about him eating it. Oh being pregnant around the holiday's is just asking for major weight gain.

Cache with his cousin and friend

Sam, Cache, and Luke (this is the only picture I got of Cache's whole costume)

Potty Training 101

It has now been about 2 1/2 weeks since we began the whole potty training. I felt like Cache was ready and with the urging from my pediatrician to get him potty trained before the baby I decided we should start earlier than later in case things fall flat. I must say that he is about 80% potty trained with a little problem areas here and there. Most of the day he doesn't have accidents although it seems some days are better than others. He doesn't really tell me when he has to go potty I just keep asking him like every hour and remind him he gets candy if he goes on the potty (yes I am one of those parents who has no shame in bribing her child!) However, we have come across a rough patch and I am in need of any advice anyone can give me. Cache has never pooped on the potty, he would either do it in his underwear or on the floor or in his pull ups. So on saturday we tried all day to get him to go on the toilet and would remind him if he goes poop on the potty he gets a toy (again the bribing tactics.) Well when evening rolled around he started crying that his bum bum hurt and was running around like a looney person holding his butt. We assumed he had to poop but was either confused on where to go or constipated. So we tried putting him on the toilet, read books, sat there forever....nothing. For like an hour he would just cry and I finally had enough and put a diaper on him. Still he wouldn't poop. He just cried and ran around saying it hurt, I seriously was at my witts end. So we went in the bathroom (with his diaper on) and I just rubbed his belly and tried to get him to relax and he finally went. Then the next day it happened again so I didn't know what to do other than just put a diaper on and ignore him. We haven't mentioned to "poop" word around him for the past few days, but I just don't know what to do. I decided to do nothing yesterday and leave him in his underwear all day (except at nap and bedtime I put a pull up on) and he just didn't poop. This is very unusual for my child. Nothing so far today but I am sure he is bound to run around crying at some point holding his butt. What do I do? I feel so bad but I really just don't want to scare him anymore about pooping and I know it hurts him waiting so long. I think this is what I get for the peeing part being so easy. Anyway, any suggestions would be helpful.