Just for Uncle Ryan!

Makayla is wearing her Razorback dress in honor of her Uncle Ryan becoming a Razorback this week. We are all very excited! As you can see she thinks that she is a model in her new dress.

We will probably not be able to get this dress off of her tonight. She'll probably want to sleep in it.

Eventhough Uncle Ryan is more of a football kind of guy Makayla is trying to improve her golf swing. Uncle Ryan is not really much of a golfer, but I am sure that he would play with her if she asked:)

The only downside...We can't move to Fayetteville too! Even Makayla feels the need to protest our living in a town with nothing to do while Uncle Ryan gets to live in Fayetteville with more stuff to do than he has time to do it:)

Just a family update

We have been really busy lately considering that I feel we have nothing to show for all the work we have been doing. That is kind of disappointing. Makayla stayed with my parents in Newport this weekend. I have to admit that I missed her much more than usual! I am always ready to pick her up, but I was really ready to get her this time. She typically stays just one night but stayed 2 night this trip. I wish I could say that we got a lot of work done around the house while she was gone, but we didn't. I think I was just worn out from the work week because we laid around practically all day on Saturday. We did go to Little Rock to eat and watch a movie on Saturday night, but I am sad to say that is the most we accomplished the entire weekend. Makayla did have a great weekend with her Granna, Grandaddy, and Uncle Ryan though.

She has been surprising me so much lately. Since she goes to school all day it is always such a pleasant surprise for me to find out that she knows something that I was unaware that she even knew. It always happens like that. Last night she told me to sit down on the mat in the playroom for circle (like circle time they have at school). I did, so she went into teacher mode and taught me the days of the week. I didn't realize that she even knew that. LOL! It's things like that I don't know about because I don't think to ask her "Do you know the days of the week?". The same thing happens with books. We will read her a book only to realize that she already has 75% of the book memorized. I always think "hmm...I guess they read this book at school too". We are just so blessed to have found such kind, loving people to take care of and teach our little girl!

Baby Update...Last week I woke up in the middle of the night to a couple of painful braxton hicks contractions. The painful ones let up but the contractions still continued. I called and talked to the nurse, and she basically told me not to worry about it because they had slowed down to a contraction every hour or 2. That is normal apparently. I don't know really because I didn't have them much at all with Makayla. Guess that's why we pay our OB's. I had my regular 34 week appointment today, and Dr. Williams wanted to go ahead and check me because of the contractions I have been having. Guess what?!? Not that it means anything at all, but I am already dilated to 1.5 cm. At least something is happening even though I feel a little weird since I am only 34 weeks. He assured me that it was totally normal for a mom who has already had a baby before. Once again...That's why we pay him the big bucks.

Just pics...

I just liked these pictures of Makayla, so I thought that I would share them with you guys.

sprinkler

It was really hot here a couple of weeks ago! Makayla decided to cool off by playing in the sprinkler. She liked it a lot!

Allergist and baby update

I think that this is the only picture that I have ever posted here that I did not take myself. Nathan took this picture of Makayla in her crown at burger king tonight. We went out to eat as a reward because she was so good today during her allergy testing. She had to lay still on her belly for 20 minutes. I was so proud that she was such a big girl. They brought a TV in for her to watch while she was waiting on her belly. I did not expect her to be so cooperative, but I am glad that she was. No complaints here.

There is no bad news on the food allergy front, but there is also very little change. She is still allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts, and beef, but she was negative for pork and cashews. At least we didn't get the news that she now has more allergies. We can live with these allergies now just as we have for the past year and a half. It's just normal for us now I guess. At least now she can have ham and bacon.

I also went to the baby doctor yesterday. We had our last ultrasound. Kellan is a whopping 3.8 lbs at 30 weeks gestation. That is actually average not big, but 3.8 lbs seems big to me considering that he still has 10 weeks left to bake. His room is a mess, but at least Makayla's junk is not in there anymore. It seems to just be the holding pen for all of his stuff that we refuse to allow to take over the whole house until he is actually living here. We haven't even converted the toddler bed back to a crib nor have we rearranged the furniture to make it look a bit different than it did when it was Makayla's room. We are taking our time with the preperations, but I am sure that we will get it done in time. I fear that it will be just in time though because there is just so little time to do things like that when there is also a toddler running around.

A mind of her own

Makayla definitely has a mind of her own... This is what she wanted to wear to church a couple of weeks ago. Her dress that I planned for her to wear is hanging on the door behind her. She did end up wearing the dress, but the transition between this outfit (nightgown,easter necklace, and church shoes) and her dress was not pretty. I'll just leave it at that.

I also have to add that she loves to take pictures on her bed like this. I had her do it once, and not she wants to smile for the camera everytime she lays on her bed like this.

27 weeks

I can't believe that I am already 27 weeks along in this pregnancy. That only leaves 13 weeks before Kellan is estimated to arrive. I feel huge. After looking at this picture though I realize that my baby belly is not nearly as huge as it feels. We still have to get the rest of Makayla's things out of her old room, so we have made very little progress with baby preperations. I did pick out bedding last week when I registered. I am looking forward to getting his nursery together but am seriously lacking the energy to get anything done. We will probably get started after we get the bedding. I am just ready to meet him and see what he looks like.