Sunday, February 28, 2010

busy day

If looks could kill...



I was trying to get a picture of these super cute pj's, but someone did not want to cooperate...


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We had our first water babies swim class this morning.  It was at one of the schools we went to look at last week and while we were there we saw the pool area and Poppy seemed interested, but "Only if mommy and daddy and Poppy can hold hands in the pool."  The maternity bathing suit I ordered didn't come in yet, so I explained that I couldn't go in the water to hold her hand, but daddy could and I would take pictures on the sidelines.  As you can see from the (blurry) pictures, she loved being in the water...





And then as soon as she woke up from her nap it was off to her friend Brendan's Elmo themed birthday party.  She's been talking about this party for weeks, carrying the invitation around the house every chance she got.


She said her favorite part of the party was the cupcakes, but I think it was this little car that we couldn't tear her away from...


And in baby name news, Poppy has changed her name to "Deisel Engine Baby".  As far as us, we've got nothing for boy names.  I'd love to hear any ideas!!!


Oh, and I just want to share this funny story - tonight I was trying on my new shipment of maternity clothes that I got in the mail and Marc and Poppy were playing around on our bed.  One of Poppy's favorite books lately is "Alligator Baby" by Robert Munsch - and her favorite part is when the mom holds her belly and says "A BABY! A BABY! I'M HAVING A BABY!".  So Poppy lays down on my part of the bed, pretends to put my bra on and says, "Look, I'm mommy.  A baby! A baby! I'm having a baby!" and then proceeds to lift her shirt up to show us her belly.  Oh, this girl cracks me up.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Well......

IT'S A BOY!!!!

We went for our sonogram this morning.  I had absolutely no feeling either way, whether it was a boy or a girl.  Marc was betting on a boy, and Poppy switched her vote to a girl as of yesterday. 


We brought Poppy with us and she was really excited to see a picture of her "baby sister" and patiently waited as the sonographer took measurements of the rest of the baby first.  Then she went down to the "private parts" and asked us if we could see what she could see (boy parts) and it actually took us a little while to figure it out.  And then it was like "OH!!!!"  When we told Poppy that it was a boy, she said, "No, it's a baby sister.  I'm having a baby sister".  When we re-assured her that it was indeed a boy, she actually pouted for a few minutes!  And then when we asked her what we should name her baby brother, she thought for a minute and then proudly annouced, "Frog.  Baby Froggy."  On the way out of the office, we ran into my doctor and she asked Poppy what the baby was and she told her "Baby brother.  Frog."  I have no idea where this whole frog thing came from, but it's cracking us up!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The hair-do of choice lately has been pigtails, which usually results in some awesome bedhead the next morning...




I had this past week off from school for winter break, and what a break it was!  Poppy and I had so much fun spending as much time as possible together and trying to not have too many plans to take up our time.  One of my only goals of the week was to write a nice update letter with pictures to Poppy's foster mother in Korea, but I didn't even get it started.  Hopefully I'll get it done this week...


Here's what we did end up doing this week-

We spent lots of time snuggling in the mornings and taking long afternoon naps.  Oh, how I love naptime!

We spent lots of time shopping for maternity clothes.  Ugh, how I hate maternity clothes.  Actually, I guess it's spending money on maternity clothes that I hate.  I've spent hundreds of dollars this week and I feel like all I have is about 3 outfits and a few t-shirts!  And to think that I only will be wearing these clothes for a few months and then probably never again seems like such a waste. But I found out the hard way last night just how necessary buying maternity clothes is...  So far I don't have much of bump, but things have definitely been getting increasingly snug around the waste-line.  But I've been glad to still be able to fit into most of my clothes.  So Marc and I had a rare date night last night and I crammed myself into the biggest pair of jeans I own along with a long shirt.  We sit down at the restaurant and my jeans were so tight that Marc could see how uncomfortable I was as I was telling him that I can barely breathe.  So he told me to just un-button my jeans and no one would notice.  Even after un-buttoning them they were still so tight I could barely eat or drink anything, by the end of dinner I had to have my jeans completely un-zipped.  Luckily I wore a long shirt and the restaurant wasn't busy so I don't think anyone noticed that I was slowly undressing myself.  And by the time we got home from seeing a movie, I had developed a full-blown, kind of big, baby bump.  Just like that!

Oh, and the worst part about shopping for new clothes was trying them on in the dressing rooms with bright lights and big mirrors.  Apparently eating endless amounts of combos and chubby hubby ice cream, while having minimal physical activity for the past 4 months, does bad things to your body.  BAD things.  I am so not looking forward to having to wear tank tops and shorts and dresses.  I might still be wearing big bulky sweaters and sweatshirts into August and now you know why.

We also spent a lot of time this week looking at schools for Poppy to go to next year.  As badly as I want to just keep her all to myself while I'm off on maternity leave next year, this kid is just dying to learn as much as humanly possible and I know that sending her to school for a few mornings a week is what she needs.  After tons of research, we found the perfect little school for her and she seemed to love it just as much as we did.  One of the things I love most about it is that it's less than a mile from our house, which means that I get to walk her to and from school as often as possible.  Speaking of learning, Poppy just amazes us with how badly she wants to learn everything!  (And now I'm going to brag about how smart she is, so if bragging about kids makes you want to barf, just skip ahead to the next paragraph)  She can spell Poppy, Mommy, Daddy, Ratty and Lola (do you see a little pattern with all the names except Lola?) and she asks us to spell out any new names she hears.  Just 2 weeks ago, she would pretend to write those names by just making straight lines for each letter, and then today she was writing on her magnadoodle and she correctly wrote the O and Y in her name - and we've never even tried to teach her that!  She can count up to 25 and recognizes most letters in the alphabet.  But what she really wants to learn is to read.  She begs us to read her the same book over and over and as soon as she memorizes that storyline, she will sit there for hours and pretend she is reading the book herself.  She gets so frustrated when she gets new books and she doesn't have the story memorized yet.  Yesterday Marc bought her a new Thomas book at the train show they went to together and he said that whole way home she kept saying, "But daddy I can't read this book yet!  Will you teach me how to read it?!  I need to READ this book!"  How awesome is that?


Oh, and I can't forget about the super fun playdate we had this week with a few of my best friends from work, who might also happen to be spending next year home... (I was too lazy to take any pics, so you can check them out on Natalie's blog)  And there was more candle-blowing and cake eating at Carter's birthday...


And now I can't believe I have to go back to work tomorrow!  Oh, and I have a sono scheduled for Wed. morning and hopefully we'll find out what we're having!!!  Poppy is predicting a boy...

Sunday, February 14, 2010

한국의 새해 기쁘다!

Happy Korean New Year!


"I'm like Snow White!  I look just like Snow White!"

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Good stuff...

We celebrated my mom's birthday this week...



It was a team effort to blow out all those candles, but they got the job done!


We celebrated Valentine's Day today, because tomorrow is Korean New Year.  Poppy helped me make a pink heart-shaped cake and then Marc made us a special Valentine's dinner of scallops and pasta.  Mmmmm!  We did manage to go out to "play" in the snow for a little bit today.  Poppy was more interested in taking a walk on the nice clean sidewalks and didn't really want too much to do with the actual now itself.  And the snow was not the right kind for making a snowman, but Marc still made an effort.  Apparently Poppy was not too impressed with the results...


And we didn't have time to go to the sledding hill, so we brought a hill to our house...



She wasn't too impressed by that either.  She took one trip down the 'hill' and said, "I just want to go home!"


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And as promised, here is a little update about our Little Miss...


She is absolutely obsessed with Snow White.  Everytime she sees a church or a building with a steeple, she yells "That's where Snow White lives!!!"  Oh, she is just going to pee her pants when she sees the real princess castle at Disney in a few months.  And all day long she tells me and Marc, "You be the evil witch, you be the prince, I be Snow White, ok?!"  And then I have to pretend to give her a poisonous apple and then she pretends to fall asleep and Marc kisses her and then she pops her eyes open and starts giggling uncontrollably.  We have to do that about 100 times a day.  But we all love doing it!


She is still in love with Lola.  When Lola tries to snuggle in bed with us, she loves to point out Lola's anatomy for me.  "Lola has 2 eyes, 1 nose, lots of teeth, but she doesn't brush her teeth so she has stinky breath, 2 ears, 2 paws and 2 paws and a tail!"  And if she sees that Lola wants a bite of whatever Poppy is eating, she politely tells her, "Lola, you a dog.  You only eat dog food and eggs, I'm sorry but you can't have this".  (we let her put her leftover eggs in Lola's dog food in the morning.)  Oh, and she's all about the manners.  This morning was my turn to sleep in (Marc and I take turns sleeping in on the weekends).  And I was really taking my time sleeping in this morning, so Poppy finally comes in my room and gives me a kiss to wake me up and then gives me my cell phone and says, "I gave you your phone momma, now say 'Thank you Poppy!' and you gonna get out of bed now?"


This girl absolutely loves dancing.  We're still doing mommy and me dance class once a week, and all she wants to do all week long is practice her dance moves.  Loves, loves, loves to do her dance routine.


Ratty is still the love of her life, but she has declared that daddy and I are her best friends.  Awwww.


She talks about her baby brother or baby sister all the time.  Anyone that knows Poppy in real life, knows that 'sharing' isn't a strong point for her.  Like, it's bad how badly she does not want to share anything with anyone, ever.  And when this baby comes home and she realizes that she is going to have to share us for the rest of her life, I don't think it's going to go over very well.  BUT, she has been spontaneously volunteering to share things with her baby sis/bro lately, which is just a shocker to us.  The other day she was playing with a page of stickers and she always has to use up every single sticker on a page, every time.  But all of a sudden, she stopped when there were half of the stickers left and said, "I think I should maybe save these stickers for my baby sister.  When baby sister comes home she can play with these stickers.  I'm gonna put them right up here so they stay safe for my baby sister, she's gonna play with them."  You should have seen the look of shock on our faces.  And she's said that a couple times since then about various things she's been playing with!  Yay for sharing!


About a year ago, we got this hand-me-down Thomas the train set from a friend, and I can tell you that she has played with these trains every.single.day.  It amazes me how interested in trains she is.  And the number one name she has for the baby is "Baby Percy" pronounced Pewcy, after her favorite train of them all.




And in belly baby news - we should find out the gender in the next couple of weeks.  I can't wait!!!  It's so hard to even think of names or nursery ideas when you don't know if it's a boy or a girl!


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We'll be celebrating Korean New Year tomorrow, I hope to have some cute pics of Poppy in her hanbok to post!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

This was from earlier tonight, getting ready to watch the Superbowl at my parents house.  These two had a case of the giggles.



I just found this picture from when we went to the Strong Museum a few weeks ago.  It was just an optical illusion!

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So just as I was starting to feel better, Poppy and I both got nasty colds this past week.  After filling an entire landfill with our tissues, I think we're finally getting back to normal around here.  Finally.  And just in time, because I have been feeling really guilty about letting the blog go.  I love being able to look back at all of Poppy's updates and pictures, and I hate the fact that I haven't posted much of anything for the past few months.  And especially because Poppy is growing at a rapid rate.  We've been trying to catch her antics on video lately and I'll post them once we get something funny.  And my goal of the week is to post a good update on our little pip...

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