Snow Days

Throughout the past few weeks Addy and I have had the opportunity to spend quite a few days together at home.  We had our first two snow days of the school year which excited and saddened me at the same time.  Everyone loves a snow day and is relieved to see their school's name scroll across the bottom line of the screen, however we don't have built in snow make-up days.  I know...pretty crazy!  So each snow day we take now is added on to the end of the year.  Needless to say, I don't want school to be in session in June and especially want to be out well before my due date.  Addy and I did have a good time at home and managed to get a lot of things accomplished.  Addy has started to take an interest in the chores I am doing around the house and wants to help out.  In the few days we had off she became the official dryer unloader.

Mommy's Little Helper!

We also started to clear out the upstairs office to start on Adalyn's new "big girl" room.  Our hopes are that she is moved in to her new room in March, but we have a ton of things to accomplish for that to happen.  At this point in time Addy isn't too keen on having a younger sibling.  When anyone asks her about mommy having a baby she says "no baby."  She has occasionaly started acknowledging that there is a baby in my belly and told it "goodnight" and "I love you."  We are hoping that as the day gets closer she starts to warm up to the idea of being a big sister, but for right now she's pretty content with being princess of the castle!

The Princess on her throne

This past weekend was a three day weekend for me due to the Martin Luther King holiday.  We worked again on organizing the house and moving room around.  On Sunday we went to Charli's birthday party.  Charli is Addy's good friend and is about 6 weeks older than Addy.  Adalyn has lots of fun playing with the other kids and all of Charli's fun toys.  On Monday Addy and I headed to the Children's Discovery Museum of Normal.  We got there when the museum opened, which was grat because Addy had the whole place to herself for 20-30 minutes.  We spend that time running from exhibit to exhibit.  She was so excited to have the whole place to herself and didn't quite know what to do with all of the freedom of having choices without having other kids around.  It was great!

"Milking" the cows at the museum

Painting a masterpiece

As far as Adalyn goes, she continues to surprise us and make us laugh everyday.  She has started to use many more phrases and has become much better and answering and asking questions.  Addy knows many of her colors and has also started to really love finger plays.  We sing a lot of Isty Bitsy Spider, Little Bunny Fu Fu, and Ring Around the Rosy.  She continues to test her boundaries each day and has started to excercise her independence in eating and choosing foods.  As we near the two year mark, it is evident that she is no longer our baby girl, but a full grown little person with an attitude and personality all her own. 

This week I will reach week 20 of my pregnancy, which means that I am halfway!  I can't believe it!  It really has flown by.  We have scheduled our ultrasound for early February and we do plan to find out the gender.  We'll keep you posted!

Playing with laundry baskets....getting in was a lot easier than getting out!