Sweet Yet Sour

I’ve been neglecting the family updates, so hopefully I can catch up today! First, my apologies, I don’t have a lot of new pictures of Anna because my camera is broken.  Or rather, my camera has been dropped so many times that it seems to have affected the focus on the right side of picture.  I need to get it repaired but there has been so much going on here I haven’t had time to do anything about it.

Here’s one I took of Anna recently that doesn’t show the out of focus bit too badly:

Anna trying on clothes

Anna is in a “let’s try on clothes” phase, so here she decided to put on a romper over the outfit she was already wearing.  She’s so cute she makes it look good…

We’ve stopped counting the words that Anna knows; once we reached 50 we just stopped – her vocabulary is huge.  She’s saying two words sentences a lot, like “Bye bye truck” and “More milk” and the other day there was “Teeth owie”.  It is lovely to have a little communicator!  Mike has trained Anna to raise her arms and say, “Me!” when he asks, “Who’s the cutest?” and I’ve been teaching her to say, “Excuse me” when she burps or farts.  This works some of the time, but mostly Anna farts or burps, smiles wide and then says, “Excuse me.”  I think Mike has been teaching her that as well!

Mike is working hard, both at work and at home.  He recently built a sieve for my compost and then modified it temporarily so that he could use it to clean the Trex sawdust out of our mulch.  The carpenter who built our deck, nice man though he was, left us with all of the clean up.  Which meant much hauling of scrap to the trash, one trip to a local dump, and a lot of sawdust cleaning…  Mike continues with hockey again this season and if anyone wants to go watch him play, he’s playing tonight at 10 p.m.  Anna and I will be asleep, but will be rooting him on in spirit anyway.

Here’s our big news though: I’m “in the family way”, but in a nauseous, “Pass the Saltines and ginger ale” kind of a way.  I hate that phrase, “in the family way”, as well as “knocked up” and “preggo”.  So, I think I’ll just go with saying, I’m pregnant! Anna’s brother or sister is due April 4th – which is one day before Anna’s 2 year birthday, so I’m hoping that this baby comes early too – I would hate to be in the hospital for Anna’s birthday!  We’re only at 12 weeks now so hold off on the “What is it?” questions, since we won’t know until 20 weeks.  I’m just beginning my second favorite portion of pregnancy (after the totally nauseous peeing constantly phase I’m in now); the “She just looks fat” phase – before it really starts to look like I’m pregnant and not just packing on the extra pie and ice cream.  Oh, ice cream! Damn that sounds good – I have to go get some now!