Let the Scrapbooking Begin

So starting today, I am going to make a concerted effort to keep up with scrapbooking. Digital at least. I will add the paper scrapbooking hopefully soon once I finish organizing my scraproom.

Goal: Every week do the previous week and 1 past week. I can do it.

How I will do it:

1. Keep up with current journaling! Use this google blogger to do it.

2. For previous weeks:
    (a) Start blog post with week title and dates
    (b) Look at calendar and add events
    (c) Google search email for each of those dates, look through emails and add relevant data to blog post
    (d) Look through texts from the time and add data
    (e) Look through Facebook and add information from that time
    (f) Have Mike look through his email and add information from the time (if he is ammenable)
    (g) Sort through pictures
    (h) Add pictures to page(s)
    (i) Add journaling to page(s)
    (j) If time, add embellishments, but not necessary, can go back later.

BabyBot2 Ultrasound

So Mike and I had an ultrasound this morning to check on everything with BabyBot2. And she is growing just fine! Since the pregnancies were close and I am RH negative, they said that can lead to the baby being growth restricted, but apparently that is not the case. Plus with the abnormal first trimester screen and my low fluid last pregnancy, they wanted to check on everything. And so far everything looks perfect. She is 5 lbs 13 oz which puts her at the 47th percentile. The doctor said it is very likely I will have an 8+ lb baby. I am about 1cm dilated and my cervix has started to thin but the baby is still pretty far up (hasn't dropped) and so I am not really progressing towards labor yet, which is good, since I still have 4 weeks left. :) The baby is in the head down position also. They said second pregnancies can progress faster. I have been having contractions for over a month now, but apparently they aren't doing much. I am definitely starting to feel the pregnancy lately. I get pretty tired in the evenings and I can get pretty sore as well.

We have just about 1 month left until we get to meet BabyBot2! :)

3rd Tooth!!

Jemma got her third tooth today!! It's the other center bottom tooth. It is pretty crooked, so we will have to see if it comes in straighter. :)

Yoga Pants ...

So Monday was the first time I wore yoga pants to work and so far I have done it 3 days this week ... its all downhill from here!

Halloween!! Flu Shot and Trick-or-Treating at Arundel Mills Mall

So last night was Halloween! I sent her to Becky's in her turtle costume yesterday which the kids loved! I had to pick her up and bring her to get a flu shot at the pediatrician. She is a very active baby and was all over the pediatricians office, even the receptionist told me that she is a very busy girl. I know!! She was such a good girl during the flu shot though! She sat nicely on my lap and got the shot, of course she cried but it didn't last long and she was back to her happy self!

Then I put her in the car and started driving to Old Ellicott City for Trick-or-Treating. The traffic getting there was horrible and people were parked past the flour factory, so I decided to turn around and go to Arundell Mills instead. I am glad I decided to do that! I got there about 5:30 and the event didn't start till 6pm. Jemma and I went to Bass Pro Shops where she got a free picture with the Snoopy Characters and some light up bracelets and a pin.

We then checked-in to the event and started trick-or-treating. I dressed her up as a pumpkin for this event since she already had an orange shirt on. Stores were giving out candy and stickers to kids. We went to a few stores and then Mike met up with us and we kept going. It was pretty slow going and stores started to run out of candy pretty quickly then the ones that still had candy had long lines. She did get a little stuffed pumpkin at Old Navy though. Jemma didn't want to be in her stroller anymore and also didn't want to be carried, so we let her run around. She was quite the menace! Mike was chasing her all around while I pushed the stroller! We didn't get much more trick-or-treating done after this. It was nice to walk around the mall and see all the kids in costume though. We got dinner in the food court before heading home.

We found out that Jemma likes Smarties and Popeyes chicken! :)

JCP Professional Pics and Zooo Booo Event

Mike and I had a 10am appt at JCP to have professional pics taken of us for our Christmas cards. I bought the $25 Groupon that included 3 digital and 2 printed sheets. We got dressed up in red, black and white coordinating outfits. It was very weird though getting there. Apparently the store didn't open till 11am, so we went to the wrong door twice before finally going to the correct door. Then someone had to come down and let us in. She had the wrong elevator key and had also locked herself out of the stairwell, so someone else had to come get us. Mike had to walk the strolled up the stairs while I carried Jemma. We finally got in and got ready and had the pics taken. Jemma was not in a very good mood and was quite fussy! All she wanted was to be held by her daddy. It was cute but hard to get pics of her alone. We ended up getting a few good ones, but I didn't buy any extra. I kept bribing her with yogurt crunchies. They also put a stack of three boxes as a prop and all she wanted to do was play with them. Take their lids off and put them inside each other! It was cute but not great for pictures, so some of the pictures were just a mess of boxes. She was very leery of the photographer at first but then she started playing with a teddy bear and Jemma took quite a liking to that teddy bear.

Then after that we went to the Baltimore Zoo for their Zoo Booo Event. Jemma didn't get much sleeping in the car between the two things, but it turned out ok. She has a blast at the zoo. She loved the zebras and rhinos and giraffes and elephants and called the leopards and cheetahs "kitty-cats." We dressed her up as a turtle. She did pretty good in the stroller but we had to take her out a bunch to let her see the animals. She was running around the park like a loon though and loving it. She really does like looking at animals. We didn't realize that the Halloween part was at the front of the park, so we didn't see it till our way out when the park was an hour from closing. We still went in and Jemma did her first trick-or-treating! She got good at grabbing the candy out of the baskets but didn't say trick-or-treat or thank you. She also went through a straw maze with her daddy and got to pick a free little pumpkin out of the "pumpkin patch" which was just a hay area. Overall, it was a nice day for Jemma and us.

I was exhausted when I got home though! I was so sore and that evening when Jemma went running across the sofa, I tried to grab her and couldn't get up! I think spending a day at the zoo is not a good idea for me anymore :)

Patted on the Couch

When I got home from work today, Jemma was sitting next to my mom on the couch watching TV. My mom told Jemma to tell Mommy to come sit next to her. She looked at me and patted the cushion next to her as if telling me to sit next to her. We do that to her all the time and it was sooo cute when she did it back to us!