Nubbin is a.... BOY

BOY. Samuel Richard!
and good gravy he was pleased to show us. I guess all boys are like that...

Everything looks good on HIM. HE's measuring 21 weeks (I was 19weeks 5 days when I went for the ultrasound)

This is Sam's profile he's going to be a cutie :)

Sophie could really care less but she is certainly a cutie these days. She even tolerated a shopping trip for BOY clothes.
Both of my children will be well dressed thank you very much

We also moved and are now residing in a three bedroom house about 50 ft from my mother's house. Sophia seems to like the extra space!

Sophie is now scooting around the room on her perfectly plump backside. She also enjoys swings, walks by the pond, and turkey. And that sounded like a dating add. I will betroth her to the highest bidder... uhm cutest boy.

Some Sophia eye candy because she's too cute.

On the swing

 My little St. Patrick's Day cutie

Pretending she's not trying to eat the cat (yes OMG there's a cat in her crib!!!)

 

 

Oh yes and did I mention we bough jail a play yard?

Well I suck

I know it's been a while. I've been so tired and just blah to really think of anything to say.

Miss Sophia is doing splendid. She's using her two little teeth for destruction and mayhem. She is also too painfully cute for words.

I've been better. Nubbin is doing great with a wonderful heart beat and is jumping around on the monitor when I've had ultrasounds. Unfortunately something is up with my cervix and I'm bleeding. It's not cool or fun but I'm trying not to worry so much since the baby has been doing great every time I go in for a check. On the 15th I find out what nubbin is, the baby will finally be called by its real name.

We are moving in about a week to a bigger place with 3 bedrooms, so my babies don't have to share. It's going to be so much fun once we live there. Though I hate moving. I'm also starting CNA training on 3/28 so I'll have a really job again, of course it will be part time 3 or 4 days a week.

The cloth diapering is going well. Honestly my family transitioned into it so well that there isn't much to write except I feel better know Sophie isn't on chemicals all day and it's saving us money.

 I will leave you with some photos of the princess in all her glory.

Sophie in her cloth diapered glory

In her tubby seat for the first time

This is her "Wut mom" attitude face

I think she's too cute with that tongue

Yes, she's watching Dora, so what?

She's so yummy!

I have my cloth diaper order ready to go!

I'll be putting it through tomorrow but I went through today and decided what I'm getting.

I'm ordering through CottonBabies, because they came recommended on a cloth diaper board I have been lurking on lately and also they have FREE shipping to the contiguous United States.

My list that I'm getting this order. All together it will cost me $128.10

36 Indian Prefolds in regular size
24 Flannel baby wipes
2 Bummis Whisper Wrap in Medium in Bloom & Flower

2 Flip One Size Cover - Sweet & Zinnia

Carl got me thinking

And for once it wasn't about how best to kill him and make it look like an accident.

As we were taking out the trash last night he said "Our society is disgusting with how much waist we produce." He was talking about us, you, and everyone else in the world.

I can't really step on a soap box. We're guilty. But we want to make a change in that, a because I want my children perhaps my grandchildren to have a clean Earth. I read a study after I got thinking. Each American produces about 230 million tons of refuse a year. Did you know disposable diapers make up 3% of that? Or those Styrofoam trays catching the blood from your meat, egg cartons? Another 3%.

We want to take our own steps to help reduce our foot print. I'll be the first to admit our '92 Buick isn't helping with its gas guzzling ways. We can't help that until we can afford a new car. But I can help the fact my kid goes through  7 disposable diapers a day at the bare minimum. I can buy her cloth diapers. What about the catch trays? We can go to a local meat market instead of the super market. As for the Buick we do plan to get a new car soon but also we want to start walking to places as much as we can. It is slightly difficult but worth a try. We still have to drive but hopefully not as much.

We also plan to stop using paper towels but instead old shirts for messes and cute little cotton hand towels for drying our hands.

Another thing I would like to do is stop being a slave to fisher price. I feel my daughter needs that $$$ whatever that talks and sings her alphabet.  Why do I need that toy? I can sing to her, I can teach her letters, numbers, colors, and shapes all by myself.

We also spend a lot on clothing. I can sew so I plan to try to sew some clothing for the little miss, perhaps my self and Carl.

Our plan is to start phasing these things in slowly and hopefully find new things on the way. 

I'm going to fall asleep right here

See going to take a nap while the princess is napping is pointless. I get 30 minute naps out of her. Which is barely enough time for me to lay down -sigh-

I'm exhausted. Carl is at work so I'm peeling my eyes open. I'm trying to behave and not live off of caffeine this pregnancy. I'm going to bed at 8... no I wont I'll stay up until 10:30 and get very little sleep again.

Yeah I hear her highness beckoning me.

I'm getting lazy

Yay its February... I'm so sick of winter.
There was literally one piece of sheet ice covering my entire car this morning. Not to mention it was plowed into the parking spot.

Sophie is doing great, she's currently snoozing in her swing which she is too big for, don't judge it's the only way i can get her to nap. She can sit without support now, you just have to convince her it's fun.

Also I'm 14 weeks pregnant. Nubbin is growing well, I may or may not have bought a fetal doppler online when I was knocked up with Sophie. I still may or may not use it every other day to listen to Nubbin's heart beat.

We're going to look at a new apartment Monday morning. It has 2 bedrooms, I plan on making the babies share. And there is a laundry machine on site, also there is an elevator. Seriously an ELEVATOR! I live right now on the 4th floor of a walk up and I die every time I have to leave or come home.

 Also once we move I finally get to achieve my goal. I get to cloth diaper! I'm so excited I can't wait.

I had my 12week ultrasound today!

I'm very happy to say everything went very well with the Nubbin. Carl brought along Sophia and she was good throughout the ultrasound, mainly because she was eating.

Nubbin measured ahead (as compared to a dating u/s at 6wk4days) and came out about 13weeks, which is much like big sis who after her dating u/s at 5wk6days measured a week ahead at the NT scan and then 2 weeks at the 20week u/s.

The baby had HR of 170 which is the exact same as big sis throughout my pg. Nubbin was very well behaved for this ultrasound unlike big sister who was never facing right.

My Nubbin at 11week 5days

I have enter trashy mom-dom

I got her ears peirced. I would take a picture but for some reason I can't find my camera. Once the hubs come home I will throw unwillingly give her to him and look for it. I don't see what the big fricken ta-do is about her ears. I figure get it done now while she's little and can be soothed with a bottle than when she is seven, bugs the shit out of me to get them done, then makes a scene in front of the entire mall, and eventually ends up with uneven peircings... but I digress.

Also today I took her highness out in the snow for a walk. She was all bundled up in the stroller and now snow touched her precious self but she had a damn good time. I was sooo happy to be out of the house for the first time in 48 hours I didn't care how cld it was.

Most of the time I balance on being a terrible mom

A quick run down. I failed at breastfeeding, she wears disposable diapers, she doesn't nap, her formula is made with tap water, she's never eaten a heated bottle in her life, occasionally she eats from a bottle that is more than 2 hours old, occasionally she drinks refrigerated formula that is older than 24 hours, she plays by herself, I let her cry sometimes when I need to do something (like pee or eat or breathe), and my latest is I'm stealing her childhood away by being pregnant.

That being said I'm a terrible pregnant woman: another "quick run down". I eat lunch meats without nuking them, I've eaten tuna for a week straight, I have such a hard time remembering to take my vitamins, I rough house with my husband, I frequently lift Sophia (18lbs) and the groceries (usually like 40lbs), and most of all I cried out of sadness and fear when I saw that little "+" show up on my stick.

Yet my daughter is always fed, people frequently tell me she's the happiest baby they've met... I can't say much about clean I mean I bathe her regularly I put her in clean clothes every day but I can't help it she goes something on her shirt in the 10 minutes before we left the house. She will still be loved with I have Nubbin, she will still get mommy time - just not as much. She will still grow up, learn new things, and play.

As for Nubbin I still love this baby enough to cry hysterically (I'm talking hiccups, unable to see, and snot) when I saw blood a couple nights ago. This baby will receive the same love as its sister just different. I was sad when I saw the + but on the same time I was happy because believe it or not babies are miracles not matter how you look at them.

Now if you excuse me I'm off to be a mediocre parent.

We've learned some new tricks

Sophia can roll back to belly. She showed me this and then promptly rolled belly to back. Woohoo!!!

She has also learned to squeal which frankly I think is one of the cutest noises I have heard in a while.

As for nubbin I'll be 10 weeks on Thursday, my how time is flying. I can't believe on the 18th I'll be having my NT scan. I had my NT scan with Sophie on January 27, 2010 so everything is happening around the same time with Nubbin.

I'm honestly beginning to think this 2under1 thing is going to happen... wheeze