3 girls and a boy!

It's a girl on the way, so Mike is going to be overrun by girls! Well, we think it's a girl. The ultrasound lady said she was "pretty sure" when I asked her to tell me how sure she was. I guess they know what they are doing, but there is still a chance that she may be wrong I suppose. The news doesn't surprise me as I could always see Mike as a father to only girls. I can picture him at a dance recital more easily than a hockey game. I can definitely picture the same for me.

Even though the suspense is gone a bit, I am really interested to see how similar this one will look to when Paige was a newborn. And it will be fun to see how different they are growing up.

So we are excited, and assuming the lady was correct, I am happy that Paige will have a sister as an adult. And I think Paige will make a great big sister. Paige had predicted it was a girl on the way, so when the lady told us just that I said to Paige, "you were right, she said it was a girl!" and she said, "it's not a girl, it's a boy". Just part of her recent argumentative nature. She got really into talking about the new baby last night though. We were telling her all about the things she could help with when the baby arrived, and she is very set on helping the baby to have a bath. She is apparently going to wash her hair and brush it and help her stand up to get scrubbed down. Oh, and she is going to buy the baby milk from the grocery store. ?? We talked about how she could feed the baby in the high chair, and she wanted to clarify that it was "paige's highchair, right?"

I am really excited to get to go through Paige's old clothes and pick out the 0-3 month stuff and see what is good. I'm afraid a lot of it will be poo-stained, but I'm sure there is some stuff to reuse. And some of those little summer dresses and tiny tank tops that Paige barely wore will be perfect for when the summer comes.

So, in a couple of years when we get the dog we will have to make sure to get a boy. I was looking at our fish last night, and of the 6 ones that we can see (3 of them hide in the rocks) 5 are dull coloured and 1 is bright and bigger...I think we have 5 girls and 1 boy. Ha!

Train tracks...

Paige made some train tracks....

Big Girl room update.

I would say that overall the big girl room is a big success. She seems to love the cozy blankets. Although it is a bit harder to contain her in the middle of the night when she insists she's "not tired" or "wants to play with toys for a bit", she likes the fact that we can lie on her bed to help her calm down and fall back to sleep. The lack of the num num still means that she can't fall asleep on her own when she wakes up. She was never good at this anyway, but with the soother we could often go into her room for 30 seconds and give it back to her which would make her fall back to sleep quickly. The initial getting to sleep routine now includes her falling asleep holding a book and us sneaking in later on to take it away from her. In the middle of the night it generally involves a combonation of the lying down with her plus a book. I'm trying to shorten the amount of time I lay with her in the night and try to leave while she's still awake.

It seems the main reason of waking up is to go to the bathroom. Good thing since she refuses to wear a pull up to bed since shortly after she started sleeping in the new bed. I guess she has taken "big girl bed" to heart.

She still isn't napping well, but at least she stays in her bed and looks at books for an hour. The lack of naps and a couple of bad nights has caught up with her. We had a really tantrumy and argumentative week last week. It involved a lot of "No's", "I don't want to's", and generally trying to be difficult on purpose.

I could get into specific details about some really bad nights and days, but I don't have the energy to replay these events in my mind! We'll just hope that she is happier this week!

Oh--the bed rail came and we were able to take away the trampoline (crib mattress) beside her bed. Everyone feels a lot safer now.

Oh Christmas Tree!

Paige was definitely VERY excited to put up the tree this year and loved putting up and commenting on all of the ornaments. Glad we did it so early in order to get the most enjoyment out of it.

Almost mortified...

Today at our class Paige told me she had to pee so off we went to the bathroom. We went in the wheelchair bathroom since it was bigger. She went on the toilet (which was exciting since she hadn't done this in a long time). I told her I was going to go too, but when I sat down she opened the door lock and the door swung open (the wheelchair one swings outward!). Luckily there was only 1 other person in the bathroom who was in a stall. I had to stand up and shut the door while she ran around in the washroom. If there had been anyone in there they would have seen me having to stand up to shut the door! I am kind of glad this happened now so I know to be more careful next time when there are people around!

Bookshelves complete!

It blends in so well I am almost used to it already. The cupboards below fit almost all of Paige's toys and books. It'll be nice to really tidy up at the end of the day rather than just shove everything off to the side and look at it all night long.

A weekend out....

Going back to the weekend, on Saturday morning we drove to Pottery Barn kids to get an idea of what they had at the store that we could buy for Paige's room. We didn't actually get anything, but we know what we want to get/could only dream of getting. haha. That store is really really nice.

Anyway, after that we dropped Paige off for a sleepover at Grandma and Grandpa's. We went home where I played video games and had a nap and Mike used the gym. Then we went to see a matinee of "Couples Retreat" and had dinner at Milestone's. The next day I got up earlyish and watched an uninterupted hour of Project Runway. Then I taped off the baseboards in Paige's new room while Mike finished the painting. I went out for a girls lunch. At night we went to pick up Paige and stayed for Amanda's 25th birthday dinner. Paige is really good, so I am never dying to get away from her for the weekend, but it WAS nice to just be leisurely for the weekend, especially since the night before we dropped her off was the worst sleep ever. While she was gone we caught up on our sleep too (and of course she slept fine for Grandma and Grandpa).

Now we're paranoid!

In the night I woke up and heard a huge thump again! Went running to her room and flew open the door to find her....sleeping. As an aside note, she was completely out of the covers and sleeping parallel to her pillow. The big thump, I assume, was just our newspaper delivery. The Toronto Star is delievered around 3am and they just chuck it out there car onto our door step. It sometimes smashes into our door which is quite startling!

Another funny story.....I put her to bed last night with a book. She fell asleep right away and Mike went in to take away the book. When he went in there all he could see was arms sticking out of the bed and a book for a head! She had fallen asleep with her large-ish book completely over her head. After this she continued to sleep all night long!

I'll be happy when the bed rail arrives. I think it may come today. It can be folded down when not in use which means that a) it won't interfere with the look of the nice bedding, and b) we can still sit with her on the bed to read books without having to climb over it.

Also arriving and being installed today is the bookshelves! The guy should be here any minute! I'll post a picture when it is all in!

Things that go THUMP in the night....

Paige fell out of her bed last night. She wanted to sleep in the big girl bed and apparently went to sleep no problem (I was out babysitting Amy). Around 2:00 we heard a large thump and we went running. I opened the door and Paige was walking across the room crying. It's no surprise, as she moves around a ton in her crib and her preferred spot was always the top left hand corner with her head pushed up against the bars. I think she was searching for this corner in her sleep. Mike had put the crib mattress on the floor so she wasn't hurt, just startled, and went back to sleep right away.


She woke up around 5:30 this morning and I lay down on her bed for 1 minute then left and she fell asleep without screaming or winding herself up. Probably the novelty factor helped her to clam down, but we're hoping for better sleeps now. And is it too much to ask for naps?

Waking up from this beautiful sleep.....