Introducing My Baby . . .

SISTER! We just found out today that Mommy is having a girl. The ultrasound went well, but the baby had her legs crossed at the ankle the whole time so they had to work hard to find out if it was a girl or a boy.

Here are her first photos. The first one is her with her arm up by her head-- that's her big head in the middle and you can see her rib cage to the right. The second is her face. She stayed tucked up in a ball pretty tight, so we didn't see much of her face. Here she is kind of upside down with her forehead at 5 o'clock. Photo #3 with the arrow shows that this is a sister and not a brother. That view is looking up at the baby's bum.

The last photos is of a little foot from the bottom. She looks pretty cute- don't you think? Now Daddy gets to name her because he won the bet that it was a girl. Both Mom & Dad are very excited to have another girl and I am excited because I told Dad over the weekend that I wanted a sister.

On the Go

First, let me wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day. I enjoyed the day and Mom made me green milk and green oatmeal for breakfast and I liked pointing out everyone who was wearing "mean" (as I still pronounce green).

We are getting ready to celebrate "Happy Mommy" tomorrow. I wonder if I will sing to her? We took her out to dinner last night and I was a big fan of spinach artichoke dip and dunking my bread/hand in the olive oil. When we were done eating we got a big surprise-- a fan of Daddy's had paid our bill.

Today we had an open house, so there was more cleaning and tidying this weekend and we had to evacuate the house for a while. It was complicated by the fact that someone wanted to see it from 12:30 to 1:30 and then the open house was from 2-4. So I pretty much missed my whole nap and had to eat my lunch in the car. The good news was that 15 groups came through our house, so hopefully something will come of it.

While we were on the go, we went to see my new school which I liked, but I did not understand why I could not go in and play on the playground. We saw our new house and played in the park just down the street. Then we went to visit our friends who live in that neigborhood and I played with their little girl and we met their new baby who is nine days old.

Speaking of babies, you probably know that we are going to have one. I finally started talking about it this week and I tell Mommy that I am going to be a sister. I also say I can see the baby if I put my eye up to Mommy's belly button-- apparently it is like a peep hole. I told Mom & Dad that I could see blue eyes. We will (hopefully) find out whether it is a boy or girl on March 30!

I have done a couple of other funny things this week. I still love "Baa baa blacksheep" and insisted that Dad sing it at the grocery yesterday. When we checked out Dad, the checker and the bagger all sang it! Yesterday I was making a funny face and Mom said "where did that face come from?" and I thought for a minute and said "my neck." This morning Dad was shaving and he asked what the razor was called and I said "chop chop" --which Mom says is pretty accurate the way Dad has to shave around all his hockey scars!

Cleaning Up

Can you see I was busy at school this week? I love to play with "mark marks" (markers), but at home mine are special invisible markers that only color on special paper. The ones at school are a little different!

We had a busy weekend getting our house ready to go on the market, wo we've been cleaning and tidying and stashing away clutter. The house looks great, but I don't like it when things move out of their right places.

This week I have fallen in love with Tim Bits donut holes from Tim Hortons. Daddy and I ran an errand to the hardware store the other night and we stopped and bought five of them. Two were supposed to be for me, two for Mommy and one for Daddy. I ate my two in the car, but when I got home, I was so excited that I ate one of Mommy's, too. Then yesterday Daddy and I picked up Lily from the groomer and I said "Lily pretty. Lily wants Tim Bits." And since Daddy loves to make me (oh, I mean Lily)happy, I got more Tim Bits. And in a repeat of the previous excursion, Mommy only got one.

In addition to Happy Birthday, which continues to be sung to everyone and everything (our Realtor, Curious George, Curious George's mouth, Curious George's red mouth, Katie's wall, etc.) I started singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and I can sing a lot of the words. I especially like the "yes sir, yes sir" part. I also counted to eleven this week. Sometimes I get stuck on two three, two three (and on and on), but if I get past three I can count to eleven with little prompting.

New House!

We bought our new house! We have a few details to work out, but we are now busy planing our move. When Mom & Dad told me that we had a new house, I said "No, my house!" and pointed at my tree house/tent that I got for Christmas-luckily that will go with us. We all looked at pictures of the house today and I was pretty excited about my new room, the sun room that will be my playroom and the swingset that was left in the backyard.

Boppy and Poppy were here visiting/working this weekend. They came to help get our house ready to put on the market, so they were busy with a number of odd jobs. We had a nice visit around all the chores. On Saturday I put on my overalls and was ready to help Poppy, but then I got scared by the sandpaper noise and that was the end of the help.

Aside from the house news this week, I have been busy being funny. I say more words every day and Happy Birthday is still my favorite song. This weekend I asked Poppy to sing "Happy" to Mommy's purse. I have been playing funny games with Daddy like "Jump, Roll, Roar" (or something like that) where I follow him doing silly things all over the house.

Have a good week!