Capribythelake’s Weblog

Well, I’ve been M.I.A. for a while now guys, so sorry.  I’m full of lovely excuses, but instead of boring you with them, I’ll just get you guys caught up on all the stuff that has been going on with us.

Capri is SO big now, and fully toddler.  She turns two on Sunday, and I can hardly believe it.  The last few months have been officially her coming out party as a “big girl”.  After about a month of curiosity from her, we finally committed to potty training, and it only took about two days with the help of two little M&M’s after each potty experience.  She is pretty sensitive to most things, and has never had candy in her life, so let me tell ya- it was serious motivation.  She still wears a pull up for sleeping, but she loves her “princess panties” (Wade hates that I call them panties, and insists on calling them underwear), and she loves the praise she gets for doing so well.  Well, with potty training came the elimination of the bottle, which we have tried to transition her off of for a very long time now, but we had been failing at.  Well, I told her that she couldn’t have it in the car because she would go pee pee, and she understood that, and I told her that she couldn’t have it in bed for the same reason.  It took about a day of whining about it, and then she never asked for it again!  She will have rice milk in a sippy cup during the day every once and awhile, or with meals, but it’s not an all day long, and at bedtime and in the car necessity anymore!  We are so thankful for that!   We also moved her into her own room, and out of the crib into a big girl bed.  It’s a trundle-bed (or day bed), and we have her sleep on the bottom trundle, without it propped up.  It took only a couple days of transition, and she did so well with that too!  Most nights she goes right to sleep on her own, and sleeps through the night!  Although, it has taken some getting used to sometimes have a little hand grabbing my arm in the middle of the night, she can be SO quiet!  She loves having her own room to play in, and will go in there with all her stuffed animals, and her babies, and she will read to them, and jump on the bed with them, and put them to sleep, it is so cute!   She also moved into the “big girl class” at church, with the 2 year olds, and she had a pretty hard time the first time.  After going back in multiple times to calm her down, I finally said “Mommy has to go get food for baby Jaxon, and I’ll be back later” and she said “Okay!” and then ran off, and didn’t cry again!  She will do anything for Jaxon already, and she hasn’t even met him yet!

Speaking of Jaxon, he is getting very, very big….

Sorry for the serious look, I was trying to focus!  Oh, and notice the glasses? Yeah, I’ve been wearing my old glasses again, because this pregnancy has made my eyes SO bad!

So this was about a week and a half ago, and I’m already much bigger, and I didn’t feel like taking any pictures today, but maybe tomorrow?  I’m almost 30 weeks (tomorrow)!  This week I had a realization that I am SO close to having this baby, and I don’t feel ready at all.  I’ve not really enjoyed pregnancy all that much, because of how hard it is on my body, but I want him to stay in there for oh- another 6 months.  I can’t believe in 10 weeks (maybe sooner ) I’m going to have TWO children!  I can’t believe it!

Well, I am excited to meet him though.  He is SO active, and kicking non stop, and it makes me so happy, because its like his little way of comforting me and telling me that he is doing okay, all day long.  He just started to get hiccups.  When I was pregnant with Capri I would get these, and I would think how crazy it was that she was kicking in a perfect rhythm!  Ha!  Well, it was really cute the first day he started, and now it is a little annoying, like someone poking you in rhythm non stop.

This pregnancy has been a little rough on my body, I’m just now getting over the daily nausea and vomiting (Yes, remember, I’m almost 30 weeks?), and all the hormones loosening up all my muscles have given me the worst back problems, mainly my right him, and middle back.  I can’t really sleep comfortable, and sitting down takes lots of pillows, and positioning.  The heartburn has been murder I’m a total wreck, Wade calls me his “lemon”.  You would think that I am much older by the way I am describing my pregnancy! Oh my- Okay I promise I’m done complaining!

I’ve been so happy lately, just here with my little family, my growing family, my healthy family, and just counting my blessings, and as hard as pregnancy is, I have a total miracle growing in my belly.  I love going to see my midwife and hearing that everything is perfect.  Just saw a friend a week or so ago, and her little boy was born at 29 weeks (or maybe 28), he was premature, and in NICU for a while, and he is a little miracle (now turning 4!), and I was just fascinated by the idea that my little boy is big enough to survive this world already (not that I would ever wish that, but it’s possible right?)

I’m so excited for Christmas- I just got the tree up yesterday!

It was an exhausting thing!  It took me all day to do because I can only go up and down and around for a few minutes at a time, and then I had to sit down and rest, and then go again!  I was just thankful to have a tree.  When we started pulling out the decorations we couldn’t find our tree anywhere.  I was so excited to decorate this weekend, that I was so disappointed.  I immediately started sobbing over it (crying about things is not rare for me right now), and Wade scooped in and rescued me, and we went and got another tree.  Last night I even got a few presents wrapped!  I was very productive yesterday!

I have a cousin that is getting married the day after Christmas, and it is very exciting because that means that family is all coming in for the holidays!  Christmas at my house!  My older brother and his new bride are coming from CA along with my younger brother and his girlfriend .  My parents and grandparents are coming, and it will be SO special.

We are celebrating Capri’s birthday at this cool little place call Bellaboo’s(www.mybellaboos.com)- it’s a children’s discovery and learning place, and I’m so excited for her, because she loves it so much.  So, that will be this weekend, and I promise to post a bunch of pics of the new TWO year old!