Belated Happy Holidays post

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!!


Thanks for the pictures Mandy!

2 going on 14

14 is my generic bad attitude age for girls so forgive me if you have a delightful non-moody 14 year old. I was certainly no walk in the park at 14.

Speaking of walks in the park....

Do you think you could smile for Aunt Mandy?
Oh really?

What about just a slightly sarcastic smirk? That's a little better.

I don't know where she gets this.

FYI Men- Do Not Do This

Please tell me I am not the only one who saw this last night. This is REAL.



I would like to provide a public service announcement for all the husbands out there. This is creepy. Like the husband in Sleeping With the Enemy creepy. Do not do this.

Anti-Dentite

So when Aidan fell a few weeks ago we tried to focus on the positive aspect of her no longer using a pacifier. Unfortunately, over the past few days we discovered that they may have been another issue. Her front two teeth were knocked pretty hard and now there's some pretty noticeable discoloration. In the grand scheme of things is this a big deal? Absolutely not, but when you combine pregnancy hormones and the first bad thing to happen to your daughter you get something resembling a small Terms of Endearment hospital fit. Needless to say I didn't handle it very well when our regular dentist informed me that it was no big deal and her teeth would fall out in 5 years anyways. Um, anyone else remember Kindergarten and 1st grade? I do I had the biggest rabbity buck teeth ever and was kind of scarred, so this did not help.

So I marched our behinds to the most Edmondy of Edmond pediatric dentists. You know what I'm talking about. Lots of video screens, charge you twice the amount they should, decor like the inside of a Chuckie Cheese. Because I knew that they are used to moms having Terms of Endearment freak outs and wouldn't bat an eye. Can I tell you that I don't care how much he overcharges me? He was so awesome and wonderful and I feel so much better about her teeth being okay and feel silly about even freaking out. I honestly don't know what came over me but I think I just went nuts remembering the teasing I endured as a little girl and the realization that there was nothing I could do to completely prevent Aidan from enduring that. We're going back in 3 weeks and my only job is to keep her from falling again because that could permanently damage them. Just keep a 2 yr old from falling for 3 weeks? Noooooo problem.

The Shrimp

I guess I should start blogging on baby #2 I don't want them to have a complex some day. According to BabyCenter Baby #2 is a shrimp now. Unfortunately, my morning sickness has not gone away with the start of my 2nd trimester so this picture makes me kind of nauseous. So sorry to any early preggos out there. I had my monthly appointment on Thursday and the baby's heart beat was 156. I don't really believe in the whole gender heart beat thing but feel free to speculate. We're supposed to find out the first week of January. My doctor reminded me that I wasn't actually supposed to try and lose weight while pregnant and I reminded him that he could shut up and pass me the trash can. Just kidding. Sort of.

Update: My doctor just called and my ultrasound got moved up til Dec. 30th! Yay.

Happy Birthday Sesame Street!

Thank you for providing the one source of entertainment my daughter loves that doesn't drive me up the wall (I'm looking at you Dora, stop yelling everything!)

In honor of little monsters everywhere, my favorite Sesame Street moment.

Could it be?!?

We have gone almost a week without Aidan's pacifier at all! We had it down to just sleeping but then she got H1N1 and seriously regressed. Last week when she fell and busted her lip open, we took the opportunity to tell her she couldn't use her pacifier because it would hurt her lips. And we have continued saying this every time she has asked for it. Perhaps your child kicked the paci at 8 months, well bully for you. I'm just so glad we seem to be done with looking for that stupid piece of plastic at all hours of the night.

Halloween 2009

The theme for Stansberry Halloween this year was movies and fortunately Aidan already had her Hermione from Harry Potter costume all picked out. I'm glad that I got to choose a good role model this last time before it turns into like Hannah Montana and cheerleaders every year.

Hermione Granger with her wand and Crookshanks the cat.

Looks like Crookshanks is about to get changed into something bad.

The Rosses were Raising Arizona.

The Evans were Dirty Dancing. Too soon Jay. Too soon. Benjamin was a fireman maybe he worked as a dancer on the weekends I'm not sure.

Ben and I completed the Harry Potter trifecta with Hermione. We were her muggle dentist parents. I thought everyone knew Hermione's parents were dentists but I guess you have to be a true fan. I am only going to be characters that allow me to wear scrubs from now on.

The Stansberry's were Woodstock, although I still think Matt looks more like Almost Famous.

Benjamin wearing his dad's Johnny Castle mullet.

FTW Stockyards

Pdub

Mandy and I persevered last night and were very excited to meet Pioneer Woman/Ree Drummond and get our cookbooks signed. It was so gratifying to learn that she is just as nice in person as she seems on her blog, and we met her after she had already been signing autographs for 2 hours. What was extra fun was that she brought all of her kids, her husband (hellooooo cowboy), her sister, her nephew and her mom and GaGa so it was the entire cast of the blog! Her kids are so precious and polite, it makes me want to home school. Her girls were very sweetly walking around the line and talking to people and signing their books.


Aidan was actually pretty patient in the line and Mandy and I switched out taking her and Viv to the children's section at Full Circle which thankfully had toys. The bag of Halloween candy we brought as a last resort may have had something to do with our success as well. We went into the line knowing we would have to leave if the girls just completely lost it but it never really got to that point. We were out of there by 8:30 but I feel bad for the hundreds of people who were behind us in line. Who knows when they got out of there.

Amy Bellgardt took a good picture of Aidan, PW and I.

Hello tired, gray, morning sickness face. Maybe by the time I'm 40 I will look as good as PW.

Sonshine School Halloween

Here's my little Hermione Granger getting ready to go to her Sonshine School Party. I didn't let her take her wand, that's just a fight waiting to happen.

What I won't be wearing this pregnancy...

I'm trying to assess what's left of my maternity clothes as they seem to have all disappeared in the past 2 1/2 years. I was browsing the interwebs when I came upon American Apparel's new maternity line. I thought it must be a joke. But this is real. If you are currently expecting, know that you too can purchase a fabulous little outfit like this.

I don't know about you but when I was pregnant I often thought, you know what would make me look better and feel less huge? Some sort of spandex unitard.

I am willing to bet cold hard cash that no one involved with the development of this line has ever been pregnant. Was there a focus group? Did this focus group include pregnant 15 yr olds? I'm not exactly sure that's an audience you should be targeting. I can't for the life of me imagine a pregnant person talking to a designer and saying, You know what I would really love? An outfit that makes it even harder to pee ever 5 minutes. Yeah I want something I have to completely peel down to my ankles.

Oh don't worry there's an option for all the summer mommies too. Order now, they may sell out.

PS Before you ask, no these are not work out clothes. Although I'm not sure that would make it better.

PSS If you think this is cute...just don't talk to me.

Coming May 30th

Iphone Update

The bad thing about having a really nice (but bulky) camera is that you often don't feel like lugging it around everywhere. So anything I can capture in the moment ends up slightly blurry on my Iphone.

You would never believe this girl spit out her Pei Wei lo mein just seconds later.

With her daddy spotting her, Aidan can now crawl to the top of the rope pyramid on the playground.

Imitating the preteen models at Wal-Mart. I'm glad that kids will have moved on from Hannah Montana by the time Aidan is in elementary school because that is so right up her alley. Of course she will probably like something much much worse.

Waving the white flag

I don't know what we did but Aidan and I have hit the contagious virus jackpot. I haven't had the energy to blog in between running to the doctor and Walgreen's and back and forth from my sick bed to my sick couch. Now we have strep throat and I have to say that I preferred the swine flu. I plan on experiencing all the illnesses this fall and then I'll prepare a final report on my favorite.