Happy Halloween!!

 I have to say that this was the most fun Halloween so far.  This was Riley's third and Hadley's first Halloween.  It was the first Halloween that Riley actually understood about getting dressed up, going around to get candy, and saying trick or treat.  Riley is definitely at the age where the trick or treating becomes fun!  After dinner I got the girls dressed and ready to go.  Riley was bursting at the seams with excitement.  I have to thank my mom for the adorable costumes she sent for the girls.  They were awesome!  I did have a slight problem with Hadley's costume.  I could barely get it over her head, I mean she was screaming as I was trying to jam her head through the hole!  But I got it on her and she looked precious as Minnie Mouse!  Both the girls had headbands with their costumes and I only managed to get one picture of Riley wearing hers.  Riley was Abby Cadabby from Sesame Street(fairy in training).  Riley actually wanted to wear her headband but then it fell out and she didn't want to put it back on.  She just wanted to go trick or treating, so off we went!

The first couple of houses we went to Riley became the shyest girl ever!  She jammed her head into my leg and I could barely get her to open her bag.  I guess those were the warm up houses.  After that she was running up to the doors, cutting through bushes, and saying trick or treat and thank you!  It brought so much joy to me to watch her in action.  Trey and I were both having a blast watching Riley trick or treat.  After every house she'd look in her bag to check out her goodies and then she'd tell us, "I want more trick or treat!"  We walked around for about a half hour and then headed back to the house so that we could pass out candy for a bit.  Riley had gotten plenty of candy and her bag was heavy!

Riley helped Trey pass out candy to the trick or treaters which she got a kick out of.  Then Riley wanted to do more trick or treating so I walked her up the other side of the street that we didn't go to earlier.  We only hit up about 4 houses and that was enough for her.  Then she wanted to go help daddy again!

We had sat outside passing out candy for a bit but then Hadley was ready to come inside so we brought the girls inside.  Riley sat down and had one treat and she chose skittles to munch on!  Hadley helped me greet the trick or treaters at the door for the rest of the evening.  It was a super fun night and I'm looking forward to next year!  Riley told me during bath time that she had fun trick or treating.  She's the sweetest!

Nastics

Nastics is what Riley calls gymnastics.  She still gets excited for every Monday because she knows we get to go to gymnastics.  However, for the past month her regular coach hasn't been there because she had a death in her family and is back on the mainland.  We've had the same substitute for the past 3 weeks and I'm not really a fan of her.  She doesn't really have much structure for the class and the kids are all running around like wild monkeys.  Especially Riley!  Today Riley didn't even get to jump on the trampoline which is her favorite part.  It's just frustrating because we pay a good amount of money for Riley to go and she's not getting to do everything that her normal coach does.  I honestly think I could run it better than the substitute.  I'm crossing my fingers that next week Riley's regular coach will be back.  Riley is still having fun, but I know what we normally do in the class and expect that routine every week!

Another Frightening Day

After the day I had yesterday, I was excited to go to my first OB appointment this morning.  I mean there really isn't anything better than hearing your baby's heartbeat for the first time.  My appointment was early at 8am, so I was up before the girls were getting myself ready to go.  Riley woke up as soon as I was done getting ready, so I got her fed.  I had to wake Hadley up so I could feed her before we left.  I walked the girls down to my friend Abbey's because she was kind enough to offer to watch them while I went to my appointment.  I get to my appointment and see the massive amount of people that are there waiting to be seen.  I was thinking to myself, I'm going to be here forever.  So I grabbed a magazine and tried to keep myself entertained.  I was trying my hardest not to listen or look at the tv because it was on the Food Network and it was making me sick to my stomach.  I hadn't eaten because I was rushing around trying to get ready and the girls fed.  Whatever was being made on the show just wasn't tickling my fancy, it was making me sick.  I just kept my face in the magazine and was praying my name would be called sooner than later!  After waiting about 10 minutes one person was called into the back.  Once again, I was thinking that this appointment was going to take forever.  But then, about 2 minutes later, I heard "Mrs. Prewitt."  Wahoo!  I was excited to hear my name, but the people who were there before me gave me some mean mugs.  Not my fault their doctor was running behind!  I met with my doctor, who I found out is really a nurse practitioner.  She went over my blood work results first.  I'm happy to announce that I don't have HIV, syphilis, chlamydia, or hepatitis.  Actually I was pretty amazed that she actually sat there and told me those results as if I should be surprised.  My response was "well I wouldn't have expected my blood work to come back any other way."  Then it was time for my lovely female exam.  Once that fun was over it was finally time to hear baby #3's heartbeat.  I was super excited.  After a couple of minutes of Dr. Jones moving the doppler around on my stomach and not hearing anything, I got a little nervous.  Dr. Jones told me to just relax and she was going to get a physician to come in and take a sonogram.  You normally only get one sonogram here and that's at 20 weeks.  So during the 10 minutes that I'm alone in the room waiting for the physician to come in I'm definitely starting to panic.  I was definitely thinking about how stressed I was yesterday with Hadley locked in the car and that I must have stressed too much and done something to the baby.  It was the longest 10 minutes I've ever waited.  I was trying to just breathe calmly through my nose, but I don't know how well that was working.  Finally Dr. Jones came back with the physician who had a portable sonogram machine.  I was scared to look at the screen.  But once the doctor told me to look at the screen to see the strong heartbeat I looked.  There was a little tiny baby with a little beating heart.  What a relief!!  Apparently I'm not as far along as we thought.  Going by my last period I should be 11 weeks and 1 day, but the doctor was guessing I'm only about 9 weeks.  Since the sonogram machine she was using wasn't able to measure the baby I have to schedule an ultrasound so we can get a more accurate due date.  That made me happy because I've always had at least 2 ultrasounds with my previous pregnancies.  I came home and scheduled the ultrasound which will be on November 16th.  So I guess I'll wait until then to find out when I'm due and how far along I am!  I'm just happy that I've got another baby with a strong heartbeat growing inside of me!  However, I can't take anymore stressful events anytime soon!!

Scariest Moment of My Life, Thus Far!

I'd like to think of myself as a mom that doesn't make too many mistakes.  Sure my children have rolled off the couch, banged their heads on corners of tables, gotten a bloody lip or two, but I haven't let anything too awful happen to them.  

I ran out to run some errands this morning, nothing too out of the ordinary.  When we got home I parked my Tahoe in the garage, turned the car off, and went to get the girls out of the car.  I always leave my door open until both of the girls are out of the car, don't know why I do, but I do.  I get Riley out and then walk around to the other side of the Tahoe to grab Hadley.  As I reach for the door handle on Hadley's side I hear a click.  The click you hear when the doors lock.  I see through the window that Riley had shut my door.  I still try to open Hadley's door, but it's locked.  My heart sank into my stomach.  Now normally it wouldn't be an issue because I could just grab the spare set of keys in the garage.  Except the spare key was inside the center console locked in the Tahoe.  I took a deep breath and ran down to my neighbor Derel, who praise the Lord was home, and told him I had Hadley locked inside of the car.  Within a few moments he came down with some contraptions to try and get the doors unlocked.  I was pretty calm and just trying to play peek-a-boo with Hadley through the window.  After about 10 minutes Hadley had enough of being locked in the car.  She just started crying and then crying louder.  My heart was breaking.  Then in the midst of this I look over at Riley and see that she wet her pants.  Normally when she has an accident she cries and tells me, but not today.  Riley was more concerned about Hadley and me.  Riley asked me, "you gonna be alright momma?"  I told her everything was going to be ok and got her changed real quick and had her color inside while Derel kept on trying to unlock the doors.  Of course the keys were still in the ignition so when Derel would push the unlock button it wouldn't work.  The car just kept on locking.  I began to get sick to my stomach at that point.  I had called a locksmith, but they were going to be 20-30 minutes.  I was scared that wasn't quick enough.  I suggested to Derel to try and unlock the door with the manual latch.  He didn't think that he'd be able to maneuver his tool that way.  Thankfully he was able to and got the door unlocked.  Hallelujah!  Hadley had been in the car for about 30 minutes.  I think it was the longest 30 minutes of both of our lives.  She was fine, but I couldn't stop hugging and kissing her.  Hadley stopped crying the second she was in my arms.  Me on the other hand, I'm still getting upset thinking about the situation.  I guess I could have just busted the window open, but I didn't want glass flying everywhere and potentially cutting Hadley.  I am so grateful to Derel for getting the door unlocked.  I snapped a shot of my sweaty beast a few minutes after we got inside.  My poor baby.  Oh and by the way, Hadley is 11 months old today!  

Little Piggies

I often wonder when I'm going to get to the point at meals when I don't have to wipe my children down head to toe after they are done eating.  Clearly with a third on the way I have years to go. It's funny though, Riley wasn't a messy eater as a baby.  I didn't even have to put a bib on her because she ate every spoonful I gave her.  Hadley is a different story.  She likes to eat what's on the spoon and then spit some back out of her mouth.  Then she likes to grab the spoon from me and make food go flying everywhere.  Riley isn't so much of clean eater anymore.  She always winds up with food all over her face and we always take her shirt off because she always manages to spill something down the front of her.  Due to the fact that Riley doesn't like to have anything dirty on her clothes, she eats topless!  I'm now introducing regular foods to Hadley.  I'm really cautious though because she has a horrible gag reflex and I don't think I could handle her choking on something.  She is a huge fan of mac & cheese, a girl after my own heart!  She also does pretty well with toast, bananas, and french fries!  But she has to feed herself  or the food won't enter her mouth.  Again, much different from Riley who let me feed her regular food.  It's true what they say, no two kids are alike.  I can only imagine what baby #3 will be like!

After I snapped the shots of the girls shoveling food into their mouths, I got one of them smiling!  These smiles make me not care about cleaning up the mess that they make of themselves.  I mean they are little kids.  Who cares if they get messy???  Not me!

Sidewalk Chalk

 Riley's new favorite outdoor activity is to draw with her sidewalk chalk.  She is seriously a huge fan of the chalk.  She loves when daddy and mommy draw things for her too.  I'm not the best artist, so my drawings normally consist of flowers, butterflies, hearts and stars.  Sometimes I'll draw a little sailboat, but it seriously looks like third grade art!  Trey is somewhat better than me.  He drew her a big huge speed boat (which she is standing on the front of in the picture to the left).  The good thing is Riley doesn't care what you draw or how good you are at drawing it, just as long as you use the color that she chooses for you.  Riley likes to draw pictures of mommy, daddy and Hadley.  We all look like scribbles, but she's proud of her work!  Trey drew a hopscotch area so we were trying to teach Riley how to do play.  She didn't pay much attention to our direction and just kept running through the hopscotch game.  As long as she was enjoying herself I was satisfied!  I think she may still be a little young to understand the concept of hopscotch anyway.  Needless to say, we spend plenty of time outside decoration the road behind our house and the sidewalk in front of our house!

Rainy Days

First of all, I'm sorry I've been slacking on keeping the blog updated.  I have been feeling totally lethargic lately and any moment that I might get free is used for me to rest.  Honestly, the last thing I have felt like doing is sitting in front of my computer to type a story.  However, last night I got asked by Trey to update the blog.  He informed me that he enjoys showing off new pictures at work.  So I feel guilty because I know there are people that check in on us frequently.  These shots are from last week.  It rained almost every day which was actually alright with me because that meant I didn't have to go play outside.  Isn't that awful of me?  I did my best to keep the girls entertained inside though.  There was a lot of coloring going on for Riley and block building with both of the girls.  Hadley's new favorite thing to do is climb into Riley's chair and just chill out.  It's the cutest thing to just watch her sit in the big ol' chair like she is queen of the house.  I guess Hadley will be needing her own chair for her first birthday just like her big sister.  Riley isn't always the best with sharing her chair because it's HERS.  Luckily, Riley was being super nice this day and decided that Hadley could have the chair because Riley was doing flips and somersaults on the couch.  I'm guessing that was way more fun for Riley!

 I'm lucky with Riley because she always can entertain herself, which makes it nice for me right now since I have minimal energy.  And when I say minimal I mean I feel like I could sleep for a week straight!  Hadley on the other hand needs constant entertainment.  She's a handful.  Not to mention she is cutting some new teeth which has made her fussier than normal.  This has definitely not been a good thing because my patience is very limited at the present time.  I just try to walk away and take some deep breaths before I try to calm my ear piercing screaming daughter.  The worst part is when Hadley is screaming like she does, all she wants is for me to hold her.  Then I feel guilty because I can't just hold her all day long.  First of all, she's rather heavy and secondly, I need both of my hands at many points during my day.  However, we all made it through the last week.  I have seriously felt like a bad mother and wife because of my major lack in energy.  I apologized to my whole family for not being myself, but I sort of blame Trey since he's the one who got me pregnant!  Just kidding, I don't blame him.  I do know that this will be the last addition to our clan.  I can't imagine being pregnant and having to take care of three little ones.  I'm not trying to complain.  I'd just thoroughly enjoy my energy back so that I can play with my girls and cook dinner for the family!  Energy, you are welcome back to me at anytime!  Hopefully it will come sooner than later!  

This picture makes me laugh because Hadley is trying to push Riley out of the chair!

Thank Goodness for Daddy

I was so happy that Trey had a three day weekend.  I have been so sick the past few days.  The worst part is that it's not even pregnancy related.  I've been having sinus issues, sore throat, and running a slight fever. It's been absolutely miserable.  I have had zero energy which makes me feel so guilty because I'm just not motivated to play with the girls or do anything for that matter.  Luckily, Trey has been home and keeping the girlies entertained.  He was seriously a life saver this weekend.  I'm not sure what I would've done if I was feeling this crappy during the week while he was at work.  It's times like this that I wish I was near my family so my mom could just come over and watch the kids while I slept away my illness.  I got to do it with Trey here instead though!  Anyway, I just wanted to share this adorable video that Trey took while entertaining Hadley.  I was jealous when I watched it because I missed such an adorable moment, but at least it's on video!

First Time in a Long Time

Despite the fact that I'm not feeling the greatest, I decided to continue with my plans this morning of getting a manicure and pedicure.  Let me enlighten you for a moment.  The last time I got a manicure and pedicure was the week before Riley was born.  If you do the math that's two and half years ago.  I'm sure you can imagine what my feet look like.  Terrible would be the word to describe my feet!  Honestly they were so bad I was embarrassed to go get a pedicure.  Anyway, I decided to go use some of my birthday money and treat myself to some nice "me" time.  As I was leaving Trey suggested that I take Riley with me.  I was annoyed that he even suggested I take her because I was going to have time to myself.  Then I thought for a moment and understood where he was coming from.  I don't ever get just mommy-Riley time and it could be a nice bonding experience for us to get our nails done together.  I was upset at myself for getting annoyed at the idea at first.  But that's water under the bridge.  Off we go to get our nails done.

When we walk in I get asked what I want done and then they asked if Riley was getting her nails done also.  I asked Riley if she wanted her nails painted to which she replied very firmly, "NO."  I wasn't sure if she was going to let them and wasn't surprised at her answer.  So I get my manicure and then sit in a nice comfy chair for my pedicure.  I'm totally grossed out watching the woman scrape all the dead skin off my feet.  Pleasant, right?  All I could think was "boy I'm going to have to tip her big!"  Once that part of the pedicure was over I just sat back and relaxed.  Well, I guess you can call it relaxed if you consider answering all of Riley's 50 questions relaxed!  Riley was pretty funny though.  She needed to know what was going on with my feet every time something new was happening.  Before I paid for my manicure and pedicure I asked Riley if she wanted her toes painted and she told me no again.  So I paid and we walked out of the nail salon.  As soon as we walked out Riley said, "Momma, (pointed to her feet) my toes."  Of course she decided she wanted her toes painted once we leave the place.  So we turn around and walk back in.  They were nice enough to not make us wait and took Riley right away.  Riley first chose this awful orange color.  I said no and told her to choose something else.  So, of course, she chose  her favorite color: yellow.  I don't really know that it was any better than the orange, but she said "please momma," so how could I say no?  It was so much fun to watch her get her toe nails painted.  She looked adorable and was thrilled to death.  I have to say I'm not the biggest fan of little girls(I mean 2 year olds) with their nails painted, but it was special time for just the two of us.  I made an exception for this time!