Am I a bad blogger, or what????

So much for sticking to my idea of blogging more often! It's already been quite a few days! Oops! Sorry, ya'll! So much to do..........

By the way, just in case you're counting along with me.......FIFTY ONE days left!!

Okay....now let's get down to business! :) The weekend turned out to be simply wonderful! The shower was phenomenal...there were about 15 friends there...just the perfect amount to make it intimate but also not too small. We ate yummy, yummy food (brunch stuff! Mmmmmm...my favorite!) and had a wonderful time chatting and sharing. And then of-course, there were the gifts! Oh how I loved opening all those PINK gifts! :) We were really, really blessed to have received so many wonderful things and are now pretty much set in terms of being prepared for her arrival. Thank you, my friends (and family!)! :) Her closet and dresser are now stocked full of a plethora of pink and white clothes (all washed, I might add!) , her bed is nearly completely assembled and diapers are set for the ready. We picked up a few final things at Target on Sunday and all there is left to do is hang things on the walls and pick up a couple things at Pottery Barn. Whooooohooo! I cannot begin to tell you how comforting it is to me to know that if she arrived tomorrow (which she won't, of-course!) that we would be more than prepared for her. I didn't have that with Luke. We were scrambling even as he came home 35 days AFTER his birth. But not this time. I set out from the very beginning to be 'ready' and now we are. Phew! As soon as I get just the last few things hung on her walls, I will reveal her precious little nursery via some photos. I just want to have it ***perfect*** first! :) You know me! :)

The shower lasted until about 3pm on Saturday, and afterwards my mom and friend Kelli came over for a bit to help me unload the goodies. :) Ty was away overnight at a concert, so once Kelli and my mom left, I was flying solo with Luke for the evening. Luke and I were both a little wiped out (me more than him, I think!) and we nibbled on leftovers from the shower for dinner, watched a video and hit the hay pretty early. I spent a little time in the nursery sorting through her gifts, but exhaustion soon overcame me and I headed to bed.

On Sunday, Luke and I hung out on the couch much of the day. He began coming down with a cold on Friday...sniffles and a cough....and when I awoke on Sunday, I had been hit with it full force! I felt pretty terrible! So we lounged around, nursing our aching and sick bodies until Ty came home after lunch. We dragged ourselves to Target late in the afternoon (we all must've looked like the walking dead!) and were home quickly thereafter for another impromptu dinner of PB & J sandwiches, scrambled eggs and my random craving of corn on the cob. Wierd, I know. But it tasted sooooo good! :)

After dinner, Luke was an eager beaver to get outside and try out 'his new' bike. Our neighbors across the street (who have two boys of their own) were kind enough to bring over a small training bike for Luke that one of their boys had outgrown. Of-course, we LOVE hand-me-downs and this bike is in great shape! How lucky are we! :) A cute little story....the neighbor brought the bike over in the afternoon, as Luke and I were outside for just a minute to get the mail. It was too dang hot to be out much longer than that! When Luke first laid eyes on it, he was immediately taken with it! Being the tired, not-feeling-well, overheated mommy that I was, I quickly put the bike next to the wall in the garage, thanked our kind neighbor and hurriedly encouraged Luke to walk with me (quickly!) to the mailbox. I headed down the driveway, but when I turned to make sure Luke was with me, I found him standing next to his new bike, hands positioned on the handlebars, looking at me with longing eyes. "Ride da bike, mommy!" "Peese???!!" Oh, if you could have only heard the desire in his little squeaky voice! It was to die for! But I was hot and tired, and in NO mood to stand, hunched over my two year old, sniffling and coughing, to try to teach him how to maneuver it. Mean, mean mommy that I am! (And selfish at the moment too!) I softly told him that we could try it out when daddy got home. "Nooooooo, Mommy!!!!! Ride it NOW." "Oh baby, not right now. Soon." He started to cry. Yes, I felt horrible, but I was still not budging on the riding thing. "Do you want to just stand there next to it while Mommy goes to get the mail?" "Uh-huh" he said, shaking his precious little head up and down. Okay...fine....whatever works. So I hurried to the mailbox to retrieve the mail and when I returned a couple of minutes later, he hadn't moved a muscle!!!! He was STILL standing there, hands glued to the handlebars! He was just SOOOO excited to ride that bike! It was the cutest thing I've seen! A little boy's desire to ride a new, shiny bike!

Cute, that is, until I had to PRY his hands off the bike to go inside and he began wailing. Yeah. Mean, mean Mommy! I know. You don't have to say it. But I really didn't feel well. And I knew Ty would be home in an hour or so. And he was. When we arrived home from Target and the weather had cooled , Ty lowered the seat, put on the training wheels and Luke was off down the street with Daddy before you could say helmet! I was shocked to see how well Luke could ride that bike! The first time I saw it, I thought it would be quite some time before he would be big enough to ride it for sure. I was wrong. Here are come cute pictures. We call Luke the Mushroom Man when he has his helmet on. You can see why! :) To us, he kinda looks like those Mushroom Men thingys from Super Mario World! :)



"Bad boy, bad boy...whatcha gonna do...." Doesn't he look like a he's a tough guy in this shot?!

Look Ma! No Hands! He looks like he was trying to be 'cool' here


Cute kid, huh! :) Love him!

Anyway, that was our Sunday! :) Monday was much of the same as far as nursing our sick bodies goes. We didn't leave the four walls of our house that day. Just stayed home, did massive amounts of laundry, cleaned just a little, and napped for much of the afternoon! Luke actually took a world-record FOUR hour nap yesterday! Guess his little body needed the rest! Mine did too!

Last night, my sister Jenn came to stay the night before we took her to the airport this morning for her trip to Hawaii! After we dropped her at the airport, we stopped by Babies R Us to buy our diaper pail and Luke picked out a cute stuffed caterpillar to give his baby sister when she arrives.

We headed home after that for both of us to nap (and hopefully get rid of this nasty, hacking cough/cold thing!) and then it was lunch and playtime. Here is Luke's new toy that Aunt Jenn brought from her house for us. It's an old rocking horse that I believe my grandfather made for us girls when we were little (he made each one of us something.....Jennifer got the horse, I got a toy chest and I think my sister Kim got doll beds. I probably have them out of order, but you get the picture. The horse is OLD!) hehe :) Luke loves, loves, loves it! He hasn't gotten off of it for nearly an hour now! He's still on it as I type!


The fireman's hat was his idea, by the way! :)

Well....I think you're all caught up for the last few days! Time to go get some things done around the house while my medicine is working well and I feel pretty good! :) Pray for a quick recovery! Colds are the pits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially when it's already tough to breathe from baby-pressure! Blegh!