Lo-Green Acres: Happy Birthday...Me:)

Sunday was my birthday. Josh baked me a cake, got me a card, and let me take a nice long afternoon nap while he watched football. It was a very nice relaxing day. On Friday we got a babysitter (our neighbor that does chores for us when we travel) and went out on a date. Josh took me to Almont to go ice skating. They had just gotten the ice finished. Josh shoveled off a small part and we spent a while skating. It was a lot of fun! We then went out to Sunset Cafe for burgers. It was a really great birthday!

I had a diabetes appointment and OB appointment on Friday morning. Both went well. The baby's heartbeat is at a strong 152. My A1C is 5.9 which is in normal range (my OB/GYN was excited about that). My next appointment we get to have the ultrasound and see the baby :).

Josh stayed at home with the kids, so when I was finished with my appointments I went to do some shopping for the church. We have a Valentine Supper every year that the high school kids serve, so I was picking up all the none perishable food for that (The only thing I have left to get is the lettuce salad). You wouldn't believe how heavy my carts were at Walmart and Sam's Club. It was really nice to not have John and Olue with me (they wouldn't have fit in the cart....And they wouldn't have like that kind of shopping).

Olue has started to stand on her own. She gets up into her sumo squat and then she slowly raises to a stand. She usually does it in the kitchen and her socks make her slowly slip down to the splits. It's really cute. We get really excited for her and clap and say "Yay! Lu Lu standing!" She gets really excited and starts clapping too. It's really cute! Johnny always comes running to tell me if she's doing it when I'm not in the room. Josh said that she took one step from that stance on Friday morning, but we haven't seen another step since.

Lu Lu standing

Lu Lu coming to get Daddy

Johnny smiling for Daddy

Johnny and Daddy chilling out in the couch in the early morning

Johnny now thinks he needs to get up really early. I think he just doesn't get worn out enough during the day when he can't get outside to play. We've started to tell him that he needs to stay in bed until Mommy comes to get him at 7:30. One morning he opened Lu Lu's door and turned on her light (we weren't too happy about that.)