Best Pregnancy Perk

For all those who have been pregnant or are pregnant you know there are lots of perks such as not having to pick up things that fall (or that you drop), getting a few extra minutes of sleep while hubby tends to a very awake toddler (thanks, Greg!), not having to carry heavy loads, getting away with eating whatever you want to satisfy a "craving" but the best for me came today! It combines 2 of my favorite loves; free things and soft-serve ice cream! Baskin Robbins declared it Bump Day to celebrate their new soft serve ice cream, and of course nothing was gong to stop me from going. I only regretted not making it to more than one store. Oh well, kind of crazy to think about with such high gas prices , that traveling for 2 miles round trip for free ice cream probably cost me a good dollar! Thanks Baskin Robbins!

Famous Freecycling!

So I think everyone who knows me knows how much I love freecycling!!!! I even got my gramma into it as they are moving and have tons of stuff to get rid of. So today I get a call from my gramma who said that there was a freecycling article in the Trib's tempo section. That's pretty cool, huh? Well, maybe not really, except for the fact that the things I posted for my gramma made it into the article! My grampa was reading the article and said to my gramma, "Hey isn't this the stuff you got rid of?" Now of course, any Joe Schmoe wouldn't know that some of the things listed in the article are things that I got rid of, but now you know! Here's a contest, if you contact me with the correct guess of what we got rid of listed in the article, you'll get a prize!!!!

What We've Been Up To!

Man, I wrote a whole entry and had 4 pictures all ready and deleted it all, so this is all you are going to get!

We gave in...

...and it was the best decision we ever made!!!!!!! After a week of NOT sleeping through the night (yes, it still can potentially happen with toddlers), we gave in and gave Charlotte her pacifier, which she had probably been without for a couple of months.

Good thing we are in the midst of packing, because I wouldn't have even remembered where I put it, but yesterday I went into my jewelry box and found it, so at 10 pm at night when Charlotte started screaming out I kept the thought in the back of my mind that the pacifier is accessible. We went in, gave her Motrin, which still didn't help (or at least it didn't stop the screaming), and tried to comfort her to no avail. Greg and I went back to bed, still with Charlotte screaming, and I pulled out the pacifier.

We all slept through the night, except I did get up at 5, probably out of habit of getting awoken sometime between 2 and 4. Oh, and Charlotte is STILL sleeping at 7:20 am!!

Lil' Man Landon

Here are pics of Kimberly, Alan, and Landon. (And yes, they totally copied our idea and had 2 week photos taken of the family.) Now I understand lots of other people do this, but I can harp on Kimberly doing it, because she's my twin and we do stuff like that!

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She's ready....

...to be a big sister! Here Charlotte is doting and loving on cousin Landon (my twin sister's two week old baby!) Landon was sleeping when we arrived at my grandparents and Charlotte was content to just watch him sleep, and then as she got more comfortable, point out all his body parts! This she did with toddler enthusiam much to new dad Alan's dismay! The kicker was when we were all downstairs, with Landon sleeping upstairs on my grandparents bed. Charlotte came into the kitchen to say hi to me, then went to the dining room, and I didn't hear her go onto the living room to play with the many musical toys my gramma has for her. I asked my grampa, who was in the dining room, if he had a view of Charlotte to which he responded, "She went upstairs." I ran up to find Charlotte already on the bed (yes, the same bed Landon was sleeping on) watching him! Hopefully, she didn't jostle him too much on her climb up the bed. Then my aunt let Charlotte hold Landon (from the pic above) and when she took Landon away to readjust him and Charlotte, Charlotte threw a fit and said, "No, my baby!"

Now, I'm pretty sure everyone who reads my blog, all 10 of you, over and over again, know, but just in case you didn't, or didn't understand the first line of this posting, we are expecting baby number 2 in July!

I'm an Aunt! And Greg's an Uncle! And Charlotte's a cousin!!!!

At around 1 am this morning my twin sister finally gave birth to Landon Lucas Wegleitner, after a very, very, very long labor. (Went into hospital on Tuesday after water broke, and just didn't progress quickly). I'm very excited, however, I'd be more excited if my sister could figure out how to send photos, or if I'd be able to go up to MN myself to see him. (I have a jewelry party tomorrow and Monday night that prevent me from going.) I am so crazy that I am considering driving up early on Sunday and leaving Monday morning. Too bad we're not rich and I could fly up there, hmm, but maybe I should see how much last minute airline tickets are.