Random January and More Christmas

These are just some random pictures that we've taken lately. (Mainly Emmaline. :)) Not too much new is happening...Royce is working on his last semester of coursework before he starts his dissertation. Emmaline and I are just hanging out and waiting for this baby to come. Four more weeks from tomorrow! I think we're all ready, but I seem to be going in manic cleaning modes lately. Well, as manic as I can be right now. Anyway, I guess that's all. Frink out.

Finally getting rid of our poor gingerbread house that has been sitting on our table for the last 2 1/2 months.

Dancing with the doll she got for Christmas from Sharon and Carlos.

My poor little slave worker girl; my Mom says I work her too much. But she's such a cheerful little thing, and loves to help. She already unloads the dishwasher (along with other chores), but lately she's wanted to help me wash the dishes too, so we each have our own sink and I wash the pots and pans and she rinses the dishes before they go into the dishwasher. It's actually really helpful, not just something you let them do because they want to help. She's such a sweetheart.

Emmaline's creation. (And picture.)
Emmaline's picture of Daddy losing his mind. We're pretty sure he won't go postal before he's finished with school, but not positive. :)

My Sister also put some more pictures up on her blog from Christmastime, and she takes much cuter pictures, so I'll put some up here too so you can see some good pictures.

This is our whole family minus poor Uncle Mike. He was taking the picture, and this was the morning before we opened presents and Lea got Mike a tripod for his camera for Christmas, so we were going to take another picture after we opened presents with his tripod, and we just never got it done. One of these days we'll get a picture with everyone. (My sister Lea is also pregnant...she's due one week after I am.)

Aunty Lea, Mazy and Grandpa.

Uncle Mike and Mazy.

Christmas in New Braunfels

Here are some pictures from Christmas. My family all came out to Texas and we stayed at a timeshare my parents have that is about 45min away from where we were. It was really fun, and a good week, but these seem to be the only pictures that I have. Most of them are from when we went to the children's museum, and then some that Royce took while we were opening presents, but I didn't get any of the rest of the week, and it was a VERY busy week. All really fun things, and super cool, but I was so exhausted every night. I don't seem to have very much strength/stamina/energy. It seems to be getting worse, I can't do anything, I'm feeling pretty yucky, and I've decided I'm ready to be done. :) But, only 6 more weeks, and then we get to have little fingers and toes, and cute little bundles to snuggle. February 21st at 7:00am! And Emmaline is just about to spontaneously combust waiting for the baby to come. She loves watching the baby shows on TLC, and every time she sees a picture of a baby she just goes nuts and says I can't wait for the baby to get out!

He's so stinking cute. And wonderful. I don't talk about Royce very much on my blog, and I think he might prefer it that way, but he's so wonderful! He takes such good care of us, and is so sweet and wonderful.

The big present that my parents got Emmaline was a bike, and she was really nervous to ride it at first, but once we got her on there and convinced that she wasn't going to fall off, she had a lot of fun. We even talked her into riding down a little hill the other night. :)

I'm Wesley! (And pregnancy stuff.)

It's official! Emmaline loves Princess Bride now. It was on the other night, and Royce told her that Buttercup was the princess, and Wesley was going to go save her, and she was completely mesmerized, and wants to watch that movie all the time now, and last night she popped out from behind the couch like this and said, "I'm Wesley!" Now she's making Wesley masks for everyone to wear at Christmas, so watch out family, get ready to wear some masks. She specifically mentioned Grandma first, and said she wanted to get a picture with her (she?) and Grandma wearing their masks. She's also made all of us adventure books for when we go to the zoo. :)

At my last check-up they tested me for gestational diabetes as is routine at that visit, and a normal glucose level is 140 or below, and mine was 215, so they started me on the gestational diabetic diet, and I had to do the 3hr fasting test. Surprisingly, it wasn't as bad as the doctor thought it would be. They draw your blood 4 times, and if you get 190 or higher on at least 2 of the tests you're considered to have gestational diabetes, and two of mine were normal, and one was 194, and one was 188, so my doctor said I have borderline gestational diabetes, which means I don't have to go to the endocrinologist, but they have started me on some medicine and I stick with the diet, and I'll do a fasting blood test with every appointment from here on out. But all things considering I thought that was a pretty good outcome, because the doctor thought for sure I'd have it pretty bad, and this is much more manageable. And the medicine I started I take gradually because it takes your body a while to adjust to it, and it's supposed to give me horrible diarrhea, but even that can't stop my constipated colon. Muhahahahha. So that's nice that that's not happening. The diet has been a bit of a struggle; I'm realizing that I'm such an emotional eater, and I seem to need that occasional binge on sweet stuff to handle stress or worry, but I can't, so I've noticed that I'll start crying over the dumbest things, but I think it's just because my emotions are all bottled up. Hmmm...I might have to work on that. Anyway, I guess that's all. The baby is doing well and looks healthy, so that's the point of all of this craziness anyway! Unfortunately I think I've decided I'm done being pregnant now, though. It's good Christmas is coming because I think I'm going to need some major distractions for the next couple of months.

Here are some belly pictures...this one is like 4 or 5 months? I don't remember when I took it. Oops. :)

This one I took this morning, so about 7 1/2ish months? I'm not sure why I didn't put my face in...I didn't think about that until after I put them on the computer. Oh well!

Sunday Afternoon Naps

I was sitting working on Royce's laptop and Royce fell asleep on my shoulder first, then Emmaline crawled up and fell asleep on my chest, and I thought, man, someone should take a picture of this! And then I remembered, I have the lap top, I can! I love my sweet sweet babies!

Merry Christmas to us!

We decided that since we have insanely hard, asbestos filled tile floor all throughout our apartment, before the new baby comes we should get a bigger rug to go in the living room, so she can have tummy time and all crawl and what not without giving herself a concussion. (Royce said the thought of the baby's head hitting this floor when she's laying on the ground in tummy time makes him sick to his stomach. :)) So my parents were awesome enough to buy us a rug for Christmas, and even generous enough to let us get it early, so here is our cool new rug for our apartment. Emmaline loves it. When we got home from Church today, she walked through the door, took her shoes off, and went and started rolling around on the carpet. It is really nice, and Royce even decided to do a little manic re-arranging of furniture in our apartment last night after we got it home, so we've got a nice new living space!

We barely got the carpet rolled out and Emmaline had to give it a try.
This was right before we went out to get our carpet, and we also took Emmaline to the dollar store so she could spend the money that Grammy Cookie gave her for her birthday. It finally started getting a little colder out here, and we realized that she only has one pair of pants left that fit her, so we went and got her a few new things, and this is one of her new outfits.

I forgot, Emmaline also had her 5yr check-up last week. She's in the 90% for her height, and the 20% for her weight. But the doctor says that she's really healthy, and is doing really well. She was even able to get the flu-mist so she didn't have to have any shots, which she was really excited about, but we still went and got ice cream after her check-up anyway. I took a really cute picture of her eating her ice cream on my phone, but since I'm retarded and don't know how to get the pictures from my phone to my computer, they will just have to stay there for a while. That would make for a pretty fun post when I actually get them off, and then we can see the progression. :)

Halloween!

Emmaline was a princess this year for Halloween. Her costume is actually one of her dress-up clothes that she got for her birthday, and she said she wanted to wear it for Halloween, so I thought, hey, that's awesome. So all we had to buy for halloween was the crown, and she was set. We just made the ward trunk-or-treat our official Halloween day since real Halloween was on a Sunday, and it was a lot of fun, and she got a ton of candy. She also rations it really well. She says, okay, I'm going to eat this candy, and then no more for today. She also decided that her candy needed to be sorted by colors, so each color is in its own bag, but she kept leaving the bags out all over the floor, and Royce and I don't have as much self control, so we finally had to tell her that if she didn't want Mommy and Daddy eating all of her candy, she can't leave it out all the time, so now she puts it away in her room. But she's still really good about sharing, and give us candy whenever we ask her for some. :)

Royce's Reunion

These are a couple of pictures from Royce's 10yr high school reunion. But I forgot my camera in the car, so one is in the car right after dinner, and the others are at Royce's parent's house.

(This picture is the cute little kiddos that are in Emmaline's "school." I'll have school at our house for the next 3wks. But just once a week...that sounds scary when you say it like that. :))