I am FINALLY "Mommy"!!! :)

So a couple of months ago I decided that I wanted Venily to call us "Mommy" and "Daddy" instead of "Momma" and "Dada". I don't know, I just think it's cuter and sounds more grown up... Well, she took on to "Daddy" right away but still would call me "Momma". Then a couple of days ago she wanted something and I told her she had to call me "Mommy" instead of "Momma" or I wouldn't give it to her (lol, gotta love bribery!) and she did and has been calling me it ever since!!! I LOVE BEING MOMMY- it's my FAVORITE!!!!

P.S.- I have been feeling FANTASTIC the last couple of days- no sickness at all! I almost forgot how it felt to not feel sick! AND I've been able to button my pants again the last couple of days since it no longer makes me want to throw up all over the place! :)

14 Weeks!- Finally Feeling Great!

Here's my 14 week pic- officially my 1st pic of the 2nd trimester!!!! I'm starting to look more pregnant, even Jason said so!

How far along? 14 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 120lbs (0lb total gain) -this time in Venily's pregnancy, I had gained 2 1/2 lbs so it looks like I need to get on that! I drink LOTS of whole milk and give in to every craving and force myself to eat even when I'm not hungry so I don't know really what else there is to do!
Maternity clothes? Still just using Venily's hair tie!
Stretch marks? No and I started using cocoa butter! :)
Sleep: I wake up at around 5 or 6am having to go to the bathroom and I MUST go or I will NEVER be able to fall back asleep- but other than that I am sleeping well and enjoying being able to sleep on my stomach and back since I will no longer be able to in a few weeks! There are times when I am EXTREMELY tired during the day but there is nothing I can do about it and even when Venily naps I am just go, go, going the whole time and then regret it later!

Best moment this week: IFinally having names for a boy and girl! And playing outside with the little ones whenever the weather is even remotely nice!
Movement: Phantom movement possibly, lol! There have been a few times when I am laying down and it's real calm and I think that I might feel the baby moving, but it is still way too early for me to be sure!
Food cravings: Grapes! and chocolate cake w/ chocolate frosting (I plan on making this today!)
Gender Thoughts: GIRL!! I just went through and organized ALL of Venily's clothes that she has outgrown and every time I came across something cute I'd think "Man, I really hope I get to put this on another baby" lol!
Labor Signs: None

How are you feeling on a scale 1-10? 8.5! Lots more energy during the day (though I use it all up running around getting things done so that puts me right back to square one and being exhausted) Still feeling a little sick most nights, though I definitely feel it's getting better. Also I had REALLY bad headaches for several days straight at the beginning of the week, but those seem to be getting better as well! Overall, I am LOVING the 2nd trimester though!!!
What I miss: Being able to take medicine and not feel like my baby is going to have some long-standing side affect! It's hard for me even to take Tylenol, I feel so guilty!!

What I am looking forward to: Seeing if these phantom movements become stronger so I can know for sure that I feel the baby moving around in there!!
Weekly Wisdom: Don't assume that because a mother has a particular sex of child that she just HAS to have the opposite sex in order to feel complete! I hate when people jump to that conclusion!

Milestones: Days of not feeling sick and being able to get so much done!! YAY!
Differences from 1st pregnancy: I was wrong last week when I wrote that I was moodier this time around.... when I got to think about it I can remember plenty of times I was when I was pregnant with Venily as well. Honestly, I don't feel like there are many differences from Venily's pregnancy at all!

Here's some more pics of my 2 adorable children together! Venily LOVES her little brother or sister so much already!

Baby Names!!

Well, for a girl I think we are definitely set on Haven. Jason even referred to our children as "Venily and Haven", lol, so that is a good sign.

For a boy I have found a new name that I ABSOLUTELY love- Roman, but Jason says no (I think I like it even better than I like Emmett!). But Jason is really shooting for Preston still and I really like that name too and it is the first boy's name that we have EVER agreed on, so it looks like Preston it will probably be if it is a boy! Just having a boy's name picked out, I already feel much better about having a boy, lol!

SO.... will it be Haven or Preston?! I can't wait to find out!! I want to still try and convince Jason to have it a surprise for everyone but us, but I REALLY don't think I can persuade him! :)

I always ask Venily if the baby is a boy or girl and she used to always point to my stomach and say "baby girl!" but now when I ask she shakes her head and says "NO!... (smiles)....BABY!" I have been testing out our names with her and she can say them both so that is really good! She can say "Haven" and "Pres" for Preston!

She is doing well still on the potty, she pooped on the potty 3 times today!!! (Though she also pooped in her diaper 3 times as well but she told me right away after she did). Hey, I'll take half the poopy diapers any day!!! I am exhausted though! She ALWAYS wants to go on the potty and usually she'll say "poop!" and then sit on the potty and let out a little bit of gas and then say "all done". It CRACKS me up, but then it is usually a struggle to get her diaper and pants back on her!

Also, Venily sang me the ABC's today!!!!!! I will try to get a video of it tomorrow, it is the CUTEST!!!! She'll be like "A, B, A, P, T, O, A...." lol, but she'll sing them in her little singing voice!!

PT Update!

Day 1: Venily pooped once in the potty and peed twice!

Day 2: Venily pooped twice in the potty!

Day 3: We shall see!

I must say though, I think she could do a much better job if I wasn't so tired right now. Being home with her by myself with so much of my energy going toward growing her little brother or sister already is really sucking all my energy. Yesterday she told me she had to poop and I was lying down and I'm like "really?" but I couldn't bring myself to get up with her so she pooped in her diaper (COMPLETELY my fault) and I had to get up to change her anyway.

The thing is she LOVES to sit on the toilet!! Like if it was up to her she'd be on there all day! She'll sit on there and then I'll ask her if she's all done and she'll start to get up and then say "no" and sit back down, lol! I usually have to bribe her to get out of the bathroom, haha! This morning I hurried her along too fast because I had a headache and needed to use the bathroom so while I was in the bathroom she pooped in her diaper out in the hallway! HAHA! Maybe I should wait a few more weeks to take this on when my energy level is up a bit?

GUESS WHO POOPED IN THE TOILET!!!!!!!

Venily (OF COURSE, lol)!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhh, I'm so fricken excited!!!!

Jason has been busy a lot more lately which means I've been having to change more poopy diapers and gagging horribly. Well, yesterday after she'd go I'd tell her try some more to make sure it was all out and she actually would. Then I got to thinking about it and if she can poop on command, then surely she'd be able to do it in her potty. Well, I don't want to have to clean out her potty chair either because that's probably just as bad if not worse than changing her diaper.

Then today she comes up to me and says "poop!" (which she does right before she has to go or if she already went) I checked her diaper and she hadn't gone yet and I thought, maybe I should try her on the grown up toilet with her little potty seat ring thing!!!! I asked her if she wanted to go on Mommy's toilet and she was so excited and went running and laughing into the bathroom. And she was sitting on there trying for a minute and then WENT!!!!! I couldn't believe it, she was so proud of herself too!!! I'm going to have to stock up on her favorite candy and keep it in there!!!!

Man, if I could just get her to poop in the toilet all the time, life would be pretty awesome!!!!!!!

Here is a picture of my little princess with her first poop in the potty!!! LOL!! Embarrassing? Yes, but sooooooo cute and funny!!! (Hey, Kate (Jon & Kate plus 8) did it with all of her 8 kids!)

Venily is 17 Months!

1 more and she'll be 1 1/2!!! Oh my goodness!!

She woke up this morning asking Jason: "Water?" "Dells?" HAHAHAHA! I didn't even know she knew what the Dells were! It's sad to have to explain to her that no, it would be quite some time before we are able to go back to the Dells again and we still have several more months before we can go to the beach!

This last month Venily has been sleeping AWESOMELY!!! She sleeps in her big girl bed ALL night long now and comes into our room in the morning so very happy! ( Before she'd sleep in her bed for like 75% of the night and then crawl in with us sometime in the early morning and fall back asleep.) She likes to come up with creative ways sometimes to wake me up though like putting "icks" (fuzzies and things she finds on the ground) in my mouth and laughing. Or really excitedly yelling "BELBOWS!!! BELBOWS!!!" as she grabs my elbows (it's currently her favorite body part, lol). She is taking about a 2 hour nap around noon every day too, which I hope she keeps up!!

We have been giving her more things with cheese in it the last month to try and test her lactose sensitivity (cheese is easier to digest than milk) and so far she has done pretty well, some diahhrea here and there, but it's so hard to tell what is due to the lactose and what is a virus or something since she doesn't get it all the time. She is still drinking Lactaid and sometimes Soy Milk if the store is out of Lactaid and she loves it, so there is no problem there.

I gave up on potty training the last 2 months. I am still too nauseous to deal with that right now. Whenever I go to the bathroom she wants to sit on her potty too, but I just have her do it fully clothed because I usually feel too sick to undress her and put forth the effort. I plan on trying again in like a month. I'm hoping I feel better and it will be warmer out! She tells us all the time when she needs to be changed so I'm hoping to get the whole potty-training thing under control before Baby #2 is here!!

I was looking through old pictures of Venily yesterday and crying! :) She looks almost exactly the same as she does now, but she used to be a heck of a lot chunkier and had less hair, yet I find it really hard to remember her being that little! She was just sooooo cute (and gets cuter by the day!)! I miss having a baby though, I'm not going to let my next one grow up!! :)

Next month she gets her 18m checkup and shots!