The Sweetest Boy

Jack came into my room this morning and handed me this post it note:


I am one lucky Mama!

Merry Christmas!

Christmas 2009!

This year we had the family over on Christmas eve for the usual Chinese food/present extravaganza. In the hours leading up to the big Xmas eve event, Annabelle and Jack were extremely annoying excited. We spent most of the morning getting the house in a presentable state and making Christmas cookies... or should I say, I spent most of the morning picking up after them and trying to keep them from eating all the cookies!

Once the guests started to arrive the kids seemed to be a little less crazy... Still off the wall with excitement, only they had other people to entertain them!

Despite going to bed well after 9pm, they still both woke pretty early on Christmas morning. Once Nick and I dragged ourselves downstairs, we let them open their presents from Santa...

They both received TONS of presents! Jack spent the morning trying out various new toys and Annabelle spent most of Christmas morning on her new Rollerblades:

Later on in the day we headed over to Nana and Papa's house for Christmas dinner.

Jack was really mad because I made him wear that sweater. He kept complaining that it was itchy (which it was not) and also that it was choking him (even though the neck was never zipped)... He took the sweater off the second he got to my parents' house!

The Santa Picture

December 2, 2009

Big News!

Hello blog, it's been a while. I have been feeling very tired and slightly sick so I have been ignoring you... But with good reason; as it turns out, there may be another Monkey appearing in a few months!

If all goes well, little "Squish", as it's been called, should be making it's way into this world early June, 2010.

So far everything has been pretty routine. There's been a bit of morning sickness, and afternoon sickness, oh, and night sickness too, but it has not been too bad. Definitely no where in the league of sickness I suffered whilst pregnant with Annabelle. These days I am feeling better, no where near as tired and much less nauseous. Hopefully the worst in over.

We recently told Annabelle & Jack about the big news and they are both VERY excited. They had completely different reactions: Annabelle started jumping up and down in excitement and Jack started asking technical questions like, "if you eat food will it hit the baby in the head" & "is the baby made of metal?" (he thought the ultrasound picture looked like metal). But once I explained that we will not be having a robotic baby, he seemed pretty happy to become a big brother... So excited in fact, that he then asked for 2 babies, one boy and one girl! When I told him that we will only be having one baby he decided he wants a boy. Annabelle, of course, wants a girl. She also wants to be there when I deliver the baby so she can see how it comes out... Um, I don't think so! The next ultrasound is scheduled on my birthday, January 12th- hopefully all goes well!