15 weeks down

The girls and I spent last weekend in Rochester visiting our family. Lily and Julia seemed to really enjoy themselves and slept great at my parents (which always makes me happy!). My parents seemed really really tired by the end of the weekend, I guess my kids wear them out. haha. We went to the Children's Museum which was lots of fun. We also hit up Ontario park, by the beach to ride on the Merry Go Round. Lily loves Merry Go Rounds! The drive up there went suprisingly well. I always get nervous driving 4-5 hours on the thruway with the girls by myself. But I really have to say that this trip was one of our better ones.

Lily had a tough time returning to school on Wednesday. She has never cried before about going to school, so imagine my surprise when she was pretty hysterical at school and clung to me pretty badly. I stayed with her for a few minutes until she got settled and when I picked her up, her teachers said she had done fine and didn't cry at all during the morning. What a relief. I'd hate to think that if she did cry that they didn't call me.

I had my second midwife appointment on Tuesday. Paul actually got out of work a bit early and was able to come. I was pretty happy he got to be there. My midwives are so nice and down to earth they really make me feel comfortable. I gained about 2lbs since my last appointment, the baby is measuring perfectly and "it" has a nice strong heartbeat of 160. Just like the girls, which leads me to think its another girl, LOL. I've pretty much decided that we are definitely NOT finding out the gender until the birth. Paul on the other hand still thinks differently, but what he forgets is that he won't even be at my ultrasound because he'll be working... and to be quite honest, at this point I don't even think I want an ultrasound.

Sorry its been so long

I feel like I haven't updated in a while. Sorry, such is the life with two little ones to run after, I suppose. I'm now officially in the 2nd trimester. And I've been in maternity clothes for about 2 weeks now. I have my second midwife appointment next Tuesday. Paul and I have decided (well I decided for Paul) to let the gender be a surprise. I figure, with it being my last baby (most likely), I want to experience having one surprise. So I guess we are going with yellow and green for everything as of now. haha

Lily is doing great in preschool, she really loves it. She does come exhausted from school but luckily is taking a good nap when she gets home. Julia is also doing pretty well. She has her "diva" moments, and the days when I can't put her down, but overall, she enjoys life. In three days she mastered how to get out of her highchair (while strapped in), how to climb up on the coffee table, and how to pull out a kitchen chair, climb up on it to get onto the kitchen table. I can't leave her alone for a second, and she wears me out!

Paul is on week 10 at the police academy... half way done. He's been doing really well but has been suffering a lot of back pain from the PT and DT they do. I hope it passes for him soon. He isn't too much help with the girls when he's in pain the whole time he's home.