Update

The big girl bed is awesome!  Katie is doing so well, I can hardly believe it.  We still haven't purchased bed rails, but on the advice of Mama Judy, we just put the back of a chair next to the bed and it seems to work great.

This whole transition has caused a whirlwind of emotions, yet again, for Mama K.  We used to look at Katie in the crib and think, "My goodness, she is getting so big."  Now looking at her in the big girl bed all I can say is, "Sweet Jesus, she is so small!"  I check on her while she sleeps now more than I did while she was in the crib, mainly because she is so adorable passed out in her bed.  In the crib, she refused to let us put a blanket over her.  But, now that she's in her big girl bed, it's like she's loved blankets her whole life.  

I'm happy that I will have the chance to relive all of this again with a new baby, but I'm still sad that these milestones are coming and going so quickly for Katie.  

I'm a little embarrassed to say that I was watching Tori and Dean last night.  I'm even more embarrassed that I was crying through half of it.  It was the episode where she had her second baby.  She said something that actually made me stop and think about this new arrival, something I haven't really allowed myself to do.  She was sad that it wasn't going to be just her and Liam (first born) anymore. She told him how she was going to share her love with the new baby girl, but that there was certainly enough love to go around for the both of them.  I've thought about this, but not necessarily long and hard.  Katie won't be an only child anymore!  I'm going to have to love two equally!  "Have" is probably the wrong word since I'm sure the love just flows naturally :)

My friend Katie mentioned how she felt guilty in the hospital, right after she had her second, for giving all this attention to a new baby and not the first born.  That is something I never considered.  The nurse told her it was very common to have those feelings.  I imagine so!  It will be so strange to split my time between two girls.  I'm crying just thinking about it.

I'm pregnant, I cry a lot!

Anyway, time is ticking away and baby girl #2 will be here before we know it.  I just hope we can get our act together so we're ready for her when she shows up early, because c'mon you know she's gonna show up early!

Also, maybe my doctor's office will finally call me back today to tell me if I have Gestational Diabetes...  I mean, I took the test last Thursday.  Results should have surfaced by now, right?

Time Flies!

We apologize for not writing in ages, but things have gotten so hectic around here in the last few months.  I guess it's mostly been because of family and friend visits, spontaneous travel plans, and getting ready for baby girl #2, which includes getting baby girl #1 potty trained and into a big girl bed.  The potty training isn't going very well, but the big girl bed went rather smoothly this afternoon, until...   ... she fell out of the bed and woke up :)  Don't worry, Katie was perfectly fine, just stunned a bit.  We plan on getting a bed rail, of course, but were unsuccessful during our morning search at Target and Kmart.

Potty training woes...

It's not like I expected Katie to figure this out overnight, but I thought for a second that we could possibly be that rare case where the kid just "gets it."  I want to cringe every time someone tells me about how their potty training process was basically effortless.  Well, pin a medal on you!  I'm not so lucky.  I thought I'd get some good advice this weekend while at a friend's baby shower since everyone there had kids.  The one girl who sat down and talked about it said it was pretty effortless for her, which sent me into a rage of jealousy.

I shouldn't complain because we JUST started this process.  The first two days were kind of effortless.  But, today, Katie has had four accidents and it's only 1:30 p.m.  This is hard work.   I thought that taking her to the toilet every 15 minutes would be the part I hated most.  But, she has proven me wrong by peeing four different times in her pants in the kitchen, living room, and bathroom floor.  How could someone so little have such a big bladder?  I don't even get it.

I'm hoping that she doesn't give up, but all of a sudden she has started to say, "Katie can't do it." WHAT?  Where did she even learn to say something like that?  I sound like a broken record telling her not to say "can't."  Not to mention, she has also started saying, "no means no." WHAT?  I'm not sure where she is picking up all this negativity, but it's not fun at all.  She's such a happy kid and I'm just wondering if she's playing around, trying to push buttons or test limits, but who knows.  Hopefully, we'll have some positive progress this afternoon to lift all our spirits.

Time for Potty Training!

I'm so happy that our new computer is up and working just in time to tell the world that Katie went poo-poo in the potty last night!  It was a wonderful event full of praise and excitement!  My goodness, she was so happy to have done it!  Well, I'm sure it helped that she got a Buzz Light Year figurine for a job well done, but it was still so cute.  She shouted with glee, "Katie did it!" She's yet to do #1 or #2 in the proper place since then, but we're still riding the high from her first poop in the potty ever!  What a milestone!