She's Lip Gloss Obsessed

Our little princess has become ridiculously obsessed with lip gloss (or as she says, "Wip Gwoss"). She's always wanted some of my lip gloss if she saw me use it, but she had not had her own personal lip gloss until 2 weeks ago. 

Since then, she's gone through not 1, not 2, but 3 lip glosses. She uses it repeatedly. All. Day. Long.

The good news is that she's perfectly willing to put it down at nap time, bed time, and meal time.

When she puts it on, she puckers her little lips together, rubs it all over her them, and then smacks them together rather loudly.

She also continuously talks about how she's a "Big Girl," how lip gloss "goes on wips (lips) only," and how she "puts wid (lid) on so it not get dirty."

I don't think she's giving up this obsession any time soon.

Questions

Our kiddos have been in the never-ending-question-asking phase for quite some time now. Below are the questions we hear about 492 times a day:

Vivian
"What you doing?"
"Right now?"
"What dat?"
"Can I have some?"
"Which one you want?" (She likes to give Gavin options when they're playing.)
"Where my wip gwoss (lip gloss)?" (The girl is obsessed with her lip gloss.)


Gavin
"What could it be, Mom/Dad?"
"Where you going?"
"Right now?"
"What it prolly (probably) be?"
"Where my Daddy?" (The boy is obsessed with his daddy)

Puzzles!

While Grandma was here, she and the kiddos worked on a few puzzles in the dining room. They LOVED every second of it!

The Baby Suit

That's right, the title says "baby suit." This is what Gavin calls Wes' work jumpsuit of sorts that he wears over his clothes when he's working on one of our cars. Gavin calls it a baby suit because the first time Wes brought it home, he let Gavin get inside and we called it a baby-holder, which later turned into "baby suit." Well the original baby suit is too dirty for the kids to get into now, but Wes just got two more baby suits yesterday. Naturally, Gavin and Vivian both HAD to get inside. At the same time.

The Results

Well, I had the fetal fibronectin test that I blogged about yesterday and it was NEGATIVE! This is great news!

Now we just just have to continue waiting to see when Chocolate Marker is going to make an appearance.

Pump It Up!

On Tuesday, Wes, Grandma, and Uncle Flip took the kiddos to a blow-up, bouncy place in town called Pump It Up! Everybody had a TON of fun and Wes took a TON of videos. Here are a few of them. Enjoy.

Cervix Update

A lot of you have asked me questions about my progress. Well, I just got back from a doctor's appointment and I thought I should just write it all out.

The problem I'm having in this pregnancy is a short cervix. This is a problem because if one's cervix gets too short, one could go into preterm labor. Here's a picture of what's going on:

They not only measure the length of my cervix, but they can also tell if the "bottom" of the cervix is open or not. Here's the breakdown about how things have been going since the end of February:

• Sometime in the beginning of February: my cervix was 53-55mm and open
• February 24th (I was about 25 weeks pregnant): my cervix was 14-16mm and open (this is when I was sent to the hospital for monitoring, a steroid shot, and more tests. And it was when I was put on strict bed rest, which still totally sucks.)
• March 2nd (I was about 26 weeks pregnant): my cervix was 24-29mm and open
• March 8th (I was about 277 weeks pregnant): my cervix was 20-20mm and closed
• Today (I'm about 28 weeks pregnant): my cervix is 13-16mm and open

This is not good. I have to go back to the doctor tomorrow to have a fetal fibronectin test. The result of this test is either positive or negative. Negative would mean that going into labor in the next 2 weeks is not likely. A positive result, however, could mean two things: (1) going into labor in the next 2 weeks is imminent or (2) it could be a false positive (which, apparently, is very common). I've had this test done before (on February 25th) and it came back negative. But that was about 3 weeks ago. Fingers crossed that it's also negative tomorrow.

That's the update. For now.

Our Little Man

Our Cutie Pie

Grandma & Uncle Flip

Wes' mom (Grandma) and brother (Uncle Flip) cam down to visit and help out with the kiddos this week (thank you!). It's been a really nice break from the norm for G & V. One of the things they did this week was take the kiddos to Chick Fil-A. Here are a couple of videos from their outing.





I'll post more about their visit soon...