1 month old

Time has flown bye and Mallory is now a month old. She is changing every day. Mallory has the best smile and has even giggled twice. We don’t know why or for what but it was adorable. Tessa is a great big sister and really loves Mallory.

                                

Our Girls

Tessa was a princess and Mallory was a skeleton! Mark was a Dr. and I was a cook.

Mallory Joyce is here!!!!

  She weighed 7lbs 3 oz and gave us a pretty good scare. Mallory decided to swallow some fluid during delivery which caused her to have difficulty breathing. She was admitted to the hospital and given antibiotics and by Saturday (Oct. 23rd ) we were able to go home. Mallory and I are doing well and all of us are adjusting to new baby!  

T minus 2 days

We are ready, we are not ready but here she comes! For a few weeks now Tessa has been telling me “Mommy, your tummy is big!”  That’s hard truth coming from a two year old. Well, in just two days my tummy won’t be so big and I’ll have a beautiful baby girl to hold. :)

   Tessa was trying to make her tummy big just like mine!

Can you say “Princess”!

Tessa is really into dressing up right now. She loves to pretend that she is a princess. She will dress up and walk around the house saying “bibbity boppity boo” or she asks her dad or I to dance with her. So when I saw a flyer at Superstition Springs Mall for “Princess Night” I knew we had to go. She had a great time! There was face painting, pictures with Cinderella and Bella, and a goodie bag. Tessa wouldn’t pose in the pictures without me so I got to join in the fun. It was so funny because Tessa didn’t talk about the princess dresses;  she wanted to see their shoes. Mark was a good sport about the whole thing and it ended up being a fun family night activity.

A MONTH TO GO!!!!!!

We are officially in countdown mode.One month from today (Sept. 21st ) the newest addition to our family will be here! I am so ready to see her face and hold her.

I have gotten stuff ready but I fill like I should be doing more!

 

?!? Bad Mommy ?!?

  This is how  I found Tessa sleeping  one afternoon. She had been in her room purpose to be napping but instead she was playing. I wasn’t about to give up nap time. I figured she could at least have quiet time in her room if not a nap. After an hour and a half she got quiet and this is where I found her  asleep.

Big Lake 2010

We just returned from camping on Sunday. The weather was cool but a little too much rain. Tessa had a blast playing outside with her cousins and did pretty well sleeping in the pop-up trailer. (Thanks Cody and Carla for the use of it. It was nice not being on the ground.) Mark enjoyed 4x4ing it in all the mud puddles. Tessa liked shooting Daddy’s paint ball gun.

But why is it after camping you need a vacation from your camping vacation! Oh well, next year will be an adventure with 2 kids.

Happy Birthday Tessa!

I can’t believe that you are two years old. You keep me and your dad on our toes and always in amazement of what new things you will do and say.

 

Tessa playing with her kitchen set and apron that she got on her Birthday!

Proud of Myself

I went to the doctors on Monday and everything is going great with the baby. But I must toot my own horn for just a moment …I have only gained 6 to 7 lbs with this baby and I am 22 weeks pregnant. Thank heavens for swim lessons with Tessa and the YMCA!

Enjoying Summer

Well, I thought it was time to update our blog. I’m not very good at keeping it current and you probably get tired for looking at the same pictures. SORRY!

So let me update you! Summer is underway and I am really enjoying it. Tessa and I took the first two weeks of summer and did swim lessons. We’ll take another two week session starting later this month. She loves the water and loves jumping in from off the side. She is just like her Daddy! We have been organizing her room and finally got her a “big girl” bed  which she loves. It was a beast to put together but looks great. Tessa is very excited to show it off to anyone who comes over.

Mark has been busy at work but things have been going well for the swim season. We had the chance this past weekend to go to Pinetop. Tessa and I went up on Friday with my parents and Mark came up Saturday because of work. It was a quick trip but the weather was beautiful. Tessa loved feeding the squirrels and playing outside. She got sick early Saturday morning but by Saturday night was feeling much better. But poor Grandma O got thrown-up on at least twice. Sorry Mom!

I have also decided to fix up our hall bathroom before Baby #2 comes and I am excited to get started.

 

 

Daddy’s GIRLS

So we are 95% sure that our second baby will be a girl! Mark will officially be out numbered.  We will check again in June just to make sure but the Dr. said that what he was seeing was a little girl. We are very EXCITED!

Mark’s first statement was “this baby just got a whole lot cheaper.” I don’t know how true that will be but  it will be nice not to have to buy so many things this time. Tessa’s things are practically brand new. But now the battle over her name begins! Mark and I are not agreeing about his name choice and I don’t really have a favorite one. Mark is trying to get Tessa to call the baby by HIS choice so I better hurry and find a name that I like or else.

Besides the baby name battle, we are doing well. Mark is very busy now that the swim season has started. Things will stay busy until the first of August for him but busy is good and you can’t complain about having too much work right now! I finished school on Thursday and won’t be returning to a fulltime position. The last day was bittersweet. But I plan to substitute at the school I left and within Mesa District. I’m really excited to be a stay-at-home-mom. Tessa is growing like a weed and developing her own personality. I can’t believe that she will be 2 in July.

Our Exciting News!!!!

We are expecting baby #2! I am due October 31st. By that time, Tessa will almost be 21/2 years old (I think that’s good spacing). So far I am feeling good expect at night…very nauseous and tired by 8:30 or 9pm. We don’t know what it is yet but are planning to find out.

Mark has been telling Tessa that “mommy has a baby in her tummy”. This causes Tessa to try and look for it!

Learning New Things

Sorry that so much time has passed since my last update. Life gets busy....mostly because Tessa is keeping us on our toes but we are doing great! Mark and I are doing well at work and keep finding new things to do in our home. Tessa's vocabulary is really  developing and so is her imagination. She loves to dress up and its fun to catch her talking to her animals/dolls. On President's day we went to the WildLife Zoo in Litchfield. Tessa had a  great time feeding giraffes and other animals. She didn't want to leave. She rode in a wagon and had a great time! It was a fun family outing.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas and made lots of great memories.  Tessa did Secret Santa with her cousins. It was so fun to see her excitement each night when the doorbell rang. I had 2 weeks off from teaching and Mark had a 1 to 2 days off the week Christmas and then the week of New Year’s . We got really spoiled! Christmas morning was so much fun! Tessa got a slide from Santa, an electronic cat from Papa & Grandma Foote and a stuffed dog and a little tikes car from Papa & Grandma Oliver. Tessa’s grandma Peggy got her a rocking horse. It makes noises and moves its head. It took Tessa a few days until she would sit on it but she gave it loves and touched it right away.  Needless to say she did not go without! Mark got me tickets to see Reba i concert. That was a total surprise. Mark got an external hard-drive for the computer. He was  happy and you would have to ask him what the hard-drive is for because I don’t know.  I look forward to next Christmas with all its memories!