Still here

We are still here, and still kicking -- but it's been a stressful, rough series of months and I haven't had time to blog much.

Emma is 4 1/2 and the light of my life. She is writing her own name and her brother's, and brought home a book she wrote at daycare yesterday about a bat. :) She is a fan of Frozen (always Elsa, of course), dancing, and snuggling.

Aaron just turned 18 months and is my cuddle bug. He is still nursing (yay!), but we've stopped the bottle as of a couple of weeks ago. I'm SO happy to be done pumping. He's really active, knows how to get down the stairs by himself, and is in his big-boy toddler bed now.

I probably won't post much here, but I'll try my best to do more updating when I can.

Peaceful

It is the calm before the storm, in a way. Things have been going ok since my last post. I'm heading to DC tomorrow for a 2-day meeting, so Joe and Emma get 48 hours together (although she'll be at daycare on Friday). I hope they do ok -- they did my last meeting. Then there are 3 weeks of calm before our Kansas trip. I'm anxious about the trip, but looking forward to it.

I need to get pictures edited and uploaded, but here are a few videos from the 4th that I thought I'd share.

Fourth of July

We had a wonderful weekend that I will blog more about soon, but here are some pictures to enjoy in the short term.

Happy One and a Half Birthday!

As we promised her when she was born, we celebrated her half birthday today with cupcakes and a present. She got a little baking set (that you can really use to cook, but it's all toddler-size pieces) and a yellow cupcake with chocolate icing. She LOVES chocolate, as you can see.



At her 18-month appointment last week she was a little over 22 lbs and 33 inches tall. She has a vocabulary of 50+ words at this point, and is on to two-word sentences, like "Mommy help," "Feed Kitty," "Cracker Please," and so on. She's doing pretend play, which is very interesting and early.... she'll "feed" her stuffed animals and give them drinks, and then put them to bed. It's adorable.

She is the light at the end of every day, and my joy in the morning. Happy 18-month Birthday PeeWee.

For those readers of this blog, an update on our TTC journey. We did get a positive pregnancy test back in early May, and initially the bloodwork looked good. But subsequent ultrasounds revealed no heartbeat and no growth, and multiple attempts at initiating a natural miscarriage with medication failed. So today I had a D&C. This is my 6th pregnancy, my 5th miscarriage. We wait a cycle, and then possibly do a HSG to check for scar tissue since this is my 4th D&C. If all is clear, then we move back into TTC again. I don't know what we do if I miscarry again. I won't think about it unless we get there.