Mommy's Birthday

Last Monday, May 19th we celebrated the only non-August birthday in the fam- Mommy. Mommy woke up to find a card from Daddy and one hand drawn by Madison, then got to spend the day playing with Doodle like most Mondays. We went to dinner at Johnny Carino's with lots of our friends and had yummy Italian Nachos-Mmmm.... We ended the evening by playing with Madison's train before putting her to bed.

Tuesday morning Mommy had to go take the three hour glucose test. I had elevated levels after taking the one hour test, so had to go back for three more hours of torture. Daddy came home from work to be with Madison while Mommy sat at the lab for three hours and four blood draws- ouch! Two days later we got the GREAT news that Mommy does not have gestational diabetes! Yeah- a great birthday from start to finish!!

Mommy loved all the presents family and friends sent. Thank you for spoiling me for another year!!

Almost 27 weeks....sort of

Mommy is still growing away. So is Pickle. We went to the perinatologist for a check up on Friday, the 16th. They measured all Pickle's organs, spine, head...everything. She looks perfect! No cleft pallet, no signs of downs, 10 fingers, 10 toes, and a nice strong heart! She is currently 2 lbs 5 oz and measuring a little over 27 weeks- a week further along than we were expecting. No official change in the due date just yet. Stay tuned for more info. Next OB appointment is May 27th. The red dress pic was yesterday, the green dress was Saturday night.

OH- in a few days I'll post the 3D pic we have of Pickle. They had to do lots of poking and proding Mommy to get just the right angles of measurement, so by the end of the ultrasound Pickle was one tired girl. She was rubbing her eye when we got to 3D. She looks a LOT like her sister- looks like Daddy's nose this time though. :)

Hair

Several people asked me about Madison's hair. Yes, it is growing. When we cleaned up after the chocolate episode today her hair was all over the place! I snapped a few photos of her goofy expression to share. The back is getting so long. She may even have a ponytail by her 2nd birthday!

On a side note, her sister is ALL OVER the place today! So fun. We have our next appointment with the perinatologist Friday. Looking forward to getting another peek at Pickle.

MMmmm....

Chocolate covered Almond cluster. Needless to say, Madison thoroughly enjoyed her special snack today. We followed the chocolate with grapefruit, which she is holding in the picture.

Make-up

Miss Madison LOVES to watch Mommy put on her makeup everyday. She has her own brushes to play with when Mommy puts on her Bare Minerals makeup. She always wants to put some on herself too. Especially the 'lipstick'. She likes to play with lip gloss. Last Sunday, May 4th while Mommy was in the shower and Daddy was 'watching' her Madison found Mommy's lipgloss. She decided to wear it everywhere...arms, legs, face. In Matt's defense he was still recovering from Peter's Cinco de Mayo party the night before. Mommy should have known he was in no shape to be supervising.