Blogger is having some issues lately. It's not allowing me to log in or see some people's sites hosted by blogspot. Mine seems to be okay, probably because it's hosted on yahoo and not blogspot. Anyway, I'm writing this in WordPad and hope I can get this pasted into blogger yet today. Not that there's much going on, just because my last update was from Monday.

We'll be transitioning Annika to a twin bed in the next few months. I'd like to transition her at least a few months before the baby comes and starts sleeping in *her* crib so she doesn't feel any resentment. Kris doesn't want to re-paint her room when we redecorate it and put the new furniture in so I've been looking for bedding that will go with green and yellow striped walls. And I found some. The Emily bedding at Pottery Barn Kids is perfect! I'm so excited to have found it. Now I just need to order it and then we need to finish the basement so the office furniture can be moved down there so the 3rd bedroom is empty so the crib and dressers can be moved from Annika's room into the new nursery so the twin bed and dresser from Grandpa's house can be moved into Annika's room and the room re-decorated. You know - no biggie! It's going to be a busy next 6 months!

The past few nights Annika has resisted going to bed. Last night she fussed and cried a little bit. I picked her up and carried her upstairs and she was fine once we got to her room. And she didn't balk when I changed her into her pajamas and put her in bed. And I didn't hear a peep from her all night. It was definitely bed time but she was having too much fun with Mommy I guess. The night before she did the same thing. I'm hoping this is not a new trend. In the past I've told her that it was bedtime and we walked upstairs together with no resistance and went to bed. I was spoiled by how good she was! She won't have a chance to protest tonight though since we'll probably be out past her bedtime. We're heading over to Uncle Dale and Aunt Shelly's house tonight for dinner with them and Dave, Dar, the boys, Grandpa, Uncle Mathias, and some other aunts and uncles. Annika will be having such a good time that we may not want to come home but she's usually pretty good with that too. Of course she'll probably fall asleep on the way home and then I'll carry her upstairs and change her and put her in her crib with her half asleep.

Annika is back into her ice cube phase. She loves eating ice cubes. I think yesterday she had 6 or 7 and the day before she had a bunch too. She grabs an ice cube out of the freezer (we have a freezer on the bottom refrigerator) and runs into the living room to sit and eat it. Her little hands get so cold and red but it doesn't seem to phase her at all. She just keeps slurping them up and then asking for more. And if you deny her more (because my goodness littler girl - you're going to get freezerburn!) she will have a small tantrum. She is so weird! :)

OK, I'm back to being scared, nervous, anxious, etc about baby #2. I found a bunch of blogs (like 6 or 7) of people having babies around the same time I'm due with #2. And today I found out that one of them miscarried. They saw on ultrasound the baby and heartbeat at 8 weeks and now at 12 weeks when they went back for another ultrasound, the baby was gone. No heartbeat and not much growth since the 8 week scan. I heard our baby's heartbeat at 9 weeks, 2 days. Bad things could still happen. Of course I know that they can always happen but man, I just want to know that baby #2 (I really need a nickname for this little one) is okay in there. My all-day sickness is getting better. Is that because I'm nearing the end of the first trimester or because something terrible has happened? I did lose my dinner on Monday night after an almost two week streak. And I'm still feeling low level yuckiness every day. I don't have a doppler at home to try and find and listen to the heartbeat so I'm just going on faith here that everything is okay. Please, please let everything be okay. My next doctor appointment isn't until August 23rd. That is a long time to wait! Four more weeks! Ugh!