And The Parnell Three Become The Parnell Four

We have a joke with Jeff's brother Rob and his wife. They have three kids and so are "The Parnell Five". Jeff and I, once we had little Emma, were renamed "The Parnell Three". With our exciting news that we do, in fact, have Baby Parnell #2 on the way, we get ready to leave behind The Parnell Three and embrace The Parnell Four.
Four. Wow. I will have a family of four. Two babies. One husband. (OK and a Kylie-Mo if we can count her. Which, if you ask Emma, she will squeal with delight as she ADORES Kylie) Four Parnells.
I need to upload the ultrasound (don't lie, you know you want to see our little Baby P in all of it's infinite glory.) but I haven't had time to scan it. It hasn't hit the top of my To Do list yet. It's sadly behind
1. Buy more diapers
2. baby proof the house (Need to move this one up to #1 - see below)
3. laundry
4. find some time to spend with Jeff
5. spend some time being creative!!
...so you see my list grows and as I cross one thing off, four more appear. I almost wrote "apperate". I am rereading the Harry Potter series right now, so you'll have to forgive me as Harry-isms pop into the forefront of my mind.
OK, so in case you are wondering as to how Mamma is doing this time around, I'm fine. Thankfully, no morning sickness, although I do feel slightly queasy from time to time. I have discovered (thanks to my SIL Sally during my pregnancy with Emma) that food is they key to ending that queasy feeling. I'm overly hungry. And, while food doesn't even remotely SOUND appealing, it's the key. I start to eat and all is well! So other than that hint of queasy that lurks beneath the surface of my days, I'm just utterly exhausted. Like may I please take a daily afternoon nap exhausted. Saturday I fell asleep for about an hour on the couch (while Emma composed her newest concerto on her piano - how I managed to sleep during that must be a true testament to my exhaustion!) and yesterday I woke up at 6:38 am (I KNOW that's too stinking early for a Sunday!) because I was hungry. Pregnant Girl needed some food and she needed it now. So I made pancakes. They were delish and after eating, I laid on the couch, presumably for just a moment's rest. I had at least an hour before I needed to really start getting ready for church, so I closed my eyes. I even kept my glasses on because I guess I intended on resting and watching TV. Emma was playing and Jeff was watching something. I guess I should have known I would have been down for the count if I can't remember what we were watching, huh? So apparently I fell asleep (and Jeff was a dear and took my glasses off and covered me with a blanket) and woke up what seemed to be mere minutes later. Nope. It was 11:30!! I slept almost completely through church!! Really? I called out to Jeff who was no longer in the living room and he was upstairs on the computer and Emma was napping as well. So the Parnell girls needed their beauty sleep and Mr. let us have our way. I couldn't believe I had slept for so long and I couldn't believe Jeff didn't wake me! As one of my dear friends put it this morning, "Um, hello Heather? You are growing a CHILD inside your body. You need some rest!!" OK. Point taken. It's all coming back to me now...how when you are Pregnant Girl you need to ask others for help and rest your body and make sure to take extra time for yourself because you are growing a new baby. That folks, takes work. I just think I am superwoman and can do it all. By myself. Guess I was wrong. Again. [grin]
So this blog will morph again into a Pregnant Girl's journey to becoming a mom of two.
And because I could not end this without extrapolating on the "baby proof the house - see below", Emma is crawling. Sort of. She takes two or three "steps" and then sits up and claps at herself. She's super proud of herself. She's even gotten onto her knees and, while holding on to her piano, knee walks herself closer to it. Amazing. So I had her upstairs yesterday in my scrap room while I tried to make a quick card for a party we were going to and my lovely daughter tried to discover the electrical socket. So see, baby proofing needs to zoom up to #1. Today. OK, Jeff is having dinner tonight with the We Care board (of which he is the board of directors) for his last round of interviews for the new board members, and so this shall become my project this evening. There's no telling when he'll be home, so I should have time to at least plug some of those ugly plastic caps in, right?