BIG Little Sister...

Well there's not too much new to say about the Bean other than that she's finally almost entirely over her cold. Her fever broke last Saturday and the only remaining symptom is a little bit of a snotty nose still. She's still working on practicing walking and is getting very adept at walking along with one of us holding her hand, but is still unwilling to take more than a handful of steps on her own and that only rarely.
On the little sister front, we found out at the ultrasound two appointments ago that little sister isn't looking so little! At her last ultrasound (that was 31 weeks gestation and now we're at 33) she was already estimated to be almost 4 1/2 lbs and her estimated head circumference measurement was at 98%!! Our doctor said a that appointment said we'd wait and see how things looked as she continues to grow. I was pretty against the idea of being induced originally if there was any way we could avoid it, but as time is getting closer I'm a lot more ok with the idea. At this past Monday's appointment the OB said she would prefer not to see us go past 39 weeks since this baby is looking so big and since Kyra was a pretty big girl herself (she was 8lbs 11 oz and had a 14 1/2 inch head at what we think was just about 37 weeks). I'm ok with the idea now and just plan on doing everything possible to be as ready as possible when the time comes for an induction if we haven't gone naturally before then. As much as I don't like the idea of the pitocin

(I REALLY want to go without the epidural this time and I'm nervous that I won't be able to hack it with the stronger pitocin contractions) I do like the idea of having a cutoff date for having her on the outside where it's easier to know she's doing well!

Sick, Sick, Sick

Well, I've got a cruddy chest cold that I've had since Wednesday and now poor Kyra and Phil have it too. I had Kyra in to the doctor yesterday afternoon and the good news is that she doesn't have an ear infection, bronchitis or influenza. Now it's just a matter of waiting out the poor baby's cold.

Catching Up Again... :)

Last Monday, Kyra and I went to the zoo in the morning with a friend and the little girl she watches who is 2. Kyra and the other little girl had a blast, but the only nap Kyra decided to take was the one in the car on the way home from the zoo, so think twenty minutes or MAYBE half an hour! She was in a fairly good mood despite the lack of sleep, especially once Phil got home. Around 6:00 or so, she was playing in the exersaucer in our bedroom and Phil was laying on the bed visiting with her and I took advantage of their bonding time to come finish up some stuff on the computer and get the dishwasher going. A few minutes after I'd left the room I realized it was pretty quiet and thought, "Great! He's got her cuddling on the bed with him and she'll wind down for bedtime!" Nope, I walked past the bedroom door a couple minutes later and she was out cold in the exersaucer and he was sound asleep on the bed. :) Poor guys were both so tired! It took me three tries to wake Bean up and get her to come snuggle with me.











On Wednesday of last week, Kyra's 6th tooth came through. It just barely broke the surface to where I could feel the ridges and is taking it's sweet time about coming in the rest of the way, but once it does she'll have a matching set again. (It's the top one just to the right of her two front teeth.) She's already acting like she's working on cutting some more, bottom ones this time from the way she's behaving so maybe she'll be up for doing some real chewing before too long! She's already pretty tickled by the fact that she can bite off pieces of things pretty good now.
Yesterday, she took at least ten totally unsupported steps all in a row, which is the farthest I've ever seen her go, but she has yet to repeat that feat. We're not counting it as walking yet because she won't try to do it again, but at least she is finally willing walk with one of us holding her hand.