Kindermusick for Annabelle!

Hello journal faithful... Today is both wonderful and sad at the same time... sad, because my Vols lost last night to UCLA... what a shame... but wonderful because today Annabelle started Kindermusick! (yes, that is how you spell it!)


Annabelle missed the first two classes and I was concerned she wouldn't be comfortable with being around a bunch of new faces and that it is, for the most part, just the two of us most of the time.. well.... I couldn't have been more wrong.. in fact she was the most outgoing, aside from the very rambunctious 3 year old boy, in the class... She attends the class for 18 months to 3 year olds called "our time"... we sang and danced and just had a blast! I am going to try to attach a video of her playing for you all to see... (this will be in addition to the atop video bar.. ) we have known she is quite the ham but it was all too apparent today when the teacher came to me after to tell me she was thrilled to see how expressive, excited and willing to listen she was, AND that she actually says "thank you" when you give her something... :) ... I am very, very proud of her... and John will be able to go with us next week... Gran and Grammy... there may be time in December when one or both of you can take her... I think you both would just LOVE to see her in action!!


We have now entered into the spell everything world.. and some of the time she knows what we are spelling.. Corn, Nannie (aka, banana) and Yogurt are a few of her favorite things on EARTH and if you even mention any of them she goes bonkers until she gets it... I am not complaining but when at the grocery store it is a bit of a challenge to shop when she is yelling "NANNIE NANNIE" at the top of her lungs until you give her one... which doesn't happen until check-out because they have to be weighed... She talkes all the time, Yes, she is a part of my family, and can almost count to 10! what an amazing age.. I just love it.. her little voice, though deep for a baby girl I am told?, saying juice... that sounds like "dooce" or "good dooce".... "thank you".. which actually sounds like thank you! Coffee, mommies good coffee... more like "hoffee, mommies goodth hoffee" "hot hoffee".. Please, my favorite.. "peeeeeezzzzzzzzz" with a huge toothie grin... I could go on and on but..... I don't think you want to hear all the details... oh! I forgot one funny one... she always wants to "see" when I check her temp... yes, rectally... and she has to tell me it is "in my butt" ha ha.... just cracks me up... God I love her... *sigh*


I am happy to see that we have two "partners" or "contributors" that will be posting to the blog so far.. Gran Evans and I assume PaPa (aka Rupe) is the other.. (though I am not certain).. Feel free to post as you wish, I am sure others would love to hear and see the other sides of our journey.. to see through the eyes of the family, what a surrogate journey is like...


The others that have been invited are siblings to both John and I as well, of course, Amber... we thought we'd make this a family blog.. free for all to post..


Another interesting bit of news, is a dear friend just found out she is pregnant!! well, just isn't quite right, she is 12 weeks along but she just told the wonderful news! I couldn't be happier!! Congrats to you!!


We are 25 weeks 2 days pregnant and all seems to be well! If you click on the little floating baby you can see that we are a mere 103 days from full term!! WOW.. .three more days and we will be in double digit land... yeah... it is just wonderful to think about having another blessing in our home.. and Annabelle is going to be a great big sister!


A new addition on the blog is the video above.... called "I would die for that"... I watched it and just loved it..in tears mind you.. what an amazing telling of what infertility feels like... although I haven't had the years of wondering what the problem was, I certainly felt the video very, very deeply and wanted to share.. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do... I watch it often... and cry every time!



Not much else going on here.. I am getting back into the swing of FRG land.. but not really as these ladies don't need/want an FRG so I just pass along info to them and they do what they want with it.. (best of both worlds if you ask me) We are also getting ready for the Evans' beach vacation... I can't wait to see Annabelle this year... and to think that next year we will have yet another family member... (name, still not chosen!)


FYI... I have learned (maybe) how to hyperlink to the blog as well so when you see something in bold, click on it! :)


OK.. for a post with not much to say, I have said too much!! Love you all and please keep our soldiers and families in your prayers..

Here is the video!

Carolyn