Just Another Monday

I haven't updated you on the daily grind of me and Blake, so here are a few of her favorite things..

1. Banbaids (i.e. Bandaids) Any shape or color.  Right now we have neon colors, but we're going through them fast.  Bandaids are great to bribe Blake to eat her dinner or brush her teeth.  Really they are just stickers to her, but way more fun.  If she hurts herself, like bonks her head, she thinks she deserves a bandaid, usually placed on her arm or leg.  She will then kiss her bandaid throughout the day.

2.  Soap.  Dishsoap, handsoap, barsoap, it's all her favorite.  To take a bath she holds the bar soap the entire time.  She'll drop it about 50 times and I end up looking through the murky, soapy water over and over to retreive it for her.

3.  Friends!!!  Blake LOVES her friends, you can expect a big squeal from her if we get to see Lane, Claire, Luke, Lexi or Griffin ("Fiffin")

4.  The Bounce House!  She can climb up the big slide and go down all by herself.

5.  The Wiggles, particularly Anothony "Annu".

6.  Boppy, who's name is now officially "Bunny".  I'm not happy about the change, but it's here to stay.  

Admiring her bandaid.

This is Blake's Buddy, Griffin.

Our Rainy Camping trip!!

I don't have many good pictures of our rainy weekend camping trip, but here are a few worth posting.

Here are Blake and Julia, they were definately best buddies for the weekend, and Julia was a MAJOR help with Blake! What I wouldn't give to have her live close to babysit!

Nick playing with the kids.





Blake giving "Boo" all the lovin' she could stand.





 
The girls, Julia, Blake and Kelly.


Had I been a good photographer that weekend I would have pictures of the Petit Jean overlook, Blake's first trip out on a boat, us making smores, Ryan's birthday evening dinner, and Blake kissing a slimey fish, but you'll just have to imagine those :)

Good for a good laugh....

I stole these from my co worker, just a couple (old) shots of me in action at MSICU.

I promise to post new, adorable, pics of Blake asap :)

Baby Barker

Here's the newest Baby Barker.

4.5 cm long!
They moved my due date back one week, so they are saying I'm 11 weeks right now, whooo-hooo, the sooner I'm out of the 1st trimester the better!!

Back to me.

Warning: whining to follow, if you aren't in the mood to hear it, stop reading now.

I feel guilty when I whine to my family and friends, so I'm going to try to get some of it out here. I've felt like a completely different person lately, I keep saying "I just need to get back to being ME!!" I'm tired, more like lethargic, 95% of the time. I haven't left the house except to go to work in atleast a week. My body literally shuts down by 8:30 pm. My house is dirty, I am dirty. It takes all I have in me to get me cleaned up for the day. I know being pregnant with Blake wasn't a cake walk, but I know this time is harder on me, if nothing else then just emotionally. I'm the type A, get it done and get it done now kind of girl. I knew that was a big part of me, but I'm realizing these last weeks how much I need to be like that to feel like myself. I like organization, I like having ENERGY to be type A.

As I sit here in the clothes I wore yesterday and to sleep in lastnight I feel like a complete loser.

I finally called the doctor yesterday and got some nausea medicine called in after I had gotten sick 4 times. I took it lastnight and it really helped. I don't think you could have paid me to take a tylenol when I was pregnant with Blake, but I know when I'm at my breaking point and it's been knocking at my door. Something new with this pregnancy is that if I do feel like eating, then I eat, then I feel WAY TOO FULL for hours and hours.

I'm so thankful to Nick who has stepped up to help me out. He comes home at night and entertains Blake so I can just sit on the couch. And for friends offering to take Blake for a few hours so I can rest, I can't thank you enough.

So there's my whine session. I'll try to spare the complaining when I see you or talk to you on the phone :)

Happy Birthday.....

JENNIE!!!

This is the only picture of just the two of us without the girls (so this was before they were born, haha!)

I hope you have a wonderful birthday friend!