(A Long Overdue) Family Update

Our family at my sister Emily's wedding 6/21/14

Wow!  It has been a long time since I've written anything for this blog.  So much has happened that I'm not even sure what to make this post about, but I thought it was time to write something.

Genevieve continues to light up our lives.  She makes us laugh every day and brings us so much joy.  She also brings us much frustration and exhaustion.  We wouldn't change a thing though!  Genevieve is a great sleeper now, unlike her infant days.  We still use white noise at nap and bed time, but she can sleep just fine without it.  I think it makes me feel better using it - like I won't disturb her when I make noise doing housework (or watching trashy TV).  Everywhere we go it seems that people comment on how well she talks and how developed her vocabulary is.  She is a talker alright!  Sometimes I'm like "Can you just stop talking for 5 minutes?"

Not only does Genevieve love to talk, but she loves to sing.  Today her songs included The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Hakuna Matata, Strength for the Journey, A Whole New World, Prince Ali, Fiddle I Fee, and You are my Sunshine.  Other songs in her repertoire include the Memorial Acclamation (Holy, Holy) from church, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, some of the Alphabet Song (ABCD HIJ...), and others I can't recall at the moment.  

I am one day shy of 29 weeks pregnant.  We are having another daughter, and we can't be more thrilled.  It will be fun to see the differences in personality between this little munchkin and her big sister.  Hopefully she doesn't follow in her sister's footsteps on the breech front.  She is not currently head down, but she has time to turn in the right direction.  I am seeing a chiropractor in the hopes of being more proactive this pregnancy. She appears to be close to head down, but she is more oblique(diagonal) or transverse (side to side).  She has a first name (that we aren't sharing yet), but we are still working on a middle name.  Baby is also quite active!  Her favorite time to move and shake is between the hours of 10:00 PM and 12:00 AM.  Genevieve has felt her several times, but she is freaked out by it.  I think it's because she can feel something but can't see it.  Her last reaction to feeling the baby was priceless!  She pulled her hand away as if she'd been burned, and her brow was furrowed.  She no longer wants anything to do with feeling the baby move.

Well, that was just a quick snippet of what's important to us right now. I'll try to add more posts in the future.