Look at all this hair~

Just wanted to share some of her "hair moments". One of these days I will get her with her hair flat..that is always after a bath and you only have a 5 minute window of picture ops before her hair starts to look like "Ellie" from "UP".

Shhh....someones sleeping

She starts out on the other side of her little bed and then wiggles closer to the side where it touches my bed to be closer to me. Oh I love it!! I am going to be sad when she goes into her room :(

Cranky boy

So the last few weeks Colin has been sick. He just got over a cold and then caught another virus. Who knows what this one was but after 2 trips to the ER (I know I know...I am a freak) he just had 2 nasty viruses back to back. These pictures were taken from Mark on one of Colin's good days. He was helping him make cinnamon rolls one morning while I went to the doctors. It all started out great then....well the pictures tell the story....






So he went from all fine and dandy after eating his roll and then you notice him pointing at Mark...he is telling Mark "NO" don't take his picture!! Then I love the last picture where he is sitting in his chair all chipper and fine. Oh the joys of a sick child!!

All smiles :)

Aubree is always smiling at us. When I took her to her 2 week appt. she even surprised the doctor with one of her heartwarming smiles. I thought I would share it with you as well :)

Baby Aubree is here!

Aubree ReNae Tomlinson has ARRIVED!


This is Jen, Nina's Sister. I'm guest blogging for Nina and Mark while Nina is at Swedish.

Aubree ReNae was born at 8:01 am today, September 27, 2009.

She weighs 8 pds even and is 20" long.

She has the most gorgeous dark brown hair and it is long! Aubree looks just like Colin as a baby except for the opposite hair color.

Nina did GREAT in delivery and only needed to push for about 5 sets. She's doing well recovering and should be released sometime tomorrow.

Here are some pictures of Miss Aubree. Enjoy!




More pictures can be found on Nina's Facebook page.

Tomorrow is the day

Well the day is tomorrow...the day that Aubree is supposed to be here by, well atleast in my mind :) I have very mixed feelings about her not being here yet. I always "thought" that when its your 2nd child that you tend to go early. Then I did some research a few nights ago on some mommy boards and that is not the case all the time. There was quite a few others who with the 2nd,3rd, and even 4th child went over their due date. So where did I get this misconception that I was going to go early? Or at least by my due date?

I am definetly enjoying the last few days, waking up late with Colin (7:30am!) and having breakfast together, and watching Sid the Science Kid. I now have a little taste of what a stay at home mom does. It's kinda fun!! But lets see how I feel about it when Aubree finally makes her debut...I might have mixed feelings.

So I will be very surprised to see what tomorrow brings. You never know, since no body picked Sept.24th for my due date prediction, that may be her little trick to come on her day!!

Due Date Predictions

So some co workers and family members gave me their dates on which they think Aubree will be here. I wanted to post them just in case I forget who picked what day. If you would like to put your two cents in please feel free to leave a comment with your date...and remember please be nice and don't go past my due date :)

Mark-Sept.26 (Mark and Don obviously don't like me..hehehe)
Nina- Sept.21
Holly- Sept 17 or 19 ( I am letting her have 2 days because she is so special!)
Mom- Sept.20
Dad- Sept.19
Jen- Sept.21
Morgan- Sept.21
Randy- Sept.22
Don- Sept.26
Rosanne- Sept.14 (I know its past but wanted to give her some credit!!)
Chrissy- Sept 22
Kelli- Sept.23 (I totally forgot that you told me that...she will be lucky to share that with you)
Sandy- Sept.21

So it looks like Sept.19th and Sept.21st are the most popular days so far!!

6 more days until the due date....maybe she will be another due date baby like her big brother!

11 more days!!

Enough said......

A work in progress

Ok so I have a little over 3 weeks to go and here is a little sneak preview of the not so finished room. If you knew me you would know that I have to have things done atleast 2-3 months ahead of time. I like timelines, agendas, schedules, you get the picture but becoming a parent that all goes out the door. So I have learned to live with the hectic life I live. Working 40 hours a week at my job then coming home to give all my undivided attention to Mark and Colin and soon to be little Aubree. I did buy a mega millions ticket this weekend in hopes to "hit it big" and be able to stay home...well I won...$7. So it won't be happening this year!!!

Here is the bedding that I have promised to get a picture of:




And here is the vinyl lettering that I ordered from Etsy. I didn't stick on our wall so thank goodness for my oh so talented sister and mom who gave me the idea to put it on some plexy glass and frame it. Thanks to Mark for his patience in doing this project for me :)



Soon I am hoping some time this week I will have it all "done" and I wiil have a finished picture of the whole room. Exciting!!!

The crib is here!!

So.....I have always said that if I have a little girl I want a white crib. I don't know what it is about them but I am a sucker for them! Mark and I had been searching everyday for weeks for a gently used crib on Craigslist and after sending many emails of interest in the ones that I thought were the "one" we finally found one in Tacoma. We got ahold of the seller and agreed to meet and take a look at it. We got there and it was what I had been looking for. Very gently used and white...yipee!! We packed it up and headed home. Mark started setting it up and while I did some research on it. It was a Jardine (don't gasp yet)and I knew I could find some info on it. Well you could say I found some info on it....it was on the stupid recall list for "entrapment and strangulation of infants". WHAT THE HECK!!!! Seriously....and there is no way, no way, this lady was going to take it back. I doubt she would have even answered the phone when we called. So I read about the recall wondering if there was anything that we could do. Well there was....there recall was extended because of the number of cribs that were involved (the recall came out July 2008) and it didn't require proof of purchase/receipts/ anything stating that you were the original owner. SCORE!!
So what the heck...you know we sent in an email and not even 5 minutes later we got a reply. Instructions and a prepaid Fed Ex label to send all the hardware back. A week later we got the voucher for a NEW CRIB!!!! Total voucher was for $351.99 and we paid $115 on Craiglists for what I thought was my dream crib. Here is what just got delivered today!!!!!



Colin "helping" daddy



The boys hard at work!



So now all I need is the matteress which we are getting this week and my super cute bedding that is coming from New York!! Which is this super cute set my mom and Jen found for me for only $99!!

My little patriotic man!

This year we spent the 4th of July in Carnation WA with the Breachs. It was fun to go back to the old stompin grounds and see some familiar faces...even though we didn't say hi....were bad!!
But here is a little picture of my little guy all decked out!! He was too cute!!

I'm jealous!!!

So every few days I check up on a few of my "must read" blogs.....Jen and Cheryl. Well I noticed that their baby tickers are dropping daily and mine seems to be at a stand still....well that is how I feel.

Tomorrow is June 1st and it is hotter that heck here in Seattle, yes Seattle, and I am dieing. All this week it is supposed to be in the upper 70's and it is like upper 80's for me. I need a pool!!! Cheryl I am moving to NY for the summer and camping out in your backyard and eating those snowcones. Crazy that I have been craving those too and I can hear the stupid ice cream truck but he NEVER comes down were we live. I think I am going to go to Target and buy a snowcone machine and make them myself. Ahh... the things I have to go thru to make me happy.

My "honey do list" is getting bigger everyday. I don't know if it is nesting or what but I swear Mark is going to get a 2nd job just so he doesn't have to come home and work. We organized our shed this weekend and finished Colins room so those were two big things to cross off the list. Well I wouldn't say that I helped organize but more of a "put that here and put that there, and no that doesn't go there"....Thanks Mark!!

Colins bedroom is completely done and he is now a official big boy. I wasn't in any hurry to get him in his new bedroom until July/August but Mark was very ansy about it. I think he was more excited than I was and that made it easier to keep buying stuff to decorate his room. I didn't get any no's on my shopping trips. Yay for me!! Colin is sleeping is his new bed, with Elmo, and we have now encountered the getting up and running down the hallway routine. Seriously, we put him in is bed at least 8 times last night. It seems to be easier when we go to bed then he doesn't want to be apart of the excitement of watching a movie or helping clean...or whatever we have to get done in those preciuos moments we have to ourselves.

More good news...I am feeling our baby girl move more often now and haven't been as sick as I have been in the past (knock on wood). Hopefully that is past me now and I can get thru these next 3 1/2 months that I have left. Mark starts his new job on Monday at some company downtown Bellevue. Hopefully he will get paid this time :) He is really excited about it and hopefully it will be less stress on him..plus I think he will get home earlier, I can only wish!

Oh and we got a new car...goodbye Audi hello family SUV. I was so sad when the day came when I had to say goodbye to my love, Tom (my car was named after Tom Brady from the Patriots, cuz he is so hot!). We got a Honda Pilot, which I love now, but hard to say goodbye to my fun car. I even cried driving off the lot and Mark thought I was nervous about driving a big car and nope I was sad cuz I left me friend behind. It has been nice having a bigger car though. We can actually go to Home Depot and purchase something and bring it home. Does that mean I can go get a bigger TV since I can bring it home.....hmmm....

4:30am.....really??

So our new rollout (project) at work starts April 13th. We have our test stores starting out right now and with a start time of 4:30am. Really?? I can't barely wake up at 5:30am to be to work by 7am. To look on the brightside....I get off early and can spend more time with Colin..naptime :)
Why can't I be rich and not have to work so I can sleep in until 7am....what a life....

Update!!

FYI.... I accomplished my goals for this week!!!

1. I, well Mark, took pictures of Colin this weekend. High five for Mark!!

2. I took all my pills that I supposed to take and didn't forget any...high five for me!!

3. I went to bed every night, well with the exception of Saturday night, see #4 for reason, at 10pm...before 11pm.

and 4. The watched a movie and stayed awake....the whole entire movie. I watched "Twilight" and loved it (thank goodness I read the books awhile ago so I forgot some of it). So I was up until after 11pm and I sure Mark was shocked because I usually fall asleep the first 15 minutes and he gets to listen to my snores!!

So yay for me and my accomplishments. Also one more thing since I am gloating right now....I did 5 loads of laundry and finished ALL LOADS by last night. YAY!!!!

Now I gotta learn how to make dinner for the family. New post, new explanations, and new goals. Can't keep eating at Mom's and having my little sister and mom feel sorry for the cooking challenged sister. How does take-out sound for dinner tonight?!?!?!? Just kidding..well kinda...

Thank you

I don't know if you every read my blog and that is okay if you don't because you are so busy all the time. I just wanted to let you know how thankful I am to have you as my husband. To come home last night after a long day and hear the vacuum going and the kitchen cleaned, the garbage taken out and the rooms ready for bed (heaters on and night lights glowing!) and not to have even asked you really made me feel loved and special. Especially since you left for work at 7am and didn't get home until almost 9pm. I know I have been REALLY REALLY lazy and not feeling that greatest and your weekends are spent hanging out on the couch watching endless dvr recordings of Rachel Ray and all my crazy reality TV shows....I really do appreciate you. You never complain and never get mad, you just do it.
Colin and I are very blessed to have you in our lives and so is this new little baby on their way into our crazy little family!!
I love you

What bad parents we are!!

Well I just put the little tyrant down to bed....he was in a mood today. I am sitting here listening to him bang his name against the wall, aka his letters on his walls spelling his name. It is a nightly ritual of his and plus I am too lazy to take them down ;)
So as I am surfing the web and checking my long list of unread email I decided to take a look into the recent pictures we have taken of Colin. And low and behold the last picture we have taken of him was in Florida in JANUARY!!!! I am horrible!!! I never have charged batteries and half the time can't even find the camera in time to take "that" picture before the moment is lost. Mark even bought me a video camera for Christmas almost 2 years ago so that we could catch all those funny moments on tape. Umm ya don't have those either.
So goals for this week (and thank goodness it is half way over..hehehe):

1. Start taking more pictures and video
2. Remember to take my prenatal pill, unisom and B6 every night to avoid the nasty morning sickness the next day
3. Go to bed BEFORE 11pm...and actually be asleep
and finally
4. Watch a movie this weekend with Mark without falling asleep the first 15 minutes into the movie!!!

Hopefully I will have an update next week, with proof (pictures), of my accomplishments. Stay tuned!!

Since I am part of your morning routine.....

here is a quote that I really like and I wanted to share it with you.

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Have a great day :)

The beach!!

Can't wait until he is bigger so he can really enjoy this marvelous creation....I love the beach and I love the summer and I can't wait for road trips to the ocean where Colin can run around like a crazy boy ;)

Blue Man Group

If you ever get a chance to see the Blue Man Group live, DO!!! They are awesome!! When my mom told me she got tickets for all of us to check them out in concert while in Florida I was, honestly, like what the heck.....but it was amazing and I am glad that I got to spend it with my family. It was great to see my little brother really getting into it...kinda like we were at a rock concert together. I am definetly going to another show whether it be here in Seattle or in Las Vegas, whenever that may be.

A moment in history

I am very excited that tomorrow I am going to witness an amazing time in our country. I am so proud to be an American and am proud of how far we have come. I hope everyone will watch the inauguration tomorrow as I will be watching it at work and also taping some so I can really sit down and watch it. I even made a cheese ball to share with my fellow co workers as we witness history together!!
God bless the USA

This ones for you......

And you know who you are!!! *wink*

Update on Colin.....
He is, thankfully, not beating me up any more, instead he has chosen everyone else. What am I to do? Atleast I don't feel like a teething ring anymore but I hate hearing about the others he bites and hits. Is he ever going to break this habit?

And now onto my next worry....he is not eating, well not eating his "normal" amount of food, which would probably feed two kids his age per feeding. I know I am just "freaking out" but I just don't understand how he can go from 8-9 mini pancakes, yogurt, juice and cheerios for breakfast to just a ritz cracker or a muffin. I did however get him to eat some rice and chicken tonight. I learned he likes to feed himself, cuz he is 15 months old now and a big boy....duh Mommy as he looks at me :)
Its like school.....I am still in kindergarten, learning all the basics. Shot by the time he is in real kindergarten I will probably still be in kindergarten.

One day at a time.......