HUGE Mary Kay Sale

For those that don't know I have been selling MK for the last 5 years. I am getting ready to start really running it as a business, and as part of that I am getting rid of all of our newly discontinued products. We are coming out with brand new compacts and our color is changing to an all Mineral Makeup line. So...I have TONS of eyeshadows, lipsticks, blushes, lip and eye liners, pressed powders, cream to powders, nail polishes and a few lotions and spa sprays. Just send me a comment or email me (jeni.warrior@marykay.com) and let me know if you are interested in setting up a time to look through the clearance items...they are all selling for $5 each!!

And for those of you who only look at the blog to see Lydia...here she is figuring out her sippy cup! It has been great because she doesn't feel so left out when we are eating!!

April Fool's

Yesterday at work we were a little slow, so we started playing with the ultrasound. I didn't really have high hopes of finding out what we are having since it is still pretty early, but we actually got several REALLY good indications It's a Boy!! I went down to the gift shop and bought two bracelets. One said It's a Boy and the other, It's a Girl. I took them both down to the ER and gave the It's a Girl bracelet to Necon. Here is how the conversation went from there:

Necon: Really? That's good. Are you sure?

Me: Pretty sure...are you excited or disappointed??

Necon: No. It's good... (but I could tell he was just a little bit disappointed...)

At this point, I couldn't drag it out any longer. I broke out the It's a Boy bracelet and yelled April Fools!!

Necon: "IT'S TWINS!!??"

I had to explain that it was not twins, just one boy. He has been crazy excited ever since!! Everyone knows he absolutely ADORES Lydia, but I know he is really happy to be having a boy, too!! It is still early, so we could go in two weeks and find out it is not really a boy, but I would be really really surprised!

Lydia has been either sick or teething since Friday. She is normally happy all the time and not too clingy. She plays really well by herself and doesn't need to be held much. I think I have held her almost non stop since Friday night. She is just not herself. I can't feel any teeth coming in, but she is running a really low grade fever. I found some popsicles in the freezer and thought she might like them...she LOVED them!! She sat beside Necon and watched Oprah's Big Give while I made spaghetti.

We figured the only way we were gonna get to eat in peace is if we shared with Lydia. She has eaten some "grown up food" off my plate before, but usually just a few bites of mashed potatoes or peas. This was her first foray into the world of real food! For someone who puts EVERYTHING in her mouth, it took her a while to eat the spaghetti. We wound up with a huge mess by the end of it!

Easter

Easter has always been a big holiday in my family. When I was little and we still lived in Oklahoma City with all our cousins, we had a HUGE Easter Egg Hunt at Mama Jo and Papa's (my mom's parents). Of course, the big deal was who would find the Golden Egg. My patented strategy was to follow my cousin Ross, who always had the best ideas as to where the egg was, but he never had the patience to look hard enough. When he had given up, I would continue to search harder! If we still lived in OKC, I would still be hunting, but the rule at mom's house is if you are married you are too old to hunt. Alicia says this is why she isn't married...just kidding Leesh!! We didn't get up early enough on Easter Morning to do Lydia's Easter Basket at our house, so the Easter Bunny took it to Grandpa and Annie's after church! We had a great time hunting eggs and eating dinner! Then we went to Necon's family's annual Easter Picnic, where we won the Easter Egg toss (complete with RAW eggs!!)

Lydia in her very 1st Easter Dress

So, I was thinking the big bow on her head was a little much since she had a big bow on her dress...

but what am I supposed to do when she is still COMPLETELY bald??

Super curious about the Easter Basket...

I can't believe I got a picture taken before she dumped it all out!!

Wonder who snuck this into the Easter Basket??

Since Lydia's eggs were spread out all over the floor, she had a blast crawling around and picking them all up!!

Didn't take her long to get distracted...

Noticing a theme?? Chewing on things is her favorite thing to do!

The obligatory family pic...the reason Charlie looks so happy is because he found the GOLDEN EGG!!

Lydia turned 7 months old on Monday. She is growing so fast...it seems like everyday she does something new. Here are a few of the things I want to remember from this stage:

*Crawling is her favorite thing to do

*When her paci is on the floor, she crawls over to it as fast as she can and instead of picking it up with her hand she nose dives and sucks it up with her mouth like a vaccum. It is seriously one of the funniest things I have ever seen!

*She is pulling up on everything and she tries to keep climbing up whatever she has pulled up to. If there is nothing for her to put her foot on, she will just stand there with one leg hiked up in the air...

*She has been saying dada for a while now, but on Sunday morning while we were at church I took her paci out of her mouth and she looked right at me and said mama...of course I cried. I still don't think she knows what she is saying, but we like to pretend!

*She started waving at us yesterday when we are kinda far away from her...it is not this sweet little hand wave though. She violently flaps her entire arm in the air up and down as fast as she can.

*When she is ready to go to sleep she will rub her eyes with her fists and then look at me as pitifully as possible.

*My favorite time to play with her is when she first wakes up because she will look at me with this HUGE smile and the bury her face in my chest like she suddenly got super embarrassed!

*She loves to play peek-a-boo and she laughs REALLY hard when you say BOO

*Eating is one of her favorite things to do! (Wonder where she got that...) If you don't give her the next bite fast enough she will look at you with her mouth open as wide as she possibly can; so wide that sometimes her head shakes just a little

*If she wants your attention and can't get it, she will stretch her head around until it is right in front of your face and then laugh

*She can "walk" all the way around her Leap Frog music table while she is holding on. I don't even think she knows she is doing it

*She gets really offended when we eat in front of her

*She still LOVES taking showers and HATES the bathtub!!

*She drools more than any baby I have ever seen...especially any baby who is STILL toothless

And I guess I shouldn't leave the new baby out...at work on Tuesday we got to hear the heart beat for the first time with the small doppler, not the ultrasound. The baby must be getting bigger!! In the beginning I was so sure we had our little Levi on the way, but I am kinda starting to have mixed feelings about it. Now that we have hit 14 weeks, we will start looking with the big ultrasound at work!

Snow Day

We woke up this morning to a beautiful snow!

Technically Lydia's first snow was at Grandma Warrior's in December, but by the time we were ready to get out in it, all the snow had melted. We were so excited this morning to get her suited up. Thanks to the clothes from Claire Ballard, we had plenty of super warm stuff to chose from. Our first attempt outside only lasted about 48 seconds. Lydia had so many clothes on she couldn't even sit up...

This quickly turned into...

This...

Needless to say Lydia wasn't enjoying herself very much, so we called in some reinforcements!

Lydia's first snowman...built by Aunt Becca and Annie (or maybe GiGi...jury still out!)

Annie's attempt to give Lydia some hot chocolate...

unfortunately all she got on the paci was marsmallows!!

Then Josiah and Aunt Tasha came over for a visit...

Rebecca and I make a gingerbread house every Christmas. This year I thought it would be fun to do a tree instead. We still hadn't gotten around to it, so Rebecca brought it over today! Its quite beautiful huh??

The Longest Blog Ever!!

Blogging has taken a backseat this last month to our "Big News." Lydia is going to be a big sister!!! This came as a HUGE shock to us. (Please...we have heard all the jokes and YES...we do know how this happens...thank you!) We found out right in the middle of trying to clean Lydia up from one of the many blowout diapers she was having during the stomach bug phase of her two week long sickness. Needless to say, the timing was all wrong, in more ways than one. We spent the next few days ignoring the entire situation until Necon finally suggested we talk about it. Two weeks later we were able to begin telling our families and then our friends. The last of our family was told this week, so the blogging hiatus has come to a close. We are finally ready to share the news with the blog world. I had my first appointment on Monday, and everything looks great! Here is the little peanut (hopefully of the male variety...we already refer to him as Levi!!) He was so big and moving around so much they moved up our due date a week. I kept trying to tell them we were trying to make these kids further apart, not closer together, but they weren't too concerned. After all...what is the difference really between 12 1/2 and 13 months?? Now that the initial shock has worn off, we are of course super excited...everything changes once you actually get to see the baby.

FATHER DAUGHTER BANQUET

Every year our church has a Father Daughter Valentines Banquet. My sisters and I have been going with our Dad for more than 10 years. One of the first things Necon said when we found out Lydia was a girl was that he was so excited to take her to the banquet. Mom tries to pretend that she feels left out, but we all know that she is excited to have a night to herself.

That is one proud Daddy...

Quick model shot before we leave...

All ready to go!!!

The decorations were absolutely BEAUTIFUL this year!!!

He must love us a lot to act this goofy...

Visit with Pop and OG

Lydia loves playing with Pop's beard

She felt left out while we were eating at On the Border, so she ate some Squash!!
I am thinking we got the better end of that deal by far...

One of her favorite tricks...putting her paci back in her mouth

Pop and OG are moving out to Maumelle at the end of the summer!! We are so excited to have them so close...now all the grandparents live within 3 miles of us! Perfect timing...I feel like we are going to need some extra help this fall!

Keeping Josiah

We have been keeping Josiah one day a week since Tasha has gone back to work. It gets easier every time!! The first day wasn't bad except for one 30-minute period where they were both screaming their lungs out and I couldn't get either one to stop. We have discovered Josiah LOVES Lydia's swing, so he plays in that a lot now. We are trying to let them spend a lot of time together, so they can be best buddies!! Lydia loves to pull his hair and take his pacifier. Any time he cries she looks at me like "Mom, do something!!" I can sit them in front of eachother and Lydia tries to talk to Josiah and he just looks at her and then she starts laughing. It is really quite cute and if I could figure out how to get video on here I would let you all enjoy it...until then here are the photos:

This one is my favorite!! She has her arm around him...

THUNDERKICK!!

Necon's cousin Thomas fights in Chuck Norris' team kickboxing league: The World Combat League. The first round of the playoffs were last weekend in Tulsa, and of course we went. Tasha and I made the babies their very own "T-kick" shirts to support Thomas. Aunt Kathy and Beth made the sign. It made it on TV!! Thomas was super excited for all of us to be there. He won both of his fights, and he even kicked his second opponent all the way out of the ring!

Chuck himself was cheering for Thomas...

The kiddos in their Thunderkick wear...

Lydia and the superstar...he even signed her onesie!!

The boys at IHOP after the fight

At the first peep of a baby crying in the morning, the grandparents rushed in to rescue the babies. It was very nice to have a chance to sleep in for once...

Little Josiah-buddy...

6 MONTHS

Lydia turned 6 months old on Sunday. I cannot believe how much she is learning to do. She holds her bottle, almost says Mama (she just makes the mmmmm sound...), eats fruits and vegetables (not the green ones), loves to chew on everything, plays really well by herself. She is still sleeping all night every night (12 hours is her current record). She wakes up in the morning and plays with toys in her crib until she gets hungry. She loves her Daddy, and talking to us on the phone while we are at work. Smiling and laughing are her two favorite pasttimes. We went to see Dr. Oneill today and she weighs 18 lbs 15oz, and she is 26 1/2 inches long! Dr. Oneill always politely says "She is still at the top of her class..." I think that is code for "Your kid is huge!" Lydia has also started crawling. She is not really using it as a mode of transportation yet, but she is doing the army crawl to get to things she wants. She can make it from one side of the room to the other. I thought I wouldn't be ready for this, but with another baby on the way, I am ready for her to crawl, walk, change her own diapers, get dressed...

This was yesterday. Rebecca was over at our house playing with Lydia and she put her up on the side of the exersaucer. I informed Rebecca, as Lydia's all knowing mother, that she wouldn't be able to stand up like that because she can't balance that well yet. Obviously I was wrong! As a side note, Lydia does have other outfits besides this green one. I realize after looking at the rest of the pictures she is wearing it in a lot of them...

A visit from Addie

Addie is our next door neighbor. We haven't spent a whole lot of time with her and her brothers, but we bought our girl scout cookies from her. I was in desperate need of two extra boxes of All-Abouts, so Addie brought us some and stayed to play with Lydia for about an hour. We had such a great time. She is going to make a great babysitter in a few years!