Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We hope you had a great holiday. We enjoyed our time together a lot. We started the week with an appointment for Emma. Everything looks good and her heart rate sounded good. It averaged in the 140's which is where it should be. They are now talking about inducing labor after 39 weeks which means 2 weeks after tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll hit 37 weeks! There were no contractions measured during Toni's tests which was a little unusual because she started having small contractions with Caitin around week 34 if I remember correctly. Toni has 2 appointments on Tuesday to check on Emma and the final sonogram has been pushed back to the following week (week 38). At the sonogram they will make their decision about induction so we should know the date soon. I'm kinda hoping for 12/11/10 but we'll see what happens. :)

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. On Thursday we made a small Turkey dinner here and had Nana Bev and Grampa Bob come over. We had a nice and relaxing day here at the house. In one of the pictures, you can see that Caitlin is even helping Toni cut green beans with her plastic knife. :) Today we went over to Nana Bev's house to have dinner with them and Aunt Sarah, Uncle Dan and Cousin Maddie. We had a lot of fun and Caitlin especially enjoyed herself. She got really into watching Star Wars at one point on TV and no matter how much Maddie climbed on her or pulled her hair, she just kept watching it. She also had fun chasing Mandy (the dog) around the house. We had a great meal and Caitlin especially enjoyed her Turkey. She's so polite asking saying please and thank you when she wants something. :) When we got home tonight we went outside and installed Emma's carseat in our cars. Needless to say, we now both have essentially no back seats to speak of. :)

Yesterday we took Caitlin to the mall to get pictures with Santa. We got there when they opened and Caitlin was really excited about seeing Santa until he actually came out. Once she saw him, she wanted nothing to do with him. She immediately started crying and the picture here is the best picture of the bunch. :) It was funny though that as we were leaving and were a good distance away from Santa, she started waving bye-bye and blowing him kisses! Maybe next year she'll be more excited and will smile in the picture. For now, we have another year with a picture of Caitlin vs. Santa. :) After the pictures, we went and walked around the mall for a little bit and did some shopping for Caitlin with a coupon we got from the picture place. We got her some nice clothes and she really enjoyed walking around. She did really good holding my hand and walking with us until the very end when she was tired and wanted to go home. Later on, we went and got our Christmas tree and later on we decorated it. Caitlin did a good job putting on ornaments but it became immediately clear that any important ornaments that we don't want broken will need to go on the top half of the tree..... The tree came out nice and I'll try to post a pic next week. Friday we also took Caitlin down to see Elmo at the Freeman Coliseum. It was a cute show for her and she seemed to enjoy it until the end. Toward the end she started getting bored and wanted to walk around. :)

There's been 2 other things that I've been meaning to post but keep forgetting about. Caitlin has started saying her name! She will point to herself and say, "my name Kate". It's cute to listen to her. She can't quite say her whole name yet but it's amazing to us both to listen to her. The other thing she's started doing is when we ask her how much she loves us, she'll spread her arms wide and say "big!" Totally awesome. :)

This week should be pretty busy. Tomorrow afternoon I'm taking off work to take Caitlin to her annual eye appointment. Hopefully that'll go well. Toni has 2 appointments on Tuesday and then we'll probably try to take care of any loose ends including getting Toni's bag packed and in my car and finishing decorating the house. We're definitely in the home stretch now and while this pregnancy has gone much faster than Caitlin's, it hasn't hit me yet that we're actually going to have another baby soon! When Cailtin was born, I chronicled the delivery through this blog but this time, I'll probably update everyone via Facebook. If anyone who follows this blog isn't friends on Facebook, send me a request and I'll add you on so you can keep up with the action. Hope everyone has a great week.