Current mood:

happy

Merry Christmas
It's been awhile, so I thought I'd wish everyone a Merry Christmas...and give an update.  My family decided to give me their colds as an early Christmas present..nice, huh?  At least I didn't get it until after my choir concert last Sunday night.  It went really well, and I enjoyed singing.  It was a great program to sing though.  Last night was the worst, but I'm doing much better today.  Our family is doing a small part at the Christmas Eve service Sunday night...it's a scripture reading.  Craig doesn't do that, so he'll be lighting the candle and I'll read...hopefully I won't sound too stuffed.   I'm supposed to sing with the choir, but I'm not going to unless they really need me.  Such is life.

Craig is off and will be until after New Year's.  We'll see how that goes.  So far, it's been nice these 2 days as I've been sick.  He's been helpful with cleaning and Val, etc.  We had his work Christmas party (the family one) on Thursday afternoon. Val did really well despite it being right during her naptime.  Oh well.  She wasn't too fond of Santa though.  She cried.  I'll post pics at www.fendleyfam.blogspot.com
At least she wasn't the only one...another girl her age also screamed (she was much more vocal though!)  Santa gave her a teddy bear and she did like that.  So yesterday morning, Craig was playing with her and showed her the bear and she said "Santa".  She remembered who gave it to her!  Craig showed her the picture and again she said "Santa".   This afternoon I was putting her down for her nap and I told her to pick a book to read.  She grabbed this one called "Jesus, me and my Christmas Tree".  It's a really cute story (shaped like a tree!) that tells about the ornaments she's putting on the tree and how they relate to the Christmas story.  Anyway, she picks it up and says "Santa".  Not quite cutie.  It made me laugh.  As far as that goes, we're planning on telling her the story of St. Nick and that he was a nice man who gave presents, etc.  We'll let her know it's just an American tradition, but not get into the whole he's real and magical and all that stuff.   But for right now, she doesn't understand that Santa brings gifts and does it all on Christmas eve anyway, so we've got time.  She can at least know who the character of Santa is.  We'll explain later.

I'm feeling quite well pregnancy wise.  I've got an appt next week and Craig will be able to come!!  He hasn't been to an OB appt since our first one with Val.  I'm happy he'll get to come here the heartbeat.  Baby moves and in some interesting ways these days.  This child moves so differently than what I remember with Val.  Very low and on my bladder 1/2 the time (which is actually kinda painful).  I even see it move.  It's hard to believe we're only 3 months away from being the parents of 2!   That reminds me.  You need to get online and go to www.expectnet.com then in the "game" part put  "babyfendley2" (no spaces or caps)...and enter your guess for the little one.  Got it??  I expect to see some guesses.

Well, this is long enough.  Hope everyone has a nice Christmas and Happy New Year.  I'll try to update more frequently.