Hey, Stevie

I often joke around that Steve must be pretty annoyed with how his life has turned out.

He went from being the king of the house to having to live with a toddler that harasses/loves him and a wild dog that constantly annoys him. Actually, he is a very good natured cat and loves to be in the same room as Miss A and me. He loves to cuddle up next to you on the couch and is kinda protective of Miss A. And Miss A adores her Stevie. She is constantly loving on him, trying to pick him up and is always sharing her toys or snacks with him.

I started taking these pictures a couple months ago, documenting all of the ways Miss A 'loves' on Stevie. (His given name is Steve, but A calls him Stevie) None of these were staged.

"Stevie, want to wear my visor I made?"

"Stevie, time for tea."

"Stevie, it is sunny. Here are your sunglasses"

"Hey Stevie, want to sit with Elmo?"

"Steve, want to hide under my stool?" (He was not a fan of this one)

"Stevie, want to read?"

"Stevie, here is your juice"

"Stevie is like a baby!"

"Stevie, here is my butterfly hat"

"Stevie, are you hungry?"

"Look at my new flip flops Stevie!"

"Steve is wearing pretty earrings!"

And more earrings! She also tries to put bracelets on his tail.

"Steve, want some of my cereal?"

"Let me read to you Stevie."

"Stevie, lets play!"

"Stevie, want to read?"

Back to reality

Last week I was lounging with my feet in the sand...

And building sand castles with this sweet girl....

And eating dinner with this as my view.

Jamie the giraffe

I know a lot of people in the blog world were recently reading the story of this sweet little boy, James.

And I am sure you remember his love affair with giraffes.

Well, a baby girl giraffe was just born at the Dallas Zoo and the zoo is conducting a contest to name her. How special would it be for this baby giraffe to be named after James? Jamesie would be a perfect name, but since it is a girl giraffe, Jamie the giraffe is a better fit.

His mom and I are friends and I know this would mean the world to her if you would take the time to complete this form. Jamie the giraffe was born just a couple of days after James passed away.

Please help us get this giraffe unofficially named after James. If you can please complete the form below, suggesting Jamie as the new name. If you want to just email the completed form to me, I can then mail them into the Dallas Zoo. mrspreppy@gmail.com

The online form is located here, entries will be collected until August 21.

Mickey color wheel

We are in the middle of working of Miss A's big girl room, therefore we are making lots and lots of trips to Home Depot. Each and every time we go, Miss A grabs a handful of 'Mickey colors.' Disney has a line of Behr paint at Home Depot and some of the color chips have brightly colored Mickey faces on them. They are pretty cute and they definitely get me to stop and look at the Disney paint whereas I would normally completely bypass these colors and head directly to the Martha Stewart colors.


I decided to make some cute color flash cards out of these chips, versus having them scattered all over the house. Miss A knows almost all of her colors, but a little extra practice never hurt anyone.

I wrote the color of Mickey's face on the back of the color chip using that color Sharpie.

And then punched a hole in the corner and placed all of them on a metal ring.

Now, Miss A can play with her Mickey colors while working on her colors!

27 Weeks

Seeing as I am in the final stretch of this pregnancy, I should probably do a little update.

Right now, I am 27 weeks. I can never remember my exact number of weeks/days, so I use this handly little app on my phone to help me out. If you are pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant, get this app.

We are keeping the gender a surprise. We did this with Miss A, and thought it was fun.... so we are doing it again. According to BabyCenter, #2 is a girl, yet according to TheBump, #2 is a boy. In my opinion, that hardest part about not finding out the gender is picking out 2 good names. And regarding names, we have a short list of girl names and we are still discussing a boy name.

Overall, I am feeling good. There are the standard pregnancy symptoms that I am experiencing, but nothing too major. Some symptoms are hitting me a little earlier this time, versus with Miss A, but that is normal. By the end of the day, I am physically beat. I have always been very physical mom - meaning, I am on the ground playing with Miss A, tossing her into the air, playing with her in the sprinklers at the pool, throwing her around the pool, etc. I have not really slowed down on any of those things that I do with her, so as long as I am physically able to give her an airplane ride through the air or let her ride on my shoulders, I am going to do it. This just means that I collapse on the couch or bed at the end of the day.

As far as the summer heat, well I know it is August and I live in Dallas... so it is going to be H O T. I am not shocked by this weather nor am I surprised that we are breaking heat records all the time. Actually, I am surprised that I am not hating the heat that much. Miss A and I are outside for a couple of hours everyday, and as long as we are at the pool I am ok. If I am going to be this big, I might as well have a good tan.

I have always heard that you show earlier and can get larger with each of your pregnancies. I can vouch for that. I think I was in maternity jeans 5 minutes after getting a positive pregnancy test. Here is a picture I took a couple of days ago.