Not much has happened since the last blog post except that we've had the big holidays! Baby 
Boy Beauchamp (still doesn't have a name) is still cooking (35 weeks today). We are anxious for our ultrasound on Tuesday to get a weight and to check to make sure everything is still going as planned. At our 31 week ultrasound, our boy weighed about a pound more than the average baby so we have a big boy on our hands. We hope to make it at least another week in which we'll have the cerclage removed- can't believe we are almost 36 weeks! I'll keep you posted!
Boy Beauchamp (still doesn't have a name) is still cooking (35 weeks today). We are anxious for our ultrasound on Tuesday to get a weight and to check to make sure everything is still going as planned. At our 31 week ultrasound, our boy weighed about a pound more than the average baby so we have a big boy on our hands. We hope to make it at least another week in which we'll have the cerclage removed- can't believe we are almost 36 weeks! I'll keep you posted!
Thanksgiving this year was really low key. We stayed home and had our friend Mike Miller over for dinner. We started playing Monopoly before dinner and Evan was seriously whipping us. We took a break for dinner and while we were preparing our "feast", Grace decided to be a good girl and clean up the game for us (smile). Poor thing was just trying to help but unfortunately we weren't finished playing...you should've seen Evan's face when he realized that his almost monumental win was finished...good for Miller and I. Dinner was great!Christmas was fantastic this year. Grace really got into the Christmas spirit- you should just hear her belt out Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Every time we hear it, we sing it as loud as we can! She knows a lot of Christmas tunes (probably because I started playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving!!). This year we set up the tree before Thanksgiving too- early but we didn't know how long we had before our baby came so we wanted to be prepared!
Grace sat on Santa's lap for the first time this year and even told him what she wanted for Christmas (something to jump on and a pen book that helps you read- she got both from Santa). When she crawled up on Santa's lap, I said, "Grace tell Santa what you want." Then Santa said, "Grace, what do you want for Christmas?" She looked at me amazed and said, "Santa knows my name!" ha ha - I guess she didn't realize that I had just said her name! It was so innocent and sweet! This is the first year too that we were able to use the "Santa Card." It worked wonderfully- wish I could use it all year long (grin). She has been on her best behavior for a month or so because "Santa's watching" of course!
Bob and Sharon came down on the 22nd and stayed until the 26th. Mimi and Grace made a wonderful gingerbread house and we drove around the neighborhood and looked at lights. When Grace was 1, every time she saw Christmas lights she would shout at the top of her lungs, "Ights Ights!" What spunk! Last year (age 2), she still liked the Christmas lights but she wasn't as vocal about it. This year she really liked the lights that blinked...and she had us stop in front of all of the houses with lights so she had time to look at them. My my how she changes from year to year!
Uncle Mikey came down on the 25th and stayed until the 27th. It's always good to see Uncle Mikey. He is so good with Grace and Grace adores him! Grace especially loves his miniature pincher Piper. She is still talking about Piper. Piper is so small and cute...Piper likes to be by the fire to stay warm, etc.
Bob and Billie came down for the day on the 26th. We played Scattegories (where Billie really whipped us- but she had Bob helping so it didn't really count (chuckle chuckle). Grace loved getting presents from Grandma and Grandpa after Christmas was over- she was in heaven the entire holiday!
On to New Years!!! We really partied hard this year- just kidding!! We stayed home and had one of Grace's friends over (Kate and her mommy Jen). Jen is also pregnant. She is 3 weeks ahead of me so she is really getting close. It was Evan's dream- home and sober on New Years with two really pregnant women and a couple of kids (ha ha- totally joking). Jen and Kate left around 9:30 PM and we decided to still keep Grace up to she could see the ball drop. We played games and ate ice cream cake. Grace had no problem staying up past midnight- it was Evan we had to keep awake.After the ball dropped, Evan and I were giving Grace kisses all over. She went to push my face away and poked me in the eye. It was terrible 
pain!!! I took a couple of Tylenol and went to bed. Woke up around 4:30 AM and had to go to the emergency room (not what I wanted to do early New Year's Day). Found out that I had a torn cornea- yikes! Was really glad that we went to the emergency room. Things are much better already- what a story! This is my thought on the experience. Last year (New Year's 2009), we all got the stomach flu right before the ball dropped but throughout the year, we were all in great health! I seriously haven't been sick once since I've been pregnant. So, since I think everything means something and everything happens for a reason, I'm taking my temporary blindness as this- This year, we will see things in a different light. Our eyes will be open to many new things this year- sounds like it's going to be a pretty fantastic year!
pain!!! I took a couple of Tylenol and went to bed. Woke up around 4:30 AM and had to go to the emergency room (not what I wanted to do early New Year's Day). Found out that I had a torn cornea- yikes! Was really glad that we went to the emergency room. Things are much better already- what a story! This is my thought on the experience. Last year (New Year's 2009), we all got the stomach flu right before the ball dropped but throughout the year, we were all in great health! I seriously haven't been sick once since I've been pregnant. So, since I think everything means something and everything happens for a reason, I'm taking my temporary blindness as this- This year, we will see things in a different light. Our eyes will be open to many new things this year- sounds like it's going to be a pretty fantastic year!Goodbye 2009 and Hello 2010! I'll keep you posted on our baby news!
