Look at this dreamboat!

I can't even handle how cute he is.

Three different times yesterday lula notified us that she had to poop on the potty. We raced upstairs, put the kiddie seat on the real toilet & lula farted on the potty!!! Boy was she pleased with herself.
Of course eventually we hope she will also poop on the potty, but this seems like a promising first step.

Lula got Arthur a rubber ducky and was super excited to give it to him. Tonight she was walking around clutching the duck screaming "COOOOCK"
All pat and I could do was laugh. I mean, what the hell?

Im spending my days in bed cuddling my new baby - it is the best! Seriously probably some of the best days of my life. When lula gets home from her day she joins us in bed for a little movie and a snack. Today was Doritos and the movie planes. She is as delighted as I am.
Arthur is a good boy who doesn't seem to mind when his sister runs into the room screaming her hellos before mauling him. What a nice baby!

Arthur

I love Arthur too! Lulas little brother was born 11/14/13 at 11:23 and weighed 8 lb 2 oz. I am totally in love....and absolutely exhausted.

Long weekend fun...

Lu got a new hat & mittens today. She refuses to put her thumbs into the thumb part of the mitten though. So basically we could have just put socks on her hands...but they wouldn't match the cute hat!

Lula is walking around with all the q tips....cleaning her ears, putting the q tip back into the holder and then deliberately choosing another.
I just tried to take them away from her and she sobbed "I need these please."

At least she said please.

Parrot

This morning I was asking pat if he thought I should put an undershirt on lula. He responded that he didn't know and added "I'm not a doctor." Right on cue, lula parrots back " I'm not a doctor."

Incidentally, she is going to the doctor today for her 2 yr old appointment. Hopefully she remembers to tell the doctor that she is NOT herself a doctor.

Although the getting dressed part of the morning can be tense, once it's over they're thick as thieves again

3 things

1. Watching pat try to get lula dressed in the am is like watching a trapper try to snare a wild animal. It's very funny & requires a level of agility i don't currently possess.
2. Lately, any time lula falls down or smashes into something while walking she announces "sorry." Presumably she is apologizing to herself?
3. I'm ready to have this baby. 16 more days until my due date seems like a loooong time.

We spent the weekend spoiling lula - although she doesn't realize it, her world is about to get rocked. She got to play with her cousins, go choose new toys (pinkie pie!!), have some mid afternoon ice cream and then watch a new movie. What a lucky girl!

The costume saga began 3 weeks ago. Lula & I were at Costco and I saw a cute green dragon costume . It was fleecy and had long pants & a hoodie. She seemed to like it enough so for $12 I bought it. Once we got home she decided she hated it. She seemed afraid of it, really, but I was willing to look past her fear and make her wear it since I already had it and it was so cheap.
On Monday I realized I hadn't seen the pants in a week or so. I looked and looked but couldn't find the pants. Wednesday night it was obvious that I lost the pants and her costume would really stink without them. But, since she is 2 and I am busy I was willing to overlook a crappy costume and resolved to do better next year.
Yesterday I had 2 hearings beginning at 1:00 so I didn't really have enough time to even run out and grab something else until the clerk called me to push my start time back to 1:30. Hallelujah! I dragged my enormously pregnant self over to h & m where I purchased $61 worth of last minute Halloween costumes. After our earlier snafu with the dinosaur I got 2 costumes so lula could pick which she preferred: Wonder Woman and a ballerina. Then I cabbed back to court with a bag of polyester children's costumes, sat through 2 excruciating hearings, and got back to my office just in time to run out and catch the train.
I picked lula up and told her about the new costumes. I went to hand her back the ballerina costume and noticed that there was an anti theft device still affixed to the crotch of the leotard part of the get up. Decision made - lula would be wonder woman and I will return the ballerina outfit today.
Next year I will shoot to have her costume ready to go before 5:15 pm on Halloween.
UPDATE: exactly 24 hours after I posted this I found the dinosaur pants hiding in plain sight in lulas closet.