24 weeks!

I am 24 weeks pregnant today and baby M is growing growing growing! He is kicking a ton and rolling all around lately. He has started kicking me in the crotch like Cailin did. I went to the OB on Friday and everything was measuring perfectly. I go back in 4 weeks then I start going every 2! WHAT? I am totally unprepared for this kid haha!

We dropped Cailin off at Roberta's yesterday and got to have a date night last night. It was nice to go out sans baby and have a night to ourselves which hasn't happened since we went to California which wasn't all that long ago but I need time at home to get things done. I deep cleaned Cailin's room and organized all her clothes. I separated all the boy friendly things that we have and got together all the loose diapers in small sizes. Sometime this week I am going to go consign all of Cailin's newborn and 0-3 month summer clothes. :( She is so big now! A couple of girls from work have offered me their boy clothes which is so generous! I love hand me downs, I mean, really! Just about all of Cailins new clothes that we got or bought still looks brand new since she only wore everything a few times. Some of it only once or twice!

Cailin's birthday party planing is well under way. I got the invitations a little while ago and just got the invite list together. I will be mailing those out around when she turns 11 months old. When did my baby become a big girl?

She is such a good baby still and is exploring everything. She is so good at crawling around and getting into all sorts of things. She especially likes putting things in baskets (which I found out the hard way with her dirty clothes basket...) and banging things together. I have a feeling she is behind with her speech so I am going to ask about it at her next appointment. She says mama and baba and aba. If I ask where the kitty is she looks for the cat and knows what certain objects are but her verbal is low. I know that babies who are higher level or more advanced in one are they can lag in another so I am not super worried about it but I still want her to be on track. She is very social at daycare and loves her friends. She "shares" with her friends Tate and now little Leo too. She isn't into hanging out with the bigger kids and the two closer to her age who are older are not very social and are shy. Cailins favorite thing to do is to go up to baby Leo (who is almost 7 months) and take his toy, use it for a minute, and then give it back. He plays with it for a little then she grabs it again. He doesn't get too upset but the first time she did it he got weepy! Oh, Cailin! She has become super good friends with Tate and I hope he can come to her birthday party. They crawl around together and play, and even though Tate ran her over in his walker she still likes him!

Cailin loves Nicky and really doesnt care about Sylvester at all. Nicky is slow and she can get close to him but Sylvester has a heart attack when she comes around. I can't wait to torment those two fat cats with the new baby! Haha. It was so funny when we brought Cailin home how the two of them hid in a closet for a week. OR when the dr gave Dan Cailins first hat (which had some birth on it) and they smelled it, hissed at it, and hid in the bedroom. They are so dumb lol!