2 Year Anniversary!

I just realized that in the past 3 months Julia has gained 2.5 pounds. That's amazing! I think her second year of life is agreeing with her a lot better than her first year of life. She has a little bit of thigh chub and a little belly now. She's eating more solids. She loves cheese and she's taking yogurt again (the red Yoplaits). She also loves gummy fruit snacks. She will throw out her pacifier and chase you around the house if she sees you with fruit snacks. She loves iced tea, and she's starting to be a little more adventurous with tasting foods. Veggies are a miss, but we offer them to her. We're holding steady at the 50% milk/50% formula in a bottle mixture. We still have sippy cup challenges, as in she knows how to use it but refuses to. Once we get to 100% milk, we'll have to be a bit more aggressive with the sippy cup.

Today is the 2 year anniversary that we knew Miss J was coming into the world. We started trying September 1 of 2007, and I was thoroughly convinced it would take a long time. Thus, during September I inhaled paint fumes, had my wisdom teeth taken out, and rode every ride at the Puyallup Fair at least once. My impatient husband pestered me, so I took a test even before I should. I threw it away because it was negative. Then I passed by the trash can and if you looked hard, you could see a second line. I thought both lines should be of equal darkness if it was indeed positive. Since I had forgotten about it sitting there for half an hour(because I didn't think there was any chance of a positive result) & it said you can get a false positive if you leave it sitting there too long, I thought not much of it and pulled it out of the trash just in case. I casually showed it to my dear husband when he got home, and he broke it to me that I was pregnant. I still was in denial, and then I made him take a pregnancy test. His didn't get a faint line - in fact, there was no line at all. We celebrated by going to Target to get prenatal vitamins because that's how we roll.