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after playing at the nursery....

i haven't written in awhile. well, things are zooming here at the pool homestead. it's caught up with me that within 7 weeks i could have a baby....and simply i haven't truly prepared the house or anything....i will put that on my to-do list. i can't wait to see if it's a boy or a girl.... :D

ryan grows up more every second. yesterday i began to organize picture on my computer and found her hospital pics and more...a few tears definitely went down my cheek. some moments i would like to pause....others i would definitely like to fast-forward through...like the times she gets on the ground and lays there...puts her hands over her eyes...(that's her fit). others i would love to treasure...like....the other day, she walked up to me and gave me a kiss and said 'love you mommy'.

this past weekend julee came over. saturday we went to the zoo because it was 70 in january! wow! we try to get to the zoo once a month. well, afterwards we went to the mall to the disney store...ryan's face was priceless...i can only imagine if we went to disney world!! she flew around racks calling out MICKEY...MINNIE!! she's going through a mickey mouse phase. on the way out we were singing the mickey mouse song and she all of a sudden said "daddy...STOP...SHHHHH!"...talk about a diva. all in all...i thought we were going to have it worse...but don't get me wrong...lil bro or sis is on the way.

baby and i are doing okay. i am getting to the point of misery. being 5'1 and carrying ryan and a fetus gets pretty wearing on the ole' back. 7 more weeks though and baby pool will finally be here!! :D i hope our family adjusts well. tucker is taking off for a week and a day to help pick me up and take care of ryan. we are planning to take ryan to ELMO Live for her birthday...a week after surgery...we will see :D hopefully this time around no blood transfusions and crazy soreness.

well..that wraps it up....