Monkey Procrastinates Goin to Bed

Monkey comes to Lion, Penguin, and I after bedtime...
Monkey: Mama?
Me: Yes?
Monkey: Can I have you?
Me: Do you need me?
Monkey: Yes. Can I have Daddy too?
Me: Sure honey what do you need?
----Monkey then hops into my lap for hugs and kisses, then runs to Lion for bear hugs... then hops back to me, then to Aunt Penguin... and so on. He milked that for several straight minutes of non-stop hugs and kisses. My sweet Monkey.

Koala! The long awaited Ultrasound!

Yesterday:

Elephant, Zebra, Monkey, Vixen (Tortoise was on her last day of camp- Lion was with her as a Camp Big Buddy), Eclectus, Penguin, and I went to the Dr for an ultrasound to determine baby's gender and make sure all is well with development...

here is Zebra.. she is in the waiting room with the rest of us.. she set the princess dolls up in the chair next to her and was about to read to them when they called our name for the ultrasound... doesn't she look excited?! <~ see last Giggle-ism at the end of this post

here are the results: it's a GIRL! And she is perfect!!

She's measuring at 19 weeks 5 days (and whadaya know I'M exactly 19 weeks 5 days along!!)... the ultrasound tech said her little legs were long, that her heart was pumping perfectly, that there appeared to be nothing to worry about at all, she was even sucking (though not on her fingers... none of my babies have ever been finger suckers.... no idea why). She kept her tiny little hands up next to her gorgeous face during the entire ultrasound.. and even appeared to be waving a few times. The ultrasound tech had the common sense to outline the baby's little body parts for us, so those of you that aren't used to looking at ultrasound pictures can easily figure out where everything is...

Here is another picture.. this one is in profile. Koala's cute little head is on the right looking toward to upper left hand corner of the picture. Her right arm is slightly in the background with the hand right up next to her forehead. In the ACTUAL picture, you can even distinguish eyes, nose, and mouth... but those features didn't scan well.

So!!! Say hello to Baby Koala!!

Here's another couple of Giggle-isms:

This morning before we left for the ultrasound: Monkey comes to Penguin and:

Penguin: Do you want a baby brother or a baby sister Koala.

Monkey –pouting- responds: “I want a baby brother.”

Penguin asks: “Why do you not want a baby sister?”

Monkey: “Because I don’t want it to be mean to me all the time, like Vixen.”

~~ when the ultrasound tech announced that Koala is indeed a girl, he put his hands on his head and sat back down... LOL Poor Boy -- we had to reassure him that another baby girl couldn't possibly be as mean to him as Vixen is.

After the ultrasound as we were heading into Khols to shop for baby girl clothes:

Me: Zebra, are you happy about your new baby sister- Koala?

Zebra: *shakes her head no with a silly smile*

Me: Did you want a baby brother -Koala?

Zebra: *shakes her head no with same silly smile*

Me: Do you want a new baby at all?

Zebra: No.

~~ well, you can't win for losing! You weren't very happy about little brother Monkey, little sister Vixen, or our lost baby Gabriel either, so at least Koala isn't starting out life any worse off in Zebra's eyes than her now much-loved little brothers and sisters (well, sometimes she enjoys them anyway.. she is a very good big sis when Tortoise isn't around)

Giggle-isms

January 11, 2010: Baby Vixen crawled right up to me (I am sitting on the floor pulling up staples from the carpet I pulled up today) grabbed my hand & placed a book into it. Okay baby I'll read to you!!

January 13, 2010: Monkey has been having trouble opening doors - so I showed him how to turn the knob with 2 hands (after explaining that he needed to put his toys down 1st). Now he's in his room opening and closing the door repeatedly saying "I did it mama!!!" after each successful open door. Good job buddy!!

January 17, 2010: I just asked Monkey to leave the kitchen saying "you're driving me nuts Monkey". Now he's wandering all over the house telling anyone who'll listen "me driving mama nuts!". He's very proud of himself.

January 30, 2010:

Elephant while playing on his toy laptop: mama did you know I got a high score on this? Like a hundred! More than a hundred! Isn't that cool?!”

Me: that's great buddy I'm proud of you!

Elephant: I am AWESOME! Leaving me grinning

February 6, 2010: I just sent the girls in to straighten up their room Zebra came back out to ask "Mama, can we push the clothes under the bed?" -no honey put them away

February 13, 2010: Elephant says: “Mama, can you please be quiet so I can concentrate on my game?” -- no Elephant I can't.

February 24, 2010 I put Scottish bagpipes on the van stereo- Monkey says "sounds like baby cow in trouble" .... but! he *says* he likes it!

April 16, 2010: Both Tortoise (with "the smartest boy in class") and Elephant (with a girl in class "I don't know why") are in love!

April 19, 2010: Zebra to Mama: "Why do you have bumps on your body?" -- pointing at my boobs.... I laughed, then explained that all girls get "bumps" when they are teenagers... she said "even Tortoise?" yes. "and Vixen?" yes. "hehe.... me too then. I hope I get big ones." and walked away. ROFLMAO

April 25, 2010: I was sanding the drywall in our room, came out to discuss colors for paint in the dining room when I heard a big sigh.... turned around to find baby Vixen was asleep on the dining room table!

March 9, 2010: as the sun was shining in Monkey's eyes: "STOP Summer!! Stop! I cover mine eyes so Summer won't get dem........ Mama, you stop Summer?"…..

I chuckled and said "no Buddy I can't stop the sun from shining"

June 27, 2010: as I am applying scrapbook paper to giant letters in my name for my craftroom…
Zebra to me: Uh Mama... there's no -letter- in your name (duh)...
me: really? how is my name spelled?
Zebra: M A M A. No -letter- Mama.
me: you're right Zebra. Mama doesn't have a -letter-, but -my name- does. and I'm -my name-.
at which point she looked at me like I was an alien, shook her head, and walked away.

July 11, 2010: as I was tucking Monkey into bed

me: Aunt Penguin thinks you're the coolest kid ever.

-he grins-

me: Do you think you're the coolest kid ever?

Monkey: no.

me: who is?

Monkey: Elephant.

July 25, 2010: I ask Penguin and Eclectus who my animal should be on Giggle’s Zoo – my blog… Tortoise pipes in with “PIG!!!”

July 27, 2010: Elclectus and I are sitting at a traffic light getting ready to turn onto a cross-street, Monkey says: “you cars gets off of ouwers road!”

that's it for the first installment of Giggle-isms!! And just for the heck of it, here's a picture of all the kiddos taken a year ago by Meerkat: