celebrations!

Checking out the lights at the zoo. She LOVED them!
Really enthralled with the Lorikeets. Coranelle liked them too! :-)
Enjoying the morning at the zoo with mom/ Grandmadele.


Just wanted to share a little bit of good news. The test that I studied for for months and took with the stomach flu and nausea- well, I passed it! I am so relieved. Now, I am one step closer to my ESL endorsement. My next step is waiting to see if all of my classes count.

Second little celebration is that I am almost through the first trimester (14 weeks on Thursday) and am feeling much better! I finally have an appetite back and am gaining back the weight I have lost over the last few months. I am actually grocery shopping and cooking again! I can open my vegetable drawer without gagging and cook chicken (with garlic and onion!), without having to dry heave! It is so much easier to be excited about being pregnant when I feel better! I am still tired, but it's 100 times better than feeling sick all day. And, I don't think the being tired feeling is going to go away anytime soon- considering the wee one that I chase around, carry and entertain all day. Now that I am cooking again, she LOVES seeing everything I am doing and wants to be held so she can see everything I chop, grate, boil or bake. Making a meal and holding a toddler is a workout in itself! I get frustrated that things that I used to be able to do seem immensely harder now. I'm not THAT far along and am just starting to show, but when I take classes at the rec center, my face is purple and I am just dying. Anything that requires core strength seems impossible. How is it that I already have lost any abs I had gained back after Coranelle? Oh well, it's all for a great outcome, sometimes I just feel frustrated that things I used to do all the time leave me completely winded and exhausted.

Coranelle has a little baby doll of her own that she is learning to care for. She is not gentle at all, but she loves the baby. She points to my belly all the time and says "Bay- beeee" in the cutest way. We have some books for her about being a big sister that I hope help a bit.

Coranelle seems to be talking up a storm right now, getting very proficient at mimicking our words and it is fun to see her vocabulary expand. I think that this age is really fun and I enjoy seeing her turn into a kid and explore the world around her.

That's all for now. Just a few little bits of good news.