4 Months and no blog post... WHAAAAAAAAT!?!?!

Here's the deal ladies and Gents... I'm exhausted. More exhausted than I have ever been. Ever. I have thought about this blog many times, but have just not gotten to it. For that I am sorry, again. So for this post, I will just give you some basic bullet points about what has been going on in the Rivera Family Daily Adventures. The pictures are not in the best order, but by now you should know that blogspot hates me and refuses to put my pictures in the order I place them.

* I am 36 weeks pregnant... I no longer sleep or fit into my maternity clothes. We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our sweet baby girl and hope we can quickly fall into a routine.
* Jay arrived to NY the beginning of February and got a job with Valtech two days after he arrived. We are extremely thankful that he was able to get a job so quickly, it has taken much of the "what are we going to do" panic away. We are currently staying with my mother until the baby arrives and we figure out where we want to live.
*Joselyn is 2, she loves the word "No" and the phrases "Baby do it!" and "Baby Help" (she calls herself Baby) We are working on those things. She is also very excited about her new little sister. She loves to hug my belly, talk to the baby inside, and rock, feed, dress, kiss and hug her baby dolls. She is going to be an excellent big sister :)

Here are a bunch a pictures from November to now. Feel free to make up your own explanation to each of them.

There is no telling when I will get another post up. Hope you are all doing well and this one holds you over for a little while :)

October is awesome!

Joselyn is all about helping Mommy these days. She loves to help me vacuum, and sweep, and put laundry in the washing machine, and fold laundry (read throw nicely folded clothes off the bed). But I think her favorite way to help is by making brownies. As a side note, did anybody notice how blog spot randomly just changed my text to italics, then back to regular, then back to italics? I can't turn it off. It is currently telling me that italics is not on right now, as I type. IN ITALICS!!!! UGH.


This is what happens when Joselyn gets ahold of my camera. She has figured out how to turn it on. And sometimes takes self portraits. :) She makes me laugh.

Some other things that Joselyn loves? Frozen Blueberries!!!
And running down the hill in our back yard with Daddy...
And playing "Nigh Nigh"...
And reading the Babies R Us circular.
In other happy news, yesterday, on Halloween, we had our routine ultrasound. I am now 18 weeks pregnant. We all went, and all went well. The baby is perfect, was super quiet and almost didn't show us the goods! I would have been beside myself if I could not have found out the gender. I'm a planner, people (Jay would say slightly OCD) and I NEED to know for my own sanity. I want to talk about names, I want to have clothes washed and ready, I want to stop calling it, IT. We had a fun gender reveal planned for all of you, which was a complete flop. The idea was to go to the store after our ultrasound and buy either a pink or a blue nail polish, then get a manicure with said nail polish and then post pictures of my hands holding the ultrasound pics. WELL, we didn't get great pictures to take home, and things went downhill from there...


(Joselyn showing me "sad face" She isn't sad, she is just making faces at me)
See, she's a happy girl :)
OK, so here is where the break down happens... You can't see the color of my nails can you?

Maybe a close up shot? A little better... ITS A GIRL!!!!! See, you can imagine how much better and obvious this would have been if I had blue nails. Not nearly as much explaination would have been needed, that is for sure.
It still wasn't quite right, turns out the pink I chose was more sparkly than opaque and didn't photograph well. So we just took a picture of the bottle with the US picture... not as awesome as we had wanted (PS... the name of that color is Princesses Rule. Pretty fitting, don't you think?)
So we ended up with this picture to make sure everybody knew that we were going to have another little girl :) And I ended up with a fun sparkly nail polish that does not photograph well.
We are so VERY excited to be having another girl. I have 2 sisters, and was hoping that Joselyn would get to have a sister too and experience how wonderful it is. We were so sure we were having a boy, (This pregnancy is completely different than my first) so we were pretty shocked when we were told it was a girl, happily shocked. Jay is starting to feel out numbered and is feeling the pressure of being a daddy to all girls (so far). He knows his future is going to be covered in glitter and full of tea parties and tutus. He is already plotting his "No girls allowed man room" and has requested that we get Joselyn involved in sports as soon as she is old enough, HAHAHA... wish him luck :)

"She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she's the reason you wish you were an only child." ~Barbara Alpert

Cool your jets, people!

For all of you clamoring for a belly picture... HERE YOU GO:) 17 weeks 4days. And for all of you who do not want to do pregnancy math, that is approximately 4 1/2 months. We have our ultrasound on Oct 31st and are VERY excited to find out what we are having. According to most of the old wives tales, and the Chinese gender predictor chart, we are having another GIRL! To be fair, according to all of those same devices, Joselyn should have been a boy. 1 more week and we will know for sure!!


And for a little giggle.... "Jay, don't make me look stupid, OK?"
I think he nailed it, no?

Fun with Daddy

Blogspot is at it again. It thinks it knows better and puts my pictures where ever it wants to, instead of where I tell it to. So I will just go picture by picture, I'm sure you can keep up:)

This is the picture that Jay drew for Joselyn... you can clearly see that it is the cat with a fiddle, the cow jumping over the moon and the dish running away with the spoon.
Here they are drawing together (she likes to wear hats when Daddy wears hats. Luckily this one was just hanging out in the garage)

Here is the drawing that I did for her (before I knew that Daddy was going to join us and upstage me) I'll give you a minute to try and figure out what it is a picture of.........

Did you guess? Its a cat, a fish and a duck. I do not claim to be an artist and once cried in art class because I hated it so much. For my child, however, I will put all of that aside and (attempt to) draw what ever she asks me to.

Joselyn and Daddy working hard on his super great chalk drawing


Here, mama, let me draw on your face :)
This is Joselyn running like mad down our driveway. She loves to run downhill, although it scares mommy quite a bit.
More drawing with daddy
Having toast with Mommy at the table like a big girl.


Joselyn and her escape butt cheek. It makes me laugh everytime. I can't keep it contained.
Rooting for the Bills with Daddy with noise makers(mama's keys) and flags (a large bib)

More toast with Mama

Here are the last pictures we have of Joselyn and Moe. Moe got out one night, and we haven't seen her since. It has been about 2 weeks and we have not had any sign of her. So despite our best efforts, we have come to the conclusion that she is gone :(




CHEERS to the Bills!!!!