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!!!!

Exciting news

Well, the time has come to make a very special announcement.... OUR FAMILY IS GROWING...and so am I!! Boy, people tell you that you will show a lot sooner with #2, but I don't think you can really be prepared for it. I'm thankful that we have finally hit 12 weeks, because I'm not sure I can hide this little one much longer:)

Joselyn is pretty excited about her new big sister status

Here he/she is!! I know its hard to see, but little one is only 12 weeks old!! And so active that this is the best picture that we could capture. That is the profile of its head to the right of the picture, its body is the lighter blob to the left, and the little bright spot between the two is the arm.
Another little tid bit of exciting info...for all our Rochester friends and family at least... this baby will make its arrival IN ROCHESTER!! If you did not know, we are planning on moving back home. We do not have a date, or a even a real date range, but we think it will be before I am due. Joselyn and I will probably arrive sometime in November. Jay will follow when he gets orders. I'm sure the last thing Jay wants to do is move a toddler and an 8month pregnant woman across 5 states(Pennsylvania counts as two because it is the WORST to drive through). So Joselyn, baby and I will come before I get too advanced in the pregnancy to make a move.
Oh, I forgot, I'm due March 29th, 2012 :)

Disney World!

At the beginning of this month, we went to Disney World for a week! Nana accompanied us, which was super duper awesome. We made the 9 hour drive in one day (both times), and Joselyn did WONDERFULLY! Probably because Nana was in the back seat with her :) We went to Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom and Sea World. And because Nana was there, Jay and were able to go out on our own a few times. We went miniature golfing twice. Jay won both times, but I got the only hole in one!! And we went to see Cirque du Soleil La Nouba!!! That was the highlight of the trip for me. It. Was. AMAZING!!! If you haven't been, or if you have... I think everybody should go see a Cirque du Soleil show. We were not able to take any kind of pictures there, but I assure you, it was so cool!
It was very hot while we were there, about 110 degrees. But we drank plenty of water, and rested when necessary and a good time was had by all (which may not be evident by Joselyn's face in most of the pictures. I swear she had a good time. I think she has had enough of me taking her picture, and is boycotting by not smiling whenever the camera is out).
I had too many pictures to upload to the blog, and based on my experience last time, I decided to just upload them to picasa and share the link with you. However, it did not go as easily as planned. I'm pretty sure uploading pictures will make me crazy. They did not upload in the correct order, some did not upload at all, and it had taken over 4 hours of my time when all was said and done. Do they teach photo upload in high school now? Because they should.
Here is the link to the pictures. Enjoy :)

https://picasaweb.google.com/jodi.rivera/DisneyWorldJuly2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCN7s1Piq75K_NA&feat=directlink

16-17 Months old

This blog was a hard one! Blogspot apparently has its own ideas of how my blog should be set up. After fighting for 2 days, I WON! Well, mostly. There is still 1 picture out of place, but I'm ok with that.
We all went to NY recently, and as always, the trip was too short and too many special people did not get seen. If you are one of those special people, we are sorry and still love and miss you very much. Someday we will be home, and can see you anytime!

These videos were taken while in NY. Joselyn thinks she is hilarious. And to be honest, she is :)

Here she is on a very important call
"DON'T MAKE ME COME THROUGH THIS PHONE!!! BECAUSE I WILL!"
"Ok, that is better. I'm glad we are all on the same page now"


Pretty smile
Now that I have gotten Joselyn to go to bed at 7 PM instead of 6PM, we can all sit down and have dinner together
Cuddles with Moe
Here is the rouge photo... she is playing IN the train set. Like Godzilla.
Auntie Diana came for a short but wonderful visit. Joselyn was pretty excited since she hadn't seen her since she was just 5 months old!!
Cheese! oh wait...
take 2...CHEESE!! wait a minute!
CHEEEEESSEE!!! Yay! We got it :)
Joselyn and Auntie Diana playing on the deck. It was 100degrees this day. Auntie Diana is a trooper!!
One of Joselyn's most recent pastimes... getting in baskets. Even if she can't get out.
"Hang on a second here, I can't see what I am coloring"
Joselyn learning 'the swipe'
HELLO?
WHEW! We got through it without much incident! Blogspot only deleted one picture, which I can't get back on the blog at this point. Its not a huge deal, at least I got something out to you!