Blake's Room!

So I am finally ready for Blake. I have the nursery 100% together, even her little closet is cleaned out and full of clothes for her little self. I am very pleased with the way her room turned out. In the beginning I just could not imagine what I was going to do with the brown and orange paint, I just knew I did not want to paint over it. So with the help of some wonderful friends it all came together.
I can not wait to have her sleeping in her crib and even crying in the middle of the night. We are all ready for her. Last night at dinner I pointed to my stomach and asked Lily what that was and she said "lake". So we are all getting ready.
I know Mike is ready too, at least I know for sure he is ready for me to not be pregnant and miserable anymore. I am at that point where I am counting the hours to her entrance, and if you count the hours it seems like years. All is well though, I am just being a baby myself.

We have had so many wonderful people to offer to help with Lily when Blake comes, so that makes me feel a little at ease. At the last appointment we ran late and I was so worried about how Lily was going to get home from school and thinking she was all alone there and upset that her mommy had forgotten her. I was quickly reminded by Leah and Curtis that they are there for Lily if she needs a ride home or if she needs to have a slumber party if Blake were to come early. So that has helped me to relax. I don't know why I feel alone in this city, we have great people around us that love Lily as if she were their own. Mike thinks I am silly, I guess sometimes my anxiety comes in to play, maybe more often then it should. :0

So we have 24 more nights to be a family of 3 and then +1=4!!!!!

Our little Christmas!

The countdown is on!!!!

1 MONTH!!!!!!! 1 MONTH!!!!! 1 MONTH!!!!!

I can not believe that our baby Blake will be here in 1 MONTH or less.. I can not tell you how excited we are.

We had our doctors appointment yesterday and everything is perfect. They can not believe how big Blake already is. They estimate her to be 5lbs 14oz right now. So they know that she will be bigger than Lily was when she was born. And even more excellent news, her mommy has not gained a pound in over a month. I am super excited about that. So I will try to keep my weight in check for another month. :) Amazing how different the 2nd pregnancy is than the first. With Lily we ate out every night and I just slept the entire time. Well with a 2 year old that is not allowed. So things are very different this time. My blood pressure is doing great and everything else looks perfect. So all in all (even waiting for 2.5 hours at the docs office) everything is on schedule and looking perfect. We go back in 2 weeks for another check up.

Christmas is 3 days away... WHAT???? I am looking forward to spending time with my little family and my mom and brother. It has been a while since my brother has been around for the holidays. So that will be fun to just sit back relax and hang out with him and his wife.

If I don't post before, have a very Merry Christmas.

Love, Mc

Our Angel!

I honestly think that Lily believes that the Christmas tree is her own big toy. She is able to turn it on and off on her own, and she loves to take the ornaments on and off as well. I forget that she is taller than she once was, so her little fingers can reach very high.

We have gone almost everynight to look at lights. She loves it. She just keeps saying, "more lights daddy, more lights"

We went to Prestonwood Forrest last night and looked at all of the lights, we might have to go back there and look again, Lily had seen enough and was ready for "home".

My brother and sister-n-law get in on Christmas Eve and I am looking forward to spending a relaxing Christmas at our house with my family. We are going out to eat for Christmas Eve (mom and I will go to church) and then Christmas Day will be cooking dinner at our house. I can't wait for Lily to wake up and Santa has come to visit her. She will be so excited.

I am feeling pretty good, getting to the end of the road over here and I am READY! I went yesterday and registered Blake at the hospital, so we have a little over 5 weeks and our 2nd angel will be with us. We go in on Monday for a big appointment to get all of the measurements and make sure everything is coming along. I am very nervous about it, but I know that everything is perfect.

I have to get back to Blake's room and get everything in order, her closet is a mess with all of mommy's stuff still in it. I am hoping to talk daddy into helping me clean it out. Rock Band drums have to find a new home. :) I also am way behind on Lily's thank-you cards from her birthday. I am not like this at all, I usually have them out the next day, man I am slacking! I told Leah the other day that I have dreams about back when I was organized, those days are GONE!

I will update after our appointment next week, McCalle

Christmas Time!

It is that time of year, and I love it!

Lily and I went with the neighbors to Santa's Wonderland outside of College Station last week. Lily sat on my lap as I drove through the park, there are few pics because of this. She loved it, and kept saying, "Momma lights...Momma lights" She was a trooper, running on zero fuel from a no nap day. She wanted to stay there all night and look at all of the lights. So I have a couple of other lights outings for her. That is what this time of the year is all about, HER!

We had some snow here on Friday and Lily and I were out driving around in it. She had her 2 year checkup that day and so we had to go. She is doing wonderful and Dr. Brack is very pleased with where she is. She is in the 95 percentile for her height and 65 percentile for her weight. A tall and skinny girl. I think maybe at one time I might have been tall and skinny. Those days are LONG gone.

Lily and Daddy sat on the edge of the bed and watched a Muppets Christmas, everytime a commercial came on Lily was very upset that the "Frog" was gone! So of course I had to go out and buy the video for her so she can learn more about the "Frog".

We go to the doctor on Wednesday to check on baby sister and see how she is doing. I can not believe that it will be 6 weeks on Thursday........ Wow where has the time gone??????

Decorating the Tree with a Fever!

Mike and MoMo put the tree up before MoMo went home. Lily thinks this is the great thing ever. Even with a fever she still wanted to put "her" ornaments on the tree.

Every morning she runs to daddy and says, "Dadda, lights on".

We have all of the lights outside up and she thinks it is all great. It is so special decorating now, I just know in my heart that it is all for her. The smile on her little face is worth every bit of it. I will finish the inside of the house this week and we will enjoy it for a month. Then its get the house spotless for #2 to arrive!

I love the holiday season. Work is dead, which is NOT great, but everthing else is perfect.

We are not sure of our plans for Christmas this year. My brother and Jessica will be here Christmas Eve, so I am looking forward to the holidays with them.

Turkey Day Fryar's Style!

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. We all had a good time.

Lily helped MoMo make the monkey bread (which was a huge hit).


Pops carved up the Turkey that I cooked (I might add that it was damn good)
Mike entertained all of the kids, I guess that was his job this year. He did a great job at it!
We grilled pork tenderloin, well Mikey did the grilling. I heard it was very good as well.


Our next house the kitchen will have to be much larger.
The girls enjoyed their lunch together.
MoMo fed everyone monkey bread.




This is a pic of Mike when he was way OVER it. Time for the family to go home so Mikey can enjoy some quiet time. :)

Big Day!!!

We had a doctors appointment last Wednesday and learned that our baby Blake will be delivered on January 21, 2010. That is less than 2 months away (Thank-you Breezy for bringing that to my attention). We both are getting so excited for this. Lily does not know what is going on, but I know she will love her too.

Birthday Dinner and 2nd Annual Lily Fair!

We had a birthday celebration on her actual birthday. CC and LeeLee joined us along with MoMo. We let Lily do whatever she wanted and she was perfect with that. She got a little doll for her birthday from CC and LeeLee and that has been her favorite so far, she carries her everywhere. Although we have decided that she is not ready to be a mommy, when she is tired of the baby she throws her on the floor. :)

Lily's 2nd birthday party was such a great time. She was so excited that all of her besties from school came to spend the special day with her. She kind of forgot about all the rest of us and played with Larlos (Carlos) and Landon.

We all had such a good time, and I was exhausted when it was all over. Thank-you to everyone that shared in the special day with us. Especially Breezy and Matty for flying all the way from Amarillo for the weekend.

We sure love you all,
Fryar Town

test and such

Well, I after 3 hours of hell yesterday I did pass the glucose test. So I am very excited about that.
I am busy getting Lily's birthday together, nothing like last minute either. Last year it was all planned and done by August, this year well umm I have dropped the ball. So I am getting everything together. I leave for Austin and Killeen tomorrow and will be a wreck wanting to get back and get everything in order.
My mom comes in on Thursday so I am so excited about that. Someone to help me with all of this and someone to also help me get Thanksgiving together. I am so stressed and overwhelmed with all that we have going on. I am thinking that we have to re-think Thanksgiving with it being so close to Lily's birthday. Maybe just take a little vacation each year around this time of year. I am ready to start our own traditions! I love having Lily's birthday party here and don't wanna stop doing that for a few more years. I love having all of our friends and family over and just hanging out. So we will see. Who the heck knows how I will feel when I will have 2 wild women in my house make that 3 including me (Poor Mikey). Right now I feel really tired thinking about it all!
I have been wanting to buy Lily the Elf on a Shelf book, but I know she is too young for it. So today I wondered in a store and there was the author she signed it for Lily. I am so excited about that. I will have to wait a year to bring it out, but that will be something special for her to have when she is older. It is the little things that make me smile! She signed the book: Dearest Lily, Always believe. I just love it!
Anyways that is enough from me for now, I have a ton of stuff to do and time is running out. YAY for my baby turning 2 on Friday!!!!!

Never a good test taker!!!!

I failed the diabetes glucose test. I go back on Monday to take the 3-hour test. So I get to have a "special" diet all weekend and hopefully hopefully pass on Monday.

Terrible time!

We are having a terrible time trying to decide if Blake will be Blake Michael or Michael Blake. When I say it out loud I think I like Blake Michael, when I write it I like Michael Blake. We just can not decide. If it is Michael Blake then her and her daddy will have the same initials, which is what I like...... Just add this to my list of worries.. :)

Doctor Visit

I just got home from the 1 hour glucose test and we will have the results in 3 days. I am hoping that I do not have to take the 3 hour test. It is awful!!!

The doctor measured my belly and could not believe how far to the left that Blake is. Well of course she is, she is in my left uterus so she is totally opposite of Lily. We talked about my blood pressure which was a huge concern with Lily. The main reason we delivered Lily early was because of my darn blood pressure. I am doing great with that so far. With Lily is started acting up around 31 weeks, so we hopefully will not have the same issue. I have 33lbs to go to catch up to where I was with Lily, so THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN!!!!!

I hope to hear that my test results are negative and that the doc doesn't want me back until the day before Thanksgiving for our regulare scheduled appointment. :)

Baby Blake

Here are a few pics of our newest angel.

I go tomorrow for the gestational diabetes test. I am not looking forward to this, but hoping that I PASS it.

I will keep you posted!