Adventurous three!!

Miss Laila Elizabeth is no longer a terrible two, but she is now an adventurous three!  Happy Birthday Laila!  On December 23rd Laila turned the big three!  It was a low key day being the day in San Antonio after Lainie's seizure, both girls still having their colds and now mom and dad had developed their lovely colds also!  But we wanted to make the best of this great day! 

The weekend before Christmas, Laila celebrated her birthday with a few of our good friends and their kiddos at home.  It was fun to see how much Laila had changed since her last birthday!  The only issue Laila had during her gift opening was a certain little girl name "Lainie" that wanted to open and play with the gifts right along with her sister!  Laila was not having it!  But we made it through it!

Laila had a Little Mermaid cake this year along with over 10 candles!  She didn't want to stop with just three!  What she didn't know at the time was that the candles were trick candles and re lit!!  Lainie even got in a few licks when Laila was busy!! :)

Laila enjoying her sugar!! :)

Along with all the great gifts she received, Laila was over excited about the beauty table Andy and I got her!! 

It was a fun day, lots of sugar and a couple more months before we have another little one that turns two (Lainie) :)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Nestoss'!  We hope everyone had a great holiday spent with family and friends!  We decided to pack up the kiddos and head to San Antonio, TX for Christmas this year!  The girls and I were super excited to get out of our apartment "hole" for a few days and have some fun!  What is Christmas without a Christmas cold right!?!?!  Both Laila and Lainie had been battling colds and pink eye the previous week, so we were hoping for a quick recovery for our trip!  Wishful thinking! :) 

Thank goodness for dvd players in cars!  Laila was wrapped up in her Dora movie, along with Lainie!  Our road ahead looked quiet and great, weren't we in for a surprise!!  60 miles out of San Antonio, I glanced back at the girls to make sure all was well.  I was horrified to find Lainie in the middle of a seizure!  This isn't the first seizure miss Lainie Lou has dealt with.  When she was 9 months old, she developed a very bad cold which lead to her first seizure.  Anyways, Andy pulled over and both of us with cat like reflexes got Lainie our of the car and held her onto her until she finished.  Talk about the scariest moment of my life.  As hard as it was to remain calm myself, poor Laila was crying and upset with what she was seeing.  Thankfully there was an ER about 10 miles down the road that got Lainie in ASAP!  After finding out she had a temp. of 103, they told us it was another febrile seizure.  This is the bodies way of dealing with the increase of temperature so quickly.  Thankfully she got medicine and returned back to her normal self.  That night, we had a lot to be thankful for!  In the future, whenever she gets a cold we will have to watch her temperature like a hawk!

Finally in San Antonio, we enjoyed the rest of our Christmas vacation walking around the city, eating at great restaurants, visiting with Andy's co-workers (Zachry has an office in San Antonio), touring the Alamo, walking along the Riverwalk and playing at the children's museum!  It was a rough at the beginning of our vacation, but we made up for it the rest of our time there! 

Laila & Lainie taking a break along the Riverwalk

Laila outside the Alamo (Lainie wasn't feeling to great to pose for a picture!)

Big sisters!!

Laila and Lainie are excited to announce they are going to be big sisters on June 30th!  Laila understands that mommy has a baby in her tummy and can't wait to help out.  Lainie just nods her head and smiles, who knows what she is thinking! :)  The day I found out I was pregnant, I had Lainie wear a shirt that said "sister to bee" and Laila wear her big sister shirt.  After Andy got home from work, I asked if he liked the girls' shirts?  His eyes grew bigger and said really!!??  After showing him the pregnancy test and clarifying that there was a second line and that I wasn't seeing things, we were both excited!  It was hard to keep this a secret from our family and friends, but thrilled to be able to share the good news!! 

I've been experiencing bad nauseousness for about two months now and hope it ends soon!  This pregnancy is totally different from Laila and Lainie's.  I'm craving all kinds of crazy foods and so thankful I have an understanding husband who doesn't mind picking up items at the store for me!  Plus at the end of the day, Andy listens to all my complaints about my aches and pains!!  But Andy can't complain much himself since he will have a DD for another 9 months!

Andy asks Laila every now and then if she wants another sister or a brother?  Everyday it seems to change, it will be fun once we find out!  I give a lot of credit to the ladies that can hold back and not find out what they are having!  I don't think Andy or I could do that!!  Especially being our last baby with already having two girls!  It would be torture!!  So yes, we will find out what we are having!  As of right now, this will probably be a MN baby, which will be a nice treat for our family and friends who live close to us!  We have a lot to be thankful for this time of year!  Merry Christmas!!

It's about that time again!

Yet again I am loss for words to write, as I am reminded by my lovely husband to write in our blog!  It's interesting how fast he disappears when asked if he would like to add a couple lines of his thoughts! :)  But he's right, I've been behind on the blog!  Slowly but surely we are getting close to being done in Nacogdoches.  We still have a two months left, but we see the light at the end of the tunnel.  It does make us excited to be able to see, visit and catchup with all our friends and family back home!  It doesn't however make me excited that we will be moving back to a COLD winter wonderland!  I will miss this weather, can't believe I'm finally saying that!!  We will for sure miss everyone we've met in TX!

To catch you up, our latest visitors to Nacogdoches, TX were Andy's parents.  They arrived the night before Thanksgiving.  The girls woke up Thursday morning to sounds in the living room.  Their faces looked confused since they knew where Andy and I were, but who was in the living room?  After a few seconds, Laila ventured into the living room to take a sneak peak.  As soon as she discovered who it was, she ran back with a smile!  We spent our Thanksgiving with good friends we made in TX.  We enjoyed a wonderful cooked meal, visiting, kids playing and eating some more!  After everyone went home, I decided to go to Walmart at 9:15pm!  I asked Andy if he would like to join me, but i'll let you guess what he decided to do.  It involves a blue shiny can and Andy sitting on a couch!  So I went by myself and waited 25 minutes in line for a couple items.  I was very pleased with how organized Walmart was!  I was in and out in no time!  The rest of the week/weekend was spent showing his parents around TX!  We revisited the Drive-Thur Safari and said hello to all our animal friends again!  Andy made a new friend/girl friend.  A certain camel at the drive thru was very fond of him and proceeded to stick her head inside to give him a kiss.  It was a fun day with great weather!  Later in our visit, Laila and Lainie were excited to see Santa!  Santa asked Laila if she was good?  Of course her response was yes!  He asked what she wanted for Christmas and she gladly told him a pink bike!  Lainie just nodded the entire time he talked to her!  Both girls stood in front of him like status and did not move!  They were super excited to have talked to Santa! We enjoyed having Andy's parents here to celebrate Thanksgiving and to show them a little piece of TX we've been enjoying for the past 10 months. 

December is here already and the girls are still growing like weeds!!  Lainie has graduated into Laila's toddler bed!  After a week of putting Lainie to bed in her crib and finding her on the floor the next morning with her blanket covering her, we decided to try the toddler bed since she clearly was telling us she did not want to sleep in her crib.  Andy and I are thrilled she has taken it upon herself to get into a toddler bed!!  So far three nights and naps during the day in the toddler bed!!  Laila still tells Lainie it's her bed, but we are pretty sure Lainie has claimed it!  Laila is still choosing to sleep on her dora layout couch!  Whatever works I guess!!  Anyways, we hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!  Till the next (soon)! EN

P.s.  I've reposted this post from December 2nd just in case this has missed anyone!  Enjoy!