My Baby Girl Has a Pony Tail!! Finally!!!!

woohoo!!! It's finally happened - you can put Chloe's hair into a ponytail!! I have been waiting 2 years for this to happen so I'm very happy and needless to say Chloe will be sporting a ponytail for a while! She looks very cute and we will obviously be trying different ponytail styles for the next few days!!! Here are some pics from tonight with Miss Chloe's ponytail and at dinner with Mimi, Dada, Mommy, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa! We also went to the Oldsmar Days which was lots of fun and has now become a Pusateri Family plus Lindsay tradition!! Unfortunetly, all my pics from the festival and yesterday got accidentally deleted. Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

MY BABY HAS A PONYTAIL!!!!!

Chloe and I watching the trapeze girls at dinner- and I wasn't mad as it looks in this pic- just watching! However, looking at this pic I'm starting to think my daughter might actually kinda look like me, when I was younger at least! Mimi and Chloe talking, as normal
Dada and Chloe watching the show, Chloe LOVED watching the two girls on the trapeze and was very much into spending time with Dada!

PONYTAIL!!!

Pregnancy Story and Fears!

As I laid in bed this morning with contractions, (Braxton Hicks I'm sure but oh do they hurt regardless!) a 2 year old putting make up on me, two dogs chasing each other's tails at the end of the bed and realizing I hadn't seen Christian that morning before he left for school so I didn't even know if the poor kid had clean socks on and I started wondering what am/was I thinking having another baby?! Do I really feel it necessary to add more chaos to this wonderful family I have, is there not already enough? But here we are in mid March which leaves between 8 and 9 weeks as long as Baby Brennan comes when he is supposed to and not early like I suspect he might and I/we are of course very excited but I'm also very, very nervous!!

When we were on the way to the hospital to have Chloe I kept saying I had made a mistake and couldn't be a Mom and couldn't stop thinking about if I would be a good Mom for the last 2 or 3 months of my pregnancy. Well, I know now that I rock as a Mom (lol) and once she was born it wasn't really stressful or "hard" for me, granted I was very lucky and got to skip all the over night feedings ect... because Eric did it all- trust me you don't want me holding a newborn in the middle of the night, and dare I say it now seems almost like it was easy compared to the day to day now. She would wake up and eat and look at you and I could hold her for hours and if she was crying I would get in the car and drive around and she'd fall fast asleep and stay asleep for hours. Then it would repeat, Daddy would get home from work and the three of us would do something silly, like go to the grocery store or talk a walk on the beach and it just seemed like the most amazing and exciting thing in the world, which it was of course!

But everything is different now of course- Miss Chloe is in her wonderful TERRIBLE 2's and we have the nightly bed time battles, Christian is in that pre-teen 'I'm gonna test every limit that has ever been set just to see what I can get away with', along with a million other misc day to day things and we are adding another baby! Granted this is something that millions of famalies do every year, but this is my family and isn't the Mom supposed to be the "glue" that keeps everyone happy and sane? I'm pretty sure you need to be sane yourself to keep everyone else sane and at this time I'm not sure I am, let alone in a couple months with an infant, 2 year old and a 10 year old!! (Anyone need an extra child by the way because I am happy to lend one of mine out for the day/week/month! jk)

My concerns and fears with this baby are so different than they were with Chloe. Now I'm worried about how everyone will adjust, if Chloe will be super jealous and if so for how long, if I'll be able to handle both little ones all day and selfishly, when will Mom (and Dad) get any time to themselves?! I'm sure my fears are similar to almost every other Mom's out there that has been in a similar situation and I'm sure, just like my fears with Chloe, they will be gone and forgotten after Baby Brennan is here!

Anyway, hope everyone is having a good Wednesday- I'm now going to battle nap time with my naughty 2 year old!

Hilton Head Vaca

From our balcony
At the Jazz Club Sunday night- Eric got his normal red face after laying out!

Looking pretty happy!

Miss Katie and I hanging out on the beach

Another view from the townhouse- I could literally sit there all day and all night!

Eric and I have been kid free, stress free and having fun in Hilton Head for a couple days now, and as to be expected, have been having a blast!!! Oddly, I don't have a ton of pics yet - but we are staying at a great townhouse on the beach, wake up to the sound of the ocean every morning (which is awesome) and of course have been eating too much (yum!), stayed up too late, sleeping in, shopping and running around like before we had kids!! Amazing and lots of fun!!

Chloe is having a great time at Mimi and Dada's and I'm sure they are just about exhausted by now, but loving every minute of it! It is the first time I have been away from Chloe for more than a night and the first couple days were hard, esspecially when I talked to her, but to be honest, it's refreshing to be toddler free for a few days! I've even be able to eat an entire meal without having to switch with Chloe half way through- apparently Mommy's taste better even though it's the same thing?

Anyway, Hilton Head has been lots and lots of fun and we are having a great time with Katie and Matthew of course! We have today and tomorrow left and plan on making the most of it! We are planning on hanging out at the beach for a little while this morning and then heading out to do some shopping and looking at the rest of the island that we haven't seen yet- courtsey of 'Tours by Katie'

Here are a couple pics- I'll try to post more when we get back!