The McCarty Family

Ryan and the girls :)

Finding Eggs (she wasn't so concerned with collecting many eggs but just wanted to stop and eat the candy inside - boy does she love jelly beans!)

I am now 8 months pregnant (33 weeks). I'm still taking it easy but am so thankful each week futher into the 30's that I get. We look forward to our new baby girl coming. My due date is May 8th although we think she'll come before that, late April would be good.

Happy Easter!

Noelle really enjoyed seeing the Easter Bunny. She got to tickle him and he giggled. She is finally learning how to do a smile for the camera, which sure beats trying to get her to smile through some crazy antics (because they really never worked). She says, "Easter's Coming" and I know she's really going to enjoy it. Just wish there was some way to convey the significance other than eggs and bunnies. I'll trust that our love for her is sufficient to reflect that for now and someday she will know just how much more it represents.

Noelle and I watch the clip from the Sound of Music where they sing Do Re Mi on You Tube. Before that I would often sing the song to her. Now here she is doing her own rendition - that unfortunately you won't understand if you're not familiar with the song. Ryan has no idea what she's saying whereas I think she does it really well :). I had tried to video her a couple times before but the song is so long that she normally can't make it to the end without becoming distracted by something in her line of vision and forgetting about the song and unless I interject the beginning of the last line, she keeps singing the last couple lines over and over. I love all of the little silly things like this that she does.

So the past couple of months have narrowed my life down to even fewer activities outside of caring for Noelle. One thing that I have held onto is on Thursday nights I meet with some of the life care counselors at Rock Harbor for supervision. I tell Noelle I'm going to a meeting. Other than an occaisional errand I don't get out much and even Noelle recognizes it.

The other day she wanted me to sing the Elmo song with other people's names in it, which we do occaisionally. I usually make up things that she likes and put them into the words, for example: La la la la, Noelle's song. Noelle loves her Mommy and her blankie too. That's Noelle's song.
So the other day I start singing La la la la, Mommy's song. I pause to see if Noelle can fill in the blank with some of the things I've said before, like Daddy and Noelle. Instead she says, "Mommy loves her meeting" brief pause "and her store." I laughed so hard and I could tell by her face she was pretty proud of her additions. So that about sums up my life.