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<\/a><\/p>\nWeek 19: Baby’s the size of a mango<\/h3>\n
Not much going on this week in the baby department other than that it’s more and more obvious that the little bugger is really growing and kicking a ton!\u00a0 We are so anxious to find out the sex of the baby TOMORROW and we’ve got two fun plans up our sleeves to announce it to our families at our respective Thanksgiving get-togethers.\u00a0 Just you wait, Delmar and Edmonds families…you’re in for a treat.\u00a0 A lot of people have asked if we care what the sex is and I am being 1,000% honest here–we will be thrilled with either a girl or a boy.\u00a0 A few people have made mention of how great it would be to have one of each and my reply to them has been that Kevin and I think we might like 3 kids so we may not be done after #2 (whether or not that is by blood or through adoption, that’s also still to be determined) and also in my family, I’m the second girl and I sure wasn’t a disappointment so I wouldn’t be disappointed in the slightest with another girl.\u00a0 And if you know us and our parenting styles, very little will be different in the way we raise this child if it’s a boy.\u00a0 There’s nothing<\/em> (other than teaching him how to pee standing up, basically) we can do with a boy child that we can’t already do with Sirena, and vice versa.\u00a0 We want to raise our kids, no matter their sex, with equal amounts of affection, rough-housing, and encouragement to be strong, smart, playful, and compassionate.<\/p>\n In other news we’ve entered a new frontier with big sister Sirena–she officially kicked the diaper habit this week, all on her own!\u00a0 She had been rebelling against any and all mention of the potty for a couple of months now and I was getting really frustrated and disheartened by the whole process.\u00a0 One day I came into her room after her nap and she was buck-naked from waist down and hadn’t peed in the bed.\u00a0 I asked her if she needed to use the potty and she said yes and successfully peed in the potty.\u00a0 The rest of that day she was in her chonies.\u00a0 The following day was a school day and her teachers kept her in underwear all day (except for nap time) and she had zero accidents the whole day.\u00a0 Since then we’ve only had her wear diapers during nap time and bed time and on a couple of occasions on longer car rides or outings.\u00a0 We’ve successfully gone to a party, to the grocery store, to a restaurant, and to her grandparents’ and Nani’s houses without wearing diapers and she’s kept it up with only a couple of minor accidents.\u00a0 We are so so so so proud of her and I know that this is finally it!\u00a0 A few times throughout the day she’ll tell us, “I’m a big girl now” and it makes me smile and fills me with so much pride.<\/p>\nBelly shot!<\/h3>\n