Prayers.

Please pray for my sister-in-law, my brother, and niece. My sister-in-law, is in the hospital currently. She started bleeding pretty badly this morning. She has had a delicate pregnancy (they have Placenta Previa: https://health.google.com/health/ref/Placenta+previa), and they have had some difficulty conceiving (they lost a set of boy+girl twins at 16 weeks). We are keeping positive, if she and the baby remain stable, she will be put on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. She is 19 weeks. If you know of any prayer chains, if you pray, if you just send out good thoughts, please, please do so fo them. They need your thoughts and prayers now more than ever. I have been praying, saying Hail Mary's, Our Fathers, and sending out good thoughts all morning. I am adding them to a prayer chain http://www.prayergates.com/prayercircles/baby_berner/default.aspx. You can add a prayer, here, if you wish:) It's just a short decription, my orig prayer timed out, and I updated a shorter version. I also added them to a Prayer Wall. My mother talked to my brother this morning, an she stated that he "sounded heartbroken." They will just be devastated if anything happens, my niece has been on Cloud 9 since she found out she was having a little sister; taking care of my sister-in-law and directing my brother to do everything for Tammie. I know that she asked about the baby in mommy's tummy and her sister 100 times a minute, and she has been waiting and wanting this for a long time, as have my brother and sis. We'd appreciate any love you could send our way.
Love, the Berners, Garretts, Rizzo's and Moehle's.

Update: My sister-in-law was released from the Hospital this afternoon. She and the baby are doing well.
She is on bedrest (home) until their 26th week. Please continue to pray for them if you can, as her condition is still ongoing, and puts her and the baby at risk for further complication. They still has some time to go to meet the 26th week, as they are on 19. God bless all!

Overdue.

Josh, I and Nik made a quick day trip to Chicago to see my expecting sister-in-law and niece (my brother was in Michigan for the weekend). It was long overdue, and I wish we could've stayed longer. Really, I just wish we didn't live nearly 2 hours apart. My heart aches to leave them, it really does. I may not see them till Christmas, and it's really hard for me, but, I am just glad we were able to get up there today, even for a short visit, and I can't wait to see them again!
Nik just adored my niece Savannah (as she does her other cousins). How much fun all these girls will have when they all get together down the road...

"Do you mind if I suck on your face??? No, of course you don't. I didn't think so. How can you resist me, I'm your cousin, and I'm only 7 months old?" "No, really, let me just get a bite of your your face again. I promise I'll be gentle this time."

"No. Absolutley not. I will not be seen at Hooters. I have a reputation to protect."

"This is just horrible. I'm so nervous, give me something to eat...I hope nobody sees me here...How's my bow look. Is it straight, too much? Do I have to be able to look that good in those orange underwears when I get older?! Am I ruining my chances of ever fitting into those little shorts by eating this Gerber Wafer now??!! I really should start doing baby Pilates now to get a head start on my glutes.

Gotta love this face!!

Dessert, anyone?

Yea, I pretty much took care of that...Not feeling guilty about it either...Maybe just a little bit at the piggish way I finished it off.

It's a GIRL!!!

My Sister-in-law and Brother are having another Girl!! I am so happy for them!! I can't wait! My niece is beside herself with happiness at this news, coming off a recent trip to Disneyland high as well. I just know they will be great friends (just like my sis-in-law and her sister). I am happy that Nik will have another cousin close in age, and a girl! I'm sure they'll be great friends! She is having a very delicate pregnancy, though, her placenta is in front of the baby, and she has been experiencing some bleeding. Her doctors say that she might come early, or she could get hospitalized down the road, women in this state can loose a lot of blood at birth, so it is dangerous, they have to keep a supply of her blood type in case transfusions are needed. And depending on where the baby is laying they may have to giver her a hysterectomy. This is their last child, so that is not so much a concern for them, as is the well being of the baby. I will be praying, as my niece would be beside herself if anything happened. If you find yourself praying for anyone in particular, please throw a prayer in for my baby niece that is comfy and cozy in her mommy's belly.In other news, not sure if I already updated this, but last weekend, Josh said that Nik said, "NANA." And, she indeed did start saying, "Nana." The children at her daycare call Nikolina's daycare provider, "Nana," so she hears it quite a lot, and I know my mother-in-law was practicing with her last weekend as well. I also heard her say "Mom," three different times starting last Sunday, but only once each time, and very casually. But, she has been saying it more frequently, but still not in succession, and very non-chalantly. She is also saying, "ba, ba, ba," for bottle maybe? She is well on her way...I can't wait for her to pick up more words, and increase her vocabulary. I can't wait for her to really, though, understand the meaning of the words, and be able to communicate them with me. I have been trying to inforce the sign-language, just a few signs on a regular basis, like "eat, milk, more, full, sleep, etc." Hopefully, she will start picking a few of them up. She started waving I want to say two weeks ago, which I think I posted on, and she is really into that right now, of course she does it kind of randomly, and I don't know that she quite knows the meaning of it. I am looking forward to when we can help her associate all these new words and actions with meaning!

Navigating.

"Crawling. Ah yes, crawling. I am finding the crawling a bit difficult. But, I found this other way to get around. You see, you simply scoot backwards. That's it, essentially, in a nutshell. It's quite simple to master. The only problem is, you do tend to get stuck places since you can't see where you're navigating. See you start out like this...and just scoot backwards, like this
remember to stop and take a breath; heeh, heeh, heeh...
Oh, what is this little string, that's quite nice, see how I can pull that, yes, I like this very much. Huh? What? Oh, yeah, and you just keep moving...

Well, now just wait a minute, I think I'm getting this string here, it's a tricky one...Gotcha! Thought you were clever, huh? Ok, the important thing as I was saying, is not to get distracted in your course of action...

and moving back...use things along the way if you need to help propel you back...

and keep on...

and back...

and further back...

Oh, wait, I think we've struck something. That's funny I don't remember that being there. Well this is quite a conundrum. But, I won't let it deter me."

"I'll give it another go here, as you can see.

Going...

Going...

"Wait, what is that, a piece of fuzz??!! Oh, that is so awesome! Wait, wasn't I doing something? Oh Yeah,

Going...

Going...

Going...

Still going...

And ...

And...

Gone!!!

"Oh, this is a nice spot! I think I'll just hang it here for a while. They have dust bunnies."

I think, I've struck something again. What a pickle I've gotten myself into!"

Happy Friday the 13th!

Captivated.

Have you seen this blog???

It is absolutely amazing!!!
I went to SITS today. And I have to admit that I have not been as faithful to SITS as I should be (forgive me) and today for some reason, I thought I should go check in and Today's featured blogger was theblogbaby. I was captivated
(and insanely jealous that I didn't think of it myself!!) It's amazing and BABYMAMA is honest, sincere, open, real, creative, talented, and insanely funny!! I have not navigated the whole blog, but I just had to mention her for anyone that might stop by my blog, because it is worth it if I can share her story with even one other person. I particularly love this blog:

http://theblogbaby.blogspot.com/2009/10/dont-make-me-act-my-age-im-warning-you.html and this one:
http://theblogbaby.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-not-national-holiday-or-anything.html.
Go check it out. I love these headbands! Christmas present MIMI??!!

Look below Veterans Day Post for new post...

I had a post that I started Tues night, and autosaved. I finished it last night, and it posted before the Veterans Day Post. See Below.