"No, thank you", "pretty princess dress!!" & "castles"

The title of this blog pretty much sums up what I hear on a daily basis. While I'm happy that Carson uses "No, thank you" rather than just "no", it has become something that she says on a daily.... maybe even hourly.... basis these days. I'll tell her that she needs to take a nap and she'll repeatedly say "no, thank you! no, thank you! nooooooooo, thank you!" She also says "pretty princess dress!!!" every hour. It's a shirt that I had in my closet. It's black with white lace and I guess it just makes her feel "pretty". She wears it ALL THE TIME and when I have to wash it (like today), she asks for it continuously. Seriously, if I could count the times I have heard that phrase today... well, I don't think I could count the number of times. I love that she feels like a princess in it, but when we have to go somewhere, it's difficult to convince her to put on actual clothes! Haha. Carson also likes to make "castles" every day. Out of regular blocks. Yesterday, as she was making her castle, I asked her if she was building a castle for mommy... she promptly replied, "No, Daddy's castleeee!". So, of course, we had to show him when he got home from work. Those are little  happenings and things going on in Carson's little world :)
All of my blogs have pretty much been about Carson and I feel a little guilty that I haven't even mentioned Kennedy. We went for my 30 week checkup Monday and everything is going great. I can't wait to see them together. Only (about) ten more weeks and we will have a newborn in our house, which is crazy to me! I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone compared to my pregnancy with Carson and I feel so unprepared for some reason. I'll hopefully be getting out clothes this weekend to see what we have for our soon-to-be little baby girl! :) Sleeping is getting a little more difficult these days because I have to use the bathroom about every two hours. It's just preparing me for those first few months (or, in Carson's case... first year) of getting up throughout the night for another sweet girl.
Other than our two girls, everything is going great in the Alewine household. Matt has been working long, long hours and is exhausted when he gets home, but hopefully after the inauguration things will slow down for him! :) 'Til next time....