Boy, Girl, Who Wants to Know??

Well, we had our ultrasound today! Kids (and us!) were so excited to finally know if it's a boy or a girl. For the first time, after three other kids, we threw caution to the wind and said why not find out? They took a look at the baby and everything looked good... four chambers of the heart, the brain, everything. But the baby that time had its legs crossed, so the tech started taking measurements and we'd go back. Here's a picture of the arms and a hand:


She looked at the spine and it was fused as it should be. It's actually fused in three places, which is normal, and when she looked at the picture, she said, "Those white areas are where the spine is fused. It looks good on all three." DAVE ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK. He thought she meant it looked good on all three babies. It was very, very funny. With the gallon of water I had to drink beforehand and wasn't yet able to let it all out, I almost peed my pants! Anyway, back to baby. So, everything looked good, good measurements, and then back to gender. She looked and got this picture...


Can you tell what it is?? Yeah, neither could she. That's actually a picture of the baby's head, but whatever. Long story short, by the second pass, the baby didn't just have its legs crossed, but had it's knees up to its chest and had its legs crossed. It clearly didn't want us to know anything. So, another few weeks, another few months, and maybe we'll know. Otherwise come August, we'll have a definite confirmation when it comes screaming into the world!

Pictures from beyond

Dave has a great camera. My camera is point and click. My camera actually gets taken out and takes pictures, Dave's picture sees a lot of the inside of the case. But then, every now and again, it makes its way out and takes pictures. And then the pictures live there for a long, long time. But finally, I got them off the camera, and here they are! In no specific order, just some fun pics from the past, oh, four months...

Merry Christmas!


Do they have to be for Santa? Can't I have one?

Limbo!

Spelunking mission.

Limbo!

Limbo!

Max and Kylie K!

L'il Chef!

Window markers!

That's it! Just some randomness for no reason at all. Hope you're all having a great week!

Holy Birthday, Batman!

This picture is for Dave, Mark, Judy, Monica, Laura, and Renee, who all have birthdays on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. But mostly, it's for Dave who, on his birthday, didn't give a second thought to dressing up like Robin simply because Nolan got a new Batman costume, and wanted Daddy to be Robin.

HAPPY 37th BIRTHDAY, DAVE!!

Ah, to be young again

Last night Abby had a skating party for school, and all families were invited. I took the kids last year by myself, since Dave was out of town, but didn't skate since Max was only 8 months old. Last night, we all went, and everyone, including Max wanted to skate. They had little Fisher Price skates, so we put them on him, Dave and I alternated between skating with Max and Nolan, and Abby was off, off and away on her own! I thought for sure between my off-balance belly and trying to either hold Nolan up or carrying Max, I was going to wipe out for sure. But, there were no casualties, and Dave and I both left laughing and thinking we should do that again... someday!

Here's Abby and her friend Saige. They were best friends last year, but are in different classes this year. It was nice to see her mom and catch up, and watch the two of them hang out together again. They seem so old when the hang out together... no parents needed! (These pics are from my phone, so sorry about the bad quality!)


Max was very proud of himself...

But he only made it about halfway around before he wanted to be held. Boy, did that make my back sore!!

On Thursday, since it was back to cold weather and yucky, we headed to the Children's Museum with Nolan's friend David, his mom Laura and younger brother Nathan. I didn't get many pics, but they changed out some of the exhibits. There was a really cool golf ball area with ramps and chutes at the beginning, but some of that changed now. I think I liked it better before, but the kids still had fun here. Here's Nolan climbing the climbing wall...

Okay, my pics are all backwards, so bear with me. On Monday night, my great friend Renee came to visit with her son Ben, who's five days older than Max. Renee brought them matching pjs with monkeys on them. How cute! We couldn't get them to pose well, but here are some pics of the monkey boys.

Random picture of Abby, Nolan and Max playing operation. Max is perched at his favorite place on the counter...

Makes you wonder what they're up to, doesn't it?

Did the leperchauns come to your house? They came to ours, and the peed in our toilet! They also turned some chairs upside down and left some gold (chocolate) coins and some green coins with shamrocks. Those silly leperchauns! Luckily, nothing was too hard to pick up. :) The funniest part was when the kids went downstairs and came up proclaiming that they turned everything crazy in the basement. Really? The leperchauns barely went into the basement... could it just be the kids turned it crazy?

Back to the monkey boys with Nolan. Are you squished, Ben? And check out Max's shoes on the second picture. I think they've been off his feet for all of 10 minutes (and that includes sleeping time) in the past few weeks.

Tuesday was such a nice day, that again we spent the day with Renee and Ben and David and family (it's SO nice having someone to do so much with!!) at the zoo. Here are the boys doing their best fishy faces.

With the ever-popular camels...

Their best lion impressions...

The little boys watching the lion sleep...

And when we got home. It was a long days for the little boys!

And that's that! Once again, you're all caught up in my life. This weekend we'll celebrate Dave's birthay a little bit with cake his mom and dad are bringing, and hopefully enjoy some outside time. Happy spring!!

Happy 100th post!

Well, I made it to the 100th post... A few times I really wasn't sure I would make it this far. Sometimes there's so much to say, and other times, not so much. I hope whoever is still following is enjoying some of it. I can't say it's much, but hey, that's our life!

A few weeks ago (or maybe over a month ago, who knows anymore!), my friend Stacy, over here on her blog, commented on how she feels torn between being with one of her twins and then the other, when they both seem to need her at the same time, and how sometime everyone, including her, feels like their getting the short end of the stick. On Saturday, I figured out that I think it's the same thing in our family--even though there are no twins--and it's only going to get moreso as the new baby comes along. I got the opportunity on Saturday to hang out with Abby. We went to lunch and then headed to church where we helped out for 3-1/2 hours leading various groups of first communion kids and their parents in a craft. Throughout the day, I realized how much more I listened to Abby. I asked her questions, and even heard the answer! I could help her get more soda at lunch, or watch her on the play area (yes, we were at McDonald's), or color with her in our downtime at church. Dave's great at home at playing with the kids so I don't always have all of them all the time, but still, when we're at home there's little chance of not being interrupted. It was really nice just being with her. I hope I still find time for that after August!