Baby Tess is on her way!

This week we had the exciting event of going to the ultrasound. We asked the boys before we left if they wanted a brother or a sister and they were both set on a brother! When we told them during the ultrasound that the baby was a girl they were quite disappointed. However, I was thrilled! Even more thrilled to see that everything looked good and baby Tess is healthy.

We had a 3D ultrasound which is awesome! You can see things so clearly and it was a lot of fun. She had her hand up by her face the entire time. It was very cute. I have already received a few pink things from friends and can't wait to increase that collection.

20 Weeks

The belly popped out this week! The boys remind me of that everyday they look at me.

Santa Clause

If Gingerbread houses are the favorite activity.....sitting on Santa's lap is the LEAST favorite activity! The only reason they do it is because I tell them Santa can't come unless they tell him personally what they want. Ethan braved through it!

Gingerbread House

I think the boys favorite Christmas activity is the gingerbread house. Mostly because they like to steal candy from it!

19 Weeks

Merry Christmas 2010!

JOY to the world! Another year has come;

Yet, Matt is still in school;

Let every heart prepare for June,

And wife and kids will sing,

And wife and kids will sing,

And wife and wife and kids will sing,

JOY to the world! The boys have grown,

They turned 5 and 3;

They both had stitches and surgery,

And jump on the trampoline,

And jump on the trampoline,

And jump and jump on the trampoline.

JOY to the world! A new babe grows;

It should arrive in May;

You might find Beth nesting, or resting,

We send you all our love,

We send you all our love,

We send and send you all our love.

18 Weeks

Here is what the baby looks like so far......FYI, my ultrasound got moved until December 16th! So, we are all anxiously awaiting to find out if another boy or a girl will be joining our family!

I don't know that I was as tired as I looked in the photo, maybe just a little camera shy!

PTD and Thanksgiving

This year I decided I needed to have my mum's Thanksgiving dinner so we made a PTD (pre-Thanksgiving dinner)! All my memories from Thanksgiving revolve around the food as we never celebrated with any other family or friends. So, we whipped up our turkey, copied her gravy, made yorkshire pudding and had English stuffing. I have to say, it was awesome. We cooked the turkey to perfection and everything tasted delcious!

Then we spent Thanksgiving with friends. It was again delicious but better yet the company was fabulous. I experimented with some home-made rolls that turned out great!

We have many things to be grateful for this year and we enjoyed reflecting upon that all week long!

SNOW!

It generally snows once or twice a year here in Seattle, however, I have never seen it this early. I hope that doesn't mean we are in for a bad winter! This year it conveniently came the week of Thanksgiving. It was awesome! Matt worked from home and school was cancelled. for a whole 5 inches! Granted the snow plows don't really come and the tempurature makes everything icy. The boys enjoyed playing in it and we even went out sledding. 

Who doesn't love to jump in the snow!

 

After working Matt took the boys out it just happend to be dark already!

This is our "sled." It is our shovel! 

The activity of choice, eating snow.

Our snowman got a little bit bigger when we got a few more inches.

Staples

 It is official, both the boys have now had stitches or some other mechanism to hold opened skin together! Cole's was doing what he does most every day and jumped off an end table to do a cannonball onto the chair when he misstepped and landed on the windowsill. I was the lucky parent that got to accompany him to the doctors office and we walked out with 4 staples a little later.



Pre Staples




Post Staples

Note to anyone else who may be in this situation....We opted for staples because they are easier than stitches in the hair. However, Cole opened them up about 3 times in one week which ended up moving two of them! In the future, I might go with something a little more secure!

There is always one...

Each year at the primary program there is always one kid that makes the program memorable for the rest of the folks. This year, Cole was that kid! He happened to be conveniently located in between the primary president and another adult, but yet managed to entertain those in the congregation. Fortunately, for the middle seats he was largely out of view.  He had his sweater over his head zipped up, his feet in the air with or without shoes and he landed himself on the laps of the adults next to him at least 5 times.  Later the primary president mentioned that the most annoying part was that he kept practicing his part out loud until he was supposed to say it. However, when it came time to say it he ran up there, mumbled something and then ran and sat back down. We are so proud.