We're having a....

I'm impatient. My Dr. didn't want to schedule my ultrasound until week 24, so I went to the mall and got one. I'm having a boy! That's what I wanted. Chad didn't care what we had, blah, blah, blah. One disappointing thing is based on a previous ultrasound they adjusted my due date to Nov. 10th, instead of Oct. 25th. What? So I'm only 18 weeks instead of 20. I know it's not a big deal, but that means I started showing at 6 weeks I swear, and told everyone at 8. I haven't accepted the verdict yet (as I kept track of "stuff" since we were on fertility.) Bottom line, I'm feeling better, my baby looks healthy, and it has a stem on the apple!

Desitin Disaster

After 30 minutes of Emma and Grace quietly playing upstairs, Amy and I wondered what mess we would find. Just then the girls came running down giggling, so excited to show us what they had done. Emma did ask for sunscreen earlier, and maybe she thought the Desitin diaper cream was a good option. Either way she did a great job of applying it to all exposed areas, and they found some baby powder to put on over it, and all over the floor. I actually couldn't stop laughing as I told them it was soooooooooo naughty. You can click on the picture to gain an appreciation of the mess.

The mugshots

Yoga is Tricky

Everyday it's Yoga. No, not me exercising. Grace wants me to get out the mat and Yoga DVD. Kids seem to love "exercising." If only pretend Yoga and push ups really worked.

Toby McGuire, look out

Spiderman has a new biggest fan. Chad bought the DVD's recently of the non cartoon version and Grace was hooked from the first action scene. She loves Spiderman 1 where he catches the bus to go to school and has the fist fight. She also loves the wrestling match. Spiderman is pretty violent actually. She'll say things like "bonk on the head, sorry" and loves to say "go web" when Spidy learns about his superpowers. We helped along her obsession by giving her pj's and a Spiderman sleeping bag for Easter. She loves them and wants the sleeping bag in her crib at night. To her excitement we located Spiderman on her favorite blanket (an eye spy quilt Melanie made for her) and she points it out to us all the time.

Random picture...She asks me for peanut butter toast all the time. I caved only to be again disappointed by her lack of interest in the toast.

Baby #2

I'm so excited to be expecting baby #2! We found out I was pregnant at the end of February, so it's been really hard to not say anything. I wanted to go to the Dr. to hear the heartbeat first. I'm starting my 10th week and am already showing, (exhibit A - birthday photo posted below). When I told people at church they said "I thought you were." I even had someone ask me if I was pregnant when I was 6 weeks along and not showing. You think people would be smarter. I'm convinced I am pregnant with twins because I'm pretty sick this time (last time I was not) and am showing a lot (I guess you do show more with each pregnancy.) Clomed only increases the chance of twins 10% but heres to hoping! I really want a boy this time, but I took Emma and Grace to the pool the other day and they were so cute with each other, which made me think a girl would be great too. I'm due October 25th (Amy's due August 18th) fun!

I wanted to surprise Chad with the news. Chad was present while I took 3 pregnancy tests which all looked negative to us. One was in Mexico on vacation, and I think it was just too early. The other ones were dollar store tests where the line didn't appear until after 5 minutes and I didn't think it was even a line. Let me rephrase that by saying Chad convinced me it was negative (he was too worried.) This is a little package Amy and I had the UPS man make up after I took my 4th and definitely positive test. We personally delivered it to his work front desk.

Terrible Two's

Some random pictures from the last few weeks:

Grace wanted to wear only a jacket and tights today

I left Grace for 2 minutes (I swear) with a fudgesicle. Grrr!

Grace wants to put on her shirt by HERSELF

"Can I help you Grace?"

"NO, NO, NO!!!"

Easter

We went to an Easter Egg Hunt in Mapleton and the kids had a lot of fun. Grace was so excited to ride the horses, but she cried as soon as we put her on the saddle. Amy brought a neighbor boy along and he won a bike. A friend of mine came with her kids and little dog. The dog loved the bunnies and would not leave their side the entire time.

It was time for the rabbits to leave, so the dog followed too

Roman saw I had the camera out and ran up and said "cheese"