Christmas 2010

This year was a GREAT Christmas. Chase's excitement on Christmas morning made the entire day so wonderful and I wonder why I was ever a grump preparing for this moment. He woke me up at 6:00 am talking extremely fast saying, "Mommy, mommy we got to hurry and see the presents Santa brought. I just know he came because I was such a good boy, let's go, let's go...."!

I let him open his stocking but we waited on the Santa gifts until Ethan woke up an hour later! Poor Chase was dying to see if Santa left him any presents (they were locked in the playroom so he couldn't see anything).

Chase was really into every single gift, but Ethan preferred to play with whatever gift Chase just opened. We had an amazing morning and a great time visiting with both families.

Merry Christmas everyone! (I have a video that I will post eventually....)

Sharing the slide:
Ethan rocking out on his new horse...he's a wild man on that thing!

Chase playing with his new Tag books:

Baking a cake for Baby Jesus:

Posing next to Santa in their new Saints & Southern Miss outfits from MawMaw & Pops:

Santa's Loot:

Posing by the tree the morning of Chase's Christmas Program:

A rare family pic with just Ethan:

Chase before his Christmas Program:

Fun times in the bath:

Hornets Game

Tonight Shane and I had an awesome experience. Shane's company's law firm gave Shane and a coworker of his two court side tickets to the Hornets game. Fortunately for me, his coworker couldn't make the game, so I got to go in his place.

The seats were on the court, the first row, only two chairs from the half court line. Shane said the only better seat in the house are the owner's seats. I still can't believe how lucky I was to be able to sit there.

The players were so close you could feel the floor shake when they ran up and down the court. We had VIP parking that was literally 20 steps to the arena's door plus a free buffet dinner before the game.

Hugo the Hornet came and sat on my lap before the game and Shane & I just took it all in. What an amazing game!!!!

Shane and the view from our seats:
Shane & Belinelli throwing in the ball (I actually had to scoot back to fit this in my camera's view, he was practically standing on my feet)!

Me after the game standing in front of my seat on the court. I was still very excited, but one tired mama:

20 Weeks!

We are now at the halfway mark, 20 weeks! I took a progression picture and then compared it to my 20 week progression pictures with Ethan & Chase. What an eye opener! Not only is my stomach showing way more this pregnancy, but I believe motherhood has aged me. I feel like I look like a baby in my progression picture with Chase. I didn't realize how much I aged until I did this comparison. But Chase knows how to make me feel better, he said I look "handsome" in my picture...gotta love him!

Things are going great. I feel fine with the exception of my circulation issues and I'm exhausted by the end of the day. If only I had as much energy as my boys!

The baby now weighs about 10 1/2 ounces and is the size of a large banana.

20 Weeks with baby #3:
20 Weeks with Ethan:

20 Weeks with Chase:

Baby McCarthy Pics

Today we had an ultrasound of the baby. Everything is measuring right on track...19 weeks, 2 days. We saw all 4 chambers of the baby's heart and it's heartrate was 130. We were not given any clues about the baby's sex, as it will stay a mystery until delivery time :-)

A skelaton view of baby's face. Since the baby was facing down the entire ultrasound, we couldn't get a profile view of the face or a view of the baby's cord. We will have to do another ultrasound to check on those things in a few months. But this is a skelaton view of the baby's face (a little scary if you ask me). Baby is upside down, you can see it's arm, eye socket and sinus cavity.
Baby McCarthy says, "Hey everybody, everything is going great"!

Baby's footprint:

A view of the baby's spine while baby is facing down.

Breakfast with Santa

This is what happens when you leave a wrapped Christmas gift under the tree. I found the unwrapped gifts behind the closed door of Chase's room with Ethan locked in. Chase unwrapped MawMaw's gift, realized it wasn't something that interested him and then locked Ethan in his room and tried blaming it on him!
Ethan saying, "Cheese"!

Chase trying to ride his bike without training wheels. In only lasted for about 10 minutes in our neighbor's yard, but at least he tried!

This Saturday we took the boys to a pancake breakfast with Santa. Well three years in a row, and still no picture with Santa. In fact ,the only pic we have with Santa was when Chase was 4 months old. Chase completely freaked out and Ethan let me take him close to Santa but refused to sit on his lap.

Story time at Santa's breakfast:
Driving the fire truck at Santa's Breakfast:

Chase's award ceremony for Soccer. His very first trophy:

Ethan and Chase enjoying a yummy treat from TCBY: