Friday, April 29, 2011

39 weeks & Kids go on Safari

Today I made 39 weeks pregnant, only a week until my due date. Certainly didn't think I would make it this far.

Update with baby:
Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon.

Yesterday the boys went to Global Wildlife for a safari tour and to feed the animals with our babysitter, Lauren. Chase did great feeding the animals right out of his hands, but I was told Ethan was a bit more reserved. Wednesday, MawMaw & Pops took them to the zoo. The first thing Chase did when he got home was tell me a list of all the animals he saw at the zoo and how much fun he had. I didn't make these trips with them, but am very thankful for having great help these last couple of weeks from everyone doing fun things with the boys. I think they've been spoiled, ha!



Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter Morning

Dying Easter Eggs

Easter Loot

Chase digging into his Easter Basket

Ethan loving on his Easter gifts


Easter Egg Hunt





Sunday, April 17, 2011

Chase's 1st Race

Last night Chase ran his very first race. He and Shane did a 1 mile fun run in Covington, it was so cute! Lining up for the race: A little pre-race strech:
Nearing the finish line:

All done, way to go Chase!!!
Shane and the boys post race:
The boys enjoying the race festivities

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Boy or Girl????

Getting ready for Baby Mc's arrival...enough of both pink & blue to last us the first week. Getting very curious if its a boy or girl.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Uh Oh!

Well, it didn't take long, my first fender bender in our new tank. Not even two months old and I already hurt our car. While trying to pull into a parking spot at the hosptial before my nonstress test for the baby, I hit another parked car. Shane is being very supportive, but I'm pretty upset. I know it could have been worse, but my poor new car! Luckily the owner came to his car while I was there and he was extremely nice. It is his work car, so it didn't seem to bother him too much. Although the damage on my car looks worse than his, I managed to break his brake light, back bumper and side bumper so I'm sure it will be pricey to fix his car. Then with our car's damage on top of that, ughhh, looks like we will be claiming it on our insurance, sigh.

Besides this incident, we had a relatively good morning. Both boys slept until 6:30 and woke up in great moods. There was no whining or fighting this morning. And a big surprise...Ethan made me take off his diaper so he could sit on the little potty. He was just playing like he always does, but while he was doing this, Chase came into the bathroom and made peepee on the big potty and immediately Ethan made peepee in the little potty! I was so excited! Potty training may be coming soon!!!

At my doctor's appt, everything looked great. No more bleeding, still only 1 cm dilated and I am having fewer contractions now than I did the past several weeks. Doctor said I can come off bedrest, but I still have to take it easy and no strenous activities with the kids. I think I can handle Chase, but my little Ethan is a bit more difficult. Counting down the days until we meet our new little monkey!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Ice Cream Man

Last night after dinner, just as we were about to throw the boys in the tub, we heard the Ice Cream Man making his way down our street. Shane immediately grabbed some money out his wallet and said, "Who wants some ice cream"? A nana-second later, two half naked boys were immediately running after him.

Five minutes and five dollars later, all the men happily had some ice cream in their hands but somehow the pregnant lady got none! Oh well, I guess I was too busy snapping pictures because they were so excited. And it doesn’t sound like I missed much. Two minutes later, Shane walked in the house saying, “The biggest rip off in America”! The ice cream was so melted that after just a few licks, Chase’s entire popsicle fell in the grass…something he reminded us about first thing this morning! Waiting for the ice cream man: Picking out what he wants


Waving bye to the ice cream man
YEAH!!!

Friday, April 8, 2011