Leprechaun Trap

I decided to do a little something fun for the kids for St. Patrick's Day this morning. They've been excited about it coming since they got their fun package of St. Patty's Day goodies in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa Redd (thanks again!).

I told Aubrey about leprechauns and how they like to leave their gold at the end of rainbows. I told her we should try and make a leprechaun trap to try and trick the leprechaun into leaving us some of his gold, which I hear has chocolate inside of it! : ) She loved it and so we devised a simple trap using her crayon box and her hand-drawn rainbow last night. She was so excited and went right to bed, because of course leprechauns are very shy and only come out at night after little children are in bed.

She even said, "I better not get too excited about this or else I'll wake up too early, right mommy?" ( She has a habit of waking up SUPER-early on days she knows we'll be doing something fun so I usually wait until the last moment to tell her those things)

Well, I guess our trap worked because the Leprechaun came and left us some of his gold, green bead necklaces, and rainbow candy!

They loved their St. Patrick's Day surprise. It was like Christmas morning in March! Seriously, they were both so happy and wiggling around and diving right into the candy. Asher thought eating candy first thing in the morning was probably the best thing he's ever done! : ) It was so fun to watch them get so excited over something so small. It makes me want to put forth more of an effort to do these little things with them more often because they get such joy out of it. They won't always be this thrilled about chocolate leprechaun gold, but for now, we are enjoying every minute with these "wee" ones! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Baby Bump: 19 weeks

IT'S A BOY! We had our ultrasound on March 9th and I could tell even before the tech said it that we were having another little man. We are so excited and it was wonderful to be able to see our little guy moving around on the screen. In fact, he was moving so much the tech had a terrible time getting him to hold still enough to enough take measurments! : ) I think I might be in trouble! They said he's weighing in at about 9 oz, right on track. Everything checked out well and we even got a great profile shot out of it all. I never got that with the other two kiddos so that was nice. The kids were really good for the whole thing and Asher kept saying, "Baby?" over and over. Aubrey really liked seeing the baby's legs and arms on the screen. We were glad we could share that with them.

They did find a calcium deposit on the bottom of the muscle connected to the left ventricle of the heart. Apparently it's pretty common, and often doesn't mean anything, but can be a marker for chromosomal abonormalities so they are sending us in to see the perinatologist to get a more detailed ultrasound. I go in on my birthday, the 3oth of this month.

We had fun sharing the news of our new little boy with our family the day of our ultrasound. We had my parents and brother, sister-in-law and their newborn baby girl come over for a little "gender reveal" dinner. We kept it simple, and for me that's saying something! I designed some little scratch-off cards for everyone to find out baby's gender. (Thanks to our out-of-town family for being such good sports about waiting for their's in the mail!) We had a good time eating pizza, visiting, and looking over the ultrasound pictures.

Pink or Blue?

Aubrey's contribution to the decorations. She wrapped almost everything in crepe paper : )

Grandma Kent, Aubrey, and Cousin Claire ( isn't she a doll?)

Papa snuggling baby Claire

Go Mavericks!

We have a minor league hockey team in our area now called the Maverick's. Steve, being the true Canadian that he is, has been enjoying going to every game he can! We've been lucky to get quite a few free tickets lately so he's been able to have a few guy's nights out.

His area at work decided to get tickets to go together to a game so here's a few pictures from when our family went. Grandma and Papa Kent were kind enough to stay home with Asher ( he wouldn't have made it to 10 o'clock). Aubrey had a great time, but was pretty focused on making sure she got the cotton candy we promised. : ) She had the poor guy staked out from across the rink and was waving at him almost the whole time. She finally got her pink cotton candy and all was right with the world : )

We had a great time cheering on "the Mav's" !

Aubrey insisted on having Daddy help make her her own sign before we left, complete with the Maverick's mascot, a stallion : )

Baby Bump: 18 Weeks

Disclaimer: I have had all of these pregnancy posts saved for a while but never posted (oops) but better late than never, right? I'm 19 weeks now and the ultrasound is tomorrow morning! I'm sure no one reads this blog still, but at least I'll have it for my own family journal,right?

Hooray for 18 weeks! I'm feeling much better...nausea wise (except for the apocalyptic flu I got this past week!). We are so excited for our ultrasound on Friday! I keep going back and forth on what the baby is...I have some things that point to boy for me that I experienced with Asher, but in my mind I keep picturing a girl when I think about the baby so we'll see. Basically, I've been wrong with the both the kids so if you want a good solid guess just pick the opposite of me! I'm saying boy for now...but I refuse to be held to it! (I'm calling that pregnant momma rights). I guess we'll just have to see. We're going to have my family over that night for dinner and the big announcement. I'm just excited to see those little arms and legs and fingers and toes, and hopefully this will be my first kiddo to give me a good profile shot! Let's pray they're not too modest either, my type-A personality couldn't handle it : )

So any guesses?

Baby Bump: 17 Weeks

My baby bump is definitely popping out this week. As you may have noticed I haven't exactly kept up with my "weekly" posts as much as "bi-weekly" posts, but hey...I'm working on something here! : ) We're getting excited to find out what the baby is and get to go in on March 9th for the big ultrasound. I change my guess all the time so we'll just have to see. Oh, and the baby can hear music this week...they are definitely coming out with Sesame Street and Disney songs stuck in their head!

Baby Bump: 15 weeks

Wow...the nausea is evident in this picture! Oh well...at least there's a little baby belly to show for it! It's so fun and reassuring to have started feeling the little pops of movement in there. I also started my P17 Progesterone injections again this week. I have a home health care nurse come out every week and administer the shot and then check my vitals and listen to the baby's heartbeat ( which is what makes the visit worth it!). Aubrey's been very interested in it all and says she wants to be a nurse. I haven't gained any weight yet, but I'm sure as my appetite comes back I'll more than make up for it. Thankfully, I've been able to have enough energy to keep up with the kiddos. Yay for week 15! : )

Baby Bump: 13 Weeks

Steve was kind enough to take these pictures for me. I'm planning on doing a weekly "baby bump" update using a chalkboard this time around (thanks Pintrest!). It's been fun so far. My morning sickness has redoubled its efforts again and I'm grateful for the Zofran help and just trying to make it through. It's ironic that when most people's nausea is waning mine is just gathering strength! : ) But, I'm grateful I'm not sick the whole time and hopefully it should subside around 20 weeks like it has with my other pregnancies.

Aubrey insisted on a belly picture too : )