Say What?

I freaked Jeremy out last night.  I told him we only have 6 more weeks until we meet this little girl.  (I am 33 weeks, but I will be induced a week early because of the Factor V and the blood thinner shots.)  I can't believe how quickly this pregnancy has flown by.  At times I have to remind myself I am having a baby (when she is not kicking the heck out of my ribs and doing the reminding herself) because I really haven't done anything to prepare.  When it is your third girl I guess there really isn't a TON to do. 

Right before Thanksgiving I moved all of Joey's clothes into Shelby's (now Shelby and Joey's) room, so they are now fully sharing a room.  They are doing so great.  At night we brush teeth, read, say prayers, and then we say goodnight, turn out the light and shut the door.  We rarely hear a peep from them. 

My goal is to re-wash all the newborn clothes within the next week or so and get this baby's closet organized.  I did realize that since Shelby was born in the middle of Summer, and Joey was born in the Spring, I don't really have a ton of Winter newborn clothes.  Thankfully we are in Texas and so far it looks like we are going to have a pretty mild Winter (it's been in the 80s this week), so I am sure we'll be able to squeak by.

I put in my notice for maternity leave yesterday and I am so excited about it.  I normally only take 6 weeks, but I have a ton of vacation days saved up and I decided I might as well take them with maternity leave, otherwise I will never use them.  So I am going to take 10 weeks.  I am really hoping to use the time well and be able to get out and do some things during the day with Joey (and the baby).  We'll see.

Last week I started weekly doctor's appointments, so that is really making the time go by fast.  With all of the holiday rush on top of that this baby is going to be here before we know it!  And we are so ready to meet her!

33 weeks
Not the best picture, but oh well.  And these poor jeans.  They have managed to grow with me through this pregnancy- I am sure I have stretched them so much that I won't be able to wear them anymore after the baby.

Kick Off

We have officially kicked off the Christmas season at our house.  The tree and other decorations are up downstairs, the girls decorated their own tree upstairs, Buddy (our elf) has come, and we have already seen Santa twice!

Dark picture, but it was from my phone and I had the lights off.  So glad I decided last year to change to a colorful tree rather than our traditional red and silver.

The girls decorating "their" tree.  The ornaments are moved about 50 times a day.

Joey likes to kiss all the princess ornaments goodnight.

The Nativity Jeremy's grandmother hand painted.  I also went to see the Nativity display at our chapel today- it was so pretty.

 

Riding a pony at the Oak Point Winterfest.

Shelby could have spent all night at the petting zoo at the Oak Point Winterfest.

The flash made for a terrible picture. Shelby asked Santa for a pogo stick and a skateboard.

Joey asked for a Lion.

 

Checking the advent calendar on the first day of December.

Joey loves that Buddy leaves them treats!

 Today we took the girls to go ice skating with Santa.  Obviously I couldn't ice skate, so Jeremy was in charge of taking both girls around the rink.  He has never been ice skating before but he was pretty comfortable in skates from lots of practices from back in his rollerblading days.  Haha!  The girls LOVED ice skating. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving 2012

New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Bastrop all in a week!  I am thankful for the time we got to spend with friends and family, but I am also thankful to finally be home and back in our own beds and settled back into our routines.  I didn't get very many pictures all week- really just a few on Thanksgiving day. 

 

 

 

 

 

*As a side note, I am super annoyed.  I just went to upload these pictures and got a message that I was out of storage.  Now I have to pay $2.50 a month?  Anyone else have this issue?

Little Turkeys

Tonight we did a quick little craft and talked about things we are thankful for.

Me: my family, hot showers, church, food, our house.

Jeremy: employment, my daughters, the restored gospel, friends, my wife.

Shelby: food, Ms. Logue, my family, friends, God.

Joey: ghosts, candy, family, flashlights, birds on the bus (?).

 

Halloween 2012

What a great Halloween we had this year!  Earlier in the week we painted pumpkins and made jack-o-lantern pizzas.

 

Tonight, some friends invited us to go trick-or-treating with them in their awesome neighborhood. They organize hay rides to take the kids around to all the houses, and there is one awesome house that spent something like $12,000 to put together a haunted house for everyone (they let the little kids just walk through it without everyone jumping out at them). The weather was PERFECT and the kids had a blast.  Joey was so exhausted afterwards that she fell asleep on the way home.

 

Batarina

Vampirina

(Imagine her hissing at you.)

I even got Jeremy to dress up!  And pose!

They wanted to give the baby kisses.

 

 

Kaylee and Shelby

 

7 months!

 

 

Pumpkin Patchin'

Today was the perfect day to hit up the pumpkin patch.  Well, maybe not perfect- it was windy and freezing.  But at least it felt like Fall!  The girls had a great time on the hay ride, bounce houses, walking through the hay maze, riding ponies, and picking out their pumpkins.

 

 

Lesson Learned

I think it is true that children often teach us more than we teach them.  Baby #3 is certainly teaching me already. 

Last week was a tough week for me (if you couldn't tell from the last post).  I was super busy and stressed.  I often have a hard time telling people no, and try to do too much myself rather than ask someone for help.  I really didn't have a problem doing any one of the things I did last week- I want to help out as much as I can, I want things to run smoothly in YW, I want to be involved in special projects at work.  The problem is I take everything on at once and then it becomes overwhelming. 

After two hours of tear inducing, bed clutching contractions on Saturday, my doctor has told me to take it easy.  Not bed rest, but I definitely can't walk with the YW anymore and I need to slow down.  So as hard as it is for me to hand over control or tell people no, this baby is teaching me that sometimes it just has to be done. 

She's already a know-it-all.  ;)