So behind...

I am behind on blogging, in part to being displaced at the moment.  We are currently living in the basement of my brother and sister in law.  Not ideal, but our best option. I have AP's 24 month post, muffins with mom, and C's choir show to blog about but I cannot find the USB cord to my camera so that will have to wait.  Instead, I leave you with these three adorable pictures of our beautiful, funny, smart, and sweet daughters and our precious SON ( still in shock that we are having a boy!).  

It's a BOY!!!!!!

We are so excied...and surprised... To announce that we are having a baby BOY! 

Pretty hard to deny it!

This morning we were getting ready to go to our appointment and I had second thoughts about finding out the gender.  If they said girl, the possibility of ever having a son went away today.  If they said boy, I would not get to use the name Katherine (my sisters name).  When the ultrasound tech asked if she could tell the gender, I said I wasn't sure.  When we finally said yes, she asked us to turn our heads and when she let us look the picture above is what we saw!  

I FREAKED out.  I was so positive it was a girl. I am beyond excited and cannot wait to see all the fun things that having a little boy brings.  It's safe to say we have nothing for a boy at our house.  We don't even have gender neutral.  After two girls we are totally in the land of all things pink, ruffles, glitter, and princesses. It's time to start thinking about trains and whatever else boys like...I really have no idea but I am thrilled to find out!

We are feeling mighty blessed to have two beautiful girls AND a sweet baby boy on the way! 

In 48 Hours...

In 48 hours we will know if baby 3 is a he or a she!!!  It's hard to believe it's already here!  I will be exactly 20 weeks that day.  Sadly, Adam will be out of town so I will go for the ultrasound alone and have them write it down on a piece of paper.  It will be a new experience to find out that way - we have always found out in the ultrasound room.  This sweet baby hasn't gotten much blog time, but that doesn't mean we aren't over the moon excited about our new addition!  We simply cannot wait to meet the little person who is going to complete our family.  Here are some old wives tales and some quick predictions about the gender of this little bean:

Mother's Intuition: GIRL

Cravings:  Nothing in particular and no food aversions either...so who knows?

Sickness:  BOY

Chinese Gender Predictor: GIRL

High/Low:  They say if you carry high it's a girl and low it's a boy...so BOY

Legs:  If you gain weight in your legs, it's supposed to be a boy and if your legs stay the same, it's a girl..so BOY

Moodiness:  If you are extra moody, it's a girl...so totally GIRL

I personally think it's a girl, but only because I have only had girls and can only imagine having girls.  Maybe we just make girls??  This pregnancy has been very different from the other two - but they were also very different from each other.  The heart rate for this baby has stayed exactly in the center of the normal range, not fast or slow... I literally mean dead center so I don't have a heart rate to use to figure it out.  I haven't really had any strong feelings one way or the other, but I have also been busier and more stressed about moving and packing so I haven't had a lot of time to think about it.  I guess we will see in just a couple of days!!

Sweet Baby 3,

It doesn't matter if you are a boy or a girl - we love you no matter what!  We cannot wait to find out WHO you are.  So excited to see you!

My belly at 19 weeks, 5 days.

On the day you turned TWO...

Precious Ann Parker,

You turned two years old on Sunday, April 20 - Easter Sunday.  The day before, we spent the whole day celebrating YOU! We went to McWane, took you to our new house, went a walk, ate Mexican (one of your favorites), ate cupcakes, and opened presents.  Mimi and Papa and Kiki and Josh came to visit.  You are one loved little girl.

When we woke up on Sunday, the first thing you did was go to see your Easter goodies.  You got lots of fun things and tons of candy!  After that, we went to church.  You loved putting fresh flowers by the cross and actually tried to take other flowers off so you could do it again.  We came home and had brunch (waffles, eggs, bacon - one of your most favorite meals). Then we went to a new park to play and have an egg hunt with Kiki and Josh.  We stopped for a Popsicle at Steel City Pops.  You got vanilla.  We had hot dogs for dinner - another favorite of yours...notice a theme? 

We had such a fun day celebrating Easter, but we also loved celebrating YOU.  It's hard to believe that it's been two years since you were born.  We have loved every single second of your life and cannot wait to see what life has in store for you!

A few pics from your two year old birthday...

You will probably not remember the day you turned two, but I always will and I will always treasure the memories from that sweet day.  

Easter 2014

Easter is usually one of my favorite holidays...this year it was still one of my favorites but it was probably the most stressful holiday of the year too.  For starters, Ann Parker's second birthday fell on Easter Sunday.  On Good Friday we spent the day anxiously awaiting news on the offer we put on our new house - which was accepted (talk about Good!!).  There is so much going on right now and I cannot say I am enjoying it.  Adam is out of town for business and Ann Parker isn't feeling well -never a good combination when trying to finish packing, organize movers, gather information for the new loan, and get everything else done.  It will all be worth it though.

On Wednesday before Easter, the girls had their Easter parties at school.  They had sweet little dresses to wear, but it was freezing outside!!  They both still managed to have bunnies on their dresses, but they got covered up with sweaters.

On Friday, Adam came home and dyed eggs with the girls.  They LOVED it (and I think Adam was having a good time too).  They were so proud of their eggs.  Adam has been the egg dyer ever since Caroline was born and I think this will be a tradition.  I love seeing all my favorite people together :)

On Saturday, we spent the day celebrating Ann Parker turning TWO (more to come on that).  They were exhausted by bedtime and it was a good thing because the Easter bunny came to visit and was very good to these sweet little girls!  They got new fairy dolls, bathing suits, dresses, candy, cups, sidewalk chalk, dress up shoes, little animals for their zoo, play doh, Dora toothbrushes, and candy..did I already mention that?  I think the bunny may have brought too much candy...

We went to church as a family and came home to eat a delicious brunch.  It was such a fun day!!

Celebrating Baby Boys!!

No...I am not having a boy - or at least we do not know yet!  However, I did spend a whole day celebrating the upcoming arrivals of some sweet baby boys last weekend.  I totally pulled these pictures off of a friend's blog since I didn't bring my camera to either shower :( I only took some iPhone pictures, but none of people...go figure. We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and I loved celebrating these sweet babies.

Here is a picture of the hostess at baby Jackson's shower.  His due date is the same due date that Caroline had - although she came a few weeks early.  It was one of the cutest showers I have ever seen!!

After some lunch, a nap, and an outfit change Adam and I headed out to celebrate baby Charlie.  We had such a wonderful and loved catching up with some our college crew.  We have all been friends a long time and I am so thankful for these wonderful people!

(Most of) the boys at the shower.

And the girls.  This picture has demonstrated that I don't need to wear that shirt while pregnant again.

Regardless of the shirt, we had a fun night - and the girls were at home watching Frozen so I am pretty sure they had a fun night too.  (It's always fun when Frozen is involved)

Holy Moly....almost FOUR!!!

In six weeks our sweet Caroline will turn FOUR years old!  I just cannot believe that we will have a four year old and that kindergarten is right around the corner.  Where did the time go?  She is at such a fun stage right now and I love every minute with this sweet girl!  Here's a look at my first little love:

This is her Kandid Kids photo from school. She loves school and all her classmates.  She has learned so much this year - writing letters, recognizing some words, days of the week, months of the year, ww of songs, and so much more.  We are so proud of her!

She is such a sweetheart! She complements everyone and everything and it's adorable.  Even when we do small things, like get her some water, she will say "oh thank you mommy! You are the best!" I love this about her.  She tells the three of us that we are her best friends (along with Sydney). 

She is doing great at dance. She always follows directions and gets so excited to go to class. I cannot wait for her recital next month!

These are four of her best buddies.  They will be splitting up and going to different elementary schools not this coming fall, but the next.  I hope they continue to be such good friends! (Notice how C looks huge - she is still quite tall for her age!)

She has a wild imagination and loves to sing and act things out for us.  She can do almost all of the frozen movie and she is often a cowboy or a pirate.  She loves to rescue us, especially by pulling us out of the mud.  She loves to run and race.  Wrestling AP is also a big favorite!

She is such a daddy's girl...which is okay since AP is such a mama's girl :) Her personality is so much like Adam's as well (which is funny because AP is so much like me).  We often joke that we have "his" and "hers" kids.  Her favorite things to do with daddy are sing songs, snuggle and watch shows, and watch him play frozen free fall.  It's similar to candy crush.  It was a free app that had frozen characters on it and I didn't know what it was so I downloaded it for her.  I had never played candy crush before so I couldn't figure it out and she asked Adam to help.  He figured it out right away and that was so cool to her so now she just likes to watch Adam play.  Also funny, Adam and I have both gotten addicted and play every night.  We don't like the actual candy crush game, but frozen free fall is awesome.  I know feel a little bad for making fun of people that would play games like that...

She loves going to the zoo, McWane, parks, etc. She loves to be going and doing all the time.  She has endless amounts of energy, but come 8:00-8:30 she is down for the count.  She sleeps so well at night and we are so thankful.  I never thought we would get here.

I still cannot believe she is almost four.  Four sounds so big and she still seems so little at times.  She will start going to school five days a week this fall.  I know it will be good, considering I will have a newborn to take care of, but I am still so sad.  My first baby is growing up.  I will never have her home during the week again.  Next year she will only go until 1:00 so I have afternoons for one more year.  If I could freeze time I would do it in a heartbeat.  

I really hit the mommy jackpot with this little girl! She has my heart for sure.