Big Belly

I am now coming up on the end of my pregnancy journey. Thank goodness!

I would like to say its been wonderful, but...lets see, morning sickness, the stomach flu-twice! Every cold and bug that the kids could possibly bring home.

And the icing on the cake-gestational diabetes. (Not that I can have cake anyhow, hehe) I am totally ready to be done. Don't get me wrong though, I can't wait to have a new little one to love , and all the sick in the world is worth the end result. I think that we are as ready as we can be. The kids love to talk to the baby and touch my belly. Its very sweet.

Heath was a good sport and took some pictures of my enourmous belly. I am sorta nervous to put this big belly out there for all the world to see, but maybe someday, this baby will think its cool that there are pictures of big ol pregnant mom! Yeah, what kid doesn't think that!

The kids thought it was pretty cool too. I love the pictures of the kids and my belly- kinda captures their personalities.

Beauty Sleep

Sometimes a princess just needs a quiet spot to catch up on her beauty sleep.

My cuties!

Its pretty much a miracle any time the two of them hold still, look at the camera and smile. To get them both to do it at the same time, virtually impossible. I love this picture.

T-Ball Game

Hayden had his first T-ball game last night. Big Excitement!!! For days he has been asking, "when is my game?" Even Sage started saying with total disgust in her voice, "Wednesday!" Then he wanted to know when Wednesday would come, and made tickets to hand out. Very cute. He wanted to put on his t-ball clothes the second he woke up but somehow I convinced him to wait. What a long day for a little boy.

When game time came the Green Wolves were fired up. They fielded first, and Hayden was catcher, not just any catcher, but the most aggressive catcher in T-ball! If that ball fell off the T, or the kid hitting didn't hit it out of the batters box, Hayden was on it, putting it back. And what a good sport too; he always encouraged the batter to "Whack it hard!" His coach had to keep him restrained a few times because he would dive after balls with the other kid still swinging.

He got to bat twice and hit it like a pro. When running the bases the other team all crashed into each other in the middle of the base line. Didn't slow Hayden, he just plowed right through them.

He loved every minute of the game and is looking forward to the next game. Next week he has a bye, and I am hoping that in two weeks the weather will have warmed up because it was COLD!

Not sure how many games we will be able to convince Sage she can't play. She is begging us to get her a Dora glove so she can play "T-ball day" too.

More Easter shots

Oh, one post just wasn't enough, how about some more of my family. Here is Mom and her girls. Always a must have photo, I think almost every photo I have of me and my sisters was taken on Easter. That is one of the best parts of this holiday, everyone together, looking good and the spring flowers make for great backdrops. If only the little kids would hold still and smile!

Hayden and Sage checking out the candy basket. Mmmm, peeps!!! Turns out both kids don't like peeps. More for Grandpa, he prefers them a little stale. Hope he doesn't mind the little fingerprints.

Sage is a lover! Auntie (Ampy) Angie gets big hugs and we caught her smiling. Hayden was not into the photo shoot and did a lot of camera dodging. Not much of my boy to show off.

Caught him. Boy, this was a shot of a lifetime. The pictures that didn't make the highlight reel are hilarious.

Smile Avery! Heath is very proud of his picture of Avery, I think it was one of the best of the day. The look on her face is priceless, and that dress is phenomenal! The peanut gallery. No egg hunt picture montage is complete without the onlookers. Great vantage point.

Easter

SoI stink at the whole blog thing, I know. Its been a rough few months for me dealing with pregnancy and all its complications, 2 very busy kids and everything else life throws my way. I don't mean to complain, really thats not what I am doing, just trying to make excuses for my guilt of not blogging in 2 MONTHS!!! Promises to do better-we all know thats not likely to change, especially with the arrival of number 3. But who knows, maybe her arrival will get me going again. We can only hope.

So, Easter was very memorable this year. We headed for Seattle Friday after staying home sick from work. Sage and I had caught a nasty cold. Low and behold, many of my family members in Seattle were sick with the same thing, so the worry of passing it on was lessened. So sorry to any of you who were previously healthy before our arrival and got more than just a chocolate bunny for the holiday.

Saturday morning we had tentatively planned to go to an egg hunt with the Kimballs, but poor Avery was not feeling up for it, so we scanned the newspaper and found one close to my dads house at a church. Not really feeling all that great still, Heath and I were probably not in the best of moods for an egg hunt, but it was for the kids and they were pretty excited. My mom tagged along, and it was an amazing time. The hunt was very well planned, tons of eggs, small crowds and they were going to divide into different age groups and stagger the starts so that camera wielding moms like me could get pictures of both kids as they hunted. Great plan, however turns out that the 4-6 year old age group sorta jumped the gun and finished before the toddlers even got going. Sorry Hayden, no pictures of your hunt. Sage was thrilled to hunt on the little tot playground. She filled her entire bucket in minutes. There were still tons of eggs left but we decided to show a little restraint and quit. Some of the eggs had coupons for prizes. Sage got a ticket that said Grand prize. She won a really "cute" bunny. It plays a "cute" song and does a "cute" dance. Ask anybody in my family, they can sing you the song and show you the motions. She loves it! She strolled it around in her little doll stroller and slept with it for a few nights. Hayden did really well too. Same story, tons of eggs, filled his basket and then decided to help other kids that didn't have as many eggs. Heath says he picked the cutest girls to help. His dad was proud.

We had a blast dying eggs at Jamie and Kyles house that night. Hayden was pretty tricky with the two toned eggs, while Sage was soley into pink eggs-who needs a dipper when you got fingers?! (very bright pink fingers). Easter morning when I cracked open an egg, Hayden was very upset that I would eat one of his masterpieces, while Sage was disgusted that it was not pink on the inside. My funny kids.

The whole family gathered for a wonderful brunch. It was good to have such wonderful company to distract me from all the candy. However, my blood sugar control was excellent throughout the day even with a bite sized snickers and a couple of peanut M & Ms. GDM sucks!

We had another egg hunt, with more candy. The kids were very cute hunting. All in all it was a wonderful weekend. Got lots of great family photos, I was reluctant to take much with my enormous belly, but as everyone told me, thats how i look right now, its a true reflection of the day.