200th post

How appropriate that my 200th post is going to be all about my two kids! (wow I can't believe I can say that!) I'm sure you wish I was doing some fancy give-a-way like others do, but sorry you're out-a-luck! I am posting all about my kids! :)

We scheduled the new testing that they offer now (which is extra but my insurance, shockingly, pays for it) for early screening of trisomony 13, 18, and Downs Syndrome. Not that it would change anything, but I am just that person who needs to be very prepared for things and since they offer it and my insurance pays, we went ahead and did it. All they do is prick my finger for 5 drops of blood and then do an ultrasound to do a bunch of measurements, send it off and we get the results back in a week.

So all that to say, we had an ultrasound yesterday!!

I am 13.5 weeks and the baby is only 3 inches long (about the size of a Nutter Butter according to my weekly email!) and we could already make out everything about it!! And when I say everything, I mean, everything! The tech was able to tell us what she "thinks" it's going to be!!! However, we are not telling anyone until the 19 week appointment next month, that will tell us for sure what it is. I know, the suspense is horrible! :) We were able to see it put it's thumb in it's mouth, which is what the first picture is. (it can't suck yet but can put it's hands in mouth as of this this week, so it was cool to be able to see that!) It's amazing to think that it's that small yet we can already see it moving around like a little kid...so awesome! Sterling was able to be in the room during the ultrasound and he loved every minute of it! Every time it would move he would ask what it was doing now. He kept saying,"We're havin' a baby! I'm so glad we're havin' a baby. It's so cute!"

You can see it's little femur down there...the bones are just forming this week so it's amazing that we can see that! The tech gave Sterling his very own copy of this picture and he put it up in his room...so precious!

It's true when they say that you show alot faster your second time around! Ugh, terrible picture but here it is in all it's glory!

And here is my big boy singing one of his Daddy's favorite songs...it cracks me up everytime I watch this!

But the magic guy did it

We have been watching this show called,"Magic's Biggest Secrets Revealed" and Sterling was watching it with us the other day. On this episode it showed how the magician bent a spoon using his "mind". Well, in the trick he uses an already bent spoon and the cut-off end of a straight spoon. He holds both the bent and straight parts in his fingers, hiding the bent part in his hand. He gradually drops the straight end as the bent part comes into play, hiding the straight part in his hand...therefore looking like he bent the spoon with his mind. (this is so confusing to tell)

Anyway, so the next morning I look over at Sterling while he is eating his yogurt wondering why he is making such a mess...his spoon looks like this...

"But the magic guy did it like this, so I did magic!!"

Portulacas

Grams...this one is for you!

Sterling wanted to tell you something...

Thank you Grams for sending me money so I could go buy my very own Portulaca's! I love to say that name! We had a little trouble finding them at first though. Mommy and Daddy took me to a bunch of different places and let me ask the people all by myself if they had any. Good thing you sent me that tag of what they look like because mom and dad didn't have a clue! They say I was really cute when I was asking because the workers made me follow them while we went to look but mom and dad walked way behind, I guess to watch me! We finally found some at a little road side flower place. Good thing we got there when we did because they only had one more left of the ones that bloom all different colors. Mom let me pay all by myself and I felt like a big boy! When we came home I got to plant them all by myself! (with a little help from mom) I was really gentle with them so I didn't break them. Mom took some pictures of me planting them so you could see. I love to go check them everyday to see how big they are getting and what color blooms are on them. Thanks again Grams! I love you!!

raking the mulch out of the way digging my holes planting them in the hole

covering them up

the solid pink ones

Way before the rain

This is too funny! Believe it or not, this video is from the week of Easter! We just thought we were going to be able to actually plant the vegetables after this but it's rained ever since and we STILL don't have our garden planted. At this rate we won't have any produce until the fall!

1.5 inches

So yet again I have been absent from the blogging world! I am so behind it's not even funny...kind of overwhelming actually. But I am going to try and get caught up tonight!

New news, we had an ultrasound yesterday!!! YAY!

I totally forgot to get the heartbeat (dumb me) but everything looked great except the baby kept it's head ducked in the entire time so we couldn't get a profile picture or even see the face. So looks like we've already got a stubborn one on our hands here! (let's hope not though!) It was moving around in little jerky motions (which is totally normal right now), totally involuntary movements of course. Couldn't tell the sex yet, but this week it's forming it's "parts" for whatever it's going to be!! The baby measured 1.5 inches which is right on and my due date still remains December 3rd. (although we *a.k.a. my doctor* said I won't go to that day)

Sterling went in the room with us and he was too cute. We had been building him up to "see the baby" all week so he was more than excited when we went in. When he saw it he was kind of dumbfounded at first and then just started talkin' away. He said,"the baby looks like a jelly bean!!" He got excited when it started moving too. Then he would keep telling them,"I'm gonna be a big brother." ~just so matter-of-fact, like they didn't know already! ha

Race for the cure 09

Saturday was our annual Race for the Cure. This was Heath and Sterling's first year to do it so we just did the Family Fun Run/Walk...we walked, of course! Sterling was so excited to go to "the race". He kept asking where all the cars were...he thought we were going to a car race! haha Then he was even more excited when he realized that we were the ones racing!

I didn't get any pictures with our team Kitchen Queens! Sorry we were late girls!! Hard to get up these days!

Can't start a race without a little warm-up with the cousins! Uncle Chad led them in a little warm-up session! TOO CUTE!!

Clayton, Caiden, and Sterling literally walked like this the entire way...except halfway up this hill Caiden and Sterling got a little tired and rode for just a second. Then at the top of the hill it was back to this!

SOOOO cute! Caiden fell and got a skinned knee, so Sterling and Clayton finished the race like this...

Then it was off to get some free goodies! Sterling enjoyed them a little too much! Good thing they were handing out packages of Huggies wipes!! Then he got to throw the baseball...16 mph...

He then said that we had to get pictures with him and all the "big things"! haha

Sterling said to me,"this guy is the mad guy." I said,"he's not mad Sterling. Why do you think that?" He said, "because look at his eyebrows. They are down. That means he is mad."

Very observant I thought!

where have we been??

Here is where we spent the entire week last week...

poor baby had a very bad case of bronchitis. Fever for a few days, up throughout the night, and didn't eat for a week...no joke. He would take a bite of something and spit the second bite out. We felt so bad for him. But he has slowly been getting better this weekend. Still not himself though.

Me...well that's another story. See that was a perfect week for us to just lay around because this momma hasn't been feeling good either. This pregnancy is TOTALLY different than with Sterling. I have had morning sickness all throughout the day. To top it all off, my allergies have been going CRAZY!! AND I get up to pee, no exaggerations here, at least 4 times during the nights. Can you say annoying!!!

Bunch of things to get caught up on! Happy Monday! :)