Happy Birthday Pepper Jeannette!

On Tuesday my Pepper Jeannette will turn 2. I am not completely sure where the last 2 years went. It really does feel like only a few days ago we were in the hospital. Anyway, we celebrated her second birthday today. She had a garden flower party at the park! We had a lovely day and are truly blessed to have such amazing family and friends in our lives.

Baby at 32 weeks

 We had our 32 week check today, and doctor Beck did a quick ultra sound for me so that we could make sure baby was still Weston and not Dally.

So here is close up of his face..LOOK AT THOSE CHEEKS!!!





Here are the rest of the pictures from today. In the strip on the left ou will see a face, heart beat, and boy parts. On the right the top two are face shots and the bottom is a profile of him. Only 8 weeks to go until our due date!!

Don't hate me!

We made the choice together, as mommy and daddy, to NOT have our son circumcised when he is born. This choice was not made lightly, and it is a personal choice for every parent of a son. Some for religious reasons (we respect that) others for personal reason (we respect that too), but then there are those that do because they think its necessary and it has to be done. For all you, but especially the latter, this link is for you. I urge you to make informed educated decisions when it comes to the health care, especially the removal of healthy organs, for your babies. http://www.drmomma.org/2010/05/death-from-circumcision.html

Getting to the end

So this week I will round into week 31, which makes my time left until my due date down into the single digits. We are doing really well, I've managed to keep my weight gain up to this point down to just 17 lbs. I was much heavier at the start of this pregnancy than I was with the previous 3 so weight gain is an issue. This little guy is so differnt than my girls were. I've never had a baby so high and low at the same time, and he is sooo much more active than they were. I am now seeing my ob every other week, and managed to talk him into one last u/s next week to make sure baby's winkie didn't magically vanish sometime in the last 12 weeks. Baby measures 2 weeks ahead of where I really am, which is no surprise really. I am getting very excited that this weekend is my baby shower (thanks Mom!!!) I am seriously looking forward to seeing my friends and family one more time before I go into full baby induced hybernation.

On the home front we finally put in the rest of our flooring, so now our house is wall to wall (except kitchen, baths, and laundry room) laminent flooring, its much nicer and cleaner. We finally finished painting- except now I have the urge to paint up the kids rooms. PJ and Daisy now share a bedroom, so I have been thinking of a butterfly garden room for them. And I will be repainting Weston's room before he comes, the top half of the wall will be cream and the lower half a kind of vintage dusty blue. I haven't quite figured out Baylie's room, but I don't want to get much on my plate before jr. gets here. We got the crib (a $20 find!!) put up this weekend, I am reupholstering the rocking chair I found at the community garage sale in burgandy and cream this upcoming weekend, and we found a large dresser with rails around the top so that it can be used as a changing table. Outside of that I will be doing a TON of work on the outside of this place this summer. Re-landscaping, pruning, planting, paving anything and everything to make this place have some curb appeal. The awesome spring we are having is lending itself to these outside projects and its LOVELY!!

We hope everyone is having an amazing spring!

Baylie Renee

I have said for a while now how proud of Baylie we are, and how well she's doing in school. Well we got a packet home from the school on Monday. Imagine how surprised we were to open it and fin the contents were for Student Of The Month!! Baylie's teacher (regular classroom) nominated Baylie to the the April Student of the Month for her class. Some people think that doesnt mean much, but it does to us. Its based off of attitude and willingness to try AND its only given to one student a month for each month of school. So, only 9 out of the 21+ students in her class recieve the student of the month. We are so very proud of her and her progress. She continues to make progress in all areas, and she truly is an amazing little girl!

Baylie's 6th birthday...finally

Sorry its taken me a week or so to post this.

On March 9th Baylie Renee turned 6!! I just can't believe its been that long, she has come so far and we are so proud of her!!!

We had her party at home on March 10th, it was a nice quiet small birthday party for her.
Admittedly, not a very pretty cake, but it tasted good just the same!!
She got lots of fun presents, and had a few cousins over to help her open them! (That's Ian btw)
She got a super cool rocking horse. Which is a little small for her, but it really is neat. It neighs, clip-clops, and shakes its head and tail- it even has metal stirrups on the saddle.This is mermaid Barbie. She has a magic seashell necklace that lights up her tail. And she can go in the water!

She got a neat new Barbie bicycle, this summer the goal is to learn to ride it without the training wheels! Good thing we live on the perfect cul-de-sac for that!

Baylie also got a ton of new spring/summer clothes and some "new" Disney classic VHS's.

No birthday princess is complete with out her birthday crown lol.

A big thank you to everyone who came out to help her celebrate!!

Snakes, and snails, and puppy dog tails...

Thats what little boys are made of!!! And on that note we will welcome Weston Allen Soesbe into our family sometime in late June or early July!!!