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!!!

the oddball

Ahem, yes that would be me. I am the oddball. I plan on birthing at home as long as humanly possible, infact I would be cool with walking up to l/d and just pushing a couple time and calling it a day. I have hired a doula, who is also a friend. I plan on cloth diapering, those little sh*t catchers are expensive!!! So for $200 i can get 20 diapers + 40 inserts that i can use until my little poop factory is potty trained, OR i can spend $40/month X 12 months X 3 years= $1440. Yeah, I think I will just live with the extra load of laundry a day. And then there's my wanting to eat the placenta after jr. is done living off of it. No I dont mean I want to fry it up and eat with ketchup and collard greens- you sick person!! I want to have it dehyrated, powedered, and put in pill form. The benefit way out way the eww factor- look it up.

In other news our big 20 u/s where we find out if jr is Dally Grace or Weston Allen is this Saturday. My ob is making special time for us so James can be at it. He's only been to one other one, when I was pregnant with Baylie. We won't be telling the gender just giving out the names that we've picked out. And when baby is born we will obviously tell people what baby is.

And now that I've totally made you gag- have a good day!

Snap shot

Hi all! Well it seems we have made it half way through the first month of 2012 and I haven't given any updates from Christmas or anything since after Daisy's birthday. There's a reason. I got a new phone. I finally upgraded to the 21st century and got a smart phone. The Iphone 3gs is a wonderful thing, it does so much. Except send pictures to my email quickly...it takes the stupid thing forever to send one gosh darn picture, so I dont have much to show you. But a quick update on the family is in order I think.

Baylie: is so funny. She makes me laugh every day. She's doing very good in school and is really coming along. She has begun to identify small two letter words like "is, to, be, we" etc. Which, half way through kindergarden may not seem like an accomplishment for most, but for her its huge. Reading is something she loves but word/letters/number are hard for her to process and understand. We are very pround of how she's doing. She's developed quite a sense of humor and is just funny to listen to. Her reasoning of how things work is amusing...its how she sees it BUT its an acurate description even if its slightly skewed. We are now gearing up for her 6th birthday in a couple months!

Daisy: continues to do well in school. She loves school and has several friends. We continue to stuggle with her attitude at home and will soon be speaking to a counselor about it as its becoming overwhelming to everyone in the house. That being said, she is still very sweet when shes not being very naughty/whinney. She just celebrated her 4th birthday, and it doesnt seem possible that she is already 4.

Pepper: is the sweetest naughty child ever. She's so loving and affectionate and cute that its hard to be mad at her for long. But she tries to get into EVERYTHING!!! And if she can't get into it, she wants to climb on it. She gets in trouble several times a day for getting on the dinning room table or for getting into my bathroom. She's a bright child that loves to explore. She was doing motor skills early enough that her language skill are lagging a little, but she's started making up for it. It doesnt help the she has two big sisters to be her voice for her. But shes starting to come along, and is very polite. She always says Please and Thank you. We are so grateful she is ours. And she has her 2 year birthday coming up in May...where did that time go!?!!?

James: just celebrated his one year for working at L&H. And he still loves it. He works in Mega Door (the big cloth doors you see at the mines are mega doors) Hes crew lead, and really enjoys his job. We are doing well as a couple. We just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary, and I am so glad he picked me to spend his life with.

Me: I am chugging along. As I write this I am almost (tomorrow) 17 weeks along with baby #4. We have names picked out for him/her. We will find out in Feb. if jr. is a he or a she. I would love a boy, but I am almost certain that jr. is girl. We dont want to tell our families what baby is until its born. But I will give you the names we have so far. Girl: Dally Grace. Boy: Weston or Wesley Allan. those are subject to change before the baby arrives in late June/early July, but for now thats what we've picked. I like either boys name so it will be on James to pick the final. I think he's leaning more towards Weston.

Thats it for the Soesbe family in January! I will leave with my most recent ultrasound of jr. taken at 14 weeks (the end of December).

Happy birthday Daisy and James

Hi everyone! Well better late than never. I am now giving you the pictures from Daisy and James' birthday party....from two weeks ago. Oops. Well, I've been busy so back off lol. Their birthday was the 10th and they had a great day. Daisy turned 4 and James turned 27. Here are some pictures from the day.

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James opening a present, harassing my mom.

Another present.

The gift i got him, a dash adapter for his stereo.

Daisy and friends opening presents.

Daisy getting in there to open her present from meme.

Its a color wonder light brush with metallic paper!

Opening her gift from Grandma Donna

Daisy with her Minnie Mouse. She was looking way older than 4 here.

Say Cheese!

BEST. SMILE. EVER!!!!!



PS. Please note the missing lower front tooth!!!!! Yay! She's getting so big!

well now this is a surprise!

Hi-dy ho everyone! We got a BIG surprise about 4 weeks ago. And now I am ready to share with you! Scroll down!!!

Keep Going!

Almost there!

Just a little more!!

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SURPRISE!

Smooth as Tennessee Whiskey

The Soesbe family has grown by one more memeber!

The adorable little scamp in the picture below is Whisky. He's a 12 week old 3/4 chocolate lab 1/4 poodle. James picked him out and Baylie named him. And wait, before you're all "OMG! How does your 5 year old know what Whiskey is!?!?!?" Let me explain. Baylie doesn't name anything...ever. Not toys, not dolls, not fish. Its part of the autism, she has a hard time developing attachments to non human things. SO, imagine our surprise when on our way home from picking him up, she pipes up from the back seat and says "I love Whiskers."

The problem was niether James or I loved "Whiskers". So, we comprimised with a name that sounded like it. And so, we have ourselves a Whiskey dog now.