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!!!

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).