Pregnancy Update

I am almost 33 weeks pregnant now! I’ve definitely been feeling the need to get things ready and organized. I had Jason build a storage wall system (pics to come later, he did an amazing job!) for the kid’s toys. Even though Abby isn’t moving out of the nursery yet, I moved most of her clothes to Kate’s room so I could empty the drawers. I’ve started washing boy clothes and organizing them in the drawers. Thanks to Laura and Melissa I have lots of newborn clothes! I was worried about not having anything and now I have plenty. They’re awesome to loan their clothes to me, hopefully I can keep them all straight to return as baby boy grows out of them!

I feel really good for the most part. This past week I’ve been starving and I’m pretty sure I gained a ton of weight from all the brownies, cookies, cake, pizza I’ve been eating. I literally make this stuff just for me simply because I want it. Unfortunately, my leg cramps are back at night which means I haven’t really slept the past few nights. Definitely starting to feel the lack of sleep!

32 Weeks

33 Weeks – I like these pictures because they’re just some causal, make up free, hair not blow dried, playing with the kids outside pregnant pics. Pretty much how it usually it is!

7 MORE WEEKS!!!! (hopefully)

Going Private

I’ve held off on this for awhile for various reasons but lately I’ve been feeling the need to be a little less public with our lives, mainly our children’s. If you happen to ever glance over here send me your email so I can add you!

Katherine’s Birthday Week–Actual Day

Day 2:
I hung balloons on Kate’s door while she was asleep. She loved her surprise in the morning (so did Abby).


We had pink and purple pancakes for breakfast which she loved and made me save some for Daddy.

That afternoon Abby and I brought cupcakes to her preschool.


Lastly, Jason and I took just Kate out to dinner to celebrate. She wanted to go to this particular Chinese restaurant since they let her drink out of a real glass for her water :)

(Kate took this picture with Jason’s phone :))

She had such a fun day and felt like a real big girl! I’m glad we were able to make her birthday a special day.

Katherine’s Birthday Week (1)

Day 1:
We went out to lunch with Kate for her birthday to her favorite place to eat with Grandma and Granddad, The Patio. It’s her favorite because of the awesome muffins. My parents let her pick out any dessert. Out of all the cupcakes, cookies… she picked out this small powdered lemon cookie for herself and a large star cookie for Abby.

Trying to show off her cookie

Playing with her Daddy :)

Katherine’s Birthday Week–Princess Party

Day 5:
This year Kate really wanted a princess party and she wanted to have actual friends come to her party. We’ve only done family stuff before so I wasn’t sure about the whole party thing, but she was quite persistent. I told her we could have a very small party with 4 little girls since she was 4 years old. I had fun decorating for the party and Kate thanked me the night before for all her pretty decorations. Grandma, Granddad, MeeMaw, PawPaw, Jenny, Brian, Ty and Dana came and her little friends were Hadley, Audrey, Laralyn and Ava. Our niece Sarah came too and helped out with the little girls painting their crowns and painting their nails.

When the kids first got here I had them paint and sticker crowns. Then we had lunch: heart shaped PB&J, fruit, goldfish, and veggies. After lunch they played a little with Kate’s dollhouse then we had cake and opened presents from her friends. I had goody bags for the other girls so they would have something to open while Kate opened her presents. (She opened family presents after the girls left). Then we dug for treasure in two large bowls filled with rice. They closed their eyes and dug until they found a treasure,  a necklace or a ring. Lastly, we painted nails and watched a Disney Princess sing-a-long movie until their nails dried and they left.
Kate is still thanking me for her party and talking about how fun it was. I’m glad she enjoyed the day. Even though I did a low key party with not many kids it was still a lot of work. We will never be those people who have large, elaborate (aka expensive) parties and probably won’t even do one every year. But I will be sure to make her “birthday week” special every year!

Surprise Divorce

I was so surprised to hear Heidi Klum and Seal were getting divorced. I know, how could I possibly be surprised by anything people I have never met are doing?! But nonetheless it still surprised me. When I told Jason his response was, “Yeah, so?” I explained that they have 3(4?) kids together and renew their vows every year. It’s weird to think a couple would be doing these grand gestures of their love if they really had a troubled marriage. Jason’s conclusion was that couples only do those grand gestures because their marriage is in trouble, ie Kate (Jon and Kate plus 8) and her husband did the exact same thing right before they announced their divorce. Either way I’m still shocked by the actions of these complete strangers!

Jason’s Got Some Competition

Kate informed us that Andrew with a blue jacket (there’s two Andrews in her class) wanted to marry her. She told him she would marry him but it could only be for pretend because she was going to marry her Daddy.

Yep, she loves her Daddy and I’m pretty sure she’s got him wrapped around her little finger!

Here’s two random but fun pictures from today…

It’s Definitely a BOY

I had an ultrasound at 29 weeks 2 days to make sure I didn’t have placenta previa. There was a concern from my other ultrasound at 19 1/2 weeks. Luckily everything was fine and the baby was measuring perfectly! I made the technician double check the gender even though they were 100% positive it was a boy at my last ultrasound. Of course I believed them and know this baby as a boy now, but if I’m having an ultrasound might as well right?!



My only question is, do all babies at 29 weeks head look so large? Because I know the Shehanes have larger heads but that does not make me excited for the delivery ;)

New Years Fun and Resolution

For New Year’s Eve a group played broomball at the ice rink. Jason had SO much fun playing. He was sore for days and couldn’t even lift his leg to put his emergency brake on! Unfortunately my pregnant state kept me on the sidelines but there were other pregos and non players so I had fun hanging out with them. Then we all hung out after, played walleyball, ate lots of food and just had fun. It was one of my favorite New Years so hopefully that means this is going to be a great year :)

Resolution:
I’ve never actually made a New Year’s resolution or at least stuck with one but I’m giving it a try this year. I have a lot going on in my life with an almost 4 year old and an almost 2 year old, plus in just two months we’ll be adding another baby to our family. I need to prioritize better, for my sanity and to be a better Mom. I've been having issues lately with facebook. I used to love it and considered it my social outlet. However, it’s becoming a little creepy to me and people seem to have forgotten it’s a social network and are using it for political outbursts and soapboxes. Plus honestly, I spend way too much time checking it. So, I’m taking a break. I’m not closing my account, just going to only check it once a week or so. I took it off my phone to make it easier for me. I need to use my time more wisely and I’m starting to feel like the parent who’s always on their phone or computer. Today was my first day and I’m not gonna lie, I liked not being so connected.

All the New Year’s Eve pictures were on other people’s cameras so I don’t have any pictures right now but here’s one of Dana and me.

I LOVE this picture. We’re due only 2 weeks apart!

A Cleveland Christmas

We drove straight from Columbus to our home so we could change clothes and go to church with my parents and sister and Evan on actual Christmas Eve night. After the service we went back to my parents to eat lots of food and open our Christmas Eve gift. Kate had the hang of things now and kept asking Grandma when she could open her present.

The next morning we ate breakfast and hung out waiting for those who don’t have little kids waking them to come down. We opened stockings first, ate breakfast, then took turns opening gifts under the tree. Abby didn’t really care as much about opening gifts and just liked playing with a toy. Kate very patiently would wait her turn and loved handing gifts out and helping others open them. The big reveal was the enormous doll house my parents gave the girls. They LOVED it! Now we just need to make sure it will fit in our house :)

Everyone left for TN while we hung out, ate, napped, just took things slow. It was so nice being able to have that down time and even better was that Jason had the next day off so we had a whole day to hang out just with our little family.

THE END

Christmas in Columbus

After our fun filled morning and afternoon of Christmas we loaded up and headed down to Columbus. Luckily I had already packed so it didn’t take long to get us ready. We celebrate in Columbus by having every adult and child draw a name, and then we take turns opening our present starting with the oldest down to the youngest. The kids are awesome waiting for their turn and it’s fun seeing their anticipation grow with each person opening a present. I love having cousins for the girls to play with and they love having other kids to wrestle, jump, color, scheme, play games and toys with.