School Picture Day

Aaron has been participating in a pre-school co-op that some friends and I organized. We each take turns teaching the 6 kids (5 boys and 1 girl) each Monday and Wednesday at our homes. We get the curriculum on-line and the kids are loving it. One of the moms is a photographer, so she took some school pictures the other day. Aaron has such a cheesy smile!

Although this is working out great for us now, I've decided to take the next semester off. If there is a time in my life when I need to take things off my plate, it's now! I'm sure Aaron won't be happy when he discovers he's not going to school, but I'm actually looking forward to a few months of being just at home with my boys. But, knowing me, I'll soon get restless, so I hope to get him back in the co-op next Fall.

Trick or Treat!

This is on our way back home from trick-or-treating, he was tired!

The fireman got camera shy.

I had to dress up my two baby boys for Halloween, too!

3rd Birthday

Aaron's 3rd birthday was a couple of weeks ago. It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks and I'm so happy to have a few minutes to let you know how much fun we had celebrating.

I arranged for our mom's meet-up group to meet at the local fire station for a tour.
My little 3 year old firefighter!

Walkie Talkies from mommy and daddy.

A big boy Cars blanket from Grandma Terri.

Almost 3 years old!

We went to Portrait Innovations this morning and I was determined to only spend $9.95 and get only one pose. It was hard, but quick decisions helped me reach my goal! I love this little guy so much and love spending every day with him, challenges and all. I'll post more pictures and information of Aaron at 3 next week after his birthday week!

Preggo update

As requested, CS!

The pregnancy is going great. I am 21 weeks and growing big! At our last appointment a couple of weeks ago, the babies were measuring a week ahead, which is great for twins. The doctor said I had a "great set of twins", uh...thanks! :) They are moving around more and more so I'm getting kicks and punches everywhere, but I love to feel and watch them move. Their names are (drum roll, please) Eric Glen and Grant Leo. We just really liked the first names and the second names are family names from both sides. Aaron likes to give them hugs and kisses. He recently got a big boy bed and decided he wanted to give his crib to Eric :). We'll have to get another one for Grant! And, we just realized yet another challenge with twins, who gets the used shoes and who gets the new ones??

This video goes by really quickly, but it's so awesome! Those are our little boys' feet moving around!

My stash!

This is for you JD! Total before coupons/deals was $93.14 (look at all those diapers!). Total out of pocket was $31.16 and I got $8.50 back in Walgreens and CVS cash. It took hours of planning, preparation and execution, but it's fun. I could have done even better if I had scraped together a couple more coupons and beat some others to a couple of deals, but not too bad!

Family update: Aaron started pre-school this week. Myself and 5 other friends got together and formed a pre-school co-op. We take turns being a helper and then a teacher each week and then have the other weeks "off" to do things like rob Walgreens and CVS! Aaron loves "school" and the co-op is running very smoothly. The baby boys are doing great. At my appointment then other day I was 19 weeks, but they were measuring 20 weeks, which is great! They are growing very evenly and I'm feeling fine. Putting on shoes for myself and Aaron as well as rolling over in bed is getting to be a challenge, but we haven't seen nothin' yet! I visited the brand new Seton Hays hospital this week and the maternity ward is so nice I'm almost looking forward to giving birth to two babies.

Goggle Boy!

Doesn't he look like such a big boy! I can't wait to have little babies to hold again! But, he did say this morning when he was snuggling with me drinking his milk..."Love Mommy forever". It doesn't get much better than that!

12 weeks!

Officially entering the 2nd trimester! We had a sonogram yesterday and other than Aaron shouting "Daddy, where are your boobies?" in the waiting room, everything went great. I think I'll start referring to them as "mommy parts" from now on. They (the babies) are actually measuring a couple days ahead of schedule. We have another sono scheduled in 4 weeks, so we hope to find out genders then!

Many more successes on the potty lately, I guess we are officially potty trained!

Summer Fun

We've had a great time the past few weeks in our Kindermusik summer class "Adventures in My Backyard". I'd love to keep Aaron in Kindermusik all the way through the final classes when he's 7. We have so much fun!

We have also enjoyed the pool in our neighborhood a lot this summer. This day we invited Aaron's friend Jack to play. Aaron took a great nap that afternoon!

The pregnancy is going well. I'm at 12 weeks now. I'm feeling much less sick and tired, so I have a bit of a reprieve for a few weeks until I start getting (as Aaron says) "bigger, and bigger, and bigger!"

Commemorative Air Force

A few weeks ago I went to get the oil changed in my car and the lady behind the counter (seeing I had a little boy) told me about the Commemorative Air Force at the San Marcos Airport. This was very close to our house, so I was excited to take Aaron. We finally made it this morning and had a great time looking at all the planes. Their "big draw" is a plane called the "Yellow Rose" that was used in the Doolittle Rades of WWII. They have an interesting museum with all kinds of WWII memorabilia. I wish I would have known about this place when my grandfather (a WWII veteran) was visiting a few months ago!

Another Left-Handed Genius

Yes, my son appears to be a left-handed creator in our family. One of his favorite activities is coloring. We have tons of coloring books and print off coloring sheets from on-line at least twice a day. As you can see, he also likes to pose for the camera. And, I apologize for his lack of clothes, but he's doing better all the time with using the potty!

Messy Playdate

I hosted a "Messy Playdate" today in our backyard. We had a blast with a pudding pool, spaghetti slide and water play to wash off. The kids got messy and the moms had a great time chatting!

Moorific!

Today we went to Chick-Fil-A in Austin to enjoy some free food for our little herd of cows. I went with a couple of other momma cows and we had a great time. I didn't get too many pictures because Aaron was so busy running back and forth to the play area. We stayed for a good two hours and enjoyed a little mommy talk while the kids played. And still, the child won't take a nap. I'm afraid the nap days are coming to an end!

Ultrasound video of our two little peanuts!

In my life as a musician, I've heard many sounds that have touched my heart and moved me to tears. But, there is no more precious sound on earth than the "thump thump" of the two wonderful heartbeats of my twins that God is weaving and already has plans for! Here is video we took of our the ultrasound...Enjoy!

Two Strong Heartbeats!

We had an ultrasound this week with the IVF doctor and my OB and heard two strong heartbeats! The doctor said they were measuring exactly the same (which they should be) and are right on track. I'm going to see her regularly and will also go to the perinatal clinic in Austin for extra checkups. It's just standard to consider any multiple pregnancy high risk. But, we're praying for an uneventful pregancy!

We had a fun 4th of July. Earlier in the week we did a craft playdate with my mom's group. Scott, Lana and Heather Presuhn came down for dinner and fireworks. It was great to catch up with our friends! Aaron loved the fireworks and was naming each color as they went off. His new favorite thing is pretending to be an animal. Lately it's been either a tiger or a penguin. And, I was pleased to discover that I can get him to do pretty much anything is we pretend we're an animal. Examples-Hop up to your room for nap times like a rabbit, jump into bed like a kangaroom, brush you teeth like a tiger. And one that actually worked yesterday, "brush your hair like a penguin." I know penguin don't have hair and wouldn't brush it if they did, but it worked!

Double Trouble

Yes, both embryos we transferred took and we are pregnant with twins! Greg and I are still processing this information, but know that it's in God's hands. The doctor was a little unsure at first if one of them would make it (the smaller one in the ultrasound) because he couldn't see the yolk sack, but then we saw it and he sounded more confident at the end. There are so many more things to think about with this, and more risks to the entire pregancy. We go back in two weeks for another ultrasound to hear the heartbeats.

Since these appointments are in San Antonio, Greg took the entire day off and we took Aaron to the zoo. His favorite animal is the tiger, "roar"! It is a very large zoo...we spent over 5 hours there and didn't see everything, but we had a great family fun day!

Thank you God!

We got the call this morning that the IVF was a success and we are expecting again at the end of February! I'll definately keep you updated, but the levels look great right now. Thank you all for your prayers. Thank you Lord!

Hippity Hop

We had a little visitor in our baby pool yesterday. A frog decided to get a little refreshment in the pool. We had a great time exploring and playing with the frog until he decided he had had enough and hopped away.