Katherine's 3rd Birthday

Katherine's party day started off with her new slippers (worn below) waiting for her outside our bedroom door with bows on the toes. She brought them in asking what they were. I told her they were her new slippers for her birthday. She was super excited and wanted to wear them right away, bows and all.

Next we pointed out her new oven Dada made her. She loves it, as does Jane.

Katherine got to ride a horse on her birthday. There is a great place that lets little ones ride for free figuring they'll end up paying customers some day if you can get them to love horses. She loved it until the end when she started slipping off and got scared. Hasn't stopped talked about the ride though.

The candle was tricky. After hiding while we sang her happy birthday she finally got it out after a couple of tries. Sneaky candle.

Fancy Nancy is big in our house, it's why we wear fancy shoes after all. Aunt Mon and Uncle Bobo got her a great Fancy Nancy gift she's been playing with every day.

Katherine was IN LOVE with all the fancy shoes and jewelery that came in her gift from Adam and Natasha. She's in heaven.

Katherine and Rowan had a ball in her new tent/tunnel from Papa. She loves it. She's already broken the tent once being too rough. Nathan fixed it but I don't know if he'll be able to again. She took her nap in her tent yesterday, slept like a champ too.


Katherine had such a wonderful day. By the end she was pooped and ready for snuggles - Mama couldn't have been happier to oblige.

Making it Home

We've been in our new house about 3 weeks now. It's been a whirl wind, but it's starting to feel like home. Don't get me wrong, there are still things everywhere and an endless amount of discussions about where things should/could go, but what's the hurry, right? That's what we keep telling ourselves anyways.

Jane is very into shoes right now, anytime she sees them she tries putting them on - very cute. Daddy had to help her into his boots this morning much to her delight.

Nathan's still trying to figure out the best way to take care of the weeds on our fantastic new acre of property. I like the green, but he can't simply mow and keep them short as there are rocks every where. Weed whacking would take FOREVER, so at this point he's taking to burning them with his blow torch. Right, obvious issues there, but for now that's what's working.

Katherine was a great help raking our dead grass. She loves using all the different yard tools and when she's not whacking one of the dogs or us, it's cute. We'll be grinding up that old grass and re-leveling the dirt before doing sod later down the road. I can't wait, you wouldn't believe how much dead grass is tracked into our house. I could sweep 4 times a day and still not keep up.
We're a big swing family. Nathan got our swing hung up the other day, with his helpers on hand, double checking his work.

The swing is very welcome to be usable again. Last night Katherine and I bundled up after her bath and went for a swing and to look at the stars. Lovely.

Project by project this new house is becoming our home. We have re-done our kitchen cabinets, enlarged the island and put hardware on the cabinets/drawers. Once I can manage to clear the counter tops for a "finished" picture, ahem, I'll do a post showing the before, during and after. Hang in there.

Lucky Number Three

We're pregnant with baby number 3. In case you didn't notice my slip ups of Jane wearing her "Big Sister in Training" shirt that Katherine also wore, here is an official announcement.


Today was my 12 week ultrasound. Baby number 3 seems to be happy (I mean really what could there by to make them sad in there), healthy and squirmy.


Baby was very still for all the measuring and then was rolling around and flipping upside down. Katherine thought it was funny, although she was convinced the baby's Mommy and Daddy were also in there. I tried to explain I was the mommy and there was no way Daddy was fitting in there, but she just kind of giggled and again pointed out tte baby's Daddy on the TV screen.


Jane kept pointing at the screen, but I'm pretty sure she didn't have a clue what she was looking at. It's okay, we didn't really know what we were seeing with our first ultrasound of Katherine either.


I'm doing well, albeit quite tired. We moved into a new house about two weeks ago and it's still a wreak. Both of our Mom's AKA life savers, came to stay and help us move/babysit and clean our old house to ready for our renters. We would have died with out them.




I got really sick, bad head cold and an ear infection (I know right, apparently adults DO get ear infections) the day we started to move. Great timing. I'm finally on the mend, still stuffy and coughing and puking (although that's due to the one in my belly) but feeling much better. I've been working straight as my partner's on vacation so the only free time I have is before and after work - which all us Mommy's know is not the best times of day for accomplishing things when preggo. I'll have some days off soon though and hope to get some serious unpacking/organizing accomplished. So help me I will.

Other than that life is great, the house is full of projects and learning curves and we're enjoying it very much. Oh, and super exciting, we got our fridge last night so the week of living out of the dorm sized fridge has come to a close, thank goodness.