If Your Kids Wear Temporary Tattoos...

You might be a Red Neck.

Just kidding.

Kind of.

Brian brought home a Spiderman tattoo for Wyatt and an Ariel tattoo for Reese.

Wyatt was pretty excited.

And he wanted to blow on his tattoo to make sure it was really dry.
And he was so proud.

Reese is definitely a fan of Ariel. She was looking through a birthday catalogue with me and she pointed at the Ariel birthday supplies and said "Awiel. Have that."

They were eager to show off their tats.

Excuse Reese's hair, that's what it does when it's not up.

And Wyatt's new "cheese."

They love their tattoos. But that doesn't mean I want more sent home.

Baby Boy Update!

We had our ultrasound on Thursday afternoon and we have another healthy baby boy! The ultrasound tech measured everything and said that he was perfect, all the while talking to us about how to get Wyatt to break down and actually poop in the potty!

We met with the doctor after our appointment, and I was slightly nervous when he told us to come in his office and shut the door, but his nurse was in the hallway talking on the phone and she was being pretty loud! He said that the baby looks great, and complimented me on my weight gain (or lack there of) as well.

My next appointment is in late July, and there are two wonderful things about this one. The first is that it is with our favorite doctor in the practice. She delivered both kids and will most likely deliver Gooey as well. She's getting married in the next month, so they weren't sure that we could get an appointment with her, but we did! This appointment also includes my glucose test, which I am not at all excited about, but the office has stopped outsourcing the testing to Lab Corp and now does the testing in their office. That means that I can drink the nastiness, meet with the doctor, and then get blood drawn all within the same time period without missing work twice!

We only have two monthly appointments left (July and August) and then we start going every two weeks (until the last month, obviously). I'm hoping that we can schedule my completely unnatural birth at the next appointment so that he has a due date! We really want to schedule it with our favorite Doc, but we also don't want to deliver too early. We actually ran into one of Reese's NICU nurses today at Target, and she was so happy to see Reese! She even had a baby boy a year ago and named him Wyatt. She said it was always her husband's favorite name, but she really started to like it when she heard us talking about him. She also told us to relax because Reese's lung issues were just a fluke! I know they were, but the very idea of reliving the NICU experience makes me sick to my stomach.

I'm also really excited because I have a lot of projects for Wyatt and Reese I want to catch up on over the next few weeks, from baby books to making them each a photo book for each year of their lives. I just thought about that because we took pictures of her with all of her nurses and doctors and I want to include those in her book!

We are so excited that Gooey is perfect and healthy! We even got to see his little nose on the the ultrasound, and I can now say that I am 3 for 3 on passing my nose down to our kids. Ha! I am so excited to enjoy this pregnancy for the next 18 weeks, and then meet our baby boy at the end! I guess he should have a name though. We'll have to work on that....

Halfway There!

On Sunday I reached the halfway mark in my pregnancy (technically). I say technically because in all likelihood this baby boy will probably make an appearance sometime before his actual due date! The beauty of C sections (I kid, I kid).

Tomorrow is the big level 2 ultrasound where we were supposed to find out that we were expecting another boy, but instead he wanted to terrify us at our last appointment so we got an ultrasound then! Hopefully we come out of the ultrasound with news of a perfectly healthy baby boy, and we just wait another 18 weeks to meet him!

So I looked through pictures to find one of me at this same stage in my pregnancy with Reese. This is from our Yankee Stadium trip in 2008. I'm a little covered up by my sweatshirt, but you get the idea (and I think I was carrying her pretty low)!

Here I am on March 7, when I was 5 weeks pregnant with Gooey (and about 15 pounds from my goal weight). As you can see, I still had my "winter hair." Meaning - no highlights, just darkness!

And here I am on Sunday at 20 weeks with Gooey! I feel like he's pretty high and poking straight out! I am super excited this pregnancy because I am not the only person at work expecting! I am being accused of being "contagious" though because I am the first one due of 4(and I'm also the only one who isn't pregnant with Baby #1)!
Hopefully I'll be back on tomorrow to share the great results of our ultrasound! I can't wait for another sneak peak of our baby boy!

Happy Father's Day (Part Two)!

I wanted to make sure that I have Brian something "keepsake-ish" for Father's Day, and the idea for these came to me a few weeks ago. We already have a stone of Noelle's paw print, so I figured I should make him stones for his two favorite little humans :)!

Here is Wyatt's. The only problem is that these kits weren't really made for writing things in the cement, just for designing, so the names didn't come out to clearly. Fortunately I used blue stones for his...
And pink and green for Reese's! She was not a fan of putting her hands in cement, and demanded a bath immediately (which is why I did her handprint right after bath time)!

I also got Brian 3 books for Father's Day. The first is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, by Steven R. Covey (whose day planners I also happen to love)! I like the principle that when you raise your children you're also raising your grandchildren, and the other advice in the book. Hopefully this will teach Brian some time management (ha!) so that he can get through No Wonder My Parents Drank by Jay Mohr and Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life by Mike (Greenberg) & Mike (Golic). We're fairly obsessed with Mike and Mike around here, so that book was a no brainer!

And finally, we found our baby girl all curled up at night with her baby (which we usuallyit take away after she falls asleep because she's not very soft, but Reese loves her!), her wolf "Ruby," and her Noelley. She just looked too cute not to risk the flash waking her up!

I'm pretty sure that Brian had a great Father's Day! We wouldn't have it any other way for my super husband, the kids' fantastic Daddy, and the best guy in the whole world! Of course, I'm pretty sure that Father's Day continued onto Monday when he got to test drive the 4 door Wrangler he's been eyeing for ages too :)!

Happy Father's Day (Part One)!

Yesterday was Brian's first Father's Day off of work since he started working! Seriously, he has worked every Father's Day for the last 18 years! Crazy! We usually go to the Waterpark for Father's Day, but since Brian was off of work we didn't go. He wouldn't really have any fun, between seeing things that needed to be corrected and fixing them, and being stopped by people with questions. So we went to the zoo instead!

Wyatt and Daddy. Wyatt is wearing his "I get my handsome from my Dad" shirt.
Reese and Daddy. Her shirt says "Daddy's sweetie." I can't believe how big my baby girl looks here!

Wyatt said he needed to clean his hands after walking through the barnyard, and he just walked right up to the hand sanitizer and cleaned them. He cracks me up!

Wyatt obsessed about the snakes the entire time we were there. I swear he would have apparated to the snake building if he could have. Which is my own personal segway to the fact that he was banging on this glass and I shouted "Hey Dudley, do you want that snake to get out?" I am that big of a dork. And it's the time of year for me to do some "re-reading." During the summer I usually read Gone With the Wind and the Harry Potter series over again. I'm thinking about throwing Twilight in there too.

Wyatt is "such a big brother." That's what he says when he does something nice for his sister, which he's actually getting really great at! That's also what he said when he climbed up on this rock and walked back and forth across it!

We came back home and we all crashed. It was a sweltering inferno at the zoo yesterday, and we were all exhausted. By the time we woke up it was time for Brian and I to go see Bret Michaels at the amphitheater. We haven't missed a Bret Michaels or Poison concert in years. I'm not really a "fan," but I tag along because I enjoy his trashy TV shows. Lynyrd Skynyrd was also there, but it wasn't really our "thing" so we left after about 3 songs!

I think Brian had a pretty great Father's Day not working! Last night we realized that he will "technically" have the Fourth of July off this year for the first time ever as well, but I'm not putting all my eggs in that basket! That tends to be a pretty busy day at the park, and I can't imagine him missing out on that.

She's Got the Magic, Magic, Magic

Brian is a big Weezer fan. And Rivers Cuomo sings on this song. And apparently Reese is going to be a Weezer fan too.

Wyatt's (and Brian's) Last Soccer Game!

On Monday the boys had their last soccer game.

Brian got the kids pumped up.

And then the game started. I used the Flip the entire time that Wyatt was playing, so I'll upload videos of him later. I was so proud of him. He scored 2 goals in his first three minute stint on the field. The parents sitting next to us had no idea who I was, and all they talked about from the minute Wyatt got on the field was how good he is and how well he handles and dribbles the ball. Needless to say, I was pretty happy to hear that!

But I was the most proud of him when he decided that he finally wanted to be a good sport. He did not want to high five any of the kids after games, and Brian and I both had a few talks with him about it. We showed him how the Yankees always give each other high fives and say "good game" at the end of their games. We explained why its important to be a good sport (but that it's okay to boo the Red Sox). And finally, at the last game he eagerly high fived the other team, and then walked down the line to give his team high fives as well.

You can see him peaking out next to Nick (#1) giving him a high five.
And here he is with his team mate high fiving one of the Bears. And can I just say that I can't wait to buy Reese pink shin guards like that?

At the end of the game the kids all got medals. This was the point where Wyatt had a little melt down. He didn't want it around his neck, and he asked Brian to please put it in his hand. Brian didn't hear him because he was giving the other kids their medals, adn attempted to put it on Wyatt. And he had a minor fit, but bounced back and now asks to wear it all the time!

Wyatt is now going through soccer withdrawal. He asks about soccer every day. He knows it was his last game, but he's still missing it. The Y has football in the fall and basketball in the winter, but the cut off is 4 so Wyatt won't make it. I think Brian thinks that if he volunteers to coach Wyatt might get in. For someone who didn't want to coach he sure had a lot of fun doing it!