It's a BOY!

Well today was our 20 weeks doctor appointment.  Daddy met me at the doctor for our "anatomy" ultrasound.  We found out that the baby is a BOY!  Once again the baby posed quite nicely for us!  We also found out that I do not have placenta previa (I had this with Dillon and ended up needing a c-section due to it) which means I shouldn't have to have another c-section!  Hurray!

After the doctor appointment we headed to Grandma Peggy's to tell the kids.  The agreement was blue balloons if it was a boy, green balloons if it was a girl (Kayda insisted upon this). 

 Kayda wasn't too excited at first, she had been hoping for a little girl but within a few minutes she was ready to be a big sister for two little brothers.  Dillon was very excited right away because he wanted a little brother! 

Here is a picture of baby's profile.  It is a picture of the ultrasound picture so it's a little blurrier and such but there he is!

Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

Today was the first of many trips to the zoo!  We woke up, it was sunny outside so we decided to bundle up and go.  It actually turned out to be fairly warm and we even spent some time coat-less.  The kids had a great time!  Dillon wasn't too interested in going at first but by the time it was time to go it was love.  He kept saying "I want to go back to the zoo". 

We've never seen this area before.  You could touch the different animals, Dillon wasn't willing to put his fingers in the water but once Kayda got started she was willing to touch almost any of them!

Once we got to the polar bears Kayda kept saying "Polar bears, check" and "Red wolves, check".  She was having a great time!  Dillon thought the otters were cool, he kept wanting them to go underwater, and that developed into wanting to go in the water WITH them.

This was the first time we've gone that the kids have really wanted to play in the play area.  So at the end they spent about 15 minutes playing on everything.

Date with Daddy

Daddy decided to take the kiddos to the Supermall to ride the carousel.  They made a whole date of it, McD's, a couple of carousel rides and a walk around the mall.  Mommy got to stay home and rest.  Thanks Daddy!

Snow days

Well, it's the end of February and we got SNOW!  The kids were so excited when it started snowing.  They immediately wanted to go out and play.  I made them wait until the grass was almost completely covered so that there would actually be enough to play with. 

 They ended up playing outside several times over the couple of days.  The played snowball fight, threw the snow in the air, played with their shovels in it.  It cracked me up the first day.  They seem to have an aversion to wearing clothes when they're in the house so they have t-shirts and underwear/diapers on and the next thing I know all of their snow clothes are being piled in my lap.  I thought it was pretty cool that they remembered everything including their gloves and hats. 

 Dillon threw this snow himself, you wouldn't think it based on how he's standing though. 

The snow started on Wednesday, by Friday whatever was left was pretty much ice.  The kids wanted to play outside though so they went out and rode their scooters.  They discovered ice chunks and had a blast throwing those in the street.  We pulled out some paint stir sticks so that they could explore the thin layer of ice on top of our neighbors big puddle.  They had so much fun doing that so I decided to take a walk around our neighborhood looking for frozen puddles... we didn't find any but the kids used their sticks to "measure" the snow anywhere they saw it. 

Earlier this week we had a baby check up, I got to listen to the heart beat which is always fun.  Next month we should find out if it's a boy or girl (provided the baby cooperates).

Ready to be big siblings...

Well, we're still a long way off from when the baby gets here but Kayda and Dillon are ready for the baby to be here NOW.  Here are a few things we've been encountering.

The main thing they are playing now is babies.  Kayda is the mommy, Dillon is the daddy and they each have a baby that they're taking care of.  This morning they each had a baby doll and they were feeding the babies and saying they were poopy to change their diapers, they were also burping the babies and singing to them.  Sometimes they even have babies in their tummies.

Kayda is very concerned that the crib isn't up yet so I told her we would be putting up the crib after we go camping in June.  We've marked on her calender when the baby is supposed to be coming so she's keeping track of that in addition to peoples' birthdays. 

Whenever I'm not feeling well and tell them that I need to lay down for a little while Dillon will ask me "Are you okay Mom?  The baby make you sick?" to which I always reply with any kind of explanation that I can come up with that it's not the baby it's Mommy's body. 

Kayda was eating breakfast one morning and was very worried that I wasn't feeding the baby so I got to explain how Mommy shares everything with baby, how I eat for baby and breathe for baby and so on.  She felt much better after that.  Now when she's eating something sometimes she'll ask me if I want to eat some for baby. 

They have so many questions about everything, it's keeping me on my toes trying to explain things in ways that they can understand. 

Dillon's THIRD Birthday!

Our sweet little boy turned three today... He seemed to enjoy it, he got a happy meal for lunch (when we go we normally don't get those) so he was pretty excited.  Later that afternoon both sets of grandparents came over for cupcakes (thanks for making those Grandma G) and presents.  Auntie Kina was even able to make it a little later.  He was VERY excited to blow out his candles and he loved opening his presents!  He thought it was just fantastic that he got to be the center of attention!

 Dancing for the new car parking garage!

 I think we're stepping into "I want to be a fireman when I grow up" territory!  Notice his lips, he was making the "water spraying" sound. 

We were going to have cousins over for some play time but they're all sick so we'll reschedule that for another time.  I don't think he noticed so it's okay. 

Fire Station "Field Trip"

Kayda's preschool class had a "field trip" to the fire station today.  Since parents bring the kids and are supposed to stay I was able to bring Dillon as well.  Dillon made a friend immediately, I thought it was funny that he chose a little boy named Dylan to befriend.  They played around most of the time together.  Of course it made it more difficult to get him to listen when he was supposed to but we managed.  I got to meet Kayda's friend Ellie that she has been telling me about also. 

Here they are getting ready to watch the fire safety video.

 Waiting to see the fire truck.

 They waited SO well in line to go in the fire truck.  They were both dancing around and jumping up and down with excitement to go in. 

 They got to walk all the way through the fire truck!

 One of the firemen put on the equipment so the kids could see it.  He talked to them with the speaker on the mask and everything!

 Here's Kayda's whole class on the fire truck.  Dillon was pretty upset he didn't get to be in this picture.

 Snack time!  Dillon didn't get to sit at the table because they barely managed to get their class around it. 

 Each of the kids got a fire hat, a badge sticker and a 911 book.  Kayda and Dillon had a great time showing them off later.