Happy New Year!

Parker and I played with the camera yesterday and heres what I got. I have some funny looking cross-eyed ones too that are hilarious but I decided not to post those. I'm loving the new camera btw. These were taken with an ISO of like 1600 or 2000 and there is a little noise but not much where it is too distracting. Like I said LOVE IT!

In other news, Coley is getting tubes! We saw the ENT yesterday and the surgery is scheduled for January 14th. I'm excited he'll be "normal" again. He's very whiney lately and wants his "bobo" (binky) ALL THE TIME! We were doing good too with just nap time and bedtime and then another ear infection hit. So we'll be starting that again after the surgery. He's on yet another antibiotic that will take us close to the surgery date. So far so good on him taking it...it's strawberry flavored. Whew!

Not much else going on really! I'm tired, very tired all the time. I have the motivation of a ROCK! I kid you not. I'm now 9 weeks along and looking forward to the second trimester. Hopefully I'll get some energy back and the nausea will go away for good...the headaches too. Other than that doing great. Parker is super excited about the baby in my belly. He gives the baby hugs and kisses all the time. He also loves to see how big the baby is getting through my weekly emails from babycenter.com This week the baby is the size of a grape and he comprehends that...so cool! He's going to be a GREAT big brother, again!

Off to edit some photos on this New Year's Eve!

I hope everyone has a SAFE and HAPPY New Year!

Merry Christmas and our "bean"!

So here is our first picture of baby #3. Cute huh?! lol Looks like a blog but that blob has a heartbeat which was amazing to see flickering on the screen. And the good news is there is
only ONE baby. Woohoo! This little one is causing me all kinds of nauseaousness through the day and headaches. Whew neither of the boys did this to me. So maybe it's a girl???!!!....hoping! Bill says boy still. I have a tendency when I'm pregnant to start "disliking" something that I would normally
do a lot. With Cole it was scrapbooking. The thought of scrapbooking just made me sick. Luckily,
that changed after I had him so he does have the start of a baby book. Well with the one it's the internet. I don't HAVE to check my email 50 times a day and I'm lucky if I turn the computer on before 5 p.m. So that is affecting my blogging...so sorry! And really my nausea and tiredness is really nothing to blog about. So I'm going to try and post with pictures too. I don't think I've just
taken snaps of the boys since the christmas card pics. Bad. Very bad.

Anyway, I messed up tonight and forgot to leave cookies for Santa. I remembered when he was already asleep. Whoops! I took pics so I could show him we left him some.

On another note, Coley had a follow up appt. on his ears. The right ear is still infected. GREAT! Which means yet another 10 day round of antibiotics. This round is different than the rest and apparently tastes so bad that it cannot be flavored. SUPER GREAT! So he's had ONE full dose of meds in 2 days. NICE! It smells nasty and has a chalky consistency. YUMMO! About 5 minutes after he takes it he still gags because of the awful taste. We've tried giving him a popsicle to eat before and after the med and still tastes nasty. Poor guy! He wipes his tongue on his shirt too.

Wishing everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS from our house to yours!

Christmas pj's and our tree!

So the boys wanted to wear their Christmas jammies tonight. I didn't mind I wanted to get pics like this by the tree after reading/seeing some awesome ones on ILP. Well mine are not as awesome as the ones on there but I'm happy with it.

Sooo....

I was totally planning a blog post in which I listed all my favorite things as of late. Well, that changed about 15 minutes ago when I noticed Cole's ear at the dinner table. His left ear drum is
RUPTURED. So that is 2 ruptured ear drums, one right and now left, since Sept. 18 of this year. The left was ruptured last year as well. This child has pretty much been on antibiotics since mid Sept. and I'm tired. Tired of trying to sneak his meds into his drinks and food. He fights and spits and it just gets ugly otherwise. For those that didn't know 2 weeks ago both boys were diagnosed with double ear infections. Our re-check appt. is Friday morning at 8. I'm guessing Cole's will be
tomorrow instead now...I'll be calling first thing in the morning. Our doc is out til the end of them month so I hope this other doc talks tubes with us. I'm thinking that is the only way my Coley's ears will be pain free for longer than a week.

Christmas outakes #3!

I went to a friend's house last week to reshoot her boys and I "thought" I might be able to capture a pic of my boys "together!" Yeah, right! They wouldn't so much as sit by one another. It's not P either he LOVES his Coley. It's Cole. Why on earth would he sit next to his brother? I'm so glad he likes candy and I'll be able to use it for bribery in the future. So here is the ONE and only shot of Cole. And one of P and his goofy smiles...man he's getting so big!

On another note, I've FINALLY completed our christmas card. I had a super duper hard time creatively with it. Then one night it just "all came together." I'm so excited to send them, but first I must order them. So you may just get one by Dec. 25th!

We're growing...

our family that is! We found out last Monday that we expecting baby #3. I wasn't planning on telling so early, but I found out that the Swansea firemen know so I wanted to let their wives know it is true. So very sorry that you heard it from your husbands. I assure you that is not how I intended on sharing our news. (btw, I know who you are) ;)

The due date according to the web is August 4, 2009. I'm planning July. Parker was 2 weeks early and Cole was 4 so I think it's better to just say July. Tomorrow I'll be 5 weeks along. Besides being exhausted and gassy I'm doing great. My time is coming. Bill and I are thrilled at the news. It was planned but still kind of shocking once reality set in...we'll be outnumbered. God has truly blessed us as a family.

Bill's reaction to the news! Awful, awful picture but do you see that SMILE I don't think it could get any bigger. Oh and after he read the card P and I made he said, "Well you might as well write CHAOS on the front of our house!" I'm sure it will be quite chaotic for awhile but we'll have fun.