Project 365 continues

Well it's the end of the first month of project 365. I have done fairly well. I am missing a few days here and theer and I could have very easily thrown my hands in the air and said forget it, but I decided that I would accept that I'm not perfect and continue from here on out and try to do my best. I'm actually not missing as many days as I had thought maybe 3 in total, but I have 3 days of pictures on my phone and need to figure out how to get them onto my computer.
So I'll share some more of our pictures.

20 weeks and it's a BOY!

Today officially marks the 1/2 way mark. This pregnancy has been very rocky. in the begining we were told that it may not even be a viable pregnancy and at one point we were asked if we wanted to terminate it. After a resounding NO from us, they gave us another week to wait and one last ultrasound. Low and behold at our 8 week ultrasound we were told there was a strong heart beat and it must have just been too early to see on ultrasound before. Then at 19 weeks we had our big ultrasound, we found out we are having a BOY! We are very excited to have another little boy and think it will be great for the boys to have another brother. 2 days after having the ultrasound we were called by the doctor. I knew this couldn't be good, they never call to tell you everything is ok. They told us that there was a part of the babies head that was slightly enlarged and we needed to go to Dartmouth Hitchcock to see a high risk OB. Luckily they called and were able to get us in the next day. So on Thursday we headed up to the hospital. We met with a genetic councilor first and then had another ultrasound and met with the Doctor. Docotor Kaufman was wonderful and didn't beat around the bush in telling us that everything was fine and it must have been the angle that the ultrasound tech was looking at. We were so relieved to hear that eveything was fine.
I'm starting to feel the baby move more and more and can't wait for Brady and Cameron to feel it. Brady came with us to our first Ultrasound and got to see his brother on TV. he thought that was pretty cool. Although it's another boy we are going to need a few things, we need to get a new Carrier as our old one will have expired, and clothes are a very different season. the boys were born going into fall/winter and this little guy is being born going into the summer so we will need new clothes. Can't wait to start buying some cute summer outfits! Only 20 more weeks! or less ( considering I'm usually induced before my due date) until we meet our little June Bug!

Project 365 continues Jan. 5th -10th

Project 365 day 2

There are 2 pictures for today. I had to get pictures of the boys in their own beds in the same room. and NO, I didn't turn the light on, I found a really good setting on my camera.

Project 365

I heard about this project from a friend and after googling it I found out what it is. The goal is to take a picture every day for 365 Days. The pictures can be of anything, of course knowing me it will most likely be of my children, but I am going to try to take pictures of things that inspire me or I feel are picture worthy, shall we say. Then we will be able to look back at our year in pictures. I'm taking on this challenge. So I started tonight. I felt it only fitting for my first picture to be of the boys being their usual silly selves.

Day 1 of 365
The boys being silly at bath time!

Christmas 2009

After comming home from Christmas Eve dinner the boys had Reinder food to put outside that we had made.

After that it was time to come inside and put out our cookies for Santa and then read "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Christmas morning was a blast! the boys opened their presents and played with all of them!

Vigilia 2009

On Christmas eve we celebrate Vigilia (the polish Christmas eve) with Brian's family. It is a wonderful tradition, I am so glad our children are going to have such a wonderful tradition to carry on for years to come.

Brady's First Christmas Concert

In preschool today Brady had his first concert! his class came into the church and they sang songs and used the rythm sticks and he played a drum he made while they walked into the little drummer boy. He was so excited that the Christmas outfit I got him had a tie with it. He couldn't wait to get to school today! He had pleanty of support from family, Brian and I were there along with Cameron and Brian's parents and sister came also. It took him a few minutes to warm up with such a big audience but he did a great job!!!

Now I know my ABC's

On Monday Brady was playing with his magnadoodle and came running up to me, "mommy I made an H" Well he certainly had! he then also went on to make a B and an I. He has been using a Leapster letter toy that he got for his birthday that has you follow the lights to write the letter and tells you the sounds. Brady is to the point now that he can hear a word and tell you what letter it starts with. He is doing so well! We are really proud of him.

15 weeks!

So I'm 15 weeks into this pregnancy, I did have some nausea until about two weeks ago but am feeling better. Unfortunately i have been getting headaches alot. I just recently started going to the chiropractor and I'm hoping this will help. I have been trying to make it to the gym, but having to go at 4:45 in the morning can be difficult. I have been averaging about 3 days a week, but would like to increase that to 5 days a week. Brady is super excited and gives the baby kisses all the time, Cameron still doesn't quite get it. He will be moving out of his room after Christmas and into Brady's room, I'm hoping that goes well.

We have our big ultrasound on January 7th. We still haven't decided if we will find out the gender of the baby. We may keep everyone guessing until the end!!!

The First Snow

Saturday night before Brady went to bed, Brian showed him that it was snowing out. BIG MISTAKE! Brady woke up at 5AM singing in his room and asking if he could go out and play in the snow. After Cameron got up we had a nice breakfast of home made waffles and sausage (thank you dada) and went outside to play in the snow. Cameron was all excited to go outside, then he realized that snow is wet. Something Cameron doesn't really like right now. So we stayed out for a while but eventually came in, leaving Brady and dada to play in the snow. Once Brady and Dada came in we had hot cocoa which of course both boys loved. we are looking forward to many more fun times in the snow.

New Family Portraits

Every year around this time we get new photos done of the family for Christmas cards. While I wasn't overly fond of the girl who took out pictures she did manage to get one nice shot of each of the boys, and a nice family one. I also took some pictures before we left seeing as we were all dressed up for pictures anyway!

Atkinson tree lighting

Last night we went to the Atkinson tree lighting, along with Brian's parents, grandmother and sister. The choir led Christmas carols and santa arrived to see the kids. the boys had fun, and Brady even sat on santa's lap. I Love this time of year!

Christmas came early!

Okay, okay so we know it's early but Brady has been dying to put the christmas tree up and well, so have I. So instead of waiting until next Friday we decided to do it today. Brady had such a good time putting all the ornaments on, Cameron put some on but was more fascinated with the lights and all. My favorite time of the year is HERE!!!

An Early Thanksgiving Dinner

With thanksgiving coming up we decided to have our own Thanksgiving dinner for the daycare kids. Okay so we didn't cook a turkey for them, they had chicken nuggets, but we did make stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash and cranberry sauce. Of course most of the kids didn't really touch the sides and only ate the chicken nuggets but atleast they were exposed to some othe food before Thanksgiving and maybe they'll try it on Thanksgiving. We had fun and so did the kids and that's all that really counts right?

Our New "Breakfast Nook"

I just finished a weekend project - I made a "breakfast nook" by taking out the wall between our kitchen and living room. You can see the before and after pictures below. Note that the original "before" pictures were taken in 2007 when I cut a hole in the wall to add a window. Then I took the window out to take down the whole wall to create the breakfast bar.

Baby # 3!

This is our (official) web-nouncement that Baby Stack #3 is on the way. Erica is due June 4th, 2010.

Trick or Treat

The boys had a fabulous time Trick or Treating, We were able to go to so many more houses this year! The boys went as Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. Shanna and Dave joined us with Mackenzie and the Wicks' joined us with David and Sean. A fun night had by all.