Exhausting week

Ansley has been enjoying earning her stickers all week. The tears were down to a minimum. Her teacher has a cute webpage of the going ons in her classroom. Every Friday they cook. Here are some cute photos from the fun!!
Making friendship fruit salad


This picture is so funny. Check out the kids behind the boy! Typical kindergarten classroom.


Table 3 friends.


We have had a great time doing homework during the week and learning popcorn words!! Friday they went to the science lab. She was so excited to tell me all about the fun she had.
I learned this week that even some adults can't play with sticks. We have had an abundance of sticks in our yard lately. So after the kids go to bed I take Oscar outside to burn some energy! Well Monday I snapped a stick onto my chest. That felt great! So Tuesday I tried to up that accident with throwing a stick directly into my eye at full speed. Yes, that takes talent. Immediately my eye went black and blood started coming out. At that moment all I could think was my eyeball is gone. My mom was so kind to rush over to the house so Bob could drive me to the Northside ER. All the urgent cares around us closed at 7. The ER was very nice thank goodness all the puckers seemed to not be there. It is amazing how many times I had to tell people I was pregnant. It is pretty obvious that I am. When the doctor finally came in and apologized for taking so long because he glued his hand to a patients head he checked my eye out and put a patch on and gave me some heavy pain killers and sent us on our way. I really think people who go to the ER go there for some easy access to strong drugs. Why give me such heavy drugs for my eye especially if I am pregnant. The nurse joked that the baby would love it. I really didn't find that funny. Nor was the pain that bad for drugs with codeine in it. Needless to say those went straight to the trash! I did have to take a day of work off to visit the opthamologist. Luckily, the stick only left me with nasty cornea abrasions. My eye should be back to normal with in two weeks. The best part is I am the running joke of the family. If the kids are doing something crazy Bob likes to remind them about my eye. Now I not only get daily updates from Ansley about how big my belly is getting but she likes to inform me that my eye is looking "much more better."
James and potty training update:
James is a rock star. He remained dry the rest of the week. He is beginning to run to the bathroom without me having to remind him. He is still too short for the toliet so he has almost cracked his head trying to get up by himself. Poop is still a mess. But he is definitely grossed out by it. Last night we we at the pool with Kristy and Brian and the kids. The kids were playing in the baby pool and us adults were sitting at the table enjoying a quiet moment. James got out of the pool and was standing next to it in a way that looked like he was peeing into the pool. So we are all laughing at him because he had a squirt gun so it really looked like he was. Well that funny moment turned real when he gave me the look of fear and grossed out. Yep, he did the unthinkable..poop! I couldn't get mad at him because I was laughing so hard. I did have to thank him for getting out of the pool to do it.

Christine

Game day!!

Christine

Fun in the grass

Christine

Second week of school

The second week of kindergarten was a bit tougher for Ansley and I.
It is wonderful having her with me but we all know how kids like to play their parents. So the bell rings and the tears start flooding. With the help of some mommy advice we have dried up the tears and ended the week with a smile. However, I have no more quiet peaceful car rides in the morning(which I wouldn't trade). On Friday Ansley woke up with tons of questions. The 20 min car ride was full of 5 year old knowledge. As most conversations start she asked when the baby was going to get here. I explained to her the timeline. She asked why again. I explained to her that the baby still needs to grow inside of me and he can't live outside of me right now. She asked if he drools inside of me. Hmmm.... I told Ansley I wasn't sure but I will ask the doctor. She continued on and asked if the drool was hot or cold. This is when I chuckled.

Potty training update:
James has gone all week in big boy pants with only 3 minor accidents. Poop is still far from making it to the potty but it is manageable.

Christine

Ice cream and disappearing tooth!

Yesterday we met up with Caroline and the kids and had some ice cream. Frances and  Ansley have been going through withdrawals because they don't get to see each other as  much being at different schools. Frances actually wrote her a letter. Thomas has been trying to give James away lately. Caroline asked him what he wanted to get Boo for her birthday and he said to give her James. He also tends to throw James under the bus..such as who spilled the stuff on the chair, James, knowing good and well James hasn't been his apartment. Gotta love the kids creativity. However, Thomas has decided to keep James now!
The boys were to busy to pose for the camera! I have to also mention that James is on day 3 of wearing big boy pants and no accidents!!

 Ansley has had a second tooth hanging by a thread for days now. So I sent her to school on Wednesday with a ziplock bag hoping to see a tooth in it by the end of the day. This tooth was black and blue by the end of the day. She wouldn't let me pull it so we headed to ice cream with the cousins. At the end of ice cream I told Ansley to show Caroline her tooth in hopes she would let Caroline pull it. She comes over and opens her mouth and it is GONE!! She was eating mint chocolate chip in a cone. No blood, no tears equals a successful losing of a tooth!!! I haven't had the heart to tell her that the tooth is probably in her tummy. She just thinks that it is lost at the ice cream place. Here is the letter she wrote to the Tooth Fairy!

Homework and Classwork

Ansley has been coming home with the best pictures she has drawn at school. They are reading a book about David. Here are some cute pictures she drew.

 David.

 I think she called this one Drew.

 Ansley informed me this is the cowgirl.

 Here is her first homework assignment. Easy but she loved making it rainbow colors.

Baby #3 Anatomy Check

Thursday we went in for another anatomy check ultrasound. They wanted to recheck the baby since we had been at the specialist during this check. No one seemed worried so I just thought it was because we went before 20 weeks so they wanted to check him out again. Come to find out the specialist told my doctor that my placenta was low.  No sigh of that today. I was upset at first that no one told me this but it was best for everyone that I didn't know this. I probably would have been a train wreck had I known this information. I am now 23 weeks and 5 days!!! Before the ultrasound today I actually remembered to eat something and drink water and not use the bathroom. Well baby was not cool with this. He was full of energy. Even suprising the tech by trying to jump out of my stomach. He was doing a lot fish "talking" so we got some good pictures of this. As usual he was spreading his legs and showing us that he is all boy just like his brother.
Here are a couple profile pictures.

 This picture is disturbing to me!!

 My favorite picture of him because he is talking to us! When we first put the ultrasound on him his mouth was wide open right at us! So cool!!!

 Big feet like his brother!!

 We took Ansley with us to this ultrasound mostly because it was easier and less complicated. She just smiled the entire time. Loved hearing the heartbeat. She was mostly concerned with the stuff on my belly and if it was hurting me. I also got a flu shot so that just put her over the edge. She did manage to throw us a fun question in the ultrasound on how the baby is going to get out of me. We dodged that question with the baby moving on the ultrasound. Pretty sure the tech Melissa got a giggle out of that!! Overall everything looked good. He weighs around 1 pound and 4 ounces and is measuring 3 days behind. Ever since this ultrasound he has been trying to beat my body up. I think he was angry we woke him up during nap time. Oh dear!!