Some pictures of the kids

Bridget finally brought me a CD of pictures she took at Christmas at my parents' house. Here's one I liked of the kids enjoying way-too-big cookies. Here is a sneak peak of baby #3, taken on May 5.

Since last time...

* I had a Ladies Night Out with moms from Bennett's ECFE class
* Bennett had his last ECFE class of the school year
* Mike went solo to Denmark, WI for a softball tournament, and the kids and I had a blast on our own.
* I helped Hope celebrate her birthday with the gang; we had a great dinner at Kincaid's, while A and B slept over at Grandma and Grandpa's.
* B had his last music class at MacPhail
* We attended Mike's youngest sister's high school graduation on Friday night. Congratulations Sarah, and best of luck at NDSU in the fall!
* We got home this evening, and we are looking forward to a day at home tomorrow. We pulled the pop up trailer home from Mike's parents' house, so the camping season can begin!

Surprise!

For those of you who I haven't spilled it to yet- yup, we're have a THIRD!!! We're so excited, and I'm finally starting to get some energy back. Annalise turned to me today as we were watching a show on Discovery called Deliver Me, and said, "you're not having a baby, are you?" so we had the talk then and there. I was planning on telling her pretty soon, so I had a book to read with her, and then tell her the news. When B got up from nap, we told him the news, and he just said, "no." We'll see if he comes around...

It will be so nice to finally be able to freely blog- maybe that's why I wasn't posting very often; I felt like I had to restrain myself. We have an appointment with the midwife tomorrow, and we'll discuss moving my due date up from November 10th to the 1st or possible Halloween, based on the baby's size on my nuchal translucency ultrasound a few weeks ago.

One cute Bennett thing, just to show he's still my baby...we were grocery shopping yesterday, and he was shouting in the dairy section, "I'm shy! I'm shy!" He learns so many sayings from big sister! That's B- my little introvert.

Insomnia!

-a great way to get some posting done! And with backdating and timing, you don't even know how crazy I am! I had a stomachache last night, one of those times where you don't know if you're hungry or sick, so I had a string cheese stick, but that didn't help. I woke up around 2:20, and the rest is history.

Photography Experiment

Bennett and I were playing in the backyard on Tuesday morning, and I tried my hardest to get a cute close-up picture of him. It was a workout! He wouldn't stop moving on his trike all over the back yard, but we had a lot of fun.

B especially is enjoying being out in the yard more often- now if only the weather would cooperate! We were at cousin Adryen's birthday party today, and the kids really had fun playing in his sandbox. We should definitely consider adding one to our backyard, maybe in the spot where we can't get grass to grow anyway.

We heard some great news from Bridget and Steve on their quest to move back to MN. They were in town this weekend, for their second try at house hunting. Well, they found a house, made an offer, got them to cancel an open house half an hour before starting time, and the offer was accepted! I took a look at the MLS pictures, and it is a really nice looking place in Richfield.

Music to My Ears

Annalise: "May I have more edamame, please?"

We had steamed edamame sprinkled with sea salt the other night, and both the kids really liked it! It was really amazing, yet I had to play it cool, because I didn't want A to sense how excited I was that she was eating something green (and not artificially colored green high fructose corn syrup, either)! Mike wasn't dining with us this evening- too bad, for I would have loved him to be able to experience the joy that I was, basking in my children enjoying vegetables!

Mike's Doppleganger?

My friend Kory sent me this ad, thinking that it looked like Mike. What do you think?

Last Week of April!

We had a nice weekend at home. We went to a Little Gym party on Saturday, and signed A up for gymnastics in the fall. She will be taking a night class, since she will be starting full days (until 3:30) at Little Flowers in the fall. Mike took a trip to Home Depot, and got a new blade for the table saw, so all is ready to go with the trim in the garage. I am so anxious to get the truck back in the garage, oh, and I suppose to get the basement finished too, but that doesn't even seem like it will happen anymore.

Tomorrow, G and G are coming over in the afternoon to hang out with B, while Mike and I attend A's open house at school. She's excited to show us what she's been working on lately. I don't think I blogged last week that Mike had his first fastpitch game of the season on Wednesday, but he did, and we all went to cheer him on (and to play on the adjacent playground). It always pleasantly surprises me how much my kids enjoy being at the softball field- they must have gotten that from their daddy! Mike has another game this Wednesday, but I think I'll keep the kids at home, and shoot for an early bedtime. That's about all we've got going on this week, which is fine by me! I'm going to have to take some good pictures; I haven't taken many lately.