Happy Halloween!

Halloween has been a long time coming in our house this year. We decorated the house towards the end of September, before I was scheduled to have my ankle surgery. Then the surgery got canceled. So we made some crafts, made some yummy food, including sugar cookies in the shapes of pumpkins, bats, and leaves. The kids also frosted the cookies and Jase discovered that green and orange make brown (kinda - I think it was more of a puke green and I couldn't eat any of those cookies :)).

Then we had our annual trunk or treat at church and we all had fun. Jase had his school Halloween parade and party. And now finally tonight, trick or treating around our block. It is a cold one out, but I am glad it stopped raining.

We have one pretty sweet and adorable puppy dog, and one protective turtle named Leonardo. Thankfully with him around we stay safe!

Surgery, No Surgery

This week has been truly interesting and exciting. Most of the excitement happened on Tuesday. It began with needing to be to the hospital by 6:15a and it is a 45 min drive depending on traffic. I was needing surgery on my ankle that I broke back in February as I have a bone chip interfering with my joint. So, our good friend Carrie was going to come and watch the kids until 7a when they get up and then transfer over to her house to get ready for school and the day.

I was planning on getting up at 5a, but the day before Meghan got her Kindergarten shots (4 of them) and already had a cold, which put her poor little immune system into overdrive. She woke up with a fever at 4a and wouldn't go back to sleep. Jase was up at that time too, so we got up super early that morning.

Since the kids were wired and ready to go to their friend's house, we just dropped them off at Carrie's house at 5:30a and headed to the hospital. Even at 5:30a the traffic on the expressway was nuts in places. I'm really glad I don't have to drive on the expressways to get to work each day - I think I would go nuts...

We get to the hospital a little after 6a and I get called back to get prepped for surgery. I've had several surgeries, so none of this new to me really. Part of getting prepped included a urine sample. The nurse comes back and gets ready to start the IV. Just then an older nurse walks past and calls my nurse out of the room.

Then, I see my Dr walk in the prep area and a couple minutes later he walks into my room. He says that we are going to have to cancel the surgery today and I ask why.

He says "You're pregnant" and pats my leg.

I am surprised to say the least. We have been trying since January and I've been very irregular, so every pregnancy test has come back negative that I've taken and yes I've taken several. I tell him this and he is excited for us. He goes out and gets Joe in the waiting room and leaves us alone for a couple minutes so I can tell him. He is excited too. So, I get unprepped and we even get our co-pay back (that was unexpected too) and go to Cracker Barrel for breakfast since I'm starving. Then we head back home to get Meghan and enjoy my one day off (not 5-10 like I had planned for after surgery). I mentioned to Joe that this baby is already making me pay by having ankle pain for another year before I can have surgery.

Now I need to schedule an OB appt soon, since I have no idea how far along I am. I could be 4 weeks or 12 weeks. Wednesday morning I go in and spend 1.5 hours with a very talkative (and nice) nurse practitioner. She thinks I could be as far along as 13 weeks, but I don't really think that is possible for a couple reasons. I have always know when I was pregnant by week 4-5, and with my pregnancy with Meghan, my pants were getting snug by week 6. We schedule all my lab work (they are very pro-active here with labs) and ultrasound for Friday afternoon, to set my due date officially.

Thursday I spend an hour in the lab and the tech loves hearing about how I found out about #3. It truly is a funny story.

I wonder how many times my Podiatrist has told his patients that they are pregnant!

Meghan and Jase are both excited and they each want a sister/brother (Meghan - sister, Jase - brother). Meghan has been singing nonstop "We're going to have a baby" and repeat 20 million times. Jase is hugging and kissing my belly. It will be fabulous fun this time with them both being older. With my pregnancy with Meghan, Jase was 20-28 months old, so most of it over him. Not this time though. I've also always wanted 4 kids, but I was hoping that I wouldn't have twins (can you say super exhausting!).

Now on to Friday and the ultrasound. About half way through I asked if there was just one and she yes. She also said I measured at 5 weeks 6 days and my due date is May 26, 2012.

So there you have it - Holdaway baby #3 coming May 2012!

Kids grow up so fast

I finally got around to getting Picasa back on the laptop after upgrading to Windows 7. As I was scrolling through the few hundred folders of pictures, I realized that I'm getting sad at how fast my kids are growing up. In some ways it is nice to have them older and mostly potty trained, as outings are easier and require less baggage. But then again I really miss the days of endless snuggling and baby smells. And my kids when they were like this:

Popsicles and relaxing...

There is nothing like eating a popsicle while sitting on the table in your unders watching a movie!







Then some relaxing in your pjs after a bath...

Time to read

In our family we love to read. Daddy, mommy, and the midgets; we all love to read. And we all read anything and everything.

Here daddy and the midgets are reading some of the books we got at the library last week.


What are your favorite family story time books to read?

Christmas pics

If only we could have gotten one with the 2 of them together, but when Meghan was happy, Jase wouldn't cooperate, and when Jase was ready, Meghan was screaming. Maybe next year...