It's a girl and more...

Let me just say, it has been an emotional day. I don't know if I want to sit here and cry with relief or jump up and down for joy or both actually! Today is a good day!

Before I get too deep... I am excited to announce that on Saturday Dustin and I had our 2nd sonogram for Peanut Fluke and she is confirmed to be a girl. Yes, that is #4 for our family. Yes, Dustin will forever be out numbered and forever be waiting for a bathroom to open up. And Yes, she will get new stuff just as the others did when we had them. We have heard it all...

Here I am waiting for the appointment. We went to KC to get a 2D sono and DVD. This gal is awesome. She is so welcoming, affordable, and has the coolest equipment.

20 weeks and 2 days along...

Dustin is signing an "official" contract tomorrow for his job! He called me today and everything is confirmed and ready for his meeting with HR. This is a HUGE blessing in so many ways I can not even begin to explain without tearing up. The biggest and most of a stress relief is that it will bring medical coverage for me when we thought I couldn't get covered due to being pregnant before he accepted the job.

Looking back this has to be the 2nd hardest year of my life, the first one being the year my mom had her stroke. We have had many challenges and decisions that have had to be made but not just for Dustin and I but for our children.

I openly give praise to God who knew the future of our family.

So, here we are with so much on our plate as a family and the greatest thing as knowing we have a healthy growing baby girl growing and a job that provides.

finger painting with pudding

love using things you can eat for crafts...

It makes us happy....

And clean up is real easy!!!

Letter F and Community Helpers!

This was week 2 of exploring our Community Helper theme. Each day we discussed a different person who helps us. Monday we talked about doctors and nurses. We made a collage using medical supplies like band aids, gauze, and cotton balls. Tuesday we discussed constrution workers. We had fun building with blocks, using tools on our toy toy bunch, and "fixing" stuff! Wednesday we talked about teachers. We used a lot of fine motor/pincer grasping to peel "teacher" stickers off and decorate our paper. Sounds easy but for 2-4 year olds, it can prove to be a challenge. We also talked about clerks and people that work at the food stores. The kids looked though cooking magazines and put together a collage of food items. To end our week, we talked about chefs. We finger painted on chefs hats and decorated them with sprinkles.

Whew! What a fun week we have had talking about people that help us! We also came up with ideas on how we can be community helpers and help others too!!! Enjoy some pictures from the week!

our teacher sticker collage

while making our chef puppets, my older group worked on cutting them out... they are doing an awesome job

Our finished product... chef puppets

our letter of the week... F is for flowers
(Sorry mom about the pudding face)
We also hopped like Frogs, pretended to Fly, and ate French Fries...um...all F things!!!

Wednesday night madness...

at our house is now a weekly thing. Our church home, has started an awesome program Awana's. Until this year, I was in the dark as to what this program was. I thought it would be a fun time for the girls, a free night for me, and a chance to read some bible verses.
Ahem... I was wrong. This program is so much more then that and I am so excited to be a part of it! So, because of the awesomeness of the program, it makes our crazy, meltdown, past bed time, rushing around night all worth it!

Here is Gaby... she is in the Sparks program. They had to memorize a bible verse in order to earn their vest and hand book.

Remember I said I thought it would be a free night for me...??? Well, because a dear friend from our small group talked to me about the program and of course she was a group leader, I had mom guilt and signed up as well! And, even though the day makes for a long one, I LOVE doing it! It is awesome it is to see how God works through these kids even at such an early age!!!

So, here I am in my cubbie shirt and gear with my favorite Sparks girl.

And here is my cutest cubbie... Kadyn and I are in the same red cubbie group. She had to memorize an A verse and C verse to get her vest. I was able to see her tell another leader her verses tonight in order to get her vest! She was so excited!!! And, I was proud!

Another picture in the blueberry shirt! This would be my second one as the first one was too short and too tight. Wearing this shirt every Wednesday night would be the only draw back I have... they are itchy! But, I get it and I am proud to wear it even if I do look like a blueberry.

I am up for the challenge of having dinner ready at 5:00 so we can leave by 5:30, I am okay with getting kids ready for club and my mom out the door for bible study, and I am most certainly ready for the motivation, education, and family time this program will bring to our girls and family!

just waiting....

I am waiting for the day I can capture a good picture of all of my daughters
I am waiting to hear on a bid that can change our life
I am waiting until the brownies come out of the oven
I am waiting 20 more weeks to meet our newest member of our family
I am waiting for a new start
I am waiting for Mia and Kadyn's hair bows to come in the mail
I am waiting for our fall trip to Worlds of Fun
I am waiting for Awana's to see how many 3-5 year old say their memory verses again
I am waiting for a contract to be signed that lets go of a lot of stress
I am waiting for Ugly Betty to start back up
I am waiting until 5:00 when Dustin comes home
I am waiting to mend a relationship
I am waiting for picture day tomorrow
I am waiting for a day without a meltdown due to peanut's hormones
I am waiting for Gaby to go to school to see if she has a better week
I am waiting on a night that Kadyn will put her PJ's in the Dora hamper
I am waiting for my scrapbook weekend in October
I am waiting for my hair to do something cool, trendy, and cute
I am waiting to learn patience
I am waiting to get off Facebook and do something with my nap time
I am waiting to see how many comment on the first day of fall
I am waiting to be a better wife, mother, and daughter
I am waiting for the day I think before I react
I am waiting for the day I can type out the word "daughter" and not have to auto correct the spelling-never can get that right
I am waiting to have a closer walk with God
I am waiting on the parent book that tells me how to raise the perfect child
I am waiting for a bubble bath tonight and hoping there is hot water left
I am waiting for the laundry to fold itself
I am waiting for Mia to take her first steps

And I wait.... so, what are you waiting for???

people that help us week 2....

We are continuing our community helper theme this week. Today the occupation was discussed today was doctors. We read some fun books that explained what doctors do and how they help us. After circle time we made a "medical collage" out of supplies you would find at a nurse or doctors office!

And because you can't talk about doctors with out dress up... we had pretend play!!!
Oh, to hear the topic that came up this morning!!!

We all had masks and some stayed on longer then others.

Here is Dr. Gaby

Dr. P and patient F... luckily for us, she only had a fever! Whew!

Dr. J told me, "I save your life today".

Even my little ones had fun dressing up... Little A kept saying, "no sick, no sick". I don't think she understood the pretend play part of it yet!!! =)
I was focusing in on the little ones in front but if you see the bigger kids in back... there is some serious doctor playing going on!

And here K is ready the results of a test to her daycare friend... she was coming up with some funny diagnoses.

To finish our morning, we had some apple slices and learned the saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

things that make me smile...

after coming home from a long night... seeing our 3 little blessings...

being delivered my first birthday present of the day from Gaby... she actually took 5.00 from her piggy bank to give to me for my special day. She said, " It is 5 one dollars so you can do something for you".

making brownies with my daycare kids this morning so when nap time is over we can have a special b-day treat...

watching Gaby enjoy Shark Boy and Lava girl 3D...

having this little girls face to look at everyday...

and watching Kadyn do her favorite thing in the entire world... eat 3 crunchy tacos from tico taco in the van...