Week 47

* We had our Thanksgiving with my family on Saturday. We had a good time but boy was I so tired by the time we got home.

* Katelynn and Mark absolutely love to ride their scooters and bikes out in the front yard or the circle as Katelynn calls it

* We were pretty crafty this week. I made a Nativity Sign, and with the kids we made Hand and footprint Turkeys, angels, and Snickerdoodles. We have the next week off from school so I am sure that we will be crafting some more.

* 22 weeks down less than 18 to go.

Week 46 - better late than never

* We had fun in our little leaf pile this week.

* This is my new favorite picture of Mark. Not too many things will get this huge of a smile out of him. But fire trucks will do it. especially if there is a siren sound.

* Katelynn winked at me this week by using her fingers to close her eyelid. 

Week 45

* This year is just going to scream to a close, as every year seems to do.

* Mark has been nodding his head for a few weeks when you ask him a question and when he does he also nods his eyebrows. I don't know how he does it but it is the cutest thing.

* He likes to say "Yellow, blue" we thought that he was referring to the colors but he says it all the time and I haven't figured out what he is actually trying to say. So, now Ben will say at random times."Yellow"

* We went up to the Sugar Pine Railroad on Saturday and the kids loved it. It was a nice little quick day trip. Now Ben wants to go back when there is snow! Oh Dear.

    A selfie picture on a bumpy train and wiggly kids.

* I have started having random single contractions about once a day or less, as long as they don't get regular I'm not worried, just something new with this pregnancy

* Katelynn has homework everyfew weeks and this week we made a leaf and wrote what we were thankful for as a family, We had mommy, daddy, Mark, church, family, friends, hands, school, toys and Katelynn made sure I wrote Barbie on it.

Week 44

* We are excited to announce this week that we will be adding a little boy to our family! I totally thought that it would be a girl. I am shocked but so happy that he is looking healthy on ultrasound. We actually went in for our ultrasound on 10/22 and as I was telling the tech that we thought it was a girl as she put the probe on my belly and said, "It's a boy!" and there was no mistaking it either.

* Katelynn had her first school party and I was able to help out with it. It was nice to see how things work in her class a little bit and to see how she is doing. She had a good week so we are all happy about that.

* For Halloween Katelynn was a Super Girl and Mark was a Dinosaur, for about 5 minutes. I had seen these skeleton shirts for a couple years and so I got one for Halloween. The baby was wearing a green little tie. It was quite amazing to see how many people didn't "Get" that the baby wearing a tie meant that it was a boy.

* After trick-or-treating at our families houses we ended the night at Nate and Emilie's house for a little party they had put together. Their little Maddie was so excited to see the kids she started taking more and more steps trying to keep up with them. She is such a little cutie.