Trying to catch up

Wow, I got really behind! So much has gone on I don't even know where to begin! I guess I will start with, we are having a BOY! I was so shocked yet somehow knew. I told Steven by buying a few blue balloons. I didn't have to say a word, the blue balloons said it all. Faith likes to tell people (well, we kinda make her tell people) that she is going to have a baby brodder. :) I don't know that she fully understand yet though. I think I will talk more to the girls about it the closer we get. I have really started growing in the last few weeks! And I am finally feeling him move around. Most of the time it is just flutters, but a few times I felt some real strong movement! I love it! This is my favorite part of pregnancy, getting to feel the little one moving. It makes seeing the scale go up not so bad.

We told both of our families at Christmas and of course everyone is thrilled that we are having a little boy. It is almost like I am pregnant again for the 1st time, not the 3rd. I know people would be happy if we had a girl, but having something different...people just seem to react differently. Now we need to think up a name! I am so clueless! I think we are kinda getting around to some ideas, but no where near picking anything concrete.

Christmas was wonderful. We had 3 full days in a row of Christmas actually. Thursday we spent with us 4 and then onto Steven's family. Friday we hung out with my family and on Saturday we spent the day with Steven's extended family. It was a busy weekend! Of course, I started getting sick the week before, then Cadence got sick and Steven, Faith seems to be the only one who really didn't get too affected. Steven is now sick and I am still recovering from my cold. My whole family actually was sick the week of Christmas and a lot of Steven's family was as well. It made for an interesting time, but we all made the best of it.

Christmas morning I got up and started making some breakfast. We had no food in the house, so I made pancakes. The kids love them, so that went over very well.

This is out of order, I still don't know how to move pictures around, or if you even can!

Here are the girls enjoying there Christmas morning pancakes!

It even rained on the day of Christmas, we don't get snow, so this is as close as we can get!

Faith loved opening her gifts of course, Cadence got into it a little bit.

Yes, that is me in the background and I am wearing footsie(sp?) pj's.

I only put this in here becaue there are no pictures of me on Christmas morning, well none that look good.

Here is Steven modeling his new jeans. :) They were a little snug, but looked better as he wore them.

Faith opening their Kitchen present.

And enjoying a few (because they only got a few) presents.

I wish I had the pictures from all the other places we had Christmas, but I didn't take any. Shame on me. I did however get a video camera from my parents for Christmas! I couldn't believe it! It is so tiny! I love love love it! Now I just need to use it.

Here I am at 20 weeks pregnant. I swear I have popped out so much in the last couple of weeks! I don't feel like I look that pregnant! I think I look smaller in real life, but maybe I am just fooling myself.

We have slowly started potty training Cadence. When I say slowly I mean, putting her on the toliet a few times a day just to get her used to it. She seems so interested, so why fight it? She actually went 2 times today too! I am so proud of her. It would be so wonderful if she was potty trained by the time baby boy came! Or at least close to it! Faith potty trained at around 2 years and 9 months, so doing it at the beginning of 2 instead of the end of 2 would be awesome!

Cadence is amazing me so much. Her vocabulary has really been growing! She says so much! Some of my favorite phrases she is using are

*all done

*help me

*here you go

*Hi / Hello (instert name here)!

*bye bye

*oh yeah!

*oh my!

*Happy

*uh oh!

I am sure there are more that I am just not thinking of. Cadence noticed the moon for the first time the other night and called it a ball. Faith also told me that we can't touch the sun because it is too hot and we would need to get a bandaid.

I love these little girls, as batty as they can drive me at times. I really need to write down more then things that they say so I don't forget. I seem to forget already!

This picture is from last night when Steven and I went to the Opera to see the Magic Flute. I thought with all the none-makeup pictures I posted of myself I should post one I don't look awful in!

Well, there is my summary of the last few weeks for now. I am sure I will do a summary part 2 at some later time.