:::FAMILY OF 3 SOON TO BE FAMILY OF 4:::

Most who know us already have heard our pretty great news!

I couldn't be more excited to announce that our family and our hearts will be growing to include another little bundle of joy!!!

His/Her Due date is November 21st.

Olivia understands pretty well that I have a baby in my tummy and that she gets to be a big sister:)

She LOVED going to the Dr. to see pictures of her new little sibling.

We have been trying to get pregnant since June of last year.

We were so excited when we found out in November that we were pregnant!

About a week before christmas, We had a miscarriage and was such a hard thing to have happen.

So, needless to say I have been so nervous with this pregnancy.

August 1st will come and i'll be comforted by the fact that i'll have only had to delay holding my baby!

At the first sign of sickness I was so happy! Sickness usually = healthy baby.

Lol, being happy about being sick QUICKLY passed!

I pretty much stuck to the couch weeks 6-9!

Olivia was a champ, She took care of Mom and made sure I was ok:)

week 10 almost all sign of sickness went away!

Only to return with a vengeance for week 11:)

I'll be 12 weeks tomorrow and I've been feeling pretty good the last couple of days.

Which, if any of you remember my pregnancy with Olivia, is a HUGE thing.

I threw up about 10x's a day with her until 22 weeks. I had to take medicine for sickness until a week before she came :( I was in the hospital for iv's  and nothing tasted good.

If this goes away like it does for most people, I can see why people would enjoy being pregnant!

I'm having a strange feeling that this baby might be a boy.... We will see!!!!

::: WARM WEATHER :::

 OK, so maybe I should have titled this "Warmer Weather".

55˚ is hardly considered warm, but it was enough for us to get out of the house and head outdoors.

We love going to the park. 

She has learned how to swing on the big kid swing and climb almost any ladder type thing that is at any playground.

 She especially loves when we find "friends" (ANY person at the park or where ever we might be. Young, old, you name it, they are our "friend") at the park.

After the park we headed to another of our favorite spots.

The library.

We read book after book after book.

She loves books so much and hates to leave and go home.

 We learned the big swing but it doesn't mean under dogs aren't the best in the baby swing.

::: PLAYING IN THE LAUNDRY :::

It amazes me how much fun she can have with just about any item in my house.

I laid my big duvet cover on the floor just as it had come out of the dryer to help avoid wrinkles.

I only left for one minute to finish the rest of the load and came back to find olivia inside the duvet playing her little heart out.

Instead of getting mad, we pulled some toys in there and played for quite some time:)

....... so much for a wrinkle free bed!

:: MODEL MODEL MODEL ::

Today, Liv came and told me she wanted me to take a picture of her.

She use to hate when I turned my lens toward her.

I guess this is just another sign of her getting older :(

I pulled out a cute blanket for her to taker her picture on.

The rest was up to her.

Hand up by her face and laying down..... where does she come up with this?!

:: MY VALENTINES ::

This Valentines wasn't that eventfull. Olivia has been potty training so we mostly hung out at home with a little naked girl.

But man! was it one of my favorites :)

This hot guy of mine left Sees chocolates and cute pictures asking us to be his valentines!

He came home early to spend time with us and made pizza with olivia.

We had some yummy meatloaf for dinner and watched one of my new favorite movies, Austenland :)

I sure love my two valentines!

 We built this pretty cool castle for her dolls to live in. She played for hours and hours with it:)

Sometimes.... just sometimes I feel like a good mom!

:: POTTY TRAINING ::

Olivia and I were walking through walmart when she saw these Minnie Mouse underwear.

Now I had planned on just waiting until she was around 3 to start, but she wanted the panties, so I bought them thinking she would just play with them.

NOPE. She wanted to take off her diaper and go on the potty great grandpa made.

after a full day of her peeing and pooping on the potty with no accidents I thought, "hey! we might actually be doing this!"

I just left her without any bottoms on and I never had to ask if she needed to go.

I would come into the room or turn around and she would be taking herself potty :)

Then next day we put the panties on and she had an accident. Panties off, Perfect.

After she had two accidents and one poop in the panties, She tells me every time and we have gone tree days without any accident.

When we go somewhere I'll go looking for her and find her without her diaper sitting on the big potty. What? Just go on your own? Isn't this supposed to be hard and frustrating?

So basically my child is potty training herself.

We did get her a new Minnie Mouse Potty, The wood one that Great Grandpa made was hurting her bum...

I have heard stories of children reverting or getting sick of going potty, but for now, we'll just enjoy the fact that I don't have to change a stinky diaper!

"Who loves you, Olivia?" "LUKE DOES!"

This girl of mine absolutely loves her cousin Luke right now.

She'll tell me very often how much she loves Luke, and how he is her best friend:)

In the morning she will ask if we are going to "chessa's" house or going to see "yute"

Yesterday, she was very please to find out that Dad had to go down for work and we got to go to Lukes house.

She played all day with him and LOVED every minute of it.

The weather was amazing, so Jessica and I packed up all 4 kids and went on a walk.

*side note: Luke loves to dress up, he was dressed as this lion from 8 a.m. to 7p.m and we even went to target and on the walk with this "MEAN Lion!" :) I can't tell you how many people we passed that would comment to the other.... "did you see that kid!"

Oh man! I laughed a lot at him yesterday!

 This is how the Lion started out. Going strong and super funny to watch riding his trike with his coustume!!!!!

 Got a little tired from riding so fast and crazy so he and to pull his bike instead.

 Gave up completely on the riding or pulling and jumped in the stroller.

we then had to carry the lions bike and push the strollers:)

 Aren't they the cutest of friends!

 "oh hey, Lion!"

We finished the fun night playing on "lions" park in his back yard.

I love watching Liv play with other kids.

She is learning to interact very well and no longer just plays beside them.

This made me Soooo excited for summer to come.

PLEASE HURRY!