Not Much...

Not much going on in the Reed house.  The usual...doctor/dentist appointments, work, sick kids, preschool, blah blah.... 
Emma went and had her teeth cleaned for the very first time.  She did very well.  She even let them take full mouth x-rays.  It looks like she is not missing any permanent teeth.  YAY!!  This is good news.  I am missing 12 teeth, including my wisdom teeth.

The kids were both sick for a few weeks.  Started out like allergies and turned into ear infections.  And Emma had a 104 fever.  Not fun!  I got see how much my kids weigh.  Emma is almost 30 pounds!  I know she is tiny.  29.8 pounds.  Spencer was 26 pounds with his legs hanging off of the baby scale.  Crazy!!
My sick girl fell asleep during dinner.

I had another OB checkup.  I finally got brave and asked how much I had gained.  13 pounds so far.  They said that was perfect.  I think I'm doing better with my weight gain (so far) with this pregnancy.  With Emma and Spencer, I gained a total of 46 and 42 pounds.  Yikes!!  The nurse I saw also scared the crap out of me while I was there.  She went to listen to the heartbeat, like every other appointment.  She was up higher than usual on my belly.  She repositioned the dopler machine a few times and nothing.  You could hear my heart pounding though.  She then asks me if I have been feeling movement lately.  I told her I had, so she finally moved it farther down and there is the sound I was waiting for.  My little one's heartbeat!!  She said,"Oh!  The baby is really low.  Usually they are higher up."  WOW!!  Thanks for the heart attack lady!! 
Emma had class pictures for school.  I wonder if they will look like this...

And here is my little Spencer imitating his mama.  I work from home and sometimes talk on the phone.

It's a.....

BABY!!!  We had the "big" ultrasound today.  We did not find out the sex of the baby.  They did say that everything looks healthy and normal.  Which is all I wanted to hear.  Of course the baby is measuring about 2 weeks larger than it should.  All my babies do.  : )  Weighing in about 12 ounces.  I'm really feeling the kicking and squirming now.  I have been feeling it a little since 11 1/2 weeks. 
Here are few pictures of #3 at 18 weeks and 6 days.

I'm so excited to find out what the baby "is" at birth.  I think it will be so exciting to have my husband tell me what they baby is.

The BIG 2-6!!

Yesterday was my birthday.  I am now officially closer to 30 than 20.  For some reason 26 seems so much older than 25.  I had a nice birthday.  Shaun and I had Saturday all to ourselves to hang out and do whatever.  Then I had dinner on Sunday with family.  Shaun made a very yummy pork tenderloin.  Monday we had lunch with more family at Red Lobster.  And went to some craft stores and got some scrapbooking supplies and then had family over for cake, ice cream and Scattergories.  My Grandma and Uncle Ben were pretty amazing at that game.  For some reason when I told Emma it was going to be my birthday, she asked if I was having a rocket cake.  I have no idea where she got this rocket cake idea from.  But, Shaun and my cousin Sammy made me a rocket cake. 

Shaun put 26 candles on my cake and I blew them all out with one breath!   I really did not want to put up this picture.  But, here it is:

This is me celebrating after blowing out all candles in one breath.  Scary!!  :)
In other news: Spencer pooped on the potty today.  He just came up to me and said,"POOP."  I checked his diaper, assuming that he had already gone.  But, he hadn't.  So, I ran and put him on the toilet.  And he did his deed.  I'm sure this probably doesn't mean anything, but it would be amazing if he could be potty trained by February. 

Reaching for the wet wipes.  :)

What a big boy!!

And here is Emma with her lovely dress up clothes and her school backpack.  Silly girl!

My Preschooler

Emma started preschool last week.  She LOVES it.  She only goes on Tuesday and Thurday from 9-11:30.  So, everyday she will ask if it is Tuesday or Thursday. 

Spencer does not like when she leaves. He looks around for her everywhere calling her name. It is pretty sad.  This is usually what he ends up doing. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It's pretty nice.  He will lay there and fall asleep, or just lay quietly for a while.  It's the ONLY time he is still!!  They sure are attached to each other.  She loves to do puzzles and draw pictures.  She can't usually tell me much about what she learned, but did tell me that "A" is for alligator.  And they swim in the water.  They are also starting to teach her how to write her name.   
She has also learned a skill that they don't teach in school.

How to flip her eyelids!  This totally grosses me out.  She will say "Look Mommy!"  I turn and she has both of her eyelids flipped.  Gross!

I had an OB check-up today.  All is well.  September 10th is our ultrasound appointment and I think Shaun might have agreed to not find out the baby's gender.  YAY!  I want a surprise so bad! 

Rascals and Such

My little Spencer has turned into quite the rascal.  He has been giving me a hard time with EVERYTHING lately.  Especially with nap and bed time.  We put a baby gate at the door so that he will stay in his room.  He started climbing over it, so I raised it off the ground some.  This was the result of that...












So, I lowered it some.  : )  He also enjoys taking all of the clothes out of his drawers.  If you look very closely you can see a sleeping Spencer on the pile of clothes.

He has also fallen asleep on the glider.

And he also loves to scare me by hanging through the holes on our staircase.  (I HATE these holes)

The kids also enjoy making a HUGE mess!!  Please tell me your house looks like this when your kids are playing.  (This is our playroom)

We took Emma to get her first haircut since she turned one.  She sat there very seriously.  She wouldn't even look at us.

She asks me every day when she is starting school.  She doesn't quite understand what next week means.  She starts on August 17th.  I'm very excited for her to start.  It will be good for her to be with kids that are her age.

I'm now a little over 14 weeks along with our third baby.  My belly seems to be "popping out" much faster this time.  I was scared I was having twins for a while.  : )  But, the doctor only saw one baby.  At my last appointment I got to hear the heartbeat for the first time.  It's so amazing to hear that tiny little baby's heart beat.  I have only gained a little over three pounds so far, which is good for me.  Since I don't get sick, I start gaining from the beginning.  Here is my belly progress at 14 weeks.  (Please don't judge me)

Silly and Strange Kids

My kids are silly and strange. 
Emma came up to me the other day to show me her bunny ears hat.  This is it:

Yep, bunny ears hat = shorts on the head.    Emma is so funny.  She thinks of such funny stuff!  She talks to me like such a big girl.  And she talks and talks and talks.  Sometimes I wish she would stop talking!! :)  She is so excited for Preschool to start next month.  She talks about it all the time.  I can't believe my baby girl is starting preschool!!
And then there is Spencer.  He is silly too, when he's not driving me crazy.

He has recently started climbing out of his crib.  When Emma learned to climb out of her crib, she would actually listen to me.  I told her to stay in her crib and sleep and she would!  Spencer, on the other hand, does not follow directions so well.  As soon as I put him in, he's out.  And it would be fine if he played with his toys, but he climbs on top of the changing table, pulls all of his clothes out of the drawers...
I took the side off of his crib.  (I didn't want him to fall and get hurt.)  Tonight when I put him to bed, I only heard him for a little bit.  I got concerned about what he could be doing, so I went to check on him.  This is what I found:

Asleep under the crib, with his blanket over his face.  Does this look comfortable or safe?!

I'm Behind...

I have been a little behind on my blogging lately.  We took the kids to their very first movie.  Toy Story 3.  This was a while ago, the day the movie opened.  They did okay for the first half, but then got sick of sitting still and being quiet.  Shaun stood down at the bottom with Spencer and I kept Emma sitting and being quiet.
They would not cooperate for an after movie picture.

Then it was the 4th of July.  Every year we go to Shaun's Aunt Erin's house.  From her house you can see the fireworks they are shooting off at Peoria Sports Complex.  Spencer was only interested for a few minutes.  Emma seemed to enjoy them.