HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREDERICK JAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does Freddy admire his sister too much? Those are her shoes he has on too. Having another boy around here will provide a good balance for us all I think. :)

Ultrasound

I don't have a working scanner anymore so I can't share the pictures we got to bring home, sorry! The baby is just the right size for 18 weeks, and everything looked good. All the baby's parts are where they should be. :)

Now for the part you have been waiting for (unless you got my text or saw it on Facebook already) we are having another boy. :) I am very excited and happy!! Dave and I both feel a little sad for Lucy because she isn't getting a sister, but we would have felt sad for Freddy if it were the other way around. I think our teenage years will be a bit easier this way though. Lucy is going to have two brothers keeping an eye on her and scaring away boys. If you know differently, don't burst my bubble, keep it to yourself. :D

Entertainment

We have all had colds and now I have it. So, I have been trying to entertain the kids this afternoon while not getting off the couch and not resorting to turning on the TV (because we did that Friday and yesterday). I thought I would share our favorite website to entertain Lucy:
http://www.knockknockjoke.com/ She loves knock-knock jokes and makes up her own all the time. They don't usually make sense, but they do crack her up.

Earlier I entertained Freddy by watching videos on YouTube of animals making noises, i.e. ducks quacking, sheep baaing, etc.

Now it seems we are going to have a practice birthday party for Freddy. I have to go and sing 'Happy Birthday' now.

This is the best picture ever! Lucy drew it for me, it is the new baby in my belly. :)

He is very happy I made something for him. Fortunately for me is he too little to notice or care that the pleats came out a bit wonky. :)

I Miss Coffee!!

These are the Valentine's "Lucy" made for her class party. She picked out what she wanted to make, then she painted them and glued on their eyes. I finished the rest because she asked me to. :)

Monday, Monday

Freddy is off on a date with Oma today. They are spending the whole day together, just the two of them. I wonder who will be more tired tonight, Freddy or Oma? ;) Lucy had her date about a month ago. It's nice for both of them, whoever stays home gets a whole day of one-on-one Mommy time, something Lucy especially doesn't get much of these days. I guess after July they will get even less one-on-one time though, eh? :) Lucy had an extra special home day because we didn't stay home. She got to go to lunch with Mommy AND Daddy at Tom Wahl's, her very favorite restaurant!

After lunch, Lucy had an appointment with the eye doctor to check out how she is doing with her glasses. Well, it turns out she needs an even stronger prescription! Fortunately we were able to order just new lenses, we didn't have to get new frames too. Those should be in next week and then she needs to go back for another check in April. Next month when the kids go for their annual physicals I think I am going to ask the doctor if she thinks I should take Freddy to get his eyes checked too, just in case. :/

I am feeling good now, even get some things done. I am back to being only slightly behind on laundry. :) We have been doing tons of crafts. There are markers, balls of yarn, and piles of fabric all over the place. The only reason I am typing right now instead of sewing is because I am to a part where I need to go iron and I don't feel like it. :)

I am going to go now and try to look up some cool boy things to make. The other day Freddy sobbed because I had made a skirt for Lucy and nothing for him. I felt awful!! After he went to bed I quickly made him a vest out of a felted sweater. They both had something new to wear the next day, but of course, I had to wear sweatpants because I had nothing else clean. To make that fact seem less bad, I only have three pairs of non-sweatpant pants that fit me right now!! My current project is, hopefully, a maternity skirt. Cross your fingers for me on that though, I messed up a baby skirt yesterday. :D

Check out this weird ice in our backyard.

These shirts came out so cute I had to show them off. :) I found the idea on a blog called The Crafty Crow, its a kids craft collective. Everyday they compile projects from other sites following a theme. It's a great site!

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