Super Excited

As you can see, Eli is super excited to be a big brother this winter.  He's not really sad about the new baby, he just looked so funny in this picture, I had to use it.

Yep, we're having baby #4 in a few months. My due date is February 3, 2013 so I'm now 21 weeks. We are going to be surprised as to whether it's a boy or girl but we're all kind of hoping for another girl. Well, Chad, Kate, and I are anyway. Carter doesn't seem to care either way and Eli, well, Eli is two years old.  The pregnancy is going well and I really only felt sick for the first 13 weeks. We are grateful to add to our family and so excited to see this sweet baby!

In other news, we potty trained Eli a few weeks ago. I am so proud of him. He has done so great and even stays dry during nap time. He is such a little boy sitting on the big toilet, it just cracks me up. How did we get so lucky to have such awesome kids? Well, let's not talk about the multiple tantrums we endured today. Eli and I have both been really sick with bad colds this week and I think he might have an ear infection. It's good that I feel so yucky today too because it made me much more patient with him knowing that he was probably experiencing the same terrible head and sinus pressure. Poor little guy. Neither one of us can really take any medicine because he's too little and I'm pregnant. Sigh. Such is life.

Fashonista

This is how Kate looked getting off the school bus today. Niiiice. I said, "What did you do to your pants?" To which she replied, "My legs were hot." I'm pretty sure she just wanted to show off the cute foxes on her socks but whatever. I just hope her teachers and everyone at school realized that I did NOT approve of this fashion statement.
Whatever.

Old Orchard Beach - 2nd Visit

Eli was the only one who would hold still long enough (and close enough) to take a picture of. Carter and Kate would zip around in and out of the ocean.

The Butterfly That Went to Church

A couple of weeks ago, the kids and I went monarch caterpillar hunting. We found only one little caterpillar and brought it home with some milk weed. After a few days, he turned into this beautiful chrysalis.

We have been waiting for over two weeks for the butterfly to emerge. The milk weed died and got all moldy.  We pulled off all the leaves except the one the chrysalis was on. Then that leaf fell off and I had to tape it on so our little butterfly could hopefully survive. This morning the chrysalis was all opaque and black and we could tell the butterfly was going to come out at any moment. I just knew it was going to happen while we were at church...so the butterfly got to go to church with us.  We had waited for over two weeks and we were not going to miss this! At the end of Sacrament Meeting, the butterfly came out! So I alerted the kids and we "quietly" watched it during the closing song and prayer. People around us probably wondered what was going on but we got to see our butterfly! 

It got to stretch it's wings and dry out all during church and then we let it go when we got home. It was a great Sunday experience if you ask me.