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Baby #4 | 30 weeks

During my 3d ultrasound today, the baby was apparently smooshing her face, trying to hide the entire time so the ultrasound tech had an impossible time getting a picture of her face (she has been adamant about not being seen each and every chance we've had!) but these ones turned out pretty good mushed face and all :)

 

27 weeks and 4 days

Last time at 20 weeks 6 days.

Miss Makenna.

In her new shirt and bracelet from Aunt Kelsey and her boyfriend Max.  We both LOVE them!  In fact, I saw the shirt on the Crewcuts website and put it in my shopping cart.  (That is the way I shop these days... I put things I love in the shopping cart online at places like Crewcuts, GapKids, you get the idea, and then I watch things disappear one by one until nothing is left... kind of virtual shopping if you will.  :)

Actually it was perfect timing, too, even though her birthday was in August, being that Makenna asks nearly everyday since Noah broke his arm if she can break her arm so that she can get packages in the mail!  So I got to say "see, you don't need to break your arm to get presents!"  And she was pleased :)

My three.

Of course all three would stand happily together smiling when they were dressed in miss-matched, rag-a-muffin clothes!  I was just going to take Noah outside quick after he lost TOOTH #2! Yay Noah!  But saw Makenna and Aidan standing against our garage door posing all on their own so I had Noah jump in for a quick snap.  Just for the record, if they were all dressed cute, somewhere fun and interesting (aka not in front of our gross garage door), Aidan would have been screaming and Makenna would have been doing her favorite "pony pose."  I'm just saying. :)

Yay :)

Can you tell that someone is excited to finally have lost his first tooth?!  He's been working on it for almost three weeks and today was the big day!  He hasn't stopped smiling since :)

Miss Makenna can never be left out of anything, even a quick photoshoot these days :)

And a couple more of Aidan from yesterday.

Aidan. 20 months.

When I decided to get Aidan dressed up for a quick photo session tonight I thought my biggest challenge was going to be getting him to wear this adorable hat.  Not so much.   He LOVED the hat.  Screamed if it even was bumped out of place.  But I definitely was reminded why I have very few pictures of him these days.  Pity parties may be Aidan's favorite past-time but he is still oh so cute in all of his pouting glory :)

Poor Noah.

And yes that is his writing arm :(  Maybe we were due considering this is our first broken bone with any of our three.  I guess I just always thought it would be Makenna! :)

Speaking of Miss Thing, here is a quick snap before Makenna's first day of preschool today.  She thought she was pretty cool after watching Noah go to Cherry Hills for the past 2 years that today was finally her chance to be the big school girl.

The big day.

After months, actually years, of anticipating (rather dreading) sending Noah off on the bus for his first day of Kindergarten, today was the big day.  I can now say with most certainty that it was far more difficult than I had even thought possible.  Strangely enough, for reasons that I hadn't even considered possible.  For example, getting a call from the nurse at 10:18 that Noah had passed out only to wake up to his teacher holding him in the middle of the hallway!  I bet she hadn't considered that a possibility for her first full day back either! :)  And I would be lying if I said that I didn't nearly rear end someone in the process of getting that message relayed.  Seriously the tires were squealing and everything!  Wouldn't that have been classic?!

And as if that wasn't enough, right around 3:00 when Noah would have been loading the bus to head home for the day, the tornado sirens began to sound leading way for the massive thunderstorm that lasted nearly 40 minutes!  Can you imagine?!!  The very first day of school the teachers had to keep all of the kids in the hallway for a real, live tornado drill.  My friend's daughter rather enjoyed being "turtles" while Noah was not so sure he wanted to have to "stand on his head" ever again.  So a day that should have ended with me picking my big Kindergarten boy up at the bus stop at 3:18 left me sitting in a thunderstorm with my two other kiddos in tow for over an hour (it was his first day, my first day, and I was not going to leave that bus stop even if it was down pouring all around me, so sit there we did. :)  And a little after 4:00 my boy was home.  What a first day!

Did I mention that during all this I bought Noah a book, that was wrapped, and eventually stuck into Aidan's cozy coupe car for our walk before heading to the bus station?  Well I did, I wanted today to be perfect.  (Yes this was before the sirens! :)  Well, somewhere along the 2 block span that we trekked before chaos ensued, I managed to notice the book no longer sticking part-way out of the hood and turned around to retrace my steps, only to find it had vanished into thin air.  Seriously, where could it have gone?  It was two blocks!  Anyone find a soaked book wrapped in abc wrapping paper about the first day of school?  Anyone?! :)

So that was our first day.  I made it.  Noah made it.  And tomorrow is going to be far less dramatic.  Right?!

And here is my tired boy after his nearly 9 hour day.

Birthday girl.

My baby girl turned four yesterday and I have to say, I feel like I blinked and all of a sudden she went from being my baby to a princess loving, my little pony watching, dancing, spunky, make you crazy, sweet, perfect 4 going on 14 little girl. 

All on her own during her party she gave me a big hug, thanked me, told me she loved me, and that I'm the best mom EVER :) She is growing up, but if more of that is what I have to look forward to, I'm in.  Happy birthday pretty girl.  Love you to the moon.