chatty maycie!

Merry Christmas!

Our 3 littles in front of our Christmas tree on December 22, 2011. We opened presents this night at our house before we left for both grandparents houses. The kiddos had fun unwrapping and playing with their new toys from us and started getting very excited for CHRISTMAS morning at Grandma and Grandpa Westerbuhr's where Santa would bring their presents!

3 months

Miss Maycie turned 3 months on December 7th. At 3 month Maycie....
-loves chewing on her hand!
-is a drooler, she often has a ring of wetness around her neck:) mommy might have to get used to having a bib on her all the time!
-still spits up after most feedings...we go through a lot of burp towels at our house!
-feeds on demand about every 2-4 hours. but most nights only wakes maybe once or not at all to eat
-takes 2-3 naps a day. her afternoon nap is usually about 3ish hours long if her big brothers don't wake her up. and then she likes to be asleep by 7pm. she wakes in the morning around 7am too.
-has the most amazing smile we have ever seen.
-laughed out loud for the first time on her baptism day to grandma singing jingle bells! she had kind of laughed before but this was the first FOR SURE laugh:)
-was baptized on Decemember 18th by Fr. Mike in Kearney, NE at Prince of Peace church. Her Godparents are Uncle Mark and Aunt Carrie.
-still LOVES her bath! she just lays there like a little diva soaking in her bubbles!
-started reaching for toys and loves looking in the mirror at herself
-loves when we talk to her, especially her big brothers!
-coos and goos alot, chatty little girlie:)

we love you to the moon and back baby girl! so excited to have a baby girl join our family, you are amazing in everyway and we are so very blessed!

1st Swim!

loving the water!

ready to go in her cute swimsuit!

Maycie and I came with daddy to Vegas for his AutoDesk conference and Miss Maycie and I went for her first swim today. She loved the nice water-warmed to 83:) And enjoyed every second until we had to get out in the chilly air (only 70 degrees today). We are having a lot fun walking the strip and shopping while daddy works! Today daddy presented in front of over 200 people for 1 and 1/2 hours! We spent our time at H&M while he was doing this hard work, hehe! Love spending this alone time with our new little girl!

Newborn Photos

Maycie's newborn photos were done by Carrie's cousin Jody. She did a great job and we are so thankful to have that tiny bebe captured forever in such amazing, sweet photos. Priceless!

Thank You Lord!!

Most thankful for THEM!

This Thanksgiving we are SO. VERY. BLESSED. My heart is just so full and happy. We are so thankful for our healthy, happy, energetic, funny, creative, spirited little boys. And the cherry on top is our new little princess, bringing all things girly to our life. Life is so good. Daddy has a great job that provides so well for our growing family, I get to be at home with our little blessings showing them all the world has to offer and all the great things God has for us on earth. So very thankful I am living my dream of being a stay at home mommy to our peanuts, couldn't ask for more. Being there for breakfast each day, preschool drop offs and pick ups, the big smiles after naps, the snuggles on the couch, the kisses during "rock out" time in the playroom, playing super heroes, and hide and seek, going for walks and finding all sorts of treasures on the way and every other little detail of our special days together mean the world to me.

And on top of that I get to spend the evenings and weekends with the man I married 7 years ago and loving him more each day as I watch him be a daddy to our boys and seeing the gleam in his eyes for his new daddy's girl! The parenting team we make together works so well and I couldn't imagine spending my days with any other person!

So thankful too for our parents and siblings and all the love and joy they bring into our life, watching them love on our kids is the best!!

And our friends, the daily joy you bring to our lives is such a gift, we are so thankful for each of you and the different ways God has brought you into our lives!

Thank you Lord for this amazing year and all the blessings you have bestowed on us. We are so very blessed!! Our cup runneth over!!!!

2 months and 2 years!

Breck and Maycie had a doctor appt together, Maycie for her 2 month check up and Breck for his 2 years. It was nice doing both at once:) Made me even more aware of the fact that I have 2 babies right now:) Crazy, tiring and so much fun all at once!
Breck is doing amazing! On the developmental checklist he caps out at 3 years, 8 months!! And he just turned 2, my little smartie!! His language and vocab are incredible the doctor said...but he does have an unfair advantage being the son of a speech therapist:) but still....boys are usually BEHIND in language not WAY ahead!! Woo hoo little man!! Mommy is so proud of you!!
Physically he is doing great too, 32 pounds and 36 inches tall. Growing like a little weed!

Miss Maycie is also a little weed, she was 13 pounds, 8 ounces-95th percentile and 24.75 inches long- 99th percentile!!! Not sure how this shrimp of a mama has such a model height little lady!! Doctor is impressed w/ her growth and says we have no worries about supply obviously she is thriving like crazy! Everything else checked out perfect for my little princess too, healthy as can be!!

This is one SUPER thankful mama for her healthy, happy little peanuts! Having such a great well baby check just makes my heart happy and overwhelmed with gratefullness for our adorable blessings we have been given!!

Maycie’s Birth Story

My World!

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely Maycie’s Birth Story


On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 my water starting leaking around 4pm. I wasn’t 100% sure it was my water though so Daddy, Mommy and your big brothers went for a walk that night and since contractions didn’t start I decided to wait it out, still not sure if it was really your water leaking or not. I went to bed that night and woke up the next morning. Got your big brother Brecken ready for his 1st day of preschool and took him to school. On my way out of his preschool I was pretty sure my water was leaking. So I called our OB and talked to the nurse. She called me back after talking to Dr. Welch who said she wanted to see my right away to see if it was my water or not. I got to her office around 11:30 am on Wednesday, September 7, 2011. When she was feeling you she moved you enough that a big gush of water came out. She told me this was obviously your bag of waters and I needed to get to the hospital to have you! So I went home to get my bag and say goodbye to your brothers, daddy picked Brecken up from preschool and once he got him home we both left for the hospital. We checked in around 1:30pm and they started my fluids flowing and slow pitocin. I was nervous about the pitocin because I was a VBAC mommy and I would rather avoid pitocin like I did with big brother Brecken. But your bag of waters had been ruptured since the day before and contractions weren’t starting so it was either using some low dose of pitocin or going straight to a c-section. We decided to do the pitocin, the nurses assured me Dr. Welch was very careful with pitocin and this made me feel a little better. We hung out in our labor room. They decided to put in my epidural but not start the medicine until I needed it.

At 7:20 when the doctor checked me I was still only 3cm and 75 percent effaced, and you were between a station-1 and -2. By 8:15pm I was 6cm, almost 100 percent effaced and you were at a 0 station. You started having some heart rate dips so I had to lay on different sides to get you happy, this started making mommy a little nervous! But by 8:45pm I only had a lip of cervix left so they had me push through the lip and I was ready to push you out! Once Dr. Welch could see your head she told me you had a head full of dark hair! I was so surprised to hear this, the Dr. had daddy look to confirm it! Once your head was out I had to stop pushing so Dr. Welch could cut your umbilical chord, it was wrapped tightly around your neck and you couldn’t come out the rest of the way without her cutting it.

You were born at 9:21pm. They placed you on my chest right away and I was in LOVE with you baby girl! You were perfect. in. every. way. They were stimulating you on my chest and you didn’t pink up as fast as they wanted so they took you over to give you some “blow by” oxygen and you got pink right away and were brought back to me. Daddy and I couldn’t stop staring at you, we felt so blessed to have our healthy baby girl in our arms. Mommy cried and smiled at the same time because I was just so happy to have you here with us! You nursed within the first half hour and latched correctly right away and did awesome!

When mommy got up to go to the bathroom the first time I passed out and they had to put ammonia under my nose to get me to come to. After that we got to go to our recovery room and mommy spent most of the night holding you, nursing you and staring at you. You are absolutely gorgeous baby girl! You are our dream come true!

1st Broken Bone!

Of course, 2 weeks until baby girl is due we have to have trauma:) On Thursday I was out buying some groceries and daddy was home with the boys. The boys decided to take advantage of this and wanted to use the exercise ball as a trampoline. They shoved the ottoman up against it, and were jumping from the ottoman to the birth ball and then landing on the couch. Interesting choice of play huh! Well Breck hit the ball wrong and landed on the floor on his collar bone. Tears followed. Daddy consoled and we thought all was good. Everytime we'd pick him up under his arms he would cry, so we thought something hurt under his arms. The next day grandma was here and Breck continued to complain about his arm. That night Kyle was getting him to put him in his highchair for some watermelon and Breck started crying and couldn't be consoled for about 30 minutes. We took his shirt off to look at him and saw that his collar bone was swollen. After talking to the doctor they said to wait and take him to Kstat in the morning instead of the ER b/c the ER was a 3 hour wait.
So the next morning we woke up early and got to Kstat right when it opened at 9am. They had to Xray his collar bone, which was difficult because he wouldn't stay still so the pictures kept having a blur to them. Mommy couldn't go in with him b/c I'm pregnant so it was he and daddy in the room with the big scary machine. Hearing my baby cry down the hall was breaking my heart! They finally got the picture and said it was a "green side" fracture. He is supposed to wear a sling, which we haven't had much luck getting him to wear and have him be "careful" with it. Both hard things for a 22 month old to do!

So our baby boy Breck is the first person in our family to break a bone. :( So wish I didn't get to document this milestone. Since he is so young they said it will heal quickly and well, hope they are right! Until then, lots of extra cuddles are in store for him:)

Dreaming of you!

Your big brother Kayden is having dreams of about you baby girl! The other day he told me: "I had a dream that I paid the doctor money and he gave me my baby sister". I think it's Kayden's way of saying he is ready for you!! Come out come out little princess!!

We are ready for you!

(a picture of you in my belly on 8/30/2011)

Hello daughter. Little sister. Daddy's girl. Mommy's shopping buddy. Dream come true. And so much more. You are officially "ready" to come out now whenever you decide you'd like to meet us. At your ultrasound a week ago you were guessed to be about 6 pounds, 4 ounces. They couldn't get a good picture of you b/c you were so squished in there, your hands AND feet were both covering your face. It was just body parts on body parts. It was so good to get to see you again, we hadn't gotten a glimpse since you were 20 weeks old. We are just so excited to meet you, touch you, snuggle you, smell you, look at you, and stare at you all. day. long.

Your nursery is almost ready, as soon as your big brother's furniture arrives this week we'll be able to finish it completely. Your clothes are washed. And our arms are ready to hold you.

Your big brothers ask my belly daily when you are going to come out! They are so excited to meet you and have a baby sister they can see and touch. We read books about having a baby in the house and talk about how they are going to help us with you when you arrive, bringing us diapers for you, helping us dry you off after your bath. Little sister, they can not wait!

You are named. We picked the perfect name for you and can't wait to tell everyone who our daughter is. Daddy fell in love with your name on our trip to Wisconsin this summer and hasn't let us think of naming you anything else. I loved it too, but I'm not as good at making decisions as your daddy so I'd keep thinking of other names "just in case" we weren't sure. He wouldn't have it. You had a name and it was perfect. And it is. Your name is perfect and I can't wait to call you it everyday. The first letter of your name is in honor of someone so special to me, just like you are!

So baby girl, whenever you are ready to come out and meet us we are here and waiting for you. We love you so much already and can't wait to tell you that in person.

Until then...mommy will keep walking to try and help you decide to come out and dreaming of your cute little nose!

Soccer!

Kayden had soccer every Tuesday/Thursday for the month of July. It was SUPER hot but he loved it! Practice was from 6-7 and even at that time the temp was usually above 100! Crazy hot temps for Manhattan, KS. Of course....we move from the desert and Kansas has the hottest summer in 30 years when mommy is preggo with baby sister!

But anyway, he learned alot in soccer and had fun with peers! I liked watching him learn to take directions from a coach and following through with the instructions/skills he was just taught! Excited now for fall soccer (and better temps!)

Grandpa Too!!

Grandpa came down on the weekends too while "damma" was here and grilled some yummy food on his traeger and came to the pool with us. The boys thought they were extra spoiled to have BOTH of them here!

Grandma Westerbuhr!

As Breck calls her "Damma" came to visit for about 5 days and then came back the next weekend for 4 more days. The boys were so happy to see so much of their grandma! We went swimming alot at City Pool b/c it is such a fun and popular pool I don't feel comfortable going there by myself with the 2 littles (and my big ol belly) so they thought it was a big treat to be able to go swimming whenever we wanted to! They played dressup with her and made some zucchini bread too!

21 Months!

At 21 Months Breck loves....

-Singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "ABCs", "Happy Birthday To You", and "Row Row Row Your Boat"

-Calls Kayden "Brother"

-Calls Mommy "Mama Mia" alot of the time or just "mama". I love the "Mama Mia":)

-Calls Daddy "Dada"

-loves to color!

-loves to play any and all sports! kicking and throwing the ball is one of his FAVORITE things to do!!

-LOVES swimming! You are a fish and love to jump off the edge w/ your puddle jumper on and go under water, love to blow bubbles and kick your little legs.

-are a cuddle bug, you love hugs and kisses and sitting on my lap! mommy's little love bug!!

-love reading stories!

-have two lovies that are your "babies" that you like to swaddle and push in the stroller, take night night, etc. SO cute!

-very independent, want to do everything on your own, think you are as big as brother and can do what he does! like getting in your carseat on your own and trying to buckle the buckles! you can do the top buckle already!!

-will pee on the potty when i ask you if you have to!

-love playing hide and seek!

-Say "love you" or "Love you to moon and back"!!

You are a joy to be around at this age baby boy! You love everything about life and you are teaching me to enjoy every second with your cheerful little self! We are so very blessed to have you as our son! Love you to the moon and back a million times!

Butterflies!

The boys had caterpillars that they watched change into butterflies before their little eyes. Such an awesome experience for them to see! They LOVED their caterpillars and would watch them throughout the day. The first word out of Breck's mouth many mornings was "butterflies". All 5 of their caterpillars turned into butterflies and they enjoyed feeding them and then finally releasing them. Loved experiencing this with my littles!

Memorial Weekend in St. Louis

Daddy had been working long days and had to work the whole weekend before Memorial weekend so he took the Friday off before Memorial weekend and we got out of town for 4 days! We left Thursday night after he got off work, which worked GREAT! The boys stayed awake until Kansas City where we had dinner and then they slept from then until we arrived at our hotel in St. Louis. It was SUCH a great drive there:) We will always try to drive at night now with our littles!!!

I had never been to St. Louis so I wasn't sure what to expect, the town had alot to offer for kiddos and we had a blast. City Museum, the Arch, Magic House, the zoo and Grant's farm were the sites we checked out with the kiddos. They loved them all and we loved watching them enjoy themselves so much! Each night we would swim in the pool at the hotel, we had some very happy, tired boys every evening:) Love getting away and spending quality time as a family!

2, 3, 5, 2

Breck you now "count" for your brother when he isn't being nice to you! (I have a habit of counting to 5 if brother isn't listening or is being unkind to you, he has a count of 5 to change his behavior or he goes to time out). It is HILARIOUS!!! Makes me smile everytime. You can be SO frustrated w/ him and you hold it together enough to give him "a count". LOVE it. You are such an amazing little brother and SO tolerant of big brother!!

18 months...

Well I'm finally writing your 18 month post and you just turned 19 months! Sorry baby boy!

At 18 months....
*you can sleep thru the night in your crib when you want to:)
*you usually take one nap but sometimes take a morning one too.
*love love love to read books!
*love playing outside all the time.
*love bathtime but don't love getting your hair washed.
*starting to get really interested in bugs like your big brother!
*say lots of things, my favorite saying you have right now is: "i don't know" you say it with the same little facial expression and intonation everytime you say it and I LOVE it! I get you to say it over and over sometimes by asking you questions just so I can hear it. "where is the blue ball?" "I don't know":) so adorable!!
*Call brother "tayden"
*Count with alot of authority by saying "2, 5, 2, 5, 2, 5" :)
*know lots of animals names and sounds, starting to learn colors and letters (knows B for Brecken:)
*love patty-cake, happy and you know it, wheels on the bus and itsy bitsy spider. sometimes you'll wake up in the morning and the first thing you'll ask for is "spider" and you start doing the hand movements.
*you are full of smiles, laughter and dance moves!

Breck you are so adorable, your smile makes my heart flutter whenever I see it. I love your sweet kisses and your tight hugs. You are a dream come true baby boy and I am so very blessed that I am the one you say "mama" to! LOVE you forever baby boy to the moon and back a million times!

Potty Time!!

Breck went peepee in the potty for the first time last night! He has started to act interested, a couple weeks ago he was nekki and went and peed right next to the big toilet and then flushed it and was so proud of himself. Since then most nights before bath he has wanted to try and potty on the big potty and a couple times tinkled a little in it. But last night daddy brought up one of the little potties, Breck sat on it and PEED!!!! He was SOOOOO proud of himself. Of course we jumped up and down and cheered for him which he loved (especially big brother being so excited for him!).
Then this morning, he went potty again in the potty!! Could this be time to potty learn?? He is only 18 months but I guess big brother was an early potty learner too so we may just be on to something, we'll have to see. For now we'll just let him take the reigns and go with it. The potty will be out but we won't push it until we are sure he is really ready.
BUT I couldn't be more proud of you baby boy!!! So impressed smarty pants!!:)

Someone....

Needs to steal my debit card. I have been shopping everyday since I found out it was a girl!! Dangerous! Today I bought baby girl a bunch of mooncakes goodies for when she is tiny. I loved that stuff for the boys and they have super cute girlie ones and their stuff is soooo soft!! Still can't believe I get to shop in the BIG section of the baby stores:)

Baby Sister!!

Big Brother Kayden is excited you are a girl! At first he thought he wanted "another Breck" but now he is very excited to have a baby sister and has to proudly show everyone your ultrasound pictures. Tells everyone you are the size of a banana now (the ultrasound tech told him that:) and that it will be great b/c you will play with dolls and not want to play with his trucks:)

The other day when we were talking about going to see Grandma W for Mother's day I said, "maybe I'll just go". He said "MOM!! You can't go without me! What if my baby sister HATCHES while you are gone?? Then I'd miss it!".

So we all look forward to you "hatching" baby girl!!

Thrilled!!!

Cute little footsies!

The "PROOF" is in "da bootie" :) :) :) :) :) :)!!!!! YAY!!!!

Yesterday we found out that the tiny little baby dancing in my belly is a little ballerina! We had our anatomy scan, and brought Kayden with us to let him see his baby sibling on the screen. The tech asked us right away if we wanted to know gender and when we said yes, she went right to the "money" shot and told us she was sure it was a GIRL. This made mommy freak out, crying and screaming and laughing all at once. I was SO happy to find out that you were a HER, SHE, Tutu wearing little girl. So happy that you have 2 adorable big brothers to watch over you and protect you. Just SO stinkin happy with how our little dream of a family is coming to a reality. I can't even articulate how perfect it is to us to have our 2 little boys and our little girl growing in my belly. You and your brothers are our dream come true! The tech after the big news announcement went over all of your parts and everything looked great and measured right on time and everytime the tech would tell us something she would say "SHE" or "HER" little feet, etc. And everytime I heard it was more real that we get a DAUGHTER and your brothers get a SISTER!
Dr. Welch our OB gave me a big hug when she first saw me and told me she was so thrilled I had a baby girl growing in my belly! She said she looked at everything and it all looked perfect. Your placenta is anterior which is why I feel less movement than I did with your big brothers.
We had thought we'd wait until you were born to let everyone find out you were a little diva....but your big brother knew you were a girl and we couldn't keep it a secret then! I text your grandma and uncles and told them I knew what you were "hahahaha" and when they called to find out big brother yelled "it's a girl" to grandma:) So the secret was out. You are the little princess we all had hoped for!
That night we went to Chipolte for dinner (that is your daddy's ABSOLUTE favorite place to eat...even more than any nice place, he loves his Chipolte...so since he gave me the girl I wanted so badly I figured I'd give him his Chipolte:) And you have made your mama love mexican food this pregnancy (with your brothers I couldn't eat or even smell Chipolte so daddy is super happy you like it:) so I was good with daddy's choice. Then we went to the mall and I shopped for some girly things for you to celebrate! Had to get you a cute little tutu, PINK of course!
I can't wait to decorate your nursery, buy you tons of girly clothes, put little bows in your hair and tights on you! I am just soooo excited for every bit of having a daughter! I look forward to many spa days with you, pedis, shopping trips and ballet classes. I am just over the moon to have you growing in my belly!

so glad.....

i blog. at starbucks yesterday morning in kc a little old barista was chatting with me and asked when my baby was due. then he told me what a blessing babies are and that one of his grandson's just turned 18 and for his present he gave him a copy of his journal entry from the day he was born. how special is that?!???? i can't imagine how special it would be to have something like that from my grandpa. probably the best gift you could get. it made me so glad that i blog. so glad that i have those memories and thoughts written down forever for my little ones to read soemday and for me to re-read over and over!

30th birthday date!

this weekend kyle and i escaped to kansas city for 2 days and 1 night to celebrate my 30th birthday. my mom and auntie martha came and watched the boys and we got up early on saturday and drove to kc. we shopped and sat outside on patios and kyle had drinks (mommy had water:) we did a bunch of nothing for 2 days and it was so nice to get to chat without kiddos interrupting us. it is so nice to escape and reconnect! thanks mom and auntie for making it possible!

thump thump

baby #3, daddy felt you kick for the first time yesterday. you were exactly 20 weeks old and daddy and i were on our little getaway for mommy's 30th birthday in kansas city. you were doing acrobatics in there so i told daddy to put his hands on my belly and sure enough he felt you. i love feeling you inside of me. and so far it's been our little secret b/c i was the only one that could feel your movements but now your getting strong enough for others to feel you on the outside. can't wait to meet you baby!! only 20 more weeks until you will join our family in the outside world. for now though i'll cherish having you inside of me, all to myself. love you baby more than you'll ever know!

A back yard full of laughter!

i've always wanted to have that backyard full of children's laughter. and now we have it. we moved into a great little cul-d-sac full of kiddos with very involved mommies and daddies that i like having my little one's around. the kiddos all play together frequently and all of us mommies know e/o and since we have the "cool swingset" we end up having a backyard full of little one's often on the weekends. i love it:) i love sitting outside and watching them or looking out from my open kitchen window making a meal and hearing their laughter, giggles and squeals as they pretend they are sharks or on a ship or whatever else their little minds have created that day. i'm excited for a whole summer full of laughs in our backyard and so happy kayden has that gift of friendship in his life:)

The doorbell rings.....

Kayden and some of our neighbors Diego and Dariana (lucky for me Deigo and Dariana come from a great family with a very involved stay at home mommy:)

And it's for KAYDEN?!?! Kayden, when did you get so big? When did you grow from a toddler to a little boy without me noticing it happening? Yesterday during your nap a friend stopped by, rang the doorbell and asked if you could play. WOW. You are big enough to have friends RING THE DOORBELL?? AND ask if you can play?? WOW. WOW. WOW. I really can't believe it. I can't believe that you are no longer the baby I still feel like you are. That you are a boy with friends and a mission and relationships outside of the one's mommy provides for you or fosters. You make your own friends at preschool and now you make your own friends in our little neighborhood! What happened to our little diaper group in AZ where mommy chose her buddies and you became buddies with my buddies babies?? Now you decide who is cool, who is your type and who you want to spend time with! (Of course I still get the yes or no:) But just the fact that you are to the point where you are making friends and they come and ring our doorbell is crazy to this mommy!

Egg Dying!

Saturday, April 16th we dyed eggs with Auntie Heather and cousin Gabe and G&G Hingst's house. Breck loved watching the eggs change colors and Kayden and Gabe had a bunch of fun coloring on the eggs with wax crayons before hand and mixing colors. It is so fun living close to family and getting to celebrate these special holiday events with the ones we love!

Hingst Family Easter!

Last Sunday, April 17th we went to Hooper, NE to celebrate Easter with Kyle's grandma, his aunties, uncles, cousins and their families. Kayden loved seeing all his "Second cousins" as he calls them:) And Kyle's grandma was SO happy to see everyone.
We ate a big Easter dinner, had an egg hunt for all the littles and caught up with everyone's latest news.
When we were driving home Kyle said, "can you imagine being my grandma and at an event like that and knowing this huge room full of people are all here b/c of me. that would be pretty satisfying wouldn't it?" I love that man:) I love that he thinks a room full of family would mean we had led a good life. I love that he gives me the babies I dream off b/c he actually dreams of them too:) I hope some day we are sitting in a big church hall together full of a room full of people all there b/c of us!:-)
Happy Easter Great Grandma Hingst from 2 of your youngest, newest little family members!

Does Heaven have Targets?

At Easter Mass yesterday Kayden started asking questions and so I was answering them to the best of my ability. While talking about Jesus dying on the cross so we could be in Heaven with him forever he said "well, are there Targets in Heaven? B/c we will still need to buy food and toys and stuff so I hope they have Targets!"

was supposed to be napping...

i was rocking breck to sleep and kayden was supposed to be already asleep in his bed. well after i laid breck down i go to my bathroom and find this fun little mess! i'm leaving it for my monkey to clean after he wakes up, makes me smile everytime i see it. love the adventures of mommyhood. will i let him know it makes me smile....nope:) he'll think he is in big trouble while i smile inside!

and it continues....

it didn't stop at "how do they get the baby out". Last night it continued with

"HOW DOES THE BABY GET IN YOUR BELLY"

Great. "Um, Err, Well, God put it there."

"BUT HOW"

"IDK He just does."

And he moved on to another subject. Aren't I supposed to be able to avoid these questions until he is oh, you know, 35??

LOVE these smiles!

what did i do before these 2?? pretty sure it was a waste of time b/c now they are my world and i breathe every breath for them. love them to pieces and could stare at those smiles all. day. long.

"how do they get the baby out?"

today i had a dr. appt. the baby's heartbeat was 148, nice and strong and steady. my big ol' belly is measuring right on track. my blood pressure was good 100/60. all was good.
i told kayden about the appt (he was at pre-k when breck and i went). i told him about the heartbeat and how it sounded like horses galloping. and then he said that great question every mom dreads!

"HOW DOES THE BABY GET OUT OF YOUR BELLY!"

AAAK!! don't ask me that my innocent 3.5 year old. i can not answer it in 3.5 year old language. i do not want to answer that at this point in your little adorable life.

SO i say, the dr. takes the baby out. praying that suffices his question.

NOPE. "BUT HOW? WITH A NET? DOES THE DR. USE A NET TO GET THE BABY OUT?"

woah, how do i respond to that. it is so off. but yet so not a subject i want to continue.

me-"I'm not sure, she just gets the baby out." inside my head i'm saying please stop. please stop asking me.

and his next question "mom, when can we make the nana bread." PHEW!!!! hope that is the last of it for the day or week or untill baby arrives!!!

a good laugh:-)

today at preschool a mom and I were talking. she has a 4 year old, a 23 month old and a 3 month old. i asked her how it was going. she LAUGHED. and couldnt' stop laughing. once she did she said, "it's hard. it's really hard. it's busy. it's really busy. my husband who is at work all day, gets home every day still, 3 months later and asks how i do it. everday. i don't know how i do it. somehow i do. but it is hard and very busy." and she laughed some more. and then i started laughing and didn't stop as i called kyle and told him about our conversation. kyle did not laugh. he has been nervous from day 1 about how we'll handle 3 kiddos under 4. i've always laughed it off. and today, 16.5 weeks pregnant i'm still laughing. i must be someone that laughs when i'm nervous. we will see what this crazy life has in store for us. only 23 more weeks until we find out if i'll keep laughing or what 3 under 4 will bring for me!

Brothers....

Our boys could not be more different. Everytime I think about it, it surprises me at how different they are. They have the same mommy and the same daddy, and are eachother's closest blood relative. But they are SO different!

Let's count the ways....

~Kayden most of the time could care less what he wears(as long as it isn't jeans!), he has let me dress him how I want (I like this:), now Breck...he has VERY strong opinions on what he wears. He has to pick out his clothes and jammies and often won't let me take his jammies off (he LOVES his Cars jammies). He loves characters on his clothes (mommy doesn't love buying those, so the few that he has he is OBSESSED with! he gets SO excited to wear them and cries when we take them off).

~Dipping-Kayden does not use ANY condiments. No ketchup, ranch, nothing. Breck LOVES dipping everything in anything! He LOVES ketchup, ranch, hummus, guac, dorothy lynch, syrup pretty much anything that is a liquid and used for dipping he can't get enough of!

~Eating-Kayden has never been a big eater, we often have to tempt him to eat with desserts (he does like those), but he's never been a big eater ever. Breck LOVES his food and eats and eats, today he ate 4 bowls of his organic fruity O's!!

~Cow's Milk-Kayden will still NOT drink it. Breck loves it!

~Vegetarian-Kayden is pretty much a vegetarian, only likes shrimp, salmon (most seafood) and chicken nuggets. Breck loves burgers, grilled chicken, etc.

~Sleeping-Kayden has always been a "struggled" sleeper to say the least. Breck loves his sleep and will often request to go night night.

I'm sure I'm missing numerous other opposites b/c they are just so frequent but it is so crazy to me that my boys are so different from one another! Love them both to pieces and love that we get to experience such different little creatures everyday! They both teach us so much in such different ways.

Table for FIVE!!!:)

The day we found out we are going to be blessed X3!!!!

Well I blame the tiredness of my first trimester on my lack of blogging and I really need to get back to it b/c I LOVE my blog and reading about all our daily events, the big moments and the small on this online journal. So now that I'm 16 weeks, yep, already 16 weeks! Seems crazy, but now that I'm there and not going to bed at 7:30 every night from pure exhaustion, I will start blogging again. I'm promising myself!

So baby number 3 is well on it's way. My first trimester with this bebe was pretty good. I got the positive pregnancy test on January 13, 2011. I had morning sickness from about 5 weeks until 7 weeks, and then it mostly went away. This was VERY strange for me, with my last 2 pregnancies I was super sick for 14 weeks so when the constant nausea went away I kind of got worried. But at 8.5 weeks we got to see baby for the first time and they measured right on track and had a nice, strong heartbeat of 171. After 7 weeks, the only time I'd feel sick was if I didn't eat my meals early enough (dinner had to be right at 5pm or I felt like I'd get sick). I did vomit a couple times when I didn't eat right away in the morning. But it was a cakewalk compared to feeling like I would throw up every second of every day for 14 weeks! Thank goodness too, b/c w/ a 3 year old and a 1 year old to take care of it would have been super hard with that horrible feeling all the time! I was extra hungry and needed to snack more than usual and had the usual 1st trimester sleepies, I'd nap sometimes when the boys did and went to bed at night with Breck at 7:30 or 8.

But now that I'm in the 2nd trimester I feel great! I don't need to sleep all the time and even if my meals aren't right on time I don't feel like I'm about to get sick. I do feel bigger this time than the last 2, I feel like I look like I'm around 20 weeks, so about a month ahead of schedule.

Baby #3, we are so excited for you to join our family. We knew we wanted you before we were even married, we always knew we wanted a big family, with lots of personalities to bring fun and adventure to our home. We can't wait to meet you and learn about you and begin to discover the unique little soul God has blessed us with. We feel so thankful that God has blessed us again with a little person to nurture and care for and cuddle and love!

Christmas 2010

This year we were heading to Grandma and Grandpa Hingst's house on December 23rd after daddy got off work. We loaded the kiddos in the car, the dog and ourselves (after loading ALL our luggage and a TON of presents!) and the car wouldn't start. FRUSTRATING! Kyle went in hunt of jumper cables (yes we are those people with out them!) and a neighbor/volunteer fireman came to the rescue....or so we thought. He ended up hooking the cables up WRONG!?! (who does that???) on his side, so when Kyle connected them w/o knowing the guy had done that their was a HUGE spark and the fireman went to check, sure enough hooked up wrong. So the battery was charged and the car was still black. NOT a good sign. I was crying bc I was sure on Christmas Eve no one would be able to fix the car!! We went into town (which is 20 minutes away), and went to an auto parts store. They tried to help Kyle figure out what it could be and we came home with a box of fuses....I started reading online about all these horrible things that could have happened to the tahoe from that wrong hook up but found one thing that said it was probably a LARGE fuse right next to the battery. So the next morning we went back to town to find that large fuse, and it WORKED!!!! YAY! Christmas was saved!!:) We left town shortly after and made it to G&G Hingst's house for Christmas eve festivities. And then went on to Kearney for midnight Mass (Kyle was a skipper and stayed at home with the sleeping boys!).
The next morning Kayden ran into our room and told us "Santa was here!!!!" and we all got up, to my surprise it was 7:30 (I was expecting at 5am wakeup at least!). We let the boys open their stockings while they waited for the rest of the crew to arrive...but they slowly kept opening presents:) They couldn't contain themselves! Loved seeing the Magic of the day in my little angel's faces. They were so excited and so happy to be celebrating Christmas. We spent the rest of the day EATING and EATING, playing games and spending time with the family.

Kayden LOVES spending time with all his family so much that one night when people started leaving after a game of "shit on your neighbor" he said, "why are people leaving? Let's lock the door so that no one else can leave, they all need to stay here!"

We went to Little Fockers with all of our cousins (mommy and daddy did anyway, the boys had a playdate with Erica and Grandpa:), and then we all went bowling one night (the boys included, Kayden LVOES bowling w/ his family!) It was a lot of fun and a Great Christmas to remember:) The "funny" gifts this year got pretty crazy and people had black baby dolls to open, pregnancy tests, and some other things that can't be mentioned!

We stayed in Kearney until the 28th and then went to Milford for a Christmas dinner with the Hingst crew and then drove back to Manhattan bc we had to find a new house! While in NE our homeowners said if we wanted to we could move out Feb 1st!! SO excited to move into town!!!

Oh yeah...and Kayden and Breck were surprised with some pet frogs from Santa! Kermit and George joined our family on Christmas morning:)