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:)