Catch up

A Little Behind . . .

Blake loves Hungry Hungry Hippos. He was playing it one day very obsessed with the balls. Cleaning up there were 18 balls and not 20. I walked into the family room and saw one on the carpet. I was bugged we were missing a ball. A couple hours later Blake handed me the little white ball!
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Since I have thrown up in the garbage can, sometimes Blake will go spit his food in the garbage can and make a funny noise!
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I was commenting to Dr. Heidi how grateful I was Blake was behaving. Had I known we were going to scope Trent I wouldn't have brought Blake. I told her he usually screams alot! Right after I said that, Blake in my lap looked over at Trent and screamed a loud one and laughed! Then he looked at Dr. Heidi and screamed! Truly it was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed!!
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I picked Blake up the other day and said, "Let's go say hi to dad in the shower before he leaves." We walked into my bathroom, Blake waved and said, "hi" to Josh and walked out!! I was laughing so hard!
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When Blake colors he puts his little face 1/8 of an inch from the crayon. He loves the outside rain or snow! He is an amazing eater. We were at Bennihanas and he picked up Josh's sushi, dipped it in the sauce and ate it!! He also eats salad and Japanese soup! He is awesome!!
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Grant pushes Blake around the house in the back of the toy truck! Blake loves it and it is so kind of Grant!
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When Blake is given a treat, he gets so excited he is literally shaking!
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Trent and Grant are both awesome helpers. They get Blake out of bed, along with his 4 blankets, 4 dogs, 1 monkey, 1 frog, 2 pandas and 2 slips!! They both get him sippy's of milk too!!
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Trent loves for me to read the Twilight books aloud! He asks many questions and then is out like a light!! I was explaining to him that Jacob was upset Bella was marrying a vampire and Trent started laughing and said, "Like a werewolf is any better!" His insight astounds me! I love to talk with him!!
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Trent does his own hair for school and wears snow boots every single day! He loves to have kisses and hugs from Blake. He is doing so well with reading and math.
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The other day Grant was running to get to Kade's house. He put a shirt on so Blake pulled the Alvin and the Chipmunks shirt from Grant's closet just over his head. They both got their shoes on and were out the garage door. Blake was one step behind him all the way to the street. When I scooped him up he was so upset he was not going. It broke my heart, especially b/c he had that darn shirt around his neck! It was too cute! Grandpa Vern told him he would do whatever Blake wanted. The went downstairs to slide and I could hear Blake laughing!
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Grant adores Trent. There are times they can play so well together! They are so opposite! We love it!! Grant was loving Millsberry on the computer and was telling my mom about it! She was having a hard time finding "Noseberry" as Grant called it! On Millsberry Grant was buying every pet in the pet store!! I was cracking up! Trent kept warning him to buy food. He kept buying pets!
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We were singing Down by the Bay and Josh and I were trying to come up with silly ones for them! Grant kept singing Down by the Fay and Josh would say Bay to him! It was very cute!
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Trent is starting to eat in the cafeteria more! I love it! He is so grown up! When his car pool is late after school, he does not panic at all. That pleases me that he can think!
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Grant was driving with Beckee home from music and saw a white car like Grandpa Verne's and said, "It can't be Grandpa Verne's because there's not lots of junk in the back." Everyone is teasing Verne about how full his car is!!!
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Same drive Grant also told her he doesn't care if the baby is a girl or a boy as long as it's not sick when it comes out!
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Trent mailed his Flat Stanley to my parents in ND! He wanted me to tell him what my mom was doing! I told him, he was thrilled and said, "I knew we sent it to the right girl!"
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Written on strips of masking tape on the wall when Lizzy and Parkes slept over: Trents haws AND Lizys but olso Grants and I olmost frgot Porkr. This was at the entrance to their house!
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ABOUT THE BABY
In the beginning Evelyn gave me a couple of IV's because I was so dehydrated! The boys were adorable. Grant ran to get the hanger for her to hang the bag on. Evelyn let Grant push the syringe of saline before hooking the bag on. Trent got me a rice bag (made by Lizzy) and heated it up for my arm. After that Grant got the rice bag for me and a blanket each time!! They were very cute!
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Grant said, "Mom you are my favorite person in our family because the baby is in you!"
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Trent's name picks: Jake, Kevin, Alisa, Josie
Grant's name picks: Heather, Feaver, Alicia, Lydia, Blake so we could have twins
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Grant whispers in my ear all the time, "I love your baby so much!"
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My parents and Jill were in town and I was dying to go to Fetal Photos!! Jill wanted me to go so badly she wanted to pay for it!! So February 3rd we went and Grant said, "Mom let's just take it out so we can see it!" The Doctor was not in and we were not sure if I was far enough along so we made an appointment for Monday the 8th.
Monday we went in and I was feeling very nervous! A Lithuanian Doctor was the Ultra Sound Tech. As soon as he put the machine on, he said, "Your baby is big!" That made me very happy! I knew I was farther along! So I was 16 weeks and 2 to 5 days (instead of 13 weeks and 6 days)! He looked at the face and said it's a girl. I told him no messing around, we use he or it! He has a daughter with 4 boys and pregnant. He said he can usually tell by the face! I did not know if he was teasing! (He still swears he can tell by the face!) Then he said, "I know what it is!" I felt like I was going to be sick. I thought for sure a boy because he could tell so quickly! He said, "It's a girl." I said, "What?" He said it again. I asked if he was sure. I looked over and Josh was smiling. I asked if he was positive! He said 200% and I screamed then screamed again! I was shaking and shocked!! I kept saying how shocked I was! Josh was just smiling!
Instead of going to buy an outfit, I just wanted to go to Hot Dog on a Stick because I was so nauseous! After that we drove to get Grant from Miss Heathers. He loved being taken out early. We headed to the office to find out where Trent's class was and asked Grant, "Do you want to know what we're having?" He said, "Sure" very nonchalantly. (Which was funny b/c he was dying to know what we were having!) We saw Miss Nielsen and found out they were in art class! We headed to the trailer and pulled Trent out! There we stood on the stairs and Josh said "What do you think we are having?" Grant said, "A girl." I said, "We are having a girl." They smiled!!! They were so excited!! Trent headed back in and Grant surprisingly enough went back to school for the last 15 minutes! We were soooooooo excited!! I was still shocked!! So shocked I forgot to get Grant!! I am always early to get Grant so I am right by the curb . . . I got there at 12:15 and Miss Heather was very nice about me being 15 minutes late!!
When Trent got home from school that day, the front door swung open and he yelled, "I am so excited we are having a girl!! I told everyone!"
What a fun day!!!! We are thrilled!!!!!