Exciting Day

This morning a half hour before the boys are supposed to get out of bed Jackson came in my room at woke me up. He told me he couldn't sleep because he was so excited for today. He'd been awake at least a half hour because that's when he had come in my room before. You'd think that being that excited we would have had some really fun kid activity planned for the day. But no. It was mostly a normal day. The one thing that was out of the ordinary (other than Doug working from home) was that today was the day of my ultrasound and we were going to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. And Jackson was very excited to see whether he was going to have a new sister or brother. Before I get to the big news I'll let you know what each of us thought the baby would be:

Jordan: brother
Jackson: sister
Doug: girl
me: boy

The two people that were right are Jordan and me. We're having another boy! We're very excited for another boy (although when I told Jack he just said "oh" and had a little bit of a disappointed face:)). We have no idea what we're going to name this little guy, which is weird for us. I usually have several names I really like. This time I don't really have any yet. So if you have any suggestions let me know...

We also found out from the ultrasound that the baby is doing well. He's growing normally and was moving around a lot during the ultrasound. We're so happy and thankful that everything is going well. And we're very excited for our new little baby to come to the family!

January

Here's some things we've been up to in the last month...

Kenzie figured out how to climb up the ladder and go down the slide. She loved it!

Kenzie is still cute.

Fireman and Batman enjoy dressing up sometimes. Jackson seems to enjoy it more, which surprised me actually. I thought Jordan liked it more, but he doesn't do it as much.

The boys also got hair cuts. Jackson doesn't look that much different, but Jordan's is much shorter. I don't have a before picture because Doug cut it and he forgot. But it was long. You can tell from the previous posts if you really want to know what it looked like.

We bought new shelves from Ikea. Doug worked hard and put them all together perfectly. It looks a lot better now.

We got new shelves for our dining area too. I really love these. It's nice to put so much in it and have it look much more organized.

Cute Batman again.

Remember how Kenzie can climb up the slide now? Well one day last week she was playing on it and only Jordan was around and he apparently climbed up the slide while she was sitting at the top and pushed her off backwards. She cried harder than normal and didn't want us to put her down. And then we noticed she wouldn't move her arm and would cry if we moved it at all. So we took her to the doctor who sent us to the urgent care place where they could x-ray her elbow. They they determined that she had sprained her arm. We were really happy that it wasn't broken. She was pretty miserable that day, but was much happier once we got some medicine in her. I was pretty worried about how she would sleep at night, but she did pretty good. The first few nights she had a hard time falling asleep and didn't want us to leave her alone, but slept pretty good once she was asleep. Well, she did wake up several times, but she went back to sleep easily. The next few days we kept her on the medication and as long as she had it in her she wasn't too sad. Each day she would move it more and more and by Friday she didn't need medicine anymore and was using her arm pretty normally and it only seemed to hurt if it was moved in certain ways. But now it seems completely better. I'm so glad she's not hurting anymore. The next few picture are of her last week.

She didn't want to pick up the water bottle so she tried to drink it like this.

Still super cute even when she's hurt :)

This is what she looked like a lot the first day and the other days when the medicine would start to wear off.

We had to hold her like this to protect her arm. And she wanted daddy to hold her a lot of the time. He worked from home a couple days (and was home the day she hurt it) after she hurt it to help me out.

Now on to the rest of the month...

I really love this outfit. It's still a little big on her but I had her wear on Sunday. And I thought it still looked so cute. Of course, everything looks cute on her.

More cute Mackenzie.

And another cute one.

Jordan loves puzzles. He does them pretty much everyday. He likes to leave them on the table (or the floor) after he finishes them while he does more.

Kenzie likes to wear glasses. And whenever she does she runs over to me and looks at me waiting for me to say "cool dude." Then she'll run over to anyone else in the room and wait for them to comment on her glasses too. She likes to be complimented.