Baby #3

For the few of you who aren't on Facebook, here are pictures from our ultrasound.  Baby #3 is a girl!  Maggie was excited and claimed it as hers, and Tjabe wasn't so excited and wanted to know if I was going to have another baby after this one so he could still hope for a brother.  Everything looks great and due date is still August 4.

Funny stuff

Here's some things the kids have been saying (or said) lately.

Maggie (coming up to me with a Lego magazine): "Mommy, can I read this while I go poopy?" And so it begins...

Tjabe: "Man's Eggs is now open!"  This is the name he has given his pretend restaurant (i.e. our kitchen).  Yes, it is weird.  Sam and I keep trying to get him to change it.

Tjabe was giving me a spelling and writing test yesterday while we played "Mom School".  I'll be honest, it was exasperating and funny at the same time.  Of course I had to write everything in cursive, and then he would correct it, and then I would fix everything.  The problem was almost every word I wrote was wrong somehow.  The dot over my "i" was too big or too small, my letters went a little below the line or weren't sitting on it perfectly, the lines weren't smooth (because I was writing on a bumpy surface, which is apparently no excuse).  Every time he gave me back my corrected test it was covered with red marks.  When I asked him why there were so many corrections his response was, "Because I'm very good at cursive.

Me: Maggie, what's your full name?
Maggie: Tigress.
Me: No, I want your first and last name.
I remind her of her full name, and she tells me: No, that's my nickname.  My full name is Tigress.

Making Starship Proud

Here's the kids singing while picking up toys tonight.  Can you guess what they've been listening too?

Tjabe's Party

This year we decided to give Tjabe his first party.  I let him invite his class (5 other kids) and one more friend.  Thankfully another mom and friend of mine stayed with me and helped.  I'm not sure what I was thinking planning to do it on my own...

We started with a "picnic", then had some games and ended with the cake.  Then we still had another hour left so they all just played and wrestled and screamed and got sweaty.  I think everyone was tired by the end but it was overall a good time.

I did a map with cheese to go with the snacks, since he loves geography.  And cheese.  He had fun putting it together too.

The whole crew

 The cake - a lighting bolt as requested.

 Tjabe wanted to accompany everyone singing to him on the piano.  He did an intro and everything.

Maggie's Dinner

Here is Maggie at dinner last night.  This is pretty typical when she doesn't take a nap.

Ornaments

Today Tjabe and I decided to use some stuff around the house to make Christmas ornaments.

Catching up

Sorry about the delay.  I should probably post some of these before Christmas comes and I get really behind.  These are in reverse chronological order (kind of).

Maggie turned three!  She had some friends over and celebrated with a dinner of spaghetti followed by a pink and purple cake with pink frosting, white letters, and pink and purple sprinkles.  Just what she wanted.  Oh, and many, many, many gifts.

This was my project one morning.  It was intended to be a group project with Maggie and her friend but they got bored about 1 minute into it and I ended up doing it myself.

Dr. Maggie (under the warm clothing) on Halloween.

Dr. Maggie and the firemen.

The chosen pumpkins

The carved pumpkins.  Can you tell whose was whose?  Mine was dark green.