And then there were four!!!

So I found out that I am pregnant with #4! I've actually known for a while now, but I wanted to wait until I had a due date to really start announcing it. The date is Sept. 1st. I will be 10 weeks tomorrow. We were trying and both of us are extremely excited! This was the cutest ultrasound I have ever had. This little one was just dancing up a storm in there. You could see the little stubs for arms and legs moving all over the place. Then the baby stopped and stared right into the camera, that's the first picture. The second one is the profile. I'm doing pretty good, just tired but that was an issue before I got pregnant.

Baby Genius

I would like to take this opportunity to brag about my brilliant daughter! She did these puzzles all by herself. She isn't even 3 yet! Some of the pieces are missing, but without any help from mom she got all the available pieces put together. Tobie was really good at puzzles to, but I didn't start buying these kind of puzzles until he was older. She is really amused by them, she will put them together then take them apart and then put them together again. She could stand there for a long time. She is going to be a genius!!! (If anyone else's kids are really good at puzzles at a young age, please don't pop my bubble.)

Red Face = Forts

When Tobie gets a red face at school, they have 3 colors, red being the worst, he is grounded from T.V. and playing with friends for that afternoon. This is what resulted in the grounding, a magnificent fort! I loved building forts when I was younger and I guess I still do. Tobie was trying so hard to make this work, but Mommy with her Architectural degree in fort building came in to complete the task. I didn't get in it, the laughs and giggles from inside the fort were enough for me. The cats scratching post is in the middle for support.


A look inside. Here is Tobie really enjoying the fort. Miriam really liked it to, I just couldn't get her to look at the camera. So that night as I am putting Tobie to bed I go through my usual speech that "we're going to try harder tomorrow to get a green face, right?" Tobie says, "If I get a red face can we build the fort again!". He tends to find the silver lining in all types of situations. He did get a green face the next day, so hopefully he learned his lesson in the fort. =)

I'm an orange!

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Let Them Eat Cake!

I had two cake orders due this weekend. The Spongebob was the first character cake pan I have ever done. After doing all the little stars I couldn't open my hand all the way. I had to massage it open! But it looked good and the lady I did it for gave me more than I was charging so it was a happy delivery!

This cake on the other hand was one of my own creations and I thought it was gorgeous, but when I dropped it off all the lady kept commenting on was how small the cake was. It's a standard 13X9' double layer sheet cake. Now I am totally paranoid and worried that she doesn't have enough cake. This is for a 4 year old's b-day party. Those little kids don't eat a lot of cake, right? Plus that rock Ariel is sitting on it nothing but cake! I really hope it is enough. Pray for me, and all those sugar deprived kiddies at tomorrow's party!

Pink Eye

This is how we started our New Year. Poor little Miss Miriam got a horrible infection in both her eyes. Theo took her to the emergency room where they diagnosed her with a severe case of Pink Eye. They gave us the usual eye drops and within a few days the swelling and nasty eye goop was gone. I swear, I have changed some nasty diapers, wiped up vomit and diarrhea. But when I would wipe her eyes and that goop just strung along from her eye to the tissue like hot melted mozzarella cheese on a pizza, I wanted to throw up. She stayed in pretty good spirits though. She even insisted on wearing her princess fairy outfit. She had to wear it to the hospital even. Everyone was admiring her and she was just soaking it up. Theo said she did a few turns and twirls to show off the wings in the back. She is 100% better now, and these swollen eyes are now back to her normal beautiful hazel!

My little Artist!

So we are over the hustle and bustle of Christmas, as you can tell with all my postings in one sitting! But the wonderful hustle and bustle of everyday motherhood is never over! My sweet Miss Miriam got a huge coloring book from Santa that had crayons and servant of Satan's - a marker! I neglected to take the marker out and when she was suppose to be napping she got creative instead. This marker was not only on her wall, but on her bed, carpet, her new princess pillow and of course her hands and face. The really funny thing is when I went in her room to get her up from her nap I never even noticed her artwork. I did notice that she had a really stinky diaper. As I started to change her I was pulling out wipes that were just shoved in the wipey box that had blue ink on them. I had one of those exhausted mother moments where I just thought, "Huh, that's peculiar." and just reached in until I found a clean one. Theo asked me later if I noticed what she had done on the wall. I was completely oblivious, so I ran to her room and this is what I found. The red on the wall is from a previous artistic epiphany, but you can see where she tried to cover up some of the evidence from the blue marker. Good thing she is so stinking cute! We just bought some Magic Erasers tonight and I plan on standing over her with a whip as she scrubs it all off!!! Or she pretends to wipe the walls while I use some real elbow grease, just whatever comes first!