It's Kind Of a Funny Story

So I remembered that when I was gonna post about baby number 3 that I was gonna share a little bit about how we found out.

Here goes...

So one day I am standing in my family room and Riley Bug struck up an interesting conversation with me out of the blue. This is how it went.

Bug: Hey Mom, you have a baby in your belly!

Me: Um, I really don't think I do....

Bug: Uh, ya you do Mom. Let me check... 

She puts one hand on my belly for a half second then looks up at me very matter-of-fact like and says

Bug: Ya, you do. It is a baby brother and we are gonna name him Hiccup.

(Um, do you think we might be a little obsessed with a certain movie with dragons and scrawny dragon trainers? Maybe... I will never tell.)

She walks away. I am speechless I am pretty sure my reaction to this would have been the perfect photo opportunity. Too bad for all of you... ha

Not too long after and she gets invited to go play at a friends house down the street. I worry that she might say something. This girl is like an elephant. SHE NEVER FREAKIN' FORGETS ANYTHING!

My fears were justified. I talked to the mom of the friend the next day at the primary activity day and she said she wanted to ask me about it! HA I still had no clue if I actually was or not so I told her the truth to the best of my knowledge. I was not "expecting"

Curiosity got the better of me. Course it did. If this situation had just happened to you and you didn't run out and get a pregnancy test within 24 hours your nerves are made of stone. 

(just kidding... But really why would you not?!)

Either way, I sent Dale to the dollar store to get me a pregnancy test. 

I am serious about this people... NEVER spend any more than ONE DOLLAR on a pregnancy test ever again! You might think I am ghetto and you might say NEVER ( I was skeptical at first too...) but seriously they are accurate.

Now I do know that since I am only spending a dollar I am not expecting it to work miracles. Since I wasn't supposed to "start" for another few days I didn't expect it to perform to the accuracy of an EPT that apparently is a fortune teller and can tell you before your body even knows but I figured i would give it a  go. 

Dale brought home 2 and I took both at the same time.

COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES! Two lines??? TWO LINES??? Was this for reals happening?? It totally was.

Positive. I run in and tell Dale and we were in such shock. 

My best friend put it the best "Someone is sharing secrets with that little girl"

Secret sharing indeed!

I realized a couple days later that I had already had a pregnancy test lying around so i took that one and of course it came out the exact same way. 

Positive.

Still in shock.

So to add to this Riley starts telling me I have 2 babies in my belly. Than a week later is was three.

Once it got to three I was skeptical but still a little nervous to go and have an ultrasound and have the Doc tell me Bug was right.

The Doc. said at least she got one prediction right... Haha Clearly, I heard the heartbeat. I saw the peanut. I see my belly expanding faster than it did with either girly. The baby is there. Whether or not its a boy is still up in the air for a couple more months but we will see.

Peanut

I'm Pregnant!

This little one is going to be a winter baby!

Christmas Baby to be exact.

Due Date: December 24th.

I couldn't believe it either!

Riley is very excited and asks about every 5 seconds if the baby is going to be OK.

Mak doesn't quite get it yet but every time Riley says something about the baby in my belly Mak points to my belly then points to her and then points to Riley's. I cant wait to see how she reacts when my belly gets bigger!

In A Year

In a year, Bug went from

this

to this...

She still will barely look at a camera.

(Who could blame her with all that candy in her hands. I wouldn't be able to look at a camera either!)

But she graduated preschool.

She did so well and it was so good for her and the perfect start to her schooling.

She made SO many new friends and found a teacher that I don't think she will ever be able to forget!

I'm proud of you Bug!

I cannot believe you are about to start kindergarten!!!!

Bugs First Dance Recital!!

I know the video isn't great but it was just with my camera and i had to maneuver around the heads of people around me.

She sure is cute though!

I love it!

She was so excited and she did SO well!!

What a Mom Wants

One word- HILARIOUS!

Just A Little Story...

So I just remembered I had taken all these pictures to flaunt a {HUGE} project I had completed. 

Huge pretty much refers to the importance this of project and the effect it had on my sanity.

Let me tell you a story about a blanket.

So when Dale was a very tiny human he carried around this blanket that his mom made for him from one of her mu-mu's.

(let me know if i get anything wrong!)

He attached himself to it because it was so soft.

It went with him everywhere for a very long time.

(I wont say how long for fear that Dale might kill me ;) )

It was his lovie.

He carried it around on his head so it was always in VERY good condition.

Seriously how cute is that?

So My M-I-L  found this blankie when Riley Bug was very little and gave it to us thinking that maybe she would love it as much as Dale did but by this time Riley had already found her own lovie. Her beloved Pig. (that she still cant go anywhere with out!)

So she liked it but it wasn't her number 1.

Then Mak was born. She fell in LOVE with it!

She is our little Linus, carrying it around wherever she goes!

She has lovingly named it her "Mimi"

One day she left it too close to the dog cage and the dog pulled it into its cage and gashed its claws into it!

I was SO mad!!

Even more mad than Dale.

It had survived for 27 years in perfect condition and we ruin it within a year and a half....

This is what it looked like afterward...

These don't really do it justice. there were huge holes and little holes everywhere! It looked bad.

I washed it up and she used it like that for a couple weeks until I could get everything ready.

Mak cant live very long, at all, without it and so this was gonna have to be a marathon project. I found the extra quilt backing that my M-I-L had given me, that made the original blanket (really lucky!) and then my M-I-L found some fabric that wasn't the same kind but had a very similar feeling to it. 

I used the original blanket to size out the quilt backing and started cutting the blue squares out.

 I did it very scientifically ;)

I did this all a week before hand and then knew that the coming Saturday would need to be a sewing day.

So as soon as Mak woke up in the morning I snuck away with her Mimi and started cutting it up.

I cut up every bit of salvageable material I could get.

This is the part that made me the MOST nervous!

I had JUST enough squares!!

Then I started sewing!!!

Square by square.

Strip by strip.

Front to back.

It took me SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS!!!

(20 min. of that getting the tension right on my brand new sewing machine. It was its maiden voyage. Which made me MORE nervous than I already was.)

What if after all this work she didn't like it, wouldn't attach herself too it because it wasn't the same.

I was a wreck! 

Ask Dale.  No, Don't......

It was finished...

I was very proud of it but would it pass Mak's test.

Oh, did it ever!!

She was so excited when she saw it! Picked it up like she hadn't seen it in weeks and has never forgotten it since!

Relief!