Best Friends

I was laying on the couch with Zac, trying to catch some zzz's while he watched a cartoon. I don't usually get any sleep though, he likes to talk. He said, "mom, is your name mom?" I said, "yes." He said, "Are you my best friend?" Again I said, "yes." He said, "okay." I did get in about a 5 minute cat nap when he finally got distracted by what was on tv.

Progress Report

Potty training is going very well, in fact better than expected. Zac did have one accident yesterday, but I had a house full of girls here making tortillas and salsa...so I didn't hear him calling in time. So far today, no accidents. He even went potty in the big toilet at my dr.'s office. I am trying not to get my hopes up too high. I remember with the other boys, just when I thought we were finished potty training, I would learn we were not.

Ryan got his stitches out on Tuesday and now has a walking boot. He can walk without crutches! He is slowly getting more movement in his foot, don't know when he will actually be able to put weight on it without the boot. Tax season is now in full-swing. With the long hours I am feeling like the CPA's widow....good thing it is only another month and a half. I have a lot of projects around the house that I should be working on while he is putting in the long hours, if only I had the energy:)

Potty time = Party time

I am working on getting Zac potty trained BEFORE the baby comes. Yesterday was pretty good. He had three accidents, but went in the potty 4 or 5 times. So far today no accidents, and has gone potty twice already! We all get so excited everytime he goes in the potty so that he will think it is a fun thing. It was so funny, last night after he took a bath I was putting a pair of underwear on him that had a football helmet on the back. He got so mad when I started putting the helmet in the back he said, "no mom, let me see the helmet. You are doing it backwards." SO....at least until he accepts the fact that sometimes underwear have pictures on the back not always front....he will be wearing his underwear backwards. Whatever it takes:)

Long Week

Hello Everyone! It has been a long week around here. Ryan tore his achilles tendon playing basketball almost two weeks ago. He had surgery to have it repaired last Wednesday. Due to tax season he hasn't been able to take much time to relax and he is really feeling it!! He admits that he under-estimated how recovery would be. He jokes that taking care of him isn't much different than our 2 year old other than he is potty trained(Thank goodness)...haha. The doctor is not going to cast his foot and has told him to unwrap it every night and do a little stretching...should help improve and speed up recovery. Pretty funny, his doctor/surgeon was at the church playing ball with him that early morning that it happened. Everyone teases him about trying to take out the competition.

We also had our ultrasound last week and found out that we are having another boy. The boys couldn't be more thrilled to be having another brother. Hunter is the only one with any concerns. He just feels sad that the girl team will always lose since there is only one girl and will be five boys. We were also shocked to find out that I am further along than expected. The baby was measuring 27 weeks instead of 20 weeks. I saw the doctor today and the due date has officially been moved from July 1 to May17. Due to the fact that I got pregnant while receiving the depot shot, I really had no idea how far along I was and didn't even know that I was pregnant until Christmas. Anyway...this post is getting really long, but one more thing...I found out today that the baby has a small fold in his bladder, which can cause swelling and possibly damage to the kidneys. The doctor said that a lot of the time it fixes itself before birth or shortly after. I will have another ultrasound in April to check on the bladder and kidneys. He said that so far there isn't a problem, but just wants to be cautious. Depending on how it looks in April they may have to induce me the first part of May. I'll keep you all posted when I have the next ultrasound. Other than that...everything looks perfect.

Dressed up

Here are two of my handsome boys dressed up for church in the handsome outfits that aunt Amber sent for them. Zac asked me where my tie was. I told him boys wear ties and Hunter said, "yeah, like Jesse...or buddy. Parents call him Jesse, but kids like to call him buddy." Hunter really loves his uncle 'buddy'.

"Cover up me."

Last night while I was fixing dinner Zac wanted to watch a cartoon upstairs. Of course, I let him....any peace I can get while fixing dinner is GREAT!! He came downstairs and said, "Mom, cover up me." So I went upstairs and covered him up. Then he said, "now, take a picture of Zac-ee." He is so funny!! He loves me to 'cover up him' and he loves to get his picture taken. After I took the picture, he said, "let me see Zac-ee."

Snow Day

We had a very fun 'snow day' yesterday. Jake's school was cancelled due to the snow and is actually cancelled again today for the clean up. We ended up with about 8 inches and the boys had a blast playing in it. Ryan attached the plow to the quad to help move the snow off the driveway(he had WAY too much fun doing that:)). Zac got cold quickly and came in the house to watch tv while we kept moving the snow and Ryan kept working on getting the plow attached. It was so funny though, as soon as Ryan started the 4-wheeler, Zac came running out of the house without sock and shoes saying, "where is my helmet, I need my helmet!!". He was so happy to ride the 4-wheeler with Ryan. Here are a couple of pictures of the fun:)