West Des Moines Living Magazine

There is a great little news article in this months edition of the West Des Moines Living magazine... you need to check it out!

http://www.iowalivingmagazines.com/westdesmoines50266/pages/pdf/CVW_02WDM66LVP14.pdf

Here I am....

This is me.... I had Colby take some pictures of me yesterday, pretty sad that I have to resort to having my 9 year old take the pictures so that I'm not cracking up.

I am 29 1/2 weeks along here, so the count down is on. I can't believe how quickly the time has gone by. I have been feeling great, other than the fact that I'm growing by the second. Last time I went to the doctor I had gained a total of 30 pounds so far....oopsy.

The boys are very excited calling dibs on who gets to hold the new baby first. I hope they are as enthusiastic when he's screaming in the middle of the night!

We finally got a new bed for Cale, and they have been situated in their new surroundings for over a week now. Just need to get started on the new babies room now, times' a tickin'.

No pics....

Ok so I know I have totally neglected taking pictures of this belly I got going on. So just now I try to have Shawn take some pics of me, and lets just say it did not work out. I guess its a good thing that he makes me smile and laugh, but it was so bad.
I think he thought we were doing a modeling shoot...work the camera...are we going for sultry? So anyhow, Ashlin is coming over on Wednesday I will have her take some pictures of me. Right now my stomach hurts from laughing so hard I have to go lay down.

So much for down time...

I guess this is the pay back for raving about having no where to go over the holidays. It has been a whirlwind every since Christmas. After we got back from Minnesota, we were right back to busy. Mom's Group was Tuesday Cale and I headed off there, while Colby went to Sleepy Hollow for sledding. Wednesday was New Years Eve, we went over to one of Shawn's friends, luckily for me we celebrated with the New Yorkers so I was asleep right before midnight. Then on New Years Day we went to Shawn's Dads' to watch the Hawkeye's play in their bowl game. And since then Cale has been sick. He started running a fever that day and continued to run one off and on, but had no other symptoms. Yesterday he said both of his ears hurt and in the next 20 minutes was SCREAMING and CRYING because of the pain. It was horrible. The whole time he had a fever I kept asking him, does your throat hurt, ears, stomach. NOTHING, then out of no where it comes yesterday. So after my trip to the OB for my regular check up we were off to the doctor with Cale. He has ear infection in BOTH ears. UGH! Is it spring yet? I just want to open up my house and get the sick out.
By the way, pretty excited about my doctors appointment yesterday. I was a little worried about my weight, you know with the holidays and all, but I only gained 2 pounds. That to me is almost like losing weight! Shawn may be in a smidgen of trouble because when I asked him what he guessed my gain was he said 8 pounds....I think his answer from now on will be " I don't think you look like you've gained an ounce my pretty." Although he claims he was trying to be nice because I was thinking like 10 or more. I'll let it slide this time....

Cale's fun in Minnesota!

"Cream"
Diego & Dora

Bumper cars for "little people"-hilarious!

The Wonder Pets flyboat ride

Dad & Cale on the roller coaster

Obviously we decided that Cale was too young to go to the football game, so he and I went to the Mall of America. Cale and I had lunch at The Rainforest Cafe, which is totally cool. But we really spent the majority of the day at Nickelodeon Universe, the indoor amusement park. He had such a great time! When Shawn and Colby were done at the game they met us and Shawn went on a couple rides with him too. Cale also went to Build A Bear, he had gotten a gift card for Christmas and was excited to use it. His new "guy" is named Cream and as you can see apparently he is also a Vikings fan....

I can't believe I'm about to say this about any shopping establishment, but the Mall of America is just too much. It is all so overwhelming, I don't even think we saw a third of it, and we were there the better part of 2 days.