Baby on Board

I suppose I ought to make this an official announcement as I now have a little baby counter widget installed. We are having a baby! I know right, number 4! Wow. I am ridiculously excited and so is Jason. Our new addition is due to arrive the end of October. I'm thrilled to able to share my birthday month! I get all teary eyed just thinking about it. And I'm sure it has nothing to do with hormones. After thinking our family was complete with our 3 boys I cannot begin to describe the absolute joy I feel in being able to add one more to our family. It's simply an amazing feeling. I'm so very happy. So it's good-bye flat stomach I worked so hard on and hello to elastic waisted pants. It's going to be a beautiful adventure!

Shots

It was well child check up time last week for Ethan and Jase, you know what that meant...shots. Lot of them. Poor little Jase had to get 5 shots!! It was practically torture for the little guy. He was all brave until the first needle when in, then he tried to kick the nurse. Not maliciously of course, but reflexively. I don't blame him, I might have taken a swipe at her too. Oucheroo! He cried for a solid half hour. All the while Ethan received his shots, through the check out station, down the hall to the parking garage, in the car, all the way to the Arctic Circle for a well deserved treat, and the rest of the way up the hill to the house. Then he informed me he couldn't walk anymore. So I had to carry him in the house and arrange him just so on the couch with his Oreo shake.

That's the face of one sad little boy. I was pretty sure he was never going to walk again. But about an hour later he was up and walking stiff legged around the kitchen looking for a drink.

Apart from the shots being insane, the doctor visit was pretty good. I love how much each of our boys differ from one another. None of them share the same hair/eye color combination and as far as body types go...they couldn't be more different. Ethan sprouted up from being in the 10% for height at his 1 year check up to the 80 percentile this go around. Holy smokes, we actually may have a tall child! My sweet little Jaser was originally measured in the 10th percentile at 4 1/2 but the doctor stretched him out good and long and got two more inches out of him (I think that was a bit of a stretch, but ok) He's now in about the 25th percentile. And according to the doctor Jase may be short, but he has some of the best muscle tone he's seen in a 4 year old. AWESOME! I love it! I was so happy to hear that my boys are healthy and strong and growing beautifully.

Lunch

One afternoon I asked the boys what they wanted for lunch and I got the usual, "I don't care," answer from Kaden. Jase however was more than happy to tell me what he wanted. Green eggs and ham. Totally random! I loved it. So we mixed up some eggs added some ham and cheese and swirled in some green coloring. Jase very carefully even helped cook 'em up.

Kaden had his on a sandwich with his favorite condiment, ketchup. That was an interesting looking sandwich, green and red.

Jase insisted they were the best green eggs and ham he had ever had. I'll take that as a compliment.

Girl's Night Out

My very good friend Nichole and I made it out to the Colbie Caillat concert a week or so back. I've been trying since to post a video of my favorite song of hers, but with no luck. Have no fear, WE SHALL PREVAIL!! The concert was fantastic. Colbie is my favorite current female artists and I had no doubt she would put on a good show. I love it when I'm not disappointed and such was the case. We had phenomenal seats (thanks to my being online the second they went on sale 9:59 not 10:00) and I could have gotten some really good pix too, but my camera and I are not bestest friends. ARGH! I was getting so upset at my lack of photo taking skills. My videos are awesome though, and as I said as soon as blogger stops being oppressive I'll get one posted! I was totally pumped to hear that she is heading to Hawaii in a few weeks to start writing for her third album. I can't wait!