November 30th

Today is a rainy and dreary day.  Carter went to preschool while Ava and I went grocery shopping.  I stocked up on easy dinners to make and gluten free food.  Carter is so excited to see his Grandma and Bo soon.  His current favorite joke:

Knock knock
Who's there?
grape grape

Pretty hilarious, huh?  We'll keep working on that. 

It's the last day of November, yeah!  That means D-Day is drawing closer!

Festival of Lights at the Zoo

Yes, I'm still here and still very pregnant.  Only five more days until my due date, so hopefully something will happen soon.  We have been laying low since Thanksgiving because the kids have colds but we decided to go to the zoo tonight.  The weather was (relatively) mild in the low 40's so we decided to go before the new little guy makes his appearance.  Here's the pictures:

Don't you love the Nittany Lion hat on her?

Posing with the gorilla.

Our picture with Mrs. Claus.  Notice my head in the picture?  Ava was not going anywhere near her without a parent.  Carter on the other hand ran up and was on her lap in a flash.  We'll see how Santa goes this year.

We wrote letters to Santa and put them in the mailbox.

Our Carousel ride

Mike, the kids and the christmas tree

Our little Pengos lover.

I'm glad we got to go one night as a family.  Carter had such a ball, so I'm hoping that he'll be able to go back again this year.

Thanksgiving Cookies

Today we made sugar cookies for Thanksgiving in the shape of turkeys and stars (peanut and egg free of course.)

My helpers got their hands (and clothes) dirty.

I had so much "help" it only took two hours to make one batch of cookies.

38 weeks photo shoot

With my first two babies I never took pictures of my pregnancy.  So I have been hoping for beautiful weather so I could take some pictures of the family and I before the newest one arrives.  Sunday was beautiful and we made it to over to Rentschler with plenty of time to hike and take some pictures.  So here is my attempt at a maternity photo shoot (which by the way may sound a little hookey, so bare with me.)

Mommy with her two

Thanks Carter for taking this good picture of Mommy and Daddy.  We were laughing because he also managed to take pictures of our shoes to the sky and everything in between.  We are still working on the whole "aim" thing.

Baby D

Our last family picture with four members.

I love having a girl.  Did you notice the flower the size of a dinner plate on top of her head?

Mike, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this shot you took!

Ok little man, now we are totally ready for you.  Any day now!

Tidbits

Merry Christmas!  Our tree is up, our stockings have been hung and the outside lights (and penguin) are all aglow.  We've been spending the past couple of days working on getting these things out so that we aren't working on decorating the house plus taking care of a new baby.  It was hard enough decorating the house with these two clowns running around!  Speaking of the devils, here's a picture of them together.  Of course I can't get them to look at the camera but we'll keep working on this.

Just a warning, I'm going to be light on posting on the blog.  Lately the blog has not been a priority because there has been grout to scrub with a toothbrush, curtains to wash, blinds to dust and baseboards to clean. 

Well, Bo it looks like I may just be able to hold off until December 10th like you had hoped.  At the doctor's office today they told me that "nothing is happening" and "I have a long way to go."  My blood sugars have been good so they are content with him staying put.

Last night before bed Mike asked Carter what gifts he would like to get people for christmas.  His response:  a santa hat.  For everyone!  Although he did say that Bo should get two santa hats.  Lucky you!

 

Get your groove on!

Seriously, how lucky am I that I get to stay at home and take care of these two awesome kids?

Here's a christmas dance party for your viewing pleasure.

Smile!

 Smile!

It's Friday!

It is a gorgeous, November Friday here with plenty of sunshine.  We've been spending time at home resting our colds, but we've made sure to get outside.