Christmas pics, Caleb's Party, & Prego Update

Okay.... FINALLY an update!! I know some of you were wondering where I have been! I've been cleaning and sleeping. Back and forth. I don't know whether I'm in the "nesting stage," or the very fatigued stage! They both come and go! Just think with my lack of blogging I'm getting you use to how often I will be blogging when the baby comes!! Maybe I should teach Beau how to get on and update this thing!! First I'm going to start with a couple of Christmas photos that I said I would put on here a while ago.

Christmas Eve with the Ellis Family

Christmas morning-Caleb's scooter from Santa

Carleigh's "Scary" Baby from Santa-I can now report she's playing with it now!!Putting together the legos Caleb got from sister!Christmas at Mimi & Pappy's house!!The ornament Caleb picked out for Pappy!Mimi & Carleigh at Aunt Robin's- Robin had fun with this picture!

Caleb had his 6th birthday party on the 17th. He had requested for a surprise party. So I had him come in like 5 minutes after everyone else had arrived. He loved it! He wanted to have people jump out and yell surprise! Of course he told me after the kids had their invites. So it was fun talking to the parents a week before the party, the "surprise" plan. We had just a few boys from his class come to the house for his Mario party. I made a Mario so we could pin the hat on the Mario. It was simple, we had cake, presents, and then silly string! It would have been nice if someone told me that the boys would love silly string, but it would be gone in like 5 minutes! I was planning for it to take up 30 minutes. God blessed us with a gorgeous day to be outside for that silly string, so I threw out some balls and they went nuts playing soccer and then tag!! The kids seemed to all have fun!!! Here are a couple of pics from that day!

Believe it or not, Caleb was actually surprised!!The boys were pumped for picture time!My little Mario!!

The silly string that lasted maybe 5 minutes!

So I now have 3 1/2 weeks to go!! It's the big countdown!! At my 34 week appt. (6 weeks left) I had a sonogram, baby looked great, we still don't know the sex!! (Starting to drive me crazy, now that I'm trying to get things prepared) I know the surprise will be so worth it though!! They were also able to see about how much the baby was weighing that day. The baby was 5 1/2 pounds! Doctor Wilson said that day that he will probably want to induce me at 38 or 39 weeks because if not, I might have a 10 pounder!! I thought Caleb was big at 9lbs. 2oz.!!! I think it would be great if he induces at 39 weeks, that would be on Valentine's Day!! Of course, any day will do! Just a healthy baby is what I'm wanting!! My most recent doctor's appt was on Monday, (going weekly now), I gained 3 more pounds and am measuring 1 cm larger. I'm actually shocked that this is the first time for me to measure big with this one. I always measured larger with Caleb and Carleigh. Since I am now he has already set up for a sonogram at 38 weeks so we can see the size of the baby. I can't wait to see how much the baby is weighing when 4 weeks prior was 5 1/2 pounds! Just makes me think of having the sonogram the day before Caleb was born and the sono said he was 8lbs 10oz. and he came out bigger!! Here's a pic of me at 36 weeks, even though Beau says I already look bigger.

Just a few things to melt the heart!

We had such a wonderful Christmas! I will post pictures soon! Caleb got his Spiderman scooter, so we woke up early Christmas morning with him riding into our bedroom shouting, "Look what Santa got me!" Carleigh loves putting her babies "night, night." So Santa thought it would be a clever idea to get her a baby that actually closes it's eyes when laid down, and open when she's up! Didn't know a baby like that would terrify her. She barely makes her way over to another toy if its next to the "scary baby." Good job Santa! I had such a great time with the 4 of us all being together! Only 7 more weeks until this little family of 4 grows to 5! I feel so blessed that God has given us 2 beautiful, healthy children and that He has chosen to give us another child! I'm blessed that I have these children to love on, but also feeling their love for me as well is incredible! My most favorite thing though, would be seeing Caleb and Carleigh loving on each other. Walking into the living room and Carleigh (blankey in hand) leaning up against Caleb, with him choosing to have his arm around her while watching cartoons. Or just the simple hug and kiss before bedtime. Carleigh will get upset if we're trying to put her to bed and she hasn't given kisses to her "Caebu"!