Our boys

Peyton 4 yrs
Parker 10 months

It's a...... GIRL!

Can you believe it?!?!?! It's really a girl (the 3 lines mean a girl) :)


This is the baby laying on its stomach so they could see the spine.

These are some really cool 3D photos I got of her. They aren't as clear on here as they are in person, but we thought this was really nice to get. That's the placenta around her face and head on the left and her cord around her arm on the right. She looks kind of blobby right now :), but its still fun to see them more closely.

It doesn't look like it, but she does have all fingers and toes. In the 2D we were able to count them and see all of them. You can see them better in the above photo.

If you look closely you can see her heart - its the black space that has a line going through it. She has all 4 chambers and they cross where they need to. That's her fist down by her belly.You can see one of her eyes too.

This is a closer profile pic and you can see her nose and mouth better.

Everything turned out great and they were able to rule out almost all birth defects. That was comforting to know since we were concerned with my test results for Spinabifida and with my heart condition and how that was going to affect her. But, all in all, she looks healthy and we are excited, but very nervous. We know what to expect with boys. :) It's so weird to say "her"!!!

Family

So unfortunately the Eagles lost, but I finally have a jersey now just like the boys so we took a family photo while watching the game. I also threw one of our littlest Eagle fan in too! And, yes that would be a Barbie computer the boys are playing with. We're encouraging them to be well rounded. :)

New camera

With my Christmas money I bought a new camera. I have been dying to get one for some time now because my other one is broken. It works when it wants to and its always when we want to catch the kids doing something that it decides not to work. So thankfully I got a new one and here are some of the pics I took with it. It takes pictures in black and white and color all at the same time so its fun to mess around with that too. :)

Snow day

So today it snowed a decent amount (at least enough to cover our ground pretty good), so Peyton wanted to go out and play in it. Unfortunately this past weekend we were too busy to go out with him much, so I decided to bundle the kids up and go out in the 18 degree weather!! We had a good time and Parker just loved sitting in the grass and playing with the snow. Peyton took his sand shovel and filled his buckets with snow and leaves. :) He had lots of fun making snow angels in our driveway. He insisted on doing it there because there was no tracks from cars or footprints. He doesn't want Jeff to drive over it tonight when he gets home! We also went for a short walk until we were too frozen to go any further.

Germ-a-phobe

Ok, so I'm a HUGE freak about germs... things just creep me out that often don't even cross other people's minds. For instance, we don't wear shoes in the house because of all the nasty places our shoes touch (public bathroom floors) and then we bring those home and would essentially track that through the house. With a baby on the floor and eating everything in sight, I freak at the thought of it. :)

Why is this important to say, you ask? No real reason other than I wanted to get something off my chest... So the pediatrician's office is one of those places that is just full of nasty germs from snot nosed kids (mine can often be lumped into this category as well) and all the different lifestyles these kids come from. We had to go there today for Parker to get a blood blister thing popped that is on his gums in front of a tooth trying to pop through - queasy yet? :) Well at our peds office there is no sick vs well side so this always makes me scared that my kids are going to get sick on a well visit , esp as there's a girl with bronchitis walking by coughing on every kid in her path. Now, most likely as the girl and her sister were waiting for the dr. they were probably playing with all the toys that my kids were currently playing with...AHHH!!! So as I'm praying that my kids stay healthy and avoid all germs possible till we get out of there, in walks a young mother with two kids who have not taken a bath in quite some time. I don't want to sound ridiculous in my statement, but it was to the point where my 4 yr old asked "Mommy, why did that boy have black stuff on his face and hands?" It was so sad.... the boy was standing about 3 feet from me and I could tell that he smelled from not taking a bath, his diaper was sagging down to his calves, and his clothes were a mess. The baby who was younger than Parker had no coat or socks and was just lightly covered with a blanket - keep in mind that its 18 degrees outside today. I wanted so badly to help this mom, but I didn't know what to do. I mean what do you say?? I saw the dr. looking them over for a while, when we were all in the waiting room, so hopefully he was able to provide her with some resources.

But anyway, to a germaphobe I was FREAKING out watching Peyton play with these sick infested toys and driving cars around on the floor. I scrubbed their hands with hand sanitizer in the van and then washed them when we got home. I felt like there was "sick" all over everyone, so badly so that I made everyone change when we got home!! :) I was very tempted to give them a bath too.

I know many of you are laughing at me, but I just can't do it. It bugs the crap out of me that the pediatrician of all people doesn't have separated waiting room space as well as separate exam rooms, knowing full well that he sees people who have all kinds of contagious sicknesses and germs that the well kids are being exposed to. I know that exposure to different things strengthens their immune system, but who really wants their kids to get sick?!?!

Ok, enough of my soapbox...

Christmas 2008

Here are some Christmas photos...they are a little out of order according to when they were taken, but you get the idea.


Jason with the kids - Parker, Tilman, Braycee, & Peyton. Christmas at Grandmom & Grandpop's.

Peyton wanted a guitar from Santa in the worst way. He carried this around all day with him and was very proud.

Parker loved eating the paper more than opening the presents.

Peyton and his bowling set.

Faces

We have this picture of Peyton with a pretzel rod and it cracks us up EVERYTIME we see it. Peyton loved his pretzel rods and some how we managed to capture this shot of him with his prized pretzel.



Well, recently Parker was loving the strawberries we were eating and couldn't get enough. Despite the fact that they were slightly sour, he kept coming back for more. We managed to capture a "pretzel shot" of him too. Here's a before and after...

It almost seems like cruel punishment when I look at the picture, but he kept coming back for another bite. I guess he got used to it after the inital shock. :)

Baby Borchelt #3

Well many have been asking about the baby. The baby is doing well. I'm 18 wks now and we will be finding out what we are having on Jan. 23rd. We're excited for our Level II ultrasound for several reasons - to find out what we're having, but also to find out if the baby is doing well. I have been having a lot of trouble with my heart lately and my medicine isn't fully keeping it away. So after a few drs visits with my OB, my Cardiologist, and a Perinatologist (a high risk OB), they all feel that the baby should be fine throughout the pregnancy despite my heart rate hitting 230 beats per minute at times! :) It always baffles me what a baby can go through and still be fine. They want me to stay on my medicine and up the dosage to try to keep the frequency of my episodes down. As long as I'm not passing out and getting lightheaded (meaning low blood pressure) then all should be well and the baby will be able to get enough blood even when my heart is beating so rapidly. Basically as long as I'm receiving enough blood to my brain to stay conscious than the baby is getting what he/she needs as well. So needless to say we are anxious for the ultrasound to be reassured that everything is ok and the baby is looking good.

Parker is 9 months old!!

Well Parker's first year of life is flying by and he is now 9 months old, actually almost 10 now. (a little behind on the posting these days) At his 9 month checkup he was 23 lbs 12 oz and 30 inches!! He loves to pull himself up on everything and is starting to get the hang of cruising around the furniture. He hates all types of food - baby food and table food. He spits everything out and is giving me a run for my money. Not really sure what this stage is all about. He used to want everything we were eating, but didn't quite have the hang of eating without choking. Now we've moved onto being able to handle pieces of food, but he's lost interest. Hopefully things change soon because I'm quite tired of trying to get him to transition so I don't have to buy or feed him babyfood anymore!!

There's also some new pics on the side of my blog of the boys - check them out.

We miss you...

It has been a while since I have had the opportunity to post due to all the challenges life has presented us with. On December 9, 2008, my Uncle Kent died of a heart attack at the very young age of 47. We were devastated with the loss of such a funny, easy going, Godly man so soon and so unexpectedly. He left a legacy that we can only hope to come close to leaving behind. He was never afraid to share his faith and he did do by living out his life with complete love and devotion for God. He was a great husband to my Aunt Lisa, an awesome and fun Dad to Kristen, Renee, & Kyle, and the Grandpa that every kid wants to Aubrie & Rylan.

What I will miss the most about him is the way he always picked on me. He love to give me a hard time about the size of my belly when I'm pregnant. As we all know it gets rather large due to the big babies I have and he loved to pick on me about it.

I will also miss his awesome generosity.... Jeff and I were selling our first townhome and LATE the night before settlement we needed to take out the drywall screws (a silly request of the buyers). While taking ones out in the bathroom we found out the hard way that one was screwed into a pipe and it starting spraying water everywhere. Since my dad is the Mr. Fixit in my life I called him and he was apprehensive about pipes so he called Kent. Kent came to our rescue and helped to fix the pipe and patch our wall. He saved us big time and did so with a giving heart and with love. He jokingly said, "Is this what I have to do to get invited to your house?" (he had never been there before). :)

He was known for his ridiculously loud burps that he loved to do right in your ear. As we got older he moved on to doing it to our kids instead. Believe it or not, I will miss that about him too. :)

I know that one day I will be given the opportunity to see him again in heaven. Our family has grown closer through this and we will continue to do our best to live out the life that he lived and would want for us all to live and share. We love you and miss you Uncle Kent.