Special memories

Gail from Gail Anne photography took these beautiful photos, capturing some special memories of our last pregnancy and our family of 5. I can't wait to see the rest and hopefully be able to post some more.

Only 2 more weeks till baby Piper arrives.

My boys

The energizer baby

Parker is NONSTOP all day long!! He is constantly getting into things and we pretty much chase him around all day unless we gate him into the living room. I know what you're thinking.... aren't all toddlers nonstop - this one never sits for more than a minute unless he's tired. He has to be moving constantly.
Peyton put Parker's hat on this way (not on purpose) but the pic turned out too cute.

Dinner gets made with him sitting in clean, unfolded laundry playing with a soup ladle.

He doesn't ever do what is intended... he eats EVERYTHING!! Well, everything he's not supposed to that is. Thank goodness for nontoxic crayons.

This is his new trick!

He rarely plays with the blocks, just opens the bin and sits in it.

Ahh.. the joys of toddlerhood. :)

Peyton & Mommy

Peyton: "Mommy, what is Dr. Phil?"
Mommy: "What do you mean?"
Peyton: "WHAT IS DR. PHIL?!?!?" - as if screaming it at me will help me understand what
he's asking.
Mommy: "Dr. Phil is a doctor."
Peyton : " No he's not... he doesn't dress in the clothes like a doctor."
Mommy: "He's a psychologist."
Peyton : "What's a psy-chol-ogist?"
Mommy: "A psychologist helps people with their problems"
Peyton: "What problems do they have?"
Mommy: (realizing this conversation is probably not going to end any time soon) "Their feelings
are hurt and they are asking for help." - we've been working on appropriate reactions
to things and not hurting people's feelings so I figured this would be a good answer.
Peyton: "Why are their feelings hurt?"
Mommy: (deciding I just need to end this b/c its much more advanced than a 4 yr old can grasp)
"I don't know Peyton, lets just talk about something else" :)

Thank you

Piper

Parker

Peyton

Thank you Lord for the 3 wonderful children you have so graciously blessed our lives with. As I sit and pray for Kayleigh's family, my heart just breaks for all that they have endured and will continue to. I can't imagine the pain of losing your baby girl after 11 months of ups and downs. It brings the loss of our precious little baby at 12 wks of pregnancy to the forefront and how although the pain will always be there, one day we will get to see him/her again in heaven. He/she is rejoicing with God in heaven and because of that we have been blessed with the life of our 'miracle baby', Parker. Without having to endure what God had planned for us, we would have never been given such a beautiful, engergetic, exhausting, fun, easy going, baby boy to add to our family.

I am forever more grateful and thankful that the Lord has blessed Jeff and I with 2 beautiful boys and a little girl who we will soon get to hold in our arms and forever call ours'.

Love you babies.

She has turned!!!

So baby Piper has decided to finally cooperate and turn head down. Last Thurs night she flipped. If you have never experienced this feeling of a 35.5 wk baby turning in your belly - it's quite interesting to say the least. We went for my last ultrasound today to check on her growth. She is doing well and is approximately 6 lbs (the 58th percentile). If the margin of error on that ultrasound isn't too great, I might actually end up with a rather small baby for me (about 8 lbs is what the drs are guessing)!! We took the boys today and Peyton had a good time looking at her on the screen. We couldn't really get a good picture of her b/c she had her face so far down and she wanted to turn the opposite way we needed her to get a 4D picture.

Her face is squished up against me in this one. You can see her hand below her chin.
This is a side profile of her face in 4D. Something is across her head making it look like she's got a headband on. :) 4D is cool, but kind of gross to see everything floating around her. :)

Here is a 2D profile.

Here's another 4D.

4 more weeks to go!!

Pretend 1st haircut

Parker has had about 4 haircuts already but I always have to take them by myself so I was never able to get photos of his real first haircut. Jeff went with us this time and we got some photos. So pretend with me that this is his first haircut! :)

Don't mind the funny faces I'm making in the pics!! Not sure what that's all about.

April heat

Peyton begged and begged to get the pool out from the day I bought it and I finally broke down and got it out during the heatwave we had in April.

Is this bad parenting?? :)

Dinner got made though! :)

Baby Piper

Please pray that baby Piper turns around into a head down position. Its very important to me that I have a vaginal birth and not a c-section and as time is ticking away its getting less and less likely. We are nervous about our options to turn her too and have a big decision to make as far as that goes. We need prayer to make the right one and to feel confident and peace about whatever we decide.