Sophia and Addison's Birthday Party

This year we had another joint birthday party for Sophia and Addison.  Sophia turned 4 on September 19th and Addison turned 2 on October 2nd.  The party was at Play Street Museum and it was a princess theme which was picked out by Sophia!  This was the first time we have had a party somewhere other than our house and I have to say that it was a big success.  It was so much easier and less stressful...which is exactly what I wanted since I was 35 weeks along with Baby Vivian.  The girls love Play Street and had a blast at their party with their friends and cousins.  And they had fun all weekend with their grandparents being in town!  Here are some pictures from the party.

 

First Day of Preschool!

Sophia and Addison started preschool on September 9th and 10th this year.  Sophia was very excited to start school and will be in the 3's class and is going 3 days a week.  She has several friends in her class this year from the previous year, which she was happy about.  She is also super excited about her princess backpack and lunchbox!

 
Addison was excited to start school as well!  She was so ready to learn new things and socialize with new friends outside of our house.  She is in the toddler class and is going 2 days a week.  She cried at drop off the first few weeks, but it would only last a second because I always peeked in after a minute and she was always happily playing.  It helped that our next door neighbor is in her class and they have become good friends!!

Here are a few pictures from their open house the previous week.  We love their teachers this year! It has only been a month but they have been great with both of the girls!

Bluebonnets 2015

Happy 4th of July!

This 4th of July was our last holiday at our old house!  Jeramy's mom and dad were able to come into town to celebrate the 4th with us and also help watch the kids so that we could get some packing done.  It was less than 2 weeks until our moving day at this point!  We still had fun eating yummy food and doing lots of swimming. 

We Moved!

Other than expecting baby girl, our family has had other big changes!  We moved this July!  We will definitely miss our old house and all of the memories we have from the 5 1/2 years we lived there! And we are missing the pool since we moved in the middle of the summer.  But, we LOVE our new house!  It is a new build and so far we are just really happy here (it has been 5 weeks).  We have worked almost every night on unpacking and setting up, ordering window treatments, or other misc. things.  There is a lot to do when you move and having 2 young kids does not make it easy!!  But, we are starting to feel kind of settled.  Sophia and Addison have adjusted really well and also love their new house.

We have a huge backyard now that the kids love!  You can kind of see it in the pictures below.

In other big news, to make room for our growing family, we traded in my Acura and got a new car!  It is pretty big, but I'm getting used to it. :)  Jeramy was nice enough to hang a tennis ball in the garage to make sure I don't dent our new house, or car...

Sophia's Last Day of Preschool

Sophia had her last day of preschool in the 2 year old class on May 28th.  I took some pictures but never posted them.  I'm so proud of her and everything she learned this last school year!  And yes, you can see Addison through the window watching us take pictures.  I can't trust that girl to not run away from me!!

And for comparison, here she is in September on the first day of school.  I think she has grown up so much!!!

Baby Leonard #3

Our family has exciting news!  We are expecting Baby Leonard #3 around October 25, 2015!  We are so happy and excited, and so far baby is doing great.  I have had 3 ultrasounds at 8 weeks, 11 weeks, and 18 weeks, and all 3 went perfect.  We found out at 11 weeks that we are having a 3rd GIRL!!! 

Baby girl at 8 weeks, 1 day

Baby Girl at 11 weeks, 4 days

Baby girl at 18 weeks, 2 days

Sophia and Addison are 2 years and 2 weeks apart, and Addison and this baby will be about the same same.  September and October will be busy with these 3 kids birthday parties!  We didn't tell Sophia about the baby until the 18 week ultrasound (which she got to go to) and she got really interested and excited about it.  Now, she talks about her new baby sister in mommy's tummy every day, all the time.  She loves to touch her, talk about how she's going to take care of her when she comes out, and she tells Addison about the new baby.  She walks around pretending to be Addison's mommy while holding a baby who is Addison's sister, and tells us she has a new baby in her tummy.  It is pretty cute!  Addison on the other hand, has no clue what is going on.

I just realized I haven't taken a bump picture yet...slacker!  I'm already 21 weeks now so I need to get on that.  This pregnancy has been pretty similar to the other 2.  I was really exhausted in the beginning and had probably worse morning sickness than I did with the other 2 (no vomiting though).  I did try to nap every day and that has pretty much continued if I can help it.  We are feeling so very blessed!!  We are so grateful to God for our precious children!