Teagan is still a girl! :-)

I was doing blood work today and was able to see Teagan on an ultrasound, they wanted to get her heartrate, and the sweet tech really took her time as we gazed at her ;-) First thing was the money shot, and still without a doubt she IS a she :-) As we stared at her, she was staring right back at us, just lounging, practicing breathing (that was so neat to see her swallowing amnio fluid), and move her arms around. Very content. Veried she is in definitely 'position' and has been since 26 weeks, because she had me doubled over at Target with Michelle when she made the big move. Plus the fact that when I lay down at night she is kicking under my rib cage LOL!! I know your there baby, how can I ever forget ;-)
Can't wait to see her again in 2 weeks! Looks like I will have the experience I did with Caden and get a lot of them !! So fantastic!

Riordan's first steps

Riordan took his first steps today! Just two of them, but it was so much fun! We are hoping that he will be in full effect for his grandparents visit in the next two weeks! Plus my back and Teagan hope so as well! 24 lbs to carry around at 28 weeks is getting to be too much.
We are going to have to go cold turkey on the bottle, just like Caden. He loves it too much and hates the sippee for milk! He is different that he is cranky without it where Caden didn't seem to miss it.
Speaking of Teagan, I finally met my new OB's office today! If you hadn't heard, I switched because I was treated like a number and not a patient by the doctor at the previous practice. She constantly cut me off, late with no apology, and seem to have no concern over Riordan's large weight at birth. Plus I did more research and the hospital closer to us can handle breathing issues, like that of Caden and Riordan's at birth and won't be sent to a different hospital like I was told.
My new practice didn't even have to be nudged. One look at his weight and instantly they scheduled an ultrasound to start monitoring her weight in her final weeks! First one is in two weeks. Hopefully with her being a girl that will be in her favor, supposedly they are smaller, but not in her favor is she is my third and each baby usually is bigger. Amazingly too at my 28th week I have only gained 15lbs! I have no clue how this is happening since last month was a good month for food in my tummy! Not complaining though ;-)
We talked for 40 mins! It was just what I was looking for in a practice, which by the way came highly recommended by Michelle. ;-)
I need to still upload pics from Christmas, I still haven't seen the handy work by Amy, once again! She's amazing!

Caden's Birthday!

I can't believe Caden turned 3 yesterday! We had a busy day, where we went and got both the boys well check ups with Dr. Sudha. I promised Caden he wouldn't get a shot, but seems that AZ and GA's HIB shots are not the same so he was due for one more. I felt so bad and he was so upset just at the thought of it! However, we were going to surprise him with Chuckie Cheese for his birthday celebration but told him at the office about going, hoping to make it all better. It seemed to help some!
He loves Chuckie Cheese, what child doesn't, and we blew through 75 tokens in an hour between all of us! LOL
My friend Michelle, finally had her baby, Amanda yesterday as well! Caden and Amanda share the some birthday now! I felt bad that my mojo rubbed off on her with going past due (she was due on the 13th) especially since Andrew was a week early. She was induced and had been walking around at 4 cm for over a week with no more signs of labor! What's even more cool about her birth is she was born at 3:26 AZ time which is 5:26 GA time. Caden was born at 5:31 GA time! Such a neat coincendence!
Today we went to the playground and Caden gave us our first big scare. He has mastered this high ladder, but apparently lost his grip today and fell from the top. He tried to hold on, which broke his fall, but still somehow landed on under the ladder on his fanny and arm. He says his fanny still hurts. But after crying more because he was frightened, he got right back up that ladder! I was so proud!
I can't believe Christmas is 3 sleeps away! When we ask Caden if he knows who is coming, he replies Garrett and Aunt Jen! LOL I think he might miss them! I know we sure do ;-) Can't wait for April 1st!
I finished wrapping everyone's gifts two days ago, whew! Uncle John and Aunt Amy are coming over in the morning to witness the unwrapping and have Christmas breakfast with us.
Will follow up with pictures from the treasure trove ;-)

Sickness overcomes us again!

We thought we were through with being sick! However, Riordan once again has caught a virus. He sprung a fever on Monday and it wasn't very warm, but chalked it up to teething molars maybe because he was a little fussy as well. He went down for a nap and when he got up he was on fire! Temperature was 103.5!! We went in today to see his doctor, and even with Tylenol it was 102.9... But no ear infection, no strep throat and he really is acting pretty normal considering how high it is. So we are riding it out, seems it's either a flu strain for roseolla! So that's colds all around, then an asthma attack for Caden which lead to pneumonia, Riordan got pink eye then gave it to Caden, I got a stomach bug that landed me in the ER for fluids, then Caden gave me pink eye and now this (all within 3 1/2 weeks)!!! I asked if it was because we were new to the area and she said we would be going through the same thing back in GA. I still don't think so, at least I'm hopeful! Told her though to just make me a standing appointment since we see her every week! LOL Thank goodness Riordan is still sleeping completely through the night and has been for a month now! Yippee!! His wake up time is now 7:30 ish and not 5 for a bottle and back to bed :) Plus Caden is back to sleeping in his own bed and now Teagan will have a spot. So keep us in your prayers that this is it and we can enjoy the rest of winter.

A fun day!

What a fun day we had celebrating the boys birthday parties with a house of new friends and our family! We had perfect weather for the Incredibles inflatable, a pull string pinata, tons of food, and great cake!! Riordan completely enjoyed his and Caden wanted to dig in as well, but we were sharing that one ;-)

Birthday pictures

I've never been so surprised!

My surprise! I drove Mike's car to my hair appointment this morning and when I got back he asked if I looked in the back. No, didn't think about it but find out one of my Christmas gifts was there. So he rushed off to a meeting, and I went to put the boys and myself down for a nap! He came home about 3pm and I was still asleep. He woke me up asking me to come downstairs because he had a surprise for me. Now I'm the hardest person to wake up and pretty grouchy so I was thinking it's the present in the back of the car, I'll be there in a minute... I got up, checked my email, IM my friend Michelle, telling her I'd be right back Mike had a present for me.
I go downstairs and he said for me to go in the family room. I start to walk in, eyes still adjusting, and there on my couch was my baby sister, Jennifer, and her son Garrett. Then my mom popped her head around the corner! I was screaming, crying, gasping, in total disbelief, must still be sleeping, shock!! I am a detective and it's impossible for my family to be able to hide a secret from me. It was completely worth it not knowing and the feeling of winning a game show!
What's even funnier is the past couple of weeks they all have been so nonchalant in asking questions about the Caden and Riordan's birthday party and how was the weather! I never ever caught on. Jennifer even told me not to call her at work today because she was calling in sick so she could attend a Christmas event for Garrett at school! I was totally sold. Mike knew for 6 weeks and let me tell you it's a huge achievement for him to not even slip up. Some meeting he had ;-)
This was Garrett's first ever plane ride and he absolutely loved it (above Garrett on the plane and waiting for the plane). I feel so loved and special that my family couldn't bear missing out on the boys birthdays. They leave to soon on Monday!

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Riordan!
Happy Birthday to you!

I can't believe he is 1 today! It has flown by so fast!
He woke up hysterical last night and right at his birth
time on the East Coast! Makes me wonder if there was some
significance to that. He wouldn't calm down with Mike
so I came in and sang 'Happy Birthday' and 'You are my Sunshine'
for 30 mins and everytime I stopped he started back up. He finally fell
back to sleep at 5:30 am Arizona time.

We are off to the park this morning and to a teppenyaki grill tonite for
his big day. Pics to be added later tonite ;-)

One of the many expressions of Caden. He is so amazing, as I know all parents think of their children. I feel so blessed.

Riordan loves to swing and so now Caden is starting to be more brave about it, but not too high! The higher the better for Riordan!!

This is one of the boys favorite parks about 2 miles away from our house. The background is the San Tan Mountains. Notice how cloudy it is this day, seems like rain right? Not a drop and that's a usual cloudy day in Arizona, this or complete sunshine!

A view from our bedroom of the San Tan Mountains. This is sunrise about 6:30 am, thankfully the sun is coming up later now instead of 5:30 and we don't change our clocks here. The San Tan Mountains house a jet engine plant and some early mornings you can hear the hum of the testing. Very odd at first, thankfully my brother in law had told us about it.

Well I'm finally making a blog page, it's about time. We are getting ready for the boys co-birthday party next Saturday! I know I said I'd never do that since my mom did to my little sister and I as kids. But it makes so much sense now ;-) Not only with them being 2 weeks apart for birthdays, then it's Christmas too!
The weather here has been amazing. We are really enjoying it, and we actually are in jeans and long sleeves now and sweaters in the early morning and when the sun goes down. Still trying to figure out if we are going to rent for another year or actually start looking at the market. It is finally in our favor for once in our lives! A buyer's market!! Price's have dropped almost 50K around us :-) And doesn't look like that will slow down soon. There are 20 houses in our neighborhood alone that are on the market and have been since we moved here in September.
I am so thankful for MOMS Club! If it weren't for my new friends, I think I'd still be in a state of shock and loneliness. My friend, Michelle, is due any minute with her second child, Amanda and has a son Andrew that is 2 1/2. We are planning on our girls being very close friends as well! It has been the neatest experience, MOMS Club. I have never been friends with such a large group of women and each one of them are absolutely amazing. Plus we all live within 3 miles of each other and see one another at least 2 times a week!