Thursday, January 14, 2016

Big Sibling Class

At the end of January, Bryony took the same Big Sibling Class at the hospital that Abigail had taken in 2011 :) She was more than ready to become a Big Sister herself - the excitement is high! Here's a fun story I posted on Facebook at the time:

Bryony keeps wanting to play the game "pretend our baby popped out". It's an easy game for me, I lay on the couch while she is the doctor. First she writes stuff on a notepad, like, "baby" and "doktr Bryony", and "54367". Then she usually says "OK, lay here, I'll call baby support" (picks up play phone and says "hello, baby support? I have a lady here who's having her baby"). Then she rubs my bump a few times with her hand and says "OK, don't worry, this won't hurt, it might be a little bit scary, but it's not real scary, it's more just like Halloween". Then I close my eyes and with some kind of painless magic my plastic baby pops out and she swaddles it. Then she says "Congratulations, it's a girl, she's healthy and perfect, what do you want to name her?" 
It's all so cute. I think she's ready for this to go down in her real life.






Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Life at Home

January was mostly filled with getting ready for Mini-Madonna #4 :)

Abigail moved downstairs to make room for a nursery

mumma's turkey spinach lasagne



Girl Scout cookie season

gestational diabetes dinner for mumma


sticking her tongue out at us already



Friday, January 1, 2016

New Years Eve

It was the first time we let them stay up until "the real midnight" and be part of the champagne toast :)

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Christmas 2015

Christmas Eve at Grandma's kitchen table







with their stockings first thing in the morning






32 weeks on Christmas Day


skating rink fun on Boxing Day



Aunty Alex didn't forget my first Christmas without Chloe


Saturday, December 19, 2015

Holiday Season

outdoor Christmas movie at Scottsdale Quarter

new haircuts just in time for the season

our rainbow growing right on track for Mar 1st

girls trip to Portland, OR


Max, Tulie, Abigail


best friends for 20 years!


flight delays

equals bored in airport



put Bryony to work cleaning random things

holiday-theme treats - one of my daughters is a perfectionist, the other, well....

Bryony left this under the tree and my heart melted

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Mixed Feelings

So anxious but excited to have another healthy report at a doctors appointment for this special rainbow baby... but not forgetting my angel baby for a second.