Fall Festivities

So, it's starting to become the time of year where things get busy. Busy in the sense of holidays & activities. Since blogger is being uncooperative & won't let me move this picture to the bottom, this picture is from our Fall Festival at church. Madelyn had lots of fun...except for the fact that she got too hot & we had to leave abruptly because she started to strip down. Oops.

The day before our church Fall Festival, we went to the pumpkin patch at Old Baker Farm. Despite the fact that she got up too early and said once we got there that she wanted to go home, Madelyn had a lot of fun. She loved the swing, of course.

The pumpkin search was intense. I never thought we would find the "perfect" one!

After finding pumpkins that were too big, too small, or too green, she finally picked the perfect one. She liked it because it looked like Cinderella's pumpkin.

She got to pet a baby chicken. My child loves animals!

She actually loved the horses this time too. Last year she was terrified of them. She pet several of them, and one of them kissed her on the head. She was amazed, and told David as we were leaving, "Daddy, I want a horse." Oh my, we're in trouble already.

Beautiful little girly. I can't wait to get this one touched up.

The trip wasn't complete without getting lost in the maize.

After an exciting day, MJ fell asleep in the car. We had planned on getting lunch out, and waking her up was not the best idea, but she survived.

The past couple of weeks, we have been in major cleaning/reorganizing mode. It feels like we're never going to get it finished. We will hopefully get the rest of the furniture moved out this week, any maybe start painting this weekend. I think once we get one of the rooms done, it will be a lot easier to get the other one done. We know what we want to do, it's just getting it done that's difficult! I need about 5 more hours in the day, plus Madelyn's energy...then it may get done. Only 10-11 weeks to go!

Bad...

...is what I have been about blogging. It's been so busy around here! Work, every day activities, doctor appointments, trying to get baby things ready...I don't think we'll ever get there. The only start we have on the rooms is bedding. One will be green in frogs, and the other will be blue in turtles. We still need to clean out & paint. We still have so much to buy! It's quite overwhelming. There isn't much new to report. Madelyn is doing great & is oh so smart. She knows all her capital letters and most of her lower case letters. She can count to 20. She recently decided that she wanted to learn how to write her letters. So far she can do A, T, C, K, O, & Q consistently, and L, M, W, S, V, & U inconsistently. I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting. She tries to spell words and sound out words. She also decided a few weeks ago that she no longer needed to sleep. That was rough. This week we tried something different, and so far it seems to be working. Hopefully it will keep working, because I cannot handle 3 kids who don't sleep! She is still quite a monkey (considering as I sit here typing she's hanging onto David's back as he walks around). I am now 24 weeks, which means 13 or less to go, since they don't let twins go past 37.5 weeks. It's hard to believe that there is that little time before our family of 3 becomes a family of 5. A lot of people say I still don't look like I'm having twins. Here's my 24 week picture, so you can judge for yourself.

I have also been requested to post the latest ultrasound pics. Here are the ones from my anatomy scan at 18 weeks. Oh, and if you don't know yet (which I think most people do), we're having 2 little boys!

The first one is baby b. He tends to be the uncooperative one. It was hard to get pics of him because he was (and I believe still is) face down. Both are head down, which makes it a completely different feel from Madelyn since she was breech. The second one is baby a. He is generally the less active one, although sometimes they'll kick/punch in the middle & I can't figure out who it is.


This is a frontal shot of baby a when I went to the maternal fetal specialist (I know it says baby b, but she was confused apparently because b was still face down). This is the only picture we got from them =( While I'm glad I don't have to go back, their equipment was so much better. This looks like just a skull view, but on the machine you could see actual details - eyes closed, little nose & mouth...he looks just like Madelyn.

That's all I have for now I suppose. I have another ultrasound and appointment on the 17th...hopefully they'll give us some new pics. It will be interesting to see how they've changed.