Finley's Room

Finley's room is done and I absolutely love it!When I went to shop for bedding, I found this at the first place I went and stopped looking! I loved it! I didn't even plan for the red and yellow! But it is perfect for our little Chi-O legacy- hoot hoot!

The only hard thing about the room was paint colors. We really wanted it to look girly and daddy ended up painting, repainting and painting again. Daddy also refinished the sweet toy cabinet that was in Jack's nursery! It looks great! Especially with the fun baskets!The shelf is red and tin, which is kinda hard to see in the picture, but super cute!
I am so excited for Finley to grow into her room and to start adding personal touches!

By far my favorite part of the room is the painting on the wall. Oh, what you can do when your good friend is also the art teacher! We took part of her bedding and Erin put it on the wall- LOVE.IT.
Now all that's missing is a sweet baby girl for me to rock in my arms!
We're ready for you Finley Jaymes!

37 weeks

Here we are at 37 weeks. I am dialated to a 2 and after an ultrasound, the Dr. says that sweet little miss weighs around 6 pounds! Her room is about ready, everything is washed, bags are packed....we are ready to meet our baby girl!
I have been having random contractions and have been VERY uncomfortable! Hopefully we'll have a bundle of pink in a few weeks!

"snos, mama, snos...brrrrrr"

This past week Jack and I were stuck home for SIX DAYS because of a nasty snow storm. We seriously left the house maybe twice. Not too much fun for a busy two year old who just wants to run, run, run!

Finally, during the last few days, the sun came out and the ice started to melt. Out the door we headed to play in the snow and GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!
Jack still slipped around quite a bit, but he had so much fun making snowballs...
helping Daddy break ice...and just looking pretty darn cute...

Cowboy Up!

Jack is starting to pretend a lot more now when he plays. His newest game is getting on his tractor to go give the cows "nacks and wader". He even sprinkles his sippy cup on the tile and pretends to throw out hay- LOVE.IT!

Well- you just can't do farm chores without your hat so....He has pulled it on so many times that the brim is completely flat!
But how can you resist this face...Goofy Cowboy!!

Jack's 1st "Bat Bol" Game

With only a few weeks left as a family of 3- we've been trying hard to spend some extra special time with Mr. Jack!

I saw the perfect chance when I found out that the Harlem Globetrotters were coming to town!!
Jack loves "bot bol" (basketball), he runs around "pretend" dribbling all the time and I knew he would love it!
A few days before we were supposed to go our little guy got a nasty stomach bug! But, lucky for us on the day of the game he was feeling better, so we decided to venture out for a few hours!
I am SO GLAD that we did because Jack LOVED it!He laughed, clapped, screamed and clapped some more! There was no keeping him in his seat!!The Globetrotters were so much fun to watch, I had never seen them before and it is a HYSTERICAL show!If you can't tell we were pretty much in the front row- so close that daddy got soaked when the ref got water thrown on him! Good thing mom was away getting snacks at that time!Yummy Lemonade!
It was such a great family day, even though we cut it a little short since bubbas wasn't feeling 100% just yet!
"bye, bye bot bol plars"

blessed

Here we are..almost to week 34.

Although this pregnancy has seemed to last FOREVER- I can't believe our sweet little girl will be here in almost a month.
I haven't taken as many belly pics as I did the first time around and now I know why- it's HUGE!!and though being pregnant is not the funnest thing in the world to me, I can't help but feel so very blessed.
Both of my pregnancies have gone so smoothly with little complications.
And if Miss Finley is anywhere as sweet as her big brother is well, let's just say- there is no luckier mama in the world.
I cannot wait to meet her and know that our family will feel complete.
We're ready when you are Little Miss!
And don't worry- Jack has a seat saved just for you!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve it snowed like crazy!  The news called it Blizzard ‘09 and they even shut down all the interstates- which never happens.

So…all of our fun family plans were cancelled and inside we stayed.

Mimi and Pops did bring over one of Jack’s Christmas presents so he would have something to keep him busy while stuck inside…

   

This prompted one of the biggest “OH WOW’s” yet!

Long forgotten was the sweet little tractor that had gone to bed with us last night and been by our side all day.

Now we had the REAL THING with a front loader AND A trailer!  The first thing he did was run and out is boots on!

Jack had a blast with his new tractor.  It has pedals, which he can’t quite reach just yet.  This ended up being a really great thing because we were able to keep it inside without worrying about him running over anything!  He just sat on it while he did EVERYTHING!  Watched T.V., ate snack, he even found a special place to keep his “meeps” aka milk.  Anther fun thing was filling the front loader with ALL of our legos and dumping them EVERYWHERE.  Which he thought was pretty hilarious!   Now he tells us that he’s going to go drive tractor and check the cows!

Sweet boy- the farming is in his blood!

After much tractor play- it was off to bed so Santa would come…

Little Boys and Their Toys

Last night was our first Christmas celebration of the season.

We headed over to Mimi and Pops to spend the evening with Grandma Alice and John Paul.

We had a great dinner and spent lots of time catching up.  At the end of the evening it was time to open presents- Jack dove right in.  Completely unafraid and knowing EXACTLY what to do this time around.  I think his birthday was good practice.

He tore right and and low and behold it was a John Deere Tractor – the OH WOWS were flying.

Now this is no where near Jack’s first time to play with these tractors.  Mimi has TONS from when Uncle Brad and daddy were little, and Jack spends all his time with them when he’s at Mimi’s.  But this one was special- this one was JACK’S!

 

We waited patiently as Pops got it all unwrapped.

btw- in the meantime he opened another present that was clothes.

He threw the shirt on the ground and didn’t even go back to look in the gift bag again- which had some super cute black cords- Thanks Grandma!

 

Uncle Brad showing us how to work the front loader.

He was one happy guy for the rest of the night and every couple minutes he would pat the tractor and say “Jack’s”, to remind us all that it was HIS!

We took some pictures and started saying goodbye to everyone and…our little guy who NEVER wants to leave Mimi’s??  Well he was the first one out the door calling “BYEEE” to everyone.  As if, we were going to realize there was a mistake and he was going to have to leave it there!

This tractor went to bed with us last night…

( I so wanted to take a picture, but didn’t want to wake him up)

…and woke up with us this morning

…and this is the only way Mom got Jack to eat breakfast

 

Just when you think you could never love them more…

It’s all about the pink!

I can’t tell you how blessed we are with such AMAZING family and friends! 

This little girl already has everything she needs, plus some!  Now that we are surrounded by pink, I don’t know how I ever imagined my life without a sweet baby girl in it.  We can’t wait to meet her and cuddle her in our arms.

A few weeks ago, my team teachers at school gave me a fun diaper shower!  Let me just say- that we are stocked in the diaper department!  I also got some super cute pink jammies, towels and SHOES- can’t ever have enough of those!

Too bad I forgot my camera that day! :(

 

Then, this past weekend, my BFF/MOH Sarah, hosted a fabulous baby brunch for me!

It was just my mom and our girls (minus Sheri, who was missed), to spoil me with everything pink! 

The best was Mel giving me back the breast pump, that I had previously borrowed with Jack, and then returned for her to use with sweet Andrew.  She swore she never wanted to see it again…we’ll see…

Finley got TONS of pink stuff – gowns, blankets, towels, onesies- a huge basket full of stuff!

To top it all off- there was a darling pair of pink PUMAS- LOVE.IT!

But the cutest part of the day was Jack and Taylor, who played together perfectly.

 

They were the sweetest of angels the whole most of the time, while their mommies and aunties talked and talked!

I had a fantastic day and was so sad that my trip to Dallas was so short!

LOVE YOU GIRLS MORE THAN ANYTHING!!

Check out Finley’s boyfriends…Patrick Jr. on the right and Baby Boy Kerecman to the left :)

Baby??

We’ve been pulling all our old baby gear out preparing for the arrival of Miss Finley.

Jack gets so excited to see all of his old stuff- I think he really remembers it!

But the real excitement came when Dad got the infant car seat out of the attic!

Jack WOULD NOT get out of it!  He wanted to be carried around the house in it!

TOO.CUTE!

 

Dad wondered if people would look at us funny if we started taking Jack to Wal-Mart in it again…probably so!