First trip to Caney Lake for the year

We finally started feeling better to get out of the house and the weather warmed up some, so we headed to the camp at Caney Lake last Saturday to meet Kay Kay, Aunt Lisa, Ella, and Lea Rose. The kids fished most of the day, but I think Lilya was the only one who caught anything (only because she had an orange plastic fish on her fishing pole). The water was way too cold to catch anything but they gave it an effort. Roger bought the girls some worms, but of course Ella had to put them on Lea's fishing pole. She was not touching those worms. Check out the picture of Lea with the pillow under her belly. She was pretending to be pregnant like me. Lisa told her that girls had to be married, have a career, have a house, and be 30 before they could have babies. It was pretty funny. We left Lilya with them for the night and came back on Sunday but not to a beautiful sunny day. It stormed all day on Sunday and we had to load everything in the rain and cold. At least we got one day out of the house.

Week before last, me and Lilya were sick. We were in the house from Saturday to Friday. It was no fun, and of course boring. We did have a little fun towards the end of the week. It is amazing what you will do to entertain your children when they are sick and bored. Rog must have really felt sorry for her that night. Notice all the medicine on the cabinet. Looks like I am a pharmacist or something :) Just a reminder, noone eat ice cream at my house until that half gallon is gone.

Old McDonald had a "Mini" Farm

On Saturday, Nick and Ella came up to Monroe to spend the day with us at the annual Ag Expo and 4-H Livestock Show. There was a mini petting farm there for the children. Ella and Lilya loved the animals. They got to hold baby chickens, pet baby sheep, and baby goats. There was a small calf there that was born last weekend. Of course, Lilya wanted to hold the baby moo. There were miniature cows there called Zebu cows. They were not any taller than 36 inches. Nick had to check out the John Deere exhibit obviously. Ella wanted to ride on all the tractors where Lilya wouldn't sit on any of them. She did get on the John Deere golf cart looking thing because she thought that Ella was really going to ride her around on it. The girls had a great time though. We took them to the mall afterwards and then Nick and Ella headed back to Cottonport.

Baby Jaubert

Had another ultrasound today to check on baby Jaubert. He/She is doing great. We are now at 31 weeks and the baby weighs 4 lbs 6 ounces and has tons of hair as you can see from one of the pics. This baby did not want to cooperate for a picture today. It is head down and face down buried in my right hip. The technician got one good shot of its face which took a look of pocking and proding on my belly and literally took 45 minutes to get. Lilya loves hearing the heartbeat. We have to play the ultrasound dvd for her over and over so she can hear the heartbeat. The technician is super nice and let Lilya listen to the baby's heartbeat at least 5 times. We will keep everyone posted on the progress and when the baby arrives.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a great new year! Ours was very quiet. We could not travel this year per Dr.'s orders so my family came to see us this year. They said we were gonna have a "redneck christmas". It was very weird not being home (Cottonport that is) for Christmas. As any family with children knows, Christmas isn't complete until you have a sick child. On Christmas Eve, we had to take Lilya to the pediatrician because she had fever and an ear infection. So our Christmas Eve consisted of her sleeping all afternoon (til 7 pm) and Rog and I watching 24 hours of "A Christmas Story". Christmas morning Lilya was feeling much better. She knew Santa had passed at her house. It was cold that morning and she had to bring Lucy in to show her all her presents. We waited for Kay-Kay and the gang to show up then we opened a hundred more presents. New Year's eve was very quiet. It was nasty and raining. We stayed home and rang in the new year in our sleep. Hope everyone has a wonderful 2011.