16 Weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

How far along: 16 weeks, or 4 months

How big is baby: About 4.5 inches and a little over 3 ounces

How big is momma? Down 2 pounds from first appointment, up 1 from what I consider my normal weight, in mostly maternity clothes or flowy tops. Big enough strangers comment in certain shirts.

Gender:

Emerson Anne is set to join our gaggle of boys this May, we can't wait for the arrival of our daughter! When we found out, I asked numerous times where the penis was until the tech calmly explained that girls don't have penises, Seth just giggled. We even checked a few days later and she was still a girl. We saw the 3 lines, and not just the absences of a penis, so we are 100% sure she is a she!

Movement: I have an anterior placenta(between the baby and my tummy), so nothing much yet, but I am REALLY looking forward to feeling her!

Sleep: I'm sleeping okay, I'm super tired at night, probably from the P17 shots, but I still wake up a lot, to turn over and to go the bathroom. I already have the pregnancy pillow out which helps some. Not as much as John sleeping through the night would;)

What I miss:Sushi!!! SO SO bad!! I'm trying to figure out if there is anything I can have because I just want some so bad!

Cravings: Steak and canned pairs, weird I know! I have been eating a ton of steak tacos from Chipolte, like way more than I should admit, but they are just so good!

Symptoms: I am still a little gaggy which is gross, but with J and C I was actually throwing up multiple times a week (or day) until 18 and 25 weeks. This is WAY easier comparatively. I have a horrible rash on my face that I can't do anything about, I had it after I had John a little, but not during. I guess when they say girls steal their mother's beauty I can nod in agreement.

Best Moments:Finding out the baby was a girl last week was huge, but really every time we see a healthy wiggly baby on the ultrasounds is monumental!

Please continue praying for my Subchorionic Hematoma to resolve itself and for our baby girl to be born at term, healthy!

Happy Birthday Coli Bolly!

On Thursday we took Colin to have a blood blister drained from under his finger nail. It sounds much worse than it actually was. While we were there we had his 2 year well child appointment. Here are Doo's official 2 year stats!

Height- 37.5 inches (abover 100%)

Weight- 30 pounds 12 ounces (75-80%)

Head- 29 inches (90-95%)

Practically perfect, which we knew!!



On Friday Colin turned 2!! We had a birthday breakfast at home and then celebrated on Sunday with our families.



It was a wonderful time especially if you were 2!! Hot dogs and pink cake!! And two presents (or more:)



Happy Birthday Doodle we love you so so much!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us!!

I had to go dark these past 2 months so that I didn't spill the beans :0) Well that and I've been too tired to do much of anything. Baby Haley #3 is due May 2011!!

As with each pregnancy I'm learning that each baby is so different, I've already had two new things happen. 1. I had low progesterone, which made me take supplements twice a day, causing the most severe tiredness I've ever experienced. And 2. After a very scary evening in the ER 10 days ago, it was discovered that I have a subchorionic hematoma, which is a blood clot in my uterus. Our hope is that it will be reabsorbed into my body and not detach, which would take my placenta with it, causing us to lose the baby. I KNOW this won't happen and in a few short months we will be bringing home our final member!! But having a few more people out there praying can't hurt.

So there you are what we've been working on these past few months, and really what we'll be working on these next few:)

Buff Family 2010

One of my favorite family traditions we have is to take a picture in our Buff's gear on the first game of the season. This year we missed the game, but had a good day of family fun in the mountains.

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A quick August post

With August being almost gone, I thought I'd share a few pictures:



The big news of the month, J started preschool!!

The first day all by himself:)

The OFFICIAL first day of school picture!

Driving the boat at Dillion

Everyone can do it!!

We finished the summer at the activity pools:) Nice hair J!

It's been a summer of living, blogging not so much:)

We've hiked and biked, eating our weights in Popsicles and mowed. We even tried a pickle on a stick!!

Seth and I at a restaurant in Santa Fe celebrating our 10 year anniversary, seriously who woulda thought:)
Haley Boys "root, root, rooting" for the home team, on one of our VERY hot CO days!

Fourth of July bike parade with some of our besties, James and Mal!
This is a regular occurrence in the Haley house after nap, good times!

June

Mowing with Grandpa, tractor races and rides are a regular thing here, yep, that's a John Deere, for both of them!

The Boys and I hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, no daddy, quite a day, as J is showing us:)

At the Boulder Creek Festival clearly loving the post haircut lollipop, way more than the picture...

And the pickle on a stick, though I don't see the stick! Big hit with the little boys.

And Crestone's last employee, seriously this kid LOVES anything about mowers!


This summer has been quite the roller coaster of emotions, and I've never quite gotten a handle on it. J starts preschool in 3 weeks (!) and hopefully the force of having to be places will help... Maybe:)

Yin and Yang

How is it possible for two children to have the same parents and be SO completely different?

Seriously these two could not be more different:

J is shy, sometime painfully so until he really knows the person; C runs through public places yelling HI, until people start talking to him.

J is right handed, C left.

J was never a good sleeper and still only sleeps through the night on random nights; while C sleeps good overall and only has rough patches occasionally.

Clearly J has straight hair and C curls make me swoon:)

J is tall and skinny, and C is tall and less skinny

On playgrounds J likes the swings and C the slides

And yet, these two clearly DO have the same parents because they look like brothers, they both say they're sorry and please all the time, and they wrestle each other hourly just to make sure they can still Take Down the other guy. Boy oh Boy do they make me smile:)

Well Big Kid Check Ups!

We took both boys in today for their 3 year and 18 month check ups. Though C isn't actually 18 months until next month we have an appointment with his cardiologist in case anything changes is 27 days. Plus it's easier:)

John:
40 inches (between 90 and 95%)
33.8 pounds (between 50 and 75)
This is the last time they'll give us % unless there's a problem:) It really was a big boy visit and not like a baby visit at all. Stood on the scale and everything!

Colin:
34.5 inches (above the 95)
25.83 pounds (between 50 and 75)
49.5 cm (between 75 and 90)
So it looks like we have super tall, but averaged weighted babies:)

Everyone here is doing well. We're happy to welcome the first great grand daughter on my side! Lucky number 7 for Great Great!

Happy Birthday John!!

Yesterday we celebrated John Michael's 3rd birthday! We were joined by many friends and family to kick off what will hopefully be another wonderful year! The party was construction themed and the highlight of the party was definitly the nail table Seth made! I'm sure everyone really enjoyed it when John pulled his pants down leaned back and "watered" the bush too:) John was a bit over whelmed while more than 50 people sang to him, but he truly had a wonderful time, as did we!

Here is the super cool nail table with many little guys hard at work! John's in the blue.

Thank you, Thank you to all of our wonderful friends that helped make John's party oh so special. And thanks to the weather for being so nice in spite of what the reports said it was going to be! Happy birthday little man!!

There goes the neighborhood..

We THOUGHT we were buying in the "good" part of town, but alas even good 'hoods have problems. There is a new one near the casa de haley:

A Biker Gang!



Good thing they're cute, or we might really have a problem:)




I know they're not wearing helments and before anyone goes crazy, they do own them. This was just very impromtu and we didn't grab them. Usually we're really good, I promise!

Haircuts

Colin's needed one for a while, and we finally did it!
BEFORE:

AFTER:

The Big Brother's after:):

Colin's during:



He did great and we are so proud of him, and we LOVE looking at the baby blues all day now!

Haircuts

Colin's needed one for a while, and we finally did it!

To every season, change, change, change

1. New camera, now if I can get them uploaded
2. New job at the rival high school:) Yea LHS! (again I've actually already worked there 3 years ago:)
3. New hair cuts on both boys, but really you can only tell on Colin

I'm going to be better about this I promise!!

10 on Tuesday or A list of my excuses...

Why haven't I been posting this month? Well it could be any of these reasons:)
1. I've lost my camera, I have absolutely no idea where it is.
2. I went to Mexico.
3. Seth's jobs are out of control busy.
4. My job was busy and then I got fired, but they've asked me to apply for the head coach position, I was an assistant.
5. While in Mexico Seth ripped out my main level bath and laundry and started anew.
6. The above project was suppose to be done before I returned home, but wasn't.
7. The above project should have all the big piece done TODAY!!
8. I was shopping for a new washer and dryer for my new laundry room. And they came this morning. (Bosch 500 steams)
9. Because of the aformentioned project in the laundry room I haven't done laundry in almost 3 weeks. Thank goodness we've switched seasons so we have something to wear! I am now working on the mountain (no lie) of laundry that needs to be done.
10.Maybe I've lost my camera because of all the crazyness in my house? Maybe by tomorrow I'll have a toilet on the main level? it's like tootie roll lollipops, the world may never know. Or they will soon... Either way, I'll be better in April, I promise:)

February Pictures

Today is a beautiful day here in Colorado! Mid 50's with the sun shining! Today has been an amazing day, and I'm not just saying that becuase yesterday was the worst Monday on record for our family ever (with the flat tire, Colin chin scrap, and marker on the walls). All of us (even daddy!) went to music. And then the boys and I went to our favorite park (by the old house, not the new house ~JM) and even on such a lovely day, there still wasn't another person there!! We loved it! We even came home, looked for flowers blooming in the yard (there were two a yellow crocus and a purple primrose), and had a picnic. The weather is suppose to be like this for the rest of the week, and I can't wait! Here are a few of our pictures from February!!
Our Valentine, that just never got sent out to everyone!

John "skiing" on our porch...Withdrawls maybe?

John holding TT's dog Bella, clearly they are both enjoying it, no:)

Doodle Bug enjoying the Valentine's sucker!

And how Most of the pictures from our "photoshoot" really turned out:) Buck up big brother!!

Our little ski bunny

We were up at the condo two weekends ago with Uncle Tom and Cousin Abbey. We had a wonderful time and even though it was unbelievabily cold, we (Seth) taught John how to ski! Woohoo for free lift tickets until he's 4!! He even got to use the magic carpet lift and ski down what many people would call a mountain, but we know as the bunny hill. It was so much fun and I can't wait to do it again!

And here are a couple more, John and James test driving tractors, one with John and James'ribbons from the tractor "race", and my new shelf in the kitchen that I am in love with!