Dancing baby!

Today I went in for my 11 week doctor's appointment. We were in for a surprise but first, I have to tell you about some of my pregnancy woes.

About 3 weeks ago now, my doctor put me on bedrest for some bleeding I was having. I got better but then last night it started again! I called him after hours and he prescribed something to stop it and put me on bedrest again. Ammon drove me to my appointment and I saw my doc first thing this morning. Thankfully, the babies were just fine. And we were even in for a little treat. The baby you see here on the bottom (left in the other picture above) was totally moving around. It was like he was so happy to see us, he was doing a dance! You can distinctly see his little leg sticking out to the side. So fun! The other one just laid there with his arms across his chest not moving. I guess the first one was such a scene-stealer that he didn't want to try to compete. ;) Both hearts beat very strongly and they look so BIG. They used to be these little beans and now you can see distinct body parts. Even though I keep referring to them as "him/his/he", we don't know what we're having yet. In the next few weeks, we should though, and much sooner than I thought. Usually it's at 20 weeks but my doc said anywhere from 14-16 weeks we can know. I really don't care what gender they are; I just hope they're healthy.

Shiver me Letters!

That's the title of Connor's favorite book right now. He first saw it in his kindergarten classroom. He came home and drew the book without the benefit of having the book- all from memory!!

I guess on that same vain, Connor and Ammon have been going on letter hunting walks dressed as pirates lately. So adorable! So, when Uncle Brian visited on Sunday, he wanted to take us all on one. We diligently acquiesced to the wishes of our captain and dressed up like pirates in search of hidden letters on signs, license plates and street signs on our walk. Connor was really cute when we grown-ups would find letters too quickly he would say "they're not clear." We didn't get what that meant at first but we soon caught on. Letter Q was by far the hardest letter to find. We had to resort to looking in someone's recycling box to find it!

Air and Space Museum

On Labor Day, we headed over to our local Air and Space Museum. We were amazed at how big that place was! They have 75 acres of old planes on display and about 7 out buildings with equipment in them. It was very interactive for kids so Connor loved it. We had a cool day, which made it possible for us to last the whole day, despite Connor breaking his shoe, my pregnancy and not bringing quite enough food.. We'd definitely recommend it and will be going again, especially on a day the "Bone Yard" is open. That is at the local Air Force Base where they have thousands of planes in various stages of dismantling. Should be cool.