Quickie

Here is the quick new around our house:

Our two year old (James) had a stand-off with his Daddy tonight. He wanted to use the keys to open the door, he did not get to and as a result he screamed in the garage so the whole neighborhood would hear his complaint. In return, Daddy held his milk for ransom. It was an ugly battle but Daddy won and James is in bed with no milk, no stories, no Bible and a quick goodnight kiss.

Jacob is 11 weeks old and weighs in at 13 lbs and 8 oz. He is looking a little like a linebacker and is oh so cute. He laughed today for the first time when we played pat-a-cake. I love it!

Sophia started to randomly do math problems at dinner yesterday. She is actually pretty good and can do simple math like 2+3, 8+1, 45+0, etc. I don't know where she learned this (I asked her teacher and she said they haven't done addition yet) but I am assuming it is just the natural genius that she inherited from her mother :)

Jim is nailing down his details to Big Ben National Park. He is getting excited about the trip while I am getting anxious that he is going to be gone.

My update is that I have a cold, a yucky green gunk in your lungs cold. Cough Cough.

Another Month

Another month has flown by. It is amazing how time speeds up with the more kids you have! Here is what is new:

Sophia has graduated from Gymboree this past week. She has loved it and so have we. She will have her last soccer lesson next week. She doesn't really like soccer and wants to try swim class again. Swim begins next week. Ballet will begin in September and she is already practicing her twirling. Sophia has a "meet the teacher/practicing school day" next week. Mom and Dad are very excited for that! Sophia continues to be a great help around the house. She has started to chew on her hair (a stress issue that has developed since Jacob's birth). Tomorrow we are getting her hair cut to her shoulders.

James has definitely reached the Terrible Twos! One moment he is sweet and fun and the next he is screaming and mean. He is super cute though when he says, "I sorry Mom. I sorry." What a sweet innocent voice!! He knows how to push my buttons though and I realize I have been giving in too much. So, we are going to start sticking to what we say and that's that!! James is moving on up in Gymboree and is continuing with soccer. His "meet the teacher" is next week too. We are very excited and hope he doesn't get kicked out of school....just joking!! (kind of) Ahh, to be the middle child...wait... I am!!

Okay, so Jacob. My sweet sweet Jacob. He had his two month checkup today. He is 12 pounds 13 ounces and is almost 24 inches long. He coos all the time (his favorite is "Ah Goo"). He loves smiling at faces and rolls from belly to back. He loves his bath time and you can lay him down completely awake at night time and he will put himself to sleep. Napping during the day is slowly starting to take place, although he will only nap for 45 minutes at a time in his crib but will nap for 3+ hours in his car seat. He is ADORABLE! Now all he has to do is to sleep through the night (he still gets up twice to eat). Needless to say I am tired every morning! On the bright side though, he has reached the 8 week mark which means we can take him out in public now. (For those of you who don't know, Jim has a strict policy of keeping newborns away from the public for the first 8 weeks. He has too many bad stories from the ER of newborns getting exposed to too many bad germs at an early age).

I am doing well. I see my cardiologist next week so hopefully he gives me the all clear and I can start working out to shed all of the baby weight I have gained over the past 4 years. Bedtime by myself when Jim is working has taken on a routine and isn't stressful any more (as long as everyone cooperates). I just bought my first coffee maker which I am really excited about. Now I am just counting down the months for when I stop nursing and I can have caffeine and wine again.

Jim is hanging in there as well. He is doing great when he is off of work but on weeks when he works he is dog tired. The ER continues to be extremely busy which I guess is good because it means Jim will always have a job but it is wearing him out. One night this week he had to work a double because there were so many people to see he couldn't go home when the other doc came in to relieve him. He finally made it out of there after working 13 hours. YUK! He did give an interview to the newspaper this week so that will be interesting to read the article.

Other family news...we are thinking of taking the kids to Disney this year (James and Jacob are free so that is helping with the decision). But we might decide to take a more relaxing vacation back down to the condos at Marco Island. We don't know! We did take a trip to Holiday World this past week and had a WONDERFUL time. Thanks Mary for the food and lodging!

Time Flies

Time certainly flies by now that there are 3 little ones running around the house. I will do a little catching up. Jacob is one month old now and he had his check-up today. He weighs 10 pounds 8 ounces and is 22 1/2 inches long. That means he has grown 2 1/2 inches in a month! He is eating great and sleeping well at night, only getting up twice to eat. He is starting to smile at us and is getting spoiled already by everyone!

Sophia is at science camp this week and loves it. She only has 2 more weeks of summer ballet and she loves ballet too.

James is loving hanging out with Mommy and Daddy. He has become my little shopping buddy. When I run errands, he comes with me and Sophia stays home to help take care of Jacob.

I go back to the doctor in 2 more weeks. Otherwise I am fine.

Jim is working like a dog lately. More and more people are coming into the ER for care. It has been busy but he is hanging in there.

In the next two weeks we are getting irrigation put into the yard (Finally!) and a new cabinet insert in the pantry. That's about it for the house projects for the year. Now we can start saving for projects for next year, which includes the laundry room.

No vacations scheduled yet except for Holiday World but Sophia and I are working on Jim for Disney World. It doesn't look promising though.

Jacob Henry Beeson

So in case you haven't heard or haven't received any Snapfish pictures (which if you do please send me your email), Jacob Henry Beeson arrived on June 12 at 5:11 pm. He weighed 8 pounds and is 20 inches long. He has lots of dark brown hair. He is very cute! Labor was super easy and quiet/relaxing. We sat around and talked until it was time to push. Even the OB doc sat with us for 45 minutes (it was slow on the OB floor) and we did some shopping while we waiting too. All very relaxing. James and Sophia love him very much. James kisses him all the time and Sophia is a great big helper.

James is 2!!

Well, my baby (soon to be my baby no longer) has turned 2. I can't believe it! He is talking up a storm and is soooooooooo cute! My favorite thing he does (because his voice is so cute) is walk around the house going, "Mom, where are you?" and "What are you doing?" . I love that little sweet voice. Anyway, his doctor's appointment went great and he doesn't have to go back until he is 3. He is 37 inches tall (99%) and 29 pounds (65%). Basically he is Jim Beeson all over again. He got one shot and cried until he realized he gets a sticker. He has definitely learned how to cry to get attention.

I had a doctor's appointment yesterday and ultrasound. Everything looks good. Jacob is about 7 pounds and is measuring about a week ahead of schedule in head circumference and length. He is crammed in there! I am only 1.5 cm dilated (boo) but there is a full moon tomorrow. I am hoping he is delivered this week because my OB doc leaves on vacation after that until June 7. Now that I am full term the waiting begins. With this heat, I am hoping it is sooner rather than later. This heat is making me hot, tired, and grouchy! Well, I need to run because today I am having my eyebrows trimmed, my eyelashes and eyebrows dyed, and a pedicure. I can't wait for the pampering!

Father's Day Questionaire

Sophia and James' last day of school was yesterday so Sophia came home with her Father's Day gift. She didn't want to wait until Father's Day to give it to Jim because there was a 100 grand bar that came with it and she said that Daddy would share it with her. Here is what she says about Jim:

My Dad's name is... Jim.
My Dad is ...19...years old.
Dad's favorite chore around the house is to ... do stuff outside.
Daddy likes to watch ...American Idol...on TV.
Daddy likes to cook...carrots..on the grill.
My Daddy's favorite color is ... purple.
Daddy has...brown...color hair.
Daddy's favorite thing to do when he is relaxing is to .. watch TV.
Daddy and I like to play...blocks...together.

Mother's Day Questionaire

At school on Monday, Sophia's class did Mother's Day activities. She made me a cute flower pot with candy inside (that she ate by the end of the day:) ). There was also a piece of paper. On the top of it read "MY MOM". The kids then filled in the blanks. Here is how Sophia's went:

My Mom's name is...Mom Beeson.
My Mom is ...11... years old.
My Mom's hair color is ...blond.
My Mom's favorite job around the house is...to do supper.
My Mom's favorite TV show is...the volcano show (one evening when I didn't feel well, Sophia snuggled on the couch with me and we watched "How the Earth was Made" and it was about volcanoes. I guess it left and impression with her.)
My Mom's favorite thing to cook for me is...macaroni.
My Mom's favorite thing to do with me is ... to cook with me.

Very cute! It is funny to see what perspective the children take. Apparently she see me in the kitchen a lot :)

As a side note, this baby has a lot of hiccups!! Right now he has some very strong hiccups and it is making it difficult to sit at the computer.

Yard Sale Season is Here!

Okay, so I am not a huge yard sale fan but yet...I am. I do not want to have another yard sale, although I have a Peg Perego Double Stroller for $300 if anyone is interested. I also have a wagon that we want to get rid of. Anyway, saw our neighborhood is having a yard sale and I can't wait to take James and Sophia out to it. I am looking for another baby stroller for the kids to play with (a nice one, not an umbrella stroller) and other toys. I never ever look at the clothing. That is just my rule. It would be good to find puzzles and books too. Anyway, 'tis the season!!

Today's Events

Today was a fun day. We woke up early with Sophia yelling that she had to go pee. So I took her and then James woke up and started yelling pee. (What one does, the other has to do too). So I got James up and sat him on the potty and what did he do right away...Pee in the Potty! Now, this was not the first time he has done this but it is the first time that he woke up and yelled that he had to pee. I was so proud of him.

Jim had to work today so I took the kids to Holy Spirit's Easter Egg Hunt. It was fun. The kids were limited to 10 eggs which is fine with me because they don't eat candy anyway. The Fishers Fire Department and EMT came with a ladder truck and ambulance. The kids were WAY more excited about this than the Easter Bunny and Egg Hunt. Sophia immediately went up to every EMT and said, "Do you know my Daddy? My last name is Beeson." It was very cute. Then she went up to every firefighter and said, "My grandpa is a firefighter." It was DARLING!! I took pictures so be looking for them on snapfish at some point.

We then went to see Jim at work. A nurse held the kids up to a patient's room while Jim worked on them. The patient was really sick too. James was in awe and Sophia was clapping and giddy just to see him work. You would have thought Santa was in the room! Again she announced that she is going to be a baby doctor. Sophia then showed all the nurses her boo-boo on her tongue (she bit her tongue yesterday when her chin landed on James' head). James had to show the nurses his boo-boo on his head from 2 weeks ago. Sophia helped out by picking through his hair like a mommy monkey. Again...DARLING!

Sophia also started asking very good questions lately. She has asked things like:
What makes a sandwich?
What's in a pretzel and how can we make one?
Where does food go after you swallow it?
What makes glue sticky?
Daddy, if you run 14 miles, how will you get back?

Then she asked the BIG question...."Daddy (I was not home at the time) how is Jacob going to come out of Mommy's tummy?" Jim told her how Jacob will come out and luckily we have always used correct anatomical name for our body parts so that wasn't that difficult to answer. Then she asked, "Is it like pooping?" (Where does she come up with these!?! She just turned 3!!!) She then wanted to clarify all of the different holes in the body and what function each one served. Then followed all of the questions like, "Will it hurt Mommy?", "Will Jacob cry?" etc. I know I am her mom and I think she is awesome but what amazing questions for such a little girl to ask!

Birthday Party Pics and Updates

The Birthday Cake!!

I haven't blogged in a while but a lot has happened. The biggest event was that Sophia turned 3 and had a party at Monkey Joe's. It was a lot of fun and Sophia got waaay too many gifts...thanks to all for the gifts. She surprises me everyday with her knowledge and maturity. She is so much fun and a mommy's girl and daddy's girl all at the same time. Here are pictures of her party and of her new big girl room. She chose everything in her room...thanks to Pottery Barn Kids for the decor.

Giving Monkey Joe a High-5

Sophia and her friend Lola (in the blue) with her sister Ruby.

Sophia's friends Cole and Lily

We put butterflies on the canopy.

I love the ruffle bedskirt!
Butterflies and tulips everywhere.

I just got back yesterday from Orlando from a girl's trip. It wasn't the Caribbean like we normally do but it was still relaxing. I had to stay in the US per doctors orders. I definitely got lots of rest. We didn't do Disney :( but we did see Cirque de Soleil in downtown Disney. It was good but the Vegas shows are better in my opinion. We also did lots of outlet shopping. I forgot how much fun shopping can be when you are without children. I got Sophia a really cute outfit from J Crew and James got a Nike outfit that matched the outfit I bought Jim. I didn't get anything for Jacob though...oops. That's okay though because he is just going to wear James' out outfits since they were both born in the same season. I did have to throw some of James' old outfits out because he was a messy baby but most will work again.

James suddenly grew up while I was in Orlando and turned into a little boy. He definitely is acting like a 2 year old and is STUBBORN!! He is going to need an attitude adjustment. I think it is time to refresh my memory on the behavior books I have. He is super cute though and is talking sooo much more. Adorable!

Jim had fun with the kids while I was gone. He said they tested his patience and wore him out but he loved every moment. He is the BEST daddy and husband!! He bought me all new maternity clothes to go on my girl trip. SOO nice. After being pregnant for 4 years I was tired of my old clothes so the new clothes were a great change.

Jacob's room is coming along. We still need to put up an airplane mobile and an airplane lamp should be in this week. We also need to by the rocking chair yet. It is looking good though!!