20 weeks---It's a girl!

 20 week baby belly...

I don't know why the blog makes these look so horrible.  On my computer, on Facebook, on pretty much any other place, they are so crisp and clear...but on here, they are fuzzy and weird looking.


First things first...There is still a little bit of bleeding there, but it appears to be old blood and it's far away from the baby's blood supply so right now, we aren't worried about it.

 Profile--the little ball by her chin is her fist.

Profile--the line above her face is her arm...she was "petting" the inside of my tummy back at the doctor as he did the ultrasound.

 

 This is slightly profile, slightly straight on... It's harder to see because of the 2D-ness.  Her mouth is open, you can see that little dip above the lip under the nose (better in my pic) and you can see the tip of her nose... I *think* the dark spot is an eye, but it might be something else...or a you know, a part of the inside of her cheek or something...since it's like a slice of a picture...

Little foot... I think it looks like Abby's feet.  LOL ;)

 

This is a leg and a lot of I-don't-know-what-that-is.  She kicked the Ultrasound wand off when he tried for this picture.

 

A little arm.  She was sucking on her wrist/thumb/hand/whatever she could fit in her mouth during this exam.  She was also super wiggly and the doctor told her to hold still a few times.  The bigger kids got a kick out of her "not being helpful" for the doctor's camera.  

It's a jungle out there....

I had google set to Google Images and I was typing random animals and telling Jubilee about them when she climbed up on my lap.  The other kids wanted to see and pretty soon all the kids were making animal noises for Jubilee.  Jubi tried to join in and I thought it was cute so I set the webcam to record this video... (which put it behind Google so I couldn't see who was in the frame and who wasn't...and since it was spur of the moment, it was dark in here...)  but you get the idea and there are some pretty cute things here.  :)  I'm pretty sure Emma's giving Jubi a giraffe kiss at one point since we've fed the giraffes at the zoo and they are all tongue.  Jubi likes the duck the pig and the baby (humans) I think the most.  She really lights up when those come around.

Mostly the Kid Computer

This new "toy" has become quite popular... Noah trying to do it.  He's not good with the mouse yet.

Snowwhite watching Emma play a game on the computer...

Or rather, Snowwhite watching Abby take over the computer...Abby's really good at it...so good in fact that she takes it away from others if they mess up too much.  We have to remind her that it's not her turn.

Abby working with Noah on the computer.  Yes, that little Noah stole a binky!  :P  I'm constantly after him about that!

Isaiah on the computer.  

This one is a climber...She have very little fear of certain kinds of "dangers."  Falling down the stairs?  Sure, she's scared of that and she takes it easy and slow... Getting burned on the hot fire...she doesn't know what "burned" or "hot" means, but she knows it will get her a growl or something and she won't do it...but climbing on the stools..."surfing" on the rocking chair...nope.  Not scary.  She's a thrill seeker.  Roller Coaster kid.   

"What?  Me climbing?  No way!"  

Lego boy playing with his very favorite toy right now.

At it again...

One morning after working an all night shift at work, I had a doctor's appointment.  Brandon stayed home with the kids and stayed awake... he wanted to try to stay up the whole day so that he could get back on schedule...instead he fell asleep.  How can that even be comfortable?  I'm soooo thankful he can sleep anywhere, anytime though, because when we first started this schedule, I was afraid of the kids making too much noise and waking him up all the time... Nope.  He can sleep through ANYTHING!

Teething?  Sick?  I don't remember...but she was really, really fussy... She was walking around the house crying...  Then she stopped and I found her here with the blanket I used to nurse her under a lot.  It's been put away, but she pulled it out and was cuddling under it.  I don't think she remembers nursing, but I think, maybe, she still associated it with comfort.  

Chair surfing.  Disregard the mac n cheese on her face.  It was a busy morning.  A lot was going on.  She was napping when we started lunch and then by the time she was eating,  I think I was helping a 3 year old wipe his bottom when she got done eating and came into the office to start chair surfing.  I "yell" at her all the time for this...just so you know...  But anyway, on this day, she pushed the chair back against that black thing.  She was rocking it as far as it would go and falling back into a sitting position onto the black thing then doing it over and over again.  She was giggling like crazy which is why I took the pictures before scolding her or washing her... 

I didn't capture any of her landing on the box.  This is the face she made when I said, "You are going to fall down!  Owie!" 

"Brothers and sisters like this thing.  Maybe I need to check it out..."

"There's something to do with this..."

"Yeah.  Like that, I think.  Hmmm... Pretty boring."

Rocking her baby dolls.  She climbed up, sat down and pointed at the dolls she couldn't manage to get both into the chair at the same time with her, so I handed them to her...and she sat there and rocked them for a while.

Playing Legos together.  Isaiah likes to build tall towers and encourage Jubilee to knock them down when he plays with her. 

Me:  "Jubilee...That's yucky!  No!"

Two strikes and you're out, kid!  Yes, I know its a different color...different shape...different lego...but it is still a lego.
 

"Okay.  Fine.  I'll go back to chair surfing.  I like this game better than eating legos anyway."

Her face when I tell her to sit down... It's kind of "I'll just wait until you aren't looking..."

See...I'm cute.

These two were having a particularly hard time getting along one night.  So I stuck them both in a big t-shirt together with one arm out and one arm around each other and had them put away a few books and toys that were in the kitchen.  After working together for a while, they were laughing and friends again and taking turns/co-operating much better.

Nerd math... We took Nerd candy and did math with it.  I showed them a flash card and they had to show me the answer in Nerds.  The one who did it right first got to eat theirs while the other one had to wait to get one right.  There are like a million nerds in one of those tiny boxes you get at halloween...so this game lasted for a long, long time.  I need to buy some more of those.  :)  They really enjoyed it.  

One Sunday morning... I tried to match all 5 of them...hence the picture...but now looking at it...I don't think they are very matched anyway. 

Snow

more snow the next day... :)  I love snow!

Brandon: "Come see if you can find all the kids...See where they are sleeping..."

Noah...

Jubilee...she hadn't hardly moved a muscle from how I'd put her hours before...she was exhausted I guess!

Abby and Emma.  The light was on in this room.  (The boys room was dark and I just used the camera's flash for the pictures...)  (Also, notice the order on the bed.  Abby.  Emma.  And the blankets.  Abby has a dark colored one.  Emma has a pink one.  This is significant for later.)

Isaiah.  I almost didn't see him.  He was curled up in the corner by the crib in the girls' room and his hair was so similar to the blanket that he really was camouflaged.   

The next morning...
Jubilee was here.

Hmmm... I guess the basket got uncomfortable last night?
I've got both boys sleeping in plastic covered cloth training underwear at night.  Noah is dry probably 5 nights out of 6.  He gets up and goes to the bathroom a million times at night, but he does it!  I'm so proud of him!  :)  He probably got up and went potty and at some point didn't get back in the basket that I had found him in the night before.

(on a side note, I don't know what to do about Isaiah.  He sleeps like his daddy I guess.  Nothing wakes him up.  He never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever wakes up dry...and we've been doing this for months!  :(  )

Abby.  Isaiah and Emma were already awake when I went to check on the others.  Abby is on the other side of the bed now and has Isaiah's and Emma's blankets from the night before.  Emma said Abby got cold and took her blanket away in the night.  I'm assuming Abby also took Isaiah's blanket.  I'm not sure where the dark colored one went, but Isaiah and Emma said they both woke up with no blanket and were cold... (hence being awake earlier than the others, I guess.)  Maybe the dark one is in that pile on Abby too?