Fascination with Christmas trees

We went to the mall with Papa today to get some new glasses. Alyssa was most interested in the what she saw several times throughout the mall...Christmas trees! She even got to see Santa and wanted to give her a hug. Disneyland totally prepared her for the hugging strange people dressed up in costumes. Santa gave her a small candy cane and I asked her to give it to Papa because I didn't want her to have it (she doesn't know what it is yet) and she looked at me and said, 'But Santa gave it to me!" Heavy emphasis on the 'me'. Needless to say Papa went without his candycane. We were waiting to eat at CPK and she wanted to pose in front of the Christmas tree. So excited. We told her that we were going to get a Christmas tree next week and put it in our house and decorate it and the she started firing questions at us. "Why do we get a tree?" "Where do we get the tree?" "Where are we going to get it?" "How are we going to put things on it?" "What are we going to put on it?" Oh my. A curious 3 year olds mind can definitely make you tired. :D Hopefully next weekend will answer a lot of her questions for her.

Alyssa and Tyler will be big a sister/brother!

Rob and I are very excited to announce that we are PG with our third child! We just had our 12 week ultrasound this morning and all is well. We had a little scare when our Dr. could not find the HB (my very worst nightmare) for over 4 minutes and then we were taken into the ultrasound room. She didn't even take the time to enter my name into the machine so unforunately this one didn't have our name on the picture however we don't care about that! We instantly saw the little heartbeat and she (yes, I am going on record that I think it is a girl) is measuring perfectly. We are due May 28th however we will most likely schedule our third c-section around May 14th-May 17th and the date will be determined when we get closer to the baby's due date and our Doctor's schedule.

Her face is a little red because she got into trouble right before I took the picture and I didn't want to wait till her face cleared it because I would have forgotten what I was doing.
This is great, all I have to do is have her wear this shirt and I don't have to say anything. Truth be told, I hope not to be showing till January (5 months). My lovely Dr. said that I shouldn't gain really any weight in the next 4 weeks (what does she know anyway) because it wouldn't be the baby at all. Basically, she means that if I gain weight then it would be due to me eating too much food. Nice.

This is our little legume at 8weeks. Isn't she tiny????? No smaller than a kidney bean. How come something so small make me throw up at the sight, smell, and taste of food and keep me in bed? I only pray that this is the worst she ever treats her Daddy and me. She was 1.46 CM at 8 weeks.

And this is our little legume at 12 weeks. WOW! She measured at 5.39 CM today. She has grown almost 4 CM in the past 4 weeks. Isn't that amazing? I hope I don't grow that quickly.

Happy Halloween

Not sure what is up with her current cheesy smile but I love how she holds her dress up so that we can see her shoes. Or so she can walk....
Fishing to get a necklace...

Tyler dressed up as a 70's man for Chapel at school and for some reason he forgot to get a costume so I made him wear the 70's costume. I think this may have been his last year. :(

Our evening was set to enjoy pizza (one of Alyssa's favorite meals) with friends before we all went trick or treating. At the last minute, the family decided that they didn't want to have pizza so Rob and I did not feel like driving 20 minutes each way to trick or treat for 15 minutes. So the plans changed and we attended the Church festivities right down the street! They had carnival games, popcorn, lazer tag, pin the nose on the pumpkin, a great big air slide and lots more. We focused on the games and the slide. Oh, and we participated in the cake walk but we didn't win. :( I haven't been in a cake walk in over 10 years.