Mattie Anne Thanksgiving Party

Our little Indian!

Aquarium pics

It's been a while...

It has been a year I guess since I updated last. I am officially bad at this! I am at home today with a semi-sick child, she seemed much sicker before I told her we could stay home :) I'm sure it was the Tylenol! So, anyway, a day at home, it is 9:00 and I've already gotten Lyons "too small" clothes and Mattie Anne's summer clothes cleaned out of the closet, made an Indian costume for Mattie Anne's thanksgiving dinner at school, and now I'm going to attempt updating the blog with pics from over the last couple of months. I'll keep all the other posts just to pics, but thought I'd update how we have been. I'm 35 weeks pregnant with Evans, he will be our 2nd little boy, third total. Mattie Anne turned 3 in August and Lyons is 1.5. Evans should be making his debut around the beginning of December. Matt is 1.5 years into his Pathology residency at LSU Health Sciences in New Orleans. He really enjoys the program. I am still at Humana Insurance company doing clinical review for pre-authorizations. I am enjoying the work and it was been especially nice with the pregnancy not having to be on my feet all day. Mattie Anne started Pre-K3 in August. It took her a while to get used to the new program, sitting still, coloring in the lines, tracing letters....a lot to take in for my little girl! She actually had a 9 weeks test too! I'm not so sure I like the program, I'm thinking it is a little on the too structured side but for now it will have to do. Lyons is walking/running, and making lots of noises, half the time I think they are supposed to be words, but there is still just a lot of screaming too :) He is completely oblivious to us having another baby, it will be fun to see how he reacts when Evans is born. Mattie Anne is very excited. She would look in my belly button and say she could see the baby, even would ask where his diaper was :). She did very well when Lyons was born so I assume she will do great again, and be even more of Mommy's helper. Evans he a mover and shaker! I'm a little nervous that the kid is never going to sleep because he doesn't do much of that now! We have had to have some ultrasounds to follow up on a couple of abnormalities, but the last ultrasound performed last week was perfect, nothing to worry about and he is already 5 lbs 6 oz, Not too much smaller than his sister when she was born! We have started going to First Baptist Church in Laplace and have found a lot of really sweet people, they have a young couples class that has several families with children the same ages as ours. Mattie Anne has started going to their AWANA program which has been a lot of fun. Well I guess that is enough for the words, I'll start loading the pics!

Pumpkin Patch Pics

Mattie Anne, Lyons and I went to a great pumpkin patch in Hammond, LA! Mattie Anne loves animals!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Blackberry Updates

So, I think I have figured out how to post with my blackberry. I think this will really help with my updating- though I make no promises! I found out last week when I was awaiting a new phone to be sent from verizon, just how much I depend on my blackberry. They know this and the little scheme to give u a free blackberry total works bc you get addicted! Well, some may would have seen thier problem and made a goal to not be so dependent on their blackberry, but not me. I figured out how to move my apps to my sd card bc I was frustrated with the speed and have been greatly surprised the increased speed and therefore have found the necessity to download more apps! I should never get an i-phone all the apps would totally overwhelm me! Though in searching I was able to find some pretty good ones for blackberry- though none for blogger. But in my frustration I think I have found out how to post- if not I've wasted a lot of finger movements for nothing! For other smartphones users that like to follow blogs a great app is viigo- you can type in the address of the blogs that you follow and it notifies you of updates! How great! Well I'm going to submit this and hopefully it will work- if you are seeing it that is a good sign and hopefully a sign of more frequent posting! Hopefully I can figure out how to add pics- bc it seems that my blackberry is also my camera- I should really look into getting one with a better camera next time! How again did we live without smartphones?

Family Update

So, Most of you know by now but we are moving back South! I can't wait to be warm again! We love it in Kansas City but it will be really nice to be close to family! We will be moving to New Orleans in June, after Lyons is born. Matt matched his residency at LSU New Orleans campus. We were able to make a trip down the first of April and were able to find a house and we will close on it the end of May. So life the next 2 months is going to be a little crazy but always fun!

Matt is done with school now, so he has the job of packing up the house. I'm thinking I planned this pregnancy great, I'm almost completely getting out of packing. The almost part is the fact that my husband needs my mind a good bit to get tasks completed!

I'm doing well...33 weeks pregnant....AKA...Fat and tired... But I know it will all be worth it! Everything is winding down for me at work, or winding up however you want to twist it. I am transferring all of the studies that I'm currently doing over to their new owners so it is a process... I should be down to minimal work in a few weeks which will be nice with getting further along into the pregnancy.

Mattie Anne is doing great! She is sleeping in her "big girl" bed...AKA...a day bed turned against the wall. It is amazing how small she looks in such a big bed. She did really well and we haven't had to use the crib for a week now! Hopefully that will make the move better, we thought moving beds and houses and adding a brother would be way too much to handle!

Well, I think that is all for now! I'm going to start a post with Mattie Anne's words, a lot for my own benefit. She is getting very smart but I do see the attitude as we get closer to 2!