Pictures from gender party

This picture was taking right after we found out what this sweet baby is! We are all so very excited to welcome another darling baby boy to our family!  

These were the BEAUTIFUL and YUMMY cupcakes that my dear friend Brooke made of us!

Th evelope that the ultrasound tech wrote in and posted a gender picture!

 As you saw in the video, Madelyn was holding the "winning" cupcake! 

Milly enjoying the yummy stuff!

I believe Madelyn was still in shock that SHE had the cupcake and that it was a boy!

Little man has no clue that a buddy is on his way!

I family picture...4 1/2!

A few precious pictures!

Gender Reveal Video

Introducing....

 our sweet tie breaking baby! We will be finding out TONIGHT what baby's gender is....Shane and I were SO grateful that baby is perfectly healthy! It's very calm compared to my other two kidos. The ultrasound tech believes that baby was sleeping through most of the visit. It woke up at the very end to let us see it suck on its thumb while placing its other hand on its knee! So very sweet to get a glimpse of their word. It was snug as a bug laying against its placenta which we found out today is partially anterior. It starts in the front and goes up and over the to of my uterus.  So we will let you know with what I'm sure is going to be a pretty funny video what baby Ivey #3 is! Can't wait!

 

18 wks

 

Here we are, 18 wks! I'm feeling pretty good. Still tired but its getting a little better. Baby Ivey is MUCH calmer than my other two so far...but as my older sister said.."You could use a calmer kid:-)" This also could be because I have an anterior placenta...It pads the kicks. 

I still get waves of nausea every now and then... usually triggered by smell..This past Sunday I was sitting by a girl who really needed a mint while singing...I did my VERY best and fought back the urge to get sick. Luckily my wonderful mom-in-law had a ginger candy that did a fantastic job on my queasiness! 

So like I said in a previous post, we are headed to our "big" ultrasound EARLY Monday  morning....yeah...We have to be there at 8:30! I very much DREAD this visit...It shook me up when we went to Murphy's baby appointment and we found out there were not one but two possible fetal abnormalities.. Shane and I pray every night that this baby is happy and healthy but know that we have an amazing Father who will take care of us with whatever comes our way:-) Enough with the"Worrying Wanda".

So I believe as long as this child allows the ultrasound tech to take a peek at its parts we will be finding out if the quiet little one is a boy or a girl. We're pretty excited to know and I know Madelyn is too!

The tech will be writing down the sex for us on this card. I just L.O.V.E. this company! It's called sarah + abraham. I ordered from this company with Murphy too. As soon as I saw them in the mail I cried a little to see all my sweet babies on the card! Much like last time, I will taking the envelope to my buddy, Brooke who will then make cupcakes and place into ONE...yes just one cupcake pink or blue icing. That night we are getting together with Shanes family who will this time all be in front of the camera. We will all take our first bite of our cupcake at the SAME time! Someone will get to announce the gender of baby Ivey # 3!

IF you have not voted on gender, please do so! I can not tell who has voted or what person voted what so it won't hurt our feelings! So far I do believe "boy" has a pretty good lead!...We shall see:-)

1st Mothers Morning out for Murphy

Shane and I decided that for my sake and Murphys that we place him in a mothers morning out program a few days of the week. He is just a completely different child when it comes to being busy than his big sister.  He goes right up the road to Crieve Hall Church of Christ Preschool.  He goes on Mondays and Fridays from 9:30-2:30! He started on Friday and did really well! He talks about his friend Coleman. His parents are great friends of ours. Murphy and Coleman are just 2 weeks apart in age....(Sweet little buddies!) When we dropped him off he never even turned around to see us off. Walked right in and started playing with toys! He even takes great naps for his teacher. On Friday and Monday he slept a full 1 1/2 hrs.!

Murphy walking in the preschool holding his daddy's hand...so sweet!

Although he does not look it here, Murphy likes his teacher! Her name is Ms. Meridith.

This next picture was when I came and picked him up from school! He had the best time! His teacher talked about how sweet a child he is but very busy....yep...it's the reason he's going:-)

This is "Omen"(what Murphy calls Coleman!)

Oh-my! I just noticed how bruised my childs legs are:-/ Its from climbing I tell ya!

 

I'm very happy Shane and I made that decision to put Murphy in a program. I know he will have fun and learn alot. Plus this mam needs a little down time.

Gender Poll!

 Which one will this baby be?! We want to know what you think! Go vote on our poll on the side of our blog! We find out on Monday night (the 17th) in a very fun way involving cupcakes and who doesn't love a cupcake?!

Church Pick Nic

These photos were taking at our Church wide picnic!! We love going every year!! This is Madelyn and her sweet friend Sawyer.

/being very silly!

Murphy loved playing cornhole!

 Then he would go take everyones sacks;-0

Me and my little buddy!

Me and my dear friend Ginny! She and I are both expecting boys! (her first after having 3 girls!)

We loved the food and the kidos had a blast dancing with the band!!!

1st report card

Shane and I are so super proud of Madelyn for working hard at school! 

She will definitely be getting a treat;-)

 

Her classes are as follows: (Excellent....95 or above)

Social Studies- E 

Science- E

Mathematics- E

Eng Lang Arts Lit- E

Physical Education- E

Spanish- E

Art- E

crime fighters

The World is a much safer place to live.

perfect zoo day

I love that we live 5 minutes from the zoo. The kids absolute love going! The other Saturday morning the high for the day was only 80 so we hoped to the chance to go! We had the best time! Shane had not been in about a year so there was so much to see and show him! l

There are a few things at the zoo that require extra tokens like ride the train or carousel. We never pay for these extra things....ever...In fact the last time Madelyn rode on the carousel was at her first birthday party!....I'm a bad mama:-( Shane wanted to go ahead and let them do everything they wanted so we bought the extra tokens! Murphy is SO into trains that he squealed the entire time he was on the train!! It was so cute to see!

This was Murphys first time to ever ride on a carrousel! He was very serious about riding that snake!