Leap Day at Insectlore

I have been chomping at the bit to get out of the house so I thought I would join Sadie's preschool group on a field trip to Insectlore.

This is a great little bug museum out in Shafter, California.  They have all kinds of creepy crawlies and educational games and other items for sale.  We were lucky and got a special tour and even got to touch some of the bugs.

This is close as Miss Sadie got. "Do you want to touch it?" "NO WAY" haha

Here's all the kids in her preschool group.  We had a picnic on the lawn before the tour too.  It was a lot of fun.  Long but fun  hehe

My Grandpa's Art

We have been going through boxes like crazy trying to get rid of stuff and today we came upon some old paintings my Grandpa Lindsey painted.  They were in really bad shape so I snapped a picture of them and worked on them to try and clean it up.  here are the results...

Miss Sadie

Hard to believe my baby is 4.  With everything going on with the twins I was a little late getting her 4 year pictures done.  I really wanted to take family pictures in the orchards again this year but alas I was not feeling up to it.  It took all my strength to get these shots of just Miss Sadie.

I have become addicted to pintrest this past month.  I had been resisting getting on there for fear I would get sucked in and never return but I have to say they have amazing ideas.  Like this birthday questionare.  You ask your children the same questions every birthday and see how they've changed.  So I am starting that this year with Miss Sadie.

 20 Questions:

1. What is your favorite color?  Green

2. What is your favorite toy?  Shaun the Sheep

3. What is your favorite fruit? Bananas

4. What is your favorite tv show?  Doc McStuffins

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Melted Tortilla (quesadilla) or Pizza

6. What is your favorite outfit? Minnie Mouse Shirt

7. What is your favorite game? Bug Swat (playstation game)

8. What is your favorite snack?  Cheese Stick

9. What is your favorite animal? Sheep

10. What is your favorite song? You are my sunshine

11. What is your favorite book? Fancy Nancy Books

12. Who is your best friend?  Nina (Fieldsted)

13. What is your favorite cereal? Colored O's (fruit loops)

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play baseball and soccer

15. What is your favorite drink? Milk and white juice (white grape juice)

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Shaun and little pink and big pink.

18. What is your favorite think to eat for breakfast? Waffles

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Pizza

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A Mommy and a fireman



Latest and Greatest

We had our ultrasound appointment again this week. Yep we are having a boy and a girl.  Best of both worlds right?!  I believe so!

Twin A is our baby girl...Henrietta Marie

Twin B is our baby boy...Augustus Emmitt. And for those who know Steve at all you will know why. (Emmitt Smith)

And just for those who are following the ambiotic fluid drama...we are still doing good.  the fluid levels were great.  So we are not worried at this time.

Money Art Project

Since I am on restricted activities I've had to come up with some projects for Miss Sadie to do.  So I grabbed some change and a piece of paper.  We decided what shape she wanted...A heart.

Then we taped down the coins.

I got another piece of paper to put on top of the money paper and let Miss Sadie do a rub.  Kind of like the leaf rub we did in October.  What was cool was you could actually see the face of the coins come through.  It was pretty cool and Sadie had a lot of fun.

Our Scare

** warning: this post contains graphic baby/woman information**

Well Monday afternoon late I stood up from the chair in the living room and starting leaking. I immediately went into the bathroom and called Steve.  His response "I'm not a doctor I have no idea.  call them"  Duh!

(A little back ground history here...when I was pregnant with Sadie I was induced  so my water never broke on it's own.  So I wasn't sure what to expect.)

I called my doctor and they said to get over to the hospital so they can run tests.  So off we went.  We dropped Sadie off at the Fieldsteds (thank goodness for them) and we were off.  We got to the hospital and went right up to labor and delivery.  They ran a test to determine if it was ambiotic fluid.  And the test came back postitive.  Not a good sign.  So they ran another test and we waited.  They ordered an ultrasound and 24 hr monitoring.  Now baby monitoring is normally very simple but since there were two babies they had to keep track of both separately.  Twins are hard to keep track of.  Especially when you have kids that don't like ultrasounds or like to be monitored.  They literally kept the nurses hoping.

The ultrasound happened later that day and the results were encouraging the fluid levels looked normal. But they wanted to monitor me for another 48 hours to make sure the levels didn't go down. In the meantime they started me on antibotics and a steriod for the babies in case they delivered early it would help with their lung development. (that shot hurt!!!)


The next day was Valentines Day so Steve and Sadie came up and brought things for us to make for Sadie's preschool group.  A mother's job is never done.  Even while in the hospital.  So we made Rolo butterfly valentines for her friends.

So on the 15th in the late afternoon they gave me another ultrasound and the levels actually had increased.  So the good news was the fluid levels were just fine.  I had stopped leaking by then but I was only getting up to go to the bathroom.  So I was released to go home on a few conditions. 

1. I had to take my temperature twice a day to make sure I didn't start getting a fever.  That would indicate an infection.

2. I had to limit my activity.  I wasn't on strict bed rest but I couldn't walk around alot and I was not able to lift anything heavy.

3. I had to go to the doctor's office once a week for a check up and blood work.

So I went home.  I was very lucky. 

Our New Van

Say hello to our newest member of the family.  We decided the focus was just not big enough to accommodate us now that the twins will be arriving in a couple of months.  After much deliberation we found this van.  It's a 2011 Dodge Caravan.  We are very happy.  Especially Sadie as it has "magic doors".