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This week I am thankful that we squeezed in a few special things before the holidays and before our very special (niece???) Baby T arrives...We had a play date with my friends Jenny and Aimee on Tuesday (forgot to get the camera out, sorry, no pics).

Wednesday I took Riley to her first play: "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" at Stages Theater in Hopkins. She was literally at the edge of her seat the whole time and loved the Sugar Plum Fairies! I do have pictures of that and I will post them soon, but tonight we are bringing her to the Holidazzle Parade downtown so I am keeping my camera in my purse until then so I don't forget it!

And tomorrow I am going solo to a baby shower for some friends I haven't seen in years! Looking forward to seeing Nick and Angie again and I'm thankful to Facebook for reconnecting with old friends!

Riley's a Helper...Sometimes

Riley had a lot of fun helping Daddy put up the Christmas tree this year. She held the next strand of lights until Daddy was ready for them. Then she had fun "ornamenting" the tree. You will notice a few branches at the bottom are a bit weighed down...she had a few favorite places to hang stuff...Makes for an interesting tree! We also have some glasses that make looking at Christmas lights even more fun...The are 3-D like glasses that make the lights look like snowflakes or the word "Noel" surrounding them. She makes sure we have these glasses on whenever we admire the tree and sometimes she even takes them with us places to look at other people's lights.

More from Adrienne's Party

As is often the case, you can spend a lot of money on kids for their birthday, but the best gifts are often the part you didn't pay much for. The kids had more fun with the rubber punch ball and the big Elmo bag that one of Adie's gifts was wrapped in...and I think Grandpa had more fun with that part too;)

Happy Birthday Miss A!

Today is Adrienne's 2nd birthday. We celebrated this weekend, despite being in holding mode for Baby T #2 coming soon. No action on that front but here's some pics from the party. Auntie Amber and Uncle Matt made the "cake" which were actually cake suckers for the big Elmo Party. VERY impressive! Happy Birthday Adrienne! We love you:)

Wow, Whata Weekend!

We had a VERY busy weekend this week, with Adrienne's birthday party and a full day of fun, visiting the new Maple Grove Hospital where our "Baby Brother" will be born in February. (Hi Karen! Sorry I had to bail on our hello's, but I didn't want to miss the tour! We were in a hurry to get to the next destination;) After that we went to see Santa and his reindeer. Riley was less than excited about the reindeer, or Santa, really, but she did sit on his lap and pose for the picture much better than she has in the past! Then we were off to find a Christmas tree, set that up and get it decorated. Needless to say, we are all kinda exhausted, but thankfully, Josh has tomorrow off so we get to unwind a bit...sorta:)

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Yesterday I had my 4th ultrasound of this pregnancy. Of those, I would say 2 of them were "normal" procedure, the other 2 have been more for monitoring the safety of our Baby Boy and myself. I am VERY thankful that today I can say both of them proved "normal" and "resolved" and everything is fine! This last one was double checking something that was a concern at my last ultrasound that might have meant a scheduled c-section. Baby Boy would probably have been fine regardless, but this was more of a concern for me during labor. I'm very thankful that they were on top of things and checking just to be safe.

For those of you who know me well, you know that a scheduled c-section would have FREAKED me out! The one good thing about natural labor for me is that you can't plan for it. A Due Date is just a random guess, really, not a date to mark on a calendar in red pen. Normally, I like a plan in place, but if I knew exactly when this baby was coming I would be a basket case for at LEAST a week ahead of time. For Josh's sake, it's really better if I don't know when baby is coming until labor starts. No time to panic, no time to think about the pain part...I am a HUGE wuss in that department:) Now I just hope for a normal delivery and a happy healthy baby!

So a huge sigh of relief, no scheduled birthday here!

Skating Smiles

I dressed Riley a little differently this week so it wasn't the same ol' skating pics. I just wanted to show how happy she is when she's at her lessons. i love these pictures! And no, Daddy is not trying to fly on the ice, he's trying to get her to let go of her walker thing. She fell and hit her noggin early in class (no worries, she had her helmet on!) so she was a little hesitant this week to do it on her own...maybe next week!