EJ's Third Birthday Party

EJ's actual Birthday is not until this Wednesday, but we held his party this weekend at Chuck E Cheese. His friends Brady and Katie were able to come along with their parents. Paco's Mom, Dad and brothers, Joe and Dan, were also in town and able to attend. I think young and old alike had a great time playing all the games and crawling through the overhead tunnels. We enjoyed some pizza, presents and cake. Thanks to all who could attend for making EJ's third birthday a memorable one! Many pictures and posts follow this one so be sure to check out all the fun.

Brady, Mike and Jenny play the bee game

Katie and Dave play kiddie whac-a-mole

EJ driving the Bob the Builder truck

Brady vs. EJ in air hockey

Cake time

EJ with his Curious George Birthday Cake

EJ, Katie and Brady singing the Happy Birthday Song

Finally, we get to eat that yummy cake

Opening Presents

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you!

Playing with Birthday Presents

Birthday presents had to be opened pretty much as soon as we got home today. Daddy has already had to make a run for AAA batteries, but everything is working great and getting played with a ton!

Putting together a puzzle from Katie

Super EJ is playing with his geotrax airplanes

Geotrax firestation

Little People learning town

Playing with Geotrax Planes

Trying out the new Geotrax Airplanes he received as Birthday gifts.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I have really started to get into the spirit of the holiday season and have been looking forward to putting up our tree and decorations. EJ is at such a great age to see the wonder of the holidays and was very excited to help decorate the Christmas tree. Paco and I did learn one valuable lesson though. Make sure you set the tree up the night before while the almost three year old is sleeping and let him decorate in the morning. If I heard "Is it time to put the ornaments on yet?" once I heard it 50 times :) Happy Holidays Everyone!

EJ just put the first ornament on the tree--his very special glitter ornament he made in art class

Paco helps him hang some ornaments near the top

The finished product

Helping Grandpa Bernie

Last week EJ and I went to Springfield to visit with family while Paco took on the daunting task of painting the house. While in Springfield, EJ got to "help" his Grandpa Bernie rake leaves up in their backyard and around the pool. I think he was thinking he was going to be able to go in the pool and swim, but 30 degree weather changed his mind.

Walking out with their rakes

Helping to get the leaves out of the pool

EJ helping Grandpa vacuum up all the leaves--I think that vac was actually bigger than him!

19 week ultrasound

Please bear with me, I know these pictures are not the highest quality. Our scanner is not wanting to work for some reason so I had to take pictures of pictures...not the perfect scenario. Most of you can still probably tell that these are ultrasound pictures. This Friday Paco and I got a chance to see the baby again at our comprehensive ultrasound. The technician checks all the body systems to make sure everything is developing correctly. We got great news that everything is looking great and the little one is growing just as it should. He or she is around 10 ounces and growing rapidly. We saw a really detailed picture of the heart and you could see all four chambers just pumping along. Pretty incredible for an organ that is only the size of a quarter right now!

Fuzzy, but a profile shot--head on the right with thumb in it's mouth

dark but a bit clearer... Head on the right and belly right in the middle with spine along the bottom.

Edit: Pictures replaced with scanned pictures.

What a difference a week makes!

EJ and I went away this week so that Paco could paint a large portion of our house. While we visited with Grandma's and Grandpa's Paco painted the kitchen, great room, entry way and hallway of our house. We chose a color called Latte and I think it really makes the house looks nice. Hopefully prospective buyers will also think it looks nice! Please excuse the mess in some of the pictures--we are still working on getting the house back together.

Kitchen

Great room/dining area

Great room

Front entry

Hallway to the bedrooms

Bathroom Remodel

Paco has been hard at work painting various rooms in our house to make it ready to put on the market. He started in the master bathroom and it now looks much better. Here is a before, or well during, picture and and after picture. I do have towels and bath mats that match the shower curtain, but they are only going out for open houses.