Breaking the trend...

I'm officially not going to be so outnumbered! We went in for our ultrasound last night and found out we're having a baby girl! We are thrilled beyond words and can't wait to have a girl in our family. I don't have a cute ultrasound picture because her head was facing down and she was covering it with her arm and hand. Because of this, the Dr. wasn't able to look at her upper lip so we need to do another quick ultrasound next month... hopefully we'll get a better picture then. Other than that, everything looks great and we are very excited- especially Aidan. He was wanting a sister so much and is just giddy at the thought of it. We can't agree on any girl names so we have some work cut out for us but other than that the fun part begins. Shopping! As luck would have it, I'm flying out tonight to spend a few days (without the kids or Brett) with Jordan and can do some fun shopping with her. I can't wait for the break and what a fun way to celebrate!

Not much (or TOO much!) going on!

I can't believe I've let another month go by without posting... actually I can. Not much exciting has been happening here...I feel like we're all just exisiting and trying to get through the month! March is my busiest month with piano- we have festival, the recital and group class all in one month on top of regular lessons. Trying to get these wonderful students of mine prepared to perform and be confident in that is always such a tedious and emotional battle but we usually make it out with smiles in the end! I've had enough kids crying at the piano the last few weeks, frustrated in how difficult it is to make it all come together, that I'm starting to think I need to invest in the big packages of Kleenex at Costco. Luckily we made it through Festival this weekend, now we just need to get through this week to the rectial next Monday and then we can all take a deep breath. It's always interesting to me that even though the physical schedule of teaching doesn't change during the months of February and March, the emotional side of it really wears us all out. I'm always so glad that we only do it once a year!

To top it off we've had sick kids... Ethan started with 4 days of a high fever, then as he finished that Aidan got the stomach flu, then when that finished Ethan's cold turned bad and his asthma flaired up enough to make me fairly nervous and to top it off he woke up at 4:00 this morning throwing up. Looks like round 2 of the stomach flu is underway! I'm exhausted... The good news is there are breaks in sight!  I'm finishing my week early next week and flying out to Jordan's BY MYSELF for 4 blissful days of peace and quiet. I can't wait. Then I come home teach group class for 2 days and then I'm off for the next week and a half for spring break! I'm so excited to have a bit of rest and spend some time with my children and work on some projects before this baby comes.

Speaking of baby, I'm 20 weeks along- half way there! I'm not quite sure I'm ready to be half way done, but I'm for sure ready to be half way done with the pregnancy. We find out a week from tomorrow what the baby is and we are all on pins and needles. We're trying to just not talk about it because the pressure is on for that baby girl. We'll see...

One fun thing we did this weekend is take out the window in our dining room and put an outside door in its place, which is the perfect place to let the kids out into the yard! My wonderful brother Joseph, a freind of his from work (who made it a piece of cake!), and Brett worked hard all day and it looks great! Now I just want to get the deck built that will eventually come off of that door...who knows when that will come though. We just need to touch up the paint and paint the door and it will look great. My camera is broken, so I don't have pictures to post but I will get some on here soon.

I'm happy the snow has melted from the storm this weekend and it looks nice outside! Maybe spring is on its way!