Fun In The Sun & a Surprise

After all the birthday posts, I have some fun Benjamin pictures to share from the last few weeks.......

Unfortunately, they're not all happy. Benjamin has been really fighting sleep (naps and night time) and sometimes it takes up to an hour to get him to go to sleep. One day last week he extended it for longer than that! He fought taking a nap from 1:00 to 4:00. Then I went at 4:10 to check on him and found him like this........

Poor guy (and poor Momma)! I was exhausted and worn from him requiring about 100 trips back into his bed for 3 hours straight and so excited he was finally asleep. Too bad he was laying like this and as he tends to roll around in his sleep, 10 minutes later he rolled over, fell off the bed, and then preceeded to cry for the next hour! We've since figured out how to keep him locked into his room and he's been doing significantly better.

Now to the fun/happy pictures! Benjamin and I were overjoyed to experience the warm weather we had recently. We're sad that it's gone, but at least we enjoyed it while it lasted and are waiting on pins and needles for it to return! While outside we enjoyed about every single outdoor activity available at our house (minus the water fun). Here he is blowing away at the bubbles!

Zoe enjoyed the warm weather too. She likes tormenting the dogs next door! :)

Chalk time!

Playground fun! Isn't he adorable???

After shooting down the slide!

Riding his bike!

And time for golf! I can't believe how much he's grown into the golf clubs my parents got him for his birthday last year. He can really swing them and hit the ball now! Growing so fast!

After playing golf for close to 20 minutes he turns to me and asks, "Where are the holes, Momma? Our not have any!" Guess we'll have to take him to a course soon!

After playing an hour and half outside, Anna's baby monitor died......so we had to come back in. We didn't want the fun to end, so we filled up the sink and played in it. This has become one of his favorite winter time activites!

Remember the birthday hat we forgot to have Anna wear at her party???

It was just as well, b/c she hates hit!!!

And now for a very happy surprise! We found out about a month ago that we're going to have another baby! It was quite the shock for us, but we feel very blessed to be pregnant again! Yesterday, we went in for an ultrasound to find out how far along I am. I'm about 9 weeks and "Little Three" (as I've begun to refer to the baby) is estimated to be due around October 17th!!!! :)

I was a little shocked to be pregnant as I mentioned, so I ended up taking three tests throughout the day. When Dave got home I told him I wanted to give him his Valentine's Day present a day early and gave him the tests!

Here's a picture of the little peanut! Little Three might look just like a peanut, but he/she is a peanut with a heartbeat growing in "Momma's tummy" (as Benjamin says)!!!! :) The picture is of the baby from top of the head to their rump!