26 weeks!

So, here it is! The first belly picture! Thanks to Laci for insisting on the double-belly shot and for sending me the pictures since I left my camera at home :(


Laci (and baby Wickenkamp) 33 weeks
Jes (and Baby Phillips) 26 weeks

Or maybe its a triple-belly shot!! hee hee!! We always thought Grandpa had the Wells Blue Bunny in his belly :)




I'm still wearing my regular jeans...WITH A BELT!! What a great feeling that is! I did start wearing maternity shirts about 2 weeks ago just for some extra room, and I'm still not wearing the maternity ACU's for work. I started wearing an old uniform of Kevin's last week that is a size bigger than mine, but switched back to my pants cause I couldn't keep his from almost falling off! I'll keep wearing his top because I was starting to have problems zipping mine!! I'm hoping to hold off on the maternity ACU's as long as I possibly can. If you've ever seen the uniform, you'd know why I damn near refuse to wear it! HIDEOUS! By this time during my pregnancy with Kaylee, there wasn't a chance I could still wear normal clothes, so I'm loving every second of not wearing all maternity, all the time!

We still haven't decided on a name yet. Or maybe I should say, Kevin hasn't given in yet!! Last time we talked about names, Laci said they liked Quentin. They have Alexander picked for a middle name, so Quentin Alexander it may be!!!! I'm not sure if I spelled it right or not, tho.

I have my next doctor's appointment on Friday. We'll see if I've gained anymore weight back. I know I ate like a pig at all the Christmases we went to, so I'm guessing I'm fairly close to being back to the weight I was when I started this venture!

Hope to post again on Friday after my appointment...with the 27 week picture!!

Catch up Time!!!

I guess time has come to finally update!! I've been super busy with work and the holidays, that I guess this blog took the backseat!

Here's the highlights since my last post!!


Halloween
Kaylee was an angel, somewhat of a stretch! I made her costume (I'll never attempt that again!). I, as always, was a procrastinator and ended up waiting til the night before to make it. The costume-and the kid-looked pretty stinkin cute if I do say so myself! Beggar's Nite in Milo was the 30th this year, but she didn't trick-or-treat all that long. Just long enough to hit about 4 houses. She was pretty nervous about going to the door of a strangers house asking for candy, so we hit the people that we knew fairly well...Nate and Tina, The Noel's, her sitter Merna, the school secretary Patty. Too bad more people didn't get to see my kiddo in her ROCKIN costume! Maple Ridge, the assisted living home that Grandma Wickenkamp and Grandma Baxter live in did their annual trick-or-treat again this year, so we went to Osky on the 31st and begged them for candy! She left with an entire bag full. Still, not quite sure about going door to door. My dad went with us, so we bribed her...go to the next hallway and we'd be done. She slowly warmed up to it when lots of people thought she was a fairy. She quickly corrected them, "I'm not a stinking fairy! I'm an angel! Can't you see I'm wearing a halo!"


With her best friend Gracie




Kaylee's 6th Birthday Party
We decided this year we would celebrate her birthday with a party outside of our house. She chose Burger King since they have a play area....on a Saturday...from 12-2...at the only indoor play place in Warren County. AAAHHHH!!! Thats how my head felt by 2pm. We let her have her first slumber party afterward with a couple girls from school and Kevin's youngest sister, Briar. Here are some pictures from the pary at BK. I dont have any from the sleepover cause Kevin skipped town (literally!!) with my camera in his truck!!


The gang's all here!



Thanks to Lindsay's photography, the world now knows how squished into the booth I was!!

can she really be 6 already?!?!

eating yummy kids meals

Her cake! I tasted as good as it looked!!

Christmas
We finally got our tree up on the 20th...just in time for a christmas photo op! Kaylee the photobug cooperated as usual, Chloe on the other hand, was a little more difficult. I did manage to get a couple decent pictures tho!

We have one more Christmas on January 3rd and then our holiday season draws to a close! We relished in our last horrah as a threesome(by spoiling Kaylee rotten) and look forward to our next as a quad! I'm going to try and be better about updating this, now that things have calmed down!!