Happy to be outside!

The boys love to play outside.  They can spend hours out there playing with their trucks, sports equipment, cars, or just plain running around.  On a good and warm day we end up spending lots of time outside.  It makes me quite happy since I also love being outside.  It's also a great way to tire them out!

Here are a few pictures of the boys that I snapped while outside this afternoon...

 Racing trucks...

Zachary:

Nicolas:

Playing basketball

Here is a short video of Zachary, our little athlete.  He just loves to play sports!  Pick one, he will try it and probably be ridiculously good at it...

Sugar Shack

Steve and I met my family at the sugar shack on Saturday.  The place was huge and it had approximately 500 people for lunch.  The food was served about an hour late and it was unbelievably noisy.  Despite all that, the boys had a great time.  They had a small farm and lots of land where the boys could roam and play.  It was a beautiful day and it was great to spend so much time outside.  We got to go on a horse ride and Nicolas was so excited!  He loved every second of it.  He rode closest to the from and watched the horses go the entire time.

Here are a few pictures from our day...

Nicolas and Zachary on the horse ride:

Nicolas and Zachary in the mini farm:

The boys feeding the reindeer with Nana:

 Zachary playing baseball with Daddy and Papa:

Nicolas showing off and loving his "sugar on snow":

Nana, me (with a glimpse at my belly), Nicolas and Aunt Kiki:

Blueberry's 30 week check-up...

I went in this morning for blueberry's 30 week check-up.  Everything is great.  My blood pressure, weight gain and his heartbeat are all within the expected range.  He was moving around so much that Dr. Vasilie had a hard time picking up his heartbeat.  She said she was pleased with everything she saw and figured that I was probably feeling lighter in this pregnancy than I did with the twin pregnancy.  I explained that since I have two 30 pound bodies on me a lot, I feel much heavier!

My gestational diabetes test came back almost completely normal.  She said that my fasting blood sugar was a little higher than she would like.  The other two numbers were great.  So, she is considering me to be slightly glucose intolerant.  She wants me to modify my diet to reduce the amount of carbs and increase my protein intake.  In two weeks I have to go back for another blood test to see if that helps.  I don't really think this is a bad thing since I am a carb addict and should probably reduce my carb intake for my overall health.  It should help me get most of my bad habits (i.e my chip eating!) out of my system before blueberry is born.  That way, it will hopefully help me lose the baby weight as well as the other extra weight I have hanging around...

I cannot believe that I am now at the point in my pregnancy when I am going for visits every two weeks!  The end is coming very quickly and honestly I am starting to get excited!  I can't wait to meet this little man and introduce him to the world!

Feeling "blueberry" kick...

The boys felt blueberry kick for the first time today.  Zachary had his hand on my stomach.  When he felt the kick he looked at me with a little shock.  I told him that blueberry was trying to say his.  So, he stuck his head on my tummy and said "Hi Blueberry!  It's Acky!"

Nicolas came over to have his turn.  Blueberry kicked him and he looked and my belly and said, "Blueberry, that's not nice!"  I had to explain to him that blueberry was not trying to be mean but was simply moving around.  He didn't seem convinced...

Random pictures...

It's been a while since I've posted so I decided to just update with some pictures...

We had a great, quiet weekend.  The boys were awesome and lots of fun!  Blueberry is constantly trying to get into the action by kicking the day away.  He gets very excited when the boys are close by, especially if they are laughing.  I am anxious to see how much stronger he's going to get... he just may kick a hole through my stomach by the end of this pregnancy!

Nicolas counting...

Nicolas was counting this evening.  He got all the way up to nineteen and when Steve asked him what was next, he answered, "zero-teen!"  How brilliant is that!

Sometimes what comes out of their mouths just crack me up!