TWO snow days, Stella & some other things...

**I realize that I have A LOT of blog posts. This is because I am really addicted to words, I like hoarding memories and, mostly, because I do not sleep. As I type, I am sitting outside of Anderson's door (it is almost 10pm) waiting on him to fall asleep. You know my toddler bed curse and our best solution for a year was to sit in his room until he fell asleep, but now I am trying to move into the hallway with my goal being the kitchen so I can at least put the dishes up and make lunches for tomorrow. But, instead, I am sitting here typing.I might not actually be able to remember the last time I slept 6 consecutive hours, but, I will always have these memories on my millions of blog posts:)

 There can never be enough pregnant twin pictures. (The people at Buy Buy Baby were very intrigued by us. It was sort of hilarious.)

Snow day!! We had quite a freak snowstorm in Knoxville last week, which resulted in a snow day! There was literally no snow at our house, but it was so bad in Powell that I would have never made it home without 4WD. It was terrifying.But, I had to much snow on my car from the Powell parking lot that we were able to play with quite a bit. The next day Anderson ran to the garage and said, "I want to see the snow you brought for me!" We had a nice lesson on how snow does not stay snow in a garage.

Max at 23 weeks:) He was in deep thought. I am not actually paying for the 4D one, but they did this little shot during the regular one, which was sweet. And, yes I realize that I am destined to birth children who look exactly like my husband. (I am totally ok with that. Have you seen my husband? He is pretty good looking :)

Some college friends came into town and we visited the new TriDelta house! They have a chef for their meals and coffee available all day. What on earth? We lived in dorms all 4 years of college and ate easymac from our microfridges and shoved clothes in our one tiny closet. But, we decided that we got the better end of the deal. Let's just say "pretending to be your sister and getting a lock out key when she & her roommate are gone and then stealing all of the toilet paper from all 13 floors and rolling their room." Anyway, we have almost been friends for 14 years, which is crazy!

And, I GOT TO MEET STELLA!! Seriously, this girl is precious. Emily is such an amazing mom and it is clear that she passed her generally awesome genes on her to her daughter.

Nicole & I have a serious hoarding problem and we were both so excited about snow so that we could dress our kids in the snow gear we got them on clearance. A snow suit and brand new snow boots for $5 was a price I could not pass up, so we definitely were ready when the snow came!

Once upon a time, I had an amazing intern named Jessica. She is genuine, hard working, dedicated and literally the hardest working person I have ever met. Flash forward a few years and we are still friends and she is even MORE thoughtful. She always gives Anderson the most thoughtful gifts (the "How do Dinosaurs...?" is adorable!) and she gave Nicole and I these amazing gifts of hospital gowns, matching gowns for our babies AND matching shirts for the older brother/sister. HOW GREAT IS SHE??

Because deep down, the real reason I wanted all boys was so there could be super elaborate sword fights in my house.

 Our house has become Jurassic Park. LOTS of dinosaur fighting, playing, roaring, reading, attacking, snuggling, etc. "Bobble, please play dinosaurs with me!" or "I want to watch Speckles on the ipad!" or just "ROAR!

Chloe was enjoying a nice nap on a snow day & Anderson decided to crash that party.

 We celebrated Uncle Curtis' 30th birthday! We had a delicious seafood boil and lots of fun with family. We keep telling Anderson to enjoy these days when he is the only kid at the parties, so he pretty much gets to blow out all of the candles because his days are numbered...

Sweet little sleeping face. (Aquaphor on his cheeks adds that glisten.) Don't be deceived...he now is averaging closer to 6 or 7 hours of  (interrupted) sleep a night . Whenever I think "his sleeping cannot get worse", I am always very unpleasantly proven wrong. I figure by the time Max gets here, I will be used to 2 hours of interrupted sleep and will be ready.

 We made a short (8 hour) trip to visit Bobble Cole & Lily! She is due any minute (AAAAAGHHH!!) and we wanted to see Reese's nursery and her belly one last time before our next frantic drive that way when she is actually in labor. We met at a really great Children's Museum where they happen to have a traveling dinosaur exhibit that was so, so much fun! Anderson ran around quoting facts about each of the different kinds of dinosaurs that had displayed. With the exception of trying to pronounce their names, I really digging the dinosaur stage. (Digging...get it...) The rest of the museum was great-a little store, an airplane to play in, a craft room for Lily, etc.

Then we had a Valentine's party at Lily's! I love Lily's focus on making all things festive. We had decorations, pink everything and cupcakes.It was such a quick trip and it is so exciting to think Reese will be here soon!

Check out Reese's nursery and be amazed at how awesome and creative my sister is! It is perfect and I can't wait to see her in there!

And, for all of you with high energy kids...here is a glimpse of ours. It is entirely past a normal 3 year old's bedtime, yet, here he is in full force. I am seriously cracking up during the video, which is clearly how we are tricked into repeating this whole sleep deprivation thing with second children. Normally, we make him lay down around 8:30 or 9 at the latest, but we have learned that some days that means we will just be sitting in his room for 3 hours until he actually falls asleep, so we just let him get some energy out and hope he is asleep by 10 pm.