April was a BIG month!

 April started with David getting his adenoids out. This pic was before surgery...notice all smiles initially. Overall, the surgery went great. It took a full 3 weeks for me to notice him back to normal especially in his eating. Maybe his age coincided with the surgery, but he is much pickier with food now :(  However, no more constant runny nose and no more struggling to breath while sleeping!!! Yea!!!

 Got bored and started pushing cart around for entertainment and dashed for the door a few times, too.

Needing some love from mommy as he was getting tired and impatient before surgery.

THE NEXT BIG EVENT IN APRIL WAS FINDING OUT THE GENDER OF BABY LEE #3.

HE'S A BOY!!!

We are very excited to know even though it didn't matter what the gender was. Alex was a little disappointed as she wanted a baby sister, but she said she'll keep him :) She is precious about it now and talks about how there will be 3 boys and only us 2 girls now.
We're about 95% sure of his official name and will post when we are 100% sure :)
(Sorry I don't have a great ultrasound pic to post)

 Thanks to my sister, Robin, for the Easter pics as I forgot to take any pics.
Cousin Amber and Alex dying eggs at Grandmother's house.

 Playing hide and seek with Grandmother

 Alex and Amber playing at Children's Museum

 Amber and Alex at the annual family Easter egg hunt

 Me, Mom and Robin

 Papaw, Mom and Mary

 When we returned home from Vicksburg on Easter, I remembered to take pics. ha!
No glam, just getting filthy in the dirt and sand with Easter outfits on...ha!

 Chris had put sand on top of some grassless areas in the front yard. The kids thought it was the best thing ever. So recently, daddy made them a sandbox in the backyard that they LOVE and play in forever!

 All done and ready for his hands to be cleaned! David likes his hands clean after eating, playing in dirt, etc. He'll come to us and say "hands, hands" or "wipe hands."

 The last big event of April was flying to Chicago with both kiddos. Mimi came along to help out, but of course, I have no pics of us all. After the airport/airplane pics, I forgot to take any pics while there except for the train ride below. Daddy got Rainforest pic.

The kids did GREAT overall flying and even endured the delays we experienced in route to Chicago causing us to arrive about 6 hours later than planned. Along with running around and playing with all toys and books we brought, the kiddos (and daddy) passed the time by watching a movie.

Some random train ride at the Navy Pier. The good pic of them was deleted from my phone :( This is the problem when your children know how to operate an iphone, but just enough to cause some problems, too!

 Rainforest Cafe in Chicago

Alex and cuz, Anna Cate, at zoo while visiting Mimi and Grandaddy in Hattiesburg

Sweet Siblings

Alex and David LOVE to play together. They are precious! They can fight good, too :) I'm so thankful they have each other as baby bro will be here soon!

Alex and David dressing up and dancing at Children's Museum

My kiddos love cookie dough like mommy :)

Horses

Sweet cousin Kelly rode the kiddos on her horse, Lucky, this past winter. After some warming up, the kiddos loved it!

Daddy even got a ride :)

Some Firsts

First time to melt broken crayons into molds

For Valentines, we put each heart shaped crayon into cute baggies with a homemade card for their classmates at MMO. Great way to recycle broken crayons and steer away from candy!

First time to have a neighbor's trampoline at our disposal :)))

They got it for Christmas and have offered it to us any time we want. Alex and David LOVE it!

I think they have jumped on it more than the neighbors :)

Typical - Alex jumping and David running full speed in circles

First time to wash cars

They were so into this and had lots of fun especially when I let them play in the bubbles and get soaked by the hose at the end.

First time to take kiddos to a wedding

They did GREAT thanks to crayons/coloring books, doodle boards and the bribery of a lolli pop afterwards :)

First time to the new Children's Museum and first time to milk a (pretend) cow

Alex's first trip to the dentist for a cleaning

Alex did so good! David even did good and laid still for them to just look at his teeth.

First time David has fallen asleep in Grandaddy's lap (as a toddler)...so sweet!
He loves his Grandaddy!

Beautiful couple, Layla and Jason
First time Jason has come to visit us from Little Rock :)

First time Alex had a slumber party
She slept with Reagan and Reese on a pallet their first night here. Of course, it took about an hour to go to sleep as Reese wanted to talk and play with them :)
I had a great pic of the 3 of them sleeping, but can't find it anywhere.
This was also our first time to meet their new baby brother, but I didn't get any pics of him :(

First time playing in MS snow!





No first, just cuties!

No first, just being a cutie

Kitchen Soccer

It's Official

According to the ultrasound, I am 9 weeks today....about a week off from what we thought. So, the due date has changed to August 31, 2011. Everything looks good! I love my new OBGYN doc in MS. Her clinic is one hall over from Chris' clinic (one reason we chose her) so he just had to walk across the hall to see the ultrasound - AWESOME! We are so thankful to God for this little baby growing in my belly. It feels more real now after seeing the sonogram pic :)
btw... cravings have ceased for now :)

Surprise Christmas Gift

Big Sister and "Big" Brother

Yes, we found out Christmas Day we were pregnant with Baby Lee #3. We should not have been surprised as we were not preventing, but also not exactly trying. However, I had taken 3 pregnancy tests from the Dollar Tree that showed negative. Christmas morning (really late at this point), I took my last Dollar Tree test. It showed a very faint pink line which left me confused. So, on our way to lunch at my mom's, we stopped at Walgreen's to get a REAL test. It showed a bright pink line immediately. So, hence the 4 negative/unreliable tests, I was shocked. I surprised Chris by wrapping the stick in a gift bag for him to open later that day with a note "Test #5 worked. Merry Christmas!"

I go for my first doctor appointment in about a week, but I think I'm currently about 8.5 weeks along and due ~ August 24, 2011. I feel good, just a bit more tired and very hungry. Having major cravings for olives, pickles, avocados, spicy food, salsa, etc.... I even craved fried food last week - crazy as I hardly ever eat fried stuff. Ironically, I have been craving jalepeno chedder poppers which I had only had like maybe 3 times in my life until this pregnancy. I've learned that Kroger sells them 15 to a box and they were on sale last week so I stocked up with 3 boxes. One is already gone! Oh yeah, and within a week of finding out I was pregnant, my clothes just didn't fit the same. I guess my body is adjusting much quicker this 3rd time around. My selection of clothes right now is slim and I refuse to pull out maternity clothes right now!!! ;)

Moral of the story #1: Don't trust a test from the Dollar Tree.
#2: Celebrate with us the new life that God has blessed us with! We are so thankful!!!
We are moving from man to man to zone defense :)))