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Mommy guilt wins

A couple of weeks ago when it had snowed and the temp. was not freezing I was having Mommy guilt that the kids had not yet been sledding this year. We have a slight hill on the side of our house so I took the kids out for a short while. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing. They seemed to enjoy themselves and knew that Mom could only handle it for a short while so were troopers when I said it was time to be done. Daddy has plans to take them up to Reagan's school while he's off of work for baby leave to hopefully get in anther round of fun.

Baby day is fast approaching. The date was changed to Jan. 22, which is this Thursday. Surgery is at 8 am so we'll be at the U of I Hospital bright and early. We're anxious to see these new little ones and are so happy we've been able to keep them in and growing for nearly 38 weeks. Yippy! I'm anxious to get the surgery part over. Grandma Vicki, Scott's Mom, will be staying with the older kids for a few days and my sister will take over that part of it over the weekend. I'm hoping if all goes well we'll all be home on Sunday sometime, but we'll take it day by day. My next post should include baby pictures!!! Take care until then.

I know he looks like me but this was scary!!

Ok, I know Brett looks like me, but when I viewed this picture the resemblance was almost scary. I had a flash back to a picture I've seen of myself at around his age with just about the same hair do!!!
Reagan got a Hannah Montana dance mat for Christmas and it came with the Hannnah wig which Brett decided to model. I convinced him to keep it on long enough for a picture. I'm sure someday he'll hate me for this one. He is truly Momma's boy!!

Prego belly

I keep getting hounded about a prego photo so here it is. Reagan took it so it's crooked, but it works. We have a date set for the C section....it'll be Jan. 20th unless the stinkers decide to make an early appearance on their own. I'm excited to have a date set. I'm at 36 weeks currently and both seem to be growing, which is encouraging. Last Tues. the boy weighed 5lbs 5oz and the girl weighed 4lbs 10 oz, which was exciting news. These are estimates but I'm confident they'll both be in the 5lb ballpark when they are born. Baby B (the boy) gave us a scare on Tues at the appointment which turned my 1 hour apt. into 3 1/2 hours, an ultrasound, non stress test, and a bio life test of every movement they make for a half hour concluded that he must have been lying on his cord which was making his heart race then plunge. I've nicknamed them the tortoise and the hare. She's the tortoise, goes at her own pace, nothing to exciting, but gets things done in the end. He, the hare, either gets things done quickly then does nothing or procrastinates then puts forth effort right before the deadline. He's extreme, she sticks in the mid range and is content. Oh won't this be an interesting adventure!!!

Fun at the water park

My sister and her kids stayed the night at a hotel just 20 min from us that has a fun water park in it. Scott was out of town so we drove to the hotel after school last Thursday to play and have dinner. The kids had a great time on the slides and playing in the water. The water was super shallow, only 2-5 inches so Amanda and I got to just sit on the side of the pool and watch, which was great!!! They all had a great time. Unfortunately later that night my sister's kids both got sick so she made an early dash for home before things got too crazy. Luckily none of us had any sickness!! We'll definitely be meeting up there again in the next few months.

More Christmas pics

Here are the kids making almond bark covered pretzels.

Brett got a spiderman mask and is showing off his web making abilities.

Here's Scott on Christmas morning showing the books I got him. I think he might have actually finished one already!!

The computer is back in business so I'm finally able to update with photos. Scott, his Dad and the kids made popcorn balls on Thanksgiving weekend. This has become a Schmitz tradition that the kids really enjoy.

Reagan and Brett each had parties at school. Reagan enjoyed traveling from one craft station to another making fun holiday items. Brett and his classmates decorated gingerbread houses. Both parties were on the same day but Mom managed to help at both...I'm sure I napped that day afterwards!!!

Here are a couple of pics from Christmas morning. It was nice to be in our own house for Christmas. We went to church on Christmas eve and they had a candle light service which the kid's thought was awesome. We came home and made dinner and ate to candle light just like Scott did as a boy. We let the kids open two gifts that night as well which helped cut down on the chaos on Christmas morning.