Last day of school for 2009

Austin had his last day of school for 2009 on Thur (Dec. 17). They had a "Happy Birthday Jesus Party" and had a bunch of different activities to do that day followed by lunch from Dairy Queen & cake. Austin & I decided to make little goody bags for each of the kids in his class. The bags each had a Sesame Street coloring book & pack of crayons along with a little card from Austin.

These are the bags for each of the kids along with the teacher's gift. I wanted to make each bag look like a reindeer but decided to save myself the stress and just taped a cute little Santa tag on the front & tied it with a ribbon & it still looked cute.

These are some of the things Austin made at school for our tree. I love the little frame (which he colored) with his photo.
This is a bell that the class made out of a cup and the little red & green dots are actually his little finger prints.
Hopefully we will be able to keep Austin entertained during his holiday brake from school. Grandma-ma & Papa will be visiting for a few days and Grandpa & Daddy will both be off some. I can see many trips to the mall playground & to the discovery center over the next few weeks.

Baby #2 update

Today was my long awaited doctors appt for my 28 week check up (or so I thought). My MIL usually watches Austin during my appointments so I don't have to drag him to the doctors office just to wait an hour to see the doctor for 5 mins. However, she is out of town this week visiting her parents and me being the super smart mom I am~ I scheduled my appointment during Austin's nap time. Do you see where I am going with this post...... I hate being late to anything so I usually try to arrive at least 10 mins. early, but that did not happen today. Austin & I arrived about 10 mins late. But he was such a good boy while we were there. He sat like a good boy eating his animal crackers and coloring which made me soooooooo happy. I have been having some issues since my last appt. so I was really ready to sit down and talk with the doctor and thankfully she said everything looked normal. She did do an exam to make sure our little peanut was not planning and early appearance and thankfully it looks like he will be hanging out a little longer like he is suppose to. However, I was informed today that I will actually be 30 weeks along this Friday where I thought I was only going to be 29 weeks, so that was a nice little surprise for me. I know its only a week but it can be a really long week at the end of your pregnancy.

Brad and I were fully expecting the doctor to put me on bed rest for a while due to all of the contractions (both braxton hicks & real contractions) that I have been having along with some cramping. But once again the doctor said everything looks good for now. So I now am on my schedule of going to the doctor every two weeks so my next appointment is on Christmas Eve morning.

At this point I have only gained 10 pounds (even though I feel like I have gained 100) and I am measuring 29 1/2 weeks in my tummy so right on track. The babies heart rate was a strong 150 this morning so everything looked and sounded great.

We still have not decided on a name yet. Brad & I both like Trevor and Hudson and I love Carter while Brad really likes Johnathan. I am really hoping that we will have a name for our peanut by the holidays. Brad is going to have some time off from work between now and the end of the year so I am hoping to get the nursery completely finished and ready for the baby. I have also put together my "honey do wish list" of items around the house I would love to get his help with while he is off. He will be traveling a lot for work during January so I have to get all my work out of him before that if I want things done before the baby arrives.

Holiday Craft Play Date

The boys each made a tree like this that they could put in the rooms at home. Its just a soda bottle filled with green paint and then they used stickers & pom-poms to decorate them.

I really like this reindeer craft. Austin made one at school this week, so we decided to borrow the idea and let the kids each make one. I think they look too cute on the tree.

Austin was working so hard here. Good thing he didn't notice the glue was closed.

Me and Austin hard at work
Austin had to take time to play with Zoe he was too cute talking to her. Hopefully he will like his little brother in a few months.
Jackson working hard
Zoe hanging out
The little guys kept forgetting what we were doing so they would stop & play for a while.
This is the only picture that we have that had Gavin in it.
Austin sat down and acted just like he knew what to do.
We had some friends over this morning for a play date to make some holiday crafts. Austin & Gavin are both 2 and had a hard time keeping there minds on the task of crafting but that's OK. Jackson who is 4 on the other hand took his job very seriously and did an amazing job on his tree. Over all we had a good time and nothing got messed up so it was a good day.

A homemade Christmas

Austin has recently really started enjoying coloring, using stickers & painting so I decided to put him to work. I am not going to lie when it came time to think about decorating this year for the holidays I wanted to just stress out. I am 7 months pregnant & have a 2 year old so all I could think is that between Austin & the 2 dogs I would be chasing them around for the month saying "no don't touch that" or "bring that back". So I decided to scale things back a bit the year and only put up some of the decorations (which of course Brad didn't mind since he is the one who has to pull it all down from the attic then put it all back up). I also decided that we would have a more homemade Christmas this year and let Austin make most of the decorations. So this past Sunday we put the tree up and Monday Austin and I got busy making some ornaments for the tree. We both had a lot of fun working on them~we spent most of the day decorating the ornaments. And this way I don't have to stress out if he wants to take something off the tree and play with it since they are all made of foam and hung with yarn rather than those metal things.

Fireman Austin

This is Austin in the backseat on our way to school one day this week. He just had to wear his Fireman hat to school. Notice the hat is also on backwards. He is so funny!

We received this fireman hat a few months ago at a birthday party & Austin really had not paid any attention to it until Tue. night when he decided to put on a little show for Brad & I. We were all in the playroom & Austin comes around the sofa wearing this hat & dancing. It was so funny Brad & I could not stop laughing. Well needless to say its been all he has wanted to wear this week. So when it came time for school on Thur. morning of course he wanted to wear it. Only problem is that the hat is a little big for him so half the time he wears it backwards so he can see.

New hat

Austin has recently really taken an intrust in trying to dress himself. This is how that is going.


We got Austin a new hat for the winter that would help cover his ears when the wind is blowing. We found this super cute hat at The children's place and he seems to really like it. Once he puts the hat on he doesn't want to take it off. On this day he decided that he wanted to put it on right after his bath but he was not wanting to put anything else on but the hat, we finally got a diaper on him so he played like this for a while.

Robison Thanksgiving

Here are a few photos from Thanksgiving Day at Grandma & Grandpa's house. When we arrive Grandma had the dinning room all set up so pretty for dinner & even Austin got to sit at the big person table. Of course Grandma had to make him a special seat & place setting for her boy, it was so cute. We had so much yummy food and enjoyed hanging out with the family. Austin worked on learning how to play the drums with Cameron and had fun visiting with Aunt Robbin & Uncle Brett.