My Days....

have been filled with these two jokers :) 

And I'm lovin' it! They are just two of the most precious people EVER!

I mean, look at this face?!

Caleb has been given the, very appropriate, nickname "Perfect Baby". This kid is no fuss... at. all. EVER.

He's the most go with the flow baby... except for today, but I'm going to pretend that his day full of crying just didn't happen. 

It's kinda like Olympic judging, eliminate the highest and lowest score.

So moving on....

Aubrey's so in love with him (still and we're past the 'novelty' stage) and it's almost to the point of painful. Fo reals. 

She and Caleb had well baby visits on the same day(thus the dueling band aid picture). She got her 4 year shots and he his 2 month ones--- and she felt it was her mission to "help" him even more that day.

This kid puts the "mother" in "smother"....

the "S" on "mother"....

she's all up in his business.

But I'll take her obsessive, possessive love of him over a kid who is jealous ANY day.

And in unrelated news.... It's hot in Georgia. 

Hide in your house hot.

Walk to the mailbox and break out into a sweat, hot.

Will I ever get used to this?!?

Aubrey's 4th Birthday

I know that Aubrey's birthday party was over a month ago, but I finally got around to editing and getting them on the blog.

It was so much fun to plan her party! She hadn't had one since her first, so I figured I owed her a decent one this year and it was a hit.

 I had too many pictures (as usual) so I decided to try out the collage app on the PicMonkey website and I LOVE it!! So here is a random shamozzle of birthday pictures to enjoy from her Rainbow Art Party :)

A Mini Photo Shoot....

I, Jennifer, love to take pictures.... but I'll tell you something--I'm not a fan of taking pictures of people. There I said it.

I'm not a fan because I'm not that good at it---funny how you like to do the things you're good at and not the things you suck at. ;)

Sure every once in a while I'll get a good shot, but in general...nope.

Anyway, I was kinda procrastinating Caleb's little photo shoot I had planned (and was super excited for since before he was born) because I was scared I'd get crap pictures.

I got over myself and ended up getting some cute ones, not amaze-balls ones, but cute ones.

And some times, well sometimes that's just good enough!

Here he is in all his naked-on-a-coke-crate/cuddled-into-a-fluffy-blanket/jammed-into-a-basket glory :) ....

Photography courtesy of yours truly

and 

Editing courtesy of Amy from Amy Rehbein Photography

Good TImes....

This little girl is testing my patience these days.... Seriously.

She's perfect as can be with Caleb, but in every other area of life? Glass. Cage. Of. Emotion.

All tears, all the time.

I suppose a lot has happened in the last little bit to cause her to feel overwhelmed, but a lot has happened in the last little bit to make me feel overwhelmed too. 

Bad combo.

Ahh to have multiple females in one house.

I can't stress it enough, I have two GOOD kids.

Caleb is a dream baby and Aubrey is so good, but when the emotions come a-knockin' ....

trouble.

And let me tell ya, I've gots me some emotions as well.

I'm trying to keep calm and not overreact, but when you have a baby that is going through a growth spurt and decided that last was an ALL NIGHT eat-a-thon (with no sleep... for either of us)... and the next day your {almost} 4 year old decides to be a drama queen about her Quiet Time... you can lose it pretty quickly.

And I did, but I calmed down (and won the battle after an hour of trying, she's quietly watching a movie in her room!! Victory!) and prayed really hard for patience...and for Zach to get home at a decent time (a girl can dream right?!).

So I just have to keep trying to figure this '2 kids' thing out... or more so, figure out an overly emotional 4 year old mixed with a postpartum mama. 

Good times.

And Now, From Left Field....

*I'm officially 37 weeks and 2 days along.

*Zach and I only really started discussing names for this baby for the first time last night.

*Pretty sure this kid is going to rock "Baby Boy/Girl Klaassen" on it's birth certificate if we can't get our acts together.

*Naming a baby is a big deal/daunting task. They have this name for the rest of their lives... unless they're Phoebe from Friends and change it to Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock.

*Am I the only one who feels like they've conquered the world when they fit every last dish from dinner into the rubix cube they call a dishwasher?!?

*Pretty sure Zach looked at me funny last night when I hollered out "I AM VICTORIOUS!!" when I was done (true story).

*Zach is smart.

*Like really smart.

*Like, how did I end up with someone so scholarly when I HATED school, smart.

*We just got a copy of the Medical textbook that he wrote a chapter in (on Urology). No joke, a freaking chapter in a textbook.

*I had a project featured on a blog the other day.... does that put me on par with his brilliance?!? 

*Let's all pretend the answer to that question is a resounding "yes"...

*Aubrey is disturbingly in love with my belly. Even trying to get her friends to kiss and cuddle it. *awkward*

*She's SO excited for this baby and shouts it from the rooftops every time someone points out my belly...which now is all. the. time. 

*I think I might be the last person these days who doesn't know the gender of their baby before they give birth... or so everyone tells me with a bewildered look on their face, followed by the comment "how do you buy for the baby?!?" 

*It's called gender neutral colors people and a baby only really needs diapers and a sleeper. Not their ENTIRE wardrobe until they are 3 years of age.

*Zach's going to present again at the National Urological conference in Atlanta in May (see SMART)

*I was looking at the hotels that were sponsored by the conference and the hospital is going to get for him.... I'm. So. There. 

*All of the hours that Zach puts in paper writing and researching (which are A LOT) pay off eventually 

*At least that's what I tell myself when he's holed up in his office on a writing rampage....

Just A Little Imagination....

To you and me this is just an ordinary toy cash register.... 

but to Aubrey?! 

the cash register and measuring tape are so much more...

I love when their imagination goes into full force...

To Aubrey it's an ultrasound machine/heart rate monitor and tape measure to see how big the baby is :)

I mean, how precious is she?!

I took these next two on my phone the day after the whole hospital incident...

I wanted to just eat her up! So serious, and gentle. She kept asking me if I was OK and if the heart "beep" was good.

Love. Her.

And here I am.... large and in charge at 34 weeks!

I've got myself a booty with this pregnancy...good times ;)

Not going to lie, it's in black and white because I was a weeeee bit hormonal that day and my face might have been a bit blotchy from crying... just sayin'.

One Proud Mama!!

This precious little girl of mine prayed and asked Jesus into her heart this week!

Zach and I could not be more excited! We are absolutely bursting with pride and excitement and to quote Zach, "what more could a parent ask for?!?"

Amen to that :) 

Love her and I'm so proud she's a part of God's family (not to mention mine!). 

It's Been Too Long...

...since I've done an Aubrey post. 

This kid is going through one of the most funniest phases... seriously. I know I'm biased because I'm her mom, but she can honestly have me gut-laughing in seconds with her quick wit and amazingly funny personality!

Now having said that, she can also drive me bonkers! 

Yeah, I said it.

With that amazing wit comes a larger than life, beyond her years, attitude and at times I have to stop myself, repeat in my head what she just said (that had me in stitches laughing!) and realize that .... wait, she's 3 and a half... they're not supposed to get away with saying that!

*insert my mother's voice in my head, reminding me I would have been in major trouble for saying something like that to them!*

And really, she's 3 and a half people....

The words she speaks per second alone is enough to make you want to cry at times!

But I love this kid SO much and I'll take the very few "bad" things with the bazillion "good" things!

How could you not??

I'm so excited to see her in her Big Sister role. 

She's already talking about all the things she's going to teach the baby....

who by-the-way she's naming Baby Sister Aubrey, if it's a girl and....wait for it....

Hoho if it's a boy. 

Told you she was awesome!

She is such a loving kid too, coming up to me randomly and professing her love for me and the baby, giving us each kisses! One on my belly for the baby and always two for me :)

Precious!

I'm so blessed to be her mother! 

I only hope this next baby is half as cool as Aubrey ;)

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year....

I can't even explain how much I love this girl! Seriously!

In the span of five seconds she can make me feel like pulling out my hair and like I could squish and cuddle her forever. The joys of motherhood :)

Last night Aubrey was in her first Christmas concert at our church and it was just the most precious thing ever! She was THAT kid; dancing up a storm (mainly the random moves that her and Zach made up while listening and practicing her songs at home... needless to say, these moves were "special"), over enunciating her words and over doing the actions to her songs....

I loved it!

It was just the 3-6 year olds... Zach and I got a glimpse of just how big our church really is!

The above picture is the exact moment she spotted Zach videoing her! Love the frantic waving by all the kids!

And this is the moment where Aubrey couldn't focus on singing because the kid next to her kept stepping on the bells from the "Come on Ring Those Bells" song. She was not please he was doing that!

So precious....pretty sure I was tearing up like crazy by this point!

And now, singing "Away In A Manger" ....

the Queen of Actions doing her thing....

Couldn't you just EAT this kid???

And for the record, she was NOT the kid who lifted her dress so the whole church could see their tights....

The girl beside her was that kid :)

It was such an amazing service and night in general. Zach and I kept saying that we couldn't believe we were parents of one of the kids IN the program! When did we get that old?!? 

I'm going to remember this for as long as I live. 

Pretty sure our hearts were bursting with love last night...and every moment with Aubrey for that matter.