Baby Number Three News

In case you haven't heard the news:  It's a GIRL!  We're having another girl!

Nathan and Mateja were equally shocked to hear the initial news.  Arielle was THRILLED.  She squealed and clapped her hands and danced about the exam room.  She will get to have a baby sister just like Mateja got to have a baby sister.  She's very happy about the prospect of painting her baby sister's toe nails pink and making her "adorable" - how exciting!

With few exceptions (three) friends, family, and strangers have been predicting/hoping along with us for a boy.  Needless to say, we didn't have a single girl name chosen for our newest little treasure.  The hunt is on... and will likely not be revealed until after the birth of the newest baby.  In the mean time I also have to gear up my efforts to acquire new (baby) furniture & paraphernalia.  AND decide if we are making any changes to how we parented from previous efforts (cloth diapers perhaps? Baby Wise?)  anyway ~ it's all very exciting to be CERTAIN.

Our FOUR year old!

Well we are the proud parents of a four year old. Happy Birthday Arielle! Now you are FOUR!!!! We had a small, FUN birthday party for her the Saturday before the actual big day. There were six girls total (2 of which belong to us) which was totally manageable. They all had parents here too. Even more doable! Bathing suits, sun block, squirt guns, dress ups, cup cakes, nail polish, piggy-back rides (correction: it was a buffalo, a bull and a horse that the girls were riding upon), a dance off, water colors, and presents including a new bike from Mom & Dad!

It was a full day and a fantastic celebration! It was actually the easiest birthday party we’ve ever thrown. I think it’s because I’m pregnant and I sort of boycotted another birthday party this year unless we only invited a few children and Nathan was responsible for almost everything… I’ll have to remember to do it this way again. My grandmother says you should only invite as many children as the age of the child being celebrated. In this case because Ari is turning four so we should only invite four children. I like that advice. I guess we did it “right” this time!

Mateja was a bit disappointed that Daddy didn’t buy her a bike for her birthday back in February. Looks like she will be getting a bike too now (probably this weekend) & we'll have to get helmets of course & then Nathan & I will have to get bikes too in order to keep up with them! It’s going to be a fun summer!

Here are a few photos of the celebration as well as the day of her birthday and a few other things we did to celebrate the girl. Enjoy!