And Babies Make Four: Our Weekend

We had such a fun weekend! Our highlight was definitely announcing baby Shep to the family. Such fun memories!

On Friday, I had the morning off and we met Jay around 10:30 for our gender ultrasound. It was so fun getting to see baby again on the screen and the kids were really well behaved watching their little brother. Emma Cate sat in her stroller the whole time and I totally forgot to take a picture!

I took the babies out to breakfast/lunch by myself after the ultrasound. Everything ran smoothly until Holden had a dirty diaper and I had to take two kids to the yucky potty to change him. Yáll, it was the worst diaper I have ever changed. I was gagging and terrified that I would throw up in the process. It was awful. Thankfully we got him clean up and went back out to finish our meals. After that I had very little appetite but the babies ate like champs.

Emma Cate found these lovelies in my bag and although I am embarrassed to put this on my blog, she was obsessed with sticking them everywhere and kept pulling them back out after I would put them away...

so of course I had to take a picture.

Our Friday was hectic, just like the rest of the week, but we ended the night with a casual pizza party with friends. Katie and Joe made the drive down from the lake to hang out with us. They are so sweet to our kids and it was so nice to catch up and hang out! Its so hard to keep up with friends with all of our activities, school, and work. We LOVE having friends that are fine with coming over and hanging out over dominos pizza. No pinterest dinner parties involved! Such a fun night.

We had an EARLY competition on Saturday morning. Thank goodness it was uptown Charlotte and not somewhere I had to travel too. My girls placed 2nd and should have won but had a wonky fall that lost us lots of points. Here they are visualizing the routine in pre-warm ups.

After the gender reveal, we watched State play an embarassing game against Duke. It was awful. This year has been terrible for football. Such a disappointment BUT I still sported my team hoodie. No fair weather fans in this house.

This kid LOVES trucks. He is all boy. 100%. I love having a little boy. He always brings a smile to my face and man to have his energy!

We finally made it to church after a few month hiatus. We want to make church a regular thing but we've been out of town so much that when we are in town we just want to sleep in and have family time. Church brings our family together and helps to center us to prepare for the week ahead. It's been so long since we've been to church in closed toe shoes that the twins church shoes don't fit anymore! They wore their tennis shoes to church and I'm sure no one noticed but still... time to get on that!

Breakfast/brunch at Bruegger's fit the bill for quick, casual, and cheap after church. The kids were good and had the whole place laughing. Our brueggers is always packed and we definitely provided the entertainment! The kids love munching on bagels and it keeps them occupied.

(everyone thinks he's a little girl when I make him wear bubbles and I can see their point but don't care because I think he looks adorable!!!)

After church we met Gigi to do a little shopping at the mall while Jay got some quiet study time. We headed to Whole Foods for lunch and to get a birthday cake for my sister.The babies had fun running through the store and tried to help Gigi with the cart.

sissy trying to keep up

happy as a clam!

After naps we met the fam at Mellow Mushroom to celebrate my youngest sister, Bo's, birthday! I'm not a huge mellow mushroom (or pizza for that matter) fan but it is the perfect place to take kids. They can be loud, run a bit, and then enjoy their pizza without disrupting other diners. The place is kid central.

Taters and Pop Pops

Holden and Taters, who he now calls by name, Tay Tay. It is the most adorable thing! He will walk around saying her name and will go find her when I ask him where Tay Tay is. The other day she was still napping and I asked where she was and he took off down the hall to their room, banged on the door until I opened it, ran straight to her crib, climbed up the side (all while saying Tay Tay repeatedly) and tried to give her a kiss. Needless to say, she woke up a bit confused but smiley to see her brother :)