7QT on the First of April

One

So we had the big ultrasound yesterday!  It was a Level 2 because I'm maternally ancient and we got lots of good peeks at him.  He was extremely uncooperative, according to the ultrasound tech, but did give us an awesome money shot that I won't post here to embarrass him in the future.  (Phil and I were very impressed by his masculinity though!)  Here's a more modest photo:

Hi Baby Boy Martin!

Everything looked good...except he has a marker on his heart that can sometimes be associated with Down Syndrome.  Normally, my age (37) would make me high risk but the blood tests I had showed I was very low risk (a 1 in 10,000 chance) and this heart marker doubles that risk.  So it's a 2 in 10,000 chance.  I actually think that my second baby, Andrew, had the same marker.  We love this baby boy no matter what's going on, and we're just going to wait and see!

Two

I *think* we've decided on a name.  We don't loooooove it, but we like it.  Sorry Baby Boy #6, but that's the best we've got after already naming five boys.  Poor little fella.

Three

We had a new Home Goods open near us, and Phil had gotten me a gift card for Valentine's Day and I went with the money burning a hole in my purse.  But, disappointingly, I couldn't really find anything great to buy.  I've never been to a Home Goods, but I'm guessing it's a sort of hit-or-miss place, so I'll have to check it out again.  What I really wanted were some throw pillows for our bed.  When I couldn't find anything that I loved that wasn't ridiculously expensive, I popped over to Target and found the pillow of my dreams.

But there was only one.  So I tracked down an assistant and she tracked down a manager and they found me a second pillow in the back of the store.  Woohoo!  Don't they look pretty?

That's really bad lighting, but come over and see them in person!

And that comforter is seriously so soft and light and luscious.  As if I needed any other reasons to stay in bed forever :)

Four

My baby is turning two tomorrow!  I can't even believe it, he is still such a baby to me.  He talks, but not in complete sentences or even complete phrases, more of the one word, repeating stuff.  He still drinks warm milk from a bottle before bed because he won't drink it any other way.  He still loves his pacifier and blanky.  He likes to graze instead of sit down for a meal, and he rarely finishes anything unless it's fruit or dessert.  

He is super duper active and loves playing sports and wrestling with the older boys.  He's mostly sweet and cute and a joy to be around, but can get terribly twoish as two year olds are known for.  As Eamon said to me last weekend, "I hope our next baby is just like Declan".  So do I, buddy, so do I.  We got him a bubble maker for his birthday and I think he's going to be in heaven.

Five

Our kitchen benches need some cushions.  Phil found this video on how to make them, and I think even my uncrafty self might be able to handle it.

Now I need to find some fabric that will look pretty in there.

Six

Look at this funny Redbox email I got this morning...

Seven

And on the subject of trickery, we told the kids this morning that school was closed because they lost power in the high winds we had yesterday.  They believed us!  Maggie started crying because she wouldn't be able to pull off her April Fool's joke that she had been working on for awhile (she's telling the kids in her class that I'm having twin boys and got a friend to bring in a twin ultrasound pic).  Then we told them we were kidding and they all got mad at us.  Fun!

Have a terrible, awful, no-good weekend everybody!

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